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Hiker dies in cow herd charge in Austrian Alps (www.freemalaysiatoday.com)

A hiker in the Austrian Alps died when a herd of cows charged her, while her two daughters survived with injuries […]. The woman was on a hike with her two daughters […] and two small dogs yesterday […] in the Salzburg region when the cow herd charged […]. “It is still not clear what happened,” a police spokesman...

Remote IT management provider TeamViewer says it has been hacked, allegedly by Russian state hackers from APT29 (www.teamviewer.com)

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US will remove Gaza aid pier due to weather and may not put it back, officials say (apnews.com)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The pier built by the U.S. military to bring aid to Gaza is being removed due to weather to protect it, and the U.S. is considering not re-installing it unless aid begins flowing out into the population again, several U.S. officials said Friday....

Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission (www.neowin.net)

Kbin.social down again? Are people moving to mbin instances (kbin.run, fedia.io)? (kbin.social)

Link to a list of mbin instances: fedidb.org/software/mbin

Inkscape Flatpak is looking for a maintainer! (github.com)

The Flatpak is already packaged and works well. It just needs to be maintained from a person that joins the Inkscape community....

Police in New York shoot and kill 13-year-old holding a pellet gun, authorities say (www.pbs.org)

An officer in upstate New York shot and killed a teen fleeing while pointing a replica gun, police said Saturday.

What do you mean there was a coup in Bolivia? (sh.itjust.works)

When they send their golpists, they’re not sending their best, folks. Terrible coup, actually. Top 10 worst coups, even.

Are we <INSERT_TECHNOLOGY_NAME> yet? (github.com)

Are we Wayland yet? Are we JPEG XL yet? Are we Rust yet? Are we ActivityPub yet?...

Intel Arc Battlemage GPU surfaces — BMG-G31 silicon reportedly wields 32 Xe2 Cores (www.tomshardware.com)

Bethesda Game Studios Montreal workers are trying to unionize (www.gamedeveloper.com)

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/21476821

If Trump's mic was the only live mic, did he poop his pants here? (www.youtube.com)

At timestamp 1:16:20 “… can’t because it’s too much money it’s tremendous”

TIL about Wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic worldview of accepting the simple, imperfect, and transient things in the world. Similar to kintsugi (repairing broken pottery with golden paste), it's abou (en.wikipedia.org)

Squatters take London’s housing crisis into their own hands (www.reuters.com)

In the shopping streets and housing estates of the south London town of Croydon, some once-derelict buildings are slowly coming back to life....

TIL Private Prison stocks skyrocketed when Trump was first elected (www.thestreet.com)

Rate of Young Women Getting Sterilized Doubled After ‘Roe’ Was Overturned (kffhealthnews.org)

Phone home tracking image in DocuSeal, and how to remove it (www.reddit.com)

Kinda proud of this, so forgive me while I brag. I found a likely “phone home” tracking image in DocuSeal. I searched around: there was an extant issue about the image. I asked the devs: would they accept a PR to remove the image? A maintainer responded quickly that they were not interested in a PR to remove it, so I forked...

How the ACLU is planning for the return of Trump (www.motherjones.com)

Years Later, Philippines Reckons With Duterte’s Brutal Drug War (www.nytimes.com)

NYTimes gift article, no paywall

Mike McMahan Talks “Amazing Sendoff” For ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ In Season 5, Hints At Potential Spinoffs (trekmovie.com)

[Self Promo] A site for discovering video game writers (www.reconnect.quest)

Sorry for self promo - but I don’t earn any money from this endeavour....

Hack of Age Verification Company Shows Privacy Danger of Social Media Laws (www.eff.org)

We’ve said it before: online age verification is incompatible with privacy. Companies responsible for storing or processing sensitive documents like drivers’ licenses are likely to encounter data breaches, potentially exposing not only personal data like users’ government-issued ID, but also information about the sites...