Israeli soldiers fire at Palestinians approaching aid trucks in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
Desperate Palestinians rushing toward aid trucks to fetch food in central Gaza were forced to flee after Israeli troops opened fire on them amid the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the enclave....
New York archdiocese calls funeral for trans activist at cathedral ‘scandalous’ (www.theguardian.com)
Pastor of St Patrick’s Cathedral condemns service for Cecilia Gentili after she was celebrated as being ‘mother of all whores’...
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot (arstechnica.com)
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot::Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.
The bugs around the streetlight are being tricked to think they are going in a straight line. They are doing the aerial equivalent of an ant death spiral. (www.nature.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/14539407...
2 juveniles charged in mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade (apnews.com)
Two juveniles were charged with crimes connected to the mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl rally, authorities said Friday, as the city tries to recover in the aftermath of the violence....
Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition (lemmy.zip)
OS: Arch Linux...
Ukraine’s Zelensky Signs Medical Marijuana Bill, A Step He Says Can Heal ‘Pain, Stress and Trauma Of War’ With Russia (www.marijuanamoment.net)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has officially signed a bill to legalize medical marijuana—a step that he and other officials say can help soldiers address physical and mental wounds incurred during the nation’s war with Russia....
Japan loses crown as world’s third-largest economy after it slips into recession (www.theguardian.com)
Japan has been eclipsed by Germany as the world’s third-biggest economy and has slipped into recession, according to data released Thursday, as the country battles a weak yen and an ageing, shrinking population....
Alabama Senate votes to change archives oversight after LGBTQ+ lecture (apnews.com)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Senate voted Wednesday to put a politically appointed board in control of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, a change proposed after some lawmakers were upset about the department hosting a lecture on LGBTQ+ history....
Nvidia passes Alphabet in market cap and is now the third most valuable U.S. company (www.cnbc.com)
Nvidia passes Alphabet in market cap and is now the third most valuable U.S. company::The symbolic milestone is more confirmation that Nvidia has become a Wall Street darling on the back of elevated AI chips sales
romantic dinner date tonight (lemmy.world)
PlayStation Wants to Aggressively Improve Profits With First-Party PC Releases (mp1st.com)
Get ready — your Google Workspace subscription is about to see an unwelcome price hike (www.techradar.com)
Al Jazeera journalist outed as Hamas commander by IDF (nationalpost.com)
AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)
'Free Palestine' written on gun in shooting at Lakewood Church, but motive a mystery: Sources (abcnews.go.com)
American woman killed in apparent crossfire in a drug dispute at the Mexican beach resort of Tulum (apnews.com)
An American woman and a man from Belize have been killed in what appears to have been a dispute between drug dealers at a beach club in the Mexican resort city of Tulum, officials confirmed Sunday....
Nuclear Fusion World Record Smashed in Major Achievement (www.sciencealert.com)
Nuclear Fusion World Record Smashed in Major Achievement::undefined
Fearing social media backlash, companies are using all kinds of euphemisms to avoid being straightforward about layoffs — ‘right-sized’, ‘org changes’, ‘simplified operating model’ (fortune.com)
Fearing social media backlash, companies are using all kinds of euphemisms to avoid being straightforward about layoffs — ‘right-sized’, ‘org changes’, ‘simplified operating model’::Managers are running out of ways to say you no longer have a job, but the way the bad news is delivered is more important than ever.
Notion acquires privacy-focused productivity platform Skiff | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Skiff users received the following email...
Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption (www.tomshardware.com)
Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption::The U.S Energy Information Administration is now requiring large-scale cryptomining operations to report their energy consumption. Inevitably this will bring about new regulations that will restrict...
The Biden-Schumer Plan to Kill More Ukrainians (consortiumnews.com)
Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” (arstechnica.com)
Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”::Casualties afoot as Sony merges Funimation with 2021-acquired Crunchyroll.