China is not afraid of competition, Xi tells Blinken as two spar over Beijing’s backing to Russia’s Ukraine war (www.deccanherald.com)
ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Realme C65 5G arrives with Dimensity 6300 SoC, 120Hz screen, and 50MP camera (m.gsmarena.com)
Utility that bribed Ohio regulators secretly bankrolled Republican Mike DeWine's 2018 governor bid, records show (www.motherjones.com)
Exclusive: U.S. pier attacked during construction work off Gaza coast - I24NEWS (www.i24news.tv)
“Kill All Arabs”: The Feds Are Investigating UMass Amherst for Anti-Palestinian Bias (theintercept.com)
… In the previously unreported civil rights complaint, 18 students said that they have “been the target of extreme anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab harassment and discrimination by fellow UMass students, including receiving racial slurs, death threats and in one instance, actually being assaulted.” The result, the students...
New York prosecutors in Trump's hush money trial say former president continues to violate gag order (apnews.com)
Prosecutors said Thursday that Donald Trump again violated a gag order in his hush money trial, as the criminal case resumed on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court weighed whether he should be immune from prosecution for actions taken during his time as president....
EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story (www.edps.europa.eu)
Unfortunately, despite our efforts to find a new home for EU Voice and EU Video in other EUIs, we have been unable to secure new ownership to maintain the servers and sustain operations at the high standards that EUIs and our users deserve”.
Signs of spiders from Mars (www.esa.int)
interesting clickbait headline
TimeShift Review [MandaloreGaming] (piped.video)
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Homeless Georgians Could Face Hurdles to Voting Under New Legislation (www.nytimes.com)
There are thousands of voters like Mr. Dupree across Georgia and the country, those experiencing homelessness who are able to vote with the proper identification. They receive election related-mail at shelters, relatives’ addresses, temporary locations or P.O. boxes, and the vast majority vote in person....
As Biden, Sunak pledge more cruise missiles for Ukraine, Germany’s Scholz adamant on Taurus refusal (www.politico.eu)
The German chancellor and his defense minister have doubled down on their decision not to send long-range missiles to Ukraine....
One Login: Towards a Single Fediverse Identity on ActivityPub (thenewstack.io)
In response to Bray’s toot, Evan Prodromou — one of the creators of ActivityPub, who is currently writing an O’Reilly book about the protocol — noted that this “is also the argument for using the ActivityPub API.” He described the API as “an open, extensible API that can handle any kind of activity type — not...
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean (apnews.com)
Ariel Henry resigns as prime minister of Haiti, paving the way for a new government to take power (apnews.com)
Heatstroke kills 30 in Thailand this year as kingdom bakes (www.channelnewsasia.com)
155 Dead in Tanzania Floods as El Nino Continues to Wreak Havoc Thanks to Climate Crisis (www.thecanary.co)
Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac (www.theverge.com)
Conservation slowing biodiversity loss, scientists say (www.bbc.com)
Conservation actions are effective at reducing global biodiversity loss, according to a major study....
unroll-a-bed (mastodon.social)
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GALIX: NewHorizons TBA on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
Funkwhale - A platform for all your audio (www.funkwhale.audio)
Funkwhale - A platform for all your audio
Flint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later: ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’ (www.theguardian.com)
Years after the emergency, the Michigan city is yet to replace all lead pipes and affected families are still awaiting justice...
Post Office executive denies cover-up over Horizon back door (www.bbc.co.uk)
US Supreme Court justices scrutinize Trump immunity claim (www.reuters.com)
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Thursday quizzed lawyers for Donald Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith about the former president’s claim of immunity from prosecution for trying to undo his 2020 election loss, posing questions about what happens if a president sells nuclear secrets, takes a bribe or orders a coup or...
