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....
Workers at Alabama Hyundai plant announce union as UAW drives deeper into Southeast (thehill.com)
Thirty percent of the workers at the sole Hyundai plant in the U.S., in Alabama, have joined the United Auto Workers (UAW)....
Damn Small Linux 2024 (www.damnsmalllinux.org)
The New DSL 2024 has been reborn as a compact Linux distribution tailored for low-spec x86 computers. It packs a lot of applications into a small package. All the applications are chosen for their functionality, small size, and low dependencies. DSL 2024 also has many text-based applications that make it handy to use in a term...
Japan government accepts it’s no longer the ’90s, stops requiring floppy disks (arstechnica.com)
Japan government accepts it’s no longer the ’90s, stops requiring floppy disks::Government amends 34 ordinances to no longer require diskettes.
‘We are dying slowly:’ Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza (edition.cnn.com)
KDE's Megarelease 6 - Release Candidate 2 (kde.org)
KDE’s megarelease is now just one month away. At the end of February 2024 KDE will publish Plasma 6, Frameworks 6, and a whole new set of applications in a special edition of KDE Gear all in one go.
A Drug Test Cost a D.E.A. Agent His Job. He Sued, and Got It Back. (www.nytimes.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/cannabis-dea-drug-test.html
LibreOffice 24.2 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, Here's What's New - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
Proposal for GitLab to support ActivityPub (docs.gitlab.com)
The end goal of this proposal is to build interoperability features into GitLab so that it’s possible on one instance of GitLab to open a merge request to a project hosted on an other instance, merging all willing instances in a global network....
Microsoft quarterly gaming revenue up 49% following Activision purchase (www.eurogamer.net)
NSA Admits Secretly Buying Your Internet Browsing Data without Warrants (thehackernews.com)
Raspberry Pi mini desktop PC has a 3D-printable case and plays DOS games (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft phases out WordPad (and Cortana) after 28 years of duty (alternativeto.net)
WordPad got into the shadow of MS Office and Notepad anyways.
France's 90-day visa hell as Brits forced to sell their homes over EU rules (www.express.co.uk)
Non-EU citizens can only spend a total of 90 days over an 180-day period in the whole of the European Union.