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Europe's Last Resort. France 'Could Send SOF to Ukraine' to Stop Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/02/europes-last-resort.html

"Heatwaves now last much longer than they did in the 1980s"
#Heatwave #Climate #ClimateChange

Heatwaves now last much longer than they did in the 1980s
A global analysis of heatwaves over a span of 40 years shows that they are getting more frequent, moving slower and lasting longer

Records show Apple's secretive auto unit almost quadrupled its self-driving miles on public roads in 2023, compared to 2022, jumping 2021's total by over 30x (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-ramped-up-autonomous-ve…

Apple Quadrupled Its Autonomous Driving Testing Miles Last Year
Government records show Apple’s secretive auto division almost quadrupled its self-driving miles in 2023.

Strangely, I owned no death metal on vinyl until last night. I ordered the Degraved EP from last year, Whispered Morbidity. It's one of my favorite metal releases ever (and now there's only 1 left, you can grab the last one here - https://degraved.bandcamp.com/album/whi…

lastfm: last.fm listening habits (2007)
Two bipartite networks from the music website last.fm, giving the user-song and user-band interactions. Nodes are users and songs/bands, and an edge (i,j) denotes that a user i listens to the song/band j.
This network has 175069 nodes and 19150868 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
ht…

Let’s explore the events from last month! I’ll talk about: 🖥️ why I moved my website back to my hosting server, 🎬 how I watched more movies than I did in the last three years combined, 📚 the three books I read, 🎶 DJ Rozwell’s Roguelike album, and more!
https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/changelog…

The Changelog – February 2024
Let’s explore the events from last month! I’ll discuss why I moved my website back to my hosting server, how I watched more movies than I did in the last three years combined, the three books I read, DJ Rozwell’s roguelike album, and more.

Wat tijd gevonden om mijn Last.fm rss feed project te updaten. https://lfm.xiffy.nl/ afbeeldingen, en twee nieuwe persoonlijke feeds: toptracks en topartists source: https://…

Falcons signing Eddie Goldman, former defensive lineman who left team twice in last two years, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/falco…

Falcons signing Eddie Goldman, former defensive lineman who left team twice in last two years, per report
The ex-Bears standout is returning from an unusual retirement

Last Call für das Benefizkonzert mit #KäSLOIBLA
Am kommenden Samstag rocken Harald Seeger und die vier anderen Bandmitglieder die Bühne im BurgForum #Köngen.
Karten gibt’s im Vorverkauf für 15 Euro im Köngener Weltladen, telefonisch/per WhatsApp unter 0171 4475400 oder per Mail an…

Last Call für das Benefizkonzert mit „KäSLOIBLA“
Last Call für das Benefizkonzert mit „KäSLOIBLA“

Kamala Harris invokes ‘fight for our freedom’ as Florida six-week abortion ban takes effect
State supreme court last month cleared the way for the ‘awful’ ban, but also allowed November ballot measure for abortion
https://www.theguardian.co…

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Wolf Alice:
🎵 The Last Man on Earth
#WolfAlice
https://open.spotify.com/track/6z6Nd3M3D38XJMnkEC0GZh
https://testwolfalice.bandcamp.com/track/the-last-man-on-earth-lullaby-version

Mike Flynn claims hit by '8 subpoenas last night' as he whines about 'communist takeover' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/michael-flynn-2668132604/

Mike Flynn claims hit by '8 subpoenas last night' as he whines about 'communist takeover'
Disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn revealed that he had been served with eight subpoenas in one night in what he said was an effort to keep Donald Trump out of office.During a Thursday interview with right-wing host Steve Bannon, Flynn insisted that there was "no way in the wor...

Lou Conter, last survivor of USS Arizona from Pearl Harbor attack, dies at 102 (Associated Press)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/01/last-survivor-uss-arizona-pearl-harbor-attack-dies-00150026
http://www.memeorandum.com/240401/p55#a240401p55

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Strokes:
🎵 Last Nite
#NowPlaying #TheStrokes
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kzKAuUzOITUauHAhoMoxA
https://ryanspangolin.bandcamp.com/track/the-strokes-last-nite-pangolin-cover

The Armitage Account - Season 1 finale 🐙📚🔥
Dramatized horror anthology | Total listening time: 3h 35m
Isaac Andrews, plagued with guilt over the events of the last year, begins to search for a connection to his supposed great-grandfather, and the long-deceased head librarian of Miskatonic University, Henry Armitage. Inspired by the works...

