KDE Slimbook V: The first KDE laptop with the AMD 7840HS CPU - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
Price starts at €999 and releases in April, and will come with Plasma 6.
Epstein Had a Creepy Panopticon Room to Monitor All His Guests (www.thedailybeast.com)
All of this would not be possible, the lawsuit says, without Epstein’s right-hand men: his longtime personal lawyer Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn, who’ve long denied any wrongdoing in connection with their former boss....
Africa’s Donkeys Are Coveted by China. Can the Continent Protect Them? (www.nytimes.com)
Governments are seeking to curb donkey skin exports to China, where demand for traditional medicine and other products is threatening animals that rural households need....
Avast ordered to stop selling browsing data from its browsing privacy apps (arstechnica.com)
Battlefield Game Director Marcus Lehto Has Left EA - Insider Gaming (insider-gaming.com)
Six gold plated Comanchero bikes destroyed by police | 1News NZ (www.1news.co.nz)
SNES StarFox Game Over screen (lemmus.org)
Signal and Threema want nothing to do with WhatsApp (www.androidpolice.com)
A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men (www.nytimes.com)
Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, and they sometimes pay to see more....
RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study (arstechnica.com)
RTO doesn’t improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study::Data is consistent with bosses using RTO to reassert control and scapegoat workers.
How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk. (www.theverge.com)
How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk.::The Kids Online Safety Act, moving through Congress, presents serious privacy issues for adults and could hurt the kids it aims to protect, too.
COVID-19 vaccines and adverse events of special interest: A multinational Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) cohort study of 99 million vaccinated individuals (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
The Shamima Begum ruling proves it: some UK citizens are less equal than others (www.theguardian.com)
Any British person who has a foreign-born parent will feel their status is more precarious after the court of appeal decision...
Improving filtering for the Vulkan hardware database (www.saschawillems.de)
Eight years after launching the Vulkan database to the public, it’s approaching 30,000 uploaded reports from more than 3,300 different devices across Windows, Linux, Android, MacOS and iOS. With that much data available, good filtering capabilities are crucial.
Rafah Attack Escalates “Most Transparent Genocide of All Time,” Scholar Says (truthout.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/16060292...
Amid Florida’s Measles Outbreak, Surgeon General Goes Against Medical Guidance - The New York Times (Free article) (www.nytimes.com)
US spacecraft on the moon ‘caught a foot’ and tipped on to side, says Nasa (www.theguardian.com)
Odysseus, the first US-built spacecraft to touchdown on the moon in more than half a century, is tipped over on its side, according to an update from Nasa and Intuitive Machines, the company that built and operated the lander....
Sinking ship hit by Houthi missile leaves 18-mile oil slick in Red Sea, US officials say (www.cnn.com)
A cargo ship that was struck by a Houthi ballistic missile on Monday has created an 18-mile long oil slick in the Red Sea as it continues to take on water, two US officials said Friday....
Thousands protest as hunger grows amid Argentine austerity (www.france24.com)
Yelp: It’s gotten worse since Google made changes to comply with EU rules (arstechnica.com)
AT&T’s botched network update caused yesterday’s major wireless outage (arstechnica.com)
AT&T’s botched network update caused yesterday’s major wireless outage::AT&T blamed itself for “incorrect process used as we were expanding our network.”
This week in KDE: real fake session restore (pointieststick.com)
FTC Takes Action Against Tax Prep Company H and R Block For Wiping Consumers’ Data, Deceptively Marketing ‘Free’ Online Filing (www.ftc.gov)
In an administrative complaint, FTC staff alleges that H&R Block’s online tax filing products lead consumers into higher-cost products made for more complicated tax filings, despite many consumers not needing the additional tax forms and schedules offered by those products. In addition, H&R Block fails to clearly explain which...
Jury convicts Southern California socialite in 2020 hit-and-run deaths of two young brothers (apnews.com)
A Southern California socialite was found guilty Friday of murder and other charges in the hit-and-run deaths of two young brothers in a crosswalk more than three years ago....
