Chappell Roan says she's "pumped the brakes" on fame after fans give off "stalker vibes" (www.nme.com)
From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia’s leader beguiled the world (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: baraza.africa/post/1757994
Conspiracy Theorists Say Global Outage Was an Attack on Trump (gizmodo.com)
Tesla Sales Drop 17% in California (cleantechnica.com)
Treasury warns that anti-woke banking laws like Florida's are a national security risk (apnews.com)
The Treasury Department is warning that state laws that restrict banks from considering environmental, social and governance factors could harm efforts to address money laundering and terrorism financing....
Link-Busters Sent a Billion DMCA Takedown Requests to Google Search. (torrentfreak.com)
Sources: Israel strikes Hezbollah depot in Lebanon; Two soldiers wounded in north Israel (www.haaretz.com)
UK billionaire’s Israeli TV channel accused of axing show for Netanyahu (www.theguardian.com)
Len Blavatnik, the second-richest man in Britain, is facing a series of protests in the UK after his Israeli television channel was accused of cancelling programmes to please Benjamin Netanyahu....
Slowly but surely, Israel tightens its grip on Gaza’s lifeline to Egypt (www.theguardian.com)
In the months before the Israeli invasion, Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah was a lifeline, a place where thousands sought shelter or scrabbled to raise funds to cross into neighbouring Egypt....
Nigeria fines Meta $220 million over data violations (www.dw.com)
Nigeria’s consumer protection watchdog accused US tech giant Meta of abusing market dominance and sharing personal data without permission. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp....
Soulframe Reappears With Story Gameplay, Plans to Come to More Players this Fall - IGN (www.ign.com)
Sandra Hemme freed after 43 years in prison for murder she didn’t commit (www.bbc.com)
A woman who served 43 years for a murder she did not commit has been released after her conviction was overturned....
Unsettling apocalyptic survival game The Forever Winter dates a closed beta test, and you can join the Discord for a chance to take part. (www.pcgamesn.com)
Nvidia GPU partners reportedly cheap out on thermal paste, causing 100C hotspot temperatures — cheap paste allegedly degrades in a few months (www.tomshardware.com)
Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants’ scientific names (www.theguardian.com)
Offensive term to be replaced as first step towards more changes in unprecedented reform of nomenclature rules...
SNK VS. CAPCOM SVC CHAOS|Trailer (yt.artemislena.eu)
Utah to use pentobarbital to execute man instead of three-drug combination (www.theguardian.com)
Defense attorneys said the use of ketamine, fentanyl and potassium chloride could cause ‘excruciating suffering’...
FlatOut - Steam Deck ✅, Workshop 🔧 and more! (store.steampowered.com)
The Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage shows the danger of monopolization (www.theguardian.com)
As the world recovers from the largest IT outage in history, it shows the danger of one point of failure in IT infrastructure...
I have not forgiven Met officers who photographed dead daughters, mother says (www.theguardian.com)
Mina Smallman, the mother of two women murdered in a London park, has forgiven their killer but not the two Metropolitan police officers who took and shared photos of their bodies, she said....
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