Elon Musk says he withheld Starlink over Crimea to avoid escalation (www.bbc.com)
Elon Musk says he refused to give Kyiv access to his Starlink communications network over Crimea to avoid complicity in a “major act of war”....
More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user (www.theverge.com)
More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user::Security experts believe some of the LastPass password vaults stolen during a security breach last year have now been cracked open following a string of cryptocurrency heists
Russia has 'right to war' with 'each and every' NATO country - Medvedev (www.euronews.com)
“Whether you like it, or not, history is on our side. We will bury you,” he said quoting former USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev....
Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. (www.forbes.com)
Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google (readwrite.com)
President Biden tested positive for COVID-19. (www.whitehouse.gov)
SpaceX's Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research Finds (futurism.com)
Abstract from the paper in the article:...
California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices (www.wshu.org)
Need this nationwide. I hate having fees added on to the price of what I’m ordering.
San Francisco ties welfare to drug-screening, boosts police powers in stunning tough-on-crime shift (www.latimes.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/san-francisco-welfare-drug-scre…
Apple is finally allowing Firefox to use its own engine on the iPhone (but only in the EU) (www.theverge.com)
Musk given 24 hours to address graphic images of Hamas attacks (www.politico.eu)
Elon Musk has until the end of Wednesday to respond to demands from Brussels to remove graphic images and disinformation linked to the violence in Israel from his social network X — or face the full force of Europe’s new social media rules....
Burning Man festival-goers trapped in desert as rain turns site to mud (www.theguardian.com)
You have to laugh … I remember Glastonbury, up to my knees in mud - it’s all part of the fun. Having said that, it’s unlikely turn into a survival situation in a field in Somerset, so not really that comparable …
Do they also know C++ or Python? (lemmus.org)
Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out, turning copyright law on its head (www.theguardian.com)
In its submission to the Australian government’s review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.
Biden to push for Supreme Court ethics reform, term limits and amendment to overturn immunity ruling, sources say (www.cnn.com)
Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen (appleinsider.com)
I'm giving them a year until lifetime licenses start to mean nothing. (slrpnk.net)
North Korean Workers in China Riot over Unpaid Wages; 2,000 Occupy Factory, Kill Plant Manager (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
Black national anthem sends MAGA into meltdown (www.newsweek.com)
Indiana Launches Anti-LGBTQ "Snitch Line," Users Flood With Memes In Protest (www.erininthemorning.com)
Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap | ITPro (www.itpro.com)
Analysts have warned Windows 10 end of life plans could spark a global torrent of e-waste, with millions of devices expected to be scrapped in the coming years....
Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march [UK] (www.theguardian.com)
Tesla Investors Call for Musk's Suspension, Apple Pulls Ads on X (gizmodo.com)
Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it (www.macworld.com)
Apple has a memory problem and we’re all paying for it::Apple still sells expensive “Pro” computers with just 8GB of RAM and charges a fortune for more.