The Armitage Account - Season 1 finale 🐙📚🔥
Dramatized horror anthology | Total listening time: 3h 35m Isaac Andrews, plagued with guilt over the events of the last year, begins to search for a connection to his supposed great-grandfather, and the long-deceased head librarian of Miskatonic University, Henry Armitage. Inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Produced with a companion ARG that has yet to be solved by the fandom. 1 seasons, 7 episodes as of Feb 21, 2024.

Disclosures of U.S. Identities in Spy Reports Nearly Tripled Last Year
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/disclosures-of-u-s-identities-in-spy-reports-nearly-tripled-last-year-419b82b3?mod=panda_wsj_author_alert

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Hmm the last decent version of Microsoft Office (97) was released more than a quarter of a century ago, since then it's been constantly enshittified

So this was quite the late afternoon/evening, so glad I repeated this tour... Took a slightly different route than last year, going up some super craggy canyon for a while (pushing/carrying the bike), but well worth it, especially once up and dipping in the 3rd lake (legs only) en route, snow patches still all around, but air temp in the mid-20s... Another reason this is one of my faves: the last 11km are just rolling downhill (~470 hm).
Some impressions attached (the last pic is of th…

“In Dublin city last year, 94 per cent of all new housing was apartments, 98 per cent of which were for rent. First-time buyers there bought just 75 new houses. In Cork city just 3.5 per cent of all new housing was sold with first-time buyers buying 17 new houses.”

Lorcan Sirr: Don’t believe what you’ve heard: increasing supply won’t fix housing crisis
In Dublin City last year, 94% of all new housing was apartments, 98% of which were for rent. First-time buyers there bought just 75 new houses

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OJBorg
The KLF:
🎵 Last Train to Trancentral (Live from the Lost Continent)
#TheKLF
https://open.spotify.com/track/3EJDX96b1RHCREPEZyBdhd
https://trackbreaker.bandcamp.com/track/the-klf-last-train-to-trancentral-extended-edit

“my host understood and could speak the old German of the Frontier, Militärgrenze-Deutsch, an amalgam of Slav and German phrases, the most repeated of which, uttered every two minutes, was Ist gefällig, a linguistic corruption of Izvolite, a Serbian phrase which could be translated as ‘Please, after you’, and the Austrian gefällt’s dir, meaning ‘Are you happy?’ or ‘Do you like it?’”
— Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 by Richard Bassett

Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 (English Edition)
Citation partagée via Kindle : « I soon realized that my host understood and could speak the old German of the Frontier, Militärgrenze-Deutsch, an extraordinary amalgam of Slav and German phrases, the most repeated of which, uttered every two minutes, was I...

Last Call Requirements Engineering: mit 5 Webinaren mehr Erfolg in IT-Projekten
Vom 13. März bis 10. April 2024 erklären Veikko Krypczyk und Elena Bochkor, wie RE zum Gelingen von Softwareentwicklungs-Projekten beiträgt.

Mozilla celebrates their "AI" project.
- By pointing at their Discord
- project also directly pays a fascist
Just if you were wondering how things in tech are going.

https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/112366201277570326

🔥 Protected areas bear the brunt as forest loss continues across Cambodia
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/protected-areas-bear-the-brunt-as-forest-loss-continues-across-cambodia/

Protected areas bear the brunt as forest loss continues across Cambodia
PHNOM PENH — New data published by the University of Maryland on April 4 and available through satellite monitoring platform Global Forest Watch show continued forest loss across Cambodia last year, particularly in areas designated as protected by the Ministry of Environment. Last year saw 121,000 hectares (300,000 acres) of forest cover, an area the […]

Drawing inspiration from Linearity Curve for numeric input for my iPad-ification of Godot.
(The properties are fake, as I discuss on my last blog post, it is vastly faster to work on the UI with a standalone library).
I also love that when the popup comes out, SwiftUI automatically greys out the property pad.

