Israeli defence minister flies to US for ‘critical’ talks on Gaza and Lebanon (www.theguardian.com)
Climate change is already making your bills more expensive (www.washingtonpost.com)
Credit card debt is soaring, especially in these cities (thehill.com)
Using data from the Census Bureau, TransUnion and the Federal Reserve, the study’s authors looked at inflation-adjusted household debt in the country’s largest 181 cities found Santa Clarita, California to have the highest average household credit card debt ($21,836), followed by Chula Vista, CA ($20,920), New York, NY...
1.3m Pirate IPTV Users 'Blacked Out' During Euro 2024, Italian Police Claim * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced (www.wired.com)
How Embracer's cuts killed a potential Red Faction sequel and gutted a promising studio (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
A fire at a lithium battery factory in South Korea kills 22 mostly Chinese migrant workers (apnews.com)
A fire likely sparked by exploding lithium batteries swept through a manufacturing factory near South Korea’s capital on Monday, killing 22 mostly Chinese migrant workers and injuring eight, officials said....
Its five year plan complete, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic releases its industrial city-building into 1.0 (www.pcgamer.com)
‘The greatest thinker you’ve never heard of’: expert who explained Hitler’s rise is finally in the spotlight (www.theguardian.com)
After fleeing Hitler, brilliant Jewish economist Karl Polanyi was never welcomed by the British. Now, for the first time in 80 years, his masterwork The Great Transformation has been be published in the UK
1,300 'most vulnerable' Hajj pilgrims died from heat wave in Saudi Arabia (www.upi.com)
U.S. Aid to Israel in Four Charts (www.cfr.org)
Israel has been the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid since its founding, receiving about $310 billion (adjusted for inflation) in total economic and military assistance....
Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter (arstechnica.com)
New ‘Detective Work’ on Butterfly Declines Reveals a Prime Suspect (www.nytimes.com)
The latest insight comes from a study on butterflies in the Midwest, published on Thursday in the journal PLOS ONE. Its results don’t discount the serious effects of climate change and habitat loss on butterflies and other insects, but they indicate that agricultural insecticides exerted the biggest impact on the size and...
Biden campaign lays out debate week strategy in new memo (www.nbcnews.com)
Hundreds died during this year's Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia amid intense heat, officials say (apnews.com)
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults To NVIDIA On Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign? (www.dailydot.com)
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Israeli soldiers who drove with wounded Palestinian tied to their vehicle 'violated orders', military says (www.abc.net.au)
How UK indie exhibitors are engaging younger audiences with arthouse cinema (www.screendaily.com)
The industry is used to stories about UK cinemagoing being in decline since the pandemic and younger viewers finding other ways to spend their leisure time. But a number of independent exhibitors counter that narrative based on their own experiences. While none downplay the struggles that arthouse cinema releases still face at...
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South Korea: Exploding lithium batteries spark deadly factory fire (www.bbc.com)
Lemmy and my Switch to PieFed (jeena.net)
TLDR: The main reason was Lemmy hogging server resources....
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 74 (fediversereport.com)
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Hollo: Federated single-user microblogging software (github.com)
Canada expresses concern about human rights violations in China's Xinjiang region, groups urge U.N. human rights chief to take more action over "documented abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims" (www.reuters.com)
Canada’s ambassador to Beijing visited the region of Xinjiang last week and expressed concerns about human rights violations directly to local leaders, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday....
