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Professor Highlight: Professor Alamillo, A Leading Advocate for Student Engagement at CI

date: 2024-02-02, from: CI View (CSCI Student Paper)

By Melissa Mendez-Conchas Photo of Jose Alamillo by Ella Torres Interested in campus involvement but unsure how to start? Chair and Professor Jose Alamillo of […]

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Bravo’s Landscaping and Straight Up Builders victorious in softball action

date: 2024-02-02, from: Catalina Islander

Coyote Joe’s and Bravo’s Landscaping faced off in the first game of the evening. After turning the double play to end the first, Bravo’s Landscaping went on a roll in the bottom of the inning. Taking advantage of four errors, five base hits, doubles from Tyler Engel, Gilbert Hernandez and Melissa Schaefer, and a two […]

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Jan Amend, divisional dean for the life sciences at Dornsife, dies

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Amend first joined the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences in 2011.

The post Jan Amend, divisional dean for the life sciences at Dornsife, dies appeared first on Daily Trojan.

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Senators Reach Deal on Border Policy Bill That Faces Uphill Road to Passage

date: 2024-02-02, from: VOA News USA

WASHINGTON — Senate negotiators on Friday reached a deal on a proposal to overhaul the asylum system at the U.S. border with Mexico, clearing the way for Democratic and Republican Senate leaders to begin the difficult task of convincing Congress to pass a national security package that will include tens of billions of dollars for Ukraine and immigration enforcement, as well as funding for Israel and other American allies.

Sen. Chris Murphy, the lead Democratic negotiator, posted on social media Friday that a deal had been reached and that text of the bill would be released over the weekend. Senators are still working on finishing the rest of the package, which was initiated by a request from President Joe Biden for $110 billion for wartime aid for allies, domestic defense manufacturing, humanitarian assistance for conflicts around the world, and managing the influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Senators are preparing for a key test vote on the package next week, but it already faces a steep climb through Congress. Republicans in both chambers have balked at compromises on border security policy. Senate Republicans had initially demanded that the package include border policy changes, but Donald Trump, the GOP’s likely presidential nominee, has become a vocal opponent of the legislation.

“Republicans said the border is a priority and we should craft a bipartisan bill to help control the border. We did that. We have a deal,” Murphy said on the social media platform X. He added: “It’s decision time.”

The core group of negotiators has been laboring for months to craft a package that can win support from a bipartisan coalition of moderates in Congress. As they prepared to allow the details of the bill to be scrutinized, it remained to be seen whether they could cobble together the requisite votes from both sides of the aisle.

“The criticisms are based on rumors and misconceptions,” Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an Arizona independent who was central to crafting the bill, said on Thursday.

Senate Democrats, increasingly wary of the political vulnerabilities facing Biden and their party on immigration, have become more comfortable with the contours of the package, though progressive and Hispanic members of the House are still expected to oppose the border policy changes in droves if it passes the Senate.

The wartime aid for Israel could also divide Democrats. Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent of Vermont, said Friday he would push to strip funding for offensive weaponry for Israel from the package while maintaining funds for defensive systems.

On the right, many conservatives oppose both continued funding for Ukraine, as well as compromises on border enforcement. House Speaker Mike Johnson has repeatedly declared he won’t compromise on hardline border enforcement measures, but he has said he will not pass final judgment until he is able to read the bill.

As GOP lawmakers view the political repercussions of enacting immigration laws in the midst of an election year, many Trump allies have argued that Congress does not even need to act because presidents already have enough authority on the border. And in a sign they will try to stop the bill from advancing to a final vote, some have lobbied leaders to give them weeks to make further changes through committee hearings.

“I think we’ve pretty much been held hostage by the Republican leadership. The Republican leadership pushed this on us,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a Republican of Alabama, said Thursday on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast. “And now if we don’t pass something, we’re going to look bad in the eyes of the American people. But I’m just telling people right now we do not need a border policy. We already have one intact.”

The legislation largely focuses on a challenge that both Republican and Democratic administrations have grappled with: How to tamp down the growing number of people who come to the border seeking asylum, which offers protection from persecution for race, religion, political affiliation or membership in a discriminated group.

Asylum is a key part of international law and the U.S.’s ability to advance human rights, but the system has become overwhelmed in recent years, creating years-long waits for asylum cases to be heard, even though many migrants fail to prove their asylum case in the end.

The bill seeks to address that, according to Sinema, by making it tougher for people to enter the asylum system, dramatically speeding up the process, and denying them the ability to apply for asylum if illegal border crossings grow to become unmanageable for authorities.

Most migrants who seek asylum would receive an initial interview, known as a credible fear screening, within days of arriving at the border. They would then either be expelled from the country or given a work permit during a months-long wait to have their case heard by an immigration judge.

Immigration advocates are concerned the proposal would deprive asylum-seekers of the ability to make full cases, especially when they have just made arduous and often traumatic journeys to get to the U.S.

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Untangling Meta’s plan for its homegrown AI chips, set to actually roll out this year

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

So that’s where all the laid-off semiconductor engineers went!

After years of development, Meta may finally roll out its homegrown AI accelerators in a meaningful way this year.…

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-02-02, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

I wrote a script in Frontier to sort the folders by how many files they contain. I shudder to think how long it would take to write in JavaScript with all its synchronous difficulties.

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-02-02, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

If I were running Bluesky – I’d think about incentives for people with the kind of following they want to cultivate to do most or all of their social media’ing there. Some people are already doing it or so it seems, Neil Gaiman, Andrew Hickey, and I’m sure there are lots of others.

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US Begins Retaliation for Deadly Drone Attack on Its Soldiers

date: 2024-02-02, from: VOA News USA

Washington — The United States has begun carrying out airstrikes in the Middle East in retaliation for last Sunday’s fatal drone attack on an American base in Jordan.  

The U.S. Central Command said its forces on Friday “conducted airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps [IRGC] Quds Force and affiliated militia groups. U.S. military forces struck more than 85 targets, with numerous aircraft to include long-range bombers flown from [the] United States.”

“We hit exactly what we meant to hit,” said U.S. Army Lieutenant General Douglas Sims, who serves as the operations director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He explained the air assault took place over about 30 minutes and said that three of the sites struck were in Iraq and four were in Syria.

Iraq, but not Iran, was informed prior to the strikes, according to U.S. officials.

U.S. President Joe Biden said the attacks were carried out at his direction.

“Our response began today. It will continue at times and places of our choosing. The United States does not seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world.  But let all those who might seek to do us harm know this: If you harm an American, we will respond,” said Biden in a Friday evening statement.

Hours before the U.S. military response, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi reiterated earlier promises to potentially retaliate for any U.S. strikes targeting its interests.

Iran, he said, “will not start a war, but if a country, if a cruel force wants to bully us, the Islamic Republic of Iran will give a strong response.” 

B-1 bombers were flown from the United States and were part of the operation that used more than 125 precision munitions, according to U.S. military officials.

“This is the start of our response,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement. “The president has directed additional actions to hold the IRGC and affiliated militias accountable for their attacks on U.S. and Coalition Forces. These will unfold at times and places of our choosing.

“There will be additional response actions taken in [the] coming days.”

On a call with journalists, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said, “There will be additional response actions taken in [the] coming days.”

The U.S military said it struck “command and control operations, centers, intelligence centers, rockets, and missiles, and unmanned aired vehicle storages, and logistics and munition supply chain facilities of militia groups and their IRGC sponsors who facilitated attacks against U.S. and coalition forces.” 

Syrian state media in Damascus reported that “U.S. aggression” at several sites in desert areas and along the Syria-Iraq border had resulted in casualties.  

Biden and Austin, among other U.S. government officials, had made clear in recent days there would be a multi-tiered military response after the first American deaths under fire in what some describe as an escalating proxy war with Iranian-supported militias in the region. 

Sunday’s attack on a base in Jordan killed three U.S. soldiers and injured more than 40 others. There has been no U.S. communication with Iran since that attack, said Kirby.

There have been more than 165 attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East since mid-October. 

“I think anytime you lose men and women overseas in an operation, it does put additional pressure on any administration, whether they’re Democrats or Republicans, to take a very firm response,” Jeremi Suri, a history professor at the University of Texas at Austin told VOA. 

“The huge issue that the administration is dealing with is having a strong deterrence policy without having escalation throughout the region, and threading that needle is difficult. I would say the choices that they made so far have been good ones,” said Suri.  

The latest conflict in the Middle East was sparked nearly four months ago by Hamas terrorists and other militant groups crossing from Gaza into Israel and slaughtering 1,200 people, mostly Israeli civilians, in their homes, at a music festival and elsewhere.  

Return of slain U.S. soldiers 

The first indication of Friday’s retaliatory bombings came minutes after a dignified transfer of the remains of the three U.S. Army reservists concluded at Dover Air Force Base in the state of Delaware.  

The Friday airstrikes by U.S. warplanes “had no connection, none whatsoever, with the timing of the dignified transfer,” Kirby said in response to a question from VOA.

Biden and first lady Jill Biden watched for 15 minutes as a carry team of seven soldiers wearing white gloves in a formation of two lines marched slowly toward a C5 Galaxy military transport plane to individually retrieve the transfer cases that were draped with American flags. 

They carried each case about 100 meters toward a vehicle, slowly passing a somber-looking president who had his right hand on his chest. The other civilians, including the first lady and Austin, also had their hands on hearts, as did attending lawmakers and grieving family members.   

The president’s attendance at the event came amid a ray of optimism that Hamas and Israel were moving slowly toward a deal to free hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a freeing by Israel of Palestinian prisoners and a truce.  

Israel-Hamas war 

Israel has relentlessly bombarded Gaza in response to the October 7 terror attacks. The response has killed more than 27,000 Palestinians and wounded 66,000, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. Officials with the United Nations say the war has created a humanitarian catastrophe with about a quarter of Gaza’s 2.3 million people starving.  

The Israel Defense Forces said Friday it attacked a Hezbollah military complex and trucks that were storing weapons in southern Lebanon.  

Fighter jets attacked the complex near the village of Lida, and the truck hit was near the village of Shuba, according to the IDF. This operation followed rocket launches into northern Israel from Hezbollah earlier in the day.  

The Houthi movement said it fired ballistic missiles Friday at the Red Sea port city of Eilat in Israel. The IDF said its Arrow aerial defense system had intercepted a surface-to-surface missile over the Red Sea.  

VOA White House Bureau Chief Patsy Widakuswara contributed to this report from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

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Dodgers prospect visits Golden Valley baseball

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Signal

Los Angeles Dodgers’ prospect Kendall Williams stopped by the Golden Valley High School baseball field on Wednesday.  Williams worked out, pitched and talked with the team all while sharing tips and knowledge on how to grow as a baseball player.  The 6-foot, 6-inch right-handed pitcher got loose on the mound with Grizzlies catcher Brayden Brewer. […]

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Completely jealous of these butter tshirts…really wish I’d thought of that….

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Campus Spotlight: New Student Centers

date: 2024-02-02, from: CI View (CSCI Student Paper)

By Ashley Tolteca and Allen Monge

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US Unveils Charges, Seizures Linked to Iranian Oil Network

date: 2024-02-02, from: VOA News USA

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CI Model UN Students Wipe the Floor with Seattle Competition

date: 2024-02-02, from: CI View (CSCI Student Paper)

By Andreas Garza Going down the list of things this melting pot of a city is known for, you might get towards the end when […]

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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-02-02, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)

Godot on VisionPro.

I really thought it would take longer:

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Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid in Argentina Waters

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-01-26, from: Bruce Schneier blog

Argentina is reporting that there is a good population of illex squid in its waters ready for fishing, and is working to ensure that Chinese fishing boats don’t take it all.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

Read my blog posting guidelines here.

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Blinken to Make 5th Middle East Visit Since October 7 Attacks

date: 2024-02-02, from: VOA News USA

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Live Wire: What GM Model Should Be A Plug-In Hybrid?

date: 2024-02-02, from: Inside EVs News

General Motors is reviving its hybrids after focusing on EVs. What GM hybrid would you buy?

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Vision Pro Developer Strap Now Available for $300

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: Daring Fireball

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We Have Learned Nothing in the Year Since East Palestine

date: 2024-02-02, from: Heatmap News

This time last year, the 151 cars of Norfolk Southern train 32N were still rolling along somewhere between Madison, Illinois, and Ohio’s eastern border. The train had suffered a brief breakdown on its northeast journey to Toledo, where a new crew came on before the double locomotives turned southeast, following the shore of Lake Erie into Cleveland, a metropolitan area of 2.18 million residents. It’d have been an irritating train to encounter at a railroad crossing: It stretched almost two miles long.

32N also weighed 18,000 tons, and in its 20 hazardous material tank cars, it carried some 700,000 pounds of vinyl chloride, a known carcinogen, which had originated in a chemical plant outside of Houston — a crucial hub in the American plastics machine, booming thanks to cheap shale gas. Some rail workers reportedly referred to the train as “32 Nasty,” due to its reputation for being difficult to handle.

On February 3, 2023, around 8:12 p.m., 32N passed a metal processing plant in Salem, Ohio, where surveillance footage showed flames and sparks coming from the wheels of one of the cars. About half an hour later, 38 of its cars derailed due to an overheated wheel bearing that engineers detected only after it was too late to stop the rupture. Eleven of the derailed cars carried hazardous materials, which immediately began leaking into the soil, nearby water, and air. The train came to rest a little less than 200 miles away from its final destination, abruptly terminating in a burst of flames in East Palestine, Ohio, population 4,700.

A year on, what we still don’t know about the Norfolk Southern derailment is almost as shocking as what we do. For all the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency, which was on site almost immediately after the accident, there are glaring pieces of information missing: the concentration of the chemicals locals were exposed to; how much of the surrounding environment is still polluted; and what health issues could still arise. Even “the plan for documenting and responding to long-term health effects experienced by residents is still being ironed out,” Bloomberg reports, 364 days later.

Days after the initial derailment and the town’s first round of evacuation orders, emergency responders and Norfolk Southern made the decision to vent and then ignite the train’s remaining vinyl chloride days later, reportedly to prevent an explosion. This sent an alarming black plume into the sky over the town. Locals subsequently reported headaches, nausea, rashes, and coughs, among other ailments; some said they saw animals get sick or die. “We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open,” one hazardous materials expert told The Associated Press in the aftermath.

