Why Native American tribes struggle to tap billions in clean energy incentives (www.reuters.com)
Tribes cannot access key incentives for larger clean energy projects until they secure an agreement to connect to the regional electrical grid … yet Native American households lack access to electricity at far higher rates than the national average, according to the Energy Information Administration. Only 30% of the Navajo...
Press Forward Will Award More Than $500 Million to Revitalize Local News (www.macfound.org)
A coalition of 22 donors today announced Press Forward, a national initiative to strengthen communities and democracy by supporting local news and information with an infusion of more than a half-billion dollars over the next five years. Press Forward will enhance local journalism at an unprecedented level to re-center local...
Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web (tailscale.com)
Europe’s biggest car show was long the stomping ground of German brands—but it’s now ‘become the China show’ (fortune.com)
Chinese carmakers are descending on Europe’s premier car show this week in such large numbers, the German media is reaching a state of near existential angst....
TikTok says flagship center to store European data operational in Dublin - UPI.com (www.upi.com)
TikTok's new $400 million data center in Ireland is up and running and migration of the data of its European customers to the facility was underway, according to the company.
Nigerian unions strike again to protest soaring costs after subsidy removal (www.aljazeera.com)
Government workers in Nigeria are striking over the rising costs of living worsened by the removal of petrol subsidies.
Bill Richardson, former statesman and hostage negotiator, dies aged 75 (www.theguardian.com)
Bill Richardson, a 2008 presidential candidate, former New Mexico governor, congressman, secretary of energy and UN ambassador under the Clinton administration who later found a role as an international hostage negotiator, has died. He was 75 years old.
Threats, insults, and Kremlin 'robots': How Russian diplomacy died under Putin (www.bbc.co.uk)
Protests Continue in Italy Against Government’s Decision to End Citizens’ Income Scheme (peoplesdispatch.org)
General Dynamics revenue rises on strong demand for weapons (www.reuters.com)
U.S. defense contractors have benefited as the war in Ukraine and tense U.S.-China relations have fueled demand for weapons such as tanks, submarines and munitions....
Picross studio Jupiter has announced a new puzzle game for PC and Switch | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Users report being banned on Telegram despite never using it (cybernews.com)
This occurs because some platforms sell real phone numbers that haven’t been registered on Telegram(or other platforms require phone number or email to register), as well as email addresses....
Over 11,000 games now rated Steam Deck Playable (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Stampede at Madagascar's national stadium kills 12, injures around 80, prime minister says (www.reuters.com)
U.S. defence chief backs Indonesia's military modernisation drive (www.reuters.com)
The meeting comes as Indonesia, an archipelago of 270 million people, looks to upgrade its military and replace its ageing hardware, earmarking 134.3 trillion rupiah ($8.89 billion) this year for defence, the biggest allocation in its state budget, with a similar amount for next year.
Today I learned about the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (en.m.wikipedia.org)
This is a “”“school”“” that makes “pray away the gay” camps look like lovely vacation experiences. They primarily cater to families with neurodivergent kids under the guise of helping them learn how to function in a neurotypical society. They use methods like GEDs to administer electric shocks when students...
Saw this in a youtube video and i was reminded of one of lemmy's first original memes (gamebanana.com)
Armored Core 6 reviews are out (www.metacritic.com)
Metacritic is sitting at 87 for PC and PS, 79 for Xbox (due to only having 8 reviews on the platform, the two mixed reviews are bringing down the score more than on other platforms).
‘I’m ready to die for Russia but not for criminals and thieves:' Russian military officers on why they deserted after Russia invaded Ukraine (meduza.io)
3,000 More U.S. Troops to the Persian Gulf: New Conflict Coming Against Iran? (www.liberationnews.org)
flohmarkt: classified ad software using activitypub (codeberg.org)
Also see this discussion: socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…/3501
Ubisoft makes further appointment for future of Far Cry IP | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Heritage Minister says Meta news block endangers lives as Canadians flee wildfires (www.thecanadianpressnews.ca)
Canada's Heritage Minister redoubled her calls for Meta to end its ban on Canadian news content on Facebook and Instagram on Saturday as thousands of Canadians continued their rush to escape wildfires ravaging British Columbia and the Northwest Territories.
China disappoints investors with 'underwhelming' decision on key interest rate (www.cnn.com)
China has surprised investors by deciding not to cut an important interest rate that influences mortgages, in a move that economists say will make it tough to revive confidence in the country’s troubled real estate sector which has dragged down prospects for the world’s second largest economy....