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Trump bid to delay $250 million New York fraud trial is 'completely without merit,' judge says (www.cnbc.com)

A New York judge rejected Donald Trump’s request to delay his civil fraud trial....

Air Canada kicks off passengers who refused vomit-smeared seats (www.bbc.com)

“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator (arstechnica.com)

TIL The first recorded human death by robot was in 1979 when 25-year-old Ford Motor assembly line worker Robert William was struck by an arm of a malfunctioning one-ton robot (www.wikiwand.com)

Williams was one of three operators of the parts retrieval system, a five-story robot built by the Unit Handling Systems division of Litton Industries. The robot was designed to retrieve castings from high density storage shelves at the Flat Rock plant. Part of the machine included one-ton transfer vehicles, which were carts on...

Password-stealing Chrome extension smuggled on to Web Store; Researchers Demonstrated that Password-stealing Extensions are Still Possible with Manifest V3 (www.malwarebytes.com)

Summary...

My fellow weebs, ask not what the CIA can do for you, ask what you can do for the CIA. (lemmus.org)

Wagner to be declared a terrorist organisation by UK (www.bbc.com)

It will become illegal to be a member of or support the Russian mercenary group.

Trump waived right to Georgia arraignment because he didn’t want to face court cameras (www.the-independent.com)

Donald Trump says he boycotted last week’s arraignment in Georgia on election interference charges to protest in-court camera coverage of his upcoming trial....

Upward of 20,000 Ukrainian amputees face trauma on a scale unseen since WWI (apnews.com)

Chinese Nationals Posing as Tourists Have Accessed US Military Bases and Other Sensitive Sites: Report (www.military.com)

Plenty of other sources including Forbes and USA Today....

Ignored by police, twin sisters took down their cyberstalker themselves (www.msn.com)

Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge (arstechnica.com)

Well then, maybe don't give me an Ad every 3 songs? (sh.itjust.works)

Push To Strip Fox’s Broadcast License Over Election Lies Gains New Momentum (abovethelaw.com)

Last July, we noted how media reform activists had petitioned the FCC to revoke Fox News’ local broadcast license in Philadelphia. More specifically, the group argued that Fox News’ rampant election fraud propaganda technically violated the “character clause” embedded in the Communications Act the FCC is supposed to use...

Fans Think Latest Pokémon Go Artwork Was Made With AI (gizmodo.com.au)

Fans Think Latest Pokémon Go Artwork Was Made With AI::Pokémon Go publisher Niantic has aroused fans’ suspicions after a promotional image showed some telltale signs of potentially being AI artwork, rather than something made by an actual human artist. The image in question appears in promotional material for Adventures...

Russia's Putin and Turkey's Erdogan set to meet amid efforts to repair Ukraine grain deal (apnews.com)

Russian President Vladimir Putin will host Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks next week, the Kremlin announced Friday, just over six weeks after Moscow broke off a deal brokered by Ankara and the U.N. that allowed Ukrainian grain to reach world markets safely despite the 18-month war....

Texas law aims to punish prosecutors who refuse to pursue abortion cases (www.theguardian.com)

After the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade last year, district attorneys from major counties in Texas vowed not to vigorously prosecute people under the state’s anti-abortion laws....

Google removes fake Signal and Telegram apps hosted on Play (arstechnica.com)

Before linking an account, be sure the app you're using is legit.

Nuclear weapons partly responsible for radioactive wild boars (gizmodo.com)

Enjoy the headline. I did.

Union Lets Tom Cruise Act During Strike From Fear Of What He’ll Do When He Can’t Make Movies (www.theonion.com)

“You can tell there is an unrelenting darkness within him that can only be exorcised by jumping a motorcycle into a canyon or parachuting out of a plane in semi-orbit—and none of us wants to find out where that energy would be redirected were he not able to spend 17 hours a day performing stunts for a camera crew."