Former President Donald Trump visited three weeks after the derailment to hand out Trump-branded water bottles and tell the residents, “You are not forgotten.” Marianne Williamson, who is mounting a longshot challenge to President Joe Biden in the 2024 Democratic primary, recalled to Heatmap last summer that on her own visit after the disaster, “I saw the frustration, the bitterness, the despair, and in some cases, the hopelessness of people who had been not only neglected, abandoned, abused, and traumatized by Norfolk Southern, but had been re-traumatized by the neglect of their state and federal government.” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited the day after Trump; Biden is expected to make his first visit to the disaster zone this month.

Despite bipartisan hand-wringing, little has been done to prevent another disaster. A rail safety bill that would enhance safety protocols for trains carrying hazardous materials sponsored by Ohio’s Senators, Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown and its Republican JD Vance, has yet to go to the floor. Experts don’t believe it will get the nine necessary Republican votes to advance, partly because Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell opposes it.

Yet Toxic-Free Future reports that some 3 million people live along vinyl chloride transportation routes between the plants in Texas and the plastic factories in New Jersey, and train derailments have been on the rise.

Politicians and pundits will mark Saturday’s derailment with their cases and appeals for this and that. But locals are uncomfortably aware that it will be years more before they know what their lingering coughs and headaches mean — for them, for their children, and everything else attempting to live in their town. Whatever eventually becomes clear may be a help to others down the line, but will likely come too late for East Palestine.

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It begins: Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

Ethiopia spent nearly $6 billion to import fossil fuels last year — with more than half of that spending going to fuel vehicles. In response, Ethiopia’s Transport and Logistics Ministries have announced that automobiles cannot enter Ethiopia, unless they are electric. (!)

more…

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Feb. 12: Kindergarten Registration Opens in Saugus District

date: 2024-02-02, from: SCV New (TV Station)

Enroll for the 2024-25 school year with Saugus Union School District. On Monday, Feb. 12 priority registration will open for universal transitional kindergarten and kindergarten age students.

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Carl Weathers, Linebacker-Turned-Actor in ‘Rocky,’ ‘Predator’ Movies, Dies

date: 2024-02-02, from: VOA News USA

NEW YORK — Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies, facing off against Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Predator” and teaching golf in “Happy Gilmore,” has died. He was 76.

Matt Luber, his manager, said Weathers died Thursday. His family issued a statement saying he died “peacefully in his sleep.”

Weathers was comfortable flexing his muscles on the big screen in “Action Jackson” as well as joking around on the small screen in such shows as “Arrested Development.” He was perhaps most closely associated with Creed, who made his first appearance as the cocky, undisputed heavyweight world champion in 1976’s “Rocky,” starring Sylvester Stallone.

“It puts you on the map and makes your career, so to speak. But that’s a one-off, so you’ve got to follow it up with something. Fortunately, those movies kept coming, and Apollo Creed became more and more in people’s consciousness and welcome in their lives, and it was just the right guy at the right time,” he told The Daily Beast in 2017.

Most recently, Weathers appeared in all three seasons of the Disney+ hit “The Mandalorian,” for which he earned an Emmy nomination in 2021.

Creed, who appeared in the first four “Rocky” movies, memorably died in the ring of 1984’s “Rocky IV,” going toe-to-toe with the hulking, steroid-using Soviet Ivan Drago, played by Dolph Lundgren.

Weathers went on to 1987’s “Predator,” where he flexed his pecs alongside Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura and a host of others, and 1988’s nouveau blaxploitation flick “Action Jackson.”

He later added a false wooden hand to play a golf pro for the 1996 comedy classic “Happy Gilmore” opposite Adam Sandler and starred in Dick Wolf’s short-lived spin-off series “Chicago Justice” in 2017.

He also voiced Combat Carl in the “Toy Story” franchise.

Weathers grew up admiring actors such as Woody Strode, whose combination of physique and acting prowess in “Spartacus” made an early impression. Others he idolized included actors Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte and athletes Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali, stars who broke the mold and the color barrier.

“There are so many people that came before me who I admired and whose success I wanted to emulate, and just kind of hit the benchmarks they hit in terms of success, who created a pathway that I’ve been able to walk and find success as a result. And hopefully I can inspire someone else to do good work as well,” he told the Detroit News in 2023.

Growing up in New Orleans, Weathers started performing in plays as early as grade school. In high school, athletics took him down another path, but he would reunite with his first love later in life.

Weathers played college football at San Diego State University — he majored in theater — and went on to play for one season in the NFL, for the Oakland Raiders, in 1970.

After the Raiders, he joined the Canadian Football League, playing for two years while finishing his studies during the offseason at San Francisco State University. He graduated with a B.A. in drama in 1974.

After appearing in several films and TV shows, including “Good Times,” “The Six Million Dollar Man,” “In the Heat of the Night” and “Starsky & Hutch,” as well as fighting Nazis alongside Harrison Ford in “Force 10 From Navarone,” Weathers landed his knockout role — Creed. He told The Hollywood Reporter that his start in the iconic franchise was not auspicious.

He was asked to read with the writer, Stallone, then unknown. Weathers read the scene but felt it didn’t land and so he blurted out: “I could do a lot better if you got me a real actor to work with,” he recalled. “So I just insulted the star of the movie without really knowing it and not intending to.”

Weathers is survived by two sons.

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VOA Headquarters Honored as Historic Site in Journalism

date: 2024-02-02, from: VOA News USA

Washington — A plaque honoring Voice of America’s headquarters in Washington as a historic site in journalism was unveiled Thursday, with current and former newsroom leaders present to affirm the importance of the outlet’s editorial independence.

The Society of Professional Journalists, or SPJ, designated VOA’s Washington headquarters as a historic journalism site in 2022 and formally handed over the plaque on Thursday.

“We chose VOA because of its long history of ethical and independent journalism,” Dan Kubiske, a board member of SPJ’s Washington chapter, told VOA at the event.

This is the eighth time SPJ has honored a historic journalism site in the Washington area, according to Kubiske.

He added that he hopes the VOA commemoration helps people “understand that VOA reporters and editors are not government hacks.”

“They are reporters and editors in the tradition of all the great reporters and editors in the country,” Kubiske continued.

Although funded by Congress, VOA and its sister outlets are editorially independent.

“For more than 80 years and in more than 80 languages, the Voice of America has been a comprehensive source of accurate and objective journalism,” the plaque reads. “Despite its status as a U.S. government agency, VOA has its editorial independence protected through custom and its charter.”

Following the plaque’s unveiling, current and former newsroom leaders gathered to discuss the highlights and challenges they experienced during their various tenures.

For David Ensor, a veteran journalist who led VOA from 2011 to 2015, a particularly proud moment was when he helped VOA establish a local language service in Mali amid rising terrorist activity in the country’s north.

“One of my favorite moments as director was driving through the streets of the capital city in the evening,” Ensor said. “And you could hear Voice of America playing in every house in the entire city.”

Political challenges facing VOA over the years also featured in the panel’s discussion.

“Talking about being beaten around politically, I don’t think there’s been any era where that hasn’t happened,” said Amanda Bennett, CEO of VOA’s parent organization, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, and a former VOA director.

“I think that’s the nature of the game when you’re a free press,” she added during the panel discussion.

Bennett served as VOA’s director from 2016 until 2020, when she resigned following the congressional confirmation of conservative activist Michael Pack to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, or USAGM. That came after then-President Donald Trump spent months condemning VOA’s coverage.

A federal investigation later found that Pack repeatedly abused power and engaged in severe mismanagement. Pack targeted staffers perceived as critical of Trump and interfered in the outlet’s journalistic independence.

Sanford Ungar, who led VOA from 1999 to 2001, warned that tough times could be ahead for the international broadcaster.

“The next 10 months are very, very important for the future life of VOA,” said Ungar, who now runs the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University.

“There’s a strong possibility that VOA in particular, but perhaps all of USAGM, will be under siege, once again, after the election in November,” Ungar continued.

Bennett said fortifying VOA’s independence is a priority.

“Every day, no matter what we know is up ahead, we should be strengthening and practicing that independence,” she said. “It is the fundamental, existential fact of our existence.”

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Lilbits: A real PlayStation handheld on the way? And goodbye Google Cache, hello Linux laptop with Raptor Lake Refresh

date: 2024-02-02, from: Liliputing

Last year Sony launched its first PlayStation-branded handheld gaming device since killing off the PlayStation Vita. But the new PlayStation Portal isn’t a standalone game console – it’s basically a remote control for a PS5, allowing users to stream games over a network connection. Meanwhile the Nintendo Switch, Valve Steam Deck, and countless other handhelds […]

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Home battery storage now costs 20% less for everyone in the UK – here’s why

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

The UK slashed value-added tax (VAT) to zero for folks installing battery storage in their homes from February 1, 2024.

more…

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Stone Age People Used This 35,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Tusk Tool to Make Rope, Scientists Say

date: 2024-02-02, from: Smithsonian Magazine

To test their hypothesis that the perforated object was a tool, researchers used a replica to create a 16-foot-long rope from cattail reeds

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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-02-02, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)

Defend Cow Castle is a SwiftGodotKit application for VisionOS that renders volumes into the shared space.

Like Unity's Polyspatial, but for Godot, now available on the AppStore:

Congratulations to Therese 3D Studio for the launch!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/defend-cow-castle/id6476968953

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Big Oil Is Doing Great … Except in California

date: 2024-02-02, from: Heatmap News

It was a good 2023 for Big Oil. In most places.

Both Exxon and Chevron reported substantial fourth quarter and full-year 2023 earnings Friday — $36 billion and $21 billion for 2023, respectively, their second highest annual profits ever. Both also called out California, however, once one of the cradles of the U.S. oil industry (see: There Will Be Blood) and now its biggest domestic political headache as a place where they’re enduring billions in losses.

While the two oil majors’ issues in California are specific to how they operate there, they are also perhaps a preview — or a warning — of what a full spectrum climate policy could mean for them.

While the Biden administration has done more legislating on climate than any previous administration, it has not done much of anything to impair the supply of hydrocarbons. Instead, the Inflation Reduction Act is largely devoted to subsidizing the supply of non-carbon-emitting forms of energy (and electric vehicles) and making it easier for people to electrify their homes. The upcoming Environmental Protection Agency power plant regulations, meanwhile, are designed essentially to force power plant operators to capture and store their emissions.

All of this would, if it works, increase demand for green energy and decrease demand for fossil energy. But much to the chagrin of many environmentalists, it would do little directly to limit fossil fuel extraction — nor, to the chagrin of more market-oriented environmentalists, would it set a tax on carbon emissions or establish a cap-and-trade system that would act as a tax. As Biden administration officials sometimes point out, oil and gas production has hit record highs under their watch.

California is different. It has a cap-and-trade system, it’s passed restrictions on where oil and gas drilling can occur (although they’re on hold pending a referendum that could overturn them), and permitting for new oil wells has slowed to near zero. Local governments there are often not particularly keen on hydrocarbon infrastructure or drilling, especially offshore.

In its earnings release, Exxon reported a $2 billion “impairment as a result of regulatory obstacles in California that have prevented production and distribution assets from coming back online.” This was a reference to its oil and gas operation off the Santa Barbara County coast, which started pumping in the early 1980s and stopped in 2015, when a pipeline rupture spilled more than 142,000 gallons of oil into the ocean. Exxon has been trying to get out of this business ever since, even lending money to another company to take the project off its hands. However, the deal has been continually delayed thanks to litigation surrounding pipeline repairs, as well as getting state and local approvals to operate again.

For Chevron, which is headquartered in California and maintains an active extraction and refining operation there, the troubles were “higher U.S. upstream impairment charges mainly in California” — emphasis mine.

In an earlier release this year, Chevron previewed losses from its California operations, saying that they were “due to continuing regulatory challenges in the state that have resulted in lower anticipated future investment levels in its business plans.” Combined with writedowns in the Gulf of Mexico, the company reported $3.7 billion worth of charges on its fourth quarter earnings.

Chevron — which operates refineries in both Northern and Southern California — has been in a public dispute with California policymakers over their energy policy proposals, especially around refining. The state plans to ban sales of internal combustion vehicles by 2035 and is working through a proposal to essentially cap profits on refining gasoline in the state. Chevron officials have said that a refining margin cap would make it “really challenging to want to put our money there,” the company’s refining chief Andy Walz told Bloomberg.

California has consistently higher gas prices than other states thanks to its lack of access to a national market (it’s not served by a pipeline network) and special requirements for its gasoline. Today, gas prices are $4.57 a gallon in California compared to $3.15 nationally, according to AAA. If Chevron is right about how California will treat refiners going forward, that gap could grow.

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2024 Porsche Macan Specs And Pricing Overview

date: 2024-02-02, from: Inside EVs News

The 100-kWh battery should give it up to about 300 miles of EPA range.

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Archaeologists Discover a ‘High-End’ Blacksmith’s Iron Age Workshop

date: 2024-02-02, from: Smithsonian Magazine

Found in Oxfordshire, the “smithy” was active at the beginning of a transformative era in Britain

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-02-02, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

Here’s what the snag was. We were low on storage starting at the beginning and eventually we ran out of space, and the error messages we got indicated the problem was something else. All the searching we did, none of the hits, or ChatGPT suggested looking at memory usage. Quite independently after thrashing around trying various theories, we finally got a message from the Digital Ocean service saying the server was out of space. When I doubled the space, that gave it enough room to do the tasks we had for it. Now running the last query. Looks like we may be over the hump. Let’s just pray the software runs when we turn the server back on. 💥

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Meet the Creators, Part 3: NASA’s 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Posters

date: 2024-02-02, from: NASA breaking news

A total solar eclipse is a captivating experience – evoking feelings of awe and wonder that are sometimes best expressed through art. Inspired by the upcoming total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, artists Tyler Nordgren and Kristen Perrin have designed two posters for NASA that present the magic of the eclipse in unique ways. […]

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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-02-02, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)

Part 4 of my series on Godot for iPad is out: Godot with SwiftUI

https://blog.la-terminal.net/godot-with-swiftui/

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Blackbaud settles with FTC after that IT breach exposed millions of people’s info

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Cloud software slinger admits no guilt, promises better basic security hygiene

Blackbaud, which had data on millions of people stolen from it by one or more crooks, has promised to shore up its IT defenses in a proposed deal with the FTC.…

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Launch Day Apple Vision Pro Apps

date: 2024-02-02, from: Michael Tsai

Apple (Slashdot): More than 600 apps and games designed to take advantage of the unique and powerful capabilities of Apple Vision Pro will be available this Friday, February 2. […] Apps built specifically for visionOS, like Box, make it easy to collaborate and securely manage files and content, including 3D objects, while the MindNode app […]

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Google Removes Cache Link From Search Results

date: 2024-02-02, from: Michael Tsai

Barry Schwartz (via Hacker News): Now when you click the three dots for more information for a search result snippet, the cache button is missing. […] So how do you access the cache? Just Google cache:domain.com. You can also set up a bookmarklet: javascript:location.href=‘http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:’+document.location.href; Jon Porter: Danny Sullivan has confirmed. “It was meant for helping […]

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Tapestry Kickstarter

date: 2024-02-02, from: Michael Tsai

The Iconfactory: With Project Tapestry, we’ll create a universal, chronological timeline for iOS for any data that’s publicly available on the Internet. A service-independent overview of your social media and information landscape. Point the app toward your services and feeds, then scroll through everything all in one place to keep up-to-date and to see where […]

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US Bolsters Defenses Around Jordan Base as It Readies Response to Drone Attack

date: 2024-02-02, from: VOA News USA

washington — The U.S. has bolstered defenses at a base in Jordan that was attacked by Iran-backed militants as it prepares for a wider U.S. response to the drone attack that killed three service members, a U.S. official said Friday.

