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‘Fear of facing students’: South Korea teachers grapple with high rates of abuse and suicide (www.channelnewsasia.com)

Chinese warships spotted off Alaska coast, US Coast Guard says (www.theguardian.com)

Four Chinese vessels were ‘transiting in international waters but still inside the US exclusive economic zone’...

‘Like an oven’: death at US women’s prison amid heatwave sparks cries for help (www.theguardian.com)

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'Not a hoax!'—Valve writers confirm the official Team Fortress 2 comic will continue, after over 7 years on ice (www.pcgamer.com)

China says its recent threats of the death penalty effects "a very small number" of "diehard" advocates for Taiwanese independence, but others say these laws apply to nearly everyone in Taiwan (www.dw.com)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/705089...

New Alzheimer's Nasal Spray Clears Toxic Tangles in Human Neurons And Mice (www.sciencealert.com)

After meeting with Putin in Moscow, Hungary's Orbán brings "peace mission" to Trump at Mar-a-Lago (www.salon.com)

Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All But Dead, Market Analysts Say (gizmodo.com)

Games on Whales - Stream multiple desktops and games from a single host (games-on-whales.github.io)

After 3 years in the making I’m excited to announce the launch of Games on Whales, an innovative open-source project that revolutionizes virtual desktops and gaming. Our mission is to enable multiple users to stream different content from a single machine, with full HW acceleration and low latency....

Chinese risk perilous journey in search of ‘freedom’ in the United States: “I want to say whatever I want and don’t have to worry about the police knocking on my door.” (www.aljazeera.com)

Many middle-class Chinese trekking to the US are college-educated, have an established career or business in China and know how to use a VPN to avoid official censorship and access the free internet....

US justice department says it disrupted Russian social media influence operation (www.theguardian.com)

Brett Favre is asking an appeals court to reinstate his defamation lawsuit against Shannon Sharpe (apnews.com)

Lawyers for retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to revive a defamation lawsuit Favre filed against a fellow Pro Football Hall of Fame member, former tight end Shannon Sharpe, amid the backdrop of a Mississippi welfare scandal that is one of the state’s largest public corruption cases....

High-ranking corrupt officials in China earn eight to fourteen times their regular salary by profiting from corruption, study based on official data says (www.zew.de)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/610385...

“Wide But Thin Mandate”: Why U.K. Labour Party’s Landslide Is on Shaky Ground (www.democracynow.org)

US prepares for bird flu pandemic with $176M Moderna vaccine deal (arstechnica.com)

AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream (www.wired.com)

NYC Black Residents Die From Heat Stress At Double The Rate Of White Residents, Report Says (newsone.com)

Scalpers Reverse-Engineer Ticketmaster's 'Non-Transferrable' Tickets (www.404media.co)

A lawsuit filed in California by concert giant AXS has revealed a legal and technological battle between ticket scalpers and platforms like Ticketmaster and AXS, in which scalpers have figured out how to extract “untransferable” tickets from their accounts by generating entry barcodes on parallel infrastructure that the...

Germany gets top marks for integration of migrants (www.dw.com)

A new OECD study has found Germany is successfully integrating migrants despite obstacles such as migrants often having little education....

IDF ordered Hannibal directive on October 7 to prevent Hamas taking soldiers captive (www.haaretz.com)

Gaza Division operations and airstrikes in the first hours of October 7 were based on limited information. The first long moments after the Hamas attack was launched were chaotic. Reports were coming in, with their significance not always clear. When their meaning was understood, it was realized that something horrific had taken...