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• A New Discovery Just Upended What We Know About Stonehenge's Mysterious Origin

• Newly found rooms in Sahura's Pyramid challenge what we know of such structures

• Farmers plant more cocoa outside Africa

• The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines - by Brian Potter

  • HN comments

• The acute suicide crisis among veterinarians: 'You're always failing somebody'

• Consumers Are Less Interested in Brands Taking Stances on Sociopolitical Issues

Horseshit

• The Forrest Gump of Data Mining Saw It All

• Real mindfulness would transform the economy

• The drug-running DEA informant behind databases tracking our lives

• 'Overhyped' generative AI will get a 'cold shower' in 2024, analysts predict

  • HN comments

• What use has dropbox for AI? "universal search?" Dropbox redesigns its web interface and releases AI-powered Dash in open beta

• Artificial Intelligence Could Finally Let Us Talk with Animals

• Daring Fireball: Burger King Botched the Curling on an Apostrophe in a TV Commercial and I Am Very Much Here to Shit on Them for Doing So

• Living in privately rented homes linked to faster biological ageing, study finds

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Europe warns about X's misinformation, violence related to Hamas-Israel conflict

  • EU warns Elon Musk of 'penalties' for disinformation circulating on X amid war

  • EU warns Elon Musk over 'disinformation' on X about Hamas attack

  • EU asks Elon Musk to prove X isn't breaking Europe's disinformation rules

  • Musk argues with EU commissioner over Israel/Hamas disinformation on X

• Europe gives Mark Zuckerberg 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas conflict

  • HN comments

• Bad Speech | Hacker News

Musk

• SEC Probes Twitter Security Lapse Before Elon Musk Took Over

• The banks that funded Twitter deal may have a 'sell-down letter'

• The Contortions Required to Make X Sound Like a Healthy Business

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Inmates settle lawsuit after Arkansas jail doc gave them ivermectin for Covid-19

• Long Covid Might Be Diagnosed with Nearly 100 Percent Accuracy: Study

• New study will examine irritable bowel syndrome as long Covid symptom

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Bay Area high school grad rejected by 16 colleges hired by Google

Entertainment / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook's sexist, ageist ad-targeting violates Calif. law, court finds

• The Washington Post Plans Hundreds of Buyouts - Washingtonian

  • Washington Post slashing 240 jobs

• Utah sues TikTok, claiming app has harmful impact on children

• Pseudonymous stuff published in the 80s Newly discovered Terry Pratchett stories published

• Preparing for the end of third-party cookies

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Is Guix full-source bootstrap a lie?

• The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack | Hacker News

• Curl/libcurl HIGH CVE-2023-38545 seemed to have a patch diff out early?

• Starlink Direct to Cell

Space / UFO / Boomy Zoomers

• SpaceX slams FAA report on falling space debris danger

• Osiris-Rex: NASA reveals first look at 'beautiful' asteroid sample

  • NASA's Bennu Asteroid Sample Contains Carbon, Water

Crypto con games

• (Jan 2023) Funding rate manipulation shenanigans on FTX

  whenever someone trades on the bid, lowering the mark price down to the bid, immediately trade on the ask afterwards to push it back up.

• (Jan 2020) 'How can $24B in tethers move a $650B Bitcoin market cap?'

• The Places That Sam Bankman-Fried Left Behind

• SBF's ex-girlfriend Ellison testifies: "He directed me to commit these crimes"

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Real estate groups implore the Fed to stop rate hikes

• ExxonMobil agrees to buy shale group Pioneer in $59.5B deal

• Amazon sellers say they made a good living – until Amazon figured it out

• Payment Company Plastiq Goes Bankrupt

• 1970s-style stagflation may be at risk of repeating itself, Deutsche Bank warns

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• BOMBSHELL: Draft Search Warrant, Email in Hunter Biden Investigation Identify Joe Biden as 'the Big Guy' – RedState

• BREAKING: Leaked Docs Reveal THOUSANDS Of Emails Between VP Biden And Hunter's Businesses

• Tuberville reports former CIA director Hayden to Capitol Police over tweet

  Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) reported former CIA Director Michael Hayden to the Capitol Police on Tuesday over the former general’s tweet suggesting the lawmaker should be removed “from the human race.”

• Rep. Thomas Massie Designs ESP32 Debt Badge to Wear in Congress

  • HN comments

• The Neutron Prosecutor: How Special Counsel Hur May Prove the Ultimate Punchline in Washington – JONATHAN TURLEY

• FTC Proposes Rule to Ban Junk Fees

• House Republicans choose Scalise as their candidate for speaker after McCarthy’s ouster | Fox News

Newsom Grooming

• Newsom signs bill that would make it easier to delete online personal data

• Right-to-repair is now the law in California

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• MGM Didn't Pay Hackers' Ransom Because It Knew Of, Was Responding to Attack

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Hamas atrocities expose peril of liberals’ long embrace of Palestinians and Iran | Just The News

Israel

• Israel shuts down Hamas cryptocurrency accounts

• Hamas fooled Israel’s advanced surveillance by doing all of its planning offline, retired US general says.

• Israel Shouldn’t Go It Alone « My Life and Ideas

• Horror: Israeli Soldiers Discover Bodies of 40 Babies, Some Beheaded – RedState

  • Israeli army says it does not have 'confirmation' that 'Hamas beheaded babies'

• Syria Launches Missiles On Golan Heights As US Begins 'Surging' Defense Aid To Israel | ZeroHedge

• Something something "doomed to repeat it" Hacking Peace: Applying Cybersecurity Principle to Resolve the Gaza Conflict | Hacker News

• Graphic videos of Hamas attacks spread on X

• Hamas Attacks, Israel Bombs Gaza and Misinformation Surges Online

• Israel Actively Fighting A Secondary Front On Northern Border With Hezbollah: IDF | ZeroHedge

• The Challenges the IDF will face in Gaza

• Gad Saad: "necessary and justifiable defense against the Zionist aggressor"

• Tragic story of an Israeli couple who killed 7 Hamas militants to save their children

• Israel drops white phosphorus bombs on Gazans. do you call it humanity?

• IDF Says It Won't Back Up Claim about Beheaded Babies, Would Be 'Disrespectful'

• New York Times changes ‘Hamas terrorists’ to ‘Hamas gunmen.’

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• How The 2022 CEZ Event Shows The Fragility Of Environmental Sensors In High-Risk Areas | Hackaday

Health / Medicine

• Teflon pans leak thousands of plastic particles from each crack

• Singapore's smoke-free law have warded off 20K heart attacks in people over 65

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to delay electrification

• Soil heat extremes can outpace air temperature extremes

• Use of weather derivatives surges as extreme climate events rock the globe

• Prehistoric solar storm is warning for Earth, researchers say