Georgia becomes first state to require election law training for police (www.theguardian.com)
The newly required course emphasizes de-escalation and non-threatening conduct for officers...
TikTok faces fresh US pressure over child privacy (www.bbc.com)
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has referred a complaint against TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance over potential violations of children’s privacy to the Department of Justice (DOJ)....
US lawmakers meet with Dalai Lama in India's Dharamshala, sparking anger from China (apnews.com)
A bipartisan United States congressional delegation met with the Dalai Lama Wednesday at his residence in India’s Dharamshala, sparking anger from China which views the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism as a dangerous separatist....
Europe gives China a taste of its own trade medicine: Europe is using the threat of tariffs to press Chinese electric car makers to set up in the EU and share know-how. (www.politico.eu)
The EU is having a radical rethink of how to cope with the trade threat from Beijing — and its response has a very Chinese flavor to it....
Selaco Engine's Source Code (codeberg.org)
Cross posted from: lemm.ee/post/34989837
Israeli army knew of Hamas plot to take hostages before 7 Oct (www.newarab.com)
The Israeli military had advanced notice about a plan by Hamas to raid southern Israel including accurate predictions about the number of hostages the group would seize, a new report has found....
First Horizon Bank system detects when a call center worker was on the brink of "losing it" and plays an AI-made montage of family photos set to their favorite song to calm them down. (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/4856141...
Human Brains Can Tell Deepfake Voices From Real Ones (hackaday.com)
Nvidia becomes the most valuable public company - GSMArena.com news (m.gsmarena.com)
Russians behead Ukrainian soldier in Donetsk Oblast (www.pravda.com.ua)
Contra Reforged Turns Konami's '80s Classic Into A Third-Person Shooter | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)
The iconic run-and-gun shooter, Contra, is now reimagined in a third-person perspective with the release of Contra Reforged by homebrew developer Retrolead. This modern take on the classic game retains its retro graphics and difficulty level while offering unique features such as an auto lock-on mechanism that eliminates the...
So Fallen Aces First Episode Just Dropped... [GmanLives's review] (yt.artemislena.eu)
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Not even Riot wants to try competing with Fortnite on user-generated content: 'I'm not gonna go pick that fight with Epic' (www.pcgamer.com)
FAIRY TAIL 2 [TBA on Steam] (store.steampowered.com)
Hatsu v0.2: Improved RSS compatibility, receive likes & reposts, new comment component (github.com)
Hello, Hatsu is a self-hosted Fediverse bridge for static websites....
Introducing Housing_Bubble_2 : Return of the Ugly (lemmy.world)
This community is documenting the impending second collapse of the housing market with an emphasis on the US but international news is included as well....
Australia quietly expelled four Indian spies who targeted politicians and defence tech (www.independent.co.uk)
Astronomers detect sudden awakening of black hole 1m times mass of sun (www.theguardian.com)
US lobbying group ADL faces Wikipedia ban over reliability concerns on Israel, antisemitism (www.jta.org)
The US needs to build 2 million houses to revive the American dream of homeownership (www.businessinsider.com)
Paywall removed: archive.is/BHsKJ
Hamas' alleged captive IDF soldier unmasked as West Bank Palestinian (www.ynetnews.com)
Three French Youths Arrested in Alleged Antisemitic Gang Rape of Jewish Girl, 12 (www.nysun.com)
Russia turns to blackmail and 'financial incentives' to hire Germans to spy to make up for expelled diplomats, German agency says (www.reuters.com)
Russia has turned increasingly to blackmail and financial incentives to hire Germans to spy for it after the blow dealt to its intelligence services by Europe’s expulsion of some 600 Russian diplomats, Germany’s domestic security service said....