Treasury warns that anti-woke banking laws like Florida's are a national security risk (apnews.com)
The Treasury Department is warning that state laws that restrict banks from considering environmental, social and governance factors could harm efforts to address money laundering and terrorism financing....
A video of two Americans discussing their confidence in the Democratic party to find a winning candidate. (www.youtube.com)
Genetic test could eradicate a type of inherited blindness in dogs (www.theguardian.com)
A mountain rescue dog whose duties ended after her eyesight failed has helped scientists create a test that could eradicate the genetic eye condition in her breed for good....
Language barrier (lemmy.world)
Doing unit test generation better with LLMs and mutation testing (github.com)
Dazzling Carvings of Egyptian Pharaohs Found in the River Nile (gizmodo.com)
With prices soaring, 86.8% of Nicaraguans cannot afford to buy essentials (english.elpais.com)
In a country dominated by authoritarianism and poor economic prospects, the population can only cover half a basket of basic goods, according to a report by Hagamos Democracia...
Slowly but surely, Israel tightens its grip on Gaza’s lifeline to Egypt | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Bangladesh’s top court cuts job quotas that led to deadly student-led protests (www.theguardian.com)
Marine lizards
Your Southwest flight arrived on time. (lemmy.world)
Cuba admits to massive emigration wave: a million people left in two years amid crisis (www.miamiherald.com)
A stunning 10% of Cuba’s population — more than a million people — left the island between 2022 and 2023, the head of the country’s national statistics office said during a National Assembly session Friday, the largest migration wave in Cuban history....
Sovcit wants to deposit the birth certificate. (lemmy.world)
Crowdstrike Cockup
So as we all know on the news, the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike Y2K’d it’s own end customers with a shoddy non-tested update....
Nvidia GPU partners reportedly cheap out on thermal paste, causing 100C hotspot temperatures — cheap paste allegedly degrades in a few months (www.tomshardware.com)
Utah to use pentobarbital to execute man instead of three-drug combination (www.theguardian.com)
Defense attorneys said the use of ketamine, fentanyl and potassium chloride could cause ‘excruciating suffering’...
The Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage shows the danger of monopolization (www.theguardian.com)
As the world recovers from the largest IT outage in history, it shows the danger of one point of failure in IT infrastructure...
What to know about Kids Online Safety Act and its chances of passing. (www.voanews.com)
I have not forgiven Met officers who photographed dead daughters, mother says (www.theguardian.com)
Mina Smallman, the mother of two women murdered in a London park, has forgiven their killer but not the two Metropolitan police officers who took and shared photos of their bodies, she said....