Kenya’s biggest protest in recent history played out on a walkie-talkie app (restofworld.org)
The Social Cost of Carbon Credits (hakaimagazine.com)
Multinational companies funded a US $4.4-million carbon offset project. Senegalese locals did much of the work—and saw almost none of the money.
Vietnam's top leader Trong dies at 80 after long rule (www.reuters.com)
Global IT issues caused by Crowdstrike update causes BSOD on Windows (www.timesnownews.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/22460079...
Neighborhood 'sheriff' who tried to screen homeless campers stabbed to death by camper (katu.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17700329
Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me. (i.imgur.com)
LA City Council Considers Funding Former IDF Soldiers to Patrol Its Streets (theintercept.com)
THE LOS ANGELES City Council is considering whether to give public funds to private, armed security patrols to protect its religious communities, following a protest against the marketing of West Bank settlement properties at an LA synagogue last month that turned violent....
Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR (www.axios.com)
Does this mean we dont get to be tracked, data mined, ad-bombed, and exploited while our teens dont get depressed and sick from “social” media?...
Nvidia transitioning to open-source GPU kernel modules for Linux — R560 and later default to open-source for Turing and newer graphics cards (www.tomshardware.com)
Israel using water as weapon of war as Gaza supply plummets by 94%, creating deadly health catastrophe: Oxfam (www.oxfam.ca)
You’re more likely to believe fake news shared by someone you barely know than by your best friend: “The strength of weak ties” applies to misinformation, too (www.niemanlab.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/925900...
An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her. (www.nytimes.com)
The Galaxy Z Fold 6’s battery is so small that a flip phone just beat it (9to5google.com)
Air attack leaves 1 dead, at least 10 injured in Tel Aviv (apnews.com)
injuring at least 10 people and leaving one dead...
FUTO Keyboard: The Discussion Behind A Cool Product (tedium.co)
A pretty interesting take, and an interesting discussion about what it means to be open source. Is there room for a trusted space between open source and closed corporate software?
Education Department forgives $1.2B in student loans for 35,000 borrowers (www.upi.com)
Stoltenberg assures EU that NATO would survive second Trump presidency (www.theguardian.com)
Europe must not fall into the trap of creating a “self-fulfilling prophecy” that Nato would die under a second Trump presidency and that the transatlantic bond would be over, the secretary general of the military alliance has said....
After recent state law change, the only way to appeal an eviction in Tennessee is pay an entire year's rent upfront (www.newschannel5.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/the-only-way-to-appeal-an-evict…
How Elon Musk Chose Trump (www.nytimes.com)
Live: Global IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world - ABC News (www.abc.net.au)
In response to Supreme Court ruling, U.S. begins dropping Jan. 6 obstruction charges for some Proud Boys, others (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/jan-6-defendants-obstruction-ch…
Ubisoft First Quarter financial report (staticctf.ubisoft.com)
Interesting bits:...
Minnesota ban on 18- to 20-year-olds obtaining handgun permits is unconstitutional, federal appeals court says (www.cnn.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/20240718112943/…/index.html
Wealth Lab 8 (www.wealth-lab.com)
Hello, I was using Wealth Lab to carry out back tests on financial assets, it is an excellent and unique program on the market, but this also brings with it a hefty price for us Brazilians. It has a 14-day trial, a relatively good time, but now that mine has expired I don’t know what to do anymore, I’ve tried resetting the...
Webflow says 2TB of bandwidth is worth $1,250 per month (stackdiary.com)
Webflow got caught with its hand in the cookie jar and wants to settle disputes quietly.
