Ted Cruz, US senator mocked for flight to Cancún, seeks airport police escorts (www.theguardian.com)
Republican senator, who flew to Mexico as Texas faced deadly cold snap, complains of ‘serious security threats’ to lawmakers...
Spectator rushes stage at CS2 tournament and gets tackled into trophy, smashing it to pieces (www.pcgamer.com)
Former gaming executive sentenced to death in poisoning of billionaire Netflix producer in China (www.cbsnews.com)
A former executive at Yoozoo Games was sentenced to death on Friday in the 2020 poisoning of the founder of the high-profile Chinese gaming company, which has links to Game of Thrones and the new Netflix series, “The Three-Body Problem.”...
Ouuu (slrpnk.net)
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League's Joker Season Is Unbelievably Bad (www.forbes.com)
Biden walks back sanctions on Israeli settlers following Smotrich's threat (archive.ph)
Biden administration dramatically softens the sanctions it imposed on the seven Israelis from the Israel Defense Forces and makes it clear that they will be able to use their bank accounts....
Virginia governor vetoes marijuana market bill (www.politico.com)
Foundations of Amateur Radio: Are you up for a global party? (podcasts.itmaze.com.au)
By Onno VK6FLAB...
Oregon's Breakthrough Right-to-Repair Bill Is Now Law (www.wired.com)
World Court orders Israel to 'take all necessary and effective' action to ensure Gaza has access to humanitarian aid (www.abc.net.au)
Reminder: Tomorrow is Land Day...
India court bans Muslim religious schools in UP state ahead of election (www.trtworld.com)
Gravitational waves may have made human life possible (phys.org)
A Dance of Fire and Ice on Steam (store.steampowered.com) French
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/13828033...
A demo for Final Fantasy 16 is reportedly coming to PC soon, as producer Yoshi-P says work on the port is 'going smoother than we thought it would' (www.pcgamer.com)
In Arizona’s Most Populous County, There’s a New Sheriff in Town (www.democracydocket.com)
In November of 2023, Paul Penzone announced that he was stepping down as Maricopa County sheriff, which became effective in January of this year. (He took a job at Blue Cross Blue Shield.)...
‘IRL Fakes:’ Where People Pay for AI-Generated Porn of Normal People (www.404media.co)
A Telegram user who advertises their services on Twitter will create an AI-generated pornographic image of anyone in the world for as little as $10 if users send them pictures of that person. Like many other Telegram communities and users producing nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images, this user creates fake nude images of...
Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise (www.openwall.com)
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Success or failure? Canada's drug decriminalisation test faces scrutiny (www.bbc.com)
Trigger warning for the picture: needle
Vegetables are losing their nutrients. Can the decline be reversed? (www.theguardian.com)
In 2004, Donald Davis and fellow scientists at the University of Texas made an alarming discovery: 43 foods, mostly vegetables, showed a marked decrease in nutrients between the mid and late 20th century....
‘Get on a plane’: Danish minister urged to meet Greenland coil scandal women (www.theguardian.com)
The Danish health minister should “get on a plane and visit” some of the thousands of women thought to be living with the consequences of being forcibly fitted with the contraceptive coil as children, Greenland’s gender equality minister has said....
In China's Sichuan, Influencers Jailed for Exploiting Rural Hardship (www.sixthtone.com)
Store-bought fish and chips with homemade tartar sauce (lemmus.org)
Made about two servings and a little extra chips....
NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law (www.thecity.nyc)
Children among cancer patients fearing being sent back to Gaza by Israel (www.theguardian.com)
Cancer patients from Gaza, including children, are living in a state of limbo in a hospital in East Jerusalem after Israeli authorities threatened to send them back....
