Car maker fined $6.4m for selling China-made vehicles as Italian (www.bbc.com)
The Italian government has fined a car company $6.4m (£5m) for allegedly branding vehicles that were made in China as being produced in Italy....
USC student will not be charged in fatal stabbing of homeless person (abcnews.go.com)
A University of Southern California student will not face charges for the fatal stabbing of a homeless man he said was done in self-defense....
Nintendo Does What Everybody Else Nintendon’t - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
Politician who pushed Philippines natural gas boom is behind firm that planned to profit (apnews.com)
An influential politician in the Philippines, who has been a cheerleader for natural gas power, is behind a company that planned to make a fortune from it, an Associated Press investigation of thousands of pages of documents has found....
From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction (arstechnica.com)
The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling (www.propublica.org)
FromSoftware warns new Elden Ring Steam Deck bug making game unresponsive (www.eurogamer.net)
Donald Sutherland dies aged 88 (www.bbc.com)
California voters lose a shot at checking state and local tax hikes at the polls, would have made it harder to raise taxes (apnews.com)
Paywall removed: archive.is/3Uxhl
Gatwick: Council calls for crackdown on Uber drivers at airport (www.bbc.com)
Supreme Court Allows Suit Over Arrest Said to Be Politically Motivated (www.nytimes.com)
Jeff Landry signs education bills that promise to bring 'drastic change.' See the list. (www.nola.com)
Ruining public schools is their favorite pastime.
Best Flags With Birds (www.uk-featherflags.co.uk)
What’s your favourite?
Italy divided by plan to grant more powers to its regions (www.reuters.com)
Former Official: Biden State Dept. Bending US Law to Send Israel Weapons (scheerpost.com)
This Judge Made Houston the Top Bankruptcy Court. Then He Helped His Girlfriend Cash In. (www.wsj.com)
Law firm Kirkland & Ellis brought multibillion-dollar cases to David R. Jones’s court, aided by a local attorney who lived with the judge; ‘Why did no one look into it?’
'Complete fabrication': Milwaukee mayor 'stunned' by Trump lie about GOP convention (www.rawstory.com)
China’s energy use per person surpasses Europe’s for first time (www.straitstimes.com)
Alex Murdaugh’s son sues Netflix over docuseries linking him to 2015 death (www.theguardian.com)
China is the true power in Putin and Kim’s budding friendship (www.bbc.com)
Mr Putin’s first visit to Pyongyang since 2000 was a chance for Russia and North Korea to flaunt their friendship. And flaunt it they did, with Mr Kim declaring his “full support” for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
Pyongyang - Glory to the DPRK! (satire) (lemmy.world)
You may remember a community on Reddit called Pyongyang. Well, that’s basically what this is. All the absurd BS propaganda that North Korea’s state-run news puts out....
France and Italy denounced by European Commission for overspending (www.politico.eu)
Iran signals a major boost in nuclear enrichment at key site (www.washingtonpost.com)
A major expansion underway inside Iran’s most heavily protected nuclear facility could soon triple the site’s production of enriched uranium and give Tehran new options for quickly assembling a nuclear arsenal if it chooses to, according to confidential documents and analysis by weapons experts....
Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator Speech + Hans Zimmer's "Time" (youtu.be)
Timely and timeless 84(!) years later.
Framework introduces a RISC-V mainboard for its modular laptops (liliputing.com)
