US to provide Patriot missiles to Ukraine as part of fresh $6bn aid package (www.theguardian.com)
US defence secretary announces aid as Zelenskiy pleads with west for more Patriot systems to defend Ukrainian cities...
Iraqi TikTok star Om Fahad shot dead outside Baghdad home (www.theguardian.com)
Officials say unidentified man killed influencer who had previously been imprisoned over dancing videos...
Canada's British Columbia makes U-turn over hard drugs (www.dw.com)
Last year, a pilot program was launched in a Canadian province allowing adults to carry up to 2.5 grams of hard drugs for personal use. Soaring drug use in public spaces has raised concerns over public safety....
It’s the End of the Web as We Know It (www.theatlantic.com)
Russian court places Forbes journalist under house arrest (www.independent.co.uk)
Journalist had shared a social media post in 2022 about Russia’s suspected war crimes in the Ukrainian city of Bucha...
'I felt like a freak because I didn't want children' (www.bbc.co.uk)
30 years on, South Africa's dream of unity lies shattered (www.dw.com)
Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa is looking back on a democratic but deeply divided society. Political divisions have fueled a growing disappointment with Nelson Mandela’s liberation party, the ANC....
Threema is a pretty cool Signal alternative. Edit: This ad is sponsored by the National Shitposting Agency (NSA) (slrpnk.net)
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Popular social media apps TikTok and Instagram use AI to analyze photos on your phone, introducing both bias and errors (news.wisc.edu)
Archived link...
What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 40 (tim.siosm.fr)
Just wanted to share this simple way to use kaspersky for free (forum.kaspersky.com)
You can use kaspersky beta versions for free by downloading and installing it from their forum....
Manor Lords is off to a flying start on Steam, just hours after its early access release (www.eurogamer.net)
Earthquake of magnitude 6.5 strikes Japan's Bonin Islands, USGS says (www.reuters.com)
An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 struck Japan’s Bonin Islands, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said on Saturday....
Dr Robotnik's Ring Racers is a gorgeous free SNES-style arcade racer, built using Doom Legacy (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
You can get it here: www.kartkrew.org/index.html
US food regulator gathering information on Indian spices after alleged contamination (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is gathering information on products of Indian spice makers MDH and Everest after Hong Kong halted sales of some of their products for allegedly containing high levels of a cancer-causing pesticide....
As solar capacity grows, some of America's most productive farmland is at risk (www.reuters.com)
Dave Duttlinger’s first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen. About 445 acres of his fields near Wheatfield, Indiana, are covered in solar panels and related machinery – land that in April 2019 Duttlinger leased to Dunns Bridge...
Bodycam video shows handcuffed man telling Ohio officers 'I can't breathe' before his death (www.nbcnews.com)
In video of the April 18 encounter, Frank Tyson can be seen lying motionless on the floor of a bar for more than 5 minutes before police check him for a pulse....
How financially literate are Europeans? Not very - but who knows most? (www.euronews.com)
EU citizens are not doing well when it comes to financial literacy. Nearly half lack an understanding of basic financial concepts, including inflation....
Is it possible to erase the UEFI/BIOS using dd or rm -rf on Linux ? (yt3.ggpht.com)
Mount Fuji: Iconic view to be blocked to deter tourists (www.bbc.com)
After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream (www.gamesradar.com)
Paramedic Who Injected Elijah McClain With Ketamine Before His Death Avoids Prison (www.huffpost.com)
BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with a powerful sedative avoided prison and was sentenced to probation Friday after his homicide conviction in the Black man’s death, which helped fuel the 2020 racial injustice protests....
New Brokewell malware takes over Android devices, steals data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Security researchers have discovered a new Android banking trojan they named Brokewell that can capture every event on the device, from touches and information displayed to text input and the applications the user launches.
Andrew Tate and brother Tristan to be tried in Romania on rape and trafficking charges (www.bbc.com)
The pro-Trump Arizona fake electors scheme: what’s in the charging document? (www.theguardian.com)
The indictment against the slate of fake electors in Arizona and the Trump allies who advanced the scheme there includes a host of public statements and private exchanges that show how the group intended to overturn the state’s electoral votes for Joe Biden in 2020....
