Yemen's Houthis say They Targeted US Warship and Vessel 'Destiny' in Red Sea (gcaptain.com)
Netanyahu ministers join Israeli far-right 'march to Gaza,' demand Palestinians' expulsion (www.haaretz.com)
Thousands of Israelis joined a far-right Independence Day march on Tuesday in the south, led by Jewish activists advocating for resettling Gaza and forcing Palestinians to leave the enclave....
BSE: 'Mad cow disease' case found on farm in Scotland (www.bbc.com)
A case of BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease, has been identified on a farm in Ayrshire....
Justice Department to seek tougher sentences for AI-fueled election crimes (www.cnn.com)
Federal prosecutors will pursue tougher sentences in cases in which artificial intelligence is used to commit an election-related crime, including threatening violence against election workers and voter suppression, Deputy US Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Monday....
AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says (arstechnica.com)
Jimmy Carter: Grandson says former president is ‘coming to the end’ (www.cnn.com)
William Crowther: Vandals topple Australian colonial-era statue (www.bbc.com)
A colonial-era statue honouring a former Australian premier who mutilated the body of an Aboriginal man has been toppled by vandals ahead of its planned removal....
Justice Department says Boeing violated deal that avoided prosecution after 737 Max crashes (apnews.com)
Campus sex assault suspect accused of sending "So I raped you" message to victim is detained in France after 3-year-search (www.cbsnews.com)
Tuba (sh.itjust.works)
Concerns grow about the wellbeing of Chinese journalists Zhang Zhan after supposed jail release as she failed to make contact with the outside world (www.theguardian.com)
Zhang Zhan, 40, a lawyer turned citizen journalist, was detained in May 2020 after she travelled to Wuhan to report on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Her videos and social media posts drew attention to the government’s stifling of information about the spread of the disease and the harsh lockdowns that were being...
Ada goes to the set: let’s make an animated movie - FSFE - Help us make a film of this story to spark more kids’ interest in coding and tinkering! (fsfe.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15670510...
Army whistleblower who exposed alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan is sentenced to prison (apnews.com)
Slovakia's prime minister injured in shooting (apnews.com)
Europe’s descent into fascism accelerates
The Philharmonik "What's It All Mean?" (2024 NPR Tiny Desk Winning Entry) (piped.video)
Related, web.archive.org/…/tiny-desk-contest-2024-winner-a…
How AI turned a Ukrainian YouTuber into a Russian (www.bbc.com)
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Students borrowing from the federal government this fall will face the highest interest rate in more than a decade (www.nbcnews.com)
Google will use Gemini to detect scams during calls | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Never Ended (jacobin.com)
Israel was founded with the Nakba, a series of atrocities that ethnically cleansed Palestinians from their homeland. Today we are witnessing Israel engage in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza on an even larger, more violent scale....
Optimizing Linux for an AMD (Ryzen 7 7840HS) Xiaomi Laptop (jdecourval.com)
Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More (www.mozilla.org)
Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” “business,” and “travel”. This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove...
Stormy Daniels wore a bulletproof vest to Trump’s hush money trial, attorney says (www.independent.co.uk)
Earlier this year, porn star said she accepted hush money so Donald Trump could not have her killed...
U.S. warned Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) access to dollar system could be curbed over Russia (www.reuters.com)
TLDR: RBI, the largest Western bank in Russia, has been warned by the U.S. Treasury about financial system access in a letter voicing concerns over its Russian business. Concerns remain even though RBI dropped plans to sell its Russia-business to sanctioned billionaire Deripaska. Austrian finance ministry says it assumes RBI...
Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news (english.elpais.com)
