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Members of Britain’s richest family get jail terms for exploiting Indian staff at Swiss mansion | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)

Found a good book (lemmy.world)

Israeli Politician Quotes Hitler to Argue for Resettlement of Gaza (www.commondreams.org)

Former Israeli Knesset member Moshe Feiglin quoted Adolf Hitler as he called for Israel to resettle the Gaza Strip and create a “Hebrew Gaza.”...

New Colorado law will ban sales of dental floss, clothes, & other household products containing toxic "forever chemicals" (www.cbsnews.com)

Tech Firms Prey on Poor Under Guise of Expanding Access to Financial Services (truthout.org)

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MSI click bios has been downgraded after RMA?

Hey y’all, i recently had to rma my gs76 stealth after a hardware thing but when i got it back, my VR wouldnt work, i traced that to probably being a bios setting that got reset when the battery was removed, however, when i went into the MSI clickbios, it looked way different and i don’t even have the setting im looking for...

Zelenskiy orders purge of state guard after assassination plots (www.reuters.com)

How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform Oil Well Cleanup in State After State (www.propublica.org)

Last year, representatives of New Mexico’s oil industry met behind closed doors with the very groups with which they typically clash — state regulators and environmentalists — in search of an answer to the more than 70,000 wells sitting unplugged across the state. Many leak oil, brine and toxic or explosive gasses, and...

Apple charged with breaching EU tech rules, faces another probe (www.reuters.com)

European Union antitrust regulators charged on Monday that Apple breached the bloc’s tech rules, a charge that could result in a hefty fine for the iPhone maker which also faces another investigation into new fees imposed on app developers....

Gunmen Attack Synagogues and Churches in Russian Republic (www.nytimes.com)

Anti-Muslim incidents double in Germany but overlooked by authorities, NGO says (www.reuters.com)

Missouri politicians put a trick measure on the November ballot to silence your voice (www.kansascity.com)

Kamala Harris says abortion bans are creating 'a health care crisis' (www.nbcnews.com)

Overturning Roe Didn’t Just Cut Off Access. It Sabotaged Science, Too. (www.motherjones.com)

Petty Politics Sabotages Science. Details at 11.

Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place? (carlnewton.github.io)

Over the past year or so I’ve been playing with the idea of a decentralised social platform based on your location. By putting physical location at the centre of the experience, such a platform could be used to bring communities together and provide a source of local information when travelling. Please let me know what you...

The United States will need 7 million migrants to cover old age support programs for baby boomers (english.elpais.com)

The country’s aging population and low fertility rate jeopardizes the solvency of Social Security and the Medicare program, according to a new study by Brookings...

It would get me too. (lemmy.world)

She sleeps like a video game rag doll (lemmy.world)

SDesk OS, and frowned on open sourced? (sh.itjust.works)

I recently spent some time browsing my favorite website, Distrowatch.com, where they provide weekly news updates on the latest developments in the world of Linux distributions. This week, I noticed that a new distro had been added to their list: SDesk. Given its intriguing name, I decided to take a closer look and discovered...