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Three women contract HIV from dirty “vampire facials” at unlicensed spa (arstechnica.com)

Trendy, unproven “vampire facials” performed at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico left at least three women with HIV infections. This marks the first time that cosmetic procedures have been associated with an HIV outbreak, according to a detailed report of the outbreak investigation published today....

Tecno Camon 30 Premier review (m.gsmarena.com)

Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. (www.tomshardware.com)

Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit (blog.joinmastodon.org)

Where do they get those numbers from? (lemmy.world)

Columbia leadership rebuked by faculty panel for police crackdown on protesters (www.reuters.com)

Columbia University’s embattled president came under renewed pressure on Friday as a campus oversight panel sharply criticized her administration for clamping down on a pro-Palestinian protest at the Ivy League school....

Trump Allies Draw Up Plans to Blunt Fed’s Independence (www.wsj.com)

The decisive decade: Understanding the trajectories of 14- to 24-year-olds (www.brookings.edu)

Announcing The DCon Chamber! A new Trek Podcast hosted by Dominic Keating (Malcom) and Connor Trinneer (Trip) from Enterprise (twitter.com)

'Tank of the future': France and Germany sign new arms deal (www.euronews.com)

France’s defence minister received his German counterpart on Friday to ink a deal between the two countries to build a next-generation battle tank....

Tourist Mauled by Brown Bear After Disastrous Attempt at Selfie (www.mensjournal.com)

Dragon's Dogma 2 Path Tracing [Digital Foundry] (piped.video)

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Phoenix Point Terror from the Void is a fan-made comprehensive reworking of the XCOM (www.pcgamesn.com)

Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers. The company registered itself as a sales company, making the employees work 4 more hours a week and get paid less. (restofworld.org)

IBM registered itself (in Brazil) as a sales company....

Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police (apnews.com)

Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived....

Rooting for Trump to fail has made his stock shorters millions (apnews.com)

Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable....

The new class war: A wealth gap between millennials (www.cnbc.com)

There may be another factor creating so much wealth among millennials: inheritances. In what’s known as “the great wealth transfer,” baby boomers are expected to pass down between $70 trillion and $90 trillion in wealth over the next 20 years. Much of that is expected to go to their millennial children. High-net-worth...

Russian court places Forbes journalist under house arrest (www.independent.co.uk)

Journalist had shared a social media post in 2022 about Russia’s suspected war crimes in the Ukrainian city of Bucha...

US campus protests inspire wave of international action as French university occupied by pro-Palestine activists’ (www.independent.co.uk)

US food regulator gathering information on Indian spices after alleged contamination (www.reuters.com)

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is gathering information on products of Indian spice makers MDH and Everest after Hong Kong halted sales of some of their products for allegedly containing high levels of a cancer-causing pesticide....

Student Protest Leader at Columbia: ‘Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live’ (www.nytimes.com)

Video of incendiary comments by one of the leaders of the student protest encampment at Columbia University surfaced online Thursday evening, forcing the school to again confront an issue at the core of the conflict rippling across campuses nationwide: the tension between pro-Palestinian activism and antisemitism....

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