What to read to understand Sudan — Six books explain a country that has long been at war with itself [The Economist]
“Bolivia has an economic model that is no longer sustainable”—a financial crisis looms [The Economist] #Podcasts
Suspected Islamic State chief Qurayshi killed in Syria, Turkey says [BBC News]
Ukraine Latest: Army Chief Zaluzhnyi Meets With Top NATO General [Bloomberg] #Ukraine
Police still searching for Texas man accused of killing five neighbors [Reuters]
Guantánamo detainees may start dying if the US does not act — A grave medical crisis at Guantánamo is looming and needs immediate government action to prevent deaths. [AL-Jazeera News]
The Curious Side Effects of Medical Transparency [New Yorker]
The Stream Deck mastered the LCD key by making it peripheral [The Verge]
Right-wing media used to shun pop culture. Now it’s obsessed with it. [Vox]
A pot of gold at the intersection of DevOps and generative AI? [TechCrunch]
May/June 2023 — How AI is transforming the classroom. Surveilling students. Teaching the biliterate brain to read. What we’ve learned from “learning to code.” Plus keyboard obsessions, wildfire resilience, and shroom speak. [MIT Technology Review]
AOC rules out 2024 Senate run: 'She is not planning to primary Gillibrand,' spokesperson says [Insider]
Don't miss a beat at International Music Summit! Check out the full schedule of panels at #BeatportBase on Beatportal now. 🌴#IMSIbiza23 https://lnkd.in/e9zsEUSw [LinkedIn] #Beatport
‘Fearful and trigger happy’: flooded with guns and paranoia, the US reels from shootings [The Guardian]
Needing Younger Workers, Federal Officials Relax Rules on Past Drug Use — As more states legalize marijuana and competition for talent grows fiercer, the U.S. government is loosening guidelines from the “Just Say No” era. [New York Times]
Manhunt Continues For Texas Shooting Suspect, Reward Offered [Huffington Post]
What to Read When You Need to Start Over [The Atlantic]
Red States Are Trying To Fight The World On Climate [FiveThirtyEight] #ClimateChange
Opinion: The Kremlin is trying to kill Alexei Navalny. It should free him. [The Washington Post] #Ukraine
All eyes on US VP Kamala Harris after Biden 2024 reelection bid — Questions over 80-year-old Joe Biden's ability to carry out a second term are putting the US vice president in the spotlight. [Le Monde]
Is Bluesky the one? A Twitter alternative takes off. [Mashable]
Unpacking The Many Layers Of The “Big Chop” & What It Means For Black Women [VICE News] #Hair
The Ejection of Tucker Carlson is a Classic “Reverse Ferret” by Rupert Murdoch [The Intercept_]
For some long COVID patients, exercise is bad medicine — They used to run marathons. Now, taking a shower is exhausting. But for these patients—who have one of the most debilitating symptoms of long COVID—hope may be on the horizon. [National Geographic]
Authorities are offering $80K for information about the suspected Texas shooter [NPR]
Kings lost to the Warriors — but the playoff ride was ‘fantastic’ for Sacramento [CapRadioNews]
Brutalisation de l’ordre manifestant [Le Monde diplomatique]
At Long Last, the Foreign Service Gets the Netflix Treatment [Foreign Policy]
America Needs to Reassure Japan and South Korea [Foreign Affairs]
Smoke and Heat: Breaking Records in Southeast Asia [The Diplomat]
This ultraviolet image, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows a flare erupting on the sun’s corona. Small-scale flares driven by magnetic interactions heat and accelerate a plasma of charged particles, producing solar wind. [Quanta Magazine]
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“The Intel Quantum SDK 1.0 is available now on the OneAPI Intel Dev Cloud. In the future, Intel Corporation plans to release new versions of the SDK with added features and will integrate the SDK seamlessly with Intel’s quantum hardware. To learn more about Intel’s unique approach to quantum computing, read Intel Corporation’s quantum computing backgrounder.”

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