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The Among Us Animated Show’s Cast Is Stacked (kotaku.com)

Leading adviser quits over Instagram’s failure to remove self-harm content (www.theguardian.com)

A leading psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm has quit her role, accusing the tech giant of “turning a blind eye” to harmful content on Instagram, repeatedly ignoring expert advice and prioritising profit over lives.

'Others also affected by religiophobia': India abstains on vote in UNGA on Islamophobia (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

‘I saw many people suffer’: former Del Monte Kenya guards speak of violence on pineapple farm (www.theguardian.com)

Fresh Del Monte, the Florida-based headquarters of the tropical fruit empire, is arguing that it should not be liable for a case in Kenya because it is domiciled in the Cayman Islands.

Alleged Vivo Pad 3 Pro spotted with most powerful MediaTek chip on Geekbench (www.gizmochina.com)

ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots (arstechnica.com)

Motorola teases a new Edge series smartphone powered by the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 (m.gsmarena.com)

Twitter links: twitter.com/motorolaindia/…/1768887421087662250...

US marriages back to pre-pandemic levels while divorce rate falls (www.theguardian.com)

2022 saw nearly 2.1m marriages, up slightly from 2019 – but still far below their height in 1946...

habla espanol (hachyderm.io)

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The trade route from China to Mexico soars by 60% in January and establishes itself as one of the largest in the world (english.elpais.com)

Retiring the Mozilla Location Service (web.archive.org)

Patent infringement threat(Skyhook Holdings, Inc), lack of further investment seems to have been the reason of killing the service around 2021. It seems google location service seems to be the only player in town(other than OpenCellID, which I do not have experience with).

Finally, engineers have a clue that could help them save Voyager 1 (arstechnica.com)

A new signal from humanity’s most distant spacecraft could be the key to restoring it....

Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit (mashable.com)

From the article: “Unsurprisingly, this skyrocketed searches for the best VPNs. According to a SlashGear report sent to Mashable, searches for “Texas VPN” jumped by 1,750 percent in the past day. It also spotted a 1,600 percent increase for the phrase “How to access Pornhub.””

United plane apparently loses external panel mid-flight after taking off from SFO, officials say (abc7news.com)

A United Airlines flight that took off from San Francisco International Airport Friday morning landed in Oregon with a missing external panel, according to officials....

Niger revokes military accord with US, junta spokesperson says (www.reuters.com)

Authorities seize ailing alligator kept illegally in New York home's swimming pool (apnews.com)

An ailing alligator was seized from an upstate New York home where it was being kept illegally, state officials said....

Scientists Experiment with Thickening Arctic Sea Ice to Mitigate Warming (www.bbc.com)

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Leaked SpaceX documents show company forbids employees to sell stock if it deems they've misbehaved (techcrunch.com)

Netanyahu approves Rafah attack plans as aid ship reaches Gaza (www.theguardian.com)

Germany’s foreign affairs minister, Annalena Baerbock, tweeted: “A large-scale offensive in #Rafah cannot be justified. Over a million refugees have sought protection there and have nowhere to go. A humanitarian truce is needed immediately so that more people don’t die and the hostages are finally released.”

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