DeSantis signs controversial bill banning civilian boards from investigating police misconduct (www.sun-sentinel.com)
I keep seeing more and more news that fits here…
Germany to give Holocaust survivors $236 payout to help them cope with October 7 attacks (edition.cnn.com)
More Canadians dive into streaming, pushing traditional TV aside (www.vernonmorningstar.com)
Couch Potato Report predicts half of Canada will be without traditional TV by 2026
I tried two demos of machine learning AI NPCs, and they didn't convince me AI will lead to anything that immersive sims like Deus Ex haven't already done better (www.pcgamer.com)
WhatsApp is getting an AI chatbot because of course it is (www.gsmarena.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14392924...
Texas surgeon accused of secretly blocking patients from getting transplants (arstechnica.com)
The motive for the alleged data manipulation is unknown....
Flathub is launching their new featured banners on April 20 using brand colors provided by publishers (floss.social)
13,000 Palestinians reportedly missing in the Gaza Strip (euromedmonitor.org)
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor estimates that over 13,000 Palestinians are either missing under debris, buried in indiscriminate mass graves, or forcibly disappeared in Israeli prisons and detention facilities, where some have even been killed. The circumstances surrounding the deaths of these prisoners and detainees have not yet...
80 Percent of Global CO2 Emissions Come From Just 57 Companies, Report Shows (www.smithsonianmag.com)
A new analysis released last week by the international non-profit InfluenceMap reveals an overwhelmingly unequal share of fossil fuel pollution worldwide. From 2016 to 2022, 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions were produced by just 57 companies.
IDF shows journalists raw footage of the October 7 Hamas terror attack (www.nbcnews.com)
Why anyone would defend these people is beyond me call me a genocider cause I support my homeland and my religion I don’t care .
I don't wanna know how this happened... or what follows... (infosec.pub)
Solar Eclipse: Anticipation grows as millions hope for clear skies (www.bbc.com)
Eclipse watchers are keeping a close eye on the weather ahead of a solar eclipse that will plunge a wide strip of North America into daytime darkness on Monday....
China to export deflation to the world as economy stumbles (www.ft.com)
Ukraine embraces far-right Russian ‘bad guy’ to take the battle to Putin (www.politico.eu)
Kapustin is indeed dressed in black for his discussion with POLITICO in a downtown Kyiv hotel — though his clothing is free of any neo-Nazi logos or flashes. That’s despite the fact he runs a far-right apparel line of T-shirts and caps emblazoned with white nationalist and xenophobic imagery as well as the Nazi symbol 88 —...
Are we still doing "phrasing!" ? (sopuli.xyz)
Microsoft 365? (lemmy.ananace.dev)
Russia accused of using chemical gas attacks against Ukrainian soldiers (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine soldiers describe ‘almost daily’ illegal gas attacks as invaders seek to dislodge them from embedded positions...
Whooping cough’s back — and it’s Covid’s fault (www.politico.eu)
The Dickensian disease is the latest Victorian-era ailment to stage a comeback in the West....
‘I really wasn’t worried’: US man was getting vasectomy as earthquake struck (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/10087746...
‘Building an authoritarian axis’: the Trump ‘envoy’ courting the global far right (www.theguardian.com)
Richard Grenell’s shadow foreign policy campaign is unsettling diplomats and threatens to collapse US interests...
Roblox Studio boss: children making money on the platform isn't exploitation, it's a gift (www.eurogamer.net)
Donald Trump's $175m bond rejection raises questions (www.newsweek.com)
Donald Trump’s problematic $175 million bond to cover his New York civil fraud appeal has raised questions about what exactly led to the rejection of his insurer’s paperwork, says a legal analyst....
Judge Cannon rejects a bid by Trump to dismiss criminal charges in classified documents case | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
From Cannon’s “ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT TRUMP’S MOTION TO DISMISS SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT BASED ON PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT”...
Warming is getting worse. So they just tested a way to deflect the sun. (www.nytimes.com)
A little before 9 a.m. on Tuesday, an engineer named Matthew Gallelli crouched on the deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in San Francisco Bay, pulled on a pair of ear protectors, and flipped a switch....
Ukraine: NATO membership a question of 'when, not if' (www.dw.com)
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has reportedly floated a five-year, €100 billion package that allies are set to discuss in Brussels. Ahead of the meeting, he said Ukraine’s NATO membership was a question of “when, not if.”
