TikTok’s Pro-China Tilt (www.nytimes.com)
The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok’s political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP’s Geostrategic Objectives networkcontagion.us/…/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.2…...
USDA updates rules for school meals that limit added sugars for the first time (apnews.com)
Arizona judge declares mistrial in the case of a rancher accused of fatally shooting a migrant (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/border-rancher-migrant-killing-…
Hubble telescope celebrates 34th anniversary with an iridescent Dumbbell Nebula (image) (www.space.com)
Advocacy groups say Texas inmates are 'being cooked to death' in state prisons without air conditioning (www.usatoday.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/73419881007/
Arizona Will Elect County Prosecutors in Shadow of Abortion Ban (boltsmag.org)
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, a Republican who is up for reelection this year, reacted to the ruling with a statement vowing that women would not be “prosecuted for receiving an abortion,” and especially calls out that she would not prosecute abortions that stem from rape, incest, or molestation. The statement...
US Navy to Turn Pacific Oil Rigs Into Mobile Military Bases to Counter China (www.thedefensepost.com)
KDE Berlin mega-sprint recap (pointieststick.com)
Semi-open world paper plane adventure 'Paper Sky' coming to Linux and Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore (www.theverge.com)
It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.
Every distro is fork of Hannah Montanna Linux (lemm.ee)
Philippines court sides with Greenpeace, bans genetically modified rice cultivation (www.philrice.gov.ph)
Childbirths in Korea hit another low in February (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
The number of babies born in Korea fell below the 20,000 level for the first time for any February this year, data showed Wednesday, amid deepening woes about the country’s demographics amid rapid aging and the ultra-low birthrate....
The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major Population Correction Is Inevitable (www.mdpi.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8929454...
N.C. report finds wilderness camp failed to ensure boy was breathing before he died (www.nbcnews.com)
A state inspection report offers new details on the hours leading up to a 12-year-old’s death at Trails Carolina, a camp for troubled adolescents....
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it (www.theverge.com)
Athens turns orange, Helsinki goes white as Europe’s weather springs a surprise (edition.cnn.com)
A yellow-orange haze of dust from the Sahara desert has blanketed parts of Greece, creating spectacular scenes and prompting authorities to issue health warnings.
Watch these hungry waxworms eat through plastic and digest it too (www.bbc.com)
Wriggling critters armed with enzymes can break down plastics that would otherwise take decades, or even centuries to degrade....
Hamas official stated that the group would disarm if a two-state solution is enforced (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
Discover Khalil al-Hayya's interview with The Associated Press, shedding light on Hamas's willingness to consider a long-term truce with Israel
Gloomhaven studio Flaming Fowl lays off over 20 staff (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Senate passes $95 billion package sending aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan after months of delay (www.cnn.com)
The Senate on Tuesday passed a long-delayed $95 billion package with wide bipartisan support after both sides of Capitol Hill have struggled for months to send aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan....
IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4 billion deal to expand cloud software (www.reuters.com)
PSA: If you're going to write software for piracy, put it on I2P! (geti2p.net)
movie-web was just taken down with all its repos, Yuzu was taken down, then suyu forked it on gitlab and was taken down, countless clones of nintendo games, platform emulators, and a bunch of other things are taken down because they are hosted on the clear web....