McDonald's to buy back Israeli restaurants after boycotts (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)
Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing....
Pirate IPTV Investigations Are Expensive, Time-Consuming & Prone to Misfire (torrentfreak.com)
AI Has Lost Its Magic (www.theatlantic.com)
Solid-state battery cell sets records, can offer over 1,300 mile range (electrek.co)
If this isn’t just corporate hype, this could be great for making smaller batteries, hopefully less resource intensive.
Trump Official Jeffrey Clark Broke Ethics Rules, DC Bar Says (news.bloomberglaw.com)
In the sanctions portion of the proceeding, disciplinary counsel Hamilton Fox III pointed to the seriousness of aggravating factors in Clark’s violations....
Why loneliness is bad for your health (www.nature.com)
Forecasters issue highest Atlantic hurricane season outlook in nearly 30 years (www.local10.com)
US border patrol is responsible for safety of children in migrant camps, judge says (www.theguardian.com)
“This is a tremendous victory for children at open air detention sites, but it remains a tragedy that a court had to direct the government to do what basic human decency and the law clearly require,” Neha Desai, senior director of immigration at the National Center for Youth Law, said in a statement.
Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump's $175m bond rejection raises questions (www.newsweek.com)
Donald Trump’s problematic $175 million bond to cover his New York civil fraud appeal has raised questions about what exactly led to the rejection of his insurer’s paperwork, says a legal analyst....
FFmpeg 7.0 Brings Experimental VVC Decoder and IAMF Support (linuxiac.com) Spanish
US, Philippines, Japan to tackle South China Sea incidents (www.bangkokpost.com)
Who put up Trump's bond? A subprime car loan billionaire who has run afoul of regulators (www.nbcnews.com)
Don Hankey made a fortune building a subprime auto loan empire. Along the way, his companies racked up consumer complaints, regulatory fines and were sued by the DOJ....
South Carolina mulls mystery $1.8bn in account: ‘We don’t know why it’s there’ (www.theguardian.com)
To put it mildly, the South Carolina state government faces an unusual problem: what to do about $1.8bn found in a state bank account when no one knows how it got there, how it should be spent or even whether it really exists....
Wanted American man flees to Russia, signs military contract (www.themoscowtimes.com)
A former American city council member who is wanted in the United States on child pornography charges appears to have fled to Russia and joined the Russian military, according to footage shared by regional authorities in the northern Khanty-Mansi autonomous district....
FRONT MISSION 2: Remake [30 Apr. on Steam; demo available now] (store.steampowered.com)
Some people are being given thousands of dollars with no strings attached in universal basic income trials. They mostly spend the cash wisely. (www.businessinsider.com)
Judge Cannon rejects a bid by Trump to dismiss criminal charges in classified documents case | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
From Cannon’s “ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT TRUMP’S MOTION TO DISMISS SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT BASED ON PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT”...
UN rights council demands halt to arms sales to Israel (www.france24.com)
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday demanded a halt in all arms sales to Israel, highlighting warnings of “genocide” in its war in Gaza, which has killed more than 33,000 people....
morning. not caturday yet? (mastodon.nl)
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Embedding the Servo Web Engine in Qt (www.kdab.com)
While the task of writing a brand new standard-compliant browser engine is infamous as being almost unachievable nowadays (and certainly so with Chromium coming in at 31 million lines of code), the Rust ecosystem has been brewing up a new web rendering engine called Servo. Initially created by Mozilla in 2012, Servo is still...