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Pro-Palestine NYU Law Student Speaks Out After Losing Job Offer (theintercept.com)

Thousands join Paris's first authorised pro-Palestinian demo since Hamas attacks (www.reuters.com)

USB-C head-to-head teardown - Lumafield (www.lumafield.com)

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2469210 (!android)

How a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bug (arstechnica.com)

India Is Using Terrorism Laws to Target Journalists (www.wired.com)

Stranger danger (lemmy.zip)

A riled Trump sounds off outside the New York fraud trial that accuses him of lying about wealth (apnews.com)

Russian Kh-59 missile factory struck by multiple drones: Ukraine (www.newsweek.com)

Pay for millions of federal workers is at risk with a looming government shutdown (www.nbcnews.com)

A shutdown that would halt pay for military families and government workers comes at a particularly precarious time for many households that are already struggling financially....

Biden to walk the picket line in Michigan to support UAW strikers (www.cnn.com)

President Joe Biden will travel to Michigan on Tuesday and walk the picket line with members of the United Auto Workers union, he announced Friday, a trip that comes after the president faced political pressure to ramp up his public support for the union members....

Hollywood studios, writers near agreement to end strike, hope to finalize deal Thursday, sources say (www.cnbc.com)

China's new national map has set off a wave of protests. Why? (www.independent.co.uk)

China has upset many countries in the Asia-Pacific region with its release of a new official map that lays claim to most of the South China Sea, as well as to contested parts of India and Russia, and official objections continue to mount. What is the map, and why is it upsetting people so much?...

Population collapse almost wiped out human ancestors, say scientists (www.theguardian.com)

TIL - "Mage" derives from Magush, the old persian name for Zoroastrian priests, which means "Fire worshipper" (en.wikipedia.org)

Wasn’t actually today, but it’s an interesting etymology. Old Arabian speaks “majus” because they lack a hard G sound, similar to Japanese lacking L sound...

South Korea fines mobile carriers US$25 million for exaggerating 5G network speed (www.channelnewsasia.com)

Report: Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over (arstechnica.com)

Judge who approved raid on Kansas newspaper has history of DUI arrests (www.kansas.com)

The Kansas magistrate judge who authorized a police raid of the Marion County Record newsroom over its probe into a local restaurateur’s drunken-driving record has her own hidden history of driving under the influence

A real estate billionaire said Fridays are ‘dead forever’ for offices, and remote work guru Nick Bloom says he’s right—it’s part of a new 3-part week (fortune.com)

Italian man crushed to death under falling cheese wheels (www.bbc.co.uk)

Neighbors say a Chicago man charged with killing an 8-year-old girl was upset over noise (apnews.com)

A Chicago man has been charged with first-degree murder after witnesses say an 8-year-old girl riding a scooter was fatally shot by someone upset over noise.

Minneapolis ex-officer sentenced to nearly 5 years in Floyd killing (www.reuters.com)

Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao was sentenced on Monday to 4-3/4 years in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter in the 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Black man whose neck was pinned to the ground by another officer’s knee during a botched arrest....