Over £23bn worth of welfare benefits went unclaimed in the last year, report finds (morningstaronline.co.uk)
NEW analysis has found that over £23 billion worth of welfare benefits went unclaimed in the last year....
AP Explains: 4/20 grew from humble roots to marijuana's high holiday (apnews.com)
Saturday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather — at 4:20 p.m. — in clouds of smoke on campus quads and pot shops in legal-weed states thank their customers with discounts....
Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Research into release of ‘forever chemicals’ raises concerns about contamination and human exposure along world’s coastlines...
Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom (apnews.com)
One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room...
Tips on how to structure your home directory (unixdigest.com)
I feel proud of myself to recognize that this iconic dude is not at a 'computer', rather, a [dumb] terminal! ]Or...?] (knowyourmeme.com)
Terminals are NOT computers. At least dumb terminals are not. Smart terminals do have logic circuit, but dumb terminals work mostly like televisions, except they have protocols (like when you send a SIGINT signal with CTRL+C, and you are a 80s academic working on his terminal at UC Berkeley, then your UNIX implementation —...
US agrees to withdraw troops from Niger amid Sahel region’s pivot to Russia (www.aljazeera.com)
Senate passes bill renewing key FISA surveillance power moments after it expires (www.nbcnews.com)
Trump Media alerts Nasdaq to potential market manipulation from 'naked' short selling of DJT stock (www.cnbc.com)
Maryland high school student arrested after authorities discovered a 129-page document detailing school shooting plan, police say (www.cnn.com)
A Maryland high school student was arrested and charged with threat of mass violence after police say they discovered evidence revealing the teen had plans to commit a school shooting, authorities said Thursday....
UN livestock emissions report seriously distorted our work, say experts (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Study released at Cop28 misused research to underestimate impact of cutting meat eating, say academics...
Bethesda teases The Elder Scrolls 6 in anniversary message and brags its developers are already 'playing early builds' and loving it (www.pcgamer.com)
Tesla recalls Cybertrucks over accelerator crash risk (www.bbc.com)
Tesla, the electric car company owned by Elon Musk, has recalled thousands of its new Cybertrucks over safety concerns....
Pixel 9/9 Pro/XL leaked (rozetked.me)
Pixel 9: with a 6.03-inch screen and a double rear camera. This is the heir to Pixel 8....
Finally the Onboard on screen keyboard works on Wayland (bugs.launchpad.net)
This is too great not to share. Wayland devs hate this trick! I’ll copy what I did from the bug report....
Reddit Reports Surge in Copyright-Related User Bans * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
NATO secretary-general says some allies have air defense systems they could give to Ukraine (apnews.com)
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday pressed member countries to give more Patriot missile systems to Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy repeated Kyiv’s almost daily appeals for more Western air defense equipment....
Trump operation asks Republicans who use him for fundraising to share the haul (www.nbcnews.com)
You get grifted! And you get grifted! And you get grifted! Everybody gets grifted!
Israeli tourists attack vigil in Cusco in support of Palestine : Peoples Dispatch (peoplesdispatch.org)
Florida baffles experts by banning local water break rules as deadly heat is on the rise (www.usatoday.com)
Sweltering summer heat might have been more bearable for outdoor workers in Miami-Dade County under a proposal that suggested mandated breaks in the shade on the hottest days – but Florida said no....
A sheriff, a felon and a conspiracy theorist walk into a hotel. They’re there for the same conference. (www.nbcnews.com)
The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association is urging lawmen to form posses, seize voting machines and investigate baseless claims of voter fraud....
Women run 80% of US elections – but are targets of misogyny-laced threats (www.theguardian.com)
Threats lean toward sexual or domestic violence, attacks on their families and criticisms that they can’t do their jobs...
FBI says Chinese hackers are inside US infrastructure to cause ‘devastating blow’ (www.independent.co.uk)
China wants to target critical infrastructure like water facilities and energy grids, FBI director said...
Lancache.net - LAN Party game caching made easy (lancache.net)
Make the most of your network. Get more play for your gamers. Download your games once and serve them out to many people at your LAN....
Yemen Marches in Support of Gaza and Against the Israeli Genocide (www.telesurenglish.net)
This Friday, in the capital of Yemen, Sanaa, thousands of people demonstrated in the streets to show their support for the Palestinian people in the midst of the genocide committed by the Zionist regime against them. ⠀...
