'Bidenomics': Feds Seek to Promote Commercial Conversions Into Affordable Transit-Friendly Housing (usa.streetsblog.org)
iFixit partners with Microsoft to offer parts for Surface Pro 9, Laptop 5, and Go 4 (www.windowscentral.com)
European bans on pro-Palestinian protests and slogans test free speech (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Damning evidence of war crimes as Israeli attacks wipe out entire families in Gaza (www.amnesty.org)
Universal Music files $75m lawsuit against Amazon-backed AI firm Anthropic for ripping off Rolling Stones, Beyonce lyrics (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Universal Music files $75m lawsuit against Amazon-backed AI firm Anthropic for ripping off Rolling Stones, Beyonce lyrics::Major players across Hollywood are taking to the courts to address what they argue is mass copyright infringement.
Preceeding line: "I am not a tough person. Not rough. Or rrrrrraw like a pitbull. Just a sleepy little kitty cat..." (sh.itjust.works)
Comedian Ron Funches....
Iran accused of threatening ‘terrified’ BBC staff in London (www.theguardian.com)
How China’s EV Boom Caught Western Car Companies Asleep at the Wheel (www.wired.com)
Auto execs in the US, Europe, and Japan never thought Chinese EVs were a threat. Now they’re coming to wipe the floor with their Western counterparts....
The United Nations said early on Friday it had been told by the Israeli military that some 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza should relocate to the enclave's south within the next 24 hours. (www.reuters.com)
N.Y.U. Law Student Sends Anti-Israel Message and Loses a Job Offer (www.nytimes.com)
A law firm’s job offer to a New York University law student was rescinded on Tuesday for what the firm described as “inflammatory comments” about Hamas’s attack that killed at least 1,200 Israelis....
How and Why to Get Verified on Mastodon (cassidyjames.com)
Sir, a second carrier strike group has hit the Mediterranean (i.postimg.cc)
Germany announces new defense aid for Ukraine worth $1.1 bln (www.reuters.com)
Children found ‘butchered’ in Israeli kibbutz, IDF says, as horror of Hamas’ attacks near border begins to emerge (www.cnn.com)
Bodies of Israeli residents and Palestinian attackers lay outside burned-out homes in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Tuesday, days after Hamas launched a large-scale surprise assault on Israel....
Ukraine's Zelenskyy visits neighboring Romania to discuss security and boost ties (apnews.com)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with his counterpart in Romania Tuesday for talks on regional security and to strengthen bilateral ties against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of his country....
China's Declining Birth Rates: Maternity Wards Are Closing (stoppopulationdecline.org)
After decades of climate deception, Shell uses Fortnite to court demographic most concerned about climate change (www.mediamatters.org)
Why Big Tech's bet on AI assistants is so risky (www.technologyreview.com)
GitHub - Canop/broot: A new way to see and navigate directory trees : https://dystroy.org/broot (github.com)
This one is pretty cool for quick navigation. :)
Spotify is launching an eerie new AI-led feature that mimics podcasters' voices and translates them into different languages (www.businessinsider.com)
Indian state Tamil Nadu to conduct funerals of organ donors with state honours (www.thehindu.com)
In a bid to encourage organ donation, the government of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu has offered to conduct the funerals of donors with state honours.
"They don’t care": Inside the triumphs and failures of accessible gaming hardware (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Accessible hardware is on the rise, so why are so many disabled players being left behind? We investigate the state of …
NewsFlash 3.0 Released with Slick New Look (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Hollywood studios, writers near agreement to end strike, hope to finalize deal Thursday, sources say (www.cnbc.com)
While optimistic, the people noted, however, that if a deal is not reached the strike could last through the end of the year.