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Former Mormon bishop highlighted in AP investigation arrested on felony child sex abuse charges (apnews.com)

A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was featured in an Associated Press investigation into how the church protects itself from allegations of sexual abuse was arrested by police in Virginia this week after being indicted on charges he sexually abused his daughter while accompanying her on a...

Android 15 DP2 adds a new "disable default frame rate for games" setting in Developer Options (twitter.com)

GSMArena article: m.gsmarena.com/android_developer_preview_2_unlock…

Across the Metaverse: My trip though VR social platforms (www.spacebar.news)

Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)

Relief (lemmy.world)

Taiwan confirms US troops on front-line islands near China (www.newsweek.com)

U.S. Army Green Berets from the 1st Special Forces Group are now permanently stationed at a pair of bases of the 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, a Taiwanese army special operations force, according to Taiwan’s United Daily News (UDN)....

iQOO Neo10/10 Pro tipped to bring flagship silicon to mid-range Android smartphone market (www.notebookcheck.net)

How the coming flood of AI-generated content might actually free the soul of Internet (www.staygrounded.online)

Backpack Battles has sold 500,000 copies in two weeks on Steam [Godot Engine] (www.gamingonlinux.com)

$3 billion deal with the UK gets Australia closer to having a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines (apnews.com)

Japan schools move to protect cheerleaders from upskirting at sporting events (www.theguardian.com)

Russia adds 'LGBT movement' to list of extremist and terrorist organisations (www.reuters.com)

Murder defendant slips restraints in court, stabs his lawyer with pen. All good, attorney says (www.latimes.com)

Russia says 40 dead, 145 injured in concert hall raid, Islamic State group claims responsibility (apnews.com)

Security expert Chris Krebs on TikTok, AI and the key to survival (part 2) (venturebeat.com)

Part 1: venturebeat.com/…/security-expert-chris-krebs-on-…Part 2: venturebeat.com/…/security-expert-chris-krebs-on-…

Carnage on the streets of Port-au-Prince as world stalls on a promised intervention for Haiti (www.cnn.com)

A woman hustles her young child into a waiting car, half-dragging him as she shields his eyes. Other family members follow with heavy suitcases, averting their eyes too. They’re leaving the city, even though the drive through gang-controlled roads is risky....

The first ‘Fairly Trained’ AI large language model is here (venturebeat.com)

GitLab confirms it’s removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu (www.theverge.com)

Apple has kept an illegal monopoly over smartphones in US, Justice Department says in antitrust suit (www.independent.co.uk)

Tired of inflated ticket prices, Yungblud is launching his own affordable music festival (apnews.com)

Tired of inflated ticket prices, recording artist Yungblud is launching his own affordable music festival....

Stunt Paradise releases on Steam [15% off] (store.steampowered.com)

It's Not Safe to Click Links on X (lifehacker.com)

As noted by security researcher Will Dormann, some posts on X purport to lead to a legitimate website, but actually redirect somewhere else. In Dormann’s example, an advertisement posted by a verified X user claims to lead to forbes.com. When Dormann clicks the link, however, it takes him to a different link to open a Telegram...