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In Ukraine’s West, Draft Dodgers Run, and Swim, to Avoid the War (www.nytimes.com)

MineClone2 (based on Minetest) changes name to VoxeLibre (git.minetest.land)

[…] the large margin by which the name VoxeLibre won the voting on Discord […] The new name of this project will be VoxeLibre

How US Intelligence and an American Company Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza (www.thenation.com)

Palantir’s AI machines need data for fuel—data in the form of intelligence reports on Palestinians in the occupied territories. And for decades a key and highly secret source of that data for Israel has been the US National Security Agency, according to documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. After fleeing to...

Nooo Sidewinder-chan don't leave me!! (lemm.ee)

Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM (9to5mac.com)

Russian soldiers who quit Putin’s war get no hero’s welcome abroad as asylum claims surge (apnews.com)

The Associated Press spoke with five officers and one soldier who deserted the Russian military. All have criminal cases against them in Russia, where they face 10 years or more in prison. Each is waiting for a welcome from the West that has never arrived. Instead, all but one live in hiding.

Haha Minigun Goes BRRRRRRRRRRR (lemm.ee)

If we had parties (lemmy.world)

Genocide in Gaza: Enabled by AI, powered by Big Tech (www.aljazeera.com)

The algorithms that Big Tech designed - and the genocide they assisted. The Listening Post explores how Israel’s killing campaign of Palestinians has relied on artificial intelligence to choose its targets. A dystopian nightmare serves as a marketing campaign for technology flawed by design, and deepens the global digital...

RTX 4090s continue to melt — GPU repair facility claims it works on 200 flagship Nvidia cards per month (www.tomshardware.com)

Ties with US and Japan will ‘change dynamic’ in South China Sea, Philippines president says after critics of China’s ‘dangerous and aggressive behaviour’ in the region (www.theguardian.com)

Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13139560...

Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu (www.theverge.com)

The software maker will use the Recommended section of the Start menu, which usually shows file recommendations, to suggest apps from the Microsoft Store.

A Russian pacifist helped Ukrainians flee the country. Then the Kremlin caught him (www.theguardian.com)

Since the start of the war over two years ago, a discreet network of unofficial Russian volunteers like Demidenko has sprung up that have helped tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees displaced by the war to get out of Russia. Many of the Ukrainians were forcibly deported to Russia or ended up in the country after finding no...

Paralyzed man who can walk again shows potential benefit of stem cell therapy (abcnews.go.com)

For Many Western Allies, Sending Weapons to Israel Gets Dicey (www.nytimes.com)

The governments of Germany and the United States remain the backbone of international military support for Israel, accounting for 95 percent of major weapons systems sent to Israel, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which tracks the global weapons trade. So far, the pressure has not swayed them...