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California Sues Giant Oil Companies, Citing Decades of Deception (www.nytimes.com)

The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient (www.wired.com)

The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient::Stephen Thaler’s series of high-profile copyright cases has made headlines worldwide. He’s done it to demonstrate his AI is capable of independent thought.

Eerie, ultra-detailed photo of a lightning 'sprite' exposes one of nature's least understood phenomena (www.livescience.com)

Eerie, ultra-detailed photo of a lightning ‘sprite’ exposes one of nature’s least understood phenomena::An astronomer in Slovakia captured the rare luminous phenomenon as it briefly flashed in Earth’s upper atmosphere during a thunderstorm.

Murder, torture, sexual violence among thousands of Russian crimes against children (www.cnn.com)

Nuclear weapons partly responsible for radioactive wild boars (gizmodo.com)

Enjoy the headline. I did.

New footage disproves Spanish FA president's World Cup kiss claims (metro.co.uk)

Biden administration unveils first 10 drugs subject to Medicare price negotiations (www.cnbc.com)

The Biden administration on Tuesday unveiled the first 10 prescription drugs that will be subject to price negotiations between manufacturers and Medicare, kicking off a controversial process that aims to make costly medications more affordable for older Americans....

Bisphenol A: Health experts drastically reduce safe intake limits of widespread plastic (english.elpais.com)

This week in KDE: tap-to-click by default (pointieststick.com)

The Nvidia Shield TV still holds up four years later, but it’s due for a refresh (9to5google.com)

The Antiabortion Judge With a Financial Ethics Problem (jacobin.com)

For years, Allyson Ho has received payments from the Alliance Defending Freedom. When the right-wing advocacy group argued a case in her husband’s court, Judge James Ho cast a decisive vote to cut off remote access to the abortion pill mifepristone.

The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips, explained (www.pcgamer.com)

The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips, explained::Linus Tech Tips founder Linus Sebastian has admitted to “sloppiness” in the hardware review channel’s handling of controversy that erupted over its recent review of a high-end watercool

Australian ex-priest has prison sentence extended to 40 years for molesting 72nd child victim (apnews.com)

An Australian ex-priest convicted of sexually abusing children had another 12 months added to his 39-year prison sentence on Tuesday for molesting a 72nd victim.

Man loads 12 kilos of dynamite into friend's cars, tells police it was a prank (yle.fi)

Texas woman seriously injured after hawk drops snake on her (www.bbc.co.uk)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1224173...

President of Niger: My country is under attack and I’ve been taken hostage (www.washingtonpost.com)

This is an opinion piece by the democratically elected president of Niger.

TIL during the early days of the internet, companies tried to prohibit linking to some of their sites. The linked site linked to all of them during half of 2002 (web.archive.org)

In one of the even more absurd cases: According to an AP report (cited in Slashdot), Intentia International has filed criminal charges against Reuters PLC, alleging that the news service illegally obtained an earnings report that the company had not yet released, by guessing the URL at which it had been posted on Intentia's...

Boston Hts. Police Chief arrested in Key West for beating homeless man ‘for no apparent reason,' police say (www.news5cleveland.com)

Chief claimed he was stabbed multiple times and may have killed attacker, but he had no stabbing injuries, report states