U.S. investigating Meta for role in illicit drug sales, WSJ reports (www.cnbc.com)
U.S. prosecutors in Virginia are probing whether Facebook-parent Meta’s social media platforms facilitated and profited from the illegal sale of drugs, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing documents and people familiar with the matter....
COVID backlash could leave the U.S. less ready for the next pandemic (www.axios.com)
Researchers Solve Mystery of The Sea Creature That Evolved Eyes All Over Its Shell (www.sciencealert.com)
Mozilla Drops Axe on its Privacy-Friendly Location Service (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Halo Infinite Update to Bring Networking Overhaul, Easy Anti-Cheat, and More Next Week (techraptor.net)
Labour economists see rising recession danger in the US (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Russians head to polls in a vote set to extend Putin's rule. His foes are in jail, in exile or dead (apnews.com)
Helpful victims less likely to be injured -Toronto Police (www.blogto.com)
To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door, because they’re breaking into your home to steal your car. They don’t want anything else.
Report claims Yemen's Houthis have a hypersonic missile, possibly raising stakes in Red Sea crisis (apnews.com)
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RimWorld - Anomaly on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
New York police used stun gun on migrant holding toddler, video shows (www.theguardian.com)
According to Iran's Khamenei, 90% of the Palestinian Resistance's equipment and capabilities are intact (twitter.com)
Less money, less house: How market forces are reshaping the American home (www.bostonglobe.com)
Major homebuilders are prioritizing narrower houses with fewer doors, windows and cabinets. Median homes sizes are at a 13-year low....
America is driving Germany’s deindustrialisation (unherd.com)
The cat is out of the bag. After months of denial, it is now conventional wisdom that Germany — and Europe more generally — faces deindustrialisation due to the end of cheap Russian piped gas. “Germany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End,” reads a headline on Bloomberg....
Linux Kernel 6.8 Officially Released, Here's What's New (9to5linux.com)
9 people dead and 78 others hospitalized after eating sea turtle meat on Zanzibar's Pemba Island (apnews.com)
Niri release 0.1.3 - the horizontally scrolling tiling wayland WM (github.com)
Plasma 6 may arrive next week in openSUSE (lists.opensuse.org)
From Dominique Leuenberger at Tumbleweed - Review of the week 2024/10...
Convai aims to put an end to basic 'one-line' NPCs with AI but says it 'needs more high quality writers and artists, not less' to get it done (www.pcgamer.com)
My Sega Saturn still doesn't read memory cartridges. (lemmus.org)
I just opened the console and cleaned the port and memory cartridges and it still won’t read....
Up to 60 days for US to establish Gaza port, Pentagon says (www.al-monitor.com)
TIL: The ancient Greek philosopher Plato has a IMDB page and is credited as a writer (and actor for some reason) (www.imdb.com)
Dragon Ball: Japan manga creator Akira Toriyama dies (www.bbc.com)
The creator of Dragon Ball, one of the most influential and best-selling Japanese comics of all time, has died at 68....