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Chinese Ship Suspected of Raiding World War II Wrecks Detained (news.usni.org)

TIL that a Chinese barge spent much of 2022-2023 illegally pillaging scrap metal from WW2 war graves in Malaysian waters....

ASUS ROG NUC 970 [pcgamer] review [ 86/100 ] (www.pcgamer.com)

Hackers of Indonesian government apologize and give key (www.theregister.com)

“Citizens of Indonesia, we apologize for the fact that it affected everyone,” the team wrote in a statement shared by Singapore-based dark web intelligence outfit Stealth Mole....

HMD View leaks with metal frames and OLED display (www.gizmochina.com)

Delta flight diverts to New York after passengers are served spoiled food (apnews.com)

he's a little late but plz be nice (beehaw.org)

[a pair of screenshots from Sonic Adventure 2. The first shows Shadow the Hedgehog, with an edited caption reading “I’m gay too.” The second screenshot shows Sonic the Hedgehog grinning, with no caption.]

[FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - About Australian Callsigns #podcast (podcasts.itmaze.com.au)

Australia has a long relationship with callsigns. Over time the regulator, today the ACMA, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, has seen fit to introduce different types of callsigns and restrictions associated with those callsigns....

Intra-Maga row for Missouri’s attorney general seat reveals exaggerated résumé (www.theguardian.com)

Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds (www.businessinsider.com)

Do you believe in signs? (sh.itjust.works)

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Measles: Cases rise in Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland (www.bbc.co.uk)

Google Messages might auto-update your MMS chats to RCS (APK teardown) (www.androidauthority.com)

In our APK teardown, we discovered strings of code that suggest Google Messages will automatically upgrade MMS chats to RCS.

Threads hits 175 million users on first anniversary (www.rawstory.com)

Tool preventing AI mimicry cracked; artists wonder what’s next (arstechnica.com)

But just as Glaze’s userbase is spiking, a bigger priority for the Glaze Project has emerged: protecting users from attacks disabling Glaze’s protections—including attack methods exposed in June by online security researchers in Zurich, Switzerland. In a paper published on Arxiv.org without peer review, the Zurich...

A Norwegian citizen has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to spy for China (apnews.com)

Saw the title and this is was all I could think about (sh.itjust.works)

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As temperatures soar, judge tells Louisiana to help protect prisoners working in fields (wgno.com)

Amid blistering summer temperatures, a federal judge ordered Louisiana to take steps to protect the health and safety of incarcerated workers toiling in the fields of a former slave plantation, saying they face “substantial risk of injury or death.” The state immediately appealed the decision....

China is building a mammoth 8 GW solar farm (electrek.co)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17595046

80 Percent of Voters Now Say Biden Is Too Old to Run (www.msn.com)

Eighty percent of voters say President Joe Biden is too old to run as former president Donald Trump now leads Biden by six points following last week’s debate, a new poll finds.

Universal basic income is 'straight out of the Karl Marx playbook,' financial guru Dave Ramsey says (www.businessinsider.com)

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Judge blocks Biden trans healthcare discrimination ban from taking effect in early Loper-Bright test (www.salon.com)

Top Biden allies say he's still the best bet to win against Trump in November (www.nbcnews.com)

Netanyahu tried to derail the hostage deal even before Hamas responded (www.haaretz.com)

The main points were reported by the media on Wednesday: Even before Hamas responded to the Netanyahu-Biden proposal, the Prime Minister’s Office already knew what it would contain. Hamas’ flexibility came as a surprise to the man who said he supported the plan (which had been unanimously approved by the war cabinet) but who...