China trying to gain space through force, US admiral says (www.reuters.com)
Admiral John Aquilino, Commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said in an address to the Lowy Institute think tank in Sydney that China’s actions against the Philippines, particularly in Second Thomas Shoal, were “dangerous, illegal and they are destabilising the region”.
With a near-unprecedented official license for its fan server, one of PC gaming's great MMOs has a vibrant future: 'Let it be shouted far and wide: City of Heroes lives again' (www.pcgamer.com)
'Explicit GPU Synchronization for DRI3, Present, and Xwayland' merged into XOrg (gitlab.freedesktop.org)
Automattic buys Beeper for $125MM, launches closed-source "encrypted" messaging app (techcrunch.com)
Curious how none of the coverage of this purchase mention that the app isn’t open-source, which makes all of their claims of “end-to-end encryption” worthless...
Migrant Farmworker who survived mass shooting at Northern California mushroom farm sues company and owner (apnews.com)
Pedro Romero Perez, 24, was in the shipping container that served as his and his brother’s home at California Terra Gardens in Half Moon Bay when authorities say Chunli Zhao barged in and opened fire, killing his brother Jose Romero Perez and shooting him five times, including once in the face....
Israel’s security at core of German foreign policy due to Holocaust, ICJ hears (www.theguardian.com)
Nicaragua told the ICJ that it was “pathetic” for Germany to provide Palestinians with humanitarian aid while supplying the arms that killed them, and that Germany seemed “not to be able to differentiate between self-defence and genocide”.
Rebuilding Gaza was seen as a ‘Herculean’ task before Oct. 7; six months of bombing has led to crises that will long outlive the war (theconversation.com)
Israel-Gaza latest: Hamas rejects latest ceasefire proposal - as 'date set' for Rafah ground offensive (news.sky.com)
NAIA all but bans transgender athletes from women's sports. NCAA vows to ensure 'fair competition' (apnews.com)
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announced a policy Monday that all but bans transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports at its 241 mostly small colleges across the country....
GParted Live Is Now Patched Against the XZ Backdoor, Powered by Linux Kernel 6.7 (9to5linux.com)
US pushes ASML to deny maintenance in China (asiatimes.com)
Alan Estavez, US undersecretary of commerce for industry and security, will meet with officials and ASML executives in the Netherlands on Monday and raise the servicing contract matter with them, according to a Reuters report....
Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists (www.theguardian.com)
Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO (www.theregister.com)
China and Russia make united stand to reform West-led global system (www.scmp.com)
Xi Jinping tells Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that Beijing is prepared to step up coordination with Moscow through BRICS and the SCO...
International court rules Switzerland violated human rights in a landmark climate judgment (edition.cnn.com)
Tarallo - selfhostable FOSS Trello alternative (feddit.it)
Hi! For the ones of you that use Trello, I made a simple to use and host alternative in PHP. It’s not a complete alternative like other projects, and I mainly made it to be able to host it on free PHP web servers while having control over data/attachments. It also support a basic importer for Trello JSON exports....
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott accuses Biden of using migrants as "political pawns" (www.motherjones.com)
Breezy Weather: An open-source, privacy-friendly Android weather app forked from the now-unmaintained Geometric Weather (f-droid.org)
Screenshots:...
Landmark ruling: Switzerland’s climate policy violates human rights (www.swissinfo.ch)
In a much-anticipated ruling, the European Court of Human Rights has decided that Swiss authorities are responsible for not implementing efficient climate change policies[…]...
Russia’s migrants and ethnic minorities shiver at new Putin terror crackdown (www.politico.eu)
After deadly Moscow terror attack, authorities have targeted vulnerable scapegoats....
Medical care and supplies are scarce as gang violence chokes Haiti's capital (apnews.com)
Fresh gunfire erupted Tuesday in downtown Port-au-Prince, forcing aid workers to halt urgently needed care for thousands of Haitians....
Betta Edu probe: Nigeria recovers $24m in poverty minister investigation - EFCC (www.bbc.com)
Nigeria has recovered 30bn naira ($24m; £19m) as part of an ongoing corruption probe into a suspended minister, the financial watchdog says....
A Moroccan activist was sentenced to 5 years for criticizing the country’s ties to Israel (apnews.com)
An activist who criticized Morocco’s decision to normalize relations with Israel was sentenced to five years in prison, as some of the Arab world’s largest pro-Palestinian protests continue to sweep the country....