Even as a larger U.S. military response seemed imminent, some Iran-backed factions pledged to continue to attack U.S. forces in the Middle East. In a statement released Friday, one of Iraq’s strongest Iran-backed militias, Harakat al-Nujaba, announced its plans to continue military operations against U.S. troops, despite other allied factions having called off their attacks in the wake of the Sunday drone strike in Jordan.

Some of the militias have been a threat to U.S. bases for years, but the groups intensified their attacks in the wake of Israel’s war with Hamas following the October 7 terror attack on Israel. The war has led to the deaths of thousands of civilians in Gaza and spilled across four other countries. Iran-backed militia groups throughout the region have used the conflict to justify striking Israeli or U.S. interests, including threatening civilian commercial ships and U.S. warships with drones or missiles in almost daily exchanges.

On Friday, the Israeli military said its Arrow defense system intercepted a missile that approached the country from the Red Sea, raising suspicion it was launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The rebels did not immediately claim responsibility.

A second U.S. official said the military had taken additional self-defense strikes inside Yemen Friday against Houthi military targets deemed an imminent threat. Al-Masirah, a Houthi-run satellite news channel, said that British and American forces conducted three strikes in the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah, a Houthi stronghold.

While previous U.S. responses in Iraq and Syria have been more limited, the attack on Tower 22, as the Jordan outpost is known, and the deaths of the three service members has crossed a line, the official said. In response, the U.S. is weighing a much wider response to include striking militia leaders. The U.S. options under consideration include targets in Syria, Yemen and Iraq, where the Iranian-made drone that killed the service members was fired from, the official said.

The attack on Tower 22 led to the first deaths of U.S. service members since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out. U.S. response options were being weighed as President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Charles Q. Brown traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to be with the families of those fallen soldiers as they are honored at a transfer ceremony.

The U.S. has blamed the Jordan attack on the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a coalition of Iranian-backed militias. In the days since the attack, the U.S. has bolstered the defenses around Tower 22, which houses about 350 U.S. troops and sits near the demilitarized zone on the border between Jordan and Syria. The Iraqi border is only 6 miles (10 kilometers) away.

On Thursday, Defense Secretary Austin indicated the U.S. response against the militias would widen.

“At this point, it’s time to take away even more capability than we’ve taken in the past,” Austin said in his first press conference since he was hospitalized on January 1 due to complications from prostate cancer treatment.

Austin said that Iran has had a hand in the attacks by supplying and training the militias. The U.S. has tried to communicate through backchannels to Iran over the last few months to get them to rein in the militant groups, another U.S. official said.

The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss details that have not been acknowledged publicly.

The U.S. has also tried more limited military responses in a series of strikes against weapons storage sites and training areas. So far, the U.S. response has not deterred the groups, which have attacked U.S. facilities at least 166 times since October.

At least one group, Kataib Hezbollah, another powerful Iranian-backed Iraqi militia, which has been watched closely by U.S. officials, said Tuesday it would “suspend military and security operations against the occupying forces” to avoid embarrassing the Iraqi government in the wake of the Jordan attack.

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Apple’s Q1 2024 Results

date: 2024-02-02, from: Michael Tsai

Apple (transcript, Hacker News, MacRumors): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $119.6 billion, up 2 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $2.18, up 16 percent year over year. “Today Apple is reporting revenue growth for the December quarter fueled by iPhone sales, and an all-time revenue record in Services,” said […]

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Range Rover’s first EV sparks strong interest, with over 16,000 buyers waiting

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

As Range Rover’s first EV gets closer to launch, the all-electric vehicle is already creating a buzz. According to the company, the new electric Range Rover has over 16,000 buyers on the waitlist.

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Mars in 4K

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Cats are people too!

date: 2024-02-02, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News

“Cats are on the march in NYC, on 8th Ave between 57th and 45th streets. Thousands of cats carrying signs and handing out leaflets saying ‘Cats are people too!’ and ‘Up with Cats!’ – they are angry but there’s a sense of celebration in the march, that finally the time has come for cats.”

The first version had one of the themes as “Down with Dogs!” but ChatGPT rejected that as not being nice enough. So I changed it to “Up with Cats!” Please keep that in mind.

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Regina steps up, adding 53 electric buses to its public transit fleet

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

Saskatchewan’s capital city is moving forward with plans to electrify its Regina Transit fleet, signing a five-year contract with Nova Bus to acquire 53 battery electric city buses.

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US starts ‘emergency’ checks on cryptocurrency power use, citing winter power demands

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Up until now watchdogs say they’ve just been guesstimating consumption

The US government has just signed off an emergency probe into how much power cryptocurrency miners are drawing from America’s electricity grid. …

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Podcast: Elon’s Tesla CEO package gone, Cybertruck’s PowerShare, GM goes back to PHEVs

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

On the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Elon Musk’s $55 billion Tesla compensation package getting rescinded, Cybertruck’s PowerShare details coming, GM goes back to plug-in-hybrids, and more.

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Biden Meets Grieving Families of 3 US Troops Killed in Jordan

date: 2024-02-02, from: VOA News USA

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, DELAWARE — U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden joined grieving families at Dover Air Force Base on Friday to honor the three American service members killed in a drone attack in Jordan. The solemn ritual, called a dignified transfer, has become relatively uncommon in recent years as the U.S. has withdrawn from conflicts abroad.

The Bidens arrived at the base Friday afternoon to witness the transfer of the remains of the troops killed in Sunday’s assault. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and General Charles Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, joined the Bidens for the transfer in Dover.

The Bidens met privately with the families before the ceremony.

The Army Reserve members killed Sunday were all from Georgia — Sergeant William Jerome Rivers of Carrollton, Sergeant Kennedy Sanders of Waycross and Sergeant Breonna Moffett of Savannah. Sanders and Moffett were posthumously promoted to sergeant rank.

The deaths were the first U.S. fatalities blamed on Iran-backed militia groups, who for months have been intensifying their attacks on American forces in the region following the onset of the Israel-Hamas war in October. Separately, two Navy SEALs died during a January mission to board an unflagged ship that was carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Yemen.

“These service members embodied the very best of our nation: Unwavering in their bravery. Unflinching in their duty. Unbending in their commitment to our country — risking their own safety for the safety of their fellow Americans and our allies and partners with whom we stand in the fight against terrorism,” Biden said earlier this week. “It is a fight we will not cease.”

Sanders’ father, Shawn, in a posting on Facebook on Friday morning said that “kindness and outpouring of love” was “the only thing holding me up” since his daughter’s death.

“This is not the homecoming for Kennedy I dreamed about,” he said in the post. “Now, I can’t stop reliving this nightmare.”

At Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol, Biden acknowledged Rivers, Moffett and Sanders by name, again vowing to never forget their sacrifice to the nation.

“They risked it all,” the president said.

Rivers, Sanders and Moffett hailed from different corners of Georgia but were brought together in the same company of Army engineers that was based in Fort Moore. Sanders and Moffett, in particular, were close friends who regularly popped in on each other’s phone calls with their families back home.

Moffett had turned 23 years old just nine days before she was killed. She joined the Army Reserves in 2019, but she also worked for a home care provider to cook, clean and run errands for people with disabilities.

Sanders, 24, worked at a pharmacy while studying to become an X-ray technician and coached children’s soccer and basketball. She had volunteered for the deployment because she wanted to see different parts of the world, according to her parents.

Rivers, who was 46 years old and went by Jerome, joined the Army Reserve in New Jersey in 2011 and served a nine-month tour in Iraq in 2018.

The Dover ceremonies have been increasingly uncommon as the U.S. has withdrawn from conflicts abroad, most notably the war in Afghanistan, where U.S. involvement lasted two decades.

According to the most recent statistics available from the Defense Department, no service members were killed as a result of hostile action in 2022. Thirteen service members were killed as a result of hostile action the year prior during the fall of Kabul in Afghanistan, when a suicide bomber at the airport’s Abbey Gate killed 11 Marines, one sailor and one soldier. Nine service members were killed as a result of hostile action in 2020.

The U.S. government said this week that the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias that includes the group Kataib Hezbollah, had planned, resourced and facilitated the overnight drone attack. While Biden and White House officials have stressed that they don’t want a broader war with Iran, the administration has also warned that it will respond to the deadly assault.

More than 40 troops were injured in the Sunday drone attack at Tower 22, a secretive U.S. military desert outpost whose location allows U.S. forces to infiltrate and quietly leave Syria.

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Connects two M.2 2280 SSDs to a Raspberry Pi 5 with Geekworm’s X1004 Dual NVMe HAT

date: 2024-02-02, from: Liliputing

Raspberry Pi 5 add-on boards that allow you to attach a PCIe NVMe solid state drive to the little computer are becoming so common that I told myself I wasn’t going to write about new models anymore. And then I saw the Geekworm X1004 Dual 2280 NVMe SSD shield. Available from AliExpress for $43, this […]

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This utility in the US Midwest is going to add 3.6 GW of wind and solar

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

Xcel Energy just announced its big solar and wind plans in the US Midwest – here’s the lowdown.

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Why We’re So Obsessed With Cute

date: 2024-02-02, from: Smithsonian Magazine

A London exhibition explores how cute became such a powerful—and sometimes dangerous—cultural force

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Which Dogs Live the Longest? Scientists Say Small and Long-Nosed Canines Outlive Others

date: 2024-02-02, from: Smithsonian Magazine

A new study of more than 500,000 dogs in the United Kingdom adds more nuance to our understanding of their life expectancy based on breed, size, face shape and other factors

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David Kahn

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: Bruce Schneier blog

David Kahn has died. His groundbreaking book, The Codebreakers was the first serious book I read about codebreaking, and one of the primary reasons I entered this field.

He will be missed.

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Feb. 22: VIA After Five Networking Mixer at La Cocina

date: 2024-02-02, from: SCV New (TV Station)

Connect with other businesses and attend the Valley Industry Association After Five networking mixer on Thursday, Feb. 22, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at La Cocina, 28076 Bouquet Canyon Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91350.

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Court Filing Reveals Relationship Between District Attorney, Special Prosecutor in Trump Case

date: 2024-02-02, from: VOA News USA

atlanta, georgia — A court filing Friday discloses that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is involved in a “personal relationship” with a special prosecutor she hired for the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump, but she argues there are no grounds to dismiss the case or to remove her from the prosecution. 

Willis hired special prosecutor Nathan Wade in November 2021 to assist her investigation into whether the Republican former president and others broke any laws as they tried to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Since Trump and 18 others were indicted in August, Wade has led the team of lawyers Willis assembled to prosecute the case. 

In an affidavit accompanying the filing, Wade said that in 2022, he and the district attorney had developed a personal relationship in addition to their “professional association and friendship.” 

He also said he had never lived with Willis nor shared a financial account or household expenses with her. He said none of the funds paid to him as part of the job have been shared with Willis, an attempt to undercut defense lawyer claims of a conflict of interest. 

Wade described himself and Willis as “both financially independent professionals; expenses or personal travel were roughly divided equally between us.” 

“At times,” Wade said, “I have made and purchased travel for District Attorney Willis and myself from my personal funds. At other times District Attorney Willis has made and purchased travel for she and I from her personal funds.” 

“I have no financial interest in the outcome of the 2020 election interference case or in the conviction of any defendant,” he wrote. 

The Friday filing by Willis’ team came in response to a motion filed last month by defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant, who represents Trump co-defendant Michael Roman. The motion alleged that Willis and Wade were in an inappropriate romantic relationship that created a conflict of interest. The filing seeks to dismiss the case and to have Willis and Wade and their offices barred from further prosecuting the case. 

Trump and at least one other co-defendant, Georgia attorney Robert Cheeley, have filed motions to join Roman’s effort to dismiss the indictment and remove Willis from the case. 

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who’s presiding over the election case, has set a February 15 hearing on Roman’s motion. Willis and Wade are among a dozen witnesses Merchant has subpoenaed to testify at that hearing. 

The Friday filing asks McAfee to dismiss Roman’s motion without a hearing.

