Mike Johnson's ties to Christian nationalism revealed (www.newsweek.com)
Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data (www.theverge.com)
Religious parents (lemmy.zip)
Publisher Wants $2,500 To Allow Academics To Post Their Own Manuscript To Their Own Repository (www.techdirt.com)
As a Walled Culture explained back in 2021, open access (OA) to published academic research comes in two main varieties. “Gold” open access papers are freely available to the public because the researchers’ institutions pay “article-processing charges” to a publisher. “Green” OA papers are available because the...
Germany to cut Huawei from networks 'irrespective of costs' (www.theregister.com)
Germany is determined to remove any systems from its telecoms networks that might pose a security threat, regardless of cost, in a remarkable reversal of the country’s stance from just a few years ago....
Iran forces women defying hijab laws into psychiatric treatment (www.france24.com)
Android phones can now tell you if there’s an AirTag following you (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/795697...
Stop KOSA. Why the KOSA Bill is Dangerous and Should be Rejected (www.stopkosa.com)
KOSA is a bill that aims to protect children online but it would do so in harmful ways. First, it would pressure platforms to install content filters that would censor large amounts of content, including important suicide prevention and LGBTQ+ support resources. Content filters have a history of overblocking important...
Britain's far right is booming on Elon Musk's Twitter (www.euronews.com)
Nearly half of Gaza home have been destroyed, damaged by Israel-Hamas conflict: UN (thehill.com)
House Republicans Introduce Bill to Expel Palestinians From the Country (newrepublic.com)
Republicans have a racist new idea amid the war on Gaza.
Bilal went out to harvest his olives, an Israeli settler shot him (www.aljazeera.com)
Palestinian Bilal Saleh was shot in the chest by an Israeli settler as he was harvesting his olive trees in al-Sawiya, occupied West Bank.
‘The time has come.’ Sweden gets ready for NATO membership (www.politico.eu)
3,700-year-old Babylonian stone tablet gets translated, changes history (www.upworthy.com)
Oops! Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI (venturebeat.com)
Oops! Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI::Gagan Ghotra observed that Google Search had begun to index shared Bard conversational links into its search results pages, potentially…
Twitter is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links—Check for Yourself. (themarkup.org)
Florida Man Arrested for Hanging Nazi Banners Over I-4 (www.newsdaytonabeach.com)
I wish (beehaw.org)
4 panel comic....
Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnings on X (www.japantimes.co.jp)
A growing number of prefectures have stopped posting disaster warnings on the platform due to limits on the number of free posts allowed.
Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with its return-to-office policy, leaked documents show (www.businessinsider.com)
Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don’t comply with its return-to-office policy, leaked documents show::Amazon has updated its promotions policy to enforce its office attendance policy.
Firefox (finally) enables Wayland by default on their builds (phabricator.services.mozilla.com)
Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven counts (techcrunch.com)
Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven counts::Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, has been found guilty on all seven counts
Lewiston shooting suspect found dead, law enforcement officials say (www.nbcnews.com)
US nutrition panel’s ties to top food giants revealed in new report (www.theguardian.com)
Almost half of a federal government panel that helps develop US nutritional guidelines has significant ties to big agriculture, ultra-processed food companies, pharmaceutical companies and other corporate organizations with a significant stake in the process’s outcome....
23andMe User Data Stolen in Targeted Attack on Ashkenazi Jews (www.wired.com)
At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums. While the scale of the campaign is unknown, 23andMe says it's working to verify the data.
