Mask bans are growing in popularity. Critics call the trend a 'dog whistle' to quell protest. (www.nbcnews.com)
Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI (jacobin.com)
Richmond Agrees to Ranked Choice Voting Ballot Measure (contracosta.news)
Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real people (www.theguardian.com)
Substack rival Ghost federates its first newsletter (techcrunch.com)
French election gridlock means yet more uncertainty for Europe (www.politico.eu)
Emmanuel Macron’s battles at home means he risks losing sway in Brussels....
Honor shows off Magic Vs3 as leak reveals just how thin Magic V3 is (9to5google.com)
Ahead of a launch event this week, Honor has quietly revealed its more affordable Magic Vs3 foldable while leaks reveal more of Magic V3.
Russia attacks Ukraine in broad daylight on Monday morning, killing at least 29 civilians and badly damaging Kyiv’s main children’s hospital in the deadliest air strike in months (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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Final Fantasy 7: An oral history (www.polygon.com)
assimilation as depicted in 1980 (cued) (youtu.be)
Players Celebrate Mod That Deletes Homeless People in Cities: Skylines II (www.404media.co)
Dimhaven Enigmas: upcoming native adventure game (Steam demo) (store.steampowered.com)
As reported by GamingOnLinux, the folks behind the modern Myst-like Quern have a native Linux demo out on Steam for an exploration-heavy first-person adventure game called Dimhaven Enigmas....
Ukraine war latest: Rescue operations end at Kyiv children's hospital, at least 33 killed in capital overall (kyivindependent.com)
Search and rescue operations at the site of a Russian missile attack on Okhmatdyt hospital in Kyiv concluded on July 9, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said....
Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app (stackdiary.com)
Behind the scenes: the Vulkan SC Ecosystem (www.rastergrid.com)
It’s been over a year since Khronos started working on the Vulkan SC Ecosystem. Now that the component stack has reached a high level of maturity, it seemed appropriate to write an article about the secret sauce behind the Vulkan SC Ecosystem components that enabled us to leverage the industry-proven Vulkan Ecosystem...
Apex Legends players criticise plans to shake-up how Battle Passes works (www.videogameschronicle.com)
There will be two $10 Battle Passes per season, and they’ll only be purchasable with real money instead of earnable in-game currency
New Crazy Taxi title will be an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA game, according to Sega (automaton-media.com)
Super House of Dead Ninjas is shutting down (store.steampowered.com)
Nobody is available to act as publisher following Adult Swim Games shutting down. That means it won’t be available to buy soon.
Trump asks judge to gut classified documents case after immunity ruling (www.theguardian.com)
Kremlin mopes over French election results (www.politico.eu)
“We do not harbor any special hopes” for improving ties with France, Moscow said....
Greensleeves is almost 500 years old. I'm sure there were other very popular songs when it came out, but Greensleeves had to staying power to still be here. What do you think is today's Greensleeves? (en.wikipedia.org)
Not just a song that can be found in the archives, but one that almost everyone can hum, even today....
A Primeval Force Once Ruled the Universe—and Scientists Have Revived It (www.popularmechanics.com)
2024 could be world’s hottest year as June breaks records (www.straitstimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17745389
Thousands of Palestinians flee amid heavy Israeli attack on Gaza City (www.theguardian.com)
