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11 nations of West Africa commit to a military deployment to restore the ousted president of Niger (apnews.com)

Eleven West African nations have agreed to commit troops to a military deployment aimed at restoring Niger’s democratically elected president following last month’s coup, an official for the regional bloc said Friday after a defense ministers meeting.

Hi-Rez Studios, the people behind Paladins and Smite, have stated that they will be using AI to clone voices and refused to add in any words to contracts that would protect actors from it (twitter.com)

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Death toll from devastating Maui fire reaches 101, Hawaii governor says (apnews.com)

King of Jordan approves a bill to criminalize online speech. Human rights groups call it draconian (apnews.com)

King of Jordan approves a bill to criminalize online speech. Human rights groups call it draconian

Southwest Airlines appeals order requiring its lawyers to take 'religious liberty training' (www.nbcnews.com)

Southwest Airlines on Tuesday said it will appeal a Texas federal judge’s unusual order requiring three of its senior lawyers to attend “religious liberty training” by a prominent conservative Christian legal group.

Phony bank accounts resurface at Wells Fargo, with a twist (www.nbcnews.com)

As a longtime forensic accountant who helps consumer lawyers investigate big financial institutions, Jay Patterson has made a point to do business with a smallish local bank in his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. So he was startled in June 2022 when he received a bank statement from Wells Fargo showing $12 in an “Everyday...

A new exoskeleton to support workers in railways maintenance and renewal operations (techxplore.com)

A new exoskeleton to support workers in railways maintenance and renewal operations::A back support exoskeleton has been developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology—IIT) to improve railway workers’ safety and conditions for heavy manual material handling during maintenance …

Reddit has now lowered the subreddit request requirements to 28 days and 100 karma (www.reddit.com)

At SpaceX, worker injuries soar in Elon Musk’s rush to Mars (www.reuters.com)

Sweden’s schools minister declares charter school ‘system failure’ (www.theguardian.com)

It has been a disaster from the start, but it got worse and worse with time. I remember reading that the schools would give the children iPads and other things just so they would sign up for that school. Basically they would bribe the children to get the parents to send them so that they could make more money. And that’s only...

Deadly strike on journalists in Lebanon was 'targeted': watchdog (www.france24.com)

California's prized redwood forests are going extinct: 'We're losing them at a rate that is something that we can’t sustain' (fortune.com)

California has lost over 1,760 square miles—nearly 7%—of its tree cover since 1985, according to a recent study....

Spanish police say they have confiscated ancient gold jewelry worth millions taken from Ukraine (apnews.com)

Iron Man-inspired material made from DNA and glass is 5x stronger than steel — and 4x lighter (www.zmescience.com)

Iron Man-inspired material made from DNA and glass is 5x stronger than steel — and 4x lighter::Regular glass is brittle and fragile. But pure glass coated on DNA is a different beast entirely.

Children in Gaza ‘developing severe trauma’ after 16 days of bombing (www.theguardian.com)

Adobe's latest wearable tech promises dynamic clothing that can change at the push of a button (www.techspot.com)

Adobe’s latest wearable tech promises dynamic clothing that can change at the push of a button::undefined

4.3 Billion People Now Own Smartphones (www.gizchina.com)

4.3 Billion People Now Own Smartphones::Find out how smartphone ownership has reached 4.3 billion people worldwide. Dive into the GSMA’s Mobile Internet Connectivity 2023 Report.

Americans failed to pay record $688 billion in taxes in 2021, IRS says. Look for more audits. (www.cbsnews.com)

Americans failed to pay $688 billion in taxes on their 2021 returns, a record level, according to a new estimate from the IRS. The agency said that it is taking “urgent” steps to increase compliance such as auditing more high-income taxpayers as well as businesses and partnerships....