EU residency permits to exempt Brits from biometric checks at UK border | Biometric Update (www.biometricupdate.com)
China’s relentless e-commerce price war leaves sellers struggling to make ends meet as shopping platforms compete with ever-more aggressive policies and a domestic economy slowing down (theadvisermagazine.com)
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How about a Tux on Canvas? (toast.ooo)
Let’s draw a Tux on Fediverse Canvas
[AP News] IRS collects milestone $1 billion in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers (apnews.com)
Arm announces an open-source graphics upscaler for mobile phones (www.theverge.com)
Action Game Maker announced for PC [Game engine built un top of Godot Engine] (www.gematsu.com)
Benji Gregory, Child Star of ‘Alf,’ Dies at 46 (variety.com)
Dead of heatstroke at 46. The poor guy also got a medical discharge from the Navy in 2005 and had a service dog, so that may have been a contributing factor, whatever the issue was.
Saudi Arabia Threatened to Sell Off Europe’s Bonds If EU Seized Russian Assets (www.kyivpost.com)
China exports rise, but falling imports dampen June trade data (www.straitstimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17899464
Best-selling fiction writer Brendan DuBois, 64, arrested on child porn charges (www.independent.co.uk)
Brutal 1984 gay bashing brings community together 40 years later (www.lgbtqnation.com)
TIL in 1985 French government agents bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship docked in Auckland, New Zealand, killing a freelance photographer (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Taito's Arcade Football Game 'Hat Trick Hero' Is Coming To Switch & PS4 | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)
Taito, a renowned developer of classic arcade games, starting way back with titles like Space Invaders and Bubble Bobble, announced that its 90s football title Hat Trick Hero will be released on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on July 18th in Japan....
Joe Biden calls Zelensky "Putin" right before huge press conference (www.newsweek.com)
Joe Biden’s gaffe comes as Democrats abandon his campaign.
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán to meet with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago (www.theguardian.com)
Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, will fly to Mar-a-Lago on Thursday to meet with Donald Trump, according to two sources with knowledge of the meeting....
Japan and the Philippines sign a defense pact in the face of shared alarm over China (apnews.com)
‘We can’t stop treatment, not even for an hour’: After a Russian missile hit Ukraine’s top children’s hospital, medical staff rushed to save their patients (meduza.io)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/705210...
China says its recent threats of the death penalty effects "a very small number" of "diehard" advocates for Taiwanese independence, but others say these laws apply to nearly everyone in Taiwan (www.dw.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/705089...
Canvas 2024 is Live! (wedistribute.org)
And now, for some lighthearted fun: Canvas, the r/Place alternative for Lemmy, is back for its 72-hour collaborative art event, and this time, the whole Fediverse is invited!
Why didn’t Germany make a Panther mouse? Are the stupid? (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess | Grey Lumpy Dinosaur (gld.mcphail.uk)
[TIL] The worst shark attack in history (getpocket.com)
The USS Indianapolis had delivered the crucial components of the first operational atomic bomb to a naval base on the Pacific island of Tinian. On August 6, 1945, the weapon would level Hiroshima. But now, on July 28, the Indianapolis sailed from Guam, without an escort, to meet the battleship USS Idaho in the Leyte Gulf in the...
Games on Whales - Stream multiple desktops and games from a single host (games-on-whales.github.io)
After 3 years in the making I’m excited to announce the launch of Games on Whales, an innovative open-source project that revolutionizes virtual desktops and gaming. Our mission is to enable multiple users to stream different content from a single machine, with full HW acceleration and low latency....
High-Tech American Weapons Work Against Russia—Until They Don’t (www.wsj.com)
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