Newest - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Beeper Self Hosting (github.com)

Is anybody self hosting Beeper bridges?...

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces New Collaboration With Qualcomm (www.phoronix.com)

Overall, probably a positive thing as the improvements made here will flow downstream. I’m actually looking forward to seeing the performance of these new Qualcomm chips in laptops.

Paris Olympics medals face a very French threat: Strikes (www.nbcnews.com)

Russia: Drone video shows highest ever levels of flooding (www.bbc.com)

EU: Racist policing widely under-reported, FRA says (www.bbc.com)

The EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency, FRA, says racist policing is widely under-reported in the European Union....

Iran's Repression Of Baha'is Amounts To 'Crime Against Humanity,' Says Rights Watchdog (www.rferl.org)

NixOS - apology from the Foundation Board about sponsorship (discourse.nixos.org)

flausch.social/

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the first-ever national legally enforceable drinking water standard for PFAS (www.whitehouse.gov)

spob (lemmy.cafe)

Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces (proton.me)

Morocco drought: Satellite images show vital Al Massira reservoir is shrinking (www.bbc.com)

Morocco’s second-largest reservoir that serves some of its major cities and has been central to farm irrigation is drying up, according to satellite images analysed by the BBC....

Boeing hit after new whistleblower raises safety concerns (www.bbc.com)

Boeing is facing new pressure after a whistleblower reported safety concerns over the manufacturing of some of its planes to US regulators....

The Motion Picture Association will work with Congress to start blocking piracy sites in the US (www.engadget.com)

Beeper was just acquired by Automattic, which has big plans for the future of messaging (www.theverge.com)

Amanda Knox faces a new slander trial in Italy that could remove the last legal stain against her (apnews.com)

Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander this week in Italy in a case that could remove the last legal stain against her, nine years after Italy’s highest court threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate....

UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s (www.theguardian.com)

Missouri executes Brian Dorsey for 2006 double murder after mercy bid backed by 72 correctional officers (www.cnn.com)

The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed Brian Dorsey for the 2006 murders of his cousin, Sarah Bonnie, and her husband, Benjamin Bonnie, after an effort to have his life spared failed in recent days....

Ex-Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg will be sentenced for perjury and faces a second stint in jail (apnews.com)

Allen Weisselberg, a former longtime executive in Donald Trump’s real estate empire, is set to be sentenced Wednesday for lying under oath in the ex-president’s New York civil fraud case....

Nuclear deal in tatters, Iran edges close to weapons capability (www.washingtonpost.com)

Six years after the Trump administration withdrew from the Iran nuclear accord, Tehran is rapidly accumulating enriched uranium, some of it very close to weapons grade. Experts fear that a bomb could be a short dash away....

Mapping the world's salted soils: A leap forward in combating land degradation (phys.org)

A team of researchers has developed an approach that maps the soil salt content around the world with an exceptional detail of 10 meters. This advance tackles the pressing need for accurate assessments of soil salinity, a formidable challenge that jeopardizes agricultural productivity and soil vitality on a global scale....

'X' Denies Music Companies' Remaining Piracy Liability Claims in Court (torrentfreak.com)

Chinese organized crime’s latest U.S. target: gift cards (www.propublica.org)

Chinese crime rings already dominate the illegal marijuana trade in the U.S. and launder cocaine and heroin profits. Now a federal task force is investigating their role in a burgeoning form of gift card fraud....

Israel threatens to strike Iran directly if Iran launches attack from its territory (apnews.com)

Israel’s foreign minister threatened Wednesday that his country’s forces would strike Iran directly if the Islamic Republic launched an attack from its territory against Israel, as tensions between the rival powers flare following the killings of Iranian generals in a blast at the Iranian consulate in Syria....