I think about this story more than I probably should https://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit

I see what they did there...👏
#headlines
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/guelph-and-area-saw-an-uptick-in-lyme-disea…

Guelph and area saw an uptick in Lyme Disease last year
Warmer weather brings more risk when it comes to Lyme disease from ticks and West Nile from mosquitoes, public health warns

Former Las Vegas Raiders tight end Darren Waller was set to retire this offseason but changed his mind https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_las_vegas_raiders_tight_…

Former Las Vegas Raiders tight end Darren Waller was set to retire this offseason but changed his mind
The Las Vegas Raiders traded away Pro Bowl tight end Darren Waller last offseason. Waller played with the New York Giants last season. He was traded away last offseason when he and then head coach Josh McDaniels couldn't see eye-to-eye. Waller's production also fell off big time, and it was time for a new contract soon, and the production didn't match what Waller was wanting. Just to save both sides, the Raiders traded him. A lot of fans didn't necessarily like the trade because most of them lo…

I was in the Arizona National Guard between 2004 and 2010, and my unit would often do ceremonies at the Arizona state capital on December 7th. I met a lot of the survivors over the years. It was sad to see fewer of them each passing year.
https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/1

Let’s do some arithmetic. A company takes in $4 million in total revenue. To accomplish this, it spends $62 million.
Net loss: $58 million.
How much would you pay to buy this company? https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112196716174826637

Went out for a walk last evening around dusk in my parents' neighbourhood in Pennsylvania... lots of big houses, lots of US flags, lots of big pickups/SUVs. Only saw one TV on in a house as I walked past... but it was playing Tucker Carlson. This is bible thumpin' Trump country. How can people here really be so disaffected, credulous, & ignorant? (I'm no Christian, but how can you claim to be a Christian and not revile Trump?!)

BREAKING (the climate):
Based on daily values, the April average of atmospheric CO₂ at Mauna Loa was 426.5-426.6 ppm. That's a big jump of ~3.2 ppm from last year's 423.35 ppm!
It's also the highest CO₂ concentration the world has experienced in 14 million years.
#emissions #co2

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Oh really? 👀 International pressure grows over [murderous] Israeli strike on World Central Kitchen staff
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68716499

International pressure grows over Israeli strike on World Central Kitchen staff
Israel promises an independent inquiry after Western states lose citizens in Monday's attack in Gaza.

@… Bob I’m not sure I can communicate how important this project was and is to the Eleventy project. The gathering of resources is such a show of support and it definitely picked up my spirits a few times when I was really feeling down this last year. Really appreciate you ❤️

I had forgotten the AIX "SMIT" tool. The last time I did anything with AIX was ::checks clock:: on 2005.

How it started! How it's going!
Definitely the last ski day for all 6 of us together for the year, as this weird 2024 season begins to wind down.
Today was drizzle, a bit of rain, choppy conditions and the hills are melting.
But family skiing is still the most wonderful thing of all wonderful things!

in a beautiful place out in the country: yo la tengo's tour closer last night at the haw river ballroom near chapel hill. 2 glowing sets, "night falls on hoboken" to close the quiet-ish half, perhaps the furthest-out "from a motel 6" i've yet caught (into "flying lesson"!), & a lou reed birthday encore (naturally featuring the never-fully-released outtake "guess i'm falling in love").

This Last Of Us Part 2 making of video is a little psychotic.

The very extreme price swings in unusual grid events can unfortunately drive a major impact to ratepayers; these events can be mitigated with collective efforts to reduce usage during periods of unusual supply/demand mismatch (e.g. EV chargers that automatically turn off), an approach I think is typically referred to as "Demand Response". As we further electrify, demand response systems seem like they'll be even more crucial. (h/t @…

best of dying #bikedc twitter https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/693065/an-imposter-is-trolling-the-…

It's International Workers' Day!
Last year, I did some quick and dirty math: a family/unattached individual earning Canada's median after-tax income would've had to work roughly 290,000 years to make the amount the wealthiest Canadian was worth.
Now, using the latest Bloomberg and StatsCan numbers, that same family/individual would have to work approx. 710,000 years. Put differently, it would take all of Canada's 7th largest city (Mississauga) a year to earn a…

Last week I had the pleasure to present a keynote at the NFDI4Memory Ontology Workshop at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich. "Knowledge Graph-based Research Data Management Solutions - NFDI4Culture, NFDI-MatWerk, NFDI4DataScience, und mehr...".
Please find the presentation slides here: https://zenodo.org/records/1060…

me last night: this week has been exhausting I can't wait to go home Friday night and sleep for 24 hours
Me this morning: I can't believe I have to go out to dinner but the one person I won't cancel on is my daughter
Me at 10 PM tonight: double espresso before dinner single espresso after dinner look forward to being awake for the next five hours

