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Neil Gaiman: Three Women Accuse Author of Sexual Assault (www.rollingstone.com)

Following initial investigation in July, three more women come forward, including one who signed NDA following her experience with author...

Is Ismail Haniyeh's assassination a setback for Israel-Hamas peace talks? (www.firstpost.com)

The death of Haniyeh, a significant figure in Hamas’s political and diplomatic structure, has raised serious questions about the future of ongoing ceasefire negotiations. American officials had recently indicated that these talks, mediated by Qatar, the United States, and Egypt, were close to yielding a temporary ceasefire and...

AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense (www.nature.com)

Genie dislikes cloud (sh.itjust.works)

If I’ve learned anything from watching combat footage from Ukraine, it’s that shotguns are very effective at taking down drones. Who would’ve guessed the thing used to kill birds kills drones? (sh.itjust.works)

r*ddit

Moon cave discovered that could one day house humans (www.bbc.com)

Scientists have for the first time discovered a cave on the Moon....

The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found. (www.theguardian.com)

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/22143130

Pixel 9 Pro Euro Prices Leak - Should We Worry? (www.droid-life.com)

Samsung wanted this to be their week, and it still mostly is with the launch of the Fold 6, Flip 6, and the Galaxy Watch Ultra. However, Google’s upcoming Pixel 9 launch is incredibly close, so the leaks for it are only going to ramp up. Today, a fresh report is here to keep things moving toward that mid-August Pixel 9 event....

2-year-old Arizona girl dies after dad leaves her in car during triple-digit heat: Police (abcnews.go.com)

A 2-year-old girl has died after her father left her in a hot car in Arizona, where residents are enduring triple-digit temperatures, according to authorities....

Saudi Arabia Threatened to Sell Off Europe’s Bonds If EU Seized Russian Assets (www.kyivpost.com)

Sacramento high school biology final includes racist questions, targets students (www.sacbee.com)

A Luther Burbank High School freshman was surprised to read his full name included on a biology final. Not only that, but he was being ridiculed. “In high school, there are individuals who are cross-eyed like (the name of a fellow student) and (the name of the student previously mentioned), which is a dominant trait. We call...

Judge delays ban on noncompete agreements for employees | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

Trump judge?...

Macron is already over. Can anyone stop Le Pen? (www.politico.eu)

California Moms for Liberty chair’s shocking attack on drag queens goes viral (www.advocate.com)

French parliamentary election: Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) projected to win first round, beating the leftist NPF alliance and Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble (www.dw.com)

Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks in US over windshield wiper, exterior trim issues (www.reuters.com)

Tesla said on Tuesday it was recalling most Cybertrucks in the United States over issues with their windshield wipers and exterior trim.

Let me pull this out of my ass (sh.itjust.works)

Why Democrats think Biden’s problem is Biden (www.politico.com)

Democrats keep doing surprisingly well in special elections. The party’s most vulnerable Senate incumbents are running ahead of their rivals in key battleground states. One of Democrats’ signature issues — reproductive rights — has repeatedly proved a winning message....

Death toll tops 1,000 after Haj marked by extreme heat (www.channelnewsasia.com)

‘It is not illegal to teach drunk’: Charges dropped against 2nd grade teacher accused of being intoxicated in class (lawandcrime.com)

While the District Attorney’s Office agrees that it is highly inappropriate to teach while intoxicated, it is, unfortunately, not illegal.”

Ikea’s CEO has solved the Swedish retailer’s global ‘unhappy worker’ crisis by raising salaries, introducing flexible working and subsidizing childcare (fortune.com)