Kamala Harris says abortion bans are creating 'a health care crisis' (www.nbcnews.com)
Death toll at Hajj pilgrimage rises to 1,300 amid scorching temperatures (apnews.com)
More than 1,300 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced extreme high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom, Saudi authorities announced Sunday....
TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it (en.wikipedia.org)
Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to...
Climate change is already making your bills more expensive (www.washingtonpost.com)
Russia-Ukraine war live: Volodymyr Zelenskiy orders purge of Ukraine state guard after alleged assassination plots (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, told the new chief of Ukraine’s state guard service to clear its ranks of people discrediting it after two of its officers were accused of plotting to assassinate senior officials....
OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content (archive.ph)
The world’s top two AI startups are ignoring requests by media publishers to stop scraping their web content for free model training data, Business Insider has learned....
China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say (www.intereconomics.eu)
Archived link...
Credit card debt is soaring, especially in these cities (thehill.com)
Using data from the Census Bureau, TransUnion and the Federal Reserve, the study’s authors looked at inflation-adjusted household debt in the country’s largest 181 cities found Santa Clarita, California to have the highest average household credit card debt ($21,836), followed by Chula Vista, CA ($20,920), New York, NY...
An Israel offensive into Lebanon risks an Iranian military response, top US military leader says (apnews.com)
1.3m Pirate IPTV Users 'Blacked Out' During Euro 2024, Italian Police Claim * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter (arstechnica.com)
Structural problems with tech platforms prevent fact-checkers from focusing on harm and virality (www.poynter.org)
US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris, undercutting environmental plan (apnews.com)
The U.S. Olympic team is one of a handful that will supply air conditioners for their athletes at the Paris Games in a move that undercuts organizers’ plans to cut carbon emissions....
Car dealerships in North America revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider (apnews.com)
Car dealerships in North America continue to wrestle with major disruptions that started last week with cyberattacks on a software company used widely in the auto retail sales sector....
Netanyahu says he won’t agree to a deal that ends the war in Gaza, testing the latest truce proposal (apnews.com)
Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft has been pushing hard for its users to sign into Windows with a Microsoft Account. The newest Windows 11 installer removed the easy bypass to the requirement that you make an account or login with your existing account. If you didn’t install Windows 11 without a Microsoft Account and now want to stop sending the...
Texas woman arrested for allegedly attempting to drown 3-year-old Palestinian Muslim child in possible hate crime (www.nbcnews.com)
Finnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by up to 100x using a tiny piece of hardware with no recoding (www.techradar.com)
We cater any event! (sh.itjust.works)
A fire at a lithium battery factory in South Korea kills 22 mostly Chinese migrant workers (apnews.com)
A fire likely sparked by exploding lithium batteries swept through a manufacturing factory near South Korea’s capital on Monday, killing 22 mostly Chinese migrant workers and injuring eight, officials said....
Qualcomm Aiming For Snapdragon X Elite GPU Support In Linux 6.11 (www.phoronix.com)
A lot of people here seemed excited for these chips. It’ll be very interesting to see the gaming performance as this could bring in an entire new segment of portable devices running Linux if powerful enough to deliver solid battery life and CPU performance.
UK Retailer GAME To End All In-Store Video Game Sales (www.gfinityesports.com)
For Many Greeks, Six-Day 48-Hour Work Week Now Set to Begin July 1st (www.thenationalherald.com)
"They want the votes": Ted Cruz says Democrats are pro-Palestine just for show (www.salon.com)
The developer of Slay the Princess is encouraging those who can't afford it to pirate the game as a new Markiplier video goes viral. (www.pcgamesn.com)
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