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China, India interfered in races for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, report says (www.cbc.ca)

A report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) says there were two instance of alleged interference by China in Conservative Party of Canada leadership races....

Warner Bros. Discovery hikes prices for Max streaming service, 12 days before the debut of season two of HBO's "House of the Dragon" (www.cnbc.com)

Linux admin with 20 years experience, looking for "beginner" distro [Solved, the real beginner distro was the Debian I've used along the way]

I’m over tinkering with my OS. So I’m looking for a distro that “just works” out of the box for my laptop. Also I want to test an “easy” distro I can install for my grandpa....

Know-What vs Know-How (open.substack.com)

EU approval for chat control (www.patrick-breyer.de)

We need to do something against this. The EU plans to apply a law for a chat control in the territory. The approval say that all the chats and the emails would be send to the government to do AI scanning to in fact “find the children abuses”, even when using apps with end-to-end encryption (the EU will ask the services to...

Possibly based on a true story (lemmy.world)

JP = Japan Post

What vital task did you not realize someone was doing regularly until they suddenly stopped?

Could be a partner, roommate, coworker, or somebody you volunteered with. They could have stopped for any reason from leaving, getting sick or hurt or even dying to just getting sick of doing that one thing and stopping.

[Hip hop] TERROR REID & Pouya - Midnight Sun ft. SXMPRA (yewtu.be)

Mr Beast is racist! Proofs (files.catbox.moe)

Le Flâneur (lemmy.world)

What's been the craziest moment of your life?

I saw this asked on another instance, thought I’d ask it here and I’ll post my response from there in the comments as I think it felt cathartic....

Biden Uses Trump 'Muslim Ban' Maneuver to Cap Asylum Seekers (www.msn.com)

President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an executive order to restrict asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border, using a controversial regulation last introduced by his predecessor....

Intel CEO says China must make its own chips if sanctions become too restrictive, points to EUV as key cutoff point (www.tomshardware.com)

favoring meme, please (feddit.it)

Ya feel me? (lemmy.world)

Favorite obscure multiplayer game?

I just got a RG353v and a friend at work has a modded switch. We were planning on playing games at lunch and I am looking for recommendations. We are both fans of 4-5th gen and will probably play those the most. Any genre of game is fine, co op or competitive is fine too. So far we have windjammers as a go to but I want to dig...