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Queen's Brian May helped NASA return its first asteroid sample | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

Gold bars, cash-stuffed envelopes: New indictment of Sen. Menendez alleges vast corruption (apnews.com)

Not sure why my post on lemmy.world was deleted by mods. So I reposted it here…

Countries Eye Weight Tax To Counter Public Safety Threat Of Extremely Heavy, Large EVs (www.techdirt.com)

The United States is already a global leader in traffic-related fatalities, with a thirty-percent jump in the last decade. That’s in contrast to every other developed country, which saw a decline....

The European Commission Re-Imposes €376.36 Million Fine on Intel for Anticompetitive Practices in the Market for Computer Chips (www.techpowerup.com)

The European Commission has re-imposed a fine of around €376.36 million on Intel for a previously established abuse of dominant position in the market for computer chips called x86 central processing units ('CPUs'). Intel engaged in a series of anticompetitive practices aimed at excluding competitors from the relevant market...

New Privacy Badger Prevents Google From Mangling More of Your Links and Invading Your Privacy (www.eff.org)

Straight from the heart (lemmy.zip)

Context for those who haven’t seen this clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu2NK5REvWM

Tens of thousands march to kick off climate summit, demanding end to warming-causing fossil fuels (apnews.com)

Arkansas officials say person dies after brain-eating amoeba infection, likely exposed at splash pad (apnews.com)

Starfield’s Planets Are Covered In Thousands Of Dead Creatures (www.kotaku.com.au)

“Just upgrade your PC”

X Faces Potential FTC Scrutiny Over Missing Ad Labels, While Creators Complain of Ad Revenue Share Errors (www.socialmediatoday.com)

Dalit woman raped, filmed, forced to eat beef by two Muslim men in Uttar Pradesh, after being lured by friend (www.indiatoday.in)

Legend has spent years making Portal for the N64 and by Gaben he's done it (www.pcgamer.com)

cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/427580...

Part of China's economic miracle was a mirage. Reality check is next (www.reuters.com)

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first major reform plans a decade ago were also his boldest, envisaging a transition to a Western-style free market economy driven by services and consumption by 2020....

Neighbors say they tried to help Ruby Franke’s kids before YouTuber’s arrest on child abuse charges (www.nbcnews.com)

Neighbors of Ruby Franke, the woman behind the 8 Passengers family YouTube channel who was arrested this week on child abuse charges, said several people in the close-knit community were concerned when police officers arrived at Franke’s home in Springville, Utah on Wednesday....

U.S. Knew Saudis Were Killing African Migrants but Kept Silent - The New York Times | Ghostarchive (ghostarchive.org)

The United States was told last year that Saudi security forces were shooting, shelling and abusing groups of migrants, but it chose not to raise the issue publicly....

Starfield Launch Details, PC Specs and More (bethesda.net)

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A tanker believed to hold sanctioned Iran oil starts offloading near Texas despite Tehran's threats (apnews.com)

UO People is an accredited and tuition free college that offers full degrees and certificates (www.uopeople.edu)

If you’re considering doing online college, check to see if they offer your program!...

Official Statement from Lemmy.world admin about community removal (lemmy.world)

PineTab-V tablet with a RISC-V chip gets community-supported software builds (including KDE Plasma desktop) (liliputing.com)

TIL about ‪a flower which is called “naked man orchid”. (feddit.de)

Frackers can use dangerous chemicals without disclosure due to “Halliburton loophole” (arstechnica.com)

Frackers can use dangerous chemicals without disclosure due to “Halliburton loophole”::Facking industry exempt from disclosure of 28 chemicals regulated by federal law.

Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US air force communications – report (www.theguardian.com)

Forbes reports claim that engineer at Arnold air force base in Tennessee had taken home government radio technologies

Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (www.nature.com)

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a major tipping element in the climate system and a future collapse would have severe impacts on the climate in the North Atlantic region. In recent years weakening in circulation has been reported, but assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),...