Watch out AMD: Intel Arc A580 could be the next great affordable GPU (www.techradar.com)
Philippines accuses China of firing water cannon at boats in South China Sea (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1121606...
The ‘Flu Shot Cheerleader’ is back — with a warning about the anti-vaccine movement (www.nbcnews.com)
In 2009, Desiree Jennings went viral for saying a flu shot triggered her mysterious illness. Now she sees things differently.
Climate change threatens Germany's fairy tale forests (www.npr.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1086578...
Shots again fired at site of Parkland school massacre in reenactment after lawmakers visit (apnews.com)
Gunfire erupted again at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Friday as part of a reenactment by ballistics experts of the 2018 massacre that left 14 students and three staff members dead.
Superconductor Stock Frenzy Fizzles in Korea Amid Growing Doubts (www.bloomberg.com)
Soft-reboot in systemd 254 sounds a lot like Windows' Fast Startup (www.theregister.com)
For those systemd users, it seems not as a big of a deal as “the register” poster might imply. In the end it’ll depend if the new soft reboot is called or not (it’s doubtful distros will change default behavior either).
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 6.2 from Ubuntu 23.04 (9to5linux.com)
New ideas using Wayland Input Methods (blog.davidedmundson.co.uk)
Europe Does Not Offer Solutions to Ukrainian War: Pope Francis (www.telesurenglish.net)
On Wednesday, Pope Francis arrived in Lisbon to participate in World Youth Day (WYD) and meet with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa....
Writers Guild to Meet With Studios, Streamers on August 4 (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
A meeting, requested to take place this coming Friday, would mark the first time the union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have come together since the WGA called a strike on May 1.
City of Hope scientists develop targeted chemotherapy able to kill all solid tumors in preclinical research (www.eurekalert.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/960282...
Barbenheimer Memes Provoke Angry Backlash in Japan (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Warner Bros. Japan apologizes after the U.S. Twitter account for the movie promotes posts that appear to make light of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
New Vaccine Targets Alzheimer’s Disease at its Roots - Neuroscience News (neurosciencenews.com)
Opinion | Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: When It Comes to Big Tech, Enough Is Enough (www.nytimes.com)
Samsung makes the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Z Flip 5 official (arstechnica.com)
I haven’t shopped for a new phone for a while but I have to admit I’m eyeing the new foldables from an accessibility standpoint. I really miss the mechanical keyboards that used to be available on every phone. In the absence of that, I’d love to have the option of a full-screen keyboard on one side and still being able to...
In war and peace, the oud never leaves this Syrian musician’s side (www.aljazeera.com)
Al-Bab, Syria – In a small workshop where the scent of wood and sound of music blend, Hassan Hamza works to make one of the most important instruments in Arabic music....
US expects to begin delivering Abrams tanks to Ukraine in September (www.politico.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/801485...
Notes from a Mastodon migration (erinkissane.com)
Israel’s Crisis Is Just Beginning (www.politico.com)
‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools (www.theguardian.com)
I personally think that responsible smartphone use should be learned and practiced, rather than outright banning them....
Turns out that Web Environment Integrity proposal everybody is getting angry about (imo very legitimately) was effectively already shipped by Apple in Safari last year (httptoolkit.com)
Norwegian government IT systems hacked using zero-day flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2meirlmeirl - for memes that hit too close to home. memes related to mental health, depression, anxiety, and more (tw) (lemmy.world)
https://kbin.social/[email protected] - @2meirl4meirl...
RHEL Panel Discussion at FOSSY 2023 (sfconservancy.org)
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