'Anywhere there's a camera, now there's a risk': Billions of users at risk of Peeping Toms — scientists devise incredibly simple eavesdropping system costing only a few hundred dollars (www.techradar.com)
The method, known as EM Eye, can even capture images through walls, raising huge concerns about the potential for misuse....
Yale apologizes for past ties to slavery (www.cnn.com)
Yale University has issued a formal apology for its historical ties to slavery....
Average credit card balances jump 10% to a record $6,360, and more consumers fall behind on payments (www.cnbc.com)
Americans now owe $1.13 trillion in credit card debt
EU opens investigation into TikTok over online content and child safeguarding (www.theguardian.com)
Video platform under scrutiny over potential breach of Digital Services Act in areas such as age verification...
Stalled US aid for Ukraine underscores GOP's shift away from confronting Russia (apnews.com)
At about 2 a.m. last Tuesday, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin stood on the Senate floor and explained why he opposed sending more aid to help Ukraine fend off the invasion launched in 2022 by Russian President Vladimir Putin....
25-year-old man arrested in fatal CU dorm shooting in Colorado Springs (www.denverpost.com)
Colorado Springs police detained the person Monday morning...
Many believe the founders wanted a Christian America. Some want the government to declare one now (apnews.com)
The idea of a Christian America means different things to different people. Pollsters have found a wide circle of Americans who hold general God-and-country sentiments....
FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden’s ties to Ukrainian energy company (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI informant has been charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company, a claim that is central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress....
‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals | Recycling (www.theguardian.com)
Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regar
Prime Minister: Denmark to supply all its artillery to Ukraine (euromaidanpress.com)
Crew abandon British-registered cargo ship off Yemen after Houthi attack (www.bbc.com)
X-Men '97's Take on Morph Is Already Making Bigots Mad (gizmodo.com)
So in the latest installment of what won’t make MAGA throw a tantrum.
Israel/oPt: UN experts appalled by reported human rights violations against Palestinian women and girls (www.ohchr.org)
Palestinian women and girls have reportedly been arbitrarily executed in Gaza, often together with family members, including their children, according to information received....
Pope prays for peace in Sudan, and Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province | Africanews (www.africanews.com)
Long after tragic mysteries are solved, families of Native American victims are kept in the dark (apnews.com)
It was the winter of 2021 when Philbert Shorty’s family found his abandoned car stuck in the mud outside the small community of Tsaile near the Arizona-New Mexico state line. “We knew something happened from the get-go,” said his uncle, Ben Shorty. “We couldn’t find any answers.”...
Brightest and fastest-growing: astronomers identify record-breaking quasar (www.eso.org)
Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have characterised a bright quasar, finding it to be not only the brightest of its kind, but also the most luminous object ever observed. Quasars are the bright cores of distant galaxies and they are powered by supermassive black holes. The...
Tampa man wrongfully imprisoned for nearly four decades to receive $14m (www.theguardian.com)
Robert DuBoise, sentenced over a 1983 rape and murder he did not commit, says he hopes others in his position now ‘get justice’...
Gen Z is recording themselves getting fired in growing TikTok trend (www.cbsnews.com)
Young adults are getting used to living on a financial cliff (www.nbcnews.com)
Lab-Made Meat? Florida Lawmakers Don’t Like the Sound of It. (www.nytimes.com)
Legislators there and in several other states want to restrict the manufacture or sale of meat made in a laboratory, even though it barely exists. The space industry disagrees....