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‘Frog saunas’ could save species from deadly fungal disease, study finds (www.theguardian.com)

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/22143150

GEL - Attainable [ Hardcore Punk | United States | 2023 ] (gelhc.bandcamp.com)

The sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet' revealed by AI (www.bbc.com)

Sperm whales communicate with each other using rhythmic sequences of clicks, called codas. It was previously thought that sperm whales had just 21 coda types. However, after studying almost 9,000 recordings, the Ceti researchers identified 156 distinct codas. They also noticed the basic building blocks of these codas which they...

Myanmar’s Generals Berate And Scold Bankers as Financial Crisis Deepens (www.irrawaddy.com)

Philippines probing suspected killing of Australian couple, Filipino in hotel (www.reuters.com)

More than 60 missing as Nepal landslide sweeps buses into river (www.bbc.com)

Russia’s advance toward key eastern highway threatens Ukraine’s grip of Donetsk Oblast (kyivindependent.com)

Outgunned and outmanned, Ukrainian soldiers struggling to hold the front line in a brutal, months-long Russian siege of Chasiv Yar are increasingly worried about their army’s ability to protect their rear. If key supply lines from the west are cut off and if troops to their south are overrun, they risk being choked....

44,000 Afghans in Pakistan waiting for relocation to Western nations: Pakistan government (www.thehindu.com)

Nepal poised for new government after prime minister loses confidence vote (www.reuters.com)

India's opposition Congress asks Modi to tax billionaires more (www.reuters.com)

Palestinians living abroad have accused Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning - cutting them off from crucial online services (www.bbc.com)

They say it has left them unable to access bank accounts and job offers - and stopped them using Skype, which Microsoft owns, to contact relatives in war-torn Gaza....

Discover Forums using the Discourse Software! (discover.discourse.org)

I spend way too much time on this. It has awesome features, a good mobile UI, maaany many systems to sort things, flexible permissions and more....

Russian plot to kill European weapons chief foiled by US and Germany (www.politico.eu)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/24848057

Musk's X charged with deceiving users, risks fine, EU says (www.reuters.com)

Elon Musk’s social media company X breached EU online content rules, EU tech regulators ruled on Friday in a finding that could lead to a fine and significant changes in how it operates....

Amazon must comply with US agency's pregnancy bias probe, judge rules (www.reuters.com)

A New York federal judge has ordered Amazon to comply with a subpoena from a U.S. civil rights agency investigating claims that the online retailer discriminated against pregnant warehouse workers....

Gunman at large after ambushing, killing deputy following assault on pizza worker over wrong order (abcnews.go.com)

‘Tech Doesn't Just Stay at the Border’: Petra Molnar on Surveillance’s Long Reach (www.texasobserver.org)

Petra Molnar is an anthropologist and attorney focused on human rights and migration. Molnar, who is based in Toronto, serves as the associate director of York University’s Refugee Law Lab and as a faculty associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She has worked on migrant justice...

The Mexican Army intensifies its offensive against El Guano, the brother of Chapo Guzmán (english.elpais.com)

The military has captured Luis ‘N,’ the head of security for Aureliano Guzmán Loaera, after fighting in the Golden Triangle region. It is the second operation in the past few months that has been aimed at the drug dealer’s older sibling...

Shelley Duvall, ‘The Shining’ and ‘Nashville’ Star, Dies at 75 (variety.com)

Cute pet sim Hamster Playground is out now, free and Steam Deck Verified (www.gamingonlinux.com)

German Navy to replace aging 8-inch floppy drives with an emulated solution for its anti-submarine frigates (www.tomshardware.com)

The German Navy is searching for a new storage system to replace the aging 8-inch (20cm) floppy disks which are vital to the running of its Brandenburg class F123 frigates. According to an official tender document, the ideal answer to the German Navy’s problems would be a drop-in floppy disk replacement based upon a storage...