Apple Unleashes the M4: A Powerhouse for the New iPad Pro (www.arktrek.shop)
c/SteamedHams - In honor of the aurora borealis yesterday, here is a community for the iconic Simpson's meme (lemmy.ca)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/21044578...
Russia launches major assault in Kharkiv region (www.euronews.com)
Russia targets the border city of Vovchansk with intense airstrikes and rocket attacks as part of its major new assault on eastern Ukraine....
A Common Sleeping Pill May Reduce Build-Up of Alzheimer's Proteins, Study Finds (www.sciencealert.com)
Israel/Gaza: Threats against the ICC promote a culture of impunity, say UN experts (www.ohchr.org)
TIL that a Frenchman ate a plane (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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Kristi Noem Now Banned in More Than 90 Percent of All South Dakota Tribal Lands (www.thedailybeast.com)
The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribe became the fifth Sioux tribe this year to ban South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem from setting foot in their territory, making Noem an outlaw in more than 16 percent of South Dakota and in more than 90 percent of her state’s tribal lands....
Jack Dorsey says he quit Bluesky because it was becoming another Twitter (www.businessinsider.com)
Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer and King of B Movies, Dies at 98 (variety.com)
A parliamentary election runoff puts hard-liners firmly in charge of Iran's parliament (apnews.com)
Iran’s hard-liners won most of the remaining seats in an election run-off to give them full control over the country’s parliament, authorities said Saturday, while not sharing any details on the turnout....
Thomas says critics are pushing 'nastiness' and calls Washington a 'hideous place' (apnews.com)
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told attendees at a judicial conference Friday that he and his wife have faced “nastiness” and “lies” over the last several years and decried Washington, D.C., as a “hideous place.”...
US woman charged with concealing bleach in husband’s coffee avoids jail (www.theguardian.com)
Melody Feliciano Johnson, initially charged in Arizona with attempted murder, receives probation after striking plea deal...
Chinese woman jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan to be freed after four years (www.theguardian.com)
Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan’s search for the truth during the early days of the pandemic was seen as a threat by the authorities...
While Xi tours Europe, China feeds Russia's war machine (kyivindependent.com)
Archived link....
Pope tells Italians they need to have more babies (www.euronews.com)
Italy’s birth rate, already one of the lowest in the world, has been falling steadily for about 15 years and reached a record low last year....
Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)
More than half a million UniSuper fund members went a week with no access to their superannuation accounts after a “one-of-a-kind” Google Cloud “misconfiguration” led to the financial services provider’s private cloud account being deleted, Google and UniSuper have revealed.
js Monk and Fly (sh.itjust.works)
The aurora last night was visible in South Carolina (lemmy.zip)
Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says (arstechnica.com)
Joost Klein from the Netherlands disqualified from Eurovision 2024 (eurovisionworld.com)
America's debt tops $34 trillion, but a commission to address it appears dead in Congress (apnews.com)
For Mike Johnson it was effectively a Day 1 priority....
She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all (www.theguardian.com)
Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth. The clip is grainy and shaky – as if shot in low light by someone who had zoomed in on Madi’s...
Protesters march again in Georgia over foreign influence bill, holding Georgian and EU flags, chanting “no to the Russian law” (www.bbc.com)
Tens of thousands of Georgians have taken to the streets of the capital Tbilisi on Saturday evening to protest a controversial “foreign influence” bill backed by the government....
China is still harrassing dissidents who fled in the 1990s. And that is increasingly causing friction with democracies over issues of espionage, surveillance and human rights (www.bbc.com)
Three decades ago, Chinese dissidents were being smuggled out of the country in a secret operation called Yellow Bird - but as one of them tells the BBC, Beijing is still pursuing them....
Putin’s Surprise Attack Leaves Ukraine in ‘Incredibly Difficult’ Position (www.thedailybeast.com)
Russia attacked with airstrikes in Vilcha, Liptsy, Liman, Izbitskoye, Veseloye, Petrovka, Kazachya Lopan, Sinelnikovo, Volchansk in Kharkiv, according to an assessment from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
