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At least 40 people killed in blast at political event in Pakistan – reports (www.theguardian.com)

Nine killed in Thailand fireworks warehouse explosion (www.bbc.com)

At least nine people have been killed, including three children, in a blast at a fireworks warehouse in a market in southern Thailand on Saturday....

Google alert failed to warn people of Turkey earthquake (www.bbc.co.uk)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/794897...

Opinion | Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: When It Comes to Big Tech, Enough Is Enough (www.nytimes.com)

Police chief Will Kerr faces serious sexual offence allegations (www.bbc.com)

Ex-PSNI ACC Will Kerr was suspended from his role as chief constable in Devon and Cornwall earlier.

Israel protests cast light on laws discriminating against Palestinians (www.aljazeera.com)

Jewish supremacy, legalized segregation, and punishing freedom of speech and political opinion.

Meta’s Open Source Llama Upsets the AI Horse Race (www.wired.com)

#Meta is giving its answer to OpenAI’s GPT-4 away for free. The move could intensify the generative AI boom by making it easier for entrepreneurs to build powerful new AI systems....

FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)

Why Protecting the Fediverse Matters Protecting user privacy is a vital priority for the Fediverse. Many fediverse instances, such as Kolektiva, are focused on serving marginalized communities who are disproportionately targeted by law enforcement. Many were built to serve as a safe haven for those who too often find themselves...

Introducing a new Play Store for large screens (android-developers.googleblog.com)

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Vaccine politics may be to blame for GOP excess deaths, study finds (www.washingtonpost.com)

Yale researchers found that registered Republicans in Ohio and Florida had a higher rate of excess deaths than Democrats.

India, Manipur genocide : Snatched from cops and lynched: Traumatic accounts spill out of violence-hit Manipur (www.telegraphindia.com)

We are in the dark about what the police and the other government agencies are doing about the Hanglalmuan’s murder, says father of the youth

HP-1973 is a Python simulator app for the retro HP-45 calculator and 5 other HP ROMs, written by Sarah K. Marr (beehaw.org)

The app was written in Python and started out for the HP-45 (ROM is included) but finally included also the HP-35 and the HP-80, as well as three others. For macOS and Windows you could just run the included executables, or with the Python code, this will run fine on Linux if you have Python installed. Nice thing is that you can...

Brain-computer interface easily slips in and out of ear canal (medicalxpress.com)

research team suggests development of applications that convert full thoughts into text, controlling objects in real and virtual worlds—and even perhaps augmented memory.