Trump Media Made a Deal That Could Secure a Major Financial Windfall for the GOP Candidate. (www.propublica.org)
Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless. (themarkup.org)
Mashable, PC Mag, and Lifehacker win unprecedented AI protections in new union contract (www.niemanlab.org)
The Official Star Trek Guide to San Diego Comic-Con 2024 (www.startrek.com)
Rightwinger Leonard Leo helped fuel Bud Light boycott, tax filings show (www.theguardian.com)
'Shameful' BBC story on Israel's killing of disabled man revised (www.newarab.com)
A BBC report published on Tuesday on the killing of a disabled Palestinian man by Israel has drawn intense backlash, following what activists described as a “misleading headline” and “dehumanisation of Palestinians” amid the war in Gaza....
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, a remarkably terrible entry to the FMV genre popularized by Ripper and Night Trap, has returned to PC on GOG. (www.pcgamesn.com)
Lou Dobbs, Fox Business host, dies at 78 (apnews.com)
Donald Trump offers supporters $299 assassination attempt-themed sneakers (www.theguardian.com)
As surely as Donald Trump sought to cash in on his various criminal indictments, so the former president turned Republican presidential nominee began to sell merchandise commemorating his attempted assassination in Pennsylvania last weekend....
Putin fears crypto mining could cause energy shortages in Russia (www.politico.eu)
The Galaxy Z Fold 6’s battery is so small that a flip phone just beat it (9to5google.com)
Vietnam's top leader Trong dies at 80 after long rule (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18165266
Vietnam"s most powerful leader Nguyen Phu Trong dies (www.bangkokpost.com)
World Court says Israel’s presence in Palestinian territories is illegal (www.aljazeera.com)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is illegal and that it should come to an end “as rapidly as possible”....
More Chinese students are electing to study at home, where China's universities are out-ranking Canadian schools. (nationalpost.com)
Trump Site Launches Limited-Edition Assassination Attempt Sneakers (www.rollingstone.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17659585
LA City Council Considers Funding Former IDF Soldiers to Patrol Its Streets (theintercept.com)
THE LOS ANGELES City Council is considering whether to give public funds to private, armed security patrols to protect its religious communities, following a protest against the marketing of West Bank settlement properties at an LA synagogue last month that turned violent....
The epic bust-up between China and India could be ending (www.economist.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18129891...
Making a Linux-managed network switch (blog.brixit.nl)
IMF says U.S. should raise taxes, wait until late 2024 to cut rates (finance.yahoo.com)
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Splitgate 2 Re-announced With a Much Bigger Team and Bigger Dreams (www.ign.com)
Kenya’s biggest protest in recent history played out on a walkie-talkie app (restofworld.org)
The Social Cost of Carbon Credits (hakaimagazine.com)
Multinational companies funded a US $4.4-million carbon offset project. Senegalese locals did much of the work—and saw almost none of the money.
Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue (mashable.com)
