The young are now most unhappy people in the United States, new report shows (www.usatoday.com)
What Article 23 means for the future of Hong Kong and its once vibrant pro-democracy movement (theconversation.com)
Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way? (www.vox.com)
Report: Democracy in Romania becomes form without substance/ Justice sacrifices its independence to serve the interests of political actors and power Institutions / The PSD-PNL Coalition Is united by the desire to control public resources (www.g4media.ro)
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Taiwan confirms US troops on front-line islands near China (www.newsweek.com)
U.S. Army Green Berets from the 1st Special Forces Group are now permanently stationed at a pair of bases of the 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, a Taiwanese army special operations force, according to Taiwan’s United Daily News (UDN)....
Using Termux on Android for Self Hosting? Yes, really. – The Thin Computer (thin.computer)
The Children Who Lost Limbs in Gaza (www.newyorker.com)
More than a thousand children who were injured in the war are now amputees. What do their futures hold?
The lock-in problem at the heart of the Apple monopoly lawsuit (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/10657352...
Military intelligence: Russia's railway to Crimea is 'important target' for Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
The railway Russia is constructing in the occupied territories of Ukraine, which leads to Crimea, is “a serious challenge” and “an important target” for Kyiv, Andrii Yusov, a spokesperson of Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR), said on March 21....
Threads’ fediverse beta opens to share your posts on Mastodon, too (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/10657344...
The first ‘Fairly Trained’ AI large language model is here (venturebeat.com)
Man who helped drag police officer into mob gets over 5 years in prison for Capitol riot attacks (apnews.com)
A Colorado man who helped other rioters drag a police officer into a mob storming the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Thursday to more than five years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack....
Soldiers and civilians are dying as Mexican cartels embrace a terrifying new weapon: Land mines (www.latimes.com)
In one moment, a column of soldiers and military pickups creeps along a dirt road in western Mexico. In the next, a massive explosion sends debris and a body flying....
Women are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion (www.washingtonpost.com)
Search for “birth control” on TikTok or Instagram and a cascade of misleading videos vilifying hormonal contraception appear: Young women blaming their weight gain on the pill. Right-wing commentators claiming that some birth control can lead to infertility. Testimonials complaining of depression and anxiety....
Add fully featured authorization to your Prisma app | Cerbos (www.cerbos.dev)
Launch aborted of Russian Soyuz spacecraft seconds before blast-off (www.reuters.com)
Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem (news.slashdot.org)
Android 15 DP2 adds a swipe up feature on the Google Pixel Fold for transitioning apps seamlessly between screens (www.androidpolice.com)
U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly (www.nytimes.com)
The department joined 16 states and the District of Columbia to file a significant challenge to the reach and influence of Apple, arguing in an 88-page lawsuit that the company had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and less likely to switch to a competing device....
Microsoft’s first AI PCs are the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 for businesses (www.theverge.com)
Decentered Podcast: Interview with creator of Blacksky (wedistribute.org)
This ended up being such a great interview. I know some people will shrug it off, because it’s Bluesky and not Mastodon, but Rudy’s a super smart dude and an amazing guest, and he shed a lot of light on building a community space for black people on an emergent platform. There’s so much good info coming from this man!
France's competition watchdog hits Google with €250m fine (www.dw.com)
