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Google U-turn over long-running plan to ditch cookies - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

China to raise retirement age in next five years (www.bbc.com)

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigns: Sources - ABC News (abcnews.go.com)

She was criticized for failing to prevent the assassination attempt on Trump.

AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry (www.wired.com)

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Israeli government quietly sends millions to unauthorized West Bank settler outposts (archive.ph)

A groups that monitors settlements in the West Bank says Israel has budgeted millions of dollars to protect and support the growth of small, unofficial Jewish farms in the Israeli-occupied territory...

Restaurants sit half-empty in Turkey this summer as inflation reaches 91% in places sending tourists and locals flocking to neighboring Greece (fortune.com)

Restaurants in some Turkish holiday towns are sitting half-empty in peak tourist season, as many locals find it’s cheaper to holiday in neighboring Greece than stay and eat in one of their own country’s world-famous resorts....

World registers hottest day ever recorded on July 21, monitor says (www.reuters.com)

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Wording change and clarification for purchasing Immich · Discussion #11313 (github.com)

tldr is that you can hide the button that asks for payment and it says “purchase immich” instead of “purchase liscence”

Thailand signals another U-turn on cannabis (www.bangkokpost.com)

The 3D revolution in 90s game development (From Pixels to Polygons) (yt.artemislena.eu)

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Rival Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas meet in China (www.aljazeera.com)

Effectively Use History Commands in Linux (itsfoss.com)

No prison for a nursing home owner who sent 800 residents to ride out a hurricane in squalor (apnews.com)

A Louisiana businessman who sent more than 800 elderly residents from his seven nursing homes to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse pleaded no contest to 15 criminal counts Monday and was sentenced to three years of probation....

Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary guilty of directing terrorist organisation (www.theguardian.com)

Choudary convicted of having ‘caretaker role’ in al-Muhajiroun and drumming up support online...

Judge vacates murder conviction of man who spent 30 years in Missouri prison (www.theguardian.com)

Christopher Dunn, 52, is latest person released from a Missouri prison due to evidence of wrongful conviction...

Artist EB Lewis Illustrates Social Injustice and Children's Books (unicornriot.ninja)

Dog-like robot jams home networks and disables devices during police raids — DHS develops NEO robot for walking denial of service attacks (www.tomshardware.com)

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it has developed a four-legged robot designed to jam the wireless transmissions of smart home devices. The robot was revealed at the 2024 Border Security Expo and is called NEO. It is built using the Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle (Q-UGV) and looks a lot like the...