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Apex Legends battle pass U-turn fails to stop Steam review bombing (www.pcgamesn.com)

Bodycam video shows fatal police shooting of 4-year-old Illinois boy and man holding him hostage (www.nbcnews.com)

This reminds me of the times the cops shot and killed other hostages like that delivery driver (UPS or Fedex, can’t remember) or that girl who was kidnapped, ordered to run towards the cops, and the cops shot her for running towards them.

How A Low-Income, Single Parent In the U.S. can Face a Marginal Tax Rate as High as 95% (medium.com)

How is the Recipient the Only One Able to Decrypt End to End Encryption?

I understand that in end to end encryption the message is encrypted and only the recipient has the key to Decrypt it. How is the key transmitted, and how can the key not get intercepted with the message?

If you kill someone who happens to be an organ donor, which leads to someone receiving a lifesaving organ, are you really a killer?

What if multiple successful donations happen as a result? Does that make you a lifesaver?

CrowdStrike issued $10 'thank you' vouchers. They were then blocked for potential fraud (www.abc.net.au)

Why do people crumple a paper into a ball? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

How is decentralized social media more private if all the data is public and shared?

Unregulated oilfield power lines are suspected of sparking Texas wildfires. (www.texastribune.org)

Gentle Slope [OC] (lemmy.world)

Nikon D5500 | ISO 640 | 63mm | f29 | 1/60s

My Deer Friend Nokotan - A Lemmy Community all about anime "My Deer Friend Nokotan" (ani.social)

!nokotan

Mexican president says no evidence of fraud in Venezuela elections (www.reuters.com)

Twitter

I don’t use it, but i’ll forever call it Twitter.

FBI and privacy hawks clash over encryption after Trump assassination attempt (www.msn.com)

Tricot - 18,19 [ Math Rock / Japan / 2017 ] (topshelfrecords.bandcamp.com)

Gimme a bit o' that drum kit.

Zenless Zone Zero is an "urban fantasy action RPG" where you can play as a bear or a wolf man [from the maker of Genshin Impact] (www.pcgamer.com)

McDonald's sales are slumping because people can't afford fast-food (www.cbsnews.com)

Sovereign Tech Fund Preparing Fellowship Program For Open-Source Maintainers (www.phoronix.com)

Xbox @ gamescom 2024: Xbox returns to gamescom on August 21 with over 50 titles to check out. (news.xbox.com)

Kamala Harris Wipes Out Trump’s Swing-State Lead in Election Dead Heat (www.bloomberg.com)

Paywall removed: archive.is/xWD8k

US 15 years behind China in nuclear power – report (www.power-technology.com)

Outrage as Senate Panel Advances Manchin-Barrasso Permitting Bill. (www.commondreams.org)

Mpox outbreaks declared in Kenya and Central African Republic. The race is on to contain the spread (apnews.com)

Kenya and the Central African Republic have declared new outbreaks of mpox as Africa’s health officials race to contain the spread of the disease in a region lacking vaccines....