China’s Great Wall of Villages: China has moved thousands of people to new settlements on its frontiers. It calls them “border guardians.” (www.nytimes.com)
Japan vs. Manga Piracy: $800m Losses & 100 New Pirate Sites in One Month (torrentfreak.com)
GeneralPDW's Lego Recreation of the original Legend of Zelda's Map (with closeups) (www.flickr.com)
An incredible amount of love and work went into this.
Baltic Defence Line in Latvia gets its 'dragon's teeth' (www.euronews.com)
Concrete structures, also known as “Lego blocks”, will be placed along Latvia’s border with Russia and Belarus....
Asus ROG Ally mentioned in latest SteamOS 3 beta release notes — Valve's platform expansion ambitions take shape (www.tomshardware.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18537065
Susan Wojcicki, Former Chief of YouTube, Dies at 56 (www.nytimes.com)
Athlete’s death raises safety concerns as CrossFit Games resume (www.washingtonpost.com)
Israel-Gaza war live: Israel issues massive evacuation order in Khan Younis (www.theguardian.com)
Foxconn Hires 50,000 More Workers as Apple Boosts iPhone 16 Production. So much for Apple's shift to India. (www.macrumors.com)
Ukraine aims to ‘destabilise Russia’ with thousands of troops in Kursk incursion (www.theguardian.com)
Official says Kyiv is seeking to ‘stretch the enemy’ and western partners were ‘indirectly’ involved...
Palestinian horse centre in rebuild vow after West Bank demolition (www.bbc.com)
Wayland Merges New Screen Capture Protocols (www.phoronix.com)
The ext-image-capture-source-v1 and ext-image-copy-capture-v1 screen copy protocols build upon wlroots’ wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1 with various improvements for better screen capture support under Wayland. These new protocols should allow for better performance and window capturing support for use-cases around RDP/VNC remote...
Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO (9to5mac.com)
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has hinted that in future some subreddits could be paywalled, as the company seeks to devise new sources of income....
Hamas head Yahya Sinwar seeks ceasefire deal - CNN (www.jpost.com)
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 79 (fediversereport.com)
This week’s news:...
Trump spews lies, disparages Harris’s intelligence, insults Jews, and rambles about “insane asylums” in unhinged press conference (www.vanityfair.com)
He did little to quell reports that he is melting down over Harris’s poll numbers....
The Last Survivors [of Atomic Bombs] Speak. It’s Time to Listen. (www.nytimes.com)
Debby finally moves out of the U.S., though risk from flooded rivers remains (www.npr.org)
Debby finally moved out of the U.S. on Saturday after the storm spent the better part of week unleashing tornadoes and flooding, damaging homes and taking lives as it moved up the East Coast after first arriving in Florida as a hurricane....
Tunisia's electoral commission accepts just three candidates for presidential election (www.reuters.com)
TUNIS, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Tunisia’s electoral commission said on Saturday it had preliminarily accepted only three presidential candidates, including incumbent Kais Saied, amid widespread criticism of what the opposition says are moves to exclude serious contenders....
Death toll from landslide at Uganda garbage dump rises to 21 (www.reuters.com)
KAMPALA, Aug 11 (Reuters) - The death toll from a landslide at a vast garbage dump in Uganda’s capital Kampala has risen to 21, police said on Sunday, as rescue workers continued to dig for survivors....
Love the army, defend the motherland: how China is pushing military education on children (www.theguardian.com)
Growing emphasis on military training for civilians reflects heightened nationalism under Xi Jinping – and a growing risk of war over Taiwan...
The Government Spends Millions to Open Grocery Stores in Food Deserts. The Real Test Is Their Survival. (www.propublica.org)
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, at centre of Olympics gender row, files legal complaint over online harassment (news.sky.com)
The Algerian boxer at the centre of a gender row at the Paris Olympics has filed a legal complaint saying she has been a victim of online harassment....
A man is seen climbing the Eiffel Tower, prompting an evacuation hours before closing ceremony (apnews.com)
PARIS (AP) — French police have evacuated the area around the Eiffel Tower after a man was seen climbing the Paris landmark hours before the Olympics closing ceremony Sunday....
Texas orders hospitals to collect data on undocumented migrants (www.bbc.com)
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered hospitals to gather data on the immigration status of patients, arguing Texas has had to “foot the bill” for the Biden administration’s border policies....
