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Seoul says soldiers from North briefly crossed border (www.dw.com)

Soldiers from South Korea’s military fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers crossed the demarcation line....

Kremlin calls NATO chief's nuclear weapons remark an 'escalation of tension' (www.reuters.com)

University of Minnesota pauses hiring of professor who called Israel's war against Hamas 'a textbook case of genocide' (jewishinsider.com)

The University of Minnesota paused the hiring of a professor who wrote that Israel’s military operation against Hamas in Gaza after Oct. 7 was “a textbook case of genocide” to head the school’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS), Jewish Insider has learned....

UN agency reports Sudan as largest global displacement crisis, calls on US not to overlook (www.politico.com)

An estimated 5.8 million people were forced to flee their homes in Sudan last year after fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in April 2023, according to a new report....

U.S. as many as 15 years behind China on nuclear power, report says (www.japantimes.co.jp)

Biden Campaign Ad Calls Attention to Trump’s Felon Status (www.nytimes.com)

Paywall removed: archive.is/himMZ

Gaetz claims House Ethics panel opened ‘new frivolous investigations’ into him (www.politico.com)

Exploring the mystery of the man embroiled in a Canadian mining company's billion-dollar gold scam (www.cbc.ca)

Anyone remember BreX? Sure happy I didn’t invest, although yours truly had considered it at the time.

Elon Musk bets Tesla on Optimus, says over 1,000 robots working in factories next year (electrek.co)

Elon is the gift that keeps on giving. He’s decided that because it’s Friday, we should all have a pile in....

Takeaways from the AP investigation into the Palestinian families being decimated in Gaza (apnews.com)

Extreme heat takes withering toll in teeming Philippine jails (www.washingtonpost.com)

Trump lashes out after DOJ reveals classified documents were found in his bedroom (www.independent.co.uk)

Meta won't train AI on Euro posts after all, as watchdogs put their paws down (www.theregister.com)

How Elon Musk Went from Innovative Car Maker to Racist Demagogue Just Like Henry Ford (medium.com)

Microsoft confirms Copilot AI assistant coming to Windows 10 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

TBH I have a mixed feeling about this.

IBM says their latest AI-enhanced storage platform can identify ransomware in under a minute (www.techspot.com)

Am I too pessimistic about this? Today it can detect ransomware, the next day could be malware, and the day after can be any file....

'The Abyss Is Beckoning': Global Nuke Spending Surged to $2,898 a Second in 2023 (www.commondreams.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16632607...

UN food chief: Poorest areas have zero harvests left (www.bbc.com)

Here are the nonfiction books NPR staffers have loved so far this year (www.npr.org)

We see you, hard-core NPR readers — just because it’s summer doesn’t mean it’s all fiction, all the time. So we asked around the newsroom to find our staffers’ favorite nonfiction from the first half of 2024. We’ve got biography and memoir, health and science, history, sports and more.