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An aid worker’s airport disappearance stirs fear of repression following disputed Venezuela election (apnews.com)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The last time anyone heard from Edni López was Sunday. The 33-year-old political science professor and award-winning poet was preparing to board a flight to Argentina to visit a friend when she texted from the airport that something was wrong with her passport....

Catalan separatist leader Puigdemont makes surprise return to Spain (www.semafor.com)

How a mylar balloon left New Orleans without clean water for days (www.salon.com)

DOOM Eternal: PC Mods Preview (slayersclub.bethesda.net)

ADT admits security breach after hackers advertise stolen data on the dark web (www.theverge.com)

Security company ADT disclosed in an SEC filing that hackers obtained “some limited customer information, including email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses.” TechCrunch reports that ADT’s disclosure follows a seller on a cybercrime forum claiming last week that they had obtained more than 30,000 stolen ADT...

Officials say suspects in foiled plot at Taylor Swift shows hoped to kill as many people as possible (apnews.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18415933

WADA statement on Reuters story exposing USADA scheme in contravention of World Anti-Doping Code (www.wada-ama.org)

Device fingerprinting that stops fraud, builds trust, and drives growth. (shield.com)

Stop Fraud at the Root with Device Identification & Intelligence. Expose Fake Accounts with Persistent Device IDs, Stop multi-accounting at the source with the global standard for device identification. SHIELD’s Device ID uniquely identifies devices across app and web platforms with over 99.9% accuracy - even after advanced...

U.K., U.S. ambassadors to skip Nagasaki peace ceremony (www.asahi.com)

With attention on Gaza, Jewish settlers expand in the West Bank (www.npr.org)

Court: Transgender people in prisons can get gender-affirming care [in Connecticut] (ctmirror.org)

UK riots: how does the violence compare with unrest in August 2011? (www.theguardian.com)

The sight of scurrying looters and widespread rioting across multiple English cities may be an unusual one. But the disorder has a 21st-century precedent in another overheated August....

US insists Gaza cease-fire talks in final stage as region braces for wider war. (www.voanews.com)

First, States Banned Abortion. Now, They’re Pouring Hundreds of Millions Into Fake Clinics. (www.jezebel.com)

Report Shows USDA Summer Meals Programs Reach Only Fraction of Kids in Need (www.commondreams.org)

Just 8 minutes of TikTok ‘thinspiration’ content is enough to affect body image. (theconversation.com)

Volunteer with key role in New Orleans church bankruptcy admits to stunning lack of qualifications (www.theguardian.com)

Lee Eagan said he lacked prior experience, failed to familiarize himself with rules and suffered cognitive decline as case expenses soar to $40m...

Introducing Decentralized Social Icons (wedistribute.org)

As we’ve been building out our site, we’ve wanted to showcase the icons of various projects and protocols. However, there’s been a real lack of any kind of icon font for that purpose…Mastodon is pretty much the only Fediverse project to be featured in FontAwesome, and the ForkAwesome project has been dormant for a long...

Vietnam is the latest battleground in BYD’s bid to dominate Southeast Asia’s EV market. (restofworld.org)

Social Media Bans Could Deny Teenagers Mental Health Help. (kffhealthnews.org)

Media Bias/ Fact Check:...

Exciting Addition to Xbox Game Pass: Crash Bandicoot, Mafia, and Creatures of Ava | Retro Gaming News 24/7 (www.retronews.com)

Activision’s Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy will join the Xbox Game Pass library starting August 8, available on Consoles, Cloud, and PC. Following this, Mafia: Definitive Edition will also be available on Game Pass for PC starting August 13. Additionally, Creatures of Ava will join the service on Game Pass for PC, Cloud, and...