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Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google (readwrite.com)

Trump Cryptically Declares, ‘You Won’t Have to Vote Anymore’ If He Wins Second Term (www.mediaite.com)

Former President Donald Trump urged members of a crowd in Florida to vote and said that if he wins, they “won’t have to vote anymore.”...

Japan’s Sado gold mine gains UNESCO status after Tokyo pledges to exhibit dark WWII history (apnews.com)

TOKYO (AP) — The UNESCO World Heritage committee on Saturday decided to register Japan’s controversial Sado gold mine as a cultural heritage site after the country agreed to include it in an exhibit of its dark history of abusing Korean laborers during World War II....

U.S. told Philippines it made ‘missteps’ in secret anti-vax propaganda effort (www.reuters.com)

Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware (www.ghacks.net)

The Linux Mint team has just released Linux Mint 22, a new major version of the free Linux distribution. With Windows 10’s end of support coming up quickly next year, at least some users may consider making the switch to Linux....

Is there a data recovery tool for Linux to recover a Minecraft world?

So I uninstalled Zenless Zone Zero yesterday via Wine, and it seems it just deleted every game, KDE configs, etc....

Usha Vance told friends Trump appalled her. Now she’s working to elect him. (wapo.st)

WaPo gift article - no paywall

I too love watching CP 😍 (media.eepy.express)

Activision secretly experimented on 50% of Call of Duty players by 'decreasing' skill-based matchmaking, and determined players like SBMM even if they don't know it (www.pcgamer.com)

J.D. Vance says he gets bad press because most journalists are “childless adults” (www.motherjones.com)

Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech (www.notebookcheck.net)

Reddit changes have blocked all search engines except Google amid AI 'misuse' [U] (9to5google.com)

Intel confirms no recall for Raptor Lake CPUs, microcode won’t fix affected units (videocardz.com)

I'll get right on that (yiffit.net)

Hezbollah rocket kills 10 children, injures at least 24 in Majdal Shams (www.ynetnews.com)

A Hezbollah rocket struck a soccer field in Majdal Shams, a Druze town in the Golan Heights, killing at least 10 children, and injuring 24, the IDF reported on Saturday.

US government says TikTok poses threat to national security (www.dw.com)

Responding to a lawsuit from video-sharing platform TikTok, the US Justice Department argued that China could order the company to manipulate TikTok’s algorithm and expand Beijing’s “malign influence.”...

Dutch Olympian who raped a 12-year-old girl ‘is not a paedophile’, official says (www.theguardian.com)

A senior official with the Dutch Olympic committee has insisted that a convicted child rapist in its beach volleyball team is not a paedophile, in an email seen by the Guardian....

YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete (www.yahoo.com)

YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

How big is YOUR collection?

Mine is 186GiB. I have about 100 movies and 3 TV series on a two hard disks (one for backup). I don’t know if that is small or large....

The argumentative nerd went to therapy to become more well-actualized.

How to know if university has access to my computer and phone?

I use the uni account for office, but read online that they can access other files and your device. How does that actually work? How to verify?...

Why does 11:19AM have to look so much like 5 till 4PM?

U.S. economy grew at a 2.8% pace in the second quarter, much more than expected (www.cnbc.com)

A $1 million starter home is now the norm in more than 200 US cities (www.cnn.com)

The number of US cities where first-time homebuyers are faced with at least a $1 million price tag on the average entry-level home has nearly tripled in the past five years, according to new research....