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California, Massachusetts Students to Hear from NASA, ESA Astronauts

date: 2024-02-02, from: NASA breaking news

Students from California and Massachusetts will have separate opportunities next week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The two Earth-to-space calls will air live Monday, Feb. 5, and Friday, Feb. 9, on NASA+ and agency’s website. Learn how to stream NASA TV through a variety of platforms including social media. At 12:15 p.m. EST […]

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Pluralistic: Worker misclassification is a competition issue (02 Feb 2024)

date: 2024-02-02, from: Cory Doctorow’s blog

Today’s links Worker misclassification is a competition issue: Corrupt employers created a market for lemons. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Worker misclassification is a competition issue (permalink) The brains behind Trump’s stolen Supreme Court have detailed plans: they didn’t just scheme to pack the court with judges who weren’t qualified for – or entitled to – a SCOTUS life-tenure, they also set up a series of cases for that radical court to hear. Obviously, Dobbs was the big one, but it’s only part of a whole procession of trumped-up cases designed to give the court a chance to overturn decades of settled law and create zones of impunity for America’s oligarchs and the monopolies that provide them with wealth and power. One of these cases is Jarkesy, a case designed to allow SCOTUS to euthanize every agency in the US government, stripping them of their powers to fight corporate crime: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/sec-v-jarkesy-the-threat-to-congressional-and-agency-authority/ The argument goes, “Congress had the power to spell out every possible problem an agency might deal with and to create a list of everything they were allowed to do about these problems. If they didn’t, then the agency isn’t allowed to act.” This is an Objectively Very Stupid argument, and it takes a heroic act of motivated reasoning to buy it. The whole point of expert agencies is that they’re experts and that they might discover new problems in American life, and come up with productive ways of fixing them. If the only way for an agency to address a problem is to wait for Congress to notice it and pass a law about it, then we don’t even need agencies – Congress can just be the regulator, as well as the lawmaker. If there was any doubt that Congress created the agencies as flexible and adaptive hedges against new threats and problems, then the legislative history of the FTC Act should dispel it. Congress created the FTC through the FTCA because the courts kept misinterpreting its existing antitrust laws, like the Sherman Act. Companies would engage in the most obvious acts of naked, catastrophic fuckery, and judges would say, “Welp, because Congress didn’t specifically ban this conduct, I guess it’s OK.” So Congress created the FTC with an Act that included a broad authority to investigate and punish “unfair methods of competition.” They didn’t spell these out – instead, they explicitly said (in Section 5) that it was the FTC’s job to determine whether something was unfair, and to act on it: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the-courage-to-govern/#whos-in-charge The job of the FTC is to investigate unfair conduct before it becomes such a problem that Congress takes action, and to head that conduct off so that it never rises to the level of needing Congressional intervention. Now, it’s true that since the Reagan years, the FTC has grown progressively less interested in using this power, but that’s broadly true of all of America’s corporate watchdogs. But as the public all over the world has grown ever more furious about corporate abuses and oligarchic wealth, governments everywhere have rediscovered their role as a public protector. In America, the Biden administration altered the course of history with the appointment of new enforcers in the key anti-monopoly agencies: the FTC and the DOJ’s antitrust division. But more importantly, the Biden admin created a detailed, technical plan to use every agency’s powers to fight monopoly, in a “whole of government” approach: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/party-its-1979-og-antitrust-back-baby Now, this can give rise to seeming redundancies. Take labor issues. The NLRB is a (potentially) powerful regulator that had been in a coma for decades, but has awoken and taken up labor rights with a fervor and cunning that is a delight to behold: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks/#if-blood-be-the-price-of-your-cursed-wealth At the same time, the FTC has also taken up labor rights, using its much broader powers to do things like ban noncompetes nationwide, unshackling workers from bosses who claim the right to veto who else they can work for: https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/02/its-the-economy-stupid/#neofeudal But the NLRB doesn’t make the FTC redundant, or vice-versa. The NLRB’s role is principally reactive, punishing wrongdoing after it occurs. But the FTC has the power to intervene in incipient harms, labor abuses that have not yet risen to the level of NLRB enforcement or new acts of Congress. This case is made beautifully in Alvaro Bedoya’s speech “‘Overawed’: Worker Misclassification as a Potential Unfair Method of Competition,” delivered to the Law Leaders Global Summit in Miami today: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Overawed-Speech-02-02-2024.pdf Bedoya describes why the FTC has turned its attention to the problem of “worker misclassification,” in which employees are falsely claimed to be contractors, and thus deprived of the rights that workers are entitled to. Worker misclassification is rampant, and it transfers billions from workers to employers every year. As Bedoya says, 10-30% of employers engage in worker misclassification, allowing them to dodge payment for overtime, Social Security, workers’ comp, unemployment insurance, healthcare, retirement and even a minimum wage. Each misclassified worker is between $6k-18k poorer thanks to this scam – a typical misclassified worker sees a one third decline in their earning power. And, of course, each misclassified worker’s boss is $6k-$18k richer because of this scam. It’s not just wages, it’s workplace safety. One of the most dangerous jobs in the country is construction worker, and worker misclassification is rampant in the sector. That means that construction workers are three times more likely than other workers to lack health insurance. What’s more, misclassified workers can’t form unions, because their bosses’ fiction treats them as independent contractors, not employees, which means that misclassified construction workers can’t join trade unions and demand health-care, or safer workplaces. Contrast this with, say, cops, who have powerful “unions” that afford them gold-plated health care and lavish compensation, even for imaginary ailments like “contact overdoses” from touching fentanyl – a medical impossibility that still entitles our nation’s armed bureaucrats to handsome public compensation: https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/27/extraordinary-popular-delusions/#onshore-havana-syndrome Cops have far safer jobs than construction workers, but cops don’t get misclassified, so they are able to collect benefits that no other worker – public or private – can hope for. Not every employer wants to cheat and maim their employees, of course. In Bedoya’s speech, he references Sandie Domando, an executive VP at a construction company in Palm Beach Gardens. Domando’s company keeps its employees on its books, giving them health-care and other benefits. But when she started bidding against rival firms for jobs funded by the covid stimulus, she couldn’t compete – two thirds of those jobs went to other firms that were able to put in cheaper bids. Those bids were cheaper because they were defrauding their workers by misclassifying them. Thus, publicly funded projects were overwhelmingly handed over to fraudulent companies. Fraud becomes a fitness-factor for winning jobs. It’s a market for lemons – among employers. Employee misclassification is a pure transfer from workers to bosses. Bedoya recounts the story of Samuel Talavera, Jr, a short-haul trucker who worked for decades in the Port of Los Angeles. For decades, his job paid well: enough to support his family and even take his kids to Disneyland now and again. But in 2010, his employer reclassified him as a contractor. They ordered him to buy a new truck – which they financed on a lease-purchase basis – and put him to work for 16 hours stretches in shifts lasting as much as 20 hours per day. Talavera couldn’t pick his own hours or pick his routes, but he was still treated as an independent contractor for payroll and labor protection purposes. This lead to an terrible decline in Talavera’s working conditions. He gave up going home between shifts, sleeping in his cab instead. His pay dropped through the floor, thanks to junk-fees that relied on the fiction that he was a contractor. For example, his boss started to charge him rent on the space his truck took up while he was standing by for a job at the port. Other truckers at the port saw paycheck deductions for the toilet-paper in the bathrooms! Talavera’s take-home pay dropped so low that he was bringing home a weekly wage of $112 or $33 (one week, his pay amounted to $0.67). His wife had to work three jobs, and they still had to declare bankruptcy to avoid losing their home. When Talavera’s truck needed repairs he couldn’t afford, his boss fired him and took back the truck, and Talavera was out the $78,000 he’d paid into it on the lease-purchase plan. This story – and the many, many others like it from the Port of LA – paint a clear picture of the transfer of wealth from workers to their bosses that comes with worker misclassification. The work that Talavera did in the Port of LA didn’t get less valuable when he was misclassified – but the share of that value that Talavera received dropped to as little as $0.67/week. Worker misclassification is rampant across many sectors, but its handmaiden is technology. The fiction of independence is much easier to maintain when the fine-grained employer-employee control is mediated by an app (think of Uber): https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men That’s why those scare-stories that AI trucks were going to make truckers obsolete and create an employment crisis were such toxic nonsense. Not only are we unlikely to see self-driving trucks, but the same investors that back AI technology are making bank on companies that practice worker misclassification through the “it’s not a crime if we do it with an app” gambit: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-no By focusing our attention on a hypothetical employment crisis that will supposedly be caused by future AI developments, tech investors can distract us from the real employment crisis that’s created by app-enabled worker misclassification, which is also the source of much of the capital they’re plowing into AI. That’s why the FTC’s work on misclassification is so urgent. Misclassification is a scam that hurts workers and creates oligarchic power – and it’s also a mass-extinction event for good companies that don’t cheat their workers, because those honest companies can’t compete. Worker misclassification is having a long-overdue and much needed moment. The revolutionary overthrow of the rotten old leadership at the Teamsters was caused, in part, by a radical wing that promised to focus the Teamsters’ firepower on fighting worker misclassification: https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/19/hoffa-jr-defeated/#teamsters-for-a-democratic-union This has become a focus of labor organizers all around the world, as worker misclassification-via-smartphone has infected labor markets everywhere: https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/22/kropotkin-graeber/#an-injury-to-one Bedoya’s speech is a banger, and it reminds us that labor rights and anti-monopoly have always been part of the same project: to rein in corporate power and protect workers from the insatiable greed of the capital class: https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/14/aiming-at-dollars/#not-men Hey look at this (permalink) Moral Bankruptcy https://prospect.org/justice/2024-01-31-moral-bankruptcy/ Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-how-to-comment-on-social-media/ KOSA isn’t designed to help kids https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2024/01/31/kosa-isnt-designed-to-help-kids.html This day in history (permalink) #20yrsago Tablature for Super Mario Brothers https://artport.whitney.org/gatepages/artists/galloway/ #20yrsago Unix as she is spoke https://web.archive.org/web/20040215071845/http://www.eeng.brad.ac.uk/help/.faq/.unix/.pronun.html #15yrsago Comprehensive excoriation of ebook stupidity https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/02/the-once-and-future-e-book/ #15yrsago Disneyland Paris’s smoking area/stroller rental https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/3246021936/ #15yrsago UK to introduce “photograph a cop, 10 years in jail” law https://web.archive.org/web/20090204092654/http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=836675 #15yrsago Does the Medieval Warm Period mean that climate change isn’t real, dangerous and caused by humans? 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Impressions and Thoughts from Early Vision Pro Reviews

date: 2024-02-02, from: TidBITS blog

After reading and watching reviews of Apple’s just-released Vision Pro, Adam Engst came away with some initial impressions and thoughts about the near and far future of the product.

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D.A., Organized Retail Crimes Task Force File 309 Cases

date: 2024-02-02, from: SCV New (TV Station)

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Organized Retail Crimes Task Force, along with L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón, Los Angeles Police Department and SouthGate Police Department announced that more than 300 organized retail theft cases involving adult and juvenile defendants have been filed by the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office

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Penk’s Rasti Computer is a GRiD Compass-inspired DIY laptop with a 10.4 inch screen, Framework Mainboard, and custom keyboard

date: 2024-02-02, from: Liliputing

The Rasti Computer is a modern laptop designed to resemble a very old one. Inspired by the design of the GRiD Compass computer (circa 1982), this little laptop borrows the style of classic laptops, but features modern parts including an 11th-gen Intel Core processor, a 720+ QLED touchscreen display, and USB-C ports. Developer Penk Chen […]

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Subaru EV Sales Slowed Down In January 2024

date: 2024-02-02, from: Inside EVs News

The Subaru Solterra model awaits its new 2024 model year version.

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How to eat now: 16 rules of modern dining. A panel of…

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Who Stole—and Burned—This Jackie Robinson Statue?

date: 2024-02-02, from: Smithsonian Magazine

Donations poured in to help replace the bronze statue, which a youth baseball nonprofit unveiled in 2021

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Same suspect, same home: Standoff echoes 2016 incident

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Signal

Sheriff’s Department officials identified the man they arrested after an hourslong standoff Thursday, who was involved in a similar standoff scenario at the same residence nearly eight years ago, according to previous Signal reports.   Carl Pruett, a 65-year-old Canyon Country man, was in custody Friday on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon against a […]

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QuietKat Lynx e-bike $1,000 off, Jackery power stations from $359, snow blowers, more

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

Today’s deals are a cornucopia of special sales and savings opportunities, headlined by the QuietKat Lynx All-Terrain e-bike at $2,999, those $1,000 in savings are joined by a home energy backup sale from Jackery that has a selection of power stations and solar panels from $359. Then save on EGO Power+ electric snow blowers from $549. Plus, all of today’s other best new Green Deals.

Head below for other New Green Deals we’ve found today and, of course, Electrek’s best EV buying and leasing deals. Also, check out the new Electrek Tesla Shop for the best deals on Tesla accessories.

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Keeping one boy’s memory alive and spreading awareness

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Signal

Valencia Viking Pedro “Javi” Roman was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2019. He died Feb. 1, 2021, from a relapse at the age of 17.    Studio 7 Foundation continues to keep his memory alive, and on the third anniversary of his passing, Alana Altmayer and her son Devan Altmayer, along with Roman’s friends held […]

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Letter from the Editor: Earthquake Anniversary

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)

Dear Sundial readers, The first issue of the magazine for spring semester falls on the 30-year anniversary of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. With every building on campus damaged, the earthquake and its effects are integral to the identity of California State University, Northridge. In this issue, we highlight the diverse group of people who rebuilt…

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John Boston | Heaven Has a New Prisoner: Tom Frew ‘Ivy’

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Signal

Hey Tom Frew, wherever you may be. Thinking of you with an enormous smile, wishing we were, again, sitting across from one another at some fly-rich burrito-o-torium in Camarillo, exchanging insults as only old friends can do. You departed this comic veil last month at the age of 94. Pal? You don’t look a day […]

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Larry Moore | A Letter to Gary Horton

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Signal

Letter to Gary Horton, re: Jan. 24 commentary: Dear Gary: Someone called you brilliant and insightful? Hmmm. Please let me add holier than thou and overly dramatic to your accolades. Just because you saw Angela Davis speak at College of the Canyons doesn’t make you more open minded than anyone else. Just because you know […]

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Cake Motorcycles Files For Bankruptcy In Sweden: Report

date: 2024-02-02, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

Multiple factors are reportedly to blame, including the failure of the firm’s most recent funding round.

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Porsche’s upgraded Taycan EV boasts longer range and faster charging

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

In initial tests, the new Porsche Taycan showed impressive driving range of up to 365 miles (587 km). Although these were pre-series models, the upgraded EV drove over 100 miles more than the current model.

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Polestar stops accepting custom Polestar 2 orders because demand is too high

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

Polestar’s online configurator is no longer accepting new custom Polestar 2 orders, and Polestar says that the reason is because demand is too high for its best-selling vehicle.

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Dr. Gene Dorio | Telemedicine Can’t Cross State Lines

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Signal

Taking two steps forward and one step back still allows society to move ahead. My career in medicine has seen technology enhance scientific achievement, advancing treatment and prevention while improving life expectancy and quality of life.  When I first started, CT scans did not exist. We now have MRIs, PET scans, fMRIs, proton beam therapy, […]

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Daily Deals (2-02-2024)

date: 2024-02-02, from: Liliputing

Amazon is giving away the original Fallout PC game to Prime members. The game may be 27 years old, but it’s a classic that laid the groundwork for several sequels and spin-offs, as well as an upcoming TV series. Is that enough to make you less salty about the fact that Amazon now charges Prime […]

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January 2024

date: 2024-02-02, from: Association of Research Libraries News

Last Updated on February 2, 2024, 1:38 pm ET Public Policy Briefing (January 2024) This issue includes: Copyright and Fair Use/Fair Dealing Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2024 Is February 26–March…

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Humans and Neanderthals Lived Side by Side in Northern Europe 45,000 Years Ago, Study Finds

date: 2024-02-02, from: Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists identified bone fragments of prehistoric modern humans in Germany, suggesting several millennia of coexistence with Neanderthals before the species disappeared

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CTL partners with Orange EV to electrify its yard truck fleet

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

Commercial Trailer Leasing (CTL) recently announced a groundbreaking partnership with Orange EV to bring a fleet of zero-emission electric yard trucks to various terminals across the US.

more…

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Critical vulnerability in Mastodon is pounced upon by fast-acting admins

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Danger of remote account takeovers leaves lead devs scared of releasing many details

Mastodon has called admins to action following the disclosure of a critical vulnerability affecting the decentralized social network favored by erstwhile Twitter lovers.…

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Gastro Obscura’s list of 50 Places to Eat and Drink Before You…

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Ken Striplin | A Tribute to Film History

date: 2024-02-02, from: SCV New (TV Station)

For more than a century, Santa Clarita has been one of the premier filming destinations in Southern California

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PiDog a New Member of the Pack

date: 2024-02-02, from: Stephen Smith’s blog

Introduction I recently received a SunFounder PiDog robot dog kit. I reviewed the SunFounder PiCar here along with software projects here and here. There are a lot of similarities between the PiCar and the PiDog as they are both controlled by a Raspberry Pi and both share the same robot hat to control the mechanisms, […]

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Honda admits it needs affordable EVs with plans for an electric Civic successor

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

For Honda to compete as the industry shifts to electric, CEO Toshihiro Mibe explained, “We need more affordable EVs.” Honda is set to expand its lineup with an electric replacement for its all-time best-selling Civic.

