Bangladesh Government Imposes Communications Blackout as Violence Against Student Protestors Mounts (www.theguardian.com)
Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territory ‘unlawful’, UN world court rules (news.un.org)
The Court was responding to a request for an advisory opinion by the General Assembly on the legal consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem....
Could social media support healthy online conversations? New_ Public is working on it (www.niemanlab.org)
Sports Streaming Services Fight Piracy With... a Very Affordable Bundle. (torrentfreak.com)
Man who escaped Oregon prison 30 years ago was found in Georgia with a stolen identity, authorities say (www.cnn.com)
The discovery of the stolen identity came after new investigative technology employed by the US State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service developed new leads in the case this year, the Marshals Service said without elaborating about the technology....
AMD's Zen 5 chips pack in 8.315 billion transistors per compute die, a 28% increase in density (www.tomshardware.com)
Huawei sues chip maker MediaTek for patent infringement (www.gizmochina.com)
The Top 20 CrowdStrike Memes You Can Enjoy While You Fix Servers - LowEndBox (lowendbox.com)
Yup, the net didn’t waste time.
'Very aggressive' homeless camp crackdown coming in August, mayor says (sfstandard.com)
Mayor London Breed said a “very aggressive” sweep of San Francisco homeless encampments will start in August, after a recent Supreme Court ruling cleared the path for widespread enforcement....
‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Adds Karim Diané & Zoë Steiner To Cast (deadline.com)
'Groundbreaking' Study Stresses Need to Protect Global Forest Carbon Sink. (www.commondreams.org)
Mashable, PC Mag, and Lifehacker win unprecedented AI protections in new union contract (www.niemanlab.org)
The Official Star Trek Guide to San Diego Comic-Con 2024 (www.startrek.com)
Rightwinger Leonard Leo helped fuel Bud Light boycott, tax filings show (www.theguardian.com)
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, a remarkably terrible entry to the FMV genre popularized by Ripper and Night Trap, has returned to PC on GOG. (www.pcgamesn.com)
Lou Dobbs, Fox Business host, dies at 78 (apnews.com)
Donald Trump offers supporters $299 assassination attempt-themed sneakers (www.theguardian.com)
As surely as Donald Trump sought to cash in on his various criminal indictments, so the former president turned Republican presidential nominee began to sell merchandise commemorating his attempted assassination in Pennsylvania last weekend....
Putin fears crypto mining could cause energy shortages in Russia (www.politico.eu)
The Galaxy Z Fold 6’s battery is so small that a flip phone just beat it (9to5google.com)
Vietnam's top leader Trong dies at 80 after long rule (www.reuters.com)
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Vietnam"s most powerful leader Nguyen Phu Trong dies (www.bangkokpost.com)
World Court says Israel’s presence in Palestinian territories is illegal (www.aljazeera.com)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is illegal and that it should come to an end “as rapidly as possible”....
More Chinese students are electing to study at home, where China's universities are out-ranking Canadian schools. (nationalpost.com)
LA City Council Considers Funding Former IDF Soldiers to Patrol Its Streets (theintercept.com)
THE LOS ANGELES City Council is considering whether to give public funds to private, armed security patrols to protect its religious communities, following a protest against the marketing of West Bank settlement properties at an LA synagogue last month that turned violent....
