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Donald Trump is now the oldest party nominee for president in US history (www.businessinsider.com)

At 78 years old, former President Donald Trump is now the oldest nominee running for president....

Brainstorming

Israel's Netanyahu walks political tightrope on Washington trip following Biden's exit from race (www.voanews.com)

Open Convention or Harris 'Coronation'? Democrats Weigh Options After Biden Exit. (www.commondreams.org)

Next-generation US jet fighter program may get hit by budget woes. (www.voanews.com)

Hong Kong is global trade hub for world’s most brutal regimes, report says (www.theguardian.com)

Pro-democracy campaign group finds exports of goods to Russia, vital to its war efforts, roughly doubled in a year...

Maryland Is on Track to Process a Nearly 50-Year-Old Backlog of Rape Kits (www.propublica.org)

The Biden Administration Says Its Trade Policy Puts People Over Corporations. Documents on Baby Formula Show Otherwise. (www.propublica.org)

Debian 12 install - monitors won't turn off

Hi, all. Finally migrated from Kubuntu to Debian 12 over the weekend. It’s working great, as I figured it would, with one exception: The system isn’t turning the monitors off after 10 minutes. It’s blanking them, but they’re clearly still on....

Tekken 8 Will Finally Get Heihachi in August 2024 (www.ign.com)

Street Fighter 6 - Terry Teaser Trailer (www.youtube.com)

Fmovies ‘Sister’ Sites Shut Down, Redirect to Pirate Streaming Alternatives. (torrentfreak.com)

Russia’s Top Diplomat Praises Trump-Vance Ticket on Ukraine Stance (www.bloomberg.com)

[Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov] says Vance wants to ‘stop pumping Ukraine full of weapons’...

[A public service announcement by StarFlork Academy]: After 30 years of service German Navy retires Floppy Disks (sh.itjust.works)

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More AI-generated child sex abuse material is being posted online (www.nbcnews.com)

In a review of material posted on the dark web, the Internet Watch Foundation found that deepfakes featuring children were becoming more extreme....

A Nintendo World Championships Gold NES Cart Is Available For Sale For The First Time In A Decade (www.retronews.com)

Nintendo has paid tribute to the classic Nintendo World Championships with a new Switch game that draws inspiration from the short-burst challenges of the NES era. The 1990 championships started in March, touring nearly 30 North American cities and concluding in December, utilizing special competition cartridges featuring...

France Unbowed MP sparks outrage by saying Israeli Olympians not welcome (www.theguardian.com)

Missouri woman who served 43 years in prison freed after murder conviction overturned (www.nbcnews.com)

A judge ruled last month Sandra Hemme must be freed or retried for the 1980 murder within 30 days, but the Missouri Attorney General fought to keep her imprisoned....

Federal judge blocks Castle Rock from using code to stop church from providing temporary shelter to unhoused (www.denver7.com)

A federal judge ruled that the Town of Castle Rock cannot enforce a land use code against The Rock evangelical church for providing temporary shelter for unhoused people on its property....

Which CLI app/utility you wish there was a GUI for?

For me it’s: Testdisk (and Photorec) Caddy Netstat Dig Aria2

Croatia: Several dead in nursing home attack — media reports (www.dw.com)

Mass killer Louis van Schoor tells BBC of police collusion (www.bbc.com)

A convicted South African murderer who shot dead dozens of black men during apartheid has told the BBC the police sanctioned his violence. Louis van Schoor says others should share the blame for the killings he carried out as a security guard. But in talking to BBC Africa Eye over the past four years, he has also let slip...