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China is forecasted to reach 1,000GW of installed solar capacity by 2026 (from 500GW today), which is pretty much equivalent to the total global solar power capacity today. (reneweconomy.com.au)

Foreign firms in China say vague rules and tensions with Washington hurting business, surveys show (apnews.com)

Foreign companies operating in China say tensions with Washington over technology, trade and other issues and uncertainty over Chinese policies are damaging the business environment and causing some to reassess their plans for investing in the giant market....

Water-based battery "safe, efficient, non-toxic" (interestingengineering.com)

Jumper at NYC's Mandarin Oriental hotel identified as Filipino American teen (news.yahoo.com)

Hawaii volcano Kilauea erupts after nearly two months of quiet (apnews.com)

Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, began erupting Sunday after a two-month pause, displaying glowing lava that is a safe distance from people and structures in a national park on the Big Island....

YouTube Announces Updated Ad Placement Controls, Experiments with New Ad Formats for CTV. (www.socialmediatoday.com)

Has anyone ever tried mulled coffee? (www.olympiacoffee.com)

I know that it’s the middle of summer (northern hemisphere). I know that even the thought of adding fruit juice and mulling spices to coffee is probably horrifying. I do not expect it to taste good. And yet, I had a thought about it and found that it seems to be a thing and so… has anyone tried it?...

Iranian transport aircraft takes off from occupied Crimea (www.pravda.com.ua)

Android 14 Beta 5.3 released. (developer.android.com)

Beta 5.3 released on 6th Sept, 2023 with following release notes:...

The UK Is Poised to Force a Bad Law on the Internet (www.wired.com)

Tails 5.17 Anonymous Linux OS Renames Tails Installer to Tails Cloner (9to5linux.com)

Apple and Microsoft fight Brussels over ‘gatekeeper’ label for iMessage and Bing (www.ft.com)

Maybe some day we can send messages between Teams & iMessage....

FOSS keyboard: Simple Keyboard by RKKR, swipe typing and AOSP looks. (www.f-droid.org)

Anyone tried this? Works perfectly for me. Any reason why I should go back to the OpenBoard fork with Swipe?

Google Maps tests new design on Android with different default map colors (www.androidpolice.com)

OnePlus is working on an interesting way to use all that RAM on your phone (www.androidauthority.com)

Community contributions to Element Web (Matrix client) are often not welcomed (github.com)

It seems that community contributions to Element Web (Matrix client) are often effectively rejected. For example, see:...

Saudi man sentenced to death for tweets in harshest verdict yet for online critics (www.npr.org)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A retired teacher in Saudi Arabia was recently sentenced to death for his tweets criticizing the country’s leadership to his handful of followers, according to rights advocates and his family....

At least 38 people have died in a fire in a building in South Africa's biggest city, authorities say (apnews.com)

China map: India lodges 'strong protest' over territory claims (www.bbc.co.uk)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2089991...

After two climate-decimated harvests, southern peach farmers wonder how to regroup (www.theguardian.com)

Warmer winters, late freezes and wildly variable rainfall have formed a perfect storm to wreck the one of the region’s favorite fruits...

Air pollution greatest global threat to human health, says benchmark study (phys.org)

Air pollution is more dangerous to the health of the average person on planet Earth than smoking or alcohol, with the threat worsening in its global epicenter South Asia even as China fast improves, a study showed Tuesday

Thoughts on makedeb, Debian's unofficial makepkg clone that comes with its own version of the AUR as well? (docs.makedeb.org)

Saw the post here regarding CentOS’s off-springs and a couple of people brought up the excellent point of: why play with fire? Let’s just stick to Debian....