Android 4.4 KitKat is truly dead, loses Play Services support (arstechnica.com)
Russian fighter jet damages US Reaper drone with flare over Syria: Officials (abcnews.go.com)
Video: streamable.com/4f5lwc
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...
Does The Kentucky Attorney General Go To Work? An Investigation. (www.huffpost.com)
An open records request shows Daniel Cameron hasn’t used his key fob to get into the state Capitol for the last three years. His office won’t say why.
Average global temperature to rise above 1.5°C has increased to almost 50% for the next five year period between 2022 and 2026. (greenly.earth)
When the crowd chants 'ceasefire now', this is why some governments remain 'deaf' (www.abc.net.au)
US Senate panel moves toward ending abortion-related military promotions blockade (www.reuters.com)
Israel-Gaza live news: Mass grave being dug at Gaza hospital, as Israel confirms hostage death - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Earlier, the BBC’s Rushdi Abualouf reported that a contact still inside Gaza City’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, had told him 170 bodies were being buried in a mass grave there....
3 dead, including SWAT officer, following hostage incident in Austin: Police (abcnews.go.com)
Three people are dead after a hostage situation unfolded in Austin, Texas, early Saturday, including a responding SWAT officer who was shot and killed in a shootout with the suspect, police said....
Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages (therecord.media)
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On average, 420 children are killed or injured in Gaza every day. (www.who.int)
As of 3 November, according to Ministry of Health data, 2326 women and 3760 children have been killed in the Gaza strip, representing 67% of all casualties, while thousands more have been injured. This means that 420 children are killed or injured every day, some of them only a few months old.
Elon Musk’s X Has Started Selling Off Old Twitter Handles For $50,000 (www.forbes.com)
Ukraine minister says he wants to turn his country into a weapons production hub for the West (apnews.com)
Ukraine’s newly appointed head of defense industry says he is working tirelessly to ramp up local arms production and wants to turn the country into a weapons production hub for the West....
Delhi air pollution spikes to 100 times WHO health limit (www.theguardian.com)
Women Across Iceland, Including the Prime Minister, Go on Strike for Equal Pay and No More Violence (portside.org)
Earthquake of magnitude 6.2 strikes Fiji (www.hindustantimes.com)
Philippines Drops China Railway Deals, Seeks Other Funders (www.bloomberg.com)
The Philippines will no longer pursue Chinese loans to fund three railway projects valued at more than $5 billion and has started discussions with other Asian countries for alternative financing deals....
Samsung confirms satellite connectivity on Galaxy S24 for emergencies - SamMobile (www.sammobile.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2632247 (!android)...
GOOOOOOOD MORNING TEROK NOR! (sh.itjust.works)
Instagram ‘Sincerely Apologizes’ For Inserting ‘Terrorist’ Into Palestinian Bio Translations (archive.ph)
original page (paywalled): www.404media.co/instagram-palestinian-arabic-bio-…
Biden in Israel Says Hospital Blast Appears Done by ‘Other Team’ (www.bloomberg.com)
Qualcomm announces first-ever mass-market RISC-V Android SoC (arstechnica.com)
Before anyone gets too excited, they’re going to use RISC-V for watches and such (Wear OS), but it’s still a big step towards having Android phones use RISC-V and major adoption. Maybe RISC-V is closer than we thought!
Israeli air strike hits Gaza hospital, hundreds dead, health officials say (www.reuters.com)
Apple’s cheaper Vision Pro follow-up still won’t be cheap (www.theverge.com)
Apple’s cheaper Vision Pro follow-up still won’t be cheap::A new report says Apple’s next mixed-reality headset will likely ditch the external EyeSight screen to reach a cheaper price point, along with other hardware compromises.