We Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer (store.steampowered.com)
What’s new in GVfs for GNOME 46? – Ondřej Holý (ondrej.holych.net)
They panic-bought bidets during the pandemic. It changed their lives. (archive.ph)
Four years after the toilet paper shortage of 2020, bidet converts say they’re never going back...
Hunger Moves Thousands of Argentines to the Streets (www.telesurenglish.net)
Archive link
8-hour time-restricted eating linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death (newsroom.heart.org)
As a big fan of IF, I find this really depressing.
U.S. support for LGBTQ+ rights is declining after decades of support. (www.pbs.org)
TLDW: Members of the right who were previously ambivalent/disapproving are shifting towards hate/fear....
Bob Marley’s band The Wailers to play in Hong Kong for the first time (www.scmp.com)
Vietnam seeks death for tycoon in $12bn fraud case (www.bangkokpost.com)
US and Japan push for ban on nuclear weapons in space with UN security council resolution (www.theguardian.com)
Nokia tells Reddit it might be infringing on Nokia's patents. (www.theverge.com)
I can’t believe I have to defend reddit for once.
Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon! (www.ebu.ch)
Linux kernel 4.14 gets a life extension, thanks to OpenELA (www.theregister.com)
Campaigners warn over failure to curb Europe’s ‘runaway’ transport emissions (www.theguardian.com)
Greenhouse gases from sector could make up 44% of continent’s total output by 2030, says transport group...
India Can’t Match China’s Past 8-10% Growth, Morgan Stanley Says (www.bloomberg.com)
Element Call: Secure video conferencing for Matrix (element.io)
Element Call is an open source end-to-end encrypted video and voice conferencing solution built on the Matrix protocol for secure communication....
EU agrees US deal to launch satellites with Elon Musk’s SpaceX (www.politico.eu)
EU agrees US deal to launch satellites with Elon Musk’s SpaceX...
Cyberattacks are hitting water systems throughout US, Biden officials warn governors (www.cnn.com)
Murder defendant slips restraints in court, stabs his lawyer with pen. All good, attorney says (www.latimes.com)
In Gaza, starving children fill hospital wards as famine looms (www.reuters.com)
Reuters saw 10 badly malnourished children during a visit last week to the al-Awda health centre in Rafah, arranged with nursing staff who gave the news agency unimpeded access to the ward.
TIL Nokia has owned Bell Labs since 2016, and still does a lot of Telecom stuff (en.wikipedia.org)
The Nokia logo was also redesigned last year to represent a pivot away from making smartphones. Nokia acquired Bell Labs in 2016 as part of its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent.
Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs) (kotaku.com)
Well, this is hardly unexpected....
Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection gets first patch following troubled launch (www.eurogamer.net)
Democracies under threat around the globe (www.dw.com)
The hard facts are sobering: According to a new study, the quality of democracy has deteriorated over the past 20 years in 137 countries that are considered developing or emerging economies. According to the Bertelsmann Foundation’s “Transformation Index,” there are now 63 democracies compared to 74 autocracies. In other...
Schools should prep students for war, German minister says (www.dw.com)
The minister also called for developing a “relaxed” relationship between school students and the armed forces. She suggested that military officers visit schools to explain what “the Bundeswehr does for our security.”