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Gangsters, Money and Murder: How Chinese Organized Crime Is Dominating America’s Illegal Marijuana Market (www.propublica.org)

FINAL FANTASY XIV for Xbox Series X|S Launches March 21 (na.finalfantasyxiv.com)

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Israeli troops destroy Gaza press vehicles, abduct Al-Jazeera reporter (thecradle.co)

Israeli troops raided and destroyed broadcast vehicles of press outlets at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City....

China's Global South exports surge in first two months (asiatimes.com)

China filed 25% more patents than the U.S. in 2023 — heavily sanctioned Huawei led all companies worldwide despite bans (www.tomshardware.com)

Hong Kong may design new halal certification system as part of Mideast outreach (www.scmp.com)

Huawei's homegrown operating system, launched after the company was put on a U.S. blacklist, may soon overtake Apple's iOS in China (fortune.com)

Huawei may have used a very clever trick to make hard disks use less power — spin-on-demand disk drives may well compete with tape on performance, but at what cost? (www.techradar.com)

Iranians tighten belts for Persian New Year festivities (www.yahoo.com)

America Pulls Back from Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)

Credit card user delinquency rate hits 9-year high (m.koreatimes.co.kr)

Domestic investment, wage growth: Malaysia ramps up efforts to revitalise economy after narrowly missing growth targets (www.channelnewsasia.com)

El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News (news.bitcoin.com)

El Salvador will continue buying 1 Bitcoin daily until it becomes unaffordable with fiat currencies...

Too Much Trust in AI Poses Unexpected Threats to the Scientific Process (www.scientificamerican.com)

It’s vital to “keep humans in the loop” to avoid humanizing machine-learning models in research...

An Expert Who Has Testified in Foster Care Cases Across Colorado Admits Her Evaluations Are Unscientific (www.propublica.org)

Diane Baird labeled her method for assessing families the “Kempe Protocol” after the renowned University of Colorado institute where she worked for decades. The school has yet to publicly disavow it....

Sony Reportedly Pauses PlayStation VR2 Production to Clear Backlog of Unsold Units (www.ign.com)

Massive ‘Apex Legends’ Hack Disrupts NA Finals, Raises Serious Security Concerns (www.forbes.com)

Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 arrives with Cortex-X4 core, to power the flagship killers of 2024 - GSMArena.com news (m.gsmarena.com)

Women pinned cougar during 'hand-to-hand combat' to save friend trapped in its jaws (www.nbcnews.com)

The cat dialed back pressure through its crushing jaws, and the friend was able to pull away, fellow cyclists said in an interview one month after the incident east of Seattle....

Trump: ‘I don’t know’ if Putin was responsible for Navalny’s death (thehill.com)

Former President Trump continued to question the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Sunday, after being criticized for not explicitly blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for what many Western leaders believe was an assassination....

As More States Target Disavowed ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis, Police Groups Push Back (kffhealthnews.org)

Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in several states to ban the discredited medical diagnosis from death certificates, law enforcement training, police incident reports, and civil court testimony....

VC/DC: Silicon Valley wants its cut of US military spending (responsiblestatecraft.org)

It’s official — the Pentagon is becoming a bank. Well, sort of. At a March 8th event on dual-use technology at SXSW in Austin, Texas, director of the Office of Strategic Capital Jason Rathje announced that his team has officially received the internal authority to grant executive loans and loan guarantees, a first within the...