EV sales stall in US and Europe as market uncertainty persists (www.ey.com)
Israel lobby funded half of Keir Starmer’s cabinet (www.declassifieduk.org)
New Sentinel nuclear warhead program is 81% over budget. But Pentagon says it must go forward (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The new Sentinel nuclear warhead program is 81% over budget and is now estimated to cost nearly $141 billion, but the Pentagon is moving forward with the program, saying that given the threats from China and Russia it does not have a choice....
Satanists to volunteer in Florida schools in protest at DeSantis religious bill (www.theguardian.com)
Satanic Temple objects to governor’s push for more religion in schools and says members could act as student chaplains...
Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage (fedi.simonwillison.net)
simonwillison.net/…/hangout_servicesthunkjs/
Orbán parrots Putin’s lines on Ukraine in leaked letter to EU chief (www.politico.eu)
Performance Testing Metrics (www.testingxperts.com)
Performance testing is a non-functional software testing method used to check the speed, scalability, reliability, responsiveness, and performance of an app/website. Various performance testing methods include a spike, volume, endurance, stress, load, etc.
Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets (www.404media.co)
A lawsuit filed in California by concert giant AXS has revealed a legal and technological battle between ticket scalpers and platforms like Ticketmaster and AXS, in which scalpers have figured out how to extract “untransferable” tickets from their accounts by generating entry barcodes on parallel infrastructure that the...
Los Angeles-Orange County home prices 10 times greater than incomes, report finds (www.ocregister.com)
Paywall removed: archive.is/eyxeJ...
FTC Says Middlemen Appear to Be Driving Up Drug Prices (www.nytimes.com)
In a report, the regulator sharply criticized pharmacy benefit managers, a reversal from its longstanding hands-off approach to policing the companies.
An Unreleased GBA 'Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi' Game Has Been Found & Preserved | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)
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New EU Parliament less supportive of green agenda, documents show (www.straitstimes.com)
NATO getting tough on China for backing Russia's war effort (www.dw.com)
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More Taiwanese detained or face trials when traveling to China since Beijing implemented 'Anti-Espionage Law' (www.taipeitimes.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/645710...
Google One 'Dark web reports' coming to all Google Account holders from late July (9to5google.com)
After the Google One VPN shutdown in late June, the “Dark Web reports” function is coming to all Google Account holders from late July 2024.
Pentagon says it's impossible to ditch Huawei telecom gear — officials beg Congress for waiver from Chinese sanctions (www.tomshardware.com)
In a diplomatic quirk, Russia chairs a UN meeting decrying its strike on a Ukraine kids' hospital (apnews.com)
U.N. Security Council members confronted Russia on Tuesday over a missile strike the previous day that destroyed part of Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital, pouring out condemnations at an emergency meeting chaired by Moscow’s own ambassador....
‘Will you stop exploring yours?’: Latin America forges ahead on new oil frontier (www.theguardian.com)
About half the countries in the region are experiencing a rush in oil exploration that threatens the global drive to achieve net zero. But many argue that they have a right to enrich themselves in the same way the west has...
One More Round by chaz. (song.link)
Lawsuit accuses Hyundai of faking US sales data for electric cars (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17817702
“Wide But Thin Mandate”: Why U.K. Labour Party’s Landslide Is on Shaky Ground (www.democracynow.org)
Dev boots a PC from Google Drive cloud storage — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer (www.tomshardware.com)
Ersei, the developer behind this so-called Cloud Native Computer, says the project was primarily a “silly” pursuit. There is also a problem with booting from Google Drive currently being very slow. However, the dev also boasts that “the possibilities are endless” and would welcome any companies or individuals who wish to...
Make No Mistake: Destroying Hospitals Is Part of the Kremlin’s Strategy -- [Opinion] (www.themoscowtimes.com)
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Chinese developers scramble as OpenAI blocks access in China (www.theguardian.com)
Presenting kdumpst, or how to collect kernel crash logs on Arch Linux (blogs.igalia.com)
Let’s talk today about kernel crashes, or even better, how can we collect information if a kernel panic happens on Arch Linux and on SteamOS, the Linux distribution used on the Steam Deck.