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Time
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MSNBC
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Business Insider
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ESPN
- Vaughn wishes Irving well: 'Want him to succeed'
- Beanpot final pits Harvard, N'eastern for first time
- Lurie on Hurts extension: Nothing left to prove
- NBA approves sale of Suns, Mercury to Ishbia
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GQ
- The Biggest Menswear Trend at the 2023 Grammys? Normal Clothes
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Polygon
- How to link your Harry Potter Fan Club and WB Games accounts in Hogwarts Legacy
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- Overwatch 2 balance patch includes big changes for tanks, nerfs for Mercy
- The Fifth Season RPG will expose N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth to a new audience
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The Verge
- Tuesday’s top tech news: a new era for Microsoft’s Bing
- Here are the best Apple Watch deals right now
- Microsoft Authenticator drops support for Apple Watch
- Fox’s Super Bowl LVII ads won’t include any crypto companies
- FTC won’t appeal court decision permitting Meta to buy Within
- Twitch is making it much easier to catch up on chat
- Amazon’s Luna game streaming service has lost a lot of games recently
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Engadget
- The Switch has outsold the PS4, but Nintendo sees tougher times ahead
- Twitter reportedly had only 180,000 subscribers in the US by mid-January
- Tinder adds an incognito mode and more safety features
- Twitter will now remember your tab preference on Android and iOS
- The original 'Legend of Zelda' has been remade in Minecraft, without using mods
- Google experiment ditches WebKit for its own engine in Chrome for iOS
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Wired
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Techmeme
- https://www.ft.com/content/abee7e2e-1d18-4a68-aac5-665869db250f
- Nintendo cuts its full-year earnings and revenue outlook, including operating income from ~$3.8B to ~$3.6B, and revises Switch sales forecasts from ~19M to ~18M
- WhatsApp updates Status, adding a Private Audience Selector, Status Reactions, 30-second Voice Status messages, and more, rolling out on iOS, Android, and web
- U.S. FTC will not appeal decision allowing Meta to purchase VR content maker Within
- Apple execs on M2 chips, winning gamers and when to buy a Mac
- SoftBank reports a Q4 loss of ~$5B for its Vision Fund, its fourth straight quarterly loss, and investments of less than $350M in only a few startups
- Tinder rolls out new safety features, including an Incognito Mode
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Hacker News
- I made a Chrome Extension for summarizing any web articles in 1 click using AI
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- Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
- BP sees biggest profit in 114-year history after oil and gas prices soar
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- X.org Security Advisory: Security issue in the X server
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Slashdot
- An AI Company Using Stolen Code Is Trying To Silence the Person Who Found Out
- China's Baidu Reveals Plans To Launch ChatGPT-Style 'Ernie Bot'
- First US Navy Pilot To Publicly Report UAPs Says 'Congress Must Reveal the Truth To the American People'
- Single-Use Plastic Production Rose Between 2019 and 2021 Despite Pledges
- Binance To Suspend US Dollar Bank Transfers This Week
- Power Grid Worries Force Amazon To Run Oregon Datacenters Using Fuel Cells
- Bloatware Pushes the Galaxy S23 Android OS To an Incredible 60GB
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- Throwing stars are now legal in Indiana, delighting mall ninjas everywhere
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Wikipedia Current Events
February 7
Politics and elections
- Politics of Solomon Islands
- Police use tear gas to disperse protesters after the governor of Malaita province, Daniel Suidani, is ousted in a no-confidence vote. Suidani was one of the strongest critics of the government's approach to China. (The Guardian)
February 6
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Five Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades members are killed, three others are injured, and eight members are arrested during a raid by Israeli soldiers and subsequent gunbattle at a refugee camp near Jericho, in the occupied West Bank. (BBC News)
- Somali Civil War
- Puntland–Somaliland dispute
- At least 34 people are killed and 40 others are injured during clashes between Somalilander soldiers and anti-government fighters in Laascaanood, Sool, Somaliland. (Reuters)
- Puntland–Somaliland dispute
Arts and culture
- Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church announces that the church will begin using the Revised Julian calendar on September 1, following a decision by the Synod of Bishops. It thus becomes the first Greek Catholic Church to adopt the new calendar. (UGCC)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake
- At least 3,381 people are killed in Turkey and more than 1,509 others are killed in Syria as a magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Gaziantep Province, Turkey. (AFP via RFI)
- A second earthquake of magnitude 7.5 occurs in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, nine hours after the first earthquake. (Bloomberg)
- 2023 Coulson Aviation crash
- A Boeing 737-300 firefighting tanker crashes in Fitzgerald River National Park in Western Australia. Both pilots survive. (7 News)
- Mudslides kill 36 people in the Camaná Province of southern Peru. (AP)
Law and crime
- Hong Kong national security law
- The trial of 47 pro-democracy activists begins, two years after their arrest. It is the largest trial yet held under the Hong Kong national security law. (DW)
Science and technology
- Censorship of Wikipedia
- Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif orders the ban on Wikipedia to be lifted, three days after the website was banned for alleged anti-Muslim and blasphemous content. (ProPakistani)