Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2 (www.macrumors.com)
Solar modules deployed in France in 1992 still provide 75.9% of original output power (www.pv-magazine.com)
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic (www.reuters.com)
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus....
Raspberry Pi becomes a public company (www.theregister.com)
Tesla CEO Elon Musk could leave if $56 billion pay package not approved, shareholders warned (www.theverge.com)
Russia Declares War on ‘Mediocre Actor’ George Clooney (www.thedailybeast.com)
PlayStation's CEO drastically underestimates the Steam crowd's patience, thinks PC gamers will buy a PS5 for exclusive sequels (www.gamesradar.com)
Biden administration sets 50 miles per gallon fuel economy standard for 2031 (www.washingtonpost.com)
The new standards are part of a broad push to get more Americans into electric vehicles, and reduce the environmental cost of driving.
Tesla Shareholders Approve Musk's $56 Billion Pay Package in Early Voting (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
How One Chinese EV Company Made Battery Swapping Work (hbr.org)
See, Apple? Even cars can do it :)
Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats (stackdiary.com)
Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.
Yuntai: Hiker finds pipe feeding China's tallest waterfall (www.bbc.com)
A controversy over a waterfall has cascaded into a social media storm in China, even prompting an explanation from the water body itself....
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search (www.theverge.com)
Why Americans aren’t buying more EVs (arstechnica.com)
McDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now (www.theverge.com)
Stonehenge sprayed with orange powder paint by Just Stop Oil activists (www.theguardian.com)
If you ever wanted to read about fake druids vs. environmental activists, now’s your chance.
Prosecutors say Alec Baldwin was ‘engaged in horseplay’ with gun before fatal shooting (www.theguardian.com)
Fewer than three weeks before actor Alec Baldwin is due to go on trial in Santa Fe, New Mexico, prosecutors have said that he “engaged in horseplay with the revolver”, including firing a blank round at a crew member on the set of Rust before the tragic accident occurred....
Biden pledges to name progressives to the Supreme Court, suggesting he expects vacancies (www.cnn.com)
President Joe Biden promised Black voters Wednesday that he would appoint progressives to the US Supreme Court if elected to a second term, suggesting he expects vacancies on the high court over the next four years....
Boeing CEO admits company has retaliated against whistleblowers during Senate hearing (www.independent.co.uk)
New York’s Fat Beach Day gives plus-size people a space to be themselves (www.theguardian.com)
Jacob Riis Beach hosts the day of body positivity and fun, in the city at the heart of the fat acceptance movement...
Small modular nuclear reactors get a reality check in new report (newatlas.com)
[T]he report’s executive summary certainly gets to the heart of their findings....