Disney has “earned” latest streaming price hike, CFO says (arstechnica.com)
Tim Walz calls Viktor Orbán a dictator. For JD Vance, he’s a role model. (www.politico.eu)
Shadows of Doubt, the procgen private-eye immersive sim, is leaving early access next month (www.pcgamer.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18591054
Trump campaign office near DC burglarized, police say (thehill.com)
A controversial experiment to artificially cool Earth was canceled — what we know about why (www.theverge.com)
British hunting group to take legal action to become protected minority group. Hunters have good chance of obtaining same status as Gypsies and LGBT people, campaigners say (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Russian Economic Growth Dips in Second Quarter as Inflation Rises (www.themoscowtimes.com)
The pace of Russia’s economic growth slowed in the second quarter of 2024, official data showed Friday, amid concerns over stubborn inflation and warnings of “overheating.”...
Iraq Proposes Law To Reduce Legal Age Of Marriage For Girls To 9 (www.ndtv.com)
Archived version...
Dead woman found entangled in baggage machinery at Chicago airport (apnews.com)
Firefighters found a dead woman entangled in machinery Thursday in a non-public baggage-processing area at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago....
Amid backlash, school district says black-outfit ban shared 'prematurely' (www.bbc.com)
A Texas school district, facing backlash after one of its middle schools banned black clothes, has said the dress code change was “prematurely communicated”....
What has been the hardest thing to let go of when deciding to distance yourself from or drop social media entirely? (kbin.melroy.org)
For me it's input. I have a continually thinking mind that feels that I must have something to say on anything. Whenever I've gotten rid of a Reddit account or took even a day or two off from activity on the internet. I had an itch to say something whenever something is reported or something I've seen while browsing that peaked...
Oldmancat Murphy playing with his new toy (i.imgur.com)
Additional Murphy tax...
Putin says Ukraine's incursion into Kursk is an attempt to stop Russia's eastern offensive (www.pbs.org)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the Ukrainian army’s incursion into the Kursk region, which has caused more than 100,000 civilians to flee and embarrassed the Kremlin, is an attempt by Kyiv to stop Moscow’s offensive in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region and gain leverage in possible future peace talks.
Why Iran Has Waited to Retaliate Against Israel for Hamas Leader’s Killing (www.nytimes.com)
The crisis comes at an especially delicate moment in Iran, which analysts say is trying to formulate a response that doesn’t let an assassination on its soil go unpunished, while avoiding an all-out war against a powerful adversary. It also comes as a new government in Tehran has taken office, which could be slowing a decision...
Horses are smart enough to plan and strategise, new study shows (www.bbc.com)
You can lead a horse to water and, it turns out, convince it to drink if the reward is great enough, researchers have found....
Schools to teach children how to spot fake news and ‘putrid’ conspiracies online (www.independent.co.uk)
Children will be taught how to spot extremist content and fake news online under planned changes to the school curriculum....
Almost all Windows 10 systems can be upgraded to the new version — so why are businesses holding back? (www.techradar.com)
512-bit RSA key in home energy system gives control of “virtual power plant” (arstechnica.com)
Alpaca Simplifies Running Advanced AI Language Models on Linux (freedomproject.pages.dev)
Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131 – Firefox Nightly News (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
I tried this last night and I actually really like it. The default theme seems to have changed also and looks much cleaner....
Russia says Ukranian troops have crossed into it's border. (www.yahoo.com)
Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has hinted that in future some subreddits could be paywalled, as the company seeks to devise new sources of income....
New Yorkers are warned from the skies about impending danger from storms as city deploys drones (apnews.com)
Gone is the bullhorn. Instead, New York City emergency management officials have turned high-tech, using drones to warn residents about potential threatening weather....
New Zealand food bank distributes candy made from a potentially lethal amount of methamphetamine (abcnews.go.com)
A Gazan father went to register his twins’ births. They were killed in an Israeli airstrike, hospital officials say (www.cnn.com)
Hours earlier, the Palestinian father-of-two left his apartment in Deir al-Balah to collect birth certificates for his three-day-old twins – Aysal and Aser, a boy and a girl. But while he was out, he said, he received a phone call that an Israeli strike had hit his home, killing the two babies, along with his wife, Jumana.
