TIL Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" is not a love song (www.bbc.com)
Parton wrote this song when she was about to leave her music mentor Porter Wagoner.
Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Launch Is a Disaster - IGN (www.ign.com)
Exclusive: Trump launched CIA covert influence operation against China (www.reuters.com)
Two years into office, President Donald Trump authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to launch a clandestine campaign on Chinese social media aimed at turning public opinion in China against its government, according to former U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the highly classified operation....
The Gaza conflict’s forgotten shipping crew held hostage in the Red Sea (www.cnn.com)
A Houthi-owned helicopter hijacked the Galaxy Leader cargo ship on November 19 in the Red Sea, as rebel gunmen laid siege to the vessel and took the ship’s crew of 17 Filipinos, two Bulgarians, three Ukrainians, two Mexicans and a Romanian hostage....
Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts (www.zdnet.com)
Calling them “free-form ads,” Reddit said the new advertisements are its most native format ever, designed to look and feel like community content shared by real people....
openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, But No Wayland Default Yet (www.phoronix.com)
The openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release Linux distribution has begun rolling out the KDE Plasma 6.0.1, Gear 24.02 apps, and Frameworks 6.0 packages. Plasma 5 is being replaced within the Tumbleweed repository but openSUSE Tumbleweed isn’t yet transitioning to the Wayland session by default.
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Android 15 will let you find your Pixel 8 even when it's off (www.androidpolice.com)
Abused by the Badge: Hundreds of law enforcement officers have been accused of sexually abusing children over the past two decades, a Washington Post investigation found (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/new-orleans-police-child-sexual…
US, G-7 allies warn Iran to back off deal to provide Russia ballistic missiles or face new sanctions (apnews.com)
The United States and allies warned Iran on Friday that major Western economies will pile new sanctions on Tehran if it moves forward with an advancing plan to provide ballistic missiles to Russia for its war with Ukraine....
In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there (www.pcgamer.com)
"Russia Election: Vandalism Leads to Arrests as Ballot Boxes Targeted in Putin Vote" (www.infoterkiniviral.com) Indonesian
Russian officials have reported several detentions for vandalism at polling stations on the first day of voting in the presidential elections.
Venezuela’s Foreign Minister: Comments by US Department of State Reveal US Involvement in Terrorist Plots (orinocotribune.com)
Metal Gear Solid Master Collection gets Steam Input support and various fixes (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Outcast - A New Beginning | Release Trailer (yt.artemislena.eu)
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Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
The SEC is sick of Elon Musk’s attempts to delay its Twitter investigation (www.theverge.com)
Funding failure puts US at China's high-tech mercy (asiatimes.com)
Tens of thousands peacefully attend 1st Friday prayers of Ramadan at Temple Mount (www.timesofisrael.com)
TIL The fish pepper was thought to be extinct for much of the 20th century until the rediscovery of fifty year-old seeds in a family's freezer (www.bbc.com)
The fish pepper (named for its common use in seafood dishes) is popular today, but it nearly disappeared altogether: that it still exists is thanks to William Woys Weaver, a Maryland author and ethnographer. In 1995, Weaver discovered a jar of seeds in the bottom of a freezer that belonged to his grandfather, H Ralph Weaver....
New Hamas Gaza truce proposal outlines exchange of captives for prisoners (www.aljazeera.com)
Hamas has presented a new ceasefire plan to end Israel’s war on Gaza that includes the release of Israeli captives in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, 100 of whom are serving life sentences....
Someone gets killed by a car, so they restrict e-bikes. (www.centraloregondaily.com)
(Title shamelessly stolen from this comment in the crossposted !micromobility thread.)
CAA Should Be for All Persecuted People ‘Irrespective of Religion’, Says Taliban (thewire.in)
