Samsung reveals Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (2024) price, and it's bad (9to5google.com)
NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law (www.thecity.nyc)
War a real threat and Europe not ready, warns Poland's Tusk (www.bbc.com)
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has delivered a blunt warning that Europe has entered a “pre-war era” and if Ukraine is defeated by Russia, nobody in Europe will be able to feel safe....
New open source GPU is free to all — FuryGPU runs Quake at 60fps, supports modern Windows software (www.tomshardware.com)
Bills targeting book bans raise concerns about the penalties libraries could face (www.nbcnews.com)
Democratic state lawmakers are introducing legislation to counter the rise in book bans around the country....
A bus has plunged off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people. (npr.org)
A record surge in dengue cases in Latin America spurs a warning for proactive measures (www.nbcnews.com)
As of March, more than 3.5 million cases of the mosquito-transmitted dengue and more than 1,000 deaths have been reported in the region, according to the Pan American Health Organization....
Interview — Wilson Cruz, Mary Wiseman, and Blu del Barrio on Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 (blog.trekcore.com)
Sudan slips into famine as warring sides starve civilians (www.aljazeera.com)
One year after the start of the war in Sudan, children are dying of hunger and sick people are not buying medicine so that they can afford food as the population slips towards famine....
Chevron owns this city's news site. Many stories aren't told (www.npr.org)
Open flames shot upward from four smokestacks at the Chevron refinery on the western edge of Richmond, Calif. Soon, black smoke blanketed the sky....
Weaponizing Reality: The Dawn of Neurowarfare (unlimitedhangout.com)
Property owner stunned after $500,000 house built on wrong lot: ‘Are you kidding me?’ (www.fox19.com)
A Filipino villager is nailed to a cross for the 35th time on Good Friday to pray for world peace (apnews.com)
A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea....
Oregon city can't limit church's homeless meal services, federal judge rules (apnews.com)
A federal judge has ruled that a southern Oregon city can’t limit a local church’s homeless meal services....
Researchers analysed songs lyrics across several genres from 1980 to 2020, found that song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed (www.theguardian.com)
Thailand steps up border control of livestock after anthrax outbreak is reported in neighboring Laos (apnews.com)
Thailand’s government has ordered officials to closely monitor livestock along the border with Laos after more than 50 people were reported to have contracted anthrax in the neighboring country....
Migrant workers who helped build modern China have scant or no pensions, and can't retire (apnews.com)
At 53, Guan Junling is too old to get hired at factories anymore. But for migrant workers like her, not working is not an option....
Indian politics roiled as huge donations are linked to investigated firms (www.washingtonpost.com)
Mahendra Kumar Jalan was an Indian millionaire with a diversified portfolio of food processing plants, dairy farms and commercial real estate. As he faced scrutiny from the Indian government’s financial crimes investigators in 2019, he began to put money in something else....
The Oppo Find X7 series is getting 5.5G support, the first in the industry (m.gsmarena.com)
The tiles (sopuli.xyz)
Spoiler, there’s more....
Chinese workers killed in suicide bomb blast as Pakistan grapples with attacks on Beijing’s interests (www.cnn.com)
Five Chinese workers and their local driver were killed in a suicide bomb blast in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, authorities said, the latest in a string of terror attacks that the South Asian country’s military and government say aims to disrupt Islamabad’s close ties with Beijing....
‘Staggering’ rise in women with reproductive health issues near DRC cobalt mines – study (www.theguardian.com)
Investigation reveals reports of miscarriages, infections and birth defects among women and girls in mining communities...
Protests in support of Gaza ceasefire continue for fourth day in Jordan and Morocco (peoplesdispatch.org)
Baltic leaders urge Nato members to bring back conscription (www.ft.com)
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How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His Law Clerk (www.nytimes.com)
Justice Clarence Thomas gave Crystal Clanton a home and a job after she left a conservative youth organization in controversy. Then the justice picked her for one of the most coveted positions in the legal world....
