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About 300 protesters pleading for a cease-fire were arrested on Capitol Hill, organizers say. (web.archive.org)

AI tldr;...

Chinese programmer ordered to pay 1m yuan for using virtual private network (www.theguardian.com)

"Fair" coin flips appear to not be all that fair (arxiv.org)

The paper shows some significant evidence that human coin flips are not as fair as I would have expected (plus probably a bunch of people would agree with me). There’s always some probability that this happened by chance, but this is pretty low....

SAS troops ‘executed Afghan males of fighting age’, inquiry hears (www.theguardian.com)

Meta is paying the celebrity faces behind its AI chatbots as much as $5 million for 6 hours of work, report says (www.businessinsider.com)

Meta is paying the celebrity faces behind its AI chatbots as much as $5 million for 6 hours of work, report says::Meta has enlisted 28 celebrities to play AI chatbots with different personalities. One top creator was paid $5 million, per The Information.

China shares ambitious plans to double its space station as the ISS approaches the end of its life cycle (interestingengineering.com)

China shares ambitious plans to double its space station as the ISS approaches the end of its life cycle::undefined

World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days (www.bbc.com)

The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found....

Terra Nil is now available on Linux (store.steampowered.com)

Just five western oil firms, including BP and Shell, set to spend $15 million every hour until 2030 producing oil and gas | Global Witness (www.globalwitness.org)

UN Global Stocktake shows countries failing Paris Agreement climate goals 2023, London – Just five of the world’s biggest fossil fuel firms, BP, Chevron, Exxon, Shell and TotalEnergies, are set to spend $15 million every single hour between now and 2030 producing more oil and gas, according to new analysis of Rystad Energy...

White House estimates 3.5M federal workers will go without pay in government shutdown (abcnews.go.com)

The White House estimates that 3.5 million federal workers will have to go without pay if the government shuts down. Roughly 2 million of them will be military....

Lawmakers say government shutdown appears inevitable (thehill.com)

A government shutdown increasingly looks inevitable as GOP opponents of a stopgap in the Senate seek to drag out the process ahead of a midnight Sunday deadline....

US officials say Travis King, who crossed into North Korea, is in American custody (apnews.com)

Netflix Prepares to Send Its Final Red Envelope (www.nytimes.com)

The company’s DVD subscription service is ending this month, bringing to a close an origin story that ultimately upended the entertainment industry....

Sea of Thieves adds PvE mode later this year (with 30% rewards) (store.steampowered.com)

This is actually pretty big. I never liked me and my friends getting raided by people who played for 2000 hours and memorized PvP mechanics, I might give this game another shot.

Worm that jumps from rats to slugs to human brains has invaded Southeast US (arstechnica.com)

Multiple rats in Atlanta test positive for calamitous, rapidly spreading parasite.

Ganon (ani.social)

Attorney for Alabama band director arrested after football game says tasing was unacceptable and left students traumatized (www.cnn.com)

The Alabama band director who was arrested after refusing to stop his band’s performance at a high school football game is grappling with the aftermath of being tased by police, which his attorney says was unacceptable and left students traumatized....

Germany went from envy of the world to the worst-performing major developed economy. What happened? (apnews.com)

For most of this century, Germany racked up one economic success after another, dominating global markets for high-end products like luxury cars and industrial machinery, selling so much to the rest of the world that half the economy ran on exports....