TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/14914636
Croatia: Several dead in nursing home attack — media reports (www.dw.com)
Gambling Is No Game: DNS Links Between Chinese Organized Crime and Sports Sponsorships (blogs.infoblox.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1024102...
PowerWash Simulator keeps on giving, with two nautical maps chosen by the community coming to the people's champ in a free update (www.pcgamer.com)
Pakistan police raid ex-Prime Minister Khan’s party HQ (www.aljazeera.com)
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan called the government’s move “an enormous blow to democratic norms” and one that “reeks of political desperation”....
Outrage grows over Evan Gershkovich’s 16-year sentence in Russian penal colony (www.independent.co.uk)
[Opinion] Israeli Soldiers Flaunt War Crimes on Social Media. Why Aren’t They Held Accountable? (truthout.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/19514687...
Maryland Is on Track to Process a Nearly 50-Year-Old Backlog of Rape Kits (www.propublica.org)
Myanmar Armed Groups Extend Ceasefire at China’s Urging (thediplomat.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/25500861...
Van Buren Recreated: Canceled Fallout Game Revived by Modders (www.retronews.com)
A dedicated group of modders has successfully recreated Van Buren, the canceled Fallout game originally developed by Black Isle Studios in 2003. The project, now known as Fallout Yesterday, is a Fallout 2 mod that has been in development since 2020. The mod has recently been released for free, allowing players to fully...
Why the far right is surging all over the world: The “reactionary spirit” and the roots of the US authoritarian moment (www.vox.com)
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‘The Russian society isn’t prepared’: The Kremlin fears ‘public discontent’ and a rise in crime as soldiers returning from the war in Ukraine fail to adapt to civilian life (meduza.io)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1007323...
Italian journalist told to pay PM Meloni 5,000 euros for Tweet mocking her height (www.reuters.com)
Immich v1.109.1 released with optional paid license (github.com)
Welcome to version v1.109.0 of Immich. This release introduces an additional way for you to support Immich financially as well as bug fixes for various issues. Some of the highlights in this release include:...
UK watchdog accuses Apple of failing to report sexual images of children (www.theguardian.com)
Apple is failing to effectively monitor its platforms or scan for images and videos of the sexual abuse of children, child safety experts allege, which is raising concerns about how the company can handle growth in the volume of such material associated with artificial intelligence....
Disney hack leads to 1.2TB of Slack communications leaked online (stackdiary.com)
In a significant data breach, hacktivist group NullBulge has infiltrated Disney’s internal Slack infrastructure, leaking 1.2TB of sensitive data. This breach, posted on the cybercrime platform Breach Forums on July 12, 2024, exposes many of Disney’s internal communications, compromising messages, files, code, and other...
Our most popular sports—football, basketball, and baseball—don’t revolve around important international competitions, as do soccer and other sports like cricket and rugby (www.city-journal.org)
Our most popular sports—football, basketball, and baseball—don’t revolve around important international competitions, as do soccer and other sports like cricket and rugby...
The workers at Bethesda Game Studios have fully unionized (www.engadget.com)
Increased use of Latvian in education does not infringe ethnic Russians' rights, rules European court (eng.lsm.lv)
"America First" foreign policy: JD Vance wants to abandon Ukraine but bomb Mexico and Iran (www.salon.com)
A Well-Connected Veteran’s Congressional Campaign Is Fueled by Out-of-State Donors (theintercept.com)
IN HER RACE for a New Hampshire congressional seat, a well-connected military veteran with an expansive Washington resume is being funded by out-of-state donors and boosted by a super PAC with links to billionaires Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg....
Survey shows most people wouldn't pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware | 84% of people said no (www.techspot.com)
Companies are going all-in on artificial intelligence right now, investing millions or even billions into the area while slapping the AI initialism on their products, even when doing so seems strange and pointless....
