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Israel, US said working to prevent ICC arrest warrant against Netanyahu (www.timesofisrael.com)
According to reports in several Israeli media, the United States is part of a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent the International Criminal Court from issuing arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials....
I compared Google and Samsung’s AI photo-editing tools. It’s not even close. (www.digitaltrends.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/30602302...
The EPA is again allowing summer sales of higher ethanol gasoline blend, citing global conflicts | AP News (apnews.com)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency cleared the way Friday for a higher blend of ethanol to be sold nationwide for the third summer in a row, citing global conflicts that it says are putting pressure on the world’s fuel supply....
Iraqi TikTok star Om Fahad shot dead outside Baghdad home (www.theguardian.com)
Officials say unidentified man killed influencer who had previously been imprisoned over dancing videos...
The real reason men grow beards (www.bbc.com)
Iraq makes same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in jail (www.theguardian.com)
Amendments to anti-prostitution law also enable courts to sentence trans people to three years in prison...
China gives local companies funding to buy homegrown GPUs — aiming for self-sufficiency by 2027 (www.yahoo.com)
Reports indicate that supply of GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GPUs has 'decreased significantly' (www.tweaktown.com)
US plans for Gaza aid pier branded ‘smokescreen’ to allow Israeli invasion of Rafah (www.independent.co.uk)
Promoted on TikTok, ‘No Thanks’ boycott app targets products tied to Israel (www.timesofisrael.com)
A pro-Palestinian app created to help consumers boycott Israeli products has gained traction on TikTok amid calls in Hebrew-language media for Google to ban it....
The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
Edward Zitron has been reading all of google’s internal emails that have been released as evidence in the DOJ’s antitrust case against google....
‘In the US they think we’re communists!’ The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living (www.theguardian.com)
When Marisa Fernández lost her husband to cancer a few years ago, her employers at the Eroski hypermarket went, she says, “above and beyond to help me through the dark days afterwards, rejigging my timetable and giving me time off when I couldn’t face coming in.”...
Winning the Gold Cup on Mario Kart 64 as Yoshi (lemmus.org)
Italy can do without Russian gas, says energy minister (www.politico.eu)
Rome has no reason to oppose EU sanctions targeting Russian LNG, Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin says....
Putin sends horror warning as Russian exhibit shows off captured NATO equipment (www.express.co.uk)
Kremlin Disputes Report Putin Didn’t Order Navalny’s Death (www.thedailybeast.com)
Junk science is cited in abortion ban cases. Researchers are fighting the ‘fatally flawed’ work (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers are calling for the retraction of misleading anti-abortion studies that could influence judges in critical cases...
Dr Robotnik's Ring Racers is a gorgeous free SNES-style arcade racer, built using Doom Legacy (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
You can get it here: www.kartkrew.org/index.html
Prison officers traumatized by rate of executions in US death penalty states (www.theguardian.com)
Pursuit of ‘non-stop executions’ causing psychological distress to corrections staff as states urged to widen gap between executions...
It’s 30 years since apartheid ended. South Africa’s celebrations are set against growing discontent (apnews.com)
Crime in the U.S.: Key questions answered | Pew Research Center (www.pewresearch.org)
Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
At USC, arrests. At UCLA, hands off. Why pro-Palestinian protests have not blown up on UC campuses (www.latimes.com)
SAND LAND released on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
