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Syrians Facing Expulsions at Home and Abroad (unicornriot.ninja)

Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora (arstechnica.com)

On Tuesday at Google I/O 2024, Google announced Veo, a new AI video-synthesis model that can create HD videos from text, image, or video prompts, similar to OpenAI’s Sora. It can generate 1080p videos lasting over a minute and edit videos from written instructions, but it has not yet been released for broad use.

Texas governor pardons man who killed Black Lives Matter protester in 2020 (www.theguardian.com)

Governor Greg Abbott of Texas issued a full pardon on Thursday to a former US army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice....

The Motorola Razr+ is about to get a sequel, but still hasn’t gotten an Android 14 update (9to5google.com)

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It's International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (www.advocate.com)

Intelligence chief warns Canadians that China can use TikTok to spy on them (www.cbc.ca)

Battle of Antonov Airport (sh.itjust.works)

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Half Of PlayStation Players Still Haven't Upgraded To PS5 (kotaku.com)

Ubisoft insists yet again that its uncanny AI-generated 'NEO-NPCs' will make games 'more alive and richer', whatever that means (www.pcgamer.com)

[US] Rep. Robert Garcia calls out Peru for classifying trans, intersex & nonbinary people as mentally ill (www.advocate.com)

Three-year-old CPU beats Intel's fastest current chip in RAM benchmark — 7 GHz Core i9-11900K tops 8.3 GHz Core i9-14900KS in PYPrime 32B (www.tomshardware.com)

Liechtenstein legalizes same-sex marriage in near-unanimous vote (www.politico.eu)

IMF Knocks Biden’s China Tariffs as Risk to US, World Growth (finance.yahoo.com)

A Palestinian converted to Judaism. An Israeli soldier saw him as a threat and opened fire (apnews.com)

'Carthage must be destroyed': Mark Zuckerberg t-shirt ignites anger in Tunisia, present-day Carthage (www.albawaba.com)

cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/2927731...

‘Quantum internet’ demonstration in cities is most advanced yet (www.nature.com)

Experiments generate quantum entanglement over optical fibres across three real cities, marking progress towards networks that could have revolutionary applications.

The Associated Press: Arkansas Supreme Court upholds 2021 voting restrictions that state judge found unconstitutional (apnews.com)

The measures upheld include a change to the state’s voter ID law that removes the option for someone to sign an affidavit affirming their identity if they don’t present a photo identification at the polls....

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