Oppo Reno12 and Reno12 Pro launched globally with a MediaTek Dimensity 7300 and multiple AI-powered features (www.notebookcheck.net)
Russia turns to blackmail and 'financial incentives' to hire Germans to spy to make up for expelled diplomats, German agency says (www.reuters.com)
Russia has turned increasingly to blackmail and financial incentives to hire Germans to spy for it after the blow dealt to its intelligence services by Europe’s expulsion of some 600 Russian diplomats, Germany’s domestic security service said....
Biden administration’s new protections for LGBTQ+ students blocked in 6 more states (www.cnn.com)
The Biden administration cannot enforce new protections for LGBTQ+ students in Ohio, Virginia and four other states, a federal judge ruled Monday, becoming the latest court to rebuff efforts to expand the scope of a decades-old law that prohibits sex-based discrimination....
Giants legend Willie Mays dies at 93 - Yahoo Sports (sports.yahoo.com)
Mandela effect?
Comrade Picard
Brian Cox reads Refaat Alareer’s poem "If I Must Die" (www.youtube.com)
Me wanna inject oil into the ear to look tough (cauliflower ear), thoughts? (sh.itjust.works)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/21030442...
Tensions in South China Sea: Japan, Canada join chorus of ‘concern’ after China’s recent actions ‘severely injured’ Filipino soldier and damaged Philippine ship (www.rappler.com)
Japan and Canada on Tuesday, June 18, joined the Philippines’ treaty-ally the United States and strategic partner Australia in expressing support for Manila following the latest – and worst, thus far – incident between Chinese and Filipino personnel and vessels in the West Philippine Sea....
DEA operation exposes growing links between Sinaloa cartel and Chinese organized crime (www.nbcnews.com)
Meet Walter (lemmy.world)
Normal resting position.
Winter, trying to chill during the heat wave. (i.imgur.com)
Slander, extortion and doxxing - beneath the surface of TF2’s bot crisis (www.videogamer.com)
Habbo Hotel going vintage with original game rerelease (www.polygon.com)
Gigantic sunfish that washed up on Oregon beach could be the largest of its species ever found (n24hr.com)
What it's like living through a 121 degree day [in New Delhi] (www.npr.org)
The British Army trains in Kenya. Many women say soldiers raped them and abandoned children they fathered | CNN (www.cnn.com)
In 2007, Britain’s Ministry of Defense dismissed claims of rape brought by 2,187 women, Lenkanan and Noltwalal among them, saying “there was no reliable evidence to support any single allegation.”...
What is the point of nicotine patches?
I don’t get it. It’s kinda like you got to want to quit but at the same time yeah quitting is already hard for me. But I’m supposed to put it on me and somehow I get a form of nicotine without smoking. It’s like how am I supposed to get used to it. I will even take the patch off try to save it for later just so I can...
My little Baby says hello (lemmy.world)
Rep. Robert Garcia urges FBI & DHS to protect LGBTQ+ people from anti-Pride extremists (www.lgbtqnation.com)
The Surgeon General's Fear-Mongering, Unconstitutional Effort to Label Social Media (www.eff.org)
Top 10 Generative AI Models Mimic Russian Disinformation Claims A Third of the Time, Citing Moscow-Created Fake Local News Sites as Authoritative Sources (www.newsguardtech.com)
NewsGuard audit finds that 32% of the time, leading AI chatbots spread Russian disinformation narratives created by John Mark Dougan, an American fugitive now operating from Moscow, citing his fake local news sites and fabricated claims on YouTube as reliable sources....
Man who vowed to 'put a cap' in and 'stomp' Maxine Waters sentenced (lawandcrime.com)
Running nested X11 dwm sessions (github.com)
I have been using Xephyr and dwm for a while in a nested X11 session, and I grew sick and tired of having all the weird aliases in my bashrc and decided to make a little project that handles this for me in a nicer way....
Advice needed on buying a personal boat
I’ve never owned a boat in my life and now that I live near the sea I would love to own a small boat to travel along the coast from one city to another....