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Caste matters: in India Dalit Student Attacked for Studying Well, Anti-Caste Groups Ring Alarm (www.newsclick.in)

A group of high school students broke into the Dalit student’s home and hacked him with a sickle.

Starfield install size reveal; it is now preload (www.gamescensor.com)

Ukraine tests homemade demining machine (ca.yahoo.com)

Hawaiian Electric stock plunges 40% after lawsuit alleges it failed to shut power off ahead of the Maui wildfires (edition.cnn.com)

Toy Story characters behind code names of Debian releases (blanc.pages.dev)

cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/7129084...

US pressures Saudi Arabia to sell oil in dollars, not Chinese yuan, amid Israel negotiations (geopoliticaleconomy.com)

Hunter Biden drama assured to hang over Joe Biden's 2024 campaign with special counsel (www.usatoday.com)

Finland suspends transfer of Yango taxi data to Russia (yle.fi)

VS Code’s Token Security: Keeping Your Secrets… Not So Secretly (cycode.com)

FYI to all the VS Code peeps out there that malicious extensions can gain access to secrets stored by other VS Code extensions as well as the tokens used by VS Code for Microsoft/Github....

SAG-AFTRA Rallies Behind Reality TV Performers in Residuals Fight (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

"We stand ready to assist Bethenny Frankel, Bryan Freedman and Mark Geragos along with reality performers and our members in the fight," said the guild.

HBO Orders Marvel-DC Parody Series ‘The Franchise’ From ‘Succession,’ ‘Veep’ Writers (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

The half-hour comedy starring Himesh Patel and Aya Cash will spoof the behind-the-scenes world of a struggling superhero movie.

Google fails to end $5 billion consumer privacy lawsuit (neuters.de)

NASA ends lunar ice cubesat mission over stuck valve (www.theregister.com)

NASA has terminated the LunaH-Map mission after a stuck valve on the ice-hunting cubesat prevented it from reaching the Moon’s south pole....

Arrest warrants issued after boaters attack dock employee at Montgomery riverbank (abcnews.go.com)

Police in Montgomery issued four arrest warrants for individuals involved in a massive brawl between white boaters and a Black dock employee at Riverfront Park.

Chinese soldiers pledge to sacrifice their lives in documentary on Taiwan invasion (www.theguardian.com)

Why Thread is Matter’s biggest problem right now (www.theverge.com)

The fight for who will own your Thread mesh network is creating an even more fractured smart home.

Elephant corridors: The busy trunk routes where locals take care to cross (www.bbc.com)

With their large, padded feet, elephants can be remarkably quiet. It’s our third evening of waiting to see these giants cross a dust road. Our guide, Mojita, assures us they’re very close. “They’re collecting just there, in the bush,” he whispers....

Writers Guild Tells Members That Studios May Not Be Serious About Restarting Talks to Make a Deal (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

After the union sent a cautionary message about the studios' "playbook," the group representing those companies in negotiations said, "Our only playbook is getting people back to work."