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Benjamin Netanyahu failed Israel (www.vox.com)

A Cuban teenager was offered a job doing 'construction work' in Russia. Instead he was sent to fight on the front lines in Ukraine. (www.businessinsider.com)

A Cuban teenager unwittingly found himself on the front lines of the war in Ukraine after accepting a job offer he received on WhatsApp to do “construction work” for the Russian military, according to Time magazine....

There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k) (lemmy.fediverse.observer)

It is probably due to a number of people stopping using their alts after some instance hopping....

Voyager for Lemmy Released on Google Play! (play.google.com)

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/136d834c-0e27-4a8b-b364-612f53f78328.png

I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me. (www.huffpost.com)

YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world (9to5google.com)

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2787773 (!google)

Major Republican Donor Who Called Barack Obama the N-Word Dies After Attempting to Kill His Wife In Murder-Suicide Gone Awry (atlantablackstar.com)

A former GOP donor, who once made headlines after calling former president Barack Obama the N-word, fatally shot himself after attempting to kill his wife, according to reports.

‘Corrupt as hell’: Clarence Thomas faces fresh calls to resign after more billionaire gifts revealed (www.independent.co.uk)

Congressional Democrats have pushed for ethics reform legislation, efforts publicly rejected by Samuel Alito

Blinken says Ukraine has taken back 50% of territory that Russia seized (www.reuters.com)

WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that while Ukraine has reconquered half the territory that Russia initially seized in its invasion, Kyiv faced a “a very hard fight” to win back more....

Some of you shits need this (lemmy.world)

Another country has called Xi a 'dictator' and China is not happy with that description (edition.cnn.com)

China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver (www.phoronix.com)

Luis Chamberlain sent out the modules changes today for the Linux 6.6 merge window. Most notable with the modules update is a change that better builds up the defenses against NVIDIA’s proprietary kernel driver from using GPL-only symbols. Or in other words, bits that only true open-source drivers should be utilizing and not...

ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is. (www.eff.org)

Patch submitted to the Linux kernel by a 4 year old. (mastodon.social)

Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)

Shell Silently Abandoned Its $100 Million-a-Year Plan to Offset CO2 Emissions (www.bloomberg.com)

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TIL the FBI struggled to hire hackers because of a rule that required applicants to have not smoked marijuana for the past 3 years (www.nydailynews.com)

Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform (techcrunch.com)

Reddit said Wednesday that the platform is revamping its privacy settings with an aim to make ad personalization and account visibility toggles consistent. Most notably though, it is removing the ability to opt out of ad personalization based on Reddit activity....

Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron (arstechnica.com)

I just developed and published a script to clear your pict-rs object storage from potential CSAM. (github.com)

I noticed a bit of panic around here lately and as I have had to continuously fight against pedos for the past year, I have developed tools to help me detect and prevent this content....

US High School Student Loses Scholarship Over Social Media Twerking Video (www.ndtv.com)

YSK: You should dry off beef before cooking. Doing so promotes the Maillard Reaction, which will make the meat taste and look better. (www.seriouseats.com)

Why YSK: When you cook meat, any water on the surface must first evaporate before much browning can occur. You want to get as much of a Maillard reaction as possible in the limited cooking time you have before the meat reaches the correct internal temperature. Removing the moisture first means that the heat of the cooking...