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Italian island overrun by goats is offering them free to anyone who can catch them (www.cnn.com)

Earthquake centered near New York City rattles the Northeast (apnews.com)

The agency reported a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7, centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, or about 45 miles west of New York City and 50 miles north of Philadelphia....

Joint World Bank, UN Report Assesses Damage to Gaza’s Infrastructure (www.worldbank.org)

WASHINGTON, April 2, 2024 – The cost of damage to critical infrastructure in Gaza is estimated at around $18.5 billion according to a new report released today by the World Bank and the United Nations, with financial support of the European Union. That is equivalent to 97% of the combined GDP of the West Bank and Gaza in 2022.

Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains (arstechnica.com)

McDonald's to buy back Israeli restaurants after boycotts (www.bbc.co.uk)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13936577

‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)

A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....

Can a Major Antitrust Case Rein in Apple? (jacobin.com)

Last month, the Justice Department charged tech giant Apple with serious antitrust violations related to the iPhone. It’s a relatively aggressive suit — but likely an inadequate response to Apple’s outsize power.

ArtToCope - Art that you made to help deal with emotions (lemm.ee)

ArtToCope is a subreddit I followed on Reddit for a long time, and one of the only communities I missed when I completely ditched Reddit for Lemmy. Recently, I talked to the moderator and we agreed that I should make a Lemmy community for it, as they had also wanted to move off Reddit....

The bridge of the Klingon Battlecruiser from ST:TMP has been added to the Roddenberry Archive. You can freeroam on this and other bridge sets. (roddenberry.x.io)

Unless I’m mistaken, the Discovery bridge has been added only recently as well....

Forget ‘doomers:’ Warming can be stopped, top climate scientist says (news.harvard.edu)

Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/12956314...

Embedding the Servo Web Engine in Qt (www.kdab.com)

While the task of writing a brand new standard-compliant browser engine is infamous as being almost unachievable nowadays (and certainly so with Chromium coming in at 31 million lines of code), the Rust ecosystem has been brewing up a new web rendering engine called Servo. Initially created by Mozilla in 2012, Servo is still...

"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." (pluralistic.net)

As the US deliberately starves the Cuban people, solidarity activists launch campaign to send flour (peoplesdispatch.org)

IDF: Efrat Katz was likely killed by IAF helicopter fire during abduction by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 (www.timesofisrael.com)

An IDF probe has determined that Efrat Katz, 68, was likely killed by Israeli Air Force helicopter fire while Hamas terrorists kidnapped the Kibbutz Nir Oz resident on October 7....

Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse (www.theguardian.com)

An Exercise Program for the Fat Web (blog.codinghorror.com)

This is a screenshot from an NPR article discussing the rising use of ad blockers. The page is 12 megabytes in size in a stock web browser. The same article with basic ad blocking turned on is 1 megabyte.

FFmpeg 7.0 Brings Experimental VVC Decoder and IAMF Support (linuxiac.com) Spanish

Israel sacks two officers after finding grave errors in strike on aid workers (www.reuters.com)

An Israeli inquiry into the killing of seven aid workers in an air strike in Gaza this week found serious errors and breaches of procedure by the military, with the result that two officers have been dismissed and senior commanders formally reprimanded....

At Indonesia’s biggest bank, customers’ savings can vanish with a click | Business and Economy | Al Jazeera (www.aljazeera.com)

The Shift: Biden says he’s ‘outraged’ over killing of aid workers . . . and moves to send Israel more weapons (mondoweiss.net)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14088188...