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My heart almost stood still

date: 2024-02-02, from: Letters of Note

The following letter was written exactly 100 years ago. It’s a remarkable piece of writing that never fails to move me. And because you deserve it, above the transcript I’ve included audio of the letter being read by the lovely Juliet Stevenson, taken from the Letters of Note: Music audiobook. Born in Alabama in 1880, Helen Keller

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Aptera sells all 2,000 production slots of its Launch Edition solar EV, raising nearly $34 million

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

We are just over one year removed from the initial launch of solar EV startup Aptera’s Accelerator program, which was implemented to not only get customers to commit to their SEV purchase fully but also help give the company some financial runway as it inches toward scaled production. It may have taken longer than anticipated, but the program succeeded, raising nearly $34 million.

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Behind the Blog: Social Media’s ‘IDGAF Era’ and Weather Clout Chasers

date: 2024-02-02, from: 404 Media Group

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we social media companies being in their “IDGAF Era” and a viral thread about California’s ARkStorm.

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NX on Prime

date: 2024-02-02, from: Chris Coyier blog

My favorite TV show, Northern Exposure (1990-1995) was entirely unavailable on any streaming service since streaming services existed. If you wanted to watch it, you had to get your hands on the DVDs. I totally have them. The first two seasons came in a little cute parka around the case, then they cheaped out and […]

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Ayo Edebiri Draws a New Yorker Cartoon

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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NASA Sets Coverage for Axiom Mission 3 Departure from Space Station

date: 2024-02-02, from: NASA breaking news

NASA will provide live coverage of the undocking and departure of the Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) private astronaut flight from the International Space Station before the crew returns to Earth.  The four-member astronaut crew is scheduled to undock no earlier than 6:05 a.m. EST Saturday, Feb. 3, from the space-facing port of the station’s Harmony […]

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Trek unveils new Marlin+ e-bike pushing Bosch mid-drives to new affordability

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

Today, Trek announced its newest electric mountain bike, the Trek Marlin+. Not only is it an interesting electric hardtail MTB in its own right, but it also offers one of the most affordable Bosch-powered mid-drives on the market.

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Tesla power steering probe upgraded after thousands more incidents reported

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Probe that started with 12 records six months ago has ballooned to 2,191 claims of failed 2023 Model 3 and Y steering

An investigation of Tesla power steering problems was this week upgraded to an engineering analysis after initial probing turned up thousands more failures.…

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NASA Invites Public to Share in Excitement of PACE Mission Launch

date: 2024-02-02, from: NASA breaking news

NASA is hosting virtual activities ahead of the launch of the PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission and invites you to share in the fun. The PACE mission will help us better understand how the ocean and atmosphere exchange carbon dioxide, measure key atmospheric variables associated with air quality and Earth’s climate, and monitor […]

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Tesla Cybertruck Aero Wheel Covers Are Chewing Into Tire Sidewalls

date: 2024-02-02, from: Inside EVs News

The Cybertruck’s fancy Goodyear tires are being chewed up by its wheel covers. Here’s what’s happening next.

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ARL Celebrates Black History Month 2024

date: 2024-02-02, from: Association of Research Libraries News

Last Updated on February 2, 2024, 2:50 pm ET   During the month of February, ARL is celebrating Black history. Join us and our member institutions as we honor and…

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Where the opioid crisis meets USC

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

On the first “Soapbox” of the year, host Fabián Gutiérrez hears from staff writer Sherie Agcaoili and Team Awareness Combating Overdose’s USC chapter president Aisling Covell about the opioid epidemic, its impact on the University community, and what its members can do to keep themselves and others safe.

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Shadow Landlords Strike Back

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Lever News

Backed by real estate money, Gov. Kathy Hochul refused to make public the secret, problematic companies that own a wide swath of New York.

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New Volvo Trucks FM Low Entry class 8 truck is electric only

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

Volvo Trucks just released an updated version of its FM Low Entry model cabover city truck with new features meant to give it an edge navigating urban environments. But the big news is tucked away beneath the cab. This truck is electric … and, for the first time, there is no diesel version coming.

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Tesla Cybertruck can power your home with Powershare for ~$4000 installation cost

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

Tesla Cybertruck can power your home with its new Powershare product, but we are now starting to get an idea of the cost. The installation alone is about $4000.

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The Rise of POMG, Part 2: Multima

date: 2024-02-02, from: Digital Antiquarian

To carry our story forward into the next phase of persistent online multiplayer gaming, we first need to go backward again — all the way back to the days when tabletop Dungeons & Dragons was new on the scene and people were first beginning to imagine how computers might make it more accessible. Some dreamed […]

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Internet legend holds that the biggest possible PDF is roughly half the…

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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The truth about the economy

date: 2024-02-02, from: Robert Reich on Substack

The one remaining problem can’t be dealt with through higher interest rates. It needs vigorous antitrust enforcement.

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Apple’s Q1 2024 Returns to Revenue Growth on Strong iPhone and Services Performance

date: 2024-02-02, from: TidBITS blog

Apple reported an overall 2% increase in revenues thanks to strong iPhone sales and record Services income, but some product categories—iPads and Wearables—and the key Greater China region suffered double-digit revenue declines for the quarter.

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FOSDEM 2024

date: 2024-02-02, from: Tilde.news

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timing

date: 2024-02-02, from: Ayjay blog

People often talk about comic timing, but what does that mean, exactly? Well, here’s an example, from one of the best comedy routines ever: Elaine May as Bell Telephone (in several personae) and Mike Nichols as a self-confessed “broken man.” Watch it just for fun, because it carries a lot of fun.  Then watch it […]

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Two hospitalized following home fire in East Bay

date: 2024-02-02, from: San Jose Mercury News

Fire crews were called to 1200 block of Temple Drive about 11:25 p.m. Thursday.

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MSI Cubi N ADL S is a small fanless PC with Intel Alder Lake-N

date: 2024-02-02, from: Liliputing

The MSI Cubi N ADL is a small desktop computer that measures 124 x 124 x 54mm (4.9″ x 4.9″ x 2.1″) and features a 6-watt quad-core processor based on Intel’s Alder Lake-N architecture, dual LAN ports, and support for up to three 4K displays. MSI first introduced the Cubi N ADL in early 2023, but […]

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UNITE All-Nighter Delights Amateur Astronomers

date: 2024-02-02, from: NASA breaking news

Maybe you read about them in the papers–amateur astronomers in Japan, Russia, France, Finland, and the United States have been pulling all-nighters to spot extraordinary exoplanets, planets orbiting stars other than the Sun.  NASA’s UNITE project holds these planetary stakeouts several times every month, and you can join in! This October, the UNITE team undertook a […]

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Apple Q1 2024 Results

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: Daring Fireball

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Ford’s EV sales slip in January as Mustang Mach-E deliveries fall 50%

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

Ford’s EV sales fell 11% in January amid slower-than-expected demand. The Mustang Mach-E led the downfall, with sales slipping 50% year-over-year.

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In Rare Intervention, US Urges Britain to ‘Reassess’ Cuts to Armed Forces

date: 2024-02-02, from: VOA News USA

London — Britain’s readiness and ability to fight a major conflict is under the spotlight after senior military officials at home and abroad questioned cuts to the country’s armed forces at a time of heightened global threats.

In a rare intervention, a senior United States official urged its ally Britain to reassess the size of its armed forces. The remarks, by U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, echo concerns of senior military commanders in Britain.

“I think it is important for the United Kingdom to reassess where they are today given the threats that exist today,” Del Toro told an audience at London’s Royal United Services Institute January 25, adding that Britain had to make a “decision around whether the army needs to be strengthened.”

He also spoke of his “tremendous respect” for the UK’s armed forces and praised the joint efforts between Britain and the U.S. in Operation Prosperity Guardian, a multinational force targeting Houthi rebels in Yemen to safeguard commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

Britain’s government defended its spending on the armed forces. A spokesperson for the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in a statement following Del Toro’s remarks: “The UK is the second biggest defense spender in NATO and the largest in Europe. The Navy, Army and Royal Air Force are all playing an active global role, operating across every ocean and continent. Our military strength is also why we are the U.S.’s partner of choice in taking action to defend against the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea.”

Meanwhile, some 20,000 British troops are set to take part in Exercise Steadfast Defender 2024 — NATO’s biggest drills since the Cold War. British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps highlighted Britain’s contribution in a speech last month.

“It will see our military joining forces with counterparts from 30 NATO countries — plus Sweden — providing reassurance against the Putin menace. Our carrier strike group will be out in full force, with our magnificent flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth leading the way, and flying from her decks will be the fifth generation F-35 Lightning jets,” Shapps said.

Behind that veneer, however, critics argue Britain’s armed forces are underfunded, underequipped and facing a recruitment crisis.

General Patrick Sanders, the outgoing head of the British army, warned recently that more needs to be done to equip and modernize the country’s armed forces in the face of the threat from Russia. Britain has about 73,000 soldiers — half the size it was 30 years ago. Sanders said Britain may need to train a “civilian army” in the event of a major war.

“Although there’s a lot of rhetoric from British defense ministers and senior officials that numbers aren’t everything, numbers are pretty important,” said Brigadier (Retired) Ben Barry, senior fellow for land warfare at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

“For example, a tank or a frigate or an F-35 can’t be in two places at once. It’s also fair to say that the British armed forces have a broad range of capabilities, which I think the U.S. welcomes, but many of those are themselves very small. For example, the British army can only produce a single division. The French army can produce two, the German army can produce three,” Barry told VOA.

The British army, navy and air force have all missed recruitment targets, according to government figures, with navy recruitment down by 22 percent in the 12 months to March 2023, compared with the previous year.

Two British naval frigates, the HMS Westminster and the HMS Argyll, are set to be decommissioned this year owing to a lack of crew able to operate them, reducing the total to nine, according to a report by London’s The Daily Telegraph.

The government did not comment on the newspaper report but highlighted that it has ordered eight new frigates — although these won’t be in service until at least the end of the decade.

Meanwhile, there are shortages of equipment across the armed forces, according to Barry, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

“All three armed forces don’t have sufficient stockpiles of ammunition and spare parts to conduct a sustained battle for the length of time that NATO envisages, and that NATO requires them to do,” Barry said.

“What we’ve seen over the last couple of years is the relative hollowing out of Europe’s armed forces, very publicly displayed with the well-reported difficulties of supplying enough equipment — weapons and ammunition — for Ukraine,” he said.

The British government has pledged to spend 2.5 percent of GDP on defense by 2030 and said it was committed to spending more “when conditions allow.”

Barry said the British military was still effective.

“One key ingredient is actually that they are willing to fight. And I think it’s fair to say the British armed forces still retain an ethos of combat in their DNA. And the British public, politicians and the media all see the use of force against the country’s enemies, in extremis [in highly difficult circumstances], as what the armed forces are for. That’s not true in all European or Western countries,” he told VOA.

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Kia U.S. All-Electric Car Sales Increased 57% In January 2024

date: 2024-02-02, from: Inside EVs News

The Kia EV9 outsold the EV6 last month.

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-02-02, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

I have a server that handles all my old sites, and it needs to be replaced, so I’m trying to figure out where to put all the sites. Most are really small, 10 or fewer files. But outline.land/treefun was large and interesting, so I thought I’d put a link here. I have forgotten so many of my little experiments.

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Save the Mars Sample Return mission, plead Congresscritters

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Letter: Budget cuts will ‘essentially cancel’ daring multi vehicle project unless reversed

Members of the US Congress have signed a letter calling for a reversal of cuts made to the budget of NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR.)…

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30 Years Ago: STS-60, the First Shuttle-Mir Mission

date: 2024-02-02, from: NASA breaking news

On Feb. 3, 1994, space shuttle Discovery took off on its 18th flight, STS-60. Its six-person crew of Commander Charles F. Bolden, Pilot Kenneth S. Reightler, and Mission Specialists N. Jan Davis, Ronald M. Sega, Franklin R. Chang-Díaz, who served as payload commander, and Sergei K. Krikalev of the Russian Space Agency, now Roscosmos, flew […]

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Ex-professor from San Jose pleads guilty to setting three wildfires during Dixie’s early days

date: 2024-02-02, from: San Jose Mercury News

“Maynard’s fires were placed in the perfect position to increase the risk of firefighters being trapped between fires,” a prosecutor wrote.

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A World without Passports

date: 2024-02-02, from: mrusme blog

According to my analytics dashboard, there’s a 70% chance you’re reading this on your phone. Maybe at home, or maybe while commuting to work, using your mobile data connection, for which you’ve probably signed up on a mobile contract. A contract for which you had to prove that you are you, likely by showing your national ID or passport. A contract for which you have to pay regularly, probably using a bank account that you also had to identify yourself for upon opening.

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US Issues New Iran-Related Sanctions for Cyber, Arms Activity

date: 2024-02-02, from: VOA News USA

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury said Friday it had imposed sanctions on four Iran- and Hong-Kong based companies for providing materials and technology to Iran’s ballistic missile and drone programs, and on a Hong Kong-based firm for selling Iranian commodities.

The Treasury also said it had imposed sanctions on six officials of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp’s Cyber Electronic Command for malicious cyber activities against critical infrastructure in the United States and elsewhere.

As a result of the sanctions, all property of the designated entities and individuals that are in the United States or fall under U.S. control are blocked. As a general rule, U.S. individuals or companies are barred from transactions involving the property of those designated.

