NASA Says Boeing Starliner Astronauts May Fly Home on SpaceX in 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18401352...
X, Owned by Elon Musk, Brings Antitrust Suit Accusing Advertisers of a Boycott (www.nytimes.com)
The company claimed that members of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media coordinated to dissuade brands from advertising on X....
Man vs. machine: DeepMind’s new robot serves up a table tennis triumph (arstechnica.com)
Ex-cop accused of killing gay TV presenter and his boyfriend faces new charges (www.advocate.com)
Deep space radar site in Wales to go ahead to protect UK from ‘space warfare’ (www.theguardian.com)
Plans for a network of radars tracking deep space activity to help protect the UK from “space warfare” are to go ahead in Pembrokeshire, despite the opposition of local campaigners....
Houthi leader warns Israel that response attack is 'on the way' (www.jpost.com)
Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
“I think the existing, altruistic, free version of Reddit will continue to exist and grow and thrive just the way it has,” Huffman said. “But now we will unlock the door for new use cases, new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive content or private areas, things of that nature.”
Federal jury orders Naperville to pay $22.5 million in damages to estate of man wrongfully imprisoned for 22 years (www.chicagotribune.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/naperville-federal-jury-trial-d…
Man who said he'd 'pluck out' VP Harris' eyes was baffled when feds appeared at door: Complaint (lawandcrime.com)
Officials say suspects in foiled plot at Taylor Swift shows hoped to kill as many people as possible (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18415933
Reddit CEO hints that subreddit paywalls are on the way (mashable.com)
July ends 13-month streak of global heat records as El Nino ebbs, but experts warn against relief (www.newsday.com)
Earth’s string of 13 straight months with a new average heat record came to an end this past July as the natural El Nino climate pattern ebbed, the European climate agency Copernicus announced Thursday....
Russia says Ukranian troops have crossed into it's border. (www.yahoo.com)
Baldur's Gate 3 - Community Update #28 Closed Beta (store.steampowered.com)
Coming to you this September, Patch 7 rolls out the perfect escape with split screen updates, brand new cinematics for evil endings, plenty of bug fixes, plus our official modding toolkit which we talked more about in our last Community Update!
US beach volleyball shut out of medals for first time in Olympic history (www.theguardian.com)
China will have nearly twice the pets than young children by 2030, Goldman Sachs says (www.nbcnews.com)
China’s pet population will be close to double that of its young children by 2030 as young Chinese remain unwilling to start new families, Goldman Sachs said in a recent note....
Elon Musk shares fake news about England rioters being sent to Falklands (www.theguardian.com)
Elon Musk shared a fake Telegraph article claiming Keir Starmer was considering sending far-right rioters to “emergency detainment camps” in the Falklands....
Israel halts PA funds transfer to Norway as 'punishment' (www.newarab.com)
Under Oslo’s terms, still in place, Israel collects tax on behalf of the Palestinians and theoretically makes monthly transfers to the PA - pending the approval of Israel’s finance ministry....
British MPs want to haul Elon Musk before parliament over riots (www.politico.eu)
*Musk has spent days beefing with politicians over the far-right unrest sweeping the UK. *...
Russian Railway networks facing "imminent collapse": report (www.newsweek.com)
UK riots: how does the violence compare with unrest in August 2011? (www.theguardian.com)
The sight of scurrying looters and widespread rioting across multiple English cities may be an unusual one. But the disorder has a 21st-century precedent in another overheated August....
hachubby - multitasking (clips.twitch.tv)
Elon Musk urged to take X responsibilities more seriously (www.theregister.com)
Climate change deniers make up nearly a quarter of US Congress (www.theguardian.com)
Climate denialists – 23 in Senate and 100 in House – are all Republicans and make US an outlier internationally...