Amazon tries to take over pirate sites that sold DVD copies of Rings of Power (arstechnica.com)
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Gambling sites are already taking bets on who will replace Charles Martinet as the voice of Mario (gonintendo.com)
Bovada, an online betting site, is already taking bets for who people think will be revealed as the voice of Mario. While we honestly have no idea who’s taking the reigns, Bovada has quite a ludicrous list of choices to pick from:...
Spanish FA president Rubiales apologises for Hermoso kiss (www.bbc.co.uk)
View from Trollstigen [OC] (pixelfed.de)
While driving through Norway I passed Trollstigen with this beautiful view
Source of Hidden Consciousness in ‘Comatose’ Brain Injury Patients Found (www.cuimc.columbia.edu)
WinRAR flaw lets hackers run programs when you open RAR archives (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
The flaw is tracked as CVE-2023-40477 and could give remote attackers arbitrary code execution on the target system after a specially crafted RAR file is opened....
Space race 2.0: Russia, India, China and the U.S. are heading for the lunar south pole (www.nbcnews.com)
Uncrewed Russian and Indian spacecraft could land in the area next week, while the U.S. is trying to land astronauts there by 2025.
Belgium strikes: Ryanair pilots announce further walkout in August (www.euronews.com)
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US tourists stay in Eiffel Tower overnight while drunk - prosecutors (www.bbc.co.uk)
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New Zealand jury finds mom guilty of killing her 3 young daughters (www.nbcnews.com)
Lauren Dickason had admitted to the killings but then pleaded not guilty to murder, arguing she was mentally disturbed at the time and didn’t know that what she was doing was wrong.
iTWire - Musk's X delays links from rivals loading, then backtracks (itwire.com)
India, Manipur genocide: Governor 'Deeply Concerned' by Violence But Ignored by Biren Govt (thewire.in)
In an interview with Karan Thapar, Brinda Karat recounts her meeting with two survivors of terrible sexual assaults as well as with the parents of two girls who were gang-raped and killed.
Some 2024 flagship phones might stick with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 instead (www.androidauthority.com)
West African leaders prepare for military intervention (www.thetimes.co.uk)
Romania to pay farmers to leave trees standing (www.politico.eu)
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Smoothing out the scrolling experience in Chrome on Android (blog.chromium.org)
In Android 14, the nanosecond API for java MotionEvents will be publicly exposed in the SDK so Chrome (and other apps with unbuffered input) will be able to call it...
International cat day! (imgur.com)
New Orleans archbishop ignored board findings on clerics accused of abuse (www.theguardian.com)
Prepped for multiple vegetable takeovers (sh.itjust.works)
Hank the Tank, a 400-Pound Bear Behind Lake Tahoe Break-Ins, Is Captured (www.nytimes.com)
A female bear — and one of three known as Hank — was captured with her three cubs by California wildlife authorities. She was responsible for at least 21 home break-ins, officials said.
The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. (gizmodo.com)
The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. The article describes it as "the official end of the battle," which seems an overstatement to me, but it's the certainly the end of the initial phase....
Baldur's Gate 3: Complete Guide And Walkthrough (www.dualshockers.com)
‘City On Fire’ Canceled By Apple After One Season (deadline.com)
EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has opted not to pick up a second season of crime drama series City on Fire. The news comes a month and a half after Season 1 finished its eight-episode run on the streamer. It…
Can you trust AI? Here's why you shouldn't (theconversation.com)
If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it’s silent about its own corporate parent’s misdeeds.
Agence France-Presse pursues copyright case against X, formerly known as Twitter (apnews.com)
The news agency announced the legal action in a statement. It said it is seeking payment under European Union intellectual property rules that cover “neighboring rights,” which allow news outlets and publishers to seek payment from digital platforms for the sharing of their work.