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Hubble Sees a Merged Galaxy

date: 2024-02-02, from: NASA breaking news

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows ESO 185-IG013, a luminous blue compact galaxy (BCG). BCGs are nearby galaxies that show an intense burst of star formation. They are unusually blue in visible light, which sets them apart from other high-starburst galaxies that emit more infrared light. Astrophysicists study BCGs because they provide a relatively close-by […]

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Banana Pi BPI-F3 is a single-board PC with an 8-core RISC-V processor, dual Ethernet and PCIe 2.1

date: 2024-02-02, from: Liliputing

Most of Banana Pi’s single-board computers are powered by ARM-based processors. But the upcoming Banana Pi BPI-F3 has a RISC-V processor instead. The company says the SpacemiT RISC-V K1 processor selected for this board is a 64-bit, 8-core chip with single-core performance comparable to what you’d expect from a 1.3 GHz ARM Cortex-A55 processor. So the […]

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Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (1993): “Especially since most minimalists want to…

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Click clack craze: San Jose’s mechanical keyboard shop will have you throwing out your bland computer parts

date: 2024-02-02, from: San Jose Mercury News

Tiny Keyboard Shop in San Pedro Square is giving rise to a new tech hobby that’s taking the computer world by storm

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UCSB Men’s Basketball Fails to Complete Comeback in 79-69 Loss to UC Davis

date: 2024-02-02, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

UCSB will travel to Cal State Bakersfield on Saturday for a 7 p.m. tip off.

The post UCSB Men’s Basketball Fails to Complete Comeback in 79-69 Loss to UC Davis appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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San Jose apartments $75 million-plus deal helps affordable homes plan

date: 2024-02-02, from: San Jose Mercury News

Plans to convert a prominent downtown San Jose apartment complex into affordable housing have taken a big step with the purchase of the property.

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A job market in overdrive

date: 2024-02-02, from: Marketplace Morning Report

Some 353,000 more people were on payrolls in January — nearly double what economists expected. The job gains were spread across the economy, but could this labor market growth be inflationary? Also on the program: It’s been nearly a year since regional banks were in crisis, but trouble for commercial real estate means the turmoil isn’t over yet. We’ll also take an inside look at the “Star Wars” vintage merch economy.

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US Employers Added Surprisingly Robust 353,000 Jobs In January

date: 2024-02-02, from: VOA News USA

WASHINGTON — The nation’s employers delivered a stunning burst of hiring to begin 2024, adding 353,000 jobs in January in the latest sign of the economy’s continuing ability to shrug off the highest interest rates in two decades.

Friday’s government report showed that last month’s job gain — far above what economists had predicted — topped the December gain of 333,000, a figure that was itself revised sharply higher. The unemployment rate stayed at 3.7%, just above a half-century low.

Wages rose unexpectedly fast in January, too. Average hourly pay climbed a sharp 0.6% from December, the fastest monthly gain in nearly two years, and 4.5% from January 2023. The strong hiring and wage growth could complicate or delay the Federal Reserve’s intention to start cutting interest rates later this year.

The latest gains showcased employers’ willingness to keep hiring to meet steady consumer spending. It comes as the intensifying presidential campaign is pivoting in no small part on views of President Joe Biden’s economic stewardship. Public polls show widespread dissatisfaction largely because even though inflation has sharply slowed, most prices remain well above pre-pandemic levels. Some recent surveys, though, show public approval gradually improving.

This week, the Fed took note of the economy’s durability, with Chair Jerome Powell saying “the economy is performing well, the labor market remains strong.” The central bank made clear that while it’s nearing a long-awaited shift toward cutting interest rates, it’s in no hurry to do so.

The details in Friday’s jobs report pointed to broad hiring gains across the economy. Professional and business services, a category that includes managers and technical workers, added 74,000 jobs. Healthcare companies added 70,000, retailers 45,000, governments at all levels 36,000 and manufacturers 23,000.

The unemployment rate has now come in below 4% for two straight years, the longest such streak since the 1960s.

“Overall, the labor market remains strong and continues to defy expectations of a softening,’’ said Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics.”For Fed officials, these data strongly support patience on rate cuts. Policymakers will be in no rush to lower rates if job and wage growth continue to be robust over coming months.’’

To fight inflation, the Fed raised its benchmark rate 11 times beginning in March 2022. The higher borrowing costs were widely expected to boost unemployment and likely cause a recession. Yet the economy has managed to deliver enough job growth to avoid a downturn without accelerating inflation pressures. Inflation cooled throughout 2023, making it likelier that the Fed would achieve a “soft landing” — taming inflation without derailing the economy.

A series of high-profile layoff announcements, from the likes of UPS, Google and Amazon, have raised some concerns about whether they might herald the start of a wave of job cuts. Yet measured against the nation’s vast labor force, the recent layoffs haven’t been significant enough to make a dent in the overall job market. Historically speaking, layoffs are still relatively low, hiring is still solid and the unemployment rate is still consistent with a healthy economy.

Consumers as a whole have proved more resilient than expected in the face of the Fed’s rate hikes. Having socked away savings during the pandemic, most were willing to spend it as the economy reopened. And a wave of early retirements, some of them related to COVID-19, limited the number of people available for work and contributed to a tight labor market.

The gradual improvement in public confidence has emerged in a series of recent surveys. A measure of consumer sentiment by the University of Michigan has jumped in the past two months by the most since 1991. A survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that Americans’ inflation expectations have reached their lowest point in nearly three years. And a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 35% of U.S. adults call the national economy good, up from 30% who said so late last year.

The rate at which Americans are quitting their jobs, considered a reliable predictor of wage trends, has slowed to pre-pandemic levels. That suggests that workers have grown somewhat less confident of finding a better job elsewhere. Employers, as a result, may be less likely to feel pressure to raise wages to keep them — and to increase their prices to make up for their higher labor costs. That cycle can perpetuate inflation.

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California lawmakers unveil sweeping legislative proposals aimed at slavery reparations

date: 2024-02-02, from: San Jose Mercury News

The California Legislative Black Caucus announced the 2024 Reparations Priority Bill Package Wednesday, which lists 14 measures, including providing a formal apology.

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Dope or nope? A custom truck builder is modding up Rivians with lift kits, Kevlar paint, and roll cages [Video]

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

If you’ve been inside a Rivian R1T or R1S, you could argue they’re pretty well equipped to handle off-road terrain and are already reasonably customizable with add-ons. However, a custom truck specialist in Florida has reimagined the Rivian pickup for “Apocalyptic” level performance with an entirely customized exterior complete with LED lights, a roll cage, and even Kevlar paint.

more…

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Is critical infrastructure prepared for OT ransomware?

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

As extortion tactics evolve, operational shutdowns are the next step

Feature  The Colonial Pipeline ransomware infection has become a cautionary tale about how borking critical infrastructure can cause real-world pain, with fuel shortages leading to long lines and fistfights breaking out at gas stations. …

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Tesla Model 3 ‘Highland’ Falls Short In Norwegian Winter EV Range Test

date: 2024-02-02, from: Inside EVs News

All the cars in the test were below their advertised figures, but the Model 3 fell short by almost 30%.

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Why are California pay raises now bigger in the south?

date: 2024-02-02, from: San Jose Mercury News

Southern California wages rose at a 5% annual rate – the No. 2 hike among the 15 markets. The Bay Area’s 2.8% gain was the lowest of the 15.

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What’s Your Favorite Airport Amenity?

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Investigation into killings of 19 burros in California desert hits possible breakthrough

date: 2024-02-02, from: San Jose Mercury News

Nineteen burros were found shot to death along a 50-milestretch of Interstate 15 northeast of Los Angeles on Aug. 13, 2019.

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-02-02, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

I hit a snag in the upgrade for feedland.org. If you’re a MySQL expert, maybe you can help. Here’s the thread.

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Hyundai is launching an electric van as its first export model based on its new EV platform

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

Hyundai announced a new deal with Iveco Group to supply an all-electric van based on its global eLCV platform. The Iveco-badged electric van will be Hyundai’s first export to use its new EV platform.

more…

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Prospect High student punches teacher in face

date: 2024-02-02, from: San Jose Mercury News

Arrested for battery causing injury

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Tiny NASA Cameras to Picture Interaction Between Lander, Moon’s Surface

date: 2024-02-02, from: NASA breaking news

Say cheese, Moon. We’re coming in for a close-up. As Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander descends toward the Moon, four tiny NASA cameras will be trained on the lunar surface, collecting imagery of how the surface changes from interactions with the spacecraft’s engine plume. Developed at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, Stereo Cameras for […]

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A study about online identity (using HuffPo comments) found that people using…

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Elmo 2024

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: One Foot Tsunami

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Tesla recalling nearly 2.2 million vehicles for software update to fix warning lights

date: 2024-02-02, from: San Jose Mercury News

Tesla is recalling nearly all of the vehicles it has sold in the U.S. because some warning lights on the instrument panel are too small.

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Tangara - The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

date: 2024-02-02, from: Tilde.news

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Heavy rainfall hits Southern California, causing some havoc, with more to follow

date: 2024-02-02, from: San Jose Mercury News

Heavy rain made for traffic nightmares in parts of Southern California, as flooded streets and freeways forced many to seek detours on their way to work or school.

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Hubble Views a Dim but Distinct Galaxy

date: 2024-02-02, from: NASA breaking news

This image of the softly luminous spiral galaxy UGC 11105 is from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. It lies about 110 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hercules. Astronomers have different ways of quantifying how bright celestial objects are. Apparent magnitude is one of those methods. It describes how bright an object appears to an observer […]

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Hyundai Starts 2024 With 77% Year-Over-Year BEV, PHEV U.S. Sales Increase

date: 2024-02-02, from: Inside EVs News

Hyundai’s all-electric and car sales increased by 42% year-over-year.

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Prep roundup: No. 1 Mitty rolls again as sophomore McKenna Woliczko scores 1,000th point

date: 2024-02-02, from: San Jose Mercury News

Girls soccer: With Monte Vista, San Ramon Valley playing to a 0-0 tie, Amador Valley finishes alone in first place.

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Windows 11 24H2 is coming so we can all shut up about Windows 12 for another year

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

References to future update found in Microsoft documentation

Industry chatter over the fate of the Windows 11 brand in 2024 is again rising in volume following the discovery that a Windows 11 24H2 installation is most definitely on the way.…

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Tesla’s latest ‘million vehicle safety recall’ is about font sizes

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

Tesla is having to “recall” over 2 million vehicles, but again, the fix is just a software update and this time, it’s about font sizes. Seriously.

more…

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Maybe they found Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane? “The shape of the object…

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Was Hayward’s divestment vote an anti-Israel statement?

date: 2024-02-02, from: San Jose Mercury News

“Hayward divested for the people of Palestine,” Syrop said. “Watch the meeting and everything that led up to it and you’ll know what the intent was here.”

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US employers added surprisingly robust 353,000 jobs in January in further sign of economic strength

date: 2024-02-02, from: San Jose Mercury News

Friday’s report from the Labor Department showed that last month’s job gain topped the 333,000 that were added in December, a figure that was itself revised sharply higher. The unemployment rate stayed at 3.7%, just above a half-century low.

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Tesla drops Model Y price in Canada, now access up to $12,000 rebate in Quebec

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

Tesla has dropped the price of the two base Model Y trims in Canada, which now means buyers of the popular Model Y AWD could get up to $12,000 in rebate in Quebec.

This could be big as the Dual Motor version of the electric SUV is popular in the cold region.

more…

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Deno in 2023

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: Deno blog

2023 marked a significant step towards our vision of radically simplifying web development. Here are the biggest updates and what’s coming up next.

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Support for Veterans Leaves Rape Victims Behind

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: RAND blog

Far too many survivors of military sexual trauma are unable to access the generous benefits available to those injured by enemies overseas. Survivors are already far less likely to qualify for the full range of benefits and services available to those injured in combat, and the United States is doing nothing to rectify this injustice, allowing further inequities to fester.

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Former DYA detainees accused of sexually assaulting other detainee, 14

date: 2024-02-02, from: Guam Daily Post

Two men, 18 and 19 years old, who were formerly detainees at the Department of Youth Affairs were accused of sexually assaulting another male detainee from April to October 2023.

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WestCare receives CARF accreditation

date: 2024-02-02, from: Guam Daily Post

WestCare Pacific Islands earned a three-year accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities International, based on a 2-day survey conducted Nov. 16 and 17, 2023, WPI announced recently in a press release. The three-year accreditation will extend through…

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Bill introduced to extend magistrate deadline to 72 hours

date: 2024-02-02, from: Guam Daily Post

Sen. William Parkinson has introduced a bill which would extend the time limit for a person arrested to appear before a judge from 48 hours to 72 hours.

https://www.postguam.com/news/local/bill-introduced-to-extend-magistrate-deadline-to-72-hours/article_f77439b0-c16b-11ee-88b2-976eec3f817f.html Save to Pocket

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Public Health updates expanded Quaker recall

date: 2024-02-02, from: Guam Daily Post

The Department of Public Health and Social Services is updating the public on its Division of Environmental Health findings regarding the expanded recall of select Quaker Oats granola bars, cereals and snacks sold in Guam, Public Health announced recently in…

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CLTC awaits legal guidance on raceway options following attorney’s death

date: 2024-02-02, from: Guam Daily Post

Any potential decision regarding the opening of the Guam International Raceway in Yigo will have to wait, as the death of Deputy Attorney General Gary “Frank” Gumataotao has left the Chamorro Land Trust Commission without legal guidance.

https://www.postguam.com/news/local/cltc-awaits-legal-guidance-on-raceway-options-following-attorneys-death/article_1811b9ce-bfe9-11ee-83a3-0f8be812bfbd.html Save to Pocket

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Superintendent estimates mid-March contract award for mold mitigation and fencing

date: 2024-02-02, from: Guam Daily Post

The pressure is weighing on the Guam Department of Education to address mold mitigation and fencing repair in the interest of health and safety, but the arduous road has been riddled with bumps and has Superintendent Kenneth Erik Swanson expressing…

https://www.postguam.com/news/local/superintendent-estimates-mid-march-contract-award-for-mold-mitigation-and-fencing/article_5046f92e-c171-11ee-9539-97499713d239.html Save to Pocket

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Sticking to an Environmental Mission

date: 2024-02-02, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

Julie Schniederman, local business owner and single mom, attended the PPAI Expo in Las Vegas to share her eco-friendly response to single-use plastic promotional products.

The post Sticking to an Environmental Mission appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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350,000 Californians Are Now on the FAIR Plan, the Last Resort for Fire Insurance. Now What?

date: 2024-02-02, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

As the FAIR Plan writes more fire-insurance policies, homeowners complain about poor service, rising costs, and threats of getting kicked off.

