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US tells Israel it will announce visa ban on violent settlers in coming weeks — officials (www.timesofisrael.com)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken notified Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during meetings yesterday that the Biden administration is preparing to announce a series of visa bans against Israeli settlers involved in attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, an Israeli official tells The Times of Israel. A US official...

The Witcher 4 devs want their new RPG to be a good entry point, even if you didn't play The Witcher 3 (www.gamesradar.com)

Apple and Google avoid naming ChatGPT as their 'app of the year,' picking AllTrails and Imprint instead (techcrunch.com)

Apple and Google avoid naming ChatGPT as their ‘app of the year,’ picking AllTrails and Imprint instead::Both Apple and Google today announced their best apps and games of the year, with the hiking and biking companion AllTrails winning as Apple’s iPhone App

Microsoft Wants Game Pass On PlayStation, Nintendo, And "Every Screen" Possible (www.gamespot.com)

No way Playstation or Nintendo agrees to this, but hopefully this means Linux/Steam Deck support is on the table…? Maybe?

Chinese Boarding Schools and the Indoctrination of a Generation (www.foreignaffairs.com)

Nearly a million Tibetan children live in state-run residential schools on the Tibetan plateau. Chinese authorities subject these children to a highly politicized curriculum designed to strip them of their mother tongue, sever their ties to their religion and culture, and methodically replace their Tibetan identity with a...

Precarious finances: 38% of Europeans no longer eat three meals a day (www.euronews.com)

Many Americans say their household expenses are outpacing earnings this year, AP-NORC poll shows (apnews.com)

An extremely high-energy particle is detected coming from an apparently empty region of space (www.theguardian.com)

An extremely high-energy particle is detected coming from an apparently empty region of space::Amaterasu particle, one of highest-energy cosmic rays ever detected, is coming from an apparently empty region of space

Over 100 Palestinians reported killed in Gaza as attack continues despite ceasefire deal (www.theguardian.com)

New Jersey banning sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 (apnews.com)

New Jersey will prohibit the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 as part of an effort to improve air quality and reduce planet-warming pollutants, officials announced Tuesday....

Ubuntu Linux Squeezes ~20% More Performance Than Windows 11 On New AMD Zen 4 Threadripper Review (www.phoronix.com)

Not that this is a surprise to some of us.

BRICS calls for immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza, South Africa decries Israeli ‘war crimes and genocide’ (www.dawn.com)

Dawn.com

Argentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as president (www.reuters.com)

Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team (www.theverge.com)

The tech world reacts in shock to Sam Altman's departure from OpenAI (www.businessinsider.com)

The tech world reacts in shock to Sam Altman’s departure from OpenAI::The tech community is expressing their shock, disbelief, and theories on Sam Altman’s departure.

Doomba (slrpnk.net)

No more ads on Elon’s X, EU Commission tells staff – POLITICO (www.politico.eu)

Wait, what? The Witcher 3 is getting its own official mod editor after eight long years (www.pcgamer.com)

A new pilot will investigate the use of Forgejo (A non profit FOSS alternative to github and gitea) in german schools (blog.codeberg.org)

Google will begin deleting millions of inactive Gmail and Drive accounts in December (www.techspot.com)

Google will begin deleting millions of inactive Gmail and Drive accounts in December::undefined

New Fedora Slimbook 14" joins the Fedora Slimbook 16" - Fedora Magazine (fedoramagazine.org)

We heard your feedback during the launch of the Fedora Slimbook 16 and, along with the folks from Slimbook, bring you the new Fedora Slimbook 14, a smaller, lighter, cheaper with even better battery life, version of the Fedora Slimbook, powered by an Intel CPU and GPU (unfortunetely no AMD version soon).