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A Trap Door Hid a Cache of Narcotics at the Day Care Where a Child Died (www.nytimes.com)

Days after a 1-year-old died and three children exposed to drugs at a Bronx day care site were hospitalized, investigators uncovered a trap door under a play area that was concealing fentanyl, other narcotics and drug paraphernalia....

TikTok Is Spending $1.3 Billion to Dodge Bans in Europe (www.wired.com)

TikTok Is Spending $1.3 Billion to Dodge Bans in Europe::European politicians are nervous about where TikTok’s data goes. The company is spending big on local data centers, but analysts say it’s not enough.

Anti-Putin Russians Kill FSB Border Guard During Cross-Border Raid (www.kyivpost.com)

LibreOffice 7.5.6 Office Suite Released with More Than 50 Bug Fixes (9to5linux.com)

Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose (www.pcgamer.com)

Google, Netflix, Apple and Amazon are the "barbarians at the gate" of the games industry, says ex-Sony boss (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.one/post/3417167

Saudi Man Receives Death Sentence for Internet Comments. (tipsandtricksbycent.medium.com)

This is why personal privacy & nyms are important, time to go somewhere else, but where can we remain anonymous in the digital world?

Kim Jong Un 'to visit Putin for weapons talks' (www.bbc.com)

Malaysia, India and Taiwan reject China's new territorial map (asia.nikkei.com)

Gabon officers declare military coup, President Ali Bongo detained (www.reuters.com)

Military officers in oil-producing Gabon said they had seized power on Wednesday, placing President Ali Bongo under house arrest and naming a new leader after the Central African state’s election body announced Bongo had won a third term....

Conservatives aim to restructure U.S. government and replace it with Trump's vision (www.pbs.org)

The goal is to avoid the pitfalls of Trump’s first years in office, when the Republican president’s team was ill-prepared, his Cabinet nominees had trouble winning Senate confirmation and policies were met with resistance.

Caste matters : California Assembly passes anti-caste Bill, soon to make it official state law (www.thenewsminute.com)

In another significant moment for the movement against caste discrimination in the United States, a Bill to make caste discrimination illegal was passed by the California State Assembly on Monday, August 28, with 50 votes in its favour and only three against it. It was earlier passed by the state's Senate in May this year. With...

A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land for more than $800 million to build a new city near San Francisco (www.businessinsider.com)

Learn GNU awk with hundreds of examples and exercises (learnbyexample.github.io)

Hello!...

Huge fire rages in China office building (www.bbc.com)

Nearly 300 firefighters were deployed to battle the blaze in the northern port city of Tianjin.

Seven killed, 90 wounded in Russian missile strike on Ukrainian city of Chernihiv (www.reuters.com)

Tell me now! (sh.itjust.works)

NCD is a pathway to abilities some consider to be...unnatural (media.kbin.social)

TIL South Carolina grows more than twice as many peaches than Georgia (www.statista.com)

People share misinformation because of social media’s incentives — but those can be changed (www.niemanlab.org)

People share misinformation because of social media’s incentives — but those can be changed::“After a few tweaks to the reward structure of social media platforms, users begin to share information that is accurate and fact-based.” (Though the tweaks involved paying people to do so.)

Fulton County district attorney is likely to present her case against Trump to grand jury next week (www.cnn.com)

The Atlanta-area district attorney investigating former President Donald Trump and his allies has been lining up witnesses to appear before a grand jury in order to craft a narrative around how Trump and his supporters tried to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election in the Peach State, according to people familiar...