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Proton Experimental has fixes for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Noita mods, MultiVersus and more (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Ukraine war: Marine reveals struggle of defending Kharkiv (www.bbc.com)

I make considerable ammounts of progress on Bussu learning Beginner's Spanish, but the final test is locked by a paywall. (lemmus.org)

EDIT: I took up learning on Duolingo now.

Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race (www.nytimes.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23130161...

Google, Snap, Meta and many others are "quietly" changing privacy policies to allow for AI training | It is sneaky and possibly illegal, according to the FTC (www.techspot.com)

National Security and Foreign Policy Highlights from the June 2024 Presidential Debate (www.lawfaremedia.org)

Factory Entertainment Announces Two New Exclusive Star Trek Collectibles, Including “Catspaw” Enterprise Prop Replica (blog.trekcore.com)

Chinese authorities may have made bomb threats in the name of a dissident’s family to try and control his political activities abroad (apnews.com)

Archived version...

SpaceX Wins $843-Million NASA Contract to Destroy the International Space Station (www.scientificamerican.com)

Snakes and... er rockets? (sh.itjust.works)

r*ddit

Qualcomm wants to make it easier for phone makers to issue Android updates (www.gsmarena.com)

I made a blog post about an old IBM server! (blog.krafting.net)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17048910...

New Tactic in China’s Information War: Harassing a Critic’s Child in the U.S. (dnyuz.com)

Archived link...

Years Later, Philippines Reckons With Duterte’s Brutal Drug War (www.nytimes.com)

A president’s vow to fight drugs unleashed violence and fostered a culture of impunity. But the crimes are finally getting a look, including from the International Criminal Court.

6.3 million people in need of humanitarian support and protection in Burkina Faso | Africanews (www.africanews.com)

Armed terrorist groups have severed humanitarian access in many localities across the country. Moreover, the Sahel region grapples with drought-related issues....

vast uncharted review wilderness (www.amazon.com)

‘how to shop for leggings’

Phone home tracking image in DocuSeal, and how to remove it (www.reddit.com)

Kinda proud of this, so forgive me while I brag. I found a likely “phone home” tracking image in DocuSeal. I searched around: there was an extant issue about the image. I asked the devs: would they accept a PR to remove the image? A maintainer responded quickly that they were not interested in a PR to remove it, so I forked...

Former Lehigh University Freshman faked his father's death for full scholarship (www.nbcphiladelphia.com)

Human rights groups accuse Peru’s president of crimes against humanity in submission to ICC | CNN (www.cnn.com)

DC Campaign to Submit Over 40K Signatures for Open Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting (ivn.us)

Seeing as how some people here on Lemmy get upset at any mention of Ranked Choice Voting and respond that, in their opinion, it’s not perfect, and that we should therefore keep the voting system we have while we debate which alternative is perfect for several decades, allow me to preemptively respond....