The post 350,000 Californians Are Now on the FAIR Plan, the Last Resort for Fire Insurance. Now What? appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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Legendary US Groundhog Predicts Early Spring

date: 2024-02-02, from: VOA News USA

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Hungry Sea Otters Help Prevent Erosion on California’s Coast

date: 2024-02-02, from: Smithsonian Magazine

The marine mammals, which were once hunted nearly to extinction, feed on crabs that would make the land more susceptible to erosion by digging holes in the soil and eating roots

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Intel delays Ohio fab build, blames semiconductor slowdown

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

US govt isn’t exactly in a hurry with the Chips Act money either

Intel has seemingly postponed the completion date of its planned Ohio manufacturing site to late 2026, blaming the current weakness of the semiconductor market and delays in receiving CHIPS Act subsidy cash.…

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Interpol’s latest cybercrime intervention dismantles ransomware, banking malware servers

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Efforts part of internationally coordinated operations carried out in recent months

Interpol has arrested 31 people following a three-month operation to stamp out various types of cybercrime.…

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Volvo and Polestar Break Up

date: 2024-02-02, from: Heatmap News

Current conditions: “The largest storm of the season” is scheduled to make landfall tomorrow in California, which is fresh off one storm that dumped water across the state. The Spanish region of Catalonia has declared a state of emergency over its worst drought on record. Residents are protesting unprecedented water shortages in Mexico City, which is struggling after years of little rain.

THE TOP FIVE

1. Volvo splits with Polestar

Yesterday, Swedish automaker Volvo announced it is pulling funding from Polestar, its EV arm, which has struggled to gain a foothold in the market. As Jennifer Mossalgue reports in Electrek, Polestar is bleeding cash — it announced plans to cut 15% of its workforce last week, and needs a billion-dollar cash infusion over the next year to stay in business. Polestar will instead become the purview of Volvo parent company Geely, owned by Chinese billionaire Li Shufu.

2. Tesla settles lawsuit over water pollution

Yesterday, a judge in California’s San Joaquin County ordered Tesla to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by more than two dozen counties, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, for mislabeling hazardous waste and sending it to landfills that could not accept the particular substances, including “paint materials, brake fluids, used batteries, antifreeze and diesel fuel.” The lawsuit alleged that at least 101 facilities violated California’s waste management laws, including the factory in Fremont. The electric vehicle-maker has had multiple previous tangles with the Environmental Protection Agency over pollution from its factories.

“While electric vehicles may benefit the environment, the manufacturing and servicing of these vehicles still generates many harmful waste streams,” said San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins in a press release. “Today’s settlement against Tesla, Inc. serves to provide a cleaner environment for citizens throughout the state by preventing the contamination of our precious natural resources when hazardous waste is mismanaged and unlawfully disposed.”

Democrats take on AI’s environmental impact

Sen. Markey at a Capitol Hill rally in 2021.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

A group of Democratic lawmakers, led by Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, introduced a bill that would direct the EPA to study the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence. It also asks the National Institute of Standards and Technology to set up a system to both measure and voluntarily report those impacts. AI, like crypto mining, is energy-intensive, but it’s difficult to tell just how that energy use impacts the environment without any measurement or reporting mechanism in place.

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4. Rooftop solar’s woes continue

Earlier this week the software company Aurora Solar laid off 20% of its 500-person staff, about a year after it raised $200 million in a Series D round.

“Like many other companies in the solar industry, we’ve felt the effects of larger macroeconomic challenges, including higher interest rates and the impact of NEM 3.0 in California,” Aurora Solar told Tim De Chant at TechCrunch.

NEM 3.0 is California’s latest iteration of a net metering regulation. Under the new structure, which came into effect in April of last year, compensation rates for solar customers in the state dropped by about 75%, which means rooftop solar is no longer the steal deal it once was.

The news is the latest in a series of signs that the rooftop solar industry is in a tough spot at the moment — as Alana Semuels wrote in Time last week, more than 100 residential solar-related companies declared bankruptcy in 2023 alone.

5. Otters are inadvertent erosion fighters

Sea otters are playing a crucial role in stopping estuaries in California from eroding away, according to a delightfully-titled article in Nature. After conservation efforts succeeded in helping sea otter populations in the state rebound from the brink of extinction, researchers found that the animals were inadvertently stopping salt marshes like Monterey Bay’s Elkhorn Slough from washing away by eating the crabs that were picking at vegetation that keeps the sandy banks of the marsh together. Erosion in the areas where otters returned slowed from 30 centimeters a year to 10 centimeters a year.

“It’s remarkable when you think about it,” Jane Watson, a community ecologist at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, Canada, told Nature’s Jude Coleman. “You can have a single animal, the sea otter, come in and through predation actually mitigate the effects of erosion.”

THE KICKER

It’s cloudy with a chance of flurries in Punxsutawney, PA, where the eponymous rodent is scheduled to make his prediction for Groundhog Day, and The Washington Post’s Kasha Patel has a story about it told entirely in verse. Punxsutawney Phil, Patel notes, has a bit of competition these days:

“The National Weather Service issues seasonal outlooks based on computer models and science. They do not have a groundhog for reliance.”

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LA Mayor Karen Bass Wants Public Input On Police Chief Search. Here’s How The LAPD’s New Leader Will Be Picked

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The LAist

We lay out the process under the charter, what’s on the agenda for next term and who you should follow to stay in the know.

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Archaeologists Discover 1,700-Year-Old Jade Mask Inside the Tomb of a Maya King

date: 2024-02-02, from: Smithsonian Magazine

Located in Guatemala, the tomb also held rare mollusk shells, carvings and other funeral offerings

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Why so many companies are incorporated in Delaware

date: 2024-02-02, from: Marketplace Morning Report

Elon Musk is considering reincorporating Tesla in Texas after a court in Delaware, where Tesla is currently incorporated, voided his $56 billion compensation package. But roughly two-thirds of Fortune 500 are incorporated in the First State. We’ll examine why. Plus, Apple and Amazon are doing just fine, as reported in their latest earnings. And how can nature be a measurable part of our economy? The Biden administration seeks to find out.

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Vonmercier is the electric sportscar hovercraft that will have you saying, “Ok, but why?”

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

Hovercrafts are the platypus of the transportation world, borrowing parts and principles from wildly divergent sources and mashing them together into something that physically functions but rarely looks very attractive. Vonmercier seems to be trying to change all that with a new electric hovercraft design that heavily embraces the world of sleeky, sexy sportscars. Say hello to the Vonmercier Arosa EV hovercraft.

more…

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Hubble Sees a Merged Galaxy

date: 2024-02-02, from: NASA breaking news

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows ESO 185-IG013, a luminous blue compact galaxy (BCG). BCGs are nearby galaxies that show an intense burst of star formation. They are unusually blue in visible light, which sets them apart from other high-starburst galaxies that emit more infrared light. Astrophysicists study BCGs because they provide a […]

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Restrictive licensing keeps businesses grounded in cloud vendor vortex

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Microsoft named – again – by EU trade groups seeking to level the playing field

New research is highlighting the restrictive licensing practices deployed to prevent businesses from switching cloud providers.…

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El Salvador heads to the polls

date: 2024-02-02, from: Marketplace Morning Report

From the BBC World Service: El Salvador’s current president, Nayib Bukele, is widely expected to be returned to power, but concerns about the economy and human rights violations under his leadership remain. Then, it may take place in a galaxy far, far away, but the trade in “Star Wars” merchandise is generating millions of dollars on this planet.

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@Tomosino’s Mastodon feed (date: 2024-02-02, from: Tomosino’s Mastodon feed)

It is done. I’m no longer a US citizen! Hurray!!!

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A Self-Enforcing Protocol to Solve Gerrymandering

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-01-26, from: Bruce Schneier blog

In 2009, I wrote:

There are several ways two people can divide a piece of cake in half. One way is to find someone impartial to do it for them. This works, but it requires another person. Another way is for one person to divide the piece, and the other person to complain (to the police, a judge, or his parents) if he doesn’t think it’s fair. This also works, but still requires another person—­at least to resolve disputes. A third way is for one person to do the dividing, and for the other person to choose the half he wants.

The point is that unlike protocols that require a neutral third party to complete (arbitrated), or protocols that require that neutral third party to resolve disputes (adjudicated), self-enforcing protocols just work. Cut-and-choose works because neither side can cheat. And while the math can get really complicated, the idea …

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Italy’s far-right government may buy a stake in Stellantis

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

Stellantis has been at odds with the Italian government for its lack of support in EV adoption and not backing home-grown brands Fiat and Alfa Romeo. But now Italy says it is open to buying a stake in Stellantis, Reuters reports, using the same model France uses for its beloved Renault.

more…

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P&B : Winnie Lim

date: 2024-02-02, from: Manu - I write blog

This is the 23rd edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Winnie Lim and her blog, winnielim.org

I first discovered Winnie’s website thanks to the recomendation of Jamie Crisman who’s been featured on the series a couple of months ago. I had her site listed on my spreadheet and was planning to contact her so imagine my surprise when she appeared as a supporter on my Ko-Fi page! It was such a delightful moment. I love to be able to feature people who are supporters of the series because it gives this fun project a sense of community.

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Class Notes: Enchiridion

date: 2024-02-02, from: Ayjay blog

Second in a series of reflections on what I’m teaching.  Late in his life, Augustine wrote his Enchiridion in response to a request from someone named Laurentius. What Laurentius wanted was a handy summary of Christian teaching that he could “always keep beside” him, to have ready when questions arose. He also wanted the handbook […]

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Breaking: Electric motorcycle company CAKE quietly files for bankruptcy

date: 2024-02-02, from: Electrek Feed

CAKE, the Swedish electric motorcycle maker known for its eye-catching designs, is reportedly filing for bankruptcy after failing to raise enough funding to keep operations afloat.

more…

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Raspberry Pi powers first driverless car in Formula SAE Brazil competition

date: 2024-02-02, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)

Team Ampera pushed through various prototypes before creating a Raspberry Pi-powered car capable of navigating the Formula SAE Brazil track completely autonomously.

The post Raspberry Pi powers first driverless car in Formula SAE Brazil competition appeared first on Raspberry Pi.

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Return to Office mandates boost company profits? Nope

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Biz boffins say bottom line and market cap didn’t change post directive – but staff mood did

Research has shed light on the profitability gains that the biggest US corporations experienced after issuing return to office mandates: There weren’t any, and the policy made their staff unhappier.…

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Think the news industry was struggling already? The dawn of 2024 is offering few good tidings

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>NEW YORK &#8212; On Friday, the National Press Club is offering solace &#8212; and a free meal &#8212; by giving recently laid-off journalists tacos in recognition of a brutal stretch that seems to offer bad news daily for an already struggling industry.</p>
        

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Hilo rezoning request draws opposition from neighbors

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>A derelict Hilo property could be converted into retail and office space, despite disapproval from neighbors.</p>
        

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Hawaiian Electric program aims to ‘defend against the increasing threat of wildfires’

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Hawaiian Electric Co. said Thursday the state Public Utilities Commission approved its $190 million Climate Adaptation Transmission and Distribution Resilience Program application.</p>
        

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Major construction begins at Kilauea summit in HVNP

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is preparing to demolish the landmark Jaggar Museum.</p>
        

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‘We work for Phil’: The iconic groundhog is the boss in Punxsutawney

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>In Punxsutawney, Phil is always the boss, but even more so this time of year.</p>
        

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Police take ‘armed and dangerous’ suspect into custody

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Police have arrested the subject of a press release issued last week describing the man as &#8220;armed and dangerous.&#8221;</p>
        

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Taylor Swift, Donald Trump and the Right’s Abnormality Problem

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>There was a brief period in the later part of the COVID-19 pandemic, between the moment when Glenn Youngkin swept into the Virginia governorship and the full political return of Donald Trump, when I became convinced that American liberalism was headed for a truly epochal defeat in 2024.</p>
        

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GOP shows it wants chaos, not solutions

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>The apparent collapse in Congress of a bipartisan agreement on America&#8217;s southern border has exposed two glaring truths regarding today&#8217;s Republican Party:</p>
        

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NFL invites Lunas leaders to Super Bowl in Las Vegas

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>The Lahainaluna High School football team finished just a bit short of playing for a state championship last fall.</p>
        

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Soccer state championships kick off

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>WAIPAHU, O&#8216;ahu &#8212; The Hawaii High School Athletic Association (HHSAA) Division I and Division II girls soccer state championship quarterfinals were played Thursday evening at Waipi&#8216;o Soccer Complex.</p>
        

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Top collegiate golfers to compete on the Big Island at next week’s Amer Ari Intercollegiate

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>PUAKO &#8211; Some of the nation&#8217;s top collegiate golfers will gather on the isle&#8217;s windward side next week at the 33rd Annual Amer Ari Intercollegiate hosted by the University of Hawai&#8217;i at Hilo at the Mauna Lani Resort Golf Club.</p>
        

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Mayor Roth signs Bill 103, naming the James “Jimmy” Correa Ballfield

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Mayor Mitch Roth announced Thursday the signing of Bill 103, which will designate the ballfield within the Dr. Francis F.C. Wong Stadium in the Ho&#8216;olulu Complex as the James &#8220;Jimmy&#8221; Correa Ballfield.</p>
        

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Short closure of Waipi‘o Valley Road announced

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Waipi&#8216;o Valley Road will be temporarily closed for part of Wednesday, Feb, 7, to facilitate the installation of state-of-the-art fiber optic cable lines.</p>
        

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Palm Springs capped short-term rentals. Now some home prices are in free-fall

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Two years ago, YouTube star Luan Palomera paid $1.5 million for a chic vacation home in Palm Springs.</p>
        

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BIIF Championships: Kona, KSH clinch island titles

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>HILO &#8212; If there was ever a time for No. 4 Konawaena girls basketball to come through in a big moment, it was in the KTA/Big Island Interscholastic Federation (BIIF) Division I Championship on Wednesday against No. 8 Waiakea. And came through, they did.</p>
        

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Baker Mayfield helps NFC to early lead over AFC in revamped Pro Bowl Games

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) &#8212; Tampa Bay&#8217;s Baker Mayfield beat Houston&#8217;s C.J. Stroud in the Precision Passing skills challenge, helping the NFC build a 12-6 lead over the AFC on the opening night of the 2024 Pro Bowl Games. </p>
        

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California pummeled by first of back-to-back atmospheric rivers as ‘Pineapple Express’ sweeps state

