Visitors to Greece appear ill informed about heatwave risk, warn rescuers (www.theguardian.com)
Over the past week, three search and rescue operations have been started for tourists who have gone missing during treks on far-flung islands, including one for the popular TV presenter Michael Mosley, who was found dead on the island of Symi....
UN demands halt to siege of Sudan | Africanews (www.africanews.com)
The United Nations Security Council on Thursday, June 13 adopted a resolution demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary force immediately halt its siege of the only capital in the vast western region of Darfur that it doesn’t control and where more than a million people are reportedly trapped.
What does your booger feel like rn?
‘No one has any idea’ how many Israeli hostages are alive, says Hamas official (www.theguardian.com)
A senior Hamas official has said the group does not know how many of the Israeli hostages it is holding in Gaza are still alive, as Israeli and Hamas sources set out positions that could undermine the possibility of an imminent ceasefire deal....
Vladimir Putin issues fresh demands to Ukraine to end war (www.theguardian.com)
Vladimir Putin has demanded that Kyiv cede more land, withdraw troops deeper inside its own country, and drop its Nato bid in order for him to end Russia’s war in Ukraine....
[OC] Chiricahua National Monument (pawb.social)
Pic from my hike at Chiricahua national monument yesterday.
Rainbow capitalism moment (lemmy.world)
Wells Fargo fires workers over fake keyboard activity (www.bbc.com)
US banking giant Wells Fargo has sacked a number of employees following claims that staff were faking keyboard activity to fool the company into thinking they were working when they were not....
We built a mean game to test AI's ability to apologise (www.bbc.com)
The project was a test to see how artificial intelligence might change one of the most delicate types of human interaction: the interpersonal apology. The companies who make AI-powered chatbots suggest we should find ways to insert them into our lives when we don’t know what to say or how to say it. That’s all well and good...
Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)
The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that...
TorrentGalaxy Goes Offline With Mysterious Message to Users (torrentfreak.com)
The Heptones - Crystal Blue Persuasion (youtu.be)
Alleged Russian spy from Essex appears in court charged with passing on MP’s details (www.telegraph.co.uk)
How can I fix this rotation issue? (lemdro.id)
I’m using EndeavourOS with KDE....
Just the little things
Former head of the NSA joins OpenAI board of directors (engineering.vanderbilt.edu)
I played Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector and talked to its creator about quests that 'don't give you the dragon money' (www.pcgamer.com)
US-built pier in Gaza is facing its latest challenge — whether the UN will keep delivering the aid (apnews.com)
The U.S.-built pier to bring food to Gaza is facing one of its most serious challenges yet — its humanitarian partner is deciding if it can safely and ethically keep delivering supplies arriving by the U.S. sea route to starving Palestinians....
US lawmakers grill Microsoft president over China ties, hacks (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft President Brad Smith fielded questions about the tech giant’s security practices and ties to China at a House homeland security panel on Thursday, a year after alleged China-linked hackers spied on federal emails by hacking the firm....
House Republicans launch investigation into news rating group NewsGuard (www.axios.com)
Superman photosynthesizes
He gets his strength from the sun.
FINAL FANTASY XIV: DAWNTRAIL Launch Trailer (www.youtube.com)
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic (www.reuters.com)
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus....