New York appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial (apnews.com)
Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....
New Biden rule would make 4 million white-collar workers eligible for overtime pay (www.usatoday.com)
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a new rule that would make millions of white-collar workers newly eligible for overtime pay....
US Secretly Provides Ukraine with Ballistic Missiles: What It Means for the Conflict (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
Explore how Ukraine's use of advanced missiles from the US affects the ongoing crisis
The Trout have demands for space travel. (imgflip.com)
IDK if I made this post correctly....
DEA Sanctions Religious Use Of Ayahuasca But Refuses Psilocybin For Cancer Patients' Pain Relief (www.benzinga.com)
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed (arstechnica.com)
McKinsey reportedly under US criminal investigation over opioid industry work (www.theguardian.com)
Federal prosecutors looking at relationship with Purdue Pharma and other drug manufacturers, and its role in US opioid crisis...
Turncoat warlord at centre of Myanmar drama (www.bangkokpost.com)
TikTok’s Pro-China Tilt (www.nytimes.com)
The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok’s political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP’s Geostrategic Objectives networkcontagion.us/…/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.2…...
USDA updates rules for school meals that limit added sugars for the first time (apnews.com)
Arizona judge declares mistrial in the case of a rancher accused of fatally shooting a migrant (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/border-rancher-migrant-killing-…
Hubble telescope celebrates 34th anniversary with an iridescent Dumbbell Nebula (image) (www.space.com)
Advocacy groups say Texas inmates are 'being cooked to death' in state prisons without air conditioning (www.usatoday.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/73419881007/
Arizona Will Elect County Prosecutors in Shadow of Abortion Ban (boltsmag.org)
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, a Republican who is up for reelection this year, reacted to the ruling with a statement vowing that women would not be “prosecuted for receiving an abortion,” and especially calls out that she would not prosecute abortions that stem from rape, incest, or molestation. The statement...
US Navy to Turn Pacific Oil Rigs Into Mobile Military Bases to Counter China (www.thedefensepost.com)
KDE Berlin mega-sprint recap (pointieststick.com)
Semi-open world paper plane adventure 'Paper Sky' coming to Linux and Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore (www.theverge.com)
It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.
Every distro is fork of Hannah Montanna Linux (lemm.ee)
Philippines court sides with Greenpeace, bans genetically modified rice cultivation (www.philrice.gov.ph)
Childbirths in Korea hit another low in February (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
The number of babies born in Korea fell below the 20,000 level for the first time for any February this year, data showed Wednesday, amid deepening woes about the country’s demographics amid rapid aging and the ultra-low birthrate....
The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major Population Correction Is Inevitable (www.mdpi.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8929454...
N.C. report finds wilderness camp failed to ensure boy was breathing before he died (www.nbcnews.com)
A state inspection report offers new details on the hours leading up to a 12-year-old’s death at Trails Carolina, a camp for troubled adolescents....
