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North Korea provided Russia with weapons, White House says (archive.ph)

Israeli strikes flatten buildings, mosques in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)

At least 313 Palestinians have been killed as Israel struck 426 targets in Gaza, its military said, flattening residential buildings in giant explosions....

Dozens of cats left to die in Abu Dhabi desert, prompting outcry (www.cnn.com)

Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series and Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee (deadline.com)

YT is wild (lemmy.zip)

American man rescued from cave in Turkey after being trapped for days (www.cnn.com)

An American caver has been rescued by emergency workers near Anamur, in southern Turkey, after he became stranded hundreds of meters underground earlier this month....

Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! (en.shiftdelete.net)

Always walk on the sunny side (sh.itjust.works)

Texas state police won’t punish more officers over Uvalde (apnews.com)

Texas state police will not discipline any more of its officers over the Uvalde school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead as heavily armed agents hesitated to confront the lone gunman, a spokesperson confirmed Friday....

[DISCUSS] IBM using LLMs to convert COBOL to Java (techcrunch.com)

It’s not the 1st time a language/tool will be lost to the annals of the job market, eg VB6 or FoxPro. Though previously all such cases used to happen gradually, giving most people enough time to adapt to the changes....

The young Honduran drowned in Greg Abbott’s Texas had a name: Norlan Bayardo Herrera (www.inquirer.com)

We need to name the refugees needlessly killed by Texas' cruel border demagoguery.

TweetDeck is officially becoming a paid service (www.theverge.com)

62% of Student Loan Borrowers Say They're Likely to Boycott Repayments: Poll (www.commondreams.org)

Biden administration begins canceling student loan debt for 804,000 borrowers (abcnews.go.com)

Starting Monday, hundreds of thousands of federal student loan borrowers will receive emails from their servicers with the subject line “Your student loans have been forgiven.”...

The Taliban are entrenched in Afghanistan after 2 years of rule. Women and girls pay the price (apnews.com)

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have settled in as rulers of Afghanistan, two years after they seized power as U.S. and NATO forces withdrew from the country following two decades of war....

Hawaiian actor Jason Momoa implores public not to visit Maui as wildfire devastation rages on (www.foxnews.com)

FYI: DrunkenSlug Is Taking Registrations Again (ttrpg.network)

If you were looking for a new Indexer like I was, and were waiting for DS to open back up, head on over to drunkenslug.com/register

Colorado Cop Who Left Handcuffed Woman on Train Tracks Says It was an Accident (www.theroot.com)

The officer claims she didn't realize a whole train was coming when she left a woman handcuffed in a parked police car.

TIL After living in London for 14 years, Cillian Murphy moved back to his native Ireland in order to prevent his children from having posh English accents (www.yahoo.com)

The ‘Peaky Blinders’ star wanted his children to share their parents’ accents.

America’s nurse staffing crisis has reached the breaking point (thehill.com)

AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content (www.theverge.com)

AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content::The companies building generative AI tools like ChatGPT say updated copyright laws could interfere with their ability to train capable AI models. Here are comments from OpenAI, StabilityAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft and more.