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House panel advances Garland contempt after White House blocks access to Biden special counsel tape (apnews.com)

The House Judiciary Committee voted to move forward with an effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress hours after the White House blocked access to an audio recording of President Joe Biden’s interview with the special counsel who oversaw an investigation into his handling of classified documents....

How big is this dog? (slrpnk.net)

Intel's new Thunderbolt Share provides file and screen sharing without hurting network performance (www.tomshardware.com)

cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/12671116...

Army whistleblower who exposed alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan is sentenced to prison (apnews.com)

FDA approves self-tests for cervical cancer, as an alternative to the dreaded pelvic exam (www.usatoday.com)

Top US ethics watchdog investigating Trump over dinner with oil bosses (www.theguardian.com)

Students borrowing from the federal government this fall will face the highest interest rate in more than a decade (www.nbcnews.com)

Prison Architect 2 transitioning game to a different studio (store.steampowered.com)

Really weird thing to happen before the game is even released. The game previously got delayed and is now being moved to a different team.

David McBride: Australian army whistleblower jailed for leaking documents (www.bbc.com)

Former US Marine pilot arrested in Australia worked with Chinese hacker, lawyer says (www.reuters.com)

A former U.S. Marine pilot fighting extradition from Australia on U.S. charges of training Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers, unknowingly worked with a Chinese hacker, his lawyer said....

Joost Klein from the Netherlands disqualified from Eurovision 2024 (eurovisionworld.com)

Crusader Kings III gets a Free Weekend plus a big Paradox sale on Steam (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Stormy Daniels testimony reveals the triumph of #MeToo (www.salon.com)

Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook (arstechnica.com)

The tool is nearly ready to be released, Zuckerman told Ars, but the University of Massachusetts Amherst associate professor is afraid that Facebook owner Meta might threaten legal action if he goes ahead. And his fears appear well-founded. In 2021, Meta sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creator of the original Unfollow...

Boeing 737 skidded off runway in Senegal airport, injuring 10 people (apnews.com)

A Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people skidded off the runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal’s capital, injuring 10 people, a statement from the country’s transport minister said in a statement on Thursday....

Looking Up an NYPD Officer’s Discipline Record? Many Are There One Day, Gone the Next. (www.propublica.org)

ProPublica has found the NYPD site for allowing the public to track officers’ misconduct is shockingly unreliable. Cases against officers frequently vanish from the site for days — sometimes weeks — at a time. The issue affects nearly all of the officers in the database, with discipline disappearing from the profiles of...

Biden says US won't supply weapons for Israel to attack Rafah, in warning to ally (apnews.com)

President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would not supply offensive weapons that Israel could use to launch an all-out assault on Rafah — the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza — over concern for the well-being of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there....