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Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says (arstechnica.com)

US finds five Israeli military units guilty of 'gross human rights violations' (www.middleeasteye.net)

“After a careful process, we found five Israeli units responsible for individual incidents of gross violations of human rights. All of these were incidents much before October 7th and none took place in Gaza,” State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said Monday....

First case of walrus dying from bird flu recorded in Arctic (www.theguardian.com)

Sleepless in Naypyitaw: Myanmar Junta Leader Lives in Fear of Assassination (www.irrawaddy.com)

Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence stages protest after being locked out of lab (apnews.com)

FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users’ real-time location data (arstechnica.com)

Although the fines were originally proposed when the FCC was controlled by Republicans, the vote to finalize the penalties was 3-2 with dissents from Republicans Brendan Carr and Nathan Simington....

FCC Imposes Nearly $200 Million in Fines on US Wireless Carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon) for Illegal Location Data Sharing (neuters.de)

The carriers sold “real-time location information to data aggregators, allowing this highly sensitive data to wind up in the hands of bail-bond companies, bounty hunters, and other shady actors,” FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement....

NixOS forked (aux.computer)

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First scientist to publish Covid sequence in China protests over lab ‘eviction’ (www.theguardian.com)

Lebanese Universities Join Wave of Global Pro-Palestine Protests (thecradle.co)

Call To Action For Julian Assange (popularresistance.org)

Assange’s legal team has the right to challenge the credibility and validity of the U.S. assurances filed on February 24, 2024. The U.S. would then have a right to reply to Assange’s legal submissions to the court, which will hold a hearing on May 20, 2024, to determine whether or not to accept the U.S. assurances....

De-dollarisation gains traction among Brics (www.khaleejtimes.com)

Deepest blue hole in the world discovered, with hidden caves and tunnels believed to be inside | Live Science (www.livescience.com)

Mexico’s Taam Ja’ Blue Hole is the deepest known underwater sinkhole in the world, researchers have discovered — and they haven’t even reached the bottom yet....

The AI grift that can literally poison you (www.vox.com)

Far-right network OAN retracts false story about Michael Cohen affair with Stormy Daniels (www.cnn.com)

RISC-V support in Android just got a big setback (www.androidauthority.com)

Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Earlier this month, we wrote that some of Intel’s recent high-end Core i9 and Core i7 processors had been crashing and exhibiting other weird issues in some games and that Intel was investigating the cause....

Philippines accuses China Coast Guard of damaging its ship (www.dw.com)

Authorities say water cannons “directly hit the starboard astern of the BFAR vessel,” in the Scarborough Shoal, which China seized in 2012....

Hunter Biden threatens to sue Fox News for airing 'revenge porn' (abcnews.go.com)

Boy did we have a rough few weeks (imgur.com)

Sorry, a bit of a vent post. English/German as always....

Estonia and Lithuania blame Russia for GPS jamming after signal interference prevented two Finnair planes from landing (www.dw.com)

Cross posted from: feddit.de/post/11613536...

Video footage reveals ‘Kill the Jews’ remark used to explain police intervention made by pro-Israel counterprotester in provocation (huntnewsnu.com)

Footage taken late Friday night of a tense confrontation between pro-Palestine demonstrators and pro-Israel counter-protesters at the encampment revealed it was a pro-Israel student demonstrator who said “Kill the Jews,” asking the pro-Palestine demonstrators “anybody on board; anybody on board?”...

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