Apple removed 25 VPN apps from the Russian App Store at the Kremlin's request (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Taiwan sees single-day record of Chinese planes in airspace (www.dw.com)
Taiwan reported an increase in Chinese airforce activity, detecting 66 Chinese planes around the island in a single-day record for this year....
Canceled Fallout game Van Buren rebuilt and playable now thanks to mod (www.pcgamesn.com)
Sanctions on Russian oil brought Putin and Modi closer. Now they’re in a nuclear embrace (edition.cnn.com)
Trump claims not to know who is behind Project 2025. A CNN review found at least 140 people who worked for him are involved (www.cnn.com)
Donald Trump has lately made clear he wants little to do with Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for the next Republican president that has attracted considerable blowback in his race for the White House....
ADP Vantage (adp-vantage.us)
ADP Vantage HCM solution has been created especially for organisations associated with over 1000 workers working from the office. It provides Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions. Using ADP Vantage HCM, the firms can easily reply to recruiting new employees, managing talent, payroll, and hiring new employees.
AOC Moves to Impeach Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito (time.com)
Meta's CrowdTangle, which has been used to track misinformation, is set to disappear in August as elections take place worldwide. Its replacement isn’t as transparent or accessible. (www.cjr.org)
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Gunman who was killed by Yellowstone rangers had planned a July 4 mass shooting, park reveals (abcnews.go.com)
Yellowstone National Park officials say a gunman killed by park rangers as he fired a semiautomatic rifle at the entrance of a dining facility with 200 people inside had told a woman he planned to carry out a mass shooting...
Starmer ‘shocked’ about prisons crisis as early release scheme prepared | Prisons and probation | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Drunken driver who snapped photo going 141 mph before deadly collision imprisoned for 17 years (abcnews.go.com)
Darryl Anderson was drunk behind the wheel of his Audi SUV, had his accelerator pressed to the floor and was barreling toward a car ahead of him when he snapped a photo of his speedometer. The picture showed a car in the foreground, a collision warning light on his dashboard and a speed of 141 mph (227 kph)....
2-year-old Arizona girl dies after dad leaves her in car during triple-digit heat: Police (abcnews.go.com)
A 2-year-old girl has died after her father left her in a hot car in Arizona, where residents are enduring triple-digit temperatures, according to authorities....
Treasury, IRS announce 'major milestone' of $1 billion in past-due taxes collected from millionaires (www.cnbc.com)
The Treasury Department and the IRS announced the collection of more than $1 billion in tax debt from high-income individuals over the past year....
Colorado dropped Medicaid enrollees as red states have, alarming advocates for the poor (kffhealthnews.org)
Colorado stands out among the 10 states that have disenrolled the highest share of Medicaid beneficiaries since the U.S. government lifted a pandemic-era restriction on removing people from the health insurance program....
Anger mounts in southeast Texas as crippling power outages and heat turn deadly (www.cnn.com)
Frustrations are mounting across southeast Texas as residents enter a fourth day of crippling power outages and heat, a combination that has proven dangerous – and at times deadly – as some struggle to access food, gas and medical care....
State of Text Rendering 2024 (behdad.org)
[The author assumes] a high-level understanding of how text rendering works, for example, what shaping is. If that does not sound familiar to you, you might want to review State of Text Rendering (2009), and Modern text rendering with Linux: Overview (2019).
Billionaire Sung Kook ‘Bill’ Hwang convicted of fraud by New York jury (www.theguardian.com)
Archegos Capital Management’s founder guilty of 10 of 11 criminal counts over investment firm that collapsed in 2021...
Taiwan monitors Chinese military surge, calls China a threat to stability (www.rappler.com)
In its daily update on Chinese military activity over the past 24 hours, released on Thursday morning, Taiwan’s defense ministry said it had detected 66 Chinese military aircraft around the island....
Nato summit: Ukraine on 'irreversible path' to membership (www.bbc.com)
Nato members have pledged their support for an “irreversible path” to future membership for Ukraine, as well as more aid....
IdentifyMobile incident exposed 200M records from hundreds of companies (stackdiary.com)
British bulk SMS provider IdentifyMobile exposed 200M records because a developer misconfigured an AWS S3 bucket and made it public. A research group from Germany spotted the issue and were able to access more than six terabytes of data. The said data included not only SMS message content but also phone numbers, sender names,...
Benji Gregory, Child Star of ‘Alf,’ Dies at 46 (variety.com)
Dead of heatstroke at 46. The poor guy also got a medical discharge from the Navy in 2005 and had a service dog, so that may have been a contributing factor, whatever the issue was.
Double Dragon Is Getting a 3D Beat 'Em Up From Arc System Works - IGN (www.ign.com)
Valve Made A DOTA Fighting Game And It's Out Now [in a DOTA2 patch] (kotaku.com)
AMD reportedly preps Hawk Point CPU without the NPU — Ryzen 7 8745HS is a Ryzen 7 8845HS clone but with the XDNA NPU chopped off [NPU=Neural process unit==AI] (www.tomshardware.com)
OBS encoding enhancements come to Nvidia's Maxwell GPUs — GeForce GTX 900 series can now leverage the Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting feature (www.tomshardware.com)
