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Leaked: CIA Front Preparing Color Revolution in Indonesia (www.mintpressnews.com)

US Offshore Wind Slammed by Runaway Costs (finance.yahoo.com)

Just two years ago, they were making plans — and inking power purchase agreements — based on a projected cost of $77 per megawatt hour, according to BloombergNEF. Now, it’s $114....

Have you guys heard of ipfs? It seems to be a distributed way of serving content. I don't think its anywhere close to prod ready in its current state but it could be one day. (ipfs.tech)

‘How am I in this war?’: New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire’s Ukraine dilemma (edition.cnn.com)

(CNN) — Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled...

USA TODAY, Ipsos poll: 20% of Americans fear climate change could force them to move (www.usatoday.com)

Polling data shows an almost an equal number of people believe two completely different things: About 1 in 5 people surveyed were so concerned about global warming that they think it will make it more difficult to live in their area. About the same number said they either don't know if climate change is happening or don’t...

Robots Are Already Killing People (www.theatlantic.com)

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Exclusive: US to send depleted-uranium munitions to Ukraine (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/587773...

India launches next space mission — The latest mission in India's ambitious space programme blasted off Saturday on a voyage towards the centre of the solar system, a week after the country's succe... (www.rfi.fr)

India launches next space mission — The latest mission in India’s ambitious space programme blasted off Saturday on a voyage towards the centre of the solar system, a week after the country’s succe…::The latest mission in India’s ambitious space programme blasted off Saturday on a voyage towards the centre of the solar...

Blood Clotting Proteins Might Help Predict Long COVID Brain Fog (www.scientificamerican.com)

Azerbaijan Conducts Heavy Shelling on Armenian Territory (allinnet.info)

Russian, Belarus ambassadors invited again to Nobel banquet (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2168384...

AI images are getting harder to spot. Google thinks it has a solution. (wapo.st)

The tech giant is among companies pushing out AI tools while promising to build more tools to protect against their misuse...

MIT Technology Review: Here’s what we know about hurricanes and climate change (www.technologyreview.com)

Storms are becoming more likely to stall in one place, dumping more rain on concentrated areas, as Hurricane Harvey did in Houston in 2017....

Spanish football federation leaders demand resignation of its president Luis Rubiales (www.theguardian.com)

"After the latest events and the unacceptable behaviours that have seriously damaged the image of Spanish football, we request that Mr Luis Rubiales immediately present his resignation as president of the Spanish football federation,” the Spanish football federation’s regional presidents say in a joint statement.

Caste matters : The caste of a chair (scroll.in)

How oppressive upper castes in an Inidan state's local government (Tamil Nadu’s panchayats) use chairs and the protocols surrounding them to discriminate against Dalit women presidents.

Canonical give some thoughts on the future of Ubuntu Desktop (www.gamingonlinux.com)

KDE Gear 23.08 Released with Lots of Goodies for Your Favorite KDE Apps (9to5linux.com)

Boeing says a new 737 Max flaw will slow airplane deliveries (www.cnbc.com)

The company said that fastener holes on some Max 737 aft pressure bulkheads were improperly drilled....

Inside the messy ethics of making war with machines (www.technologyreview.com)

AI is making its way into decision-making in battle. Who’s to blame when something goes wrong?...

Rise of Local Family Policy Addressing Japan's Population Decline (www.stoppopulationdecline.org)

Stronger protection for additional sensitive actions taken in Gmail (workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)

I made a deep linking proxy for Mastodon and Lemmy on Android (github.com)

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/3443568...

He Needed a Liver Transplant. But Did the Risks Outweigh the Reward? (www.propublica.org)

A transplant program in Memphis took pride in replacing the livers of patients turned away by other hospitals. One patient’s liver transplant illustrates the promise and peril of operating on people with serious risk factors.