Fed fines Deutsche Bank $186 million and threatens further action (edition.cnn.com)
North Korea warns US of nuclear retaliation as tensions rise (www.aljazeera.com)
North Korea’s defence minister has warned the United States that the deployment of nuclear assets in South Korea could meet the conditions for its use of nuclear arms, according to state media....
Slay the Spire Fanart - The Silent WIP (beehaw.org)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/6716721...
When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies (blog.adafruit.com)
Technology Community Poll: Content Bot (strawpoll.com)
Some people seem to really enjoy the articles posted by the content bot, but others seem to think that the bot post too many articles and clog up their RSS feeds. Come give us your opinion in the straw poll.
Extreme heat sparks wildfires, health warnings around the world (www.france24.com)
Extreme heat was forecast across the globe on Wednesday, as wildfires raged and health warnings were in place in parts of Asia, Europe and North America....
Climate Advocates Blast GOP Funding Bill as "A 'How-To' Manual for Destroying the Planet" (www.commondreams.org)
"While Americans take refuge from record-setting extreme heat and suffer from wildfire smoke, the House majority proposes slashing environmental funding to the lowest level in 30 years."
Amazon and Apple fined $218 million by Spain antitrust watchdog | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Spain’s antitrust regulator has imposed fines worth a total of €194.1 million ($218 million) on Amazon and Apple for colluding to restrict competition on the Amazon website in Spain.
‘So proud’: Heba Saadieh, the first Palestinian World Cup referee (www.aljazeera.com)
Saadieh tells Al Jazeera what she loves about refereeing, the challenges she’s overcome, and what it means to officiate in the 2023 Women’s World Cup. action during the 2020 AFC Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament soccer match between Myanmar and Bangladesh...
SAG-AFTRA says actors cannot promote projects of companies they are going on strike against. That includes promoting Trek at cons, panels and fan greets. (www.sagaftrastrike.org)
Full text from SAG-AFTRA:...
Italy's antitrust investigates inflated prices for Colosseum tickets (www.reuters.com)
ROME, July 18 (Reuters) - Italy’s antitrust authorities are going into combat over Rome’s Colosseum, opening an investigation into ticketing operations that have seen tourists paying inflated prices to visit the ancient Roman arena where gladiators once fought....
Postproduction on Prodigy season two continues! (mastodon.social)
Prodigy EP Aaron Waltke is continuing to update on progress on his mastodon account....
China to ‘fill the gap’ in Solomon Islands budget as PM blasts ‘unneighbourly’ Australia and US (www.theguardian.com)
The creators of Pathfinder have released their own version of D&D's controversial OGL—and it could have a huge impact on all tabletop RPGs (www.pcgamer.com)
Bonus article today because this feels important
Atuin: Syncing shell history between servers (atuin.sh)
I just discovered this. Sync’s your shell history between multiple servers. You can use their free, open source server (your history is encrypted) or run your own server....
I made an (updated) site to see which shows have the most Star Trek actor overlaps, can you find them all? (www.weretheyonstartrek.com)
Based on my last post I updated my site to include a running “hall of fame” list that features media with the most overlaps (currently not much there). This was something that the community sort of glommed on to, so I made it a feature....
Google set to roll out AI chatbot Bard in EU (www.politico.eu)
FTC says it will appeal to block Microsoft-Activision deal (www.cnbc.com)
Israel: UN experts condemn forced eviction of east Jerusalem families (www.ohchr.org)
EU draws up plan for ‘sustained’ military aid to Ukraine (www.politico.eu)
Cuba slams presence of US nuclear sub at Guantanamo (news.yahoo.com)
AI is a "tragedy of the commons." We’ve got solutions for that. (www.vox.com)
"Arms race" is the wrong mental model for AI. Here’s a better one.
1% rule: 1% of users actively create new content, while the other 99% only lurk. (en.wikipedia.org)
a.k.a. the 90–9–1 principle. Does the Fediverse follow this rule, or are there more creators here as early adopters? Are you a creator, a participator or a lurker?
Wayland on Budgie (blog.buddiesofbudgie.org)
The Budgie project plans on soft forking mutter in the short term to implement Wayland support in Budgie 10, but will look into developing their own wlroots based compositor called Magpie as a long term solution.
Breathing, a sign of relief in Beijing! (www.iol.co.za)
From 2013 to 2017, fine particle levels in Beijing and the surrounding region fell by around 35%. This is a remarkable feat and was achieved because of the state’s investment of resources and President Xi Jinping’s vision of an Ecological Civilisation. The “wars on pollution control” launched by the State Council,...
