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CrossOver 23 Lets You Run the EA App on Linux (+ More) (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

The Top 8 Best BitTorrent Clients for Linux in 2023 (www.geeksmint.com)

OpenAI proposes a new way to use GPT-4 for content moderation | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Mount Etna eruption disrupts Sicily's troubled Catania airport (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1462945...

2 Nigerian men accused of running a global ‘sextortion’ ring linked to a teen’s suicide have been extradited to US, officials say (www.cnn.com)

According to prosecutors, Samuel Ogoshi used a hacked social media account to make contact with DeMay while pretending to be a young woman. After persuading DeMay to provide a sexually explicit photo of himself, Ogoshi allegedly threatened to publicly release the image unless DeMay paid the scammers....

Ditching the young entrepreneur myth: research shows over-50s are the more radical innovators (theconversation.com)

Based on data on 2,900 founders of new ventures in Germany in 2008–2017, we found that for every ten more years of age increases a founder’s likelihood to introduce a market novelty by up to 30 percent. Thus, those late-career entrepreneurs who are highly innovation-oriented and managerially experienced are more than three...

Uyghur dentist held hostage in China's Xinjiang region as his wife and daughter wait in vain in the U.S. (thechinaproject.com)

Ablimit Abliz, a dentist in Ürümqi, has not been accused of any crime, but the government won’t let him leave or speak freely to his wife, Adalet Sabit, who lives in Virginia. Their case is far from unique.

Larian's unfair advantage - Credistick (credistick.com)

Archived version: archive.ph/mNVst...

‘Telemarketers’ Review: HBO Exposé Is an Unsettling Good Time (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

You know the annoying guys who call you during dinner and promise your donations are going to charity? They get a three-hour docuseries with Danny McBride and the Safdies among its executive producers.

[Korobushka starts playing] (media.kbin.social)

Plant in Moscow Oblast that suffered from explosion participated in development of next generation bomber (www.pravda.com.ua)

The Zagorsk Optical-Mechanical Plant in Moscow Oblast, where an explosion occurred on 9 August, participated in the development of a next-generation stealth bomber.

Candidate in Ecuador's presidential election Fernando Villavicencio shot dead (www.bbc.co.uk)

Baldur's Gate 3 developer demands full list of uncredited translation staff "immediately" (www.eurogamer.net)

Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian has said it has taken "immediate" steps to ensure localisation staff currently left ou…

Linux 6.5 Patches Merged For Intel GDS/DOWNFALL, AMD INCEPTION (www.phoronix.com)

This merge adds the kernel-side bits around mitigating AMD’s Speculative Return Address Stack (RAS) overflow vulnerability for Zen 3 and Zen 4. See this earlier article for details on this AMD INCEPTION disclosure....

GNOME Shell & Mutter 45 Betas Released (www.phoronix.com)

1,200 Palestinians are in administrative detention, the highest in 34 years (peoplesdispatch.org)

Families in Turkey's quake cities battle dust and rubble six months on (www.bbc.com)

Hulya Yesiloglu gazes just beyond her temporary tent city towards a cemetery and says she often wonders if she would have been better off ending up there rather than surviving Turkey’s twin earthquakes....

TIL rabies is an STD (www.ebervet.com)

What Is The Future of Handhelds? (retrododo.com)

Richard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym (www.huffpost.com)

Right wing tech moguls and a US Senator embraced now unmasked white supremacist. Obviously he’s been on Tucker Carlson.

blobdrop 2.0 released - Drag and drop your files directly out of the terminal (github.com)

This is a little tool I have made to ease the workflow of dragging files from the terminal without having to open a full file manager....

Dozens injured after protesters storm Eritrean festival in Stockholm (www.theguardian.com)

Archived version: archive.ph/ALGwq...

Cult of the Dead Cow Launches Encryption Protocol + ChatApp to preserve privacy. (gizmodo.com)

The protocol is built from the same digital DNA as the Tor browser and the chat app Signal and will be used to create new ways for folks to communicate, share files, and generally surf the web while simultaneously protecting their privacy.