Wagner to be declared a terrorist organisation by UK (www.bbc.com)
Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work (apnews.com)
Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work::Three visual artists are suing artificial intelligence image-generators to protect their copyrights and careers.
Donald Trump Sold Mar-a-Lago Before Arrest, Listing Reveals (www.newsweek.com)
US, Japan and Australia plan joint navy drills in disputed South China Sea, Philippine officials say (www.independent.co.uk)
Two Philippine security officials said that the United States, Japan and Australia are planning a joint navy drill this week in the South China Sea off the western Philippines after a recent show of Chinese aggression in the disputed waters
Moscow briefly shuts all major airports after alleged drone attack (www.cnn.com)
Russia temporarily shuttered all four major Moscow airports early on Friday morning following an alleged drone strike on the capital city, its civil aviation authority said.
Georgia charges Trump, former advisers in 2020 election case (www.reuters.com)
Justice comes calling for the fourth time this summer.
Tesla Under Investigation After Fatal Crash May Have Involved Autopilot System, Report Says (www.forbes.com)
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Candidate in Ecuador's presidential election shot dead (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Romania accuses Russia of war crimes over Danube grain port bombing (www.politico.eu)
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Taylor Swift Fans Cause Seismic Activity Comparable to Small Earthquake at Seattle Eras Tour Shows (www.billboard.com)
‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (www.forbes.com)
We No Longer Need a Big Carrier’s Wireless Plan. Discount Ones Are the Way. (www.nytimes.com)
P.S. Some of the ‘big’ carriers, now and then, offer much less expensive ‘plans’. Some event beat the prices in this article, if your ‘Data’ needs are limited.
Texas Republicans Target Climate Science in Textbooks Ahead of Education Board Vote - Inside Climate News (insideclimatenews.org)
Just a week after Texas voters approved billions of dollars to build new gas-fired power plants, the state’s education board will decide if it wants schools using science textbooks that acknowledge that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. The Texas Board of Education could vote as early as next Tuesday on whether it will...
Engineered yeast breaks new record: a genome with over 50% synthetic DNA (www.nature.com)
The EPA Has Found More Than a Dozen Contaminants in Drinking Water but Hasn’t Set Safety Limits on Them (www.propublica.org)
God, I **hate** Mondays (beehaw.org)
Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002' (www.windowscentral.com)
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Apple says BMW wireless chargers really are messing with iPhone 15s (www.theverge.com)
Apple says BMW wireless chargers really are messing with iPhone 15s::An Apple memo to authorized repair providers reportedly says BMW and Toyota Supra wireless chargers can disable iPhone 15 NFC chips.
Abercrombie & Fitch slapped with lawsuit alleging sexual abuse of its male models under former CEO (apnews.com)
A former model for Abercrombie & Fitch on Friday sued the fashion retailer, alleging it allowed its former CEO Mike Jeffries to run a sex-trafficking organization during his 22-year tenure....
Richard Roundtree, ‘Shaft’ Star, Dies at 81 (variety.com)
MP stopped from boarding Air Canada flight as ‘his name was Mohammad’ (www.theguardian.com)
Rishi Sunak Refuses To Condemn Tory Who Told Hungry Families To 'F*** Off' (www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)
‘Murdered in cold blood’: stories emerge of Israelis killed at Gaza border (www.theguardian.com)
Friends and relatives say Hamas killed a grandmother, parents protecting their children, and an entire family during raids...
California Gov. Newsom will appoint Laphonza Butler to fill Feinstein’s Senate seat (www.cnn.com)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint Laphonza Butler, the president of EMILY’s List, to fill the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat, his office confirmed Sunday evening....