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Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship (theintercept.com)

Biden administration moves to ban medical debt from credit reports (www.nbcnews.com)

The Biden administration is moving to ban medical debt from credit reports....

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency warns against apathy and inaction, amid spike forced displacement. (www.unhcr.org)

The rise in overall forced displacement – to 120 million by May 2024 – was the 12th consecutive annual increase and reflects both new and mutating conflicts and a failure to resolve long-standing crises. The figure would make the global displaced population equivalent to the 12th largest country in the world, around the size...

Jumblie #253 (jumblie.com)

Jumblie #253 🟠🔵🔴🟢 9 guesses in 7m 4s jumblie.com...

Single-line Intel Meteor Lake Linux patch boosts performance by 72% (www.tomshardware.com)

Pope Francis accused of using homophobic slur again in closed-door meeting (news.sky.com)

The Pope reportedly used a derogatory term about gay men again in a private meeting, where he is said to have reiterated a need for caution regarding them becoming priests....

POLARIS™ | Official World Premiere Trailer (Pre-Alpha) | PC (yt.artemislena.eu)

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At least 41 dead as fire engulfs building housing migrant workers in Kuwait (www.independent.co.uk)

At least 41 people have been killed in a fire that tore through a high-rise building housing migrant workers in the city of Mangaf in southern Kuwait on Wednesday....

Elon Musk’s Boundary-Blurring Relationships With Women at SpaceX (www.wsj.com)

Man, fuck this guy

Blinken expresses frustration at changes to Gaza ceasefire deal requested by Hamas (www.cnn.com)

Less Than 3% of G7 Military Spending Could Help End Global Hunger and Solve Global South Debt Crisis (www.commondreams.org)

The [US] West Coast’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico (www.wired.com)

A jet missing since 1971 has been found at the bottom of Vermont's Lake Champlain (www.npr.org)

British Music Band 'Massive Attack' Cancels Show in Georgia in Protest of Government’s Attack on Human Rights in the Former Soviet Republic (civil.ge)

Massive Attack has canceled a show in Georgia scheduled for July 28, saying the decision was made “in protest of the Georgian government’s attack on basic human rights.” The British band says that playing at the state-owned Black Sea Arena stage “could be seen as an endorsement of their violent crackdowns against...

Meta tried to discredit researchers who identified fraudulent ads in its platforms (nucleo.jor.br)

Rapid UTI test that cuts detection time to 45 minutes awarded Longitude prize (www.theguardian.com)

Biden administration sets 50 miles per gallon fuel economy standard for 2031 (www.washingtonpost.com)

The new standards are part of a broad push to get more Americans into electric vehicles, and reduce the environmental cost of driving.

xaitax/TotalRecall: This tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots. (github.com)

this rootless Python script rips Windows Recall’s screenshots and SQLite database of OCRed text and allows you to search them.

Suicide Squad Promises It Won't Go Full Anthem And Abandon Its First Full Year Of Content (kotaku.com)

Thousands demonstrate against far right across France (www.lemonde.fr)

Paris police said 3,000 people gathered in Paris on Monday evening, at a demonstration against the far right, which made historic gains in the European elections on Sunday. Other gatherings took place around the country....

Varèse Sarabande Announces Special Star Trek: Into Darkness Soundtrack Vinyl Box Set (blog.trekcore.com)

Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 (www.theverge.com)

Apple has announced that its Messages app will support the RCS messaging standard in iOS 18. RCS offers more advanced features compared to traditional SMS, including higher-quality media, typing indicators, and end-to-end encryption. This move will improve messaging between iOS and Android devices, which currently rely on the...

Supreme Court rules U.S. must pay more for Native American tribes’ health care - SCOTUSblog (www.scotusblog.com)

One-Line Patch For Intel Meteor Lake Yields Up To 72% Better Performance, +7% Geo Mean (www.phoronix.com)

Covered last week on Phoronix was a new patch from Intel that with tuning to the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver was showing big wins for Intel Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” performance and power efficiency. I was curious with the Intel claims posted for a couple benchmarks and thus over the weekend set out to run many Intel...