New blog post (not April fools!):
“Hidden models and latent compression in community detection”
This an overdue post on a joint work with Alec Kirkley published last year.
https://skewed.de/tiago/posts/hidden-models/

Watched American Fiction last night.
Did you see the trailer? Funny concept, right?
Well, the movie is NOT about that.
It’s actually a *much* better movie - funny, sad, poignant, emotional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0MbLCpYJPA

"Deforestation in Indonesia spiked last year, but resources analyst sees better overall trend"
#Indonesia #Trees #Environment

Deforestation in Indonesia spiked last year, but resources analyst sees better overall trend
A data analysis shows Indonesia had a 27% increase in primary forest loss in 2023. The losses were in protected national parks and in massive swaths of jungle cut down for palm oil and paper plantations and for mining. Despite that increase, the World Resources Institute said the analysis was generally good when compared to peak deforestation rates of several years ago. But others saw some cause for concern and tied some of the more recent deforestation to nickel mining. Indonesia has vast depo…

Two " climate activists " accused of throwing a red powder on the U.S. Constitution display case at the National Archives last month are now facing felony charges.
Donald Zepeda, 35, of Maryland, and Jackson Green, 27, of Utah, were charged with felony destruction of government property
#Green was previously charged in a separate vandalism act at the National Gallery of Art on Nov. 14…

Activists now facing felony charges in red powder attack on US Constitution
Two activists accused of throwing a red powder on the U.S. Constitution display case at the National Archives last month are now facing felony charges, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced Friday. Donald Zepeda, 35, of Maryland, and Jackson Green, 27 of Utah, were charged with felony destruction of government property for dumping the fine red…

Israel says it will expand operations in Rafah, #Gaza’s last refuge - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/02/israe…

Israel says it will expand operations in Rafah, Gaza’s last refuge
Humanitarian organizations say further conflict in the area runs the risk of causing significant harm to the more than 1.4 million Palestinians sheltering there.

Unredacted parts of Consensys' lawsuit vs. the SEC say the SEC internally issued an order to probe Ethereum 2.0 last April that explicitly called ETH a security (Sander Lutz/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/228504/sec-declared-ethereum-security-…

SEC Has Secretly Considered Ethereum a Security Since 2023, Says Consensys in Unredacted Lawsuit
Unredacted portions of a lawsuit filed by Consensys reveal that the agency classified ETH as a security last April.

The Armitage Account - Season 1 finale 🐙📚🔥
Dramatized horror anthology | Total listening time: 3h 35m
Isaac Andrews, plagued with guilt over the events of the last year, begins to search for a connection to his supposed great-grandfather, and the long-deceased head librarian of Miskatonic University, Henry Armitage. Inspired by the works...

The Armitage Account - Season 1 finale 🐙📚🔥
Dramatized horror anthology | Total listening time: 3h 35m Isaac Andrews, plagued with guilt over the events of the last year, begins to search for a connection to his supposed great-grandfather, and the long-deceased head librarian of Miskatonic University, Henry Armitage. Inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Produced with a companion ARG that has yet to be solved by the fandom. 1 seasons, 7 episodes as of Feb 21, 2024.

Disclosures of U.S. Identities in Spy Reports Nearly Tripled Last Year
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/disclosures-of-u-s-identities-in-spy-reports-nearly-tripled-last-year-419b82b3?mod=panda_wsj_author_alert

Hmm the last decent version of Microsoft Office (97) was released more than a quarter of a century ago, since then it's been constantly enshittified

HRW: Russia executes surrendering Ukrainian soldiers in possible war crimes: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/hrw-russia-executes.html

Jets' Mike Williams reveals goals, when he'll be able to play after suffering ACL tear last season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jets-mi

Jets' Mike Williams reveals goals, when he'll be able to play after suffering ACL tear last season
Williams signed with New York earlier this offseason after being released by the Chargers

Ranking the biggest NFL Draft busts of the last 30 years https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/nfl-draft/ranking-the-biggest-nfl-draft-busts-of-the-last-30-years-3042873/

Ranking the biggest NFL Draft busts of the last 30 years
A player being labeled as an NFL Draft bust can be subjective, but BestOdds.com has employed a simple methodology designed to create the most credible possible rankings.

