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First Beta for Krita 5.2.0 Released | Krita (krita.org)

Video shows 5 Arlington County officers tackling mentally ill man in Virginia. Experts question why. (web.archive.org)

Autoenshittification - How the computer killed capitalism. (doctorow.medium.com)

Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket....

Girls playing netball killed as school gym collapses in China (www.aljazeera.com)

Authorities say illegal stacking of materials on school roof may have caused collapse that killed at least 11 people.

26-year-old allegedly enrolled in Nebraska high school and sent sexually explicit text messages to underage students, police say (www.cnn.com)

A 26-year-old man is charged with sex crimes after enrolling in a public school district in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he pretended to be 17, police say.

Scientists observe world's 1st repairing metal (www.livescience.com)

Of course, there are lots of industries whose product engineers would love to translate this finding into intentional engineering approaches to create metals that automatically heal themselves in our structural applications," lead-author Brad Boyce, a materials scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New...

A study of more than 38,000 young people has confirmed: the COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a jump in cases of type 1 diabetes in children and teenagers. (jamanetwork.com)

Incidence of Diabetes in Children and Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic...

Bad Internet Bills: Letter from over 90 Human Rights and LGBTQ Groups Opposing KOSA (US-focused) (cdt.org)

The “Kids Online Safety Act” (KOSA) is one of the Bad Internet Bills EFF is asking for help trying to stop. KOSA sounds like a good bill. Who doesn’t want kids to be safe online? But KOSA wouldn’t actually make kids safer – and the way it’s written would be especially harmful to LGBTQIA2S+ people....

[The Conversation] - Why Russia pulled out of its grain deal with Ukraine – and what that means for the global food system (theconversation.com)

Russia strikes Ukraine's Odesa port in 'hellish' attack - official (www.reuters.com)

'This is just the beginning': Extreme heat around the world as fires rage in southern Europe (www.cnn.com)

Blisteringly high temperatures are expected to continue across parts of southern Europe this week, as the continent braces for its second extreme heat wave, putting people’s health at risk and setting the stage for wildfires.

Recycling mismanaged plastic waste in South and Southeast Asia could reduce GHG emissions by 229 million tonnes (www.circularonline.co.uk)

Recycling mismanaged plastic waste in South and Southeast Asia could reduce GHG emissions by 229 million tonnes::New research shows recycling all mismanaged plastic waste in South and Southeast Asia could reduce GHG emissions by 229 million tonnes.

Israel Quietly Embeds AI Systems in Deadly Military Operations (www.bloomberg.com)

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Finland introduces the world’s first phone-free tourist island (www.independent.co.uk)

Finland introduces the world’s first phone-free tourist island::A short digital fast could improve your wellbeing, according to psychologists

SUSE Preparing to Fork RHEL (web.archive.org)

I personally think it’s hilarious Red Hat tried to kill off its derivative distros and other companies are just treating this as a newly-opened niche 🤣 😂...

Starlink satellites are dodging objects in orbit thousands of times every month (techcrunch.com)

Israel May Have Committed War Crimes in Jenin Operation, UN Palestinian Rights Official Says (web.archive.org)

Any idea how this new law will affect instance operators? (www.klfy.com)

The US state of Louisiana requires social media companies to get parental permission for users under 16.

Georgia prosecutors seek protective order after leak of videos in Trump case (www.theguardian.com)

The request came after several media outlets published details of videotaped statements that former Trump lawyers Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro gave as part of plea deals to avoid being tried as racketeering co-defendants with the former president....