News stories I’ve been reading:

• Dad who flew to LAX to find missing daughter Hannah Kobayashi dies by suicide near airport — TA Hawaii woman’s father who flew to Los Angeles looking for her after she was reported missing has been found dead near Los Angeles International Airport. — LA Times
• Litauen: Bundesregierung sagt nach Absturz von DHL-Flugzeug in Vilnius Hilfe zu — Ein DHL-Frachtflugzeug, das in Leipzig gestartet war, ist in Litauen abgestürzt. Ein Mensch kam ums Leben. Die Bundesregierung sagt zu, bei der Aufklärung zu helfen. — Die Zeit
• Why Elon Musk wants US to do away with manned fighter jets — TCiting the growing potential of autonomous drones, Elon Musk has criticised the Pentagon’s $1.8 trillion F-35 programme, calling it outdated. While hundreds of F-35s are operational globally, Musk is attempting to highlight inefficiencies in defence spending and is advocating for AI-driven solutions — Firstpost
• Джеорджеску лидирует на выборах после подсчета голосов внутри Румынии — Джеорджеску лидирует на выборах в Румынии после подсчета голосов внутри страны — RIA Novosti
• Germany suspects sabotage after undersea internet cables are severed — The C-Lion1 cable between Finland and Germany was severed in the Baltic Sea, its operator said, after damage was reported to another cable linking Lithuania and Sweden. — The Washington Post
• OpenAI is considering launching its own browser to challenge Google — OpenAI is going after Google in a big way. After the artificial intelligence giant launched its own search engine earlier this month, the company is now considering releasing a web browser. The product would combine with ChatGPT to create a browser that could eventually challenge the dominance Google’s Chrome has enjoyed for so many years. — Techspot
• The Philippines VP publicly threatens to have the president assassinated — The Philippines Vice President Sara Duterte said she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke. — The Sidney Morning Herald
• Musk Muses About Buying MSNBC — ‘How much is it?’ he asks in response to Donald Trump Jr.’s idea — Newser
• Buddhist monastery ‘using human bodies for meditation’ — Police working to ID 41 cadavers found at Phichit site and clarify their origins — Bangkok Post
• The Emperor Has No Brains — America’s post-electoral military escalation might amount to nothing, or it could be the last act of an empire gone mad. On ATACMS, ICBMs, and more nuclear poker — Racket News