Chance Perdomo: British-American actor, 27, dies in motorcycle accident (www.bbc.co.uk)
The Brazilian farm workers exploited to harvest an everyday ingredient (www.bbc.co.uk)
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety. (www.nature.com)
Houthis sentence 9 men to death on dubious 'sodomy' charges in Yemen (news.yahoo.com)
Flowblade 2.14 Arrives with Slow motion, Title Editing, and More (debugpointnews.com)
China’s factory activity hits 1-year high, adding to signs economic recovery is picking up pace (www.scmp.com)
Official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) rebounds to 50.8 in March, crossing into expansion territory after five months of contraction ⠀...
Bacteria that cause meningitis on the rise, CDC warns (www.theguardian.com)
An invasive meningococcal disease – which can be deadly to infected people – is on the rise, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned....
Ex-Trump adviser says former president ‘hasn’t got the brains’ for dictatorship (www.theguardian.com)
A former national security adviser in the Donald Trump White House has said that the ex-president “hasn’t got the brains” to helm a dictatorship, despite his admiration for such rulers....
Is Germany targeting Jewish voices? (thespectator.com)
Germany finds itself in a situation where it is being asked to side with some Jews against others....
Slovakia’s brain drain picks up pace under populist leader Robert Fico (www.theguardian.com)
Although Marek Mikič spent a few years studying and working abroad, he never expected to leave his native Slovakia permanently. He had a group of close friends and a music festival to run in the eastern town of Košice....
#141 Sleek Documentation · This Week in GNOME (thisweek.gnome.org)
Flatpak 1.15.7 Will Now Automatically Remove Obsolete Driver Versions (www.phoronix.com)
NATO Explains Why The Theme For ‘Star Trek: First Contact’ Was Played At Sweden’s Induction Ceremony (trekmovie.com)
US universities secretly turned their back on Chinese professors under DOJ’s China Initiative (news.umich.edu)
Florida deputy’s son, 10, accused of selling dead father’s gun to classmate for $300 (www.nbcnews.com)
Two 10-year-old students were arrested in connection with a gun sold at their elementary school in Florida, county officials confirmed....
Taiwan’s Indigenous tribes could hold the key to its independence (www.politico.eu)
By calling for conquest, Xi has made an enemy of the Taiwan’s tribes, which rightfully say their ancestors inhabited the island long before the dawn of the Chinese era....
Belgium’s renowned chocolatiers grapple with soaring cocoa prices (www.politico.eu)
You famously never know what you’re going to get when you open a box of chocolates. But for Belgium, a state that’s synonymous with the high-end confectionery, soaring cocoa prices are making life for the nation’s chocolate aficionados even more uncertain than usual....
Billionaires who once disavowed Trump are coming crawling back (which might have something to do with Biden vowing to raise their taxes) (www.vanityfair.com)
Once upon a time, some überwealthy individuals who’d previously supported Donald Trump declared that they were done with the 45th president of the United States. After January 6, 2021, billionaire GOP donor Nelson Peltz called the insurrection a “stain on America” and publicly apologized for voting for Trump in 2020. Real...
Texas appeals court blocks state from investigating families seeking gender-affirming care for trans youth (www.cnn.com)
A Texas appeals court upheld two injunctions in a pair of legal cases Friday, in an order blocking the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services from investigating families of transgender youth who are seeking gender-affirming medical care for their children.
Murphy the flop-flipper (i.imgur.com)
Murphy was found in a storm drain. We guess he was just under a year old when we adopted him. This video is from two years ago when he was around 18. He’s still alive today and showing no signs of slowing down.
Canada to make contraceptives free (cultmtl.com)
Contraceptives will soon become free for women in Canada as part of first phase of the National Pharmacare Program.
GameVault Development Update: Announcing GameVault+ (gamevau.lt)
Huawei chipset spec leak shows chips made using SMIC 5nm process (www.digitimes.com)
This week in KDE: looking forward towards Plasma 6.1 (pointieststick.com)
Pavel Durov: The visionary whose alternative to Facebook was snatched away by the Kremlin and counterattacked with an even bigger hit, Telegram (english.elpais.com)
