5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity (www.zdnet.com)
House Democrats introduce bill to rename Miami federal prison after Trump (abcnews.go.com)
German police seize $100 million in US-bound fake bills (www.dw.com)
Explicit sync (zamundaaa.github.io)
tl;dr this Wayland protocol will implement explicit sync in a standardised way which means better Wayland performance and compatibility with Nvidia cards in particular...
Get your goat: Italian island overrun by the animals offers to give them away (www.theguardian.com)
Mayor makes offer after number of goats on Alicudi reaches six times human population
Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. (mashable.com)
A shocking story was promoted on the “front page” or main feed of Elon Musk’s X on Thursday:...
Israeli forces kill Palestinian collecting aid (www.aljazeera.com)
Google's Phone app will soon let you look up unknown numbers - GSMArena.com news (m.gsmarena.com)
Killing owls to save owls: the US wildlife plan that sparked an ‘ethical dilemma’ (www.theguardian.com)
A government proposal to cull half a million owls, in order to save a related species, has raised complicated questions...
Fox News rejects White House demands to retract Easter egg stories (thehill.com)
Maine Took the US One Giant Step Toward More Democratic Elections (www.commondreams.org)
Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100,000 a Year. How Did This Happen? (www.nytimes.com)
Ben-Gvir rejects holding those who killed WCK staff accountable (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir on Friday rejected measures to hold the officers responsible for the killing of the World Central Kitchen crew in the central Gaza Strip on Monday accountable....
US preparing for significant Iran attack on US or Israeli assets in the region as soon as next week (www.cnn.com)
Google Won’t Say Anything About Israel Using Its Photo Software to Create Gaza “Hit List” (theintercept.com)
Wine 9.6 Released (gitlab.winehq.org)
The Wine development release 9.6 is now available....
WCK: ‘IDF cannot credibly investigate own failure in Gaza’ (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
The World Central Kitchen organisation announced on Friday that: “The IDF cannot credibly investigate its own failure in Gaza.”...
Surveilling Alone: In the U.S., home security cameras are booming in an era of rising crime and declining trust. But they’re driving neighbors further apart. (www.thenewatlantis.com)
Today, a different form of efficient design is eliminating “eyes on the street” — by replacing them with technological ones. The proliferation of neighborhood surveillance technologies such as Ring cameras and digital neighborhood-watch platforms and apps such as Nextdoor and Citizen have freed us from the constraints of...
Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV (arstechnica.com)
Elderly Oklahoma Man Dies After Igniting Himself On Fire When Deputies Attempted To Serve Eviction Notice (www.news9.com)
Suicide Squad Hackers Break Game To Play As Unreleased Characters (kotaku.com)
KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync (www.phoronix.com)
Original blog: zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/…/explicit-sync.html
Biden Will Try Again to Wipe Out Student Loan Debt for Millions of Borrowers (www.nytimes.com)
An Australian citizen under surveillance by the Chinese Communist Party: "I’m not the only China scholar who lives in fear of abduction or assassination" (www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/12976581...
This week in KDE: real modifier-only shortcuts and cropping in Spectacle (pointieststick.com)
A screenshot of KDE’s spectacle application showing the reintroduced cropping tool
