What is Cara, the Instagram alternative that gained 600k users in a week? (www.creativebloq.com)
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Heavy snows and drought of deadly 'dzud' kill more than 7 million head of livestock in Mongolia (apnews.com)
CPython Garbage Collection: The Internal Mechanics and Algorithms (blog.codingconfessions.com)
Inside the Biggest FBI Sting Operation in History (www.wired.com)
Excerpt from ‘Dark Wire.’ It’s a good read.
Apple refused to pay bounty to Kaspersky for uncovering vulnerability in 'Operation Triangulation' - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
Kaspersky uncovered iOS vulnerabilities in ‘Operation Triangulation’, reported to Apple, but was refused bounty payment...
King Charles portrait turned into Wallace and Gromit character by animal activists (inews.co.uk)
Bugfix time! Looking at the Steam game bugs... (www.youtube.com)
Wild horses return to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries (www.theguardian.com)
Seven Przewalski’s horses, the only truly wild species of the animal in the world, flown to central Asian country from zoos in Europe...
Motorola Edge 50 Ultra review: Design, build quality, handling (m.gsmarena.com)
Ubisoft Excited To Let You Know Prince Of Persia Remake Is Still Years Away (kotaku.com)
During today’s Ubisoft Summer Game Fest showcase, the publisher took a moment to acknowledge that, yes, its long-in-development and oft-delayed Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake is still being made. But if you wanted to play it soon…bad news. It won’t be out until sometime in 2026....
Nvidia will increase shader counts but not ROPS on RTX 50-series GPUs — except on the lowest tier GB207, according to leak (www.tomshardware.com)
EU to put tariffs of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles as trade war looms (www.theguardian.com)
The EU has notified Beijing that it intends to impose tariffs of up to 38% on imports of Chinese electric vehicles, triggering duties of more than €2bn (£1.7bn) a year and a potential trade war with China....
A labor win at Georgia school bus factory shows a worker-led EV transition is possible (grist.org)
8 suspected terrorists with possible ISIS ties arrested in New York, L.A. and Philadelphia, sources say (www.nbcnews.com)
Eight men from Tajikistan with potential ties to ISIS out of central Asia were arrested over the weekend in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, three people familiar with the matter told NBC News on Tuesday....
Federal Appeals Court Hears Lawsuit Accusing Top U.S. Officials of Complicity in Genocide (www.democracynow.org)
Hundreds of thousands of people are now clicking a Banana on Steam [people leave it on, idle, for Steam's gift] (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Ukraine has launched an insidious, 102 year long operation to destroy the Udaloy-Class destroyer Admiral Levchenko. Utilizing the Dark Magics of NATO known as "Logistics". (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Indian PM Narendra Modi convinced to be 'emissary of God', questions his biological origins (www.telegraphindia.com)
A Champion Sherpa Died Guiding Foreigners. Is It Too Dangerous? (www.nytimes.com)
The gays bring surge to D.C. Metro ridership for Capital Pride Parade (www.advocate.com)
Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Gameplay Reveal (invidious.fdn.fr)
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Motorola Hello UI Review: Refreshing and Clean (beebom.com)
Spread of tiger mosquito behind rise of dengue fever in Europe (www.bbc.com)
An invasive species of mosquito has set up home in 13 countries in the EU, including France, Spain and Greece, with experts linking their presence to a rise in dengue fever in Europe....
Russian attacks on power grid provoke the worst energy crisis of the war in Ukraine (english.elpais.com)
Air strikes have left the country with less than half of its electricity generation capacity, leading to daily power outages of 10 hours or more, a situation experts say will deteriorate further ahead of winter...