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Zelenskyy in Bucha: Russia made hatred its ideology to initiate such acts of aggression – video (www.pravda.com.ua)
In Britain, 'Antisemitism and Negative Attitudes About Jewish People Have Become Mainstream, Pervasive' (archive.is)
‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 (www.techradar.com)
Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX (www.spacebar.news)
Their Songs Were Stolen by Phantom Artists. They Couldn’t Get Them Back. (www.nytimes.com)
Non-paywall: archive.is/mWKBz
X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation (Elon Musk, Twitter) (www.vice.com)
People say "The Right Can't Meme", where are Carl Sagan and "Great Seal USA" memes of Founding Fathers quotes, man? Eye too old? /s
IBM suspends ads on X after corporate ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content (www.reuters.com)
Gaza’s Largest Hospitals Close, Premature Babies Taken Out of Incubators, Israeli Forces Reportedly Entered Hospitals and Fired at Patients (www.democracynow.org)
“Five kids in the pediatric [Shifa Hospital] ICU left alone in Rantisi Hospital, and we don’t know what’s going on with them. The communications were lost, so they might be dead or alive,” one of the doctors said....
Apple is locking down the iPhone App Store to comply with a new law in China (www.theverge.com)
China forced Apple to remove any app where the developer isn’t registered in China. Meaning they asked Apple to remove 95% of the apps and games available in the App Store....
Around 100 people killed, 150 injured in a fire at a wedding hall in Iraq (www.nbcnews.com)
As mental health worsens among Afghanistan's women, the UN is asked to declare 'gender apartheid' (apnews.com)
China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation: With elections looming, China wants Taiwanese voters to think America is their greatest threat (www.economist.com)
First Google Search Result for Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” Is AI Generated Selfie (www.404media.co)
Elon Musk’s Tweet Criticizing Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Sparks Outrage (www.kyivpost.com)
20,000 people feared dead in Libyan city destroyed by floods.A precise tally of the rising number of people killed is incredibly difficult (www.nbcnews.com)
Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines (quandyfactory.com)
All Wilko shops to shut with 12,500 jobs likely to go (www.bbc.co.uk)
2,000 people are feared dead in flooding in eastern Libya after weekend storm, prime minister says (apnews.com)
Threads' New Terms & Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
The YouTube "My Edited Video" Rabbithole (youtu.be)
Starfield leaker arrested after selling copies on Internet (www.gamescensor.com)
Google's New Web Environment Integrity Proposal Dismissed by Brave, Mozilla, and Vivaldi (news.itsfoss.com)
Failed replication of claimed superconductor reported on arxiv (arxiv.org)
Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds (www.wired.com)
Meta conducted an experiment where thousands of users were shown chronological feeds on Facebook and Instagram for three months. Users of the chronological feeds engaged less with the platforms and were more likely to use competitors like YouTube and TikTok. This suggests that users prefer algorithmically ranked feeds that show...
Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers (old.reddit.com)
As quoted from the linked post....