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The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary. (torrentfreak.com)

EU regulator slaps TikTok with $368m fine for violating privacy laws (www.aljazeera.com)

Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware (devblogs.microsoft.com)

Over 3,000 people feared dead, another 10,000 missing after flooding in Libya, officials say (abcnews.go.com)

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis apologize over letters of support for Danny Masterson (abcnews.go.com)

The three women were members of the Church of Scientology, as is Masterson. All three women said they were initially hesitant to speak to law enforcement because they said church teachings discouraged reporting to police. The women eventually left the church....

Doctor arrested after guns, drugs and prostitutes found in yacht raid (www.independent.co.uk)

Scott Burke, 69, faces drug trafficking and weapons charges after arrest...

YouTube is going to remove ad controls for creators (support.google.com)

Sand dredging devastating ocean floor, UN warns (www.bbc.com)

Around six billion tonnes of sand is dredged from the world's oceans every year, a new report says.

California moves closer to historic caste discrimination ban (www.reuters.com)

California moved closer to becoming the first U.S. state to ban caste discrimination after a bill to outlaw the practise passed the California Assembly late on Monday....

Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn (techcrunch.com)

Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn::Superstore giant Lidl recalled Paw Patrol snacks after a website listed on the packaging displayed explicit content unsuitable for children.

Many workers are faking knowledge of AI to make sure they aren't left behind (www.techradar.com)

Many workers are faking knowledge of AI to make sure they aren’t left behind::There’s a need for more AI training, report finds

Arleen Sorkin Dies: Voice Of Harley Quinn and ‘Days Of Our Lives’ Actor Was 67 (deadline.com)

Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc (arstechnica.com)

STS (Secure Time Seeding) uses server time from SSL handshakes, which is fine when talking to other Microsoft servers, but other implementations put random data in that field to prevent fingerprinting.

New Jersey Supreme Court rules in favor of Catholic school that fired a teacher for having premarital sex (www.cnn.com)

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Catholic school that terminated a teacher for having premarital sex, according to court documents.

‘Flying Aliens’ Harassing Village in Peru Are Actually Illegal Miners With Jetpacks, Cops Say (www.vice.com)

Trump heading for Republican 'coronation' as 2024 rivals struggle to stop him (www.reuters.com)

Judge dismisses major arguments in Google antitrust case (www.theverge.com)

The government’s antitrust case against Google just got significantly smaller. In a filing on Friday, a US district court judge dismissed several of the claims that the Department of Justice and a coalition of states brought against the company, including allegations that Google Search harms competing services.

MIT scientists propose power storage using cement blocks (www.datacenterdynamics.com)

Plan to commercialize supercapacitors in the next few years

Ransomware attacks have doubled thanks to AI (www.techradar.com)

Burning ship off Dutch coast has more e-cars than thought (www.dw.com)

A freight ship that caught fire off the Dutch coast and has been burning since, as fire extinguishers try to figure out ways to tackle the incident, has been carrying nearly 500 electric cars, far more than previously reported, the company that chartered the ship said....

Nematode resurrected from Siberian permafrost laid dormant for 46,000 years (www.eurekalert.org)

Nematode resurrected from Siberian permafrost laid dormant for 46,000 years::A soil nematode reanimated from Siberian permafrost had laid dormant for approximately 46,000 years, according to a study publishing July 27, 2023 in the open access journal PLOS Genetics by Anastasia Shatilovich at the Institute of Physicochemical and...