Hurricane Beryl regains strength as it approaches Mexico (www.nbcnews.com)
Glassdown: FOSS APKmirror client (github.com)
Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet (futurism.com)
Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content — which is painfully ironic because Google has been hard at work pushing the same technology to its enormous user base.
Were jurors dismissed because they were Black or female? Supreme Court declines to review. (www.usatoday.com)
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Free looter shooter The First Descendant shares player ban details (www.pcgamesn.com)
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....
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II to release on Steam in 2025 (store.steampowered.com)
Metaphor: ReFantazio — Story Trailer | Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC (yt.artemislena.eu)
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People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are (gizmodo.com)
Thirteen people killed and dozens wounded in Kenya as police open fire on protesters (www.sbs.com.au)
Israel approves the largest Palestinian West Bank land grab in three decades (www.salon.com)
Cat Tales (public-domain-audio-books.blogspot.com)
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.
Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results (www.wired.com)
A look at how settlements have grown in the West Bank over the years (apnews.com)
Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, according to Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement monitoring group. It is the latest step by Israel’s hard-line government meant to cement Israel’s control over the territory and prevent the establishment of an independent...
We Need to Talk About the State of Calendar Software on Desktop (nadim.computer)
Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag (techcrunch.com)
51,000-year-old Indonesian cave painting may be the world's oldest storytelling art (www.livescience.com)
Joey Chestnut, the 16-time Nathan's champ, aims to pull off a remarkable feat from afar (www.usatoday.com)
Italy targets the mafia by taking away their most precious assets: their children (www.sbs.com.au)
'I'm not leaving': Biden expands effort to tamp down calls to step aside (www.nbcnews.com)
AI-powered network of Russia-based websites masquerading as local American newspapers is pumping out fake stories targeting the US election, investigation finds (www.bbc.com)
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Google Tensor G5: Pixel 10 series' SoC allegedly tapes out on TSMC's 3 nm node (www.notebookcheck.net)
Sony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitable (www.tomshardware.com)
