Unions seek gains in hostile territory: ‘If you change the South, you change America’ (www.politico.com)
They’re wielding new tactics with low-wage workers after decades of failed organizing efforts.
‘Russian-only’ businesses in Thailand’s Phuket spark backlash (www.aljazeera.com)
A huge influx of Russians in Phuket is producing a backlash from locals, amid complaints of a booming Russian-only economy that covers everything from hair salons to taxi firms....
Carbon markets are 'bogus solutions' as rich world keeps polluting, African Climate Summit is told (apnews.com)
The summit has sought to reframe the African continent, which has enormous amounts of clean energy minerals and renewable energy sources, as less of a victim of climate change driven by the world’s biggest economies and more of the solution....
Burning Man Ends With Hours-Long Traffic Jam (www.thewrap.com)
Thousands of stranded Burning Man attendees were finally headed home in hours-long lines on Monday and Tuesday.
Google updates the Android brand with new logo and 3D robot (9to5google.com)
Following our previous report, Google is officially unveiling a new 3D logo for Android. The broad goal of this updated branding is to “help connect Android to Google,” and it follows the previous modernization in 2019.
CD Projekt reveals which new Cyberpunk 2077 features are available for free and which are related to the game's expansion (www.gamescensor.com)
Peru demolishes “Wall of Shame” dividing rich and poor neighbourhoods (ptv-news.com.pk)
New Survey Reveals That Many Game Developers Consider Their Career Unsustainable (www.ign.com)
IGN can exclusively reveal the details from IATSE's 2023 Gameworkers.org Rates and Conditions Survey, where the organization asked hundreds of video game developers about their pay, benefits, and working conditions.
Season 8 Episode 7 - Rage Against the Vaccine [Discussion and Spoilers] (lemmy.world)
Airing on Hulu (US) or Disney Plus (outside US) - Monday, September 4, 2023 at Eastern Time (ET) 03:00 a.m/ Pacific Time (PT) 12:00 a.m
Driverless taxis blocked ambulance response to fatal accident, San Francisco Fire Dept. says (www.nytimes.com)
Driverless taxis blocked ambulance response to fatal accident, San Francisco Fire Dept. says::Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said. The company said it was not at fault.
Square Enix has confirmed Final Fantasy 16's PC version and DLC (www.gamescensor.com)
Russia’s African coup strategy - Microsoft Threat Analysis Center shares report on Russian influence operations in Africa, focusing on the Niger coup (blogs.microsoft.com)
Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers (apnews.com)
NASA moon orbiter spots crash site of Russia's failed Luna-25 lander (photos) (www.space.com)
The final resting place of Russia’s failed Luna-25 lunar lander has apparently been found....
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Realme GT5 unveiled with 150W and 240W versions, up to 24GB RAM (gsmarena.com)
What if employers could gauge the ‘moods’ of workers? A dangerous new tech gains ground in India (scroll.in)
Emotion recognition systems are finding growing use, from monitoring customer responses to ads to scanning for ‘distressed’ women in danger.
Much of Florida under state of emergency as possible tropical storm forms in Gulf of Mexico (www.nbcnews.com)
The National Hurricane Center says there’s a 70% chance the system will become a tropical storm by Monday and a 90% chance overall.
[TMZ] 'The Price is Right' Host Bob Barker Dead at 99 (www.tmz.com)
Bob Barker, longtime 'The Price Is Right' host and animal rights activist, has died ... TMZ has learned. Barker died peacefully at his home in Los Angeles.
Judge tears apart Republican lawsuit alleging bias in Gmail spam filter (arstechnica.com)
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Latvia PM: Let EU countries with no colonial past lead diplomacy with BRICS+ (www.politico.eu)
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Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc (arstechnica.com)
Donald Trump arrested: Mug shot released – a first for any US president (www.hindustantimes.com)
Bazzite: An immutable Fedora-based OS optimized for gaming on any device, from desktops to laptops to the Steam Deck (universal-blue.org)
Bazzite is an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck, and a ready-to-game SteamOS-like for desktop computers and living room home theater PCs.
