Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket (arstechnica.com)
The rocket was undergoing a static fire test of the stage, in which a vehicle is clamped to a test stand while its engines are ignited, when the booster broke free. According to a statement from the company, the rocket was not sufficiently clamped down and blasted off from the test stand “due to a structural failure.”...
Nine killed in Seoul after car hits pedestrians (www.channelnewsasia.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17525307
Philippines' dependency on coal-fired power surpasses China, Indonesia (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17525040
Two missing Georgia firefighters are found dead in a car in Tennessee (www.independent.co.uk)
Scholz set to announce compensation for Polish survivors of Nazi crimes (www.politico.eu)
Alzheimer’s scientist indicted for allegedly falsifying data in $16M scheme (arstechnica.com)
A federal grand jury has indicted an embattled Alzheimer’s researcher for allegedly falsifying data to fraudulently obtain $16 million in federal research funding from the National Institutes of Health for the development of a controversial Alzheimer’s drug and diagnostic test....
Daybreak bought Palia studio Singularity 6 and aims to bring the game to launch (massivelyop.com)
File this one under “did not see this coming in a million years but also not sad about it whatsoever”: Daybreak has acquired Palia studio Singularity 6....
Macron is already over. Can anyone stop Le Pen? (www.politico.eu)
Effort to withhold Mexico funding over water crisis passes second congressional hurdle (myrgv.com)
On Friday, the House voted to approve the fiscal year 2025 State, Foreign Operations & Related Programs, or SFOPS, appropriations bill — part of which included first-of-their-kind financial sanctions against Mexico, which is failing to abide by an 80-year-old water sharing treaty with the U.S....
Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73% (gs.statcounter.com)
It peaked at 4.05% in March. The last 2 months it went just below 4% as the Unknown category increased. For June the reverse happened, so 4.04% seems to be the real current share of Linux on Desktop as desktop clients were read properly/werent spoofed.
16-year-old Quincy Wilson now the youngest-ever male US track Olympian (www.independent.co.uk)
Ukraine war briefing: Thousands of Ukrainian convicts join fight against Russian forces (www.theguardian.com)
Michael Proctor relieved of duty, state police say after Karen Read mistrial (www.nbcboston.com)
Proctor became the lead investigator after state police were called in because Albert has a brother with the Canton Police Department. But Proctor’s own connection with other witnesses were called into question at the trial. Proctor acknowledged that he is close with his sister, Courtney, who is friends with Julie Albert, the...
Judge releases Epstein grand jury records from criminal case in Florida (www.washingtonpost.com)
Officina Zoè - Pizzicarella (1997) [folk/pizzica] (www.youtube.com)
Pixel 9 in pink revealed - hanibioud (x.com)
This seems to be the Peony color way for pixel 9...
The Google Pixel 9 could use Samsung’s best display tech - Phandroid (phandroid.com)
Tldr: they would use m14 display panels from Samsung this year for whole pixel lineup.
How Macron delivered the coup de grâce to his own political movement (www.washingtonpost.com)
How Big Tech is swallowing the AI industry (www.theverge.com)
‘Epidemic’ of sex trafficking alleged at Red Roof Inn hotels across US (www.independent.co.uk)
Instances of anti-LGBTQ vandalism reported in nearly two dozen states during Pride Month (www.nbcnews.com)
hi im new to lemmy, some intro and questions
here to discover one more fediverse platform (i have a pretty active mastodon account: @ralen) im interested in tech, specifically linux and other foss systems, like haiku, bsd, redox etc, other foss technologies and software, new hardware, specifically risc-v hardware (tho dont have any myself yet), foss android apps (i build...