Nova Launcher faces uncertain future after the company Branch slashes its development team (alternativeto.net)
Original Grandia Voice Actors Reunite to Bring Unvoiced ‘Sue’s Farewell’ Scene to Life (www.retronews.com)
The original English voice actors for the characters Feena and Sue in the game Grandia have returned to voice a pivotal scene that was not originally voiced due to technical limitations at the time of the game’s release....
Protesters in Bulgaria slam bill to ban LGBTQ+ 'propaganda' in schools. (www.rfi.fr)
A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force (arstechnica.com)
Nvidia Scrapes YouTube, Eyes Netflix, Discovery to Train New Video Model. (www.proofnews.org)
What do we need to know about a possible mega-quake? | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News (www3.nhk.or.jp)
Also an EQ was recently reported here in the Kanagawa Prefecture .
The Google TV Streamer is the first device to run Android 14 for TVs (www.androidauthority.com)
British man caught carving initials on ancient wall in Pompeii (www.thetimes.com)
Judge declines to dismiss excessive force case against city of Burlington VT for 2021 use of handcuffs, spit hood, and ketamine on disabled 14 year old accused of stealing vape pens (vtdigger.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/excessive-force-case-against-ci…
Former Seattle police officer Daniel Auderer, fired after saying life of a woman who was fatally struck by a patrol car was of "limited value," files wrongful termination lawsuit (www.nbcnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/former-seattle-police-officer-f…
End of an era: Nova Launcher's parent company lays off practically everyone (www.androidauthority.com)
Branch Metrics sucks. They fired almost of all people working for Nova.
In the 3 days before killing Dexter Reed, Chicago cops made 50 traffic stops but issued no tickets (chicago.suntimes.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/gunfight-dexter-reed-chicago-po…
Rikers guard charged with rape while off duty has a string of accusations from detainees (gothamist.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/rikers-guard-charged-with-rape-…
How criminal syndicates traffic, torture and enslave people to send scam text messages (www.npr.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/how-criminal-syndicates-traffic…
[Crosspost from !appsec] Looking for a new training/certification. People who did OSWA (Web-200 by OffSec), how was it? (www.offsec.com)
US not afraid of escalation from Russia over events in Kursk Oblast (www.pravda.com.ua)
The Pentagon has expressed no concern regarding the advance of Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, the Pentagon’s press service reports....
Palantir partners with Microsoft to sell AI to the government (www.theverge.com)
Archived version...
Xiaomi is developing a 7,500 mAh smartphone battery with 100W charging (m.gsmarena.com)
Here are all the combinations that are under consideration from the R&D center in Nanjing Science and Technology Park, China....
Elon Musk’s backing of Donald Trump is hurting Tesla’s struggling EV business in Europe (fortune.com)
Palestine demands ICC arrest warrant for Israel’s Smotrich over call to starve Gazans (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Smotrich said Monday that letting two million people in Gaza die from hunger is “justified and moral” but “nobody will let us cause two million civilians to die of hunger.”...
Cloudflare Can't Be Forced to Use Piracy Shield to Block IPTV, Court Tells Serie A. (torrentfreak.com)
3 Denver officers fired over messages about using migrant and refugee shelters as 'target practice' (www.nbcnews.com)
Three Denver police officers accused of joking about going to newcomer shelters for “target practice” have been fired....
Elon Musk shares faked far-right 'detainment camp' post (www.bbc.com)
Elon Musk has deleted an image he shared on X, formerly Twitter, which promoted a conspiracy theory about the UK building “detainment camps” on the Falkland Islands for rioters....
NYC's ice cream museum is sued by a man who says he broke his ankle jumping into the sprinkle pool (apnews.com)
A man who says he broke his ankle jumping into the sprinkle pool at the Museum of Ice Cream in New York City has filed a lawsuit alleging that the facility was negligent for not warning visitors that it is unsafe to jump into the sprinkle pool.