Fedora members plan on creating a Cosmic Desktop Spin (news.itsfoss.com)
There already is an experimental image based on Silverblue with the alpha stage Cosmic Epoch Desktop....
Reddit's licensing deal means Google's AI can soon be trained on the best humanity has to offer — completely unhinged posts (www.businessinsider.com)
AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile customers hit by widespread cellular outages in U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)
Over 50,000 AT&T outages were reported at about 7 a.m. ET Thursday, with most issues reported in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, according to tracking site Downdetector....
Denver police seek help finding a former funeral home owner after body kept in hearse for 2 years (www.seattletimes.com)
Denver police are asking for the public’s help in finding a former funeral home owner who they say kept a woman’s body in a hearse for two years and kept the cremated remains of at least 30 people....
For Many Ukrainians, It’s Been a 10-Year War, Not a 2-Year One (www.nytimes.com)
Russia’s invasion came in two phases, many Ukrainians say: the first a decade ago, when it sent soldiers over the border in an unacknowledged military intervention, and the second when it began its full assault two years ago....
[US] [EFF] NSA Spying Shirts Are Back Just In Time to Tell Congress to Reform Section 702 (www.eff.org)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging people to take action against the renewal of Section 702, a law that allows the NSA to conduct mass surveillance on US citizens....
India farmers' protest: X admits to taking down posts and accounts (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12295581...
Meta tests cross-posting from Facebook to its Twitter/X competitor, Threads (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/10361406
Xiaomi 14 Ultra is here: brighter 1-inch main camera, Titanium Special Edition (www.gsmarena.com)
Amazon says repays $1.9 mn to workers in Saudi over unlawful fees (www.france24.com)
U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney clears charges against white supremacists, says there's a bias against the far right (www.latimes.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/judge-again-dismisses-charges-a…
Federal prison employees falsified logs in case where inmate committed suicide, IG says (www.govexec.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/20240223125717/…/394345/
Borderlands players - what is your opinion about the new movie trailer? (piped.kavin.rocks)
Apologies that this is not a pure gaming question, but I’d really like to hear people’s opinion on the Borderlands movie trailer and especially from people who have played the games. That’s why I’m asking here, I hope that’s ok.
Trump and allies planning militarized mass deportations, detention camps (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/0wgc5
With spears and shields, India's Nihang Sikh warriors join farmers' protest (www.reuters.com)
SHAMBHU, India, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Thousands of protesting Indian farmers facing off with security forces have come under the protection of the Nihang Sikhs, a warrior sect dating back to the 1600s distinguished by their ink-blue robes and ancient weapons such as swords and spears....
Philippine Maoist rebels dismiss Manila’s goal of ending insurgency by 2025, say they are ready to keep fighting (www.scmp.com)
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Exclusive: Chinese police work in Kiribati, Hawaii's Pacific neighbour (www.reuters.com)
SYDNEY, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Chinese police are working in the remote atoll nation of Kiribati, a Pacific Ocean neighbour of Hawaii, with uniformed officers involved in community policing and a crime database program, Kiribati officials told Reuters....
Huge cybersecurity leak lifts lid on world of China’s hackers for hire (www.theguardian.com)
Leaked files shows range of services offered and bought, with data harvested from targets worldwide...
Assange’s wife says ‘the world is watching’ extradition appeal hearing (thehill.com)
ABC News: Ukraine could face 'catastrophic' arms shortage within weeks, US officials say (kyivindependent.com)
Leaked hacking files show Chinese spying on citizens and foreigners alike (www.pbs.org)
Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to the nation’s top policing agency and other parts of its government — a trove that catalogs apparent hacking activity and tools to spy on both Chinese and foreigners....
US intelligence: ‘low confidence’ in part of Israel’s UNRWA claims (www.theguardian.com)
A US intelligence assessment of Israel’s claims that UN aid agency staff members participated in the Hamas attack on 7 October said some of the accusations were credible but that the claims of wider links to militant groups could not be independently verified… According to the Wall Street Journal, the intelligence report,...
Russian troops raped and tortured children in Ukraine, U.N. panel says (www.nbcnews.com)
The findings by the United Nations experts are the latest allegations of war crimes against Russia since its invasion of Ukraine....
More than 500 games on Steam earned over $3 million in 2023 (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
