France: arts festival organizers say they received protests and threats from China after selecting Taiwan as its ‘guest of honour country’ for this year's event (focustaiwan.tw)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/487403...
Ranger wounded, suspect dead in rare shooting at Yellowstone National Park, NPS says (www.usatoday.com)
Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore (novayagazeta.eu)
Gemini's upcoming feature makes multitasking a breeze (www.androidpolice.com)
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Unlock the Ultimate Super Mario 64 Experience: Play with 16 Players in Co-op Mode! (www.retronews.com)
This looks incredibly fun, kudos to the Modding team for creating this.
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (japantoday.com)
Crossposted from !worldnews
Exit poll suggests Labour set for huge landslide win in UK general election (www.theguardian.com)
Exit poll predicts Labour will win 410 seats, securing a majority of 170, to the Conservatives’ 131
Author who recommended killing Palestinian journalists receives German ‘peace prize’ (skwawkbox.org)
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/14790362
Factorio: Space Age Expansion Releases October 21 (factorio.com)
We plan to release Factorio: Space Age expansion on October 21st 2024. The reasoning for this date is that it will give us enough time after summer vacations to polish the release, while also leaving enough time afterwards if we need to do bugfix patches before the Christmas holidays....
Osaka court grants refugee status to African man persecuted over homosexuality - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)
The Osaka District Court on July 4 recognized an African man in his 30s who fled to Japan from his own country fearing persecution for his homosexuality as a refugee, overturning a government decision not to grant him asylum....
Russia has escalated its information war against Moldova joining the European Union (www.usip.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/488027...
China is building a mammoth 8 GW solar farm (electrek.co)
State-owned power company China Three Gorges Renewables Group will build an 8 GW solar farm as part of a nearly $11 billion integrated energy project.
Samsung Galaxy Watches could soon measure AGEs for your metabolic health (APK teardown) (www.androidauthority.com)
At least 89 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Mauritania, state news agency says (www.theguardian.com)
Google Translate adds 110 new languages (blog.google)
Google Translate adds 110 new languages using AI, breaking down communication barriers for millions around the world....
Google researchers publish paper about how AI is ruining the internet. Google's trying to find the guy responsible for all this. (futurism.com)
Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII & 18 Other Previously Lost i-Mode Games Have Been Preserved | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)
A Treasure Trove of Gaming History has been Recovered! Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII and an additional 18 Square Enix i-Mode games, thought lost to history, have resurfaced. This impressive haul includes various Kingdom Hearts titles, and the recovery process involved using a debug cable method devised by the Kahvibreak...
Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler (www.tomshardware.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17489781
Glassdown: FOSS APKmirror client (github.com)
Israel to transfer early warning systems for missile strikes to Ukraine – rep to UN (en.interfax.com.ua)
DC Campaign to Submit Over 40K Signatures for Open Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting (ivn.us)
Seeing as how some people here on Lemmy get upset at any mention of Ranked Choice Voting and respond that, in their opinion, it’s not perfect, and that we should therefore keep the voting system we have while we debate which alternative is perfect for several decades, allow me to preemptively respond....
Exclusive: Firms weigh removing Taiwan staff from China after death penalty threat (www.reuters.com)
Some foreign companies are considering moving Taiwanese employees out of China after Beijing said it could impose the death penalty on “diehard” Taiwan independence separatists, said four people familiar with the matter....