Kenya suspends Worldcoin scans over security, privacy and financial concerns (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/958429...
Meta to end news access in Canada over publisher payment law (The Guardian) (archive.is)
Move comes in response to Canadian legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers...
"The West turned its gaze away from Iran, but the cruelties continued" - rights activist reminds the world on a regime still torturing its citizens (www.euronews.com)
“Prisoners have been tortured into confessing, and if physical torture didn’t work, interrogators would threaten their families. Many women have reported being raped whilst in prison,” writes civil rights activist Nasrin Parvaz.
Google says it will start downranking non-tablet apps in the Play Store (arstechnica.com)
Google's interpretation of Apple's AirDrop, Nearby Share, is now officially out of beta for Windows. (www.gsmarena.com)
Burnt out or jobless - meet China's 'full-time children' (www.bbc.com)
West Bank ‘not occupied’ territory, says Ron DeSantis (www.aljazeera.com)
Speaking to Christian Zionist group, Florida governor and Republican US presidential candidate pledges support for Israel....
Almost 50 Democrats snub Biden with vote against cluster bombs for Ukraine (thehill.com)
fedidb.org: kbin active users almost doubled in one day (fedidb.org)
The following screenshot is a composite. The popups for the last two days are inserted top left and top right. I also copied the Y-axis description from left to right....
How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’) - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
A close reading of Twitter’s legal letter to Meta: a guided tour of a weak litigation letter (davidallengreen.com)
Reddit braces for life after API changes (techcrunch.com)
Reddit and its communities are preparing for a life after the platform's API changes forced popular third-party apps to shut down.
TIL that because of the amount of time it saves, the washing machine has been called "the greatest invention of the industrial revolution.” Others have considered it a key driver of women’s liberat... (en.wikipedia.org)
Charlie Kirk defends Elon Musk's antisemitism: "Some of the largest financiers of left-wing anti-white causes have been Jewish Americans" (www.mediamatters.org)
For more on Musk's remarks, see here and here.
‘There are hundreds of mothers like me’ An interview with Oksana Pekhteleva, whose daughter’s killer won a presidential pardon for fighting in Ukraine (meduza.io)
On the night of January 13, 2020, a Kemerovo man named Vladislav Kanyus brutally murdered his 23-year-old ex-girlfriend, Vera Pekhteleva. For hours, neighbors listened to Pekhteleva scream in agony and repeatedly called the police, but by the time officers arrived, she was dead. Kanyus was sentenced to 17 years in prison, while...
Unity announces layoffs despite increased revenue and reduced losses (www.gamesindustry.biz)
First ever images prove 'lost echidna' not extinct (www.bbc.co.uk)
Have you ever taken something home from a workplace without permission, to keep it? (kbin.social)
Big or small, cheap or expensive....
Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza runs out of fuel, shuts down key services (www.aljazeera.com)
Medical services across the Gaza Strip have been hit by non-stop Israeli air strikes near hospitals.
Trillium Notes (github.com)
I’ve been using Obsidian for a long time. I enjoy it and all of its extensions. However setting up the app and syncthing on all of my systems gets irritating....
From the team behind The Escapist, we're excited to announce our next adventure, Second Wind (twitter.com)
Rising pay transparency is causing an employer compensation information ‘arms race’ (www.cnbc.com)
Mexico: Migrants sew their lips shut to press demands for transit permits (www.brusselstimes.com)
"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet (www.defectivebydesign.org)
5 reasons Linux is the best OS for coding (www.xda-developers.com)
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