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>LOS ANGELES (AP) &#8212; Heavy rain flooded California roadways and much-needed snow piled up in the mountains as the first of back-to-back atmospheric rivers pummeled the state Thursday.</p>
        

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Biden cracks down on Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>WASHINGTON &#8212; President Joe Biden is signing an executive order Thursday allowing the United States to impose more sanctions on Israeli settlers &#8212; and possibly government officials &#8212; involved in violence against Palestinians.</p>
        

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Thousands of HGEA members entitled to COVID pay

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Gov. Josh Green and the state Legislature will have to figure out how to pay for an estimated $120 million to $150 million in retroactive hazard pay due to 7,800 unionized public workers who faced health risks at Hawaii public schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
        

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Mother of Michigan school shooter testifies in her own defense

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>The mother of the teenager who carried out Michigan&#8217;s deadliest school shooting testified Thursday that her son had never asked for professional help with mental health issues, despite what he wrote in a journal. She also said that he was just &#8220;messing around&#8221; when he sent his parents texts about seeing a demon.</p>
        

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Donald Trump loses London case against ex-MI6 spy over Kremlin dossier

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>LONDON &#8212; Donald Trump lost his London lawsuit against an ex-British spy after a court dismissed his claim linked to the notorious dossier about alleged ties between the Kremlin and the former U.S. president&#8217;s successful run to the White House.</p>
        

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Space Force to get its 1st astronaut on SpaceX launch this year

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>NASA announced the four members for the planned August SpaceX mission to rotate crew on the International Space Station and it includes the first member of the U.S. Space Force flying to orbit.</p>
        

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US hints large response to Iran-backed militias is imminent as Houthi rebels target another ship

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday it&#8217;s time to further disable Iran-backed militias that have struck at U.S. forces and ships in the Middle East and the U.S. is preparing to take significant action in response to the deaths of three U.S. service members in Jordan.</p>
        

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Nevada gaming industry broke more records in 2023

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>For the third straight year, Nevada gaming win was higher than in its previous 12 months.</p>
        

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Permanent Lahaina debris site narrowed to three locations

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Two West Maui locations and the Central Maui Landfill have been chosen as the finalists for the permanent disposal site for the ash and debris from the Lahaina wildfire.</p>
        

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Kupu seeking applicants for youth summer programs

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Kupu, Hawaii&#8217;s leading conservation and youth education nonprofit, is seeking applicants for the Hawaii Youth Conservation Corps Summer Program, which offers an intensive, hands-on experience into the world of conservation.</p>
        

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Junior Country Fair this Saturday at Waiakea High

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>The Waiakea High School Class of 2025 will be hosting this year&#8217;s Junior Country Fair from 7 a.m. to noon Saturday at the school&#8217;s cafeteria.</p>
        

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Meet growers, get advice at Plant People Road Show

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Featuring Big Isle mom-and-pop nurseries, the Plant People Road Show is 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, at the Makaeo Pavilion at Old Kona Airport State Recreation Area.</p>
        

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Cherry blossom fest returns to Waimea

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>&#8216;Tis the season when thousands of locals and visitors descend upon Waimea to celebrate heritage, culture and cherry blossoms.</p>
        

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Obituaries for February 2

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Lourisla Kauanoe, 69, of Kapaau died Jan. 11 at North Hawaii Community Hospital. She was born in Honolulu. Visitation 9:30-10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, at Kalahikiola Church. Services 10-11:30 a.m. Casual attire. Survived by husband, Allen P. Kauanoe Sr.; daughters, Kimberly Kauanoe and January Kauanoe; sons, Allen and Johnpatrick Kauanoe; sisters, Gwendolyn Wallace, Barbara Jean Karatti, Zariai (Peter) Kaheaku and Naomi Thornton; brothers, Charles Karatti, Richard (Cindy) Karatti and Rialrome (Anu) Thornton; five grandchildren; aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and in-laws. Arrangements by Cremation Services of West Hawaii.</p>
        

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BIIF canoe paddling championship postponed due to weather

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>The Central Pacific Bank/BIIF canoe paddling championship has been rescheduled from Saturday morning to Wednesday afternoon due to inclement weather and high surf.</p>
        

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Pahoa man dies after rollover on DKI Highway

date: 2024-02-02, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>A 30-year-old Pahoa man died early this morning following a single-vehicle collision on Daniel K. Inouye Highway in Hilo that occurred late Thursday evening.</p>
        

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Groundhog Day live updates | Punxsutawney Phil predicts an early spring

date: 2024-02-02, from: Associated Press, US News

The spotlight is on Gobbler’s Knob in western Pennsylvania, where handlers of a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil will announce whether he saw his own shadow and predicts six more weeks of winter — or if it’ll be an early spring.

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Building a 16-bit CPU in a spreadsheet is Excel-lent engineering

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

But can it run Doom?

Microsoft Excel was used for many purposes over the years from accounting to 3D rendering, yet implementing a 16-bit CPU in the spreadsheet is something else.…

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Why I was expelled from Miss Bouton’s nursery school

date: 2024-02-02, from: Robert Reich on Substack

The start of my schooling did not go well

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Techie climbed a mountain only be told not to touch the kit on top

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Twelve very cold hours and many miles after being told to ignore the power button, guess what happened?

On Call  Every Friday, The Register presses the OFF button the week with a fresh instalment of On Call, our column that recounts readers’ experiences of taking on tricky tech support jobs in exotic places.…

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Classifieds – February 2, 2024

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The Daily Trojan features Classified advertising in each day’s edition. Here you can read, search, and even print out each day’s edition of the Classifieds.

The post Classifieds – February 2, 2024 appeared first on Daily Trojan.

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2024 KTM 1390 Super Duke R Evo: Everything We Know

date: 2024-02-02, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

Let’s take a deeper dive into Team Orange’s most potent hyper-naked to date.

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Today in SCV History (Feb. 2)

date: 2024-02-02, from: SCV New (TV Station)

1848 – SCV becomes part of the United States with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. [treaty

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Biopics: Entertainment or exploitation?

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

How much privacy should those in the spotlight be expected to give up for fame?

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We need to bring back the classic rom-com

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Romantic comedies provide a host of benefits to various ages and demographics.

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Black Career Fair grows in second year

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The second fair offered more companies as well as added speed networking sessions.

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‘Percy Jackson’ makes splashes, not waves

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The Disney+ series, produced by Rick Riordan, waters down the source material’s original pacing, action, and dialogue to fans’ dismay.

The post ‘Percy Jackson’ makes splashes, not waves appeared first on Daily Trojan.

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USC kicks off Black History Month

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The celebration began with an event featuring speakers and a dance performance.

The post USC kicks off Black History Month appeared first on Daily Trojan.

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Heartbreak in La Jolla for men’s volleyball

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The Trojans fell just a few points short in a five-set thriller versus UC San Diego.

The post Heartbreak in La Jolla for men’s volleyball appeared first on Daily Trojan.

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Getty Villa probes Egyptian portraits

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

A new exhibition studying the portraits of Egypt’s 26th Dynasty opened Jan. 24.

The post Getty Villa probes Egyptian portraits appeared first on Daily Trojan.

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Men’s golf couldn’t finish after hot start

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

After placing second on day one, the Trojans lost their stride down the stretch.

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Exploring natural wonders abroad

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Even losing one’s glasses didn’t take away from the beauty.

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USG hosts open house for second designated campus rest spot in Library for International and Public Affairs

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The program will serve as a model to other libraries as to how to implement a designated space for students to recharge.

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Get out and get moving

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Exploring public space and play in and around our communities.

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Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users toward Edge

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Asks why only one Bing ad – the one you see when searching for other browsers – looks like a Windows popup

Mozilla on Thursday accused Microsoft of forcing its Edge browser down the throats of Windows users through “dark patterns” – design elements geared to push people towards certain decisions.…

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Nolan Has A New Modular Touring Helmet Called The N120-1

date: 2024-02-02, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

It’s the first helmet in Nolan’s collection to feature flip-back technology.

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Check Out Gocycle’s Sleek And Sporty CX Cargo E-Bike

date: 2024-02-02, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

Gocycle wants to make electric cargo bikes fun and exciting too.

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Five year full time curl anniversary

date: 2024-02-02, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog

Five years ago now, on February 2nd 2019, I started working for wolfSSL doing curl full time. I have now worked longer for wolfSSL than I previously did for Mozilla. I have said it before and I will say it again: working full time on curl is my definition of living the dream. Joining wolfSSL … Continue reading Five year full time curl anniversary →

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Webcurios 02/02/24

date: 2024-02-02, from: Web Curios blog

Reading Time: 36 minutes February is the worst month of the year. January gets all the attention and the opprobrium, true, but it’s February that’s the real cnut – all of the misery of January with none of the sympathy. BUT I AM SYMPATHETIC! I FEEL YOUR PAIN! Still, WE CAN GET THROUGH IT TOGETHER! Here’s the deal –…

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February 1, 2024

date: 2024-02-02, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog

One of the biggest stories of 2023 is that the U.S. economy grew faster than any other economy in the Group of 7 nations, made up of democratic countries with the world’s largest advanced economies. By a lot. The International Monetary Fund yesterday reported that the U.S. gross domestic product—the way countries estimate their productivity—grew by 2.5%, significantly higher than the GDP of the next country on the list: Japan, at 1.9%.

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Amazon extends the life of its servers to six years, expects $900m benefit in 90 days

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Cloud optimization efforts ebb, and migrations resume

Amazon.com has completed a “useful life study” for its servers and decided they can be used for an extra year – taking the working life from five to six years. It predicts the change will contribute $900 million to net income in Q1 of 2024 alone.…

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UK Court Throws Out Trump’s ‘Steele Dossier’ Lawsuit

date: 2024-02-02, from: VOA News USA

London — London’s High Court on Thursday threw out Donald Trump’s lawsuit against a British private investigations firm over the “Steele dossier” which alleged ties between Trump’s election campaign and Russia.

Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, had brought a data protection lawsuit against Orbis Business Intelligence about claims in a dossier written by its co-founder, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.

Judge Karen Steyn ruled that the former U.S. president’s case could not continue, saying in a written ruling that “there are no compelling reasons to allow the claim to proceed.”

Trump said in a witness statement made public in October that he brought the case to prove claims in the so-called Steele dossier, published by the BuzzFeed website in 2017, that he engaged in “perverted sexual acts” in Russia, were false.

Many of the allegations were never substantiated and lawyers for Trump, 77, said that the report was “egregiously inaccurate” and contained “numerous false, phony or made-up allegations.”

Steyn noted that Trump said the allegations were untrue, adding: “I have not considered, or made any determination, as to the accuracy or inaccuracy of the (allegations).”

Orbis argued that Trump brought the claim simply to address his “longstanding grievances” against the company and Steele.

Steyn said in her ruling that she did not need to decide that because Trump had “no reasonable grounds for bringing a claim for compensation or damages.”

The London lawsuit is one of many legal cases involving Trump, who faces four separate criminal prosecutions in the United States.

Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement: “President Trump will continue to fight for the truth and against falsehoods such as ones promulgated by Steele and his cohorts.”

Orbis did not respond to a request for comment.

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How to manage your finances like a professional

date: 2024-02-02, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)

While nearly 75% of Americans have a budget, a startling 84% admit to regularly exceeding it, revealing a significant gap between intention and action. Managing your finances like a professional is an easily attainable goal, provided you are willing to learn from your financial behaviors and follow a consistent routine. As a college student, juggling…

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Hostages Rescued, Armed Man Detained at P&G Factory in Turkey

date: 2024-02-02, from: VOA News USA

ANKARA — Police detained an armed man who took staff hostage at a Procter & Gamble factory in northwestern Turkey on Thursday and rescued seven hostages, ending a protest against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, the local governor’s office said.

The Kocaeli governor’s office said that the hostages were unharmed, adding that the operation to rescue them was launched after negotiations with the hostage-taker failed.

“Our security forces intervened and neutralized the suspect,” the statement said, adding that he was an employee of the factory who “wanted to draw attention to the ongoing occupation in Gaza.”

P&G thanked the authorities for their handling of the crisis.

“The fact that no one was harmed is our greatest relief. We are grateful to the authorities and first responders who managed the situation with courage and professionalism,” the company said in a statement.

“Our efforts to support those employees most directly impacted, their families and the entire P&G community are ongoing.” 

The hostage-taker entered the factory in Gebze industrial zone in Kocaeli province around 3 p.m. (1200 GMT), the Demiroren news agency said earlier, adding that police had then rushed to the scene and sought to persuade him to give himself up. 

The hostages were six men and a woman, media reports had said. 

A photo released by local media earlier showed a man inside the factory whose face was covered with a Palestinian scarf and who was wearing what looked possibly like an explosive device. 

Another photo from the scene showed the man holding a gun in one hand and making a ‘V’ sign with his other hand in front of a wall on which Turkish and Palestinian flags were painted with a script that reads: “Gates will open. Either coffin rest or death for Gaza.”

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Wikileaks source and former CIA worker Joshua Schulte sentenced to 40 years jail

date: 2024-02-02, updated: 2024-02-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

‘Vault 7’ leak detailed cyber-ops including forged digital certs

Joshua Schulte, a former CIA employee and software engineer accused of sharing material with WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 40 years in prison by the US Southern District of New York on Thursday.…

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Check Out The New Moto Morini X-Cape 650 Black Ebony Edition

date: 2024-02-02, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

Check Out The New Moto Morini X-Cape 650 Black Ebony Edition

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Check Out Touratech’s Soft Luggage Lineup For The New BMW R 1300 GS

date: 2024-02-02, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

Touratech gears the new BMW R 1300 GS up for the long haul with a wide selection of tank bags and saddlebags.

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Highly-condensed time-lapse footage with Frigate

date: 2024-02-02, from: Jeff Geerling blog

Highly-condensed time-lapse footage with Frigate

        <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Frigate's <a href="https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases/tag/v0.13.0">0.13.0 release</a> included a feature near and dear to my heart: easy exporting of timelapses, straight from the Frigate UI.</p>

I’m a little bit nutty about timelapses, and have made them with dashcams, GoPros, full DSLRs, webcams, and even Raspberry Pi.

But one thing I haven’t done (until now) is make easy timelapses from IP cameras like the Annke 4K PoE cameras I use for security around my house.

Eventually I’m planning on automating things further, but for now, here’s my process for building up a timelapse that’s relatively small in file size, preserving only frames where there’s motion from frame to frame.

For something like clouds/sky, or natural environments, it’s better to do a straight timelapse export and maybe recompress it if you want, but for indoor or outdoor security footage, it’s nice to condense it down.

  <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>

            <p>A poem by Isra Hassan.</p>

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