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The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On (www.iflscience.com)

The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On::It’s turbo time.

FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore (arstechnica.com)

Kremlin accuses West of turning blind eye to Ukrainian 'terrorist attacks' against Russia (www.reuters.com)

Iran's morality police to resume headscarf patrols (www.bbc.co.uk)

Nothing sells 100,000 CMF Phone 1 units in three hours (gsmarena.com)

Redbox’s disc rentals are over (www.theverge.com)

New York bridge gets stuck open after getting too hot (www.bbc.com)

Third Avenue Bridge, which connects New York’s the Bronx to Manhattan, got stuck in an open position due to the high heat on Monday....

Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free (www.nbcnews.com)

Oregon man who drugged daughter's friends with insomnia medication at sleepover gets prison term (apnews.com)

An Oregon man who drugged his daughter and her friends with fruit smoothies laced with a sleeping medication after they didn’t go to bed during a sleepover was sentenced to two years in prison....

Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit (www.theregister.com)

HR software biz BambooHR surveyed more than 1,500 employees, a third of whom work in HR. The findings suggest the return to office movement has been a poorly-executed failure, but one particular figure stands out - a quarter of executives and a fifth of HR professionals hoped RTO mandates would result in staff leaving....

Hiker finds pipe feeding China's tallest waterfall (www.yahoo.com)

Hiker finds pipe feeding China’s tallest waterfall, sparking social media controversy and investigation by local government officials....

NYPD officer caught on video punching pro-Gaza protester during Brooklyn rally (www.independent.co.uk)

Can I make it fit, or do I have to just let it go? (lemmy.world)

Boeing forced to scrub first crewed Starliner launch to the space station (www.nbcnews.com)

The launch attempt was called off roughly two hours ahead of the planned liftoff....

Bird flu virus found in pasteurized milk, though officials maintain supply is safe (www.nbcnews.com)

The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that fragments of the bird flu virus had been detected in some samples of pasteurized milk in the U.S. While the agency maintains that the milk is safe to drink, it notes that it is still waiting on the results of studies to confirm this....

Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track (arstechnica.com)

Tesla lays off 'more than 10%' of its global workforce (electrek.co)

Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers (www.bbc.com)

Florida’s Anti-Trans Bathroom Law Spurs Harrowing Vigilante Attacks (www.thedailybeast.com)

Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV (arstechnica.com)

New Bill Could Pave the Way Toward Banning Student Debt Cancellation (truthout.org)

‘I’m trying to give you a better deal’: Customer pulls gun on Burger King employee for giving him a discount (www.firstalert4.com)

Thunderbird goes from DEB to snap in Ubuntu 24.04 (www.linuxadictos.com)

Luis Rubiales faces 30 month jail sentence for Jenni Hermoso kiss (www.theguardian.com)

Luis Rubiales could face a prison sentence of two and a half years if convicted of kissing Jenni Hermoso on the lips against her will, court documents have shown. The former Spanish football federation chief has been charged with one count of sexual assault and one of coercion in the aftermath of the kiss, offences carrying jail...