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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to Feature First-Ever Star Trek Musical Episode | SDCC 2023 (startrek.com)

What If: Signal Was Part of the Fediverse? (signal.org)

Anyone else wondering?

Clarence Thomas Took Free Yacht Trip to Russia, Chopper Flight to Putin’s Hometown: Dems (www.thedailybeast.com)

Crunchyroll Announces the Removal of Its Comment Section Across All Platforms To 'Reduce Harmful Content' - IGN (www.ign.com)

Thanks to a $1 billion gift, most Johns Hopkins medical students will no longer pay tuition (apnews.com)

Most medical students at Johns Hopkins University will no longer pay tuition thanks to a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Monday....

Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app (stackdiary.com)

Americans Show Heightened Concern About Antisemitism (news.gallup.com)

He flipped off a trooper and got charged. Now Vermont is on the hook for $175,000 (apnews.com)

Vermont has agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit on behalf of a man who was charged with a crime for giving a state trooper the middle finger in 2018, the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday....

Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission (www.neowin.net)

Why doesn't the military do this? are they stupid? (lemmy.world)

Paradox Interactive has completely cancelled "Life By You" (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Very surprising. The game looked like it had a lot of potential and could’ve been the most popular sims alternative, but it’s suddenly been cancelled.

How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air? (www.wired.com)

Russia to send combat vessels to Caribbean to project ‘global power’, US official says (www.theguardian.com)

Naval exercises spurred by US support for Ukraine are likely to include port calls in Cuba and Venezuela, says official...

Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model" (hacks.mozilla.org)

New accessibility feature coming to Firefox, an “AI powered” alt-text generator....

Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse" (www.salon.com)

“Along with their anger about abortion, they grouse about not being allowed to punish students “for being homosexual or transgender.” They also argue they should be able to penalize teaching assistants for “cross-dressing,” by which they appear to mean allowing trans women to wear skirts.”

The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple Headphones (x.com)

[complete transcription so that you do not need to visit X]...

What Hamas Called Its Female Captives, and Why It Matters (www.theatlantic.com)

Reading too much into the language seems, at this point, to be less of a danger than reading too little into it....

It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in North Carolina (arstechnica.com)

Linux 6.9 released (lore.kernel.org)

iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' (www.theregister.com)

'This is a Crime Ahainst Humanity': 600,000 Children in Line of Fire as IDF Moves on Rafah (therealnews.com)

EXCLUSIVE: “You Have Been Warned”: Republican Senators Threaten the ICC Prosecutor over Possible Israel Arrest Warrants (zeteo.com)

A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so....