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Putin’s fuel problem: How Ukraine is sapping Russia’s diesel and gasoline (www.politico.eu)

Ukraine is taking out oil refineries inside Russia, cratering Moscow’s supplies and sending local prices soaring....

Alan Wake 2 Still Hasn't Earned Back Its Budget (techraptor.net)

Pierre Poilievre Wants a Carbon Tax Election | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)

REMEMBER BREXIT? That time a Conservative Party directed widespread voter frustration at a single easy scapegoat, smothered the public with misinformation, and were rewarded with their biggest electoral victory in decades? Something similar is happening today in Canada....

College Protests Over Gaza Deepen Democratic Rifts (www.nytimes.com)

US intelligence believes Putin probably didn't order Navalny to be killed, Wall Street Journal reports (www.reuters.com)

Last month, Putin called Navalny's demise "sad" and said he had been ready to hand the jailed politician over to the West in a prisoner exchange provided Navalny never return to Russia. Navalny's allies said such talks had been under way [...] Washington had not absolved the Russian leader of overall responsibility for Navalny's...

Is it possible to erase the UEFI/BIOS using dd or rm -rf on Linux ? (yt3.ggpht.com)

Apple pulls AI image apps from the App Store after learning they could generate nude images (ptv-news.com.pk)

Blinken tells CNN the US has seen evidence of China attempting to influence upcoming US elections | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)

Ninth Circuit: 5th Amendment Doesn’t Cover Compelled Production Of Fingerprints To Unlock A Phone (www.techdirt.com)

from the passcodes-ftw dept

The GOP’s “Election Integrity” Lawyer Was Just Indicted for Election Subversion (www.motherjones.com)

The attorney, Christina Bobb running the Republican National Committee’s “election integrity” effort has been criminally charged by the state of Arizona for her efforts to help Donald Trump steal the 2020 election. This turn of events highlights the Orwellian meaning of the phrase “election integrity,” as used by Trump...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released [LWN.net] (lwn.net)

Gravy rule (slrpnk.net)

Biden Reads The Word "Pause" Off Teleprompter: "Four More Years, Pause" (www.realclearpolitics.com)

Russia vetoes a UN resolution calling for prevention of a dangerous nuclear arms race in space (apnews.com)

Fedora Linux 40 Officially Released with Kernel 6.8, Gnome 46 & KDE 6 (9to5linux.com)

Sadly, DNF5 and the new Anaconda installer didn’t make it to the party, in case you were wondering.

Spain accidentally releases drug lord who planned to kill heir to Dutch throne (www.politico.eu)

ESA says members won’t support any plan for libraries to preserve games online (www.gamedeveloper.com)

Netanyahu Resists U.S. Plan to Cut Off Aid to Israeli Military Unit (www.propublica.org)

"If you don't vote <insert democrat> democracy will end" (harpers.org)

This article does a great job of explaining people’s frustration with having to vote for Biden again. It’s long, so here are some quotes. They’re totally cherry-picked, I’d recommend reading the whole thing (especially if you think the problem started with Biden, and that Clinton and Obama were ever good choices)....

China is a threat to Europe’s gunpowder supply, defense boss warns (www.politico.eu)

Saab chief cautions that Beijing dominates supplies of a key component to make powder to fire shells, and metal for submarines and warships....

Kari Lake downplays 1864 abortion law, says Arizonans can travel '3 hours' for procedure (www.usatoday.com)

Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs (www.pcgamer.com)