Biden-Backed Bipartisan Senate Bill Targets Key Humanitarian Aid For Palestinians (www.huffpost.com)
Democrats’ stunning turn-around on U.S.-provided funding for UNRWA is a triumph for hard-right activists and Republican lawmakers who have long sought to undermine the U.N. agency.
Half-Life remake Black Mesa hits over 100,000 Steam reviews to Overwhelmingly Positive (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Nautilus File Manager Is Getting a New Global Search Mode in GNOME 46 - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
Reddit revenue rises 20% ahead of IPO, but it isn’t profitable yet (www.businesstimes.com.sg)
REDDIT posted a more than 20 per cent rise in revenue in 2023 versus the year before, sources familiar with the situation said, as it prepares for one of the United States’ most anticipated potential initial public offerings (IPOs).
Path tracing on the Steam Deck is possible, as video of Portal RTX running at 30 FPS shows (www.tweaktown.com)
"This is why I'm Fat" Reason # 614 (dubvee.org)
Gonna game? Can I sit here? (sopuli.xyz)
US corporations push to neuter laws used to hold opioid firms accountable (www.theguardian.com)
Rightwing pressure group Alec seeks to limit public nuisance laws used to take on big business from tobacco to climate crisis...
"RutheniumOS" is a scam (discuss.grapheneos.org)
RutheniumOS is a fork of GrapheneOS with very broad claims and also accusations toward GrapheneOS....
Two kinds of people (sopuli.xyz)
Spotify is creating fake music to save on royalties (twitter.com)
faroutmagazine.co.uk/what-is-the-deal-with-all-th…...
Suicide Squad sees less than half the day one Steam players of Avengers [which was delisted last year] (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Wellness influencers fueled pandemic misinformation. Now they have another big conspiracy in their sights (www.cnn.com)
When wildfire ripped through Hawaii’s Maui last August, the impact was devastating: a whole town reduced to ashes, more than 100 lives lost. The inferno was described as the “largest natural disaster in state history.”...
AnyDesk confirms production systems were breached. (www.thestack.technology)
Biden can't beat the MAGA meme machine online, Clyburn says (www.reuters.com)
Republican candidate Donald Trump’s supporters have built a “MAGA wall” online of memes and social media noise that is overwhelming news about Biden’s economic and policy wins, making it impossible to get Democrats’ message across, Clyburn said in a recent interview in his hometown of Columbia, South Carolina....
The Fediverse is starting to break walled gardens [TechAltar] (piped.video)
Dying man tells police he was on Japan’s most wanted list for 50 years (www.theguardian.com)
Now deceased man said he was Satoshi Kirishima who was allegedly member of radical group in 1970s that bombed Japanese firms...
EU agrees new law granting consumers a ‘right to repair’ products (www.euractiv.com)
European consumers will have the right to have common household appliances, including mobile phones, repaired, while EU countries will have to produce schemes to boost repair rates according to a new law adopted on Friday (2 February)....
Bao Fan: Missing China billionaire banker resigns from all roles (www.bbc.com)
Chinese billionaire banker Bao Fan, who has been missing for almost a year, has resigned from all roles at his firm, China Renaissance Holdings....
Hungary Won’t Vote on Sweden’s NATO Bid Until PMs Meet, ATV Says (www.bloomberg.com)
Hungary won’t ratify NATO bid until Swedish leader visits: ATV...
Russian General Alexander Tatarenko 'Killed in Ukraine's Belbek Air Base Strike' (www.kyivpost.com)
Scientists found a major clue why 4 of 5 autoimmune patients are women (www.washingtonpost.com)
Ukraine support package worth €50bn agreed by EU leaders (www.bbc.com)
All 27 EU leaders have agreed a €50bn (£42bn; $54bn) aid package for Ukraine, after Hungary stopped blocking the deal....
Verdict in Trump’s New York fraud trial delayed until early to mid-February (www.theguardian.com)
The verdict in Donald Trump’s $370m fraud trial will be coming later than expected, with a decision expected in early to mid-February, a New York court spokesperson said on Thursday....