Elon Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' after Twitter takeover (www.cnbc.com)
The Cuban wrestler won his fifth gold medal in the Paris Olympic Games, defeating his former teammate and breaking a record in sports history (peoplesdispatch.org)
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is coming to last-gen consoles next month (www.ign.com)
Sales on current-gen consoles must’ve not been great
Detained U.S.-Russian Citizen Pleads Guilty To Treason, Says Russian Media. (www.rferl.org)
Turkey submits official request to join ICJ genocide case against Israel (www.reuters.com)
Trump tells Adin Ross he wants to ‘fire’ Black journalist who grilled him onstage (www.independent.co.uk)
Donald Trump said he would “fire” the ABC News journalist who grilled him about his past comments during a panel at the National Association of Black Journalists convention on July 31....
Who is Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Harris' VP pick? (abcnews.go.com)
Portugal plans to raise share of renewables in electricity consumption to 93% by 2030 (www.reuters.com)
House Dems Demand Heritage Leader Come Clean on Project 2025's Secret 180-Day Plan. (www.commondreams.org)
Mediatek details Helio G100 - it's as big of an update as the name suggests - GSMArena.com news (www.gsmarena.com)
GameFAQs TXT August 2024 (archive.org)
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J. D. Vance Wants to Gut Biden’s Consumer Protections (jacobin.com)
Darryl George: Judge dismisses racial discrimination claim in civil rights lawsuit and allows sex discrimination claim to proceed (www.cnn.com)
[Thai] Court dissolves Move Forward Party [Ban Leaders] (www.bangkokpost.com)
The Constitutional Court on Wednesday disbanded the Move Forward Party (MFP), saying it was guilty of jeopardising the constitutional monarchy and national security, and banned its executives for 10 years....
High schoolers' mental health shows small improvement in a US government survey (apnews.com)
There are small signs of improvement in the mental health of U.S. teenagers, a government survey released Tuesday said, but the share of students — particularly girls — feeling sad and hopeless remained high....
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - multiple MFAs with root? (aws.amazon.com)
Has anybody gotten this to work? If I set up multiple MFA devices with my IAM accounts, they all work flawlessly. But if I set up multiple MFA devices with my root account, only the original MFA device works. No matter how carefully I set up and synch a secondary device, it simply will not work with root. As the linked article...
Smallest Arm Bone in Human Fossil Record Sheds Light on the Dawn of Homo floresiensis (news.griffith.edu.au)
Pro-government fighters attack areas of US-backed fighters in east Syria; 2 killed (thehill.com)
Looks like US might be about to be pushed out of Syria. Securing the oil field and pushing US out could be the response by Iran, as lot of the oil that US loots from Syria goes to Israel....
Vietnam is the latest battleground in BYD’s bid to dominate Southeast Asia’s EV market. (restofworld.org)
German industrial production fell by 6.7% in July (www.fxstreet.com)
Far Right Pulling Masks Off Israeli Legal Charade (electronicintifada.net)
Elon Musk’s Tesla is promising to sell a humanoid robot. It could be the first of many. (theconversation.com)
Report: Consumer Hardware Still Often Impossible To Repair Despite New State ‘Right To Repair’ Laws (www.techdirt.com)
The U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) examined 21 different mainstream tech devices subject to New York’s recently passed electronics Right to Repair law, and found mixed results:...
Elon Musk brands Starmer 'two-tier Keir' and asks 'is this Britain or Soviet Union?' over Facebook comment arrest video (news.sky.com)
Elon Musk has ramped up his row with the UK as he branded the prime minister “two-tier Keir” and questioned if it was “Britain or the Soviet Union” after a man was apparently arrested over Facebook comments....
