#141 Sleek Documentation This Week in GNOME (thisweek.gnome.org)
Cases of Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Have Tripled in China, Posing a Global Threat (www.usnews.com)
A strain of highly antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea first emerged in China in 2016, and cases of this tough-to-treat infection have tripled there in just five years, Chinese researchers report....
Salt Lake City police defend not arresting Ahn Pham after initial hit and run case (ksltv.com)
The Salt Lake Police Department is defending itself in the case of the man accused of a string of hit-and-runs in the city and questions about why Ahn Pham wasn’t arrested after the initial hit-and-run last August....
Chinese researchers engineer implantable oxygen-run battery (interestingengineering.com)
Spectator rushes stage at CS2 tournament and gets tackled into trophy, smashing it to pieces (www.pcgamer.com)
India court bans Muslim religious schools in UP state ahead of election (www.trtworld.com)
Public has no right to swim in sea, claims firm that dumped sewage at bathing spot (inews.co.uk)
South West Water is claiming it has no legal obligation to keep rivers and seawater clean of sewage in its defence against a Devon swimmer who is taking the water company to court....
OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices (www.nytimes.com)
First, OpenAI offered a tool that allowed people to create digital images simply by describing what they wanted to see. Then, it built similar technology that generated full-motion video like something from a Hollywood movie....
Generative AI Is Coming To Your Home Appliances (www.forbes.com)
Across all industries, organizations are rapidly embracing generative AI. Among them, makers of home appliances like fridges and ovens. Generative AI in your oven? Why not? Ater all, AI has been creeping into our homes for years (think smart lightbulbs and Alexa) – but thanks to generative AI, these interactions will become...
A New Jersey man didn’t trust police but sought their help anyway. Two days later, he was dead (whyy.org)
Virginia governor vetoes marijuana market bill (www.politico.com)
Russian journalist who covered Navalny trials jailed on extremism charges (www.theguardian.com)
Kansas Legislature Bans Trans Kids From Accessing Gender-Affirming Care (truthout.org)
Oregon's Breakthrough Right-to-Repair Bill Is Now Law (www.wired.com)
Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections (arstechnica.com)
The malicious changes were submitted by JiaT75, one of the two main xz Utils developers with years of contributions to the project....
Nearly Two Years After Uvalde Massacre, Here Is Where All the Investigations, Personnel Changes Stand (www.propublica.org)
A new US-run pier off Gaza could help deliver 2 million meals a day – but it comes with security risks (theconversation.com)
A very bad year for press freedom (www.vox.com)
WARNING: Malicious code in current pre-release & testing versions/variants: F40 and rawhide affected - users of F40/rawhide need to respond (discussion.fedoraproject.org)
This Week in Self-Hosted (29 March 2024) (selfh.st)
As usual, not my blog, just a good community share. Authors are on Mastodon at @selfhst
Iowa Fertilizer Spill Kills Nearly All Fish Across 60-Mile Stretch of Rivers (www.nytimes.com)
“I refer to this one as ‘the big one,’” said the official, Matt Combes, an ecological health unit science supervisor for the Missouri Department of Conservation. He added: “Calling something a near-total fish kill for 60 miles of a river is astounding and disheartening.”
Alabama town that hasn’t held elections in decades sued to allow voting (www.theguardian.com)
The town of Newbern saw white officials deny its first Black mayor, Patrick Braxton, from exercising his duties for three years...
U.S. signs off on more bombs, warplanes for Israel (www.washingtonpost.com)
The Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel despite Washington’s concerns about an anticipated military offensive in southern Gaza that could threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians....