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US sues Adobe for “deceiving” subscriptions that are too hard to cancel (www.theverge.com)

Rep. Robert Garcia urges FBI & DHS to protect LGBTQ+ people from anti-Pride extremists (www.lgbtqnation.com)

Beijing urges Britain to stop sanctioning Chinese firms over Russian links (www.reuters.com)

China’s commerce ministry said on Wednesday that it had urged Britain to stop sanctioning Chinese firms after the country sanctioned five Chinese companies over their links to Russia....

Apple Decides to Block Open-Source Emulator App for iOS (news.itsfoss.com)

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Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues (www.tomshardware.com)

Doctor accused of illegally obtaining health data of Texas Children's patients, in crusade against Transgender medical treatments (www.houstonchronicle.com)

The doctor has publicly identified himself as the person who released information to a conservative activist about the transgender care program at Texas Children’s. Citing “whistleblower documents,” the activist published a story in May 2023 saying Texas Children’s provided transgender care, which was legal at the time,...

Everything Apple iOS 18 Will Do, Android Already Does (gizmodo.com)

Sipeed Lichee Book 4A is a cheap RISC-V laptop with an upgradeable processor module - Liliputing (liliputing.com)

New study highlights stark racial wealth gap in the New Orleans area (www.nola.com)

A new report from the Data Center is shedding disturbing light on income and wealth disparities in the New Orleans metro area, showing that on average white households have an astounding 13 times more net worth than their Black counterparts and nine times that of Latinx households....

Justice Thomas raked in staggering $2.4 million in gifts, watchdog says (www.independent.co.uk)

Fix the Court, the group that released the findings, calculated the total in gifts from January 2004 to December 2023 and said the nine current justices received 344 gifts totaling nearly $3million....

First tropical storm watch of the season issued for South Texas and Mexico (thehill.com)

White House cancels meeting, scolds Netanyahu in protest over video (www.axios.com)

The White House canceled a high-level U.S.-Israel meeting on Iran that was scheduled for Thursday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video on Tuesday claiming the U.S. was withholding military aid, two U.S. officials tell Axios.

Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI (arstechnica.com)

Wikipedia calls top Jewish civil rights org ‘unreliable’ on Israel-Palestine crisis (www.independent.co.uk)

'Cheating and exploiting undermine the integrity of our game': Over 600 Star Citizen accounts have been suspended for racking up in-game currency (www.pcgamer.com)

Introducing "Wave Music," for all things synthwave, chillwave, vaporwave, retrowave, darkwave... (lemmy.world)

For fans of '80s-inspired contemporary beats. Share artists, albums, compilations, -wave channels, and vibe art....

I was 'political football' says UK woman branded a Chinese spy (www.reuters.com)

Donald Trump's crowd at black Detroit church raises eyebrows (www.newsweek.com)

However, critics accused Trump of filling the historically Black church with white supporters and even “staging” the event to show a robust crowd.

Prominent Palestinian doctor, Iyad Rantisi, dies during interrogation in Israel (www.palestinechronicle.com)

Israel-Gaza war live: Israel’s use of heavy bombs raises ‘serious concerns’ under laws of war (www.theguardian.com)

In a report published on Wednesday, the OHCHR provided details on six Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, which it said were emblematic of a concerning pattern, involving the suspected use of up to 2,000-pound bombs on residential buildings, a school, refugee camps and a market....