New York City nonprofit provides free swimming lessons to underserved communities. (www.voanews.com)
YouTube app miniplayer redesign works like picture-in-picture (9to5google.com)
YouTube for Android is testing a redesign of the miniplayer that serves as an in-app picture-in-picture (PiP)…
Nassau County’s plan to deputize armed civilians for hurricanes and other emergencies gets pushback. (prismreports.org)
North central Idaho’s Texas Fire is 80% contained, fire officials say in last planned update. (idahocapitalsun.com)
Castlemania: A Retro Gaming Fusion of Super Mario World and Castlevania (www.retronews.com)
A new ROM hack called Castlemania from LetsTalkGames blends the platforming style of Super Mario with the aesthetics and challenging gameplay of early Castlevania titles. The developer aims to evoke nostalgia through features like instant-death blocks, hidden secrets, and familiar enemies, while maintaining the NES difficulty....
U.S. sanctions two members of a Russian government-aligned hacktivist group who breached water facilities (home.treasury.gov)
The two sanctioned persons are Yuliya Vladimirovna Pankratova and Denis Olegovich Degtyarenko, both key members of the Russia-aligned hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR), according to a US Treasury press release....
Peter Nygard to be sentenced in Toronto for sexual assaults (www.bbc.com)
Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard, once the head of a lucrative global apparel empire, will be sentenced in a Canadian court this week for sexual assault....
US banks to begin reporting Russian assets for eventual forfeiture under new law (apnews.com)
The Treasury Department ordered the nation’s banking industry to start disclosing its holdings of Russian assets on Tuesday, with the goal of eventually seizing those billions of dollars in assets and selling them to aid the devastated Ukrainian economy....
Nepal: Plane crashes in Kathmandu with 19 on board (www.dw.com)
The Saurya Airlines plane was operating a test flight from the capital, Kathmandu, to the tourist hub of Pokhara. Nepal’s military said that rescue work is ongoing....
Amazon claims to power all its operations with renewable energy. If only that were true. (virginiamercury.com)
Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians (www.haskellforall.com)
Katamari Damacy's Ambitious Mobile Port Has Just Been (Partially) Preserved | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)
Katamari Damacy’s Mobile Adventure...
City’s Public Health Vending Machine Program Ends With Just Four Installed Out of 10 Announced. (www.thecity.nyc)
World breaks hottest day record for second day in a row (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18344493
How Crow Country Captured the Survival Horror Energy of 1996 (remapradio.com)
[Reuters->Bloomberg] Hackers Leak Documents From Pentagon IT Services Provider Leidos [Charles Gorrivan | July 23 2024 | Bloomberg] (www.reuters.com)
Edit: replaced Reuters article with Bloomberg article...
Interview: The Company That Brought Resident Evil Back To PC Wants To Resurrect More Capcom Classics (www.timeextension.com)
"We worked very closely with Capcom, and our relationship definitely grew in the process"
US Senator Bob Menendez resigning following corruption conviction (www.voanews.com)
Google to Block Entrust Certificates in Chrome Starting November 2024 (thehackernews.com)
See also: …googleblog.com/…/sustaining-digital-certificate-…
Green Groups Endorse Kamala Harris, Say She'll 'Raise Climate Ambition'. (www.commondreams.org)
Pluralistic: Holy CRAP the UN Cybercrime Treaty is a nightmare (pluralistic.net)
Per author, if the treat passes as-is, it will hurt security and stifle speech....
Bosses at Japan firm resign after 80 deaths potentially linked to red yeast rice tablets (www.channelnewsasia.com)
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Loss-of-cooling tests to verify inherent safety feature in the world’s first HTR-PM nuclear power plant (www.cell.com)
Kamiya's still keen to make Okami, Viewtiful Joe sequels, even if publisher isn't (www.eurogamer.net)
