Trump Bitcoin Conference fundraiser tickets top out at $844,600 for Nashville soiree (cbnumy.blogspot.com)
40 people killed in migrant boat fire off Haiti’s coast (cbnumy.blogspot.com)
Global IT outage could take weeks to resolve, experts warn 😂 (www.ft.com)
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We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable. (www.politico.com)
The two of us are humanitarian surgeons. Together, in our combined 57 years of volunteering, we’ve worked on more than 40 surgical missions in developing countries on four continents. We’re used to working in disaster and war zones, of being on intimate terms with death and carnage and despair....
Israeli airstrikes target Yemen’s Houthis day after deadly drone attack in Tel Aviv | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
“A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime in the area of the Al Hudaydah (Hodeidah) Port in Yemen in response to the hundreds of attacks carried out against the state of Israel in recent months,” the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said in a statement....
Plane crash in Ohio kills 3; federal authorities investigating. (www.voanews.com)
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Bethesda Game Studios developers form 'wall to wall' union that includes artists, designers, and programmers (www.pcgamer.com)
Fossil fuel extraction compatible with climate action, says COP29 host Azerbaijan (www.politico.eu)
Daylight DC-1 tablet hands-on: an Android tablet with a new kind of screen (www.theverge.com)
Botanists vote to remove racist references from plants’ scientific names (www.theguardian.com)
Plant names are only a part of the taxonomic controversy, however. Naming animals after racists, fascists and other controversial figures cause just as many headaches as those posed by plants, say scientists. Examples include a brown, eyeless beetle which has been named after Adolf Hitler. Nor is Anophthalmus hitleri alone. Many...
Factory Entertainment Unveils Star Trek: The Next Generation Medical Tricorder Replica, Shipping in Late 2024 (blog.trekcore.com)
Cat Memes Template video for Free Download (www.memesstyle.com)
I want to share a website with template video resources for cat memes. Here you can download these template videos for free to create with. Feel free to use them if you’re interested!...
China: Researcher explains how Uighurs are exploited in Xinjiang's forced labor regime where Western companies benefit from an opaque system (eurasianet.org)
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For a belated celebration of Tetris' 40th birthday, here's a highly partisan look back at Tetris DS (www.eurogamer.net)
Bangladesh’s internet blackout immobilizes its booming tech industry. (restofworld.org)
LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells (www.tomshardware.com)
The Los Angeles Police Department has warned residents to be wary of thieves using technology to break into homes undetected. High-tech burglars have apparently knocked out their victims’ wireless cameras and alarms in the Los Angeles Wilshire-area neighborhoods before getting away with swag bags full of valuables. An LAPD...
Years of miscalculations by U.S., NATO led to dire shell shortage in Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
Elon Musk's X is fighting a subpoena in a lawsuit between Jeffrey Epstein accusers, further delaying an already drawn-out case (www.businessinsider.com)
Bella Hadid's Adidas advert dropped after Israeli criticism (www.bbc.com)
(Israel’s influence is insane)
Republicans united on Trump, divided on abortion. (www.voanews.com)
After spurning China for years, Brazil reveals plan to join Belt and Road Initiative (www.scmp.com)
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Official Famicom Controllers for Nintendo Switch | Retro Gaming News 24/7 (www.retronews.com)
Nintendo has announced the availability of official Famicom controllers for the Nintendo Switch. Originally exclusive to Switch Online subscribers, these controllers are now accessible to everyone at a price point of approximately $42 USD each, but only through the official Japanese store....