The GNU Project turns 40 this month (www.theregister.com)
Space drugs factory denied reentry to Earth (gizmodo.com)
Alabama cracks down on birth centers, leaving pregnant women with fewer options (www.nbcnews.com)
Dr. Heather Skanes’ team at the Oasis Family Birthing Center in Birmingham, Alabama, started turning away patients this spring as state officials cracked down on alternative childbirth options....
Amazon to require some authors to disclose the use of AI material (apnews.com)
After months of complaints from the Authors Guild and other groups, Amazon.com has started requiring writers who want to sell books through its e-book program to tell the company in advance that their work includes artificial intelligence material....
Outcry over official Spanish definition of Jew as ‘greedy or usurious’ person (www.timesofisrael.com)
Amid abaya ban, French school sends girl home for wearing kimono: Lawyer (www.aljazeera.com)
Human rights lawyer who plans to file complaint says 15-year-old was asked to leave school for wearing Japanese garment....
Over a year after 'Dobbs,' abortions have increased nationwide (reason.com)
New data from the Guttmacher Institute indicate that U.S. abortions have increased after the fall of Roe v. Wade, not decreased....
Russian missile attack hits market in Ukraine, 16 dead (www.nbcnews.com)
I abandoned my iPad for an Android tablet and didn’t hate it (www.digitaltrends.com)
SAG-AFTRA Seeks Approval for Second Strike Against Video Game Companies (variety.com)
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Proud Boy convicted of helping spearhead Capitol attack ties Jan. 6 sentence record with 18 years (apnews.com)
A one-time leader in the Proud Boys far-right extremist group was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, tying the record for the longest sentence in the attack....
Farewell to John Warnock, an internet pioneer whose invention actually made the world better (techxplore.com)
Farewell to John Warnock, an internet pioneer whose invention actually made the world better::In June 1969, John E. Warnock achieved a milestone of sorts at the University of Utah by producing the shortest Ph.D. dissertation in the university’s history.
Xi Jinping unexpectedly pulls out of BRICS summit speech in 'extraordinary' move (news.sky.com)
The Chinese leader has flown out to South Africa for the summit but asked his commerce minister to read out his remarks.
Leftist leads Ecuador presidential poll count amid spike in violence (www.bbc.com)
Left-winger Luisa Gonzalez is leading in Ecuador’s presidential election overshadowed by the assassination of one of the candidates....
The best-selling video game of each year since 1993 (ftw.usatoday.com)
Political leader in Ecuador is killed less than a week after presidential candidate’s assassination (apnews.com)
The unprecedented violence shaking Ecuador claimed the life of another political leader Monday, bringing the number of politics-related slayings within the last four weeks to three, including that of a presidential candidate.
It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk (www.theverge.com)
Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users (gizmodo.com)
LMAO
Grappling With Climate Change and Overtourism, Italy Is Betting Big on Train Travel (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Linux Desktop Share keeps increasing, 3.13% now. Narrowing the gap to ChromeOs 3.24% (gs.statcounter.com)
El Salvador clears way for mass trials as crackdown on gangs ramps up (www.theguardian.com)
Nayib Bukele’s government has already locked up 2% of El Salvador’s adult population and built the largest prison in the Americas to house the 70,000 alleged gang members he has imprisoned....
2-year-old Nevada boy dies from brain-eating amoeba after visit to hot spring (www.nbcnews.com)
The infection, caused by the ameba Naegleria fowleri, is rare and almost always fatal, according to health officials.
Alexandrite is a Beautiful Web Frontend for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)
If you love piracy you should consider voting/joining your local Pirate Party (pp-international.net)
From wikipedia: “Pirate Party is a label adopted by political parties around the world. Pirate parties support civil rights, direct democracy (including e-democracy) or alternatively participation in government, reform of copyright and patent laws to make them more flexible and open to encourage innovation and creativity, use...
iOS 17.2 hints at Apple moving towards letting users sideload apps from outside the App Store (9to5mac.com)
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