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Exclusive: Iran to deliver hundreds of ballistic missiles to Russia soon, intel sources say (www.reuters.com)

Prompted by mass shooting, 72-hour wait period and other new gun laws go into effect in Maine (apnews.com)

With eleventh hour guidance from the state, Maine gun retailers on Friday began requiring a three-day wait period for gun purchases under one of the new safety laws adopted following the state’s deadliest mass shooting....

Secure Jobs, Uncertain Future: China’s Growing Appetite for Government Employment (www.cfr.org)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1751744...

‘One of the most violent’ Jan. 6 rioters receives a 20-year prison sentence (www.nbcnews.com)

UK shortage of drug used to prevent brain damage in alcoholics (www.theguardian.com)

U.S. Athletes Are Taking Full Advantage of Free Healthcare in Olympic Village (www.si.com)

Watch US Olympian Ari Ramsey’s response about it…...

English-language Wikipedia editors concluded: Israel committing genocide in Gaza (www.haaretz.com)

On July 25, after a couple of months of debate, the Wikipedia entry “Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Israeli attack on Gaza” was changed to “Gaza genocide.” This was done despite the fact that the International Court of Justice in the Hague has not made an official ruling on the matter, in the wake of South...

‘Order from Amazon’: Tech giants storing mass data for Israel’s war (www.972mag.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18923426...

A summary of recent events (i.imgur.com)

Brazilian airliner crashes, all 62 on board killed (www.reuters.com)

Video shared on social media showed what appeared to be the ATR-made plane spinning out of control as it plunged down behind a cluster of trees near houses, followed by a large plume of black smoke. The video of the mid-afternoon crash also appeared to show clear weather, though the forecast for the area called for light...

Physicists Pinpoint the Quantum Origin of the Greenhouse Effect (www.quantamagazine.org)

The Refugee Olympic Team wins its first-ever medal, thanks to boxer Cindy Ngamba (www.npr.org)

Here’s what the data shows on Seine pollution levels during the Olympics (www.politico.eu)

Eau de Paris’ data shows that pollution levels in the river exceeded regulatory standards on most days between July 26, the start date of the Olympics, and Wednesday. Eau de Paris did not release data for Thursday and Friday, when the men’s and women’s 10 kilometer swims were held.

Russian Railway networks facing "imminent collapse": report (www.newsweek.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/25545288...

What actually happened. (sh.itjust.works)

r*ddit

Utah Supreme Court Rules That Alleged Sexual Assault by a Doctor Is Not “Health Care” (www.propublica.org)

Lawsuit that accused a Provo OB-GYN of sexually abusing dozens of women is revived by Utah Supreme Court (www.sltrib.com)

Google Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUs (www.wired.com)

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Exclusive: This is the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE (www.androidheadlines.com)

TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture (www.tomshardware.com)

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), one of the world’s largest advanced computer chip manufacturers, continues finding its efforts to get its Arizona facility up and running to be more difficult than it anticipated. The chip maker’s 5nm wafer fab was supposed to go online in 2024 but has faced numerous...

Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131 – Firefox Nightly News (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)

I tried this last night and I actually really like it. The default theme seems to have changed also and looks much cleaner....

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