UAW strike Day 4: GM threatens to send 2,000 workers home, Ford cuts 600 jobs (www.npr.org)
Union strategy: 13,000 autoworkers at the three Midwest plants, about 9% of the unionized workforce at the Big Three automakers, were the first to walk off the job. Now, more workers are temporarily out of work as the automakers are asking hundreds of non-striking workers not to show up to work....
SteamOS 3.5 Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains For The Steam Deck (www.phoronix.com)
Making hydrogen from waste plastic could pay for itself (techxplore.com)
Making hydrogen from waste plastic could pay for itself::Hydrogen is viewed as a promising alternative to fossil fuel, but the methods used to make it either generate too much carbon dioxide or are too expensive. Rice University researchers have found a way to harvest hydrogen …
Nigerian power grid in ‘total system collapse’ (www.bangkokpost.com)
Apple Suspends Deals With Producers, Including Natalie Portman & Adam McKay (deadline.com)
Apple has become the latest entertainment company to suspend additional overall and first-look deals this month as the WGA strike is getting past the four-and-a-half-month mark....
Biden administration restores the power of states and tribes to review projects to protect waterways (abcnews.go.com)
Venezuelan soldiers have dislodged more than 11,500 illegal gold miners from the country's biggest natural reserve since July, where they cleared forest and contaminated water (www.france24.com)
Powerful earthquake kills 'at least' 296 in Morocco, govt says (www.reuters.com)
Windows 11 and local accounts (www.techrepublic.com)
Does this trick actually work?
New Delhi got a makeover for the G20 summit. The city's poor say they were simply erased (apnews.com)
Anonymous Sudan hacks X to put pressure on Elon Musk over Starlink (www.bbc.com)
Prolific hackers accused of being a front for Russian cyber-operation shares counter evidence with the BBC.
Volition (Saints Row developer) shuts down (arstechnica.com)
There goes my dream of an Agents of Mayhem sequel.
Perseverance Mars rover spies big sunspot rotating toward Earth (photos) (www.space.com)
Perseverance Mars rover spies big sunspot rotating toward Earth (photos)::NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has captured photos of a big sunspot, which should rotate into view for those of us on Earth in the coming days.
Fifth Circuit Says Law Enforcement Doesn’t Need Warrants To Search Phones At The Border (www.techdirt.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1899058...
Russian dam bursts washing away railroad—Economy to lose "billions" (www.newsweek.com)
The Russian economy could lose “billions of rubles” after a destroyed dam in the Siberian region of Buryatia caused a river to burst its banks and damage a key transit railway, according to a local Russian official.
the only e2e I can trust is the one I set it myself. (beehaw.org)
use GPG and PGP
Apple has plowed over $500 billion into stock buybacks since 2012 — more than Visa, JPMorgan, or Exxon are worth (markets.businessinsider.com)
Apple has plowed over $500 billion into stock buybacks since 2012 — more than Visa, JPMorgan, or Exxon are worth::Only eight companies in the S&P 500 have larger market values than Apple’s outlay on share repurchases over the last decade.
Millions of kids are missing weeks of school as attendance tanks across the US (projects.apnews.com)
Pokémon Company Uses Fan Music In Trailer Without Crediting The Fan - Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)
Fans are expressing their concerns after The Pokémon Company seemingly used fan-created music in a recent trailer for the Pokémon Scarlet & Violet DLC, The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero. The uproar began shortly after today’s Pokémon Presents wrapped up. While many tuned in for updates on things like Detective Pikachu...
new federated encrypted messenger by the guy who made pixelfed (mastodon.social)
Phoenix's record heat is killing off cactuses (www.cnn.com)
At a botanical garden in Phoenix some cactuses can’t take the heat.
Niger soldiers announce coup on national TV (www.bbc.co.uk)
Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor dies aged 56 (www.bbc.com)
Zelensky points to lack of munitions, training for delayed Ukraine counteroffensive (thehill.com)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview that aired Sunday attributed the delayed start of his nation’s counteroffensive against Russia to insufficient munitions and training earlier this year....