US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google (www.bloomberg.com)
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South Korea urges automakers to disclose EV battery brands after fires (www.reuters.com)
South Korea will urge automakers operating in the country to identify batteries used in their electric vehicles, the government said on Tuesday, as authorities seek to calm public safety concerns after a series of fires involving EVs....
The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter (www.forbes.com)
What's gone wrong at Asda? (news.sky.com)
While attention has inevitably been on the first rise in grocery price inflation since March last year, the latest till roll data from Kantar Worldpanel also contains valuable insights into the grocery market itself....
Elon Musk draws fire for playing down impact of America’s atomic bombing of Japan: ‘Not as scary as people think’ (www.independent.co.uk)
Elon and Trump make the worst possible argument for nuclear power I have ever heard:...
Passport for one 'Herman the Cat', Expert Mouser, veteran of the US Coast Guard o7, WW2, 1943 AD (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17530611...
MAGA Official Found Guilty of Tampering with 2020 Voting Machines (www.rollingstone.com)
Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report (nypost.com)
The government unveils its quantum counter-weapons (www.politico.com)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has finally published the world’s first three official post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, tools designed to protect key systems against future quantum computers powerful enough to crack any code generated by a modern computer.
IDF uses Gazan civilians as human shields to inspect potentially booby-trapped tunnels (www.haaretz.com)
'Our lives are more important than their lives': Gazans not suspected of terrorism are detained and sent as human shields to search tunnels and houses before IDF soldiers enter, with the full knowledge of senior Israeli officers, several sources say; IDF claims this practice is forbidden
TIL Only about 9% of plastic ever produced has been recycled. (en.wikipedia.org)
Millionaire Realtor Bro Takes a Leave From His Firm Over Gang Rape Lawsuit. (www.thedailybeast.com)
Zeekr unveils ultra-fast-charging EV battery in China’s electrification push (www.scmp.com)
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The Pixel 9 phones are big cameras and screens soldered onto Gemini AI ambitions (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/975663...
A Gazan father went to register his twins’ births. They were killed in an Israeli airstrike, hospital officials say (www.cnn.com)
Hours earlier, the Palestinian father-of-two left his apartment in Deir al-Balah to collect birth certificates for his three-day-old twins – Aysal and Aser, a boy and a girl. But while he was out, he said, he received a phone call that an Israeli strike had hit his home, killing the two babies, along with his wife, Jumana.
WD loses hard drive patent lawsuit, owes $262M damages – Blocks and Files (blocksandfiles.com)
Survey: Almost 50% of Americans Consider Themselves ‘Broke’ (www.marketwatch.com)
J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk Named in Imane Khelif's Cyberbullying Lawsuit (variety.com)
J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk have both been named in a criminal complaint filed to French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment” against Algerian boxer and newl crowned Olympic champion Imane Khelif....
Six 0-Days Lead Microsoft’s August 2024 Patch Push. (krebsonsecurity.com)
Exclusive: Al-Tabin attack ‘deliberately timed to cause maximum casualties’ (www.aljazeera.com)
Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification agency has probed the details of Israel’s Saturday morning attack on Gaza City’s al-Tabin School, which killed more than 100 people, including women and children....
I had a scary thought: what if youtube decided to join the fediverse? (fedia.io)
When I saw MKBHD on threads available through flipboard, the thought crossed my mind. Wouldn't it be a game changer for the biggest websites to suddenly try to coax users and content creators with "one account to rule them all" solution?
Logitech’s Subscription Mouse Idea Pulled Back After Backlash (www.techdirt.com)
Sanctioned N. Korean official handling missile programs attends arms exhibition in Moscow (m-en.yna.co.kr)
Texas judge steps aside in Elon Musk's X case against advertisers (www.npr.org)
A U.S. District Judge in Texas has recused himself from a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X https://www.npr.org/2024/08/09/g-s1-16087/elon-musk-lawsuits-texas-same-judge-hears-them-tesla-stock NPR drew scrutiny to the judge’s investment in Tesla and questions about Musk using the court to engage in “forum-shopping.”...
