links 4: 08.02.2024

The Verge: Google’s use of student data could effectively ban Chromebooks from Denmark schools

Meduza: Valery Zaluzhny dismissed. Oleksandr Syrsky becomes the new commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces

LRT: More oil spilled from Orlen’s terminal than first reported, some reached Latvia’s waters

PBS: PHOTOS: Icelandic volcano begins erupting again, spewing lava and cutting off heat and hot water

LSM: In Lithuania, couriers for the company “Barbora” complain of inhumane working conditions

CBC: Canadian officials still haven’t seen intelligence linking UN’s Gaza aid agency with Hamas

Politico: EU legislators strike deal on watered-down gig work rules

NPR: Oregon pioneered a radical drug policy. Now it’s reconsidering.

Al Jazeera: Brazil police seize Jair Bolsonaro’s passport amid ‘coup’ probe

The Verge: Microsoft is bringing Linux’s sudo command to Windows 11

Mexico News Daily: A guide to Mexican fruits: When, where and why to buy them

Buenos Aires Times: Javier Milei’s ‘shock therapy’ is suffering a stinging rejection

LSM: The Dailes Theatre tours Paris with “ROTKHO”

Meduza: Nadezhdin predictably barred from the presidential election. Meduza’s sources say the Kremlin feared he would win more than 10% (and overtake the parliamentary parties’ candidates)

VOX: What we’ve learned from 20 years of Facebook

Politico: Tucker Carlson joins long line of ‘useful idiot’ journalists helping tyrants

Meduza: Moscow bans the sex-positive Kinky Party events