UK’s richest family on trial in Switzerland for human trafficking, confiscating staff passports, paying as little as £7/day (www.bbc.com)
'Microsoft killed my online life,' Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza (www.windowscentral.com)
A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza.
Iranian in UK flees to Israel after pulling off headscarves (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
An Iranian monarchist who filmed herself pulling the headscarves off Iranians in London fled to Israel after UK police announced they were investigating her....
Etsy to ban sale of most sex toys, explicit content, and more (mashable.com)
Online retailer Etsy will prohibit sales of most sex toys, content that depicts sex acts and genitalia, and more starting July 29....
Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets (www.404media.co)
A lawsuit filed in California by concert giant AXS has revealed a legal and technological battle between ticket scalpers and platforms like Ticketmaster and AXS, in which scalpers have figured out how to extract “untransferable” tickets from their accounts by generating entry barcodes on parallel infrastructure that the...
France's 'Excalibur' sword vanishes from the stone after 1,300 years (local12.com)
According to The New York Post, citing a report by The Telegraph, n sword that is regarded as France’s “Excalibur” has vanished from its stone. Per the publication, locals in the French town of Rocamadour believed the sword, Durandal, had been lodged in rock for around 1,300 years. A main attraction for the town, the sword...
Germany’s first African-born MP to stand down after racist abuse (www.theguardian.com)
The first African-born MP to enter the German parliament has announced he will not be standing in next year’s federal election, weeks after he revealed the hate mail, including racist slurs and death threats, he and his staff had received....
In Ukraine, Killings of Surrendering Russians Divide an American-Led Unit (www.nytimes.com)
JPMorgan Chase warns 86 million customers they might have to start paying for their bank accounts (finance.yahoo.com)
The potential charges, says Marianne Lake, CEO of consumer and community banking at JPMorgan, are a result of new regulatory rules that cap overdraft and late fees. Lake says Chase will be passing along those increased expenses to customers, which would put an end to now-free services such as checking accounts and wealth...
Toyota builds experimental hydrogen-powered pizza oven and grill. (www.autoblog.com)
I wish I got to do fun little projects like this at my job. Anyway, this proof of concept shows that hydrogen would be a great alternative to propane and natural gas for cooking. Hat tip to @hypx.
Inkscape Flatpak is looking for a maintainer! (github.com)
The Flatpak is already packaged and works well. It just needs to be maintained from a person that joins the Inkscape community....
An 8-year-old girl was sucked into a swimming pool pipe at a Hilton hotel. The management company blamed her parents (www.independent.co.uk)
Hey guys I love Jodie Foster so much any tips on how someone like me can impress her? (lemmy.world)
don't use ladybird browser lol (cyberpunk.lol)
github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814
Greece introduces the six-day work week (www.dw.com)
Kbin.social down again? Are people moving to mbin instances (kbin.run, fedia.io)? (kbin.social)
Link to a list of mbin instances: fedidb.org/software/mbin
Donald Trump rally shooting being probed as assassination attempt: AP sources (www.cp24.com)
Julian Assange's sexual assault accuser is "happy" he's free (www.bbc.com)
Swedish human rights activist Anna Ardin is glad Julian Assange is free....
In just a few years, half of all states passed bans on trans health care for kids (www.npr.org)
Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket (arstechnica.com)
The rocket was undergoing a static fire test of the stage, in which a vehicle is clamped to a test stand while its engines are ignited, when the booster broke free. According to a statement from the company, the rocket was not sufficiently clamped down and blasted off from the test stand “due to a structural failure.”...
New Crazy Taxi title will be an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA game, according to Sega (automaton-media.com)
AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law (gizmodo.com)
Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it (walledculture.org)
Steve Bannon must report to prison by Monday after Supreme Court rejects last-minute appeal. (www.nbcnews.com)
Heehee.
7 in 10 Americans think Supreme Court justices put ideology over impartiality: AP-NORC poll (apnews.com)
A solid majority of Americans say Supreme Court justices are more likely to be guided by their own ideology rather than serving as neutral arbiters of government authority, a new poll finds, as the high court is poised to rule on major cases involving former President Donald Trump and other divisive issues....
