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Beethoven skull fragments return to Vienna (www.bbc.com)

A US businessman has donated fragments of what is believed to be Ludwig van Beethoven’s skull to a Vienna university for study....

Nadella’s Microsoft Payouts Top $1 Billion on 1,000% Stock Boom (www.bloomberg.com)

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Fast grocery firms doomed by French dark store ban (www.bbc.co.uk)

ASUS Signs Agreement to Continue Development and Support of Intel's NUC Business (www.anandtech.com)

Ten years ago, this would have been far more exciting news. However, given the quality issues Asus has been having for several years, this is not the company that should be picking up the baton. I’d have preferred to see ASRock, given their portfolio of NUC-alikes.

Chamoli: Fifteen electrocuted to death near India river (www.bbc.co.uk)

Exec tells first UN council meeting that big tech can’t be trusted to guarantee AI safety (wtop.com)

Google Cloud Build bug lets hackers launch supply chain attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Xi wants to make the Great Firewall of China even greater (www.theregister.com)

Over the weekend Chinese president Xi Jinping gave a directive to officials to build a Beijing-supervised “security barrier” around its internet....

The attempted coup in Nicaragua in 2018: Why support for it collapsed (mronline.org)

After more than a month of conflict, most Nicaraguans hoped that a “national dialogue” set up by the Catholic church would lead to peace, but in fact it led to renewed violence. During the hiatus before the dialogue began, and with the police now confined to their police stations on Daniel Ortega’s orders, roadblocks were...

Google SoundStorm: Efficient Parallel Audio Generation (google-research.github.io)

Lawyers using ChatGPT cite 6 fake cases (archive.is)

Man Whose Mother-In-Law Wore Viral Blue-And-Black Dress Charged With Attempted Murder (www.huffpost.com)

Not sure if this story belongs to this community But also WTF....

COSMIC Skies of a Colorado July - Cosmic DE Update (blog.system76.com)

New EU regulations mandate user-replaceable batteries in iPhones (appleinsider.com)

Pixel Fold review: The first foldable that actually feels like a tablet (arstechnica.com)

Google rolls out AI chatbot Bard to Europe and Brazil and adds more languages (www.lbc.co.uk)

Live Updates: Israeli 'day of resistance' erupts after key judicial overhaul bill vote (www.haaretz.com)

A series of polls asking for feedback about what improvements people want to see in the Fediverse. (mastodon.communick.com)

cross-posted from: communick.news/post/9011...

Heatwave last summer killed 61,000 people in Europe, research finds (www.theguardian.com)

Trump valet Walt Nauta pleads not guilty in classified documents case (www.politico.com)

No retirement: Why are more and more people over 70 still working? (www.euronews.com)

If you host a feed reader (or just use one a lot), Morss is amazing (morss.it)

Got the suggestion from a comment yesterday (I’ll link when I find it) and I’d been using FreshRSS on it’s own for a long time. Morss is a godsend for feeds that like to give you only the headline. It’s also especially awesome for the Hackernews and Lobsters feeds because it will expand the posted links for you which I...

TIL bee suits are customarily white because by wearing white, a beekeeper can approach and open the hive without the bees becoming defensive and attacking as bees dislike dark coloured animals. (www.manukavet.com)

Have you ever wondered why beekeepers wear white? Is it to see when a bee lands on them, to stay cool when its hot or is it a fashion trend that has stuck?The answer is simple and evolutionary. In ord