US #labor #productivity has enjoyed a period of renewed growth over the past year,
interrupting a nearly twenty-year decline:
⭐️the 2.7 percent productivity growth in 2023 outpaces the 1.5 percent annual average since 2004,
🔥and it nearly matches the 2.9 percent pace seen during the country’s last pr…

In Brief: The Recent Rise in US Labor Productivity • The Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group
BRIEFLY US labor productivity has enjoyed a period of renewed growth over the past year, interrupting a nearly twenty-year decline: the 2.7 percent productivity growth in 2023 outpaces the 1.5 percent annual average since 2004, and it nearly matches the 2.9 percent pace seen during the country’s last productivity surge in the 1990s. While the ...

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How it started! How it's going!
Definitely the last ski day for all 6 of us together for the year, as this weird 2024 season begins to wind down.
Today was drizzle, a bit of rain, choppy conditions and the hills are melting.
But family skiing is still the most wonderful thing of all wonderful things!

in a beautiful place out in the country: yo la tengo's tour closer last night at the haw river ballroom near chapel hill. 2 glowing sets, "night falls on hoboken" to close the quiet-ish half, perhaps the furthest-out "from a motel 6" i've yet caught (into "flying lesson"!), & a lou reed birthday encore (naturally featuring the never-fully-released outtake "guess i'm falling in love").

Based on the last 2 games Racing looks in better form then Gotham. We'll see if gotham can get out of this 1 goal hole.
#GothamFC #thewomenscup

At least we’re not last! ☹️
https://mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com/@TucsonSentinel/112367604814378720

Tucson Sentinel (@TucsonSentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)
Arizona ranks 49th in nation for access to adult mental health care https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/050124_mental_health_care/arizona-ranks-49th-nation-access-adult-mental-health-care/ Arizona ranked 49th in the nation for adult mental health care, based on the prevalence of mental illness and the access to mental health care - and for many, the low ranking was no surprise. #Tucson #Arizona

WhatsApp told Delhi High Court last week that it will be forced to leave India if required to maintain "traceability" for messages as part of 2021's IT rules (Russell Brandom/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2024/exporter-whatsapp-encryption-in…

WhatsApp gives India an ultimatum on encryption
Tracing the origins of messages is more complicated than it sounds.

Russia – Ukraine war updates as of April 1, 2024: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/01/russia-ukraine-war.html

Las Vegas Raiders defensive tackle John Jenkins gives the best example of the culture shift last season https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_defensive_t…

Las Vegas Raiders defensive tackle John Jenkins gives the best example of the culture shift last season
This time last season, everyone was arguing whether or not the Las Vegas Raiders should fire head coach Josh McDaniels after just one full season. Little did we know that nine weeks into the 2023 season, he would be replaced by the linebackers coach, Antonio Pierce, who is set to bring Raider football back. Was that the right hire for the future when they hired him this offseason and removed the interim tag? Well, that is still to be determined. Was it the right decision to make him the interim…

The main driver of wealth gains last year was from the stock market hitting record highs.
While wages are increasing for average Americans, the top 1% is gaining wealth at a much faster pace.
The wealth of U.S. #billionaires is currently at $5.5 trillion, 🔸which is up 88% since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.🔸
The nation's rich accruing so much wealth in recent years has renew…

Wealth of the top 1% in U.S. hits all-time high of $45 trillion
Data released by the Federal Reserve on Thursday shows the top 1% of Americans are the richest they've ever been.The new data reveals that at the end of the fourth quarter last year they had a record $44.6 trillion in wealth. That's up from $30 trillion in 2020.The main driver of wealth gains last y...

Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/nick-offerman-slams-last-of-us-homophob…

Nick Offerman Slams 'Last Of Us' Homophobic Backlash to Gay Love Story
Nick Offerman was a winner at the Spirit Awards and used his acceptance speech to take aim at the homophobic backlash to "The Last of Us."

on the last leap day, 2020: "will it happen before you leap?", the final #psychedelic sangha meltdown at magick city in greenpoint, feat. garcia peoples & sarah louise & light shows & chaos, plus me mixing in ambient layers. the last blowout before you-know-what. poster by daryl norsen. sonic evidence/residue:

Beautiful passive-aggressive classic Macintosh error message #marchintosh

Source: late last year, Google suggested Meta partner on Android XR, a new software platform for VR and AR, but Meta executives decided against a partnership (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/me

Meta Rebuffed Google Proposal For a VR and AR Tie-Up
Late last year, in a meeting between Google and Meta Platform staffers, Google suggested that Meta partner on Android XR, the new software platform Google is developing for virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed-reality headsets, according to a person involved in the talks. The two ...

