Spike Lee Says Francis Ford Coppola Screened 30 Minutes of ‘Megalopolis’: “OMG Amazing” (www.worldofreel.com)
AI will be at the center of the next financial crisis, SEC chair warns (www.axios.com)
A Muslim mob attacks churches in eastern Pakistan after accusing Christians of desecrating the Quran (apnews.com)
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Muslims in eastern Pakistan went on a rampage Wednesday over allegations that a Christian man had desecrated the Quran, demolishing the man’s house, burning churches and damaging several other homes, police and local Christians said. There were no immediate reports of casualties....
How native Hawaiians feel about the occupation regime (twitter.com)
Suit against tech giant Cisco shines light on U.S. complicity in Chinese torture (www.news-journal.com)
After a 12-year legal battle, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a lawsuit accusing technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. and two former executives of assisting the Chinese government in identifying and targeting Falun Gong practitioners for arrests, torture, and execution could proceed to trial. The ruling could...
‘Blue Beetle’ First Reactions Are In: “My Favorite Post-Nolan DC Film” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
The latest DC project, starring Xolo Maridueña, arrives in theaters Aug. 18.
The Guardian: Record-breaking mountaineer denies climbing over dying porter on K2 (www.theguardian.com)
Statc Stealer: Windows malware stealing information from web browsers and apps, including login data, cookies, web data, and preferences, stealing cryptocurrency wallets, credentials, passwords, etc. (www.zscaler.com)
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Amazon’s final talks with FTC unlikely to thwart antitrust lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1213013...
‘Ghost flights’: Qatar Airways flying near-empty planes in Australia to exploit legal loophole (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/fj7IK...
USS Voyager NCC-74656-A Prodigy Season two First-look analysis (screenrant.com)
I often consider Screenrant clickbait, but kudos to Mark Donaldson for getting one of the first analyses of the beauty shots and the Doctor’s description from the Prodigy 2 x 01 sneak peak made available at STLV....
Philippines accuses China of firing water cannons at its ships in South China Sea | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Lithuania has declared more than a thousand citizens of Russia and Belarus living in the country to be threats to national security and said it is stripping them of their permanent residency permits (abcnews.go.com)
Lithuania has declared more than a thousand citizens of Russia and Belarus living in the country to be threats to national security and said it is stripping them of their permanent residency permits
OnePlus Open Exclusive: OnePlus Makes Major Design Changes Ahead of Launch (www.smartprix.com)
Niger coup: Junta scraps military pacts with France (www.dw.com)
Six Former Mississippi Officers Face Civil Rights Charges in Assault on 2 Black Men (www.nytimes.com)
Six white former law enforcement officers from Mississippi have been charged with federal civil rights offenses several months after they raided a home where prosecutors said two Black men were stripped naked, beaten and shocked with Tasers....
National Party: Irish far-right party's stolen gold bars spark funding query (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/950023...
Motorola Razr 40 review (GSMArena) (www.gsmarena.com)
Russia's Prigozhin says Wagner is not recruiting now, may do so in future (www.reuters.com)
Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a voice message published on Monday that his Wagner group was not currently recruiting fighters but was likely to do so in future....
China using families as 'hostages' to quash dissent abroad (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/863209...
Sudan conflict: Women tell BBC horror stories of rape (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/862903...
British billionaire Joe Lewis pleads not guilty to US insider trading charges (www.reuters.com)
Assassin's Creed Mirage will take 25-30 hours to complete – and that's if you're a completionist (www.eurogamer.net)
Assassin's Creed Mirage will take just 25 hours to complete – or less, if you're not looking to do a "completioni…
Putin defends arrests of critics during ‘armed conflict’ with Ukraine (www.scmp.com)
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday defended an unprecedented crackdown on dissenting voices in Russia at a time of “armed conflict” with Ukraine, urging everyone to follow “certain rules.”...