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Ukraine’s Push Into Russia Is a Surprising Turn in the War (www.nytimes.com)

Meta and Google secretly targeted minors on YouTube with Instagram ads (www.theverge.com)

Meta and Google teamed up to run a secret campaign that deliberately targeted 13 to 17-year-olds with Instagram ads on YouTube according to the Financial Times, breaking the search giant’s own rules against advertising to children....

NASA Says Boeing Starliner Astronauts May Fly Home on SpaceX in 2025 (www.nytimes.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18401352...

Trump took a private flight with Project 2025 leader in 2022 (www.washingtonpost.com)

Trump took the flight to speak at a Heritage Foundation conference, where he said, “They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do."

British MPs want to haul Elon Musk before parliament over riots (www.politico.eu)

Elon Musk could be summoned for a grilling by British MPs over X’s role in race riots that have rocked the U.K. over the last week, as well as his own incendiary comments about the violence....

Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna canceled after Austrian police say foiled terrorist plot targeted shows (www.nbcnews.com)

Two men were arrested in what police said were terrorist plots at major events in Vienna. One was a 19-year-old who authorities said pledged his allegiance to ISIS.

Washington primary voters again are saying: 'Go away, Trump' (www.seattletimes.com)

Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits (www.engadget.com)

Mexico invites Putin to presidential inauguration, Russia's Izvestia newspaper says (www.reuters.com)

UK police deploying 6,000 specially trained officers this week as more far-right disorder expected (apnews.com)

Is there a good reason why journalists keep calling this “far-right disorder” instead of what it really is: Fascist Terrorism?

US, China stage concurrent exercises in the South China Sea (www.dw.com)

The Philippines and three Western allies kicked off two days of operations in the South China Sea to uphold “the rules-based order.” China launched its own patrols around the Scarborough Shoal....

Microsoft Encourages Employee Donations to Illegal West Bank Settlements, While Barring UNRWA (www.dropsitenews.com)

Microsoft includes a number organizations based in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including at least one that fundraises to support the Israeli military, in its employee charitable giving platform. Yet the company has delisted the UN agency providing relief in Gaza, according to Microsoft employees petitioning the...

Earth's days are getting longer, science explains why (thefreedomproject.pages.dev)

As the Voting Rights Act nears 60, conservative judges are gutting it from every angle (www.motherjones.com)

The Momentum is now on Russia's side (www.welt.de)

Industrial Annihilation on Steam (store.steampowered.com)

Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, has been elevated to the top political post in Hamas. (www.nytimes.com)

Hamas announced on Tuesday that Yahya Sinwar, the presumed mastermind of the deadly Oct. 7 attacks, was selected as the next head of the group’s political office, elevating him to the highest-profile political role within Hamas and consolidating his power over the militant group....

Bangladesh parliament dissolved a day after resignation of prime minister (www.theguardian.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/20420374...

Owners of Colorado funeral home where 190 bodies found ordered to pay $950m (www.theguardian.com)

The Colorado couple who owned a funeral home where 190 decaying bodies were discovered last year were ordered to pay $950m to the victims’ families – a largely symbolic victory for families of the deceased....

Worldcoin may not be legal in Colombia, but that’s not stopping it. (restofworld.org)

Google loses massive antitrust lawsuit over its search dominance (www.cnn.com)

Google has violated US antitrust law with its search business, a federal judge ruled Monday, handing the tech giant a staggering court defeat with the potential to reshape how millions of Americans get information online and to upend decades of dominance....