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Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal (techcrunch.com)

Who’s Behind All the ‘Pussy in Bio’ on X? (nymag.com)

Spam is hard. No real platform has solved it completely, and none ever will. Spammers evolve, platforms catch up, spammers evolve again, and so on until the last post is posted and the last user signs out. Individual spam tactics, however, do tend to have short lives, and while PIB won’t be with us forever, it’s notable that...

'Heroes' scrambled to stop traffic before Baltimore bridge collapsed; construction crew feared dead (apnews.com)

It was the middle of the night when a dispatcher’s 12-second warning crackled over the radio: A massive cargo ship had lost its steering capabilities and was heading toward the Francis Scott Key Bridge....

Germany Warns Of 17k Vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers Exposed Online - RedPacket Security (www.redpacketsecurity.com)

cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/10338366...

China calls for probe after five Chinese engineers killed in suicide attack in Pakistan (indianexpress.com)

Court ruling effectively outlaws Islamic schools in India’s most populous state (www.cnn.com)

Amit Soussana: Survivor of Hamas Abduction and Sexual Assault in Gaza (www.infoterkiniviral.com)

Amit Soussana, an Israeli woman, bravely shares her story of surviving sexual assault and violence during her 55-day captivity following the Hamas-led

The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis (www.theguardian.com)

Free drugs for all! (lemmus.org)

TIL about "Swill milk" where cows were fed distillery waste causing cow teeth rot and disease. It was also adulterated with raw eggs, burn sugar, etc. Swill milk lead to over 8,000 infant's deaths (en.wikipedia.org)

Cocoa prices hit $10,000 per metric ton for the first time ever (www.cnbc.com)

Difficult weather conditions and disease have affected production in West Africa, which produces about 70% of the world’s cocoa. The two largest producers, Ivory Coast and Ghana, have been hit by a combination of heavy rain, dry heat and disease recently....

What was old has become new again (sh.itjust.works)

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Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory (www.nature.com)

We need answers for why 2023 turned out to be the warmest year in possibly the past 100,000 years. And we need them quickly.

A Capitol Rioter Has Become a Right-Wing Media Darling. She Just Got Arrested. (slate.com)

Isabella DeLuca’s “persecution” is now a cause célèbre....

HMD Pulse Series Smartphones Leaked By Retailer (www.gizchina.com)

Samsung Galaxy A55 taken apart on video, given a high repairability score (m.gsmarena.com)

Basically it received a score of 8.5/10. Not a fairphone, but better nevertheless....

First Human Patient to Receive a Neuralink Brain Implant Used it to Stay Up All Night Playing Civilization 6 (www.ign.com)

Biden administration’s Gaza strategy panned as ‘mess’ amid clashing goals (www.theguardian.com)

The Biden administration’s policy on Gaza has been widely criticised as being in disarray as the defense secretary described the situation as a “humanitarian catastrophe” the day after the state department declared Israel to be in compliance with international humanitarian law....

Hurry up and wait: Servers speed-walk through Paris, reviving a century-old race (www.npr.org)

State Dept: No evidence Israel violating laws with US weapons (responsiblestatecraft.org)

“We’ve had ongoing assessments of Israel’s compliance with international humanitarian law,” Miller added. “We have not found them to be in violation, either when it comes to the conduct of the war or the provision of humanitarian assistance. We view those assurances through that ongoing work we have done.”