Yunus sworn in as interim Bangladesh leader, vowing to "uphold, support and protect the constitution" (www.bbc.com)
Arizona prosecutors asked grand jurors not to indict Trump in state's fake electors case (apnews.com)
The Arizona grand jury that indicted 18 Republican supporters of Donald Trump who falsely claimed he won the state in the 2020 election wanted to consider also charging the former president, but prosecutors urged them not to, according to court documents filed this week....
State of emergency declared as Ukraine launches raid into Russia (www.bbc.com)
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The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine (www.techspot.com)
Mozilla has a close relationship with Google, as most of Firefox’s revenue comes from the agreement keeping Google as the browser’s default search engine. However, the search giant is now officially a monopoly, and a future court decision could have an unprecedented impact on Mozilla’s ability to keep things “business as...
Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry. (www.vox.com)
[L]ately, Anthropic has been in the headlines for less noble reasons: It’s pushing back on a landmark California bill to regulate AI. It’s taking money from Google and Amazon in a way that’s drawing antitrust scrutiny. And it’s being accused of aggressively scraping data from websites without permission, harming their...
What to Know About Tim Walz’s Relationship With China (time.com)
Arizona grand jurors discussed indicting Trump, but prosecutors urged them not to (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/trump-arizona-indictment-prosec…
Officials say suspects in foiled plot at Taylor Swift shows hoped to kill as many people as possible (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18415933
Trump posts fan fiction about Biden stealing nomination back from Harris (www.rollingstone.com)
WADA statement on Reuters story exposing USADA scheme in contravention of World Anti-Doping Code (www.wada-ama.org)
ISPs Hijack Cloudflare/Google DNS Requests, Ending Site-Blocking Workarounds. (torrentfreak.com)
Taylor Swift Vienna concerts cancelled after attack threat (www.bbc.com)
Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say (www.ksat.com)
A man taking his trash to an apartment dumpster was shot and killed after he slipped while walking and the gun he was carrying went off accidentally, according to San Antonio police.
Olympics triathlete sick following swim in Seine River, team pulls out of event (abc3340.com)
Most Americans hold unfavorable view of US health care system in new survey (www.thehill.com)
Walz has history with China - it's more hawkish than critics claim (www.bbc.com)
Oldmancat Murphy playing with his new toy (i.imgur.com)
Additional Murphy tax...
Israel cancels accreditation of Norwegian diplomats to Palestinian areas | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/39095635
US-Mexico border migrants claim sexual assault by detention center staff (www.newsweek.com)
The claim is the latest in a string of allegations of abuse and neglect at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in California.
Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor (arstechnica.com)
The U.S. Has Dozens of Secret Bases Across the Middle East. They Keep Getting Attacked. (theintercept.com)
U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria have come under repeated attack in recent weeks, including a rocket attack on al-Asad Air Base in Iraq on Monday that reportedly injured five U.S. military personnel and contractors. The renewed strikes, which began in July, mark a resumption of a low-level war between America and Iran’s proxies...
Ortega expels Brazilian ambassador from Nicaragua for not attending national event - EFE Noticias (efe.com)
AI works better if you ask it to be a Star Trek character (www.fudzilla.com)
I’m leaving the hed as-is per protocol, but the larger story here seems to be we’ve already hit the point where LLMs produce better prompts for other LLMs than human prompt engineers do....
NASA Says Boeing Starliner Astronauts May Fly Home on SpaceX in 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18401352...