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It's finally over. (scontent.find2-1.fna.fbcdn.net)

Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies (asia.nikkei.com)

Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies::TOKYO – Japan is preparing regulations that would require tech giants like Apple and Google to allow outside app stores and payments on their mobile

It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google (thebaffler.com)

It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google::The tech industry is supposed to be the cradle of innovation—but it’s become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity.

For the first time in nearly 50 years, a Pennsylvania animal shelter doesn’t have any dogs left after hundreds of adoptions (www.cnn.com)

Just two weeks ago, the Adams County, Pennsylvania, SPCA was near capacity as its kennels were filled with dogs needing homes. Now, for the first time in nearly 50 years, there are no dogs at the facility and the recent residents are spending the holidays with their new families....

Escaping Xi’s China by paddleboard: ‘I rushed into the water and thought if they catch me, they catch me’ (www.theguardian.com)

Revealed: how US residents are funding illegal settlements in the West Bank (www.theguardian.com)

You can add an undo key to Gboard for Android (9to5google.com)

How the anti-vaccine movement is gaining power in statehouses (www.washingtonpost.com)

A wave of lawmakers who oppose vaccine requirements are winning elections for state legislatures amid a national drop in childhood vaccination rates and a resurfacing of preventable deadly diseases....

Israel's military campaign in Gaza seen as among the most destructive in recent history, experts say (apnews.com)

After 11 weeks of war in Gaza, the Israeli military campaign against Hamas now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in history, experts say.

How are these wires not shorting? (lemmy.zip)

They dont look or feel isolated, like ones inside a headphone cable

Hyperloop One is reportedly shutting down (techcrunch.com)

Hyperloop One is reportedly shutting down::One of the longest-running hyperloop startups is reportedly shutting its doors. Hyperloop One, once backed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, will cease

The UN says more than 1 in 4 people in Gaza are starving because of war (apnews.com)

The death toll in Gaza has climbed to at least 20,000 Palestinians. At least 1 in 200 people living in Gaza are now dead. 1 in 4 remaining Palestinians in Gaza are starving to death. I just can not comprehend this amount of violence and death in such a small area in such a short time. This is at a scale unheard of in any other...

Joining NATO (sh.itjust.works)

New York sues SiriusXM, accusing company of making it deliberately hard to cancel subscriptions (apnews.com)

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general filed suit Wednesday against SiriusXM, accusing the satellite radio and streaming service of making it intentionally difficult for its customers to cancel their subscriptions....

Flipboard Starts a PeerTube Instance (slrpnk.net)

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X-Men Games Will Be Sony Exclusives For More Than A Decade, Leak Reveals (kotaku.com)

Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers (techcrunch.com)

Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers::Hackers exploited a known but unpatched flaw, allowing hackers access to the sensitive information of almost 36 million Comcast customers.

Google has agreed to pay $700 million in an antitrust settlement with U.S. states and consumers (big.community)

NixOS on OnePlus 6 with Extra Steps, or the Diary of my Descent into Madness (pavluk.org)

My biggest blog post yet, and it’s about running (almost) vanilla NixOS on a (formerly) Android phone! This was 50% fun and 50% exhausting… you solve one issue and another one crops up right away… it was certainly an interesting educational experience....

Georgia's governor says the state will pay a $1,000 year-end bonus to public and school employees (apnews.com)

Georgia’s government will put a little extra jingle in the pockets of state, university and public school employees, paying them a $1,000 year-end bonus, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Monday....

FDA finds 'extremely high' lead levels in cinnamon at Ecuador plant that made tainted fruit pouches (apnews.com)

U.S. food inspectors found “extremely high” levels of lead in cinnamon at a plant in Ecuador that made applesauce pouches tainted with the metal, the Food and Drug Administration said Monday. The recalled pouches have been linked to dozens of illnesses in U.S. kids....