Three armed Palestinians trying to break into settlement killed (www.reuters.com)
Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers - 'How can they cancel a major program affecting hundreds, perhaps thousands of customers, with zero notice?' (www.theregister.com)
Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers - ‘How can they cancel a major program affecting hundreds, perhaps thousands of customers, with zero notice?’::‘How can they cancel a major program affecting hundreds, perhaps thousands of customers, with zero notice?’
Covid-19 social distancing was not based on scientific data, Fauci admits (www.hindustantimes.com)
Feds charge eBay over employees who sent live spiders and cockroaches to couple; company to pay $3M (abcnews.go.com)
The Steiners, the newsletter’s publisher and editor, have also sued the e-commerce giant in federal court, describing how cyberstalking and upsetting deliveries of anonymously sent packages upended their lives....
Nearly 10,000 died from COVID-19 last month, fueled by holiday gatherings and new variant, WHO says (apnews.com)
The head of the U.N. health agency said Wednesday holiday gatherings and the spread of the most prominent variant globally led to increased transmission of COVID-19 last month....
Thousands of schools at risk of closing due to enrollment loss (www.the74million.org)
Districts from Philadelphia to Los Angeles have large numbers of schools that lost at least 20% of their students during the pandemic....
China says Taiwan presidential favorite a 'severe danger' (www.dw.com)
Days before Taiwan's key vote, China has warned that if William Lai wins the election, it will trigger cross-Strait conflict. The Taiwanese government has accused China of interference in the race.
Obama, worried about 2024, urges Biden circle to bolster campaign (www.washingtonpost.com)
The largest great ape to ever live went extinct because of climate change, says new study (apnews.com)
An ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction when climate change put their favorite fruits out of reach during dry seasons, scientists reported Wednesday....
Social media lobby group sues US State for protecting children from Meta, TikTok and Snapchat (www.firstpost.com)
A new law, signed by Republican Governor Mike DeWine in July, is considered as a way to safeguard children’s mental health, citing concerns about the intentionally addictive nature of social media.
"Bots talking to bots." Came across this subreddit that appears to exist only to take advantage of how appending "reddit" to search terms is being favored in SEO. (www.reddit.com)
It's mentioned in this really good Verge article about SEO. I don't think it's a good sign for Reddit to just allow such blatant spam and makes me think how much subtler spam is out there too....
Biden wants Mexican help to stop the migrant surge. Here's what Mexico wants in return. (www.nbcnews.com)
… in late December, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken went to Mexico to meet with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to ask for greater assistance. Those conversations were “preliminary,” the officials said, and did not result in hard promises from either...
Afghan girls as young as 16 arrested in shops, classes and markets in Kabul by the Taliban, who labelled them ‘infidels’ for wearing ‘bad hijab’ (www.theguardian.com)
The girls – who were detained in shopping centres, classes and street markets – were accused of “spreading and encouraging others to wear a bad hijab” and wearing makeup....
Israeli lawmakers say it out loud: Mass Migration from Gaza and Jewish resettlement (www.haaretz.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/12959522...
NASA Peregrine 1: moon lander suffering from ‘critical loss of propellant’, abandons moon landing (www.theguardian.com)
Student loan repayment problems frustrate borrowers, prompting federal response (www.nbcnews.com)
You can only pick one (lemmy.zip)
Water Containing Radioactive Materials Spills Over at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant Due to Earthquakes (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
Polar bear dies from bird flu as H5N1 spreads across globe (www.theguardian.com)
A polar bear has been killed by bird flu as the highly contagious H5N1 virus spreads into the most remote parts of the planet....
Camera Companies Fight AI-Generated Images With 'Verify' Watermark Tech (www.pcmag.com)
Camera Companies Fight AI-Generated Images With ‘Verify’ Watermark Tech::undefined
double take (slrpnk.net)
Nvidia Blackwell RTX 5000 GPUs may debut earlier than expected (www.techspot.com)
Nvidia Blackwell RTX 5000 GPUs may debut earlier than expected::undefined