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Donald Trump campaign raises more than $7m by selling mugshot merchandise (www.aljazeera.com)

Navy SEAL who claimed to kill Bin Laden arrested in Texas (www.aol.com)

Prigozhin confirmed dead after genetic tests - Moscow (www.bbc.com)

In a historic about-face, Apple publicly supports right-to-repair bill (grist.org)

Apple security updates could be banned by British government (9to5mac.com)

Everyone in the tech industry facepalms almost every time legislators try to pontificate on technology, but the British government appears to be trying to set a new record. After putting iMessage and FaceTime at risk, the government is now suggesting that it might ban some Apple security updates.

Wagner Soldiers Send Chilling Warning After Reports of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Death (www.thedailybeast.com)

Fallout TV series "sneak peek" leaks online following Gamescom Starfield presentation (www.eurogamer.net)

Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel (www.theverge.com)

X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014 (www.theverge.com)

X, which was formerly known as Twitter until its recent rebranding, is having a problem displaying old posts that came with images attached or any hyperlinks converted through Twitter’s built-in URL shortener. It’s unclear when the problem started, but it was highlighted on Saturday afternoon in a post by Tom Coates, and a...

Spam donates 5 truckloads of beloved canned meat in response to Maui fire (www.cnn.com)

The makers of Spam, saying that their “special relationship with the Hawaiian community spans decades,” have donated over 264,000 cans to aid the disaster-relief efforts on Maui, the company said in a press release.

'TikTok brain' may be coming for your kid's attention span (theweek.com)

‘TikTok brain’ may be coming for your kid’s attention span::Emerging research suggests that TikTok’s rapid-fire short videos are affecting the attention spans of its younger users, making it harder for them to engage in activities that require more sustained attention.

EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes (www.hackingbutlegal.com)

Apparently, the Chinese government brought the hammer down on Naomi for pointing out how they spy on Signal used via a third-party keyboard on phones...

Three women injured in otter attack in Montana (news.sky.com)

Illinois Supreme Court finds assault weapons ban constitutional (abcnews.go.com)

The Illinois State Supreme Court found a strict assault weapons ban passed after the Highland Park shooting to be constitutional in a ruling issued Friday.

App to schedule posts on Lemmy (schedule.lemmings.world)

I’ve made an app that makes it possible to schedule a post in Lemmy at an arbitrary time. It’s available at schedule.lemmings.world and can be used by people from any instance....

'Cancer-killing pill' that appears to 'annihilate' solid tumours is now being tested on humans (news.sky.com)

Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)

Will Reddit get quality replacements? "Not a snowball's chance in hell."

NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁 (en.wikipedia.org)

Happy 30th Birthday “New Technology” File System! Thanks for 30 years of demonstrating Linux superiority with a gap that widens with every new kernel release 👍

X.org (x.org)

A software project started in 1984, widely used in hundreds of OSes for four decades, with a distinctive X as it’s logo and an equally distinct URL 🙄...

Google Play services discontinuing updates for KitKat (API levels 19 & 20) starting August 2023 (android-developers.googleblog.com)

The Android KitKat (KK) platform was first released ~10 years ago and since then, we’ve introduced many innovative improvements and features for Android, which are unavailable on KK. As of July 2023, the active device count on KK is below 1% as more and more users update to the latest Android versions. Therefore, we are no...