What Ukraine needs for this to be the last year of the war The international community’s unwavering support is crucial for Ukraine, including continued economic sanctions on Russia until it fully resp Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/ukraine-in-flames-579

Trump Media & Technology Group closed down 21% on April 1, wiping out the gains from last week, after it disclosed a $58M loss on $4.1M in revenue in 2023 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/trumps-media-co…

50 years ago tonight, #JerryGarcia’s last stage appearance with the new riders of the purple sage, playing regular ol’ 6-string, just after producing their live album “home, home on the road.” the new riders’ 2nd gig with new bassist skip battin. torrent:

Timeline serendipity?

Monitoring of Military Activity Worldwide and Forecasts for 2024. Ukraine in Flames #568: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/03/monitoring-of-military.html

After criticism, Apple says iOS 17.4 won't remove Home Screen web apps in the EU, which will continue to be built on WebKit and its security architecture (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/01/apple-home-screen-web-apps-ios-17-eu/

iOS 17.4 won't remove Home Screen web apps in the EU after all - 9to5Mac
Last month, Apple confirmed that iOS 17.4 would remove support for Home Screen web apps in the European Union. At...

Trump spoke to a Black conservative group last Friday
-- and they gave him an award they had just invented.
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson called Trump’s “con-man hustle” for the African American vote “cringeworthy, cynical, infuriating, insulting, racist, and super-racist.”
Donald Trump compared his arrests for 91 criminal indictments to historic discrimination against Black Americans.
Trump said, “A lot of people said that’s why the Black people liked me…

Russian drone hits a high-rise building in Odesa, destroying the entrance, killing and wounding civilians, - Regional military administration reports. Last night, a hostile attack drone hit a high-ris Source : https://…

TMTG co-founder Andy Litinsky, testifying as a witness in an insider trading case, says Trump nearly derailed the DWAC deal in October 2021, before signing on (Matthew Goldstein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.c…

Truth Social Co-Founder Says Trump Nearly Derailed Deal That Led to Market Windfall
Andy Litinsky, who helped start the former president’s social media company, revealed Mr. Trump’s last-minute doubts about an agreement that made them all very wealthy.

NATO accuses Russia of conducting hybrid attacks inside alliance territory: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/nato-accuses-russia.html

Spotify launches the Audiobooks Access Tier, which gives free users in the US access to 15 hours of audiobooks per month for $9.99 per month (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/01/spotify-launches-a…

Spotify launches a $9.99/mo standalone audiobooks service for its free users | TechCrunch
After adding 15 hours of free audiobooks listening to its subscription plan late last year, Spotify today is introducing a $9.99 per month option that

NATO accuses Russia of conducting hybrid attacks inside alliance territory: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/nato-accuses-russia.html

Starlink users in some unauthorized regions can seemingly still use the internet, despite SpaceX telling users the service would be unavailable to them by May 1 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Elon Musk’s Starlink Persists in Unauthorized Areas Despite Shutdown Warnings
Elon Musk’s Starlink service is still operating in multiple unauthorized regions, defying warnings issued by the company last month that its satellite internet will be shut down by May 1 in areas where it doesn’t have a license to operate.

Binance names its first board of directors, which has seven members including CEO Richard Teng and three other Binance execs (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-01/crypto-exchange-bina…

Binance Names Board of Directors in First for Crypto Exchange
Binance Holdings Ltd. named a board of directors for the first time, as the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange seeks to reshape itself after pleading guilty last year to US charges of anti-money laundering and sanctions violations.

Japan's PM Fumio Kishida unveils an international voluntary framework for regulation and use of generative AI and says 49 countries and regions have signed up (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/oecd-ai-japan-…

Japan's Kishida unveils a framework for global regulation of generative AI
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has unveiled an international framework for regulation and use of generative AI. It adds to global efforts on governance for the rapidly advancing technology. Kishida made the announcement in a speech at the Paris-based OECD on Thursday. He said generative AI has the potential to be a vital tool to further enrich the world, but its dark side must also be confronted. When Japan chaired the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations last year, it launched …