Oxford scientists are generating solar power without panels (electrek.co)
Robert Picardo is joining the cast of Academy (blog.trekcore.com)
Donald Trump Privately Rants That Kamala Harris Is a ‘B***h’ as His Polls Plunge (www.thedailybeast.com)
12ft.io/…/donald-trump-rants-that-kamala-harris-i…
So, this is relevant again (lemmy.world)
As Kenyan Police Force Deploys in Haiti, Gang Violence Shifts (www.nytimes.com)
Weeks after an international police force began arriving to take on gangs, armed groups are redirecting their campaign of terror outside the capital.
Wine 9.15 released (gitlab.winehq.org)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/39302431
Venezuela bans X as Maduro expands crackdown (www.semafor.com)
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro blocked X after accusing the social media site’s owner Elon Musk of attempting to meddle in the country’s disputed election....
“Mastodon for Harris” is a Success Story for Fediverse Activism (wedistribute.org)
The Mastodon For Harris campaign has raised close to $500,000 within two weeks of being live. It is probably the largest attempt for political organizing on the Fediverse, and may provide a playbook for other efforts going forward.
Palestinian horse centre vows to rebuild after West Bank demolition (www.bbc.com)
It was 07:30 in the morning in late January when Khaled Ifranji received the phone call he had always feared. He had just passed through an Israeli military checkpoint on his way from his home in occupied East Jerusalem to his work in the occupied West Bank, when one of his employees rang to say the Israeli army was...
Trump campaign confirms security breach, blames Iran (www.dw.com)
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign team said Saturday that some of its international communications had been hacked by those “hostile” to the United States....
Fully forward mode training for optical neural networks (www.nature.com)
UFC Links Increase in Piracy Numbers to ESPN Price Hikes. (torrentfreak.com)
GNOME 46.4 Desktop Improves Connecting to WPA2 Enterprise Networks (9to5linux.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/965607...
Russian ombudsperson reaches out to UN high commissioner following Taganrog attack (tass.com)
J.D. Vance Awkwardly Retreats After Bizarre Attempt to Storm Harris’ Empty Plane (www.thedailybeast.com)
12ft.io/…/jd-vance-awkwardly-retreats-from-confro…
Video doorbells, CCTV, facial recognition: how the police tracked UK rioters (www.theguardian.com)
The hunt to find the rioters and the people who incited them began the moment the first brick was thrown. But the efforts to catch them will last weeks or months, and involve super-recognisers, specialist software, video doorbells and, in a few cases, criminal stupidity....
Taito Egret II Mini Arcade Memories Vol. 3 Coming This December | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)
Taito Egret II Mini Arcade Memories Vol. 3...
TIL that in the early days of Fed-Ex, there was one time the company couldn't afford the fuel bill for their planes, so the founder took the company's last $5,000 and went to Las Vegas and won $27,000 (en.wikipedia.org)
Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap. (www.businessinsider.com)
Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips (arstechnica.com)
Sony Xperia 10 VI smartphone review: Compact, lightweight, waterproof, and with remarkable endurance (and audio jack) (www.notebookcheck.net)
Scaling Variant Analysis // Going Beyond Grep (goingbeyondgrep.com)
TIL that in 1972 a 33-year-old Hungarian geologist attacked Michelangelo's Pietà statue in St. Peter's Basilica wielding a geologist's hammer and shouting, "I am Jesus Christ—risen from the dead". Pri (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that in 1972 a 33-year-old Hungarian geologist attacked Michelangelo’s Pietà statue in St. Peter’s Basilica wielding a geologist’s hammer and shouting, “I am Jesus Christ—risen from the dead”. Prior to this, he had moved to Rome intending to be recognised as Christ by the Pope.