Man sets himself on fire outside Trump trial courthouse (thehill.com)
Taiwan says new Chinese air routes threaten Taiwanese islands' flight safety (www.reuters.com)
Cross posted from: feddit.de/post/11258689...
Qt Ubuntu 24.04 betas show there's room to innovate (www.theregister.com)
The beta versions of Lubuntu and Kubuntu 24.04 are out, showing that there’s room to improve on the standard Ubuntu formula. The beta announcements for Lubuntu 24.04 and Kubuntu 24.04 don’t reveal quite as much information as the Lubuntu’s alpha-test announcement did. The Reg FOSS desk looked at the two Qt-centric remixes,...
Iran Acknowledges Drone Attack by Israel and Says It Failed (www.bloomberg.com)
Iranian state media confirmed an attack by Israel in the early hours of Friday and said the “sabotage” operation involving drones had failed....
Finding an apartment may be easier for California pet owners under new legislation (www.sasktoday.ca)
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11254936...
Argentina seeks NATO partner status amid pivot to the West (www.unionleader.com)
[Interview] 'Star Trek: Discovery' Season 5's Captain Rayner Ran His Ship Like a Pirate (collider.com)
Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students (www.theregister.com)
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has slapped coding boot camp BloomTech with several punishments for alleged deceptive business practices.
Australia: Teenager charged with terrorism in church attack (www.dw.com)
Australian police have charged a 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing a bishop and a priest with a terrorism offense. If convicted, he could face life imprisonment....
Iran and Israel playing with fire as old rules of confrontation are torn up (www.theguardian.com)
Reported Israeli drone strike on Isfahan may signal that this widening conflict has become more dynamic...
It's been called Israel's 'Guantanamo'. A doctor who worked in the secretive facility is now speaking out (www.abc.net.au)
The gradual collapse of dollar hegemony paves the way for a just international order (briqjournal.com)
Black death row inmates suffer botched executions at twice rate of whites in US (www.theguardian.com)
A glaring racial disparity is evident in the 73 botched procedures involving lethal injections since 1976, report by Reprieve finds...
Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads from China app store after Beijing order (www.reuters.com)
Some experts on China’s tech industry said the government order on WhatsApp and Threads could be related to a new rule last August that requires all apps available in China to register with the government or risk being removed....
Which one should I play first? (lemmy.today)
Just got an amazing deal for these three and wondering where I should start!
Ukraine says downs Russian bomber as 8 die in missile attack (www.dw.com)
Ukraine’s military says its forces have destroyed a Tu-22M3 strategic bomber used to attack Ukrainian cities. This comes as Russian missile strikes in the Dnipropetrovsk region are reported to have killed eight people....
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy (www.theregister.com)
The EU’s Data Protection Board (EDPB) has told large online platforms they should not offer users a binary choice between paying for a service and consenting to their personal data being used to provide targeted advertising....
Software Architecture is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design is Underrated (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
Israel-Palestine War: How Famine and Starvation Could Affect Gazans for Generations to Come (revealnews.org)
Famine is already happening in parts of Gaza, a top U.S. humanitarian official publicly acknowledged last week for the first time. After six months of Israeli war and blockades, an estimated 2.2 million people are facing acute or catastrophic food shortages. One in three children in northern Gaza are malnourished, and deaths due...
Do We Really Want a Food Cartel? (www.theatlantic.com)
Just heard the interview on NPR. Worth a read.
Risk of bird flu spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’, says WHO (www.theguardian.com)
The World Health Organization has raised concerns about the spread of H5N1 bird flu, which has an “extraordinarily high” mortality rate in humans....