2023 was the year the US finally destroyed all of its chemical weapons (www.vox.com)
The United States’s Chemical Warfare Service readied hundreds of thousands of mortar shells and artillery rounds filled with mustard gas in the 1940s. During the Cold War, even more lethal chemical weapons followed: artillery and rockets filled with VX and GB, better known as Sarin, nerve agents that, with as little as a few...
Muslim man lynched in India ‘for taking a banana’ at Hindu temple event (www.aljazeera.com)
When social media silences sex workers, we all lose. (joanwestenberg.medium.com)
Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras (www.nytimes.com)
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Illinois becomes first state in nation to eliminate cash bail: Here’s how it will work (chicago.suntimes.com)
Illinois became the first state in the nation Monday to completely remove cash bail as a condition to be released ahead of a criminal trial....
iPhone 15's USB-C Port Remains Limited to Lightning Speeds (www.macrumors.com)
Mild Panic Incoming (lemmy.zip)
Walmart cuts starting hourly pay for some workers (www.detroitnews.com)
The retailer says the change will create consistency in starting hourly pay across individual stores.
FAA clears UPS delivery drones to fly beyond visual line of sight (www.theverge.com)
Drones to fly without spotters on the ground monitoring route and skies for other aircraft
Avalanche of lawsuits accuse New York prison guards of sexually abusing inmates (buffalonews.com)
My insurance is going to go through the roof (sh.itjust.works)
São Paulo's micro-houses keeping homeless families off the streets (www.bbc.com)
The minhocão is one of São Paulo’s most famous landmarks. An elevated highway that snakes its way through the centre of the city, it weaves through the tightly packed apartment buildings to connect the east to the west....
A hidden consequence of the gig economy is that workers keep asking customers for sex or dates (www.businessinsider.com)
A hidden consequence of the gig economy is that workers keep asking customers for sex or dates::“People have the right to order a pizza … without then being asked for sex or a date.”
Georgia school district is banning books, citing sexual content, after firing a teacher (apnews.com)
Georgia’s second-largest school district says that it has removed two books from 20 school libraries, saying the books had “highly inappropriate, sexually explicit content.”...
‘Historic’: Ecuador voters reject oil drilling in Amazon protected area (www.aljazeera.com)
US suicides hit an all-time high last year (apnews.com)
Bill Gates-backed nuclear contender Terra Power aims to build dozens of UK reactors (www.cityam.com)
Bill Gates-backed nuclear contender Terra Power aims to build dozens of UK reactors::A Bill Gates-backed clean energy player is hoping to build dozens of nuclear reactors in the UK and will compete with global rivals.
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merged Into Mesa 23.3 (www.phoronix.com)
Physicists achieve fusion with net energy gain for second time (arstechnica.com)
Leah Remini: The King of Queens star sues Church of Scientology (www.bbc.com)
Leah Remini is taking legal action against the Church of Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige, for harassment and defamation....
Cheap proton batteries compete with lithium on energy density (sopuli.xyz)
RMIT engineers say they’ve tripled the energy density of cheap, rechargeable, recyclable proton flow batteries, which can now challenge commercially available lithium-ion batteries for capacity with a specific energy density of 245 Wh/kg.
Mexico files diplomatic complaint over Gov. Greg Abbott’s floating border barriers (www.texastribune.org)
AI learned from their work. Now they want compensation. (infosec.pub)
A rising movement of artists and authors are suing tech companies for training AI on their work without credit or payment
YSK: You can use a web-browser script to navigate Lemmy with keyboard arrows (github.com)
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