California Gov. Newsom has surprise meeting with China’s leader Xi amid warm welcome in Beijing (apnews.com)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom had a surprise meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday after being warmly welcomed by other senior leaders in a display of friendliness that stands in sharp contrast to the dialogue between the United States and China in recent years....
California sidelines GM Cruise's driverless cars, cites safety risk (www.reuters.com)
US orders immediate halt to some AI chip exports to China, says Nvidia (www.theguardian.com)
Fellow tech company Intel ‘reviewing regulations’ as timing of move brought forward...
The 14-Inch Togepi Pokemon Squishmallow Is Back In Stock On Amazon (www.thegamer.com)
Nintendo of America President On the Future of the Switch, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and More (www.inverse.com)
Google Pixel’s face-altering photo tool sparks AI manipulation debate (www.bbc.co.uk)
Proton gets upgrades for TEKKEN 8, Burnout Paradise Remastered, Cyberpunk 2077 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Google's Restriction on Pixel 8 Temperature Sensor Access: Only Preinstalled or Google-Signed Apps Allowed (nitter.net)
Scholz says that Germany needs to expand deportations of rejected asylum-seekers (apnews.com)
Galactic Civilizations IV Supernova update released (store.steampowered.com)
I haven’t tried it yet, but I really might need to finally look into GalCiv4. Always loved the old games, and even the third one was pretty neat, if a bit odd considering the games it succeeded....
Tech breathes new life into endangered Native American languages (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Of the more than 6,000 Indigenous languages recognized globally, nearly half of them are at risk of disappearing.
Saudi Arabia calls on citizens to immediately leave Lebanon (english.alarabiya.net)
How a Maneuver in Puerto Rico Led to a $29 Billion Tax Bill for Microsoft (www.propublica.org)
Vanilla OS 2 Orchid—Alpha #82 Released (github.com)
Fitbit details app updates to address redesign criticism, dark mode (9to5google.com)
Very much needs a dark mode.
Google Wallet lets you disable animations, rolling out Photo passes (9to5google.com)
Leaked Emails Warn U.S. Diplomats Against Calling For Israeli ‘De-Escalation’ In Gaza. (www.huffpost.com)
U.S. is a genocidal regime and a plight upon the human race.
Teacher fatally stabbed in school attack in northern France (www.reuters.com)
A knifeman fatally stabbed a teacher and wounded two other people in an attack at a school in the northern France city of Arras on Friday and the investigation was handed to the anti-terrorism prosecutor's office.
Get out of Gaza City, Israel's military tells Palestinians (www.cbc.ca)
KDE Gear 23.08.2 Released with More Fixes for Your Favorite KDE Apps (9to5linux.com)
Guatemala’s Indigenous leaders take to the streets in nationwide protests (www.aljazeera.com)
How To Upgrade Raspberry Pi OS to Debian Bookworm from Bullseye (9to5linux.com)
Pixel 8 display port update - Mishaal Rahman (x.com)
So it looks like you can enable it but Michaal is having issues doing it previously on the pixel 8....