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NASA ends lunar ice cubesat mission over stuck valve (www.theregister.com)

NASA has terminated the LunaH-Map mission after a stuck valve on the ice-hunting cubesat prevented it from reaching the Moon’s south pole....

Arrest warrants issued after boaters attack dock employee at Montgomery riverbank (abcnews.go.com)

Police in Montgomery issued four arrest warrants for individuals involved in a massive brawl between white boaters and a Black dock employee at Riverfront Park.

Chinese soldiers pledge to sacrifice their lives in documentary on Taiwan invasion (www.theguardian.com)

Why Thread is Matter’s biggest problem right now (www.theverge.com)

The fight for who will own your Thread mesh network is creating an even more fractured smart home.

Elephant corridors: The busy trunk routes where locals take care to cross (www.bbc.com)

With their large, padded feet, elephants can be remarkably quiet. It’s our third evening of waiting to see these giants cross a dust road. Our guide, Mojita, assures us they’re very close. “They’re collecting just there, in the bush,” he whispers....

Writers Guild Tells Members That Studios May Not Be Serious About Restarting Talks to Make a Deal (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

After the union sent a cautionary message about the studios' "playbook," the group representing those companies in negotiations said, "Our only playbook is getting people back to work."

My newish self hosting website: Self-Host It (selfhostit.dev)

Any suggestions and feedback is welcome. Let me know if there’s anything you’d like to see added to the site....

This new malware is going after Facebook Business accounts (www.techradar.com)

Google pulls the AI Test Kitchen app from the Play Store (www.androidpolice.com)

Another one bites the dust less than a year after introduction

Is it just me, or are conspiracy theories trending right now? (kbin.social)

I'm using instagram to browse the discover feed mindlessly sometimes. I know, it's stupid, but I'm bored....

Installing Firefox... With Custom Profiles! (yewtu.be)

Link if you rather use YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGC5CwEgr_g

Just spotted this from the script for Voyagers finale. (lemmy.zip)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/836172...

NBC Responds to Report Tina Fey Will Take Over 'SNL' From Lorne Michaels (popculture.com)

Google delays its upgraded Find My Device network until Apple can add safety alerts (www.theverge.com)

Also, Android users will soon begin seeing notifications for unknown item trackers that are traveling with them — no separate app downloads or installs required.

First Beta for Krita 5.2.0 Released | Krita (krita.org)

Video shows 5 Arlington County officers tackling mentally ill man in Virginia. Experts question why. (web.archive.org)

Autoenshittification - How the computer killed capitalism. (doctorow.medium.com)

Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket....

Girls playing netball killed as school gym collapses in China (www.aljazeera.com)

Authorities say illegal stacking of materials on school roof may have caused collapse that killed at least 11 people.

Georgia prosecutors seek protective order after leak of videos in Trump case (www.theguardian.com)

The request came after several media outlets published details of videotaped statements that former Trump lawyers Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro gave as part of plea deals to avoid being tried as racketeering co-defendants with the former president....