The Chinese town engulfed by a flood to save Beijing (www.bbc.com)
Floodwaters were diverted from Beijing, but the water had to go somewhere - So Zhuozhou took the brunt.
Nothing sub brand CMF announced (twitter.com)
I initially read the acronym as CBT. Take that as you will.
Human Powered Air Compressor and Energy Storage System | Low Tech Magazine (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
A room temperature superconductor? New developments. Science.org/HN (news.ycombinator.com)
China's young avoid tying the knot (www.bangkokpost.com)
Australian childcare worker charged with sex abuse of 91 children (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/908180...
Global smartphone market decline softens as shipments drop 10% in Q2 2023 (canalys.com)
Police discontent disrupts courts in Marseille (www.reuters.com)
PARIS, July 26 (Reuters) - The French government sought on Wednesday to allay rising discontent within the police force over the incarceration of an officer that prompted a ‘go slow’ by colleagues and disrupted the courts in the country’s second biggest city....
Ukraine war: 'People call us the Ghosts of Bakhmut' (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/869250...
Want to move on from Mastodon, but so confused on what platform to choose (kbin.social)
Recently I've dove a little deeper into the Fediverse. I began with Mastodon like many others and I'm ready to move on. Mastodon as a software in comparison to similar services in the Fediverse like Calckey/Firefish, Friendica, Misskey, etc. just isn't as good and the only thing it has going for it is an established user base...
Hasbro May Be Eyeing AI for Dungeons & Dragons (gizmodo.com)
Dear sweet Oghma. We can’t even get rid of it on TTRPGs.
French minister says decoupling from China unrealistic (www.dw.com)
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Saturday cast doubt on the possibility that Western countries could ever break with China economically in a bid to avoid over-dependence on a single trading partner and mitigate national security risks....
Android malware steals user credentials using optical character recognition (arstechnica.com)
American nurse and child kidnapped in Haiti (www.cnn.com)
Alix Dorsainvil, wife of El Roi Haiti Director Sandro Dorsainvil, and their child were reportedly abducted Thursday morning, according to a statement on El Roi Haiti’s website.
Why is DNS still hard to learn? (jvns.ca)
‘Want closure’: Wife of a Muslim feared killed by cow vigilantes (www.aljazeera.com)
Rafiq Tamboli’s wife continues to search for answers two years after her truck driver husband was stopped by vigilantes.
Elephant on the loose spotted outside supermarket (www.bbc.com)
Local media reports the animal escaped from a circus but has since been returned.
NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁 (en.wikipedia.org)
As a full time desktop Linux user since 1999 (the actual year of the Linux desktop) I wish all you Windows folks the best of luck on the next clean install 👍...
Anatomy of a sellout: UPS tentative agreement includes two-tier wages for part-timers, freezes to pension contributions for some (www.wsws.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2232404...
SETI advance hopes to parse alien radio from Earthly static (interestingengineering.com)
Gets me excited about another projects like SETI@Home coming along. The BOINC platform (which SETI@Home used to distribute work) is alive and well. You can contribute your spare computational power to finding pulsars, curing cancer, and more. !boinc
Singapore to execute first woman on drugs charge for the first time in 20 years (www.bbc.co.uk)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is Steam Deck Verified and out today (www.gamingonlinux.com)
‘Pass It, Pass It, Pass It, Pass It, Pass It,’ The President Says About A Bill The GOP Says Will Be Useful To Silence LGBTQ Voices (www.techdirt.com)
Video game studios are so scared of AI they’re offering $7K bonusus for AI ideas (fortune.com)
Video game studios are so scared of AI they’re offering $7K bonusus for AI ideas::They’re forcing employees to study machine learning and offering $7,000 bounties for A.I. ideas: ‘Every week, we feel that we are going to be eliminated’
Sources: Ubisoft has cancelled its Immortals Fenyx Rising sequel (www.videogameschronicle.com)
The game didn’t sell well and many called it a Breath of the Wild rip-off, so this is understandable. However this means Ubisoft’s upcoming game lineup becoming less diverse, now it’s going to be even more Assassin’s Creed.
