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Ohio company to sell a ‘flamethrower-wielding robot dog’ called the Thermonator (www.theguardian.com)

Coming soon to a battlefield near you. If it can bypass the export controls, that is.

Mike Leigh to Be Honored at Mediterrane Film Festival With Career Achievement Award (variety.com)

cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/movies/t/993157...

File Compression Is Awesome: A Practical Guide (popcar.bearblog.dev)

Columbia University president says negotiations with protesters have stalled, school will not divest from Israel (www.nbcnews.com)

Police and public capture runaway zebras in Washington state, but one is still missing (www.nbcnews.com)

Supreme Court rejects Elon Musk over agreement with SEC to vet social media posts (www.nbcnews.com)

Nato Secretary General in Kyiv: Ukraine is on an “irreversible path” to NATO, support will continue (www.nato.int)

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited Kyiv on Monday (29 April 2024) for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the state of the war and the future of NATO’s support to Ukraine....

Jupiter may be the reason why Earth has a moon, new study hints | Live Science (www.livescience.com)

It would appear that the so-called “great instability” event that wreaked chaos among the planets, sending the gas giants careening through space until they settled into the orbits we know today, occurred between 60 and 100 million years after the birth of the solar system. This is the conclusion of some careful scientific...

Terrifying reality of what airport security could actually see through an X-ray machine (www.unilad.com)

Biden grants clemency to crack, cocaine dealers (www.washingtontimes.com)

For 'Cheap' Labour, Google Fires Its Entire Python Team: Report (www.freepressjournal.in)

MediaTek Dimensity 9400 with ARM ‘BlackHawk’ CPU architecture surfaces (www.fonearena.com)

ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it (noyb.eu)

Poll: 61% of young adults confess they are not saving for retirement (medium.com)

Even Mild Cases Of COVID-19 Can Leave A Mark On The Brain, Such As Reductions In Gray Matter (today.tamu.edu)

It should also be noted that damage to this specific area of the brain within the cerebral cortex can cause sociopathic behaviour. Additionally, this induces the “slow and insidious loss of the capacity for moral rationality.”...

Florida’s 6-week abortion ban set to take effect this week (www.cnn.com)

A stricter abortion law is set to take effect in Florida on Wednesday — dropping the state’s 15-week ban to a six-week ban — and it will likely affect thousands of people seeking abortion care within the first month alone....

This site claims to run Mastodon but its front-end looks fresh and smooth! (veganism.social)

Is it easy to customize Mastodon front-end or front-page like that ? Any pointers ?

Dubai plans to move its busy international airport to a $35 billion new facility within 10 years (apnews.com)

Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, will move its operations to the city-state’s second, sprawling airfield in its southern desert reaches “within the next 10 years” in a project worth nearly $35 billion, its ruler said Sunday....