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Baldur's Gate 3: Act 3 Bugs and Missing Content Becoming a Problem as More Players Near End (www.ign.com)

Lara Croft will be joining Call of Duty as an Operator in September (www.gamescensor.com)

Final Fantasy XVI Suffers From Its Superficial Handling Of Slavery (kotaku.com)

In Square Enix's latest epic RPG, the moral monstrosity of slavery is effectively reduced to window dressing

Saudi Arabia considering Chinese bid to build nuclear plant, report says (www.aljazeera.com)

Chinese bid proposes nuclear plant near the border with Qatar and the UAE, according to Wall Street Journal report.

The world’s top 1% of emitters produce over 1000 times more CO2 than the bottom 1% – Analysis - IEA (www.iea.org)

Tropical Storm Franklin nears Haiti and the Dominican Republic bringing fears of floods, landslides (apnews.com)

Second US tropical storm in a week drenches Texas (www.bbc.com)

American dad and son flooded with ketchup chips after Niagara Falls hunt now donating the crunchy snacks (www.cbc.ca)

There were 40 bags of ketchup chips in the back of Rich Lieberman’s vintage army jeep when he left Niagara Falls, Ont., with his son Jacob in July....

US grows doubtful Ukraine counteroffensive can quickly succeed. Criticism of Kyiv’s strategy from American officials widens rift between allies at crucial time. (www.ft.com)

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Monday briefing: Are the vanished British Museum relics the tip of the iceberg? (www.theguardian.com) Japanese

In today’s newsletter: As police in the UK launch an investigation into what happened to missing artefacts, an art detective explains why such thefts are so difficult to prevent

GE-Proton8-13 Released (github.com)

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I saw how Samsung’s robots make the Galaxy Z Fold 5 (www.androidcentral.com)

Counter-Strike 2 Makes Significant Development Towards Release (www.gamescensor.com)

Compulsory Sterilization in Japan: Censorship Casts Doubt on Landmark Report (unseen-japan.com)

For many decades, Japan had an inhumane forced sterilization law on the books. Much information on the infamous program remains censored.

Pooling Data to Make Diabetes Research More Representative (foundation.mozilla.org)

Containers from Scratch (ericchiang.github.io)

StreetPass is a browser extension that helps you find your people on Mastodon (streetpass.social)

Pentagon review calls for reforms to reverse spike in sexual misconduct at military academies (www.news4jax.com)

Biden will use Camp David backdrop hoping to broker a breakthrough in Japan-South Korea relations (apnews.com)

Camp David, the rustic presidential retreat in the mountains of Maryland, has been a backdrop for signal moments in U.S. foreign policy, perhaps none more notable than the peace accord President Jimmy Carter brokered between Egypt and Israel in 1978....