US Air Force awards $13 billion Doomsday plane contract to Sierra Nevada (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. Air Force said on Friday that it has awarded a $13 billion contract to Sierra Nevada Corp to develop a successor to the E-4B, known as the Doomsday plane due to its ability to survive a nuclear war....
Columbia leadership rebuked by faculty panel for police crackdown on protesters (www.reuters.com)
Columbia University’s embattled president came under renewed pressure on Friday as a campus oversight panel sharply criticized her administration for clamping down on a pro-Palestinian protest at the Ivy League school....
Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on designated 'safe zones' (www.nbcnews.com)
NVIDIA Developer Opens Feature Pull Request For Open-Source NVK Driver (www.phoronix.com)
tl;dr further signs that the open source Nvidia driver stack on Linux is getting semi-official support
Chaturbate Will Pay Texas $675,000 for Violating New Porn Age Verification Law (www.404media.co)
Realme launches 240W GaN charger with PD, QC support for just ~ $42 (www.gizmochina.com)
Compare this with the recent $50 Samsung dual Port 50w charger. Lower priced but much better except for it being single port.
Israel: ‘Investigate what?’ A response to mass graves being found in Gaza. (www.politico.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14741297...
Joint FAO/WHO/WOAH preliminary assessment of recent influenza A(H5N1) viruses (www.who.int)
WhatsApp Must Act to Protect Elections | foundation.mozilla.org (foundation.mozilla.org)
The link above is for the petition...
Discord Shuts Down ‘Spy Pet’ Bots That Scraped, Sold User Messages (www.404media.co)
Discord banned a mass of accounts that were part of a service that scraped and sold user data, including messages posted across servers and what voice channels they joined, 404 Media has learned. The move comes after https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/, called Spy Pet, last week and...
Tennessee passes first-of-its-kind law attacking trans kids (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Foundations of Amateur Radio: The origins of the International Amateur Radio Union (podcasts.itmaze.com.au)
In the early 1920’s long distance communication using radio was a growing interest. At the time it was thought that communication that we take for granted today, over long-distance HF, was limited to long wave or extremely low frequencies, the lower the better. With that restriction came massive antennas and high power...
Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers. The company registered itself as a sales company, making the employees work 4 more hours a week and get paid less. (restofworld.org)
IBM registered itself (in Brazil) as a sales company....
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths (www.theverge.com)
Tomb Raider I-III Remastered undoes “inadvertent” censorship (archive.ph)
DL: nichegamer.com/tomb-raider-i-iii-remastered-undoe…
Trump Allies Draw Up Plans to Blunt Fed’s Independence (www.wsj.com)
White House bolsters transgender health protections, rolls back Trump admin rule (thehill.com)
US campus protests inspire wave of international action as French university occupied by pro-Palestine activists’ (www.independent.co.uk)
A Baltimore-area teacher is accused of using AI to make his boss appear racist (www.npr.org)
Handcuffed Black man told police, ‘I can’t breathe,’ before he died (thehill.com)
Issue 6 of Quarter Up (nantucketebooks.com)
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