The Russians Installed A GPS-Jammer In Ukraine. The Ukrainians Blew It Up—With A GPS-Guided Bomb. (www.forbes.com)
A bag could massacre a village (slrpnk.net)
TIL Children as young as eight can and have been put on the sex offender registry, which lasts the rest of their lives. (jlc.org)
'You were warned': Judge reprimands Trump's lawyers in New York AG's $250M fraud case (abcnews.go.com)
A judge in New York expressed frustration at Donald Trump’s defense counsel while considering sanctioning the defendants and their lawyers for making frivolous arguments in the state’s civil case against the former president and others....
President Joe Biden says he will request more funding for a new coronavirus vaccine (abcnews.go.com)
President Joe Biden said Friday that he is planning to request more money from Congress to develop another new coronavirus vaccine, as scientists track new waves and hospitalizations rise, though not like before
oh fuck we're in a recursion meme (lemmus.org)
'Cancer-killing pill' that appears to 'annihilate' solid tumours is now being tested on humans (news.sky.com)
Hayao Miyazaki’s final Studio Ghibli film breaks record despite no marketing (www.independent.co.uk)
YSK: Pro Publica has a tool that lets you request documentation of why your health insurer denied your claim (projects.propublica.org)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/9208209
EU Article 45 requires that browsers trust certificate authorities appointed by governments (www.eff.org)
EU Article 45 requires that browsers trust certificate authorities appointed by governments::The EU is poised to pass a sweeping new regulation, eIDAS 2.0. Buried deep in the text is Article 45, which returns us to the dark ages of 2011, when certificate authorities (CAs) could collaborate with governments to spy on encrypted...
Unredacted FTC suit shows 'Project Nessie' price-raising algorithm made Amazon $1.4B (techcrunch.com)
FCC Aims to Reinstate Net Neutrality Rules After US Democrats Gain Control of Panel (www.bloomberg.com)
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Firefox 118 Available With Performance Improvements, Automated Translations (www.phoronix.com)
The first human organ created inside an animal opens the door to manufacturing ‘spare parts’ for people (english.elpais.com)
Edit: Surprised at all the vegans in this thread. I didn’t think there were so many of you. I’m glad you care so much about animal rights, that you’re willing to forego eating them and using products made from them. If you’re not vegan and have moral objections for this, maybe you should look at yourself first and all...
‘Media outlets are erasing Sinead O’Connor’s Muslim identity’ (www.aljazeera.com)
As musicians, politicians and fans remember Sinead O’Connor, some Muslims are disappointed that the Irish singer and lifelong activist’s religious identity is not being highlighted in tributes....
Moms for Liberty members call the cops on Florida librarians (popular.info)
Two members of Moms for Liberty, a right-wing activist group, have reported several Florida school librarians to law enforcement. They claimed they had evidence that librarians were distributing "pornography" to minors and requested that law enforcement officers be dispatched. This represents a serious escalation of the tactics...
Introducing Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration (bitmagnet.io)
I’m excited to announce the first alpha preview of this project that I’ve been working on for the past 4 months. I’m initially posting about this in a few small communities, and hoping to get some input from early adopters and beta testers....
Unity apologises. (www.pcgamer.com)
IGN | Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered (www.ign.com)
Giuliani struggling under massive legal bills after defending Trump (www.cnn.com)
Rudy Giuliani is staring down hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills and sanctions amid numerous lawsuits in addition to the new criminal charges – related to his work for Donald Trump after the 2020 election.
The Duolingo owl is done messing around (i.postimg.cc)
"I simply wish to compose a completely ordinary sentence." (slrpnk.net)
In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black (www.businessinsider.com)
Was this AI trained on an unbalanced data set? (Only black folks?) Or has it only been used to identify photos of black people? I have so many questions: some technical, some on media sensationalism
CDC reports highest childhood vaccine exemption rate ever in the U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)
Forty states saw rises in parents citing religious or other personal concerns for not vaccinating their young children....
YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
YouTube’s plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers::People are installing and uninstalling ad blockers in record high numbers as a result of YouTube’s anti-ad blocking efforts.
