All walls must come down. Even paywalls. (slrpnk.net)
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What is Reddit CEO Steve Huffman doing? (www.theverge.com)
What is Reddit CEO Steve Huffman doing?::Reddit CEO Steve Huffman seems to be preparing the company for an IPO. But is what’s good for the IPO good for the business?
Plex's Winamp-inspired music player Plexamp is now free | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Well this is cool. Now time for me to a media server again.
Parts of Italy could see highs of 48°C in the coming days stoking fears of an increase in heat-related deaths. Croatia, France, Greece, Spain and Turkey could also face temperatures of around 40°C. (www.euronews.com)
Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site (www.pcgamer.com)
Oracle: Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To (www.oracle.com)
Oracle responds to Red Hat
Latin American countries refuse to see Zelenskyy at summit with EU (www.pravda.com.ua)
United Methodists lose one-fifth of US churches in schism driven by growing defiance of LGBTQ bans (apnews.com)
Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide? (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump says he's "entitled" to personally attack Kamala Harris (www.newsweek.com)
Former President Donald Trump said that he’s “entitled” to personally attack Vice President Kamala Harris because he doesn’t “have a lot of respect for her.”...
Trump Claims Stock Market Will ‘Crash’ While Fox News Ticker Shows Massive Market Gains On Screen (www.mediaite.com)
TIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules. (en.wikipedia.org)
US not afraid of escalation from Russia over events in Kursk Oblast (www.pravda.com.ua)
The Pentagon has expressed no concern regarding the advance of Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, the Pentagon’s press service reports....
Adam Britton: British croc expert jailed for sexual abuse of dogs (www.bbc.com)
Adam Britton, a leading zoologist who has worked on BBC and National Geographic productions, pleaded guilty to 56 charges relating to bestiality and animal cruelty....
COVID still 'very much with us' with 20% of tests positive in Europe, WHO warns (www.euronews.com)
She wanted a divorce so her father hacked her legs with an axe: how Pakistan fails women (www.theguardian.com)
The household was fast asleep when the six men broke in. They sought out Sobia Batool Shah, 22, and one of them attacked her with a hatchet, chopping at her limbs in an effort to sever her legs. “He was relentless and must have hit me at least 15 times,” she says....
Kamala Harris was less than 20ft from pipe bomb on Jan 6, report reveals (www.independent.co.uk)
Vice President Kamala Harris was less than 20 feet from a “viable” pipe bomb on January 6, according to a new report from Homeland Security’s internal watchdog....
Trump and his allies had a plan for how to hit Harris. Then he opened his mouth. (www.politico.com)
“They don’t have a narrative that they’re comfortable with about how to take down Harris,” said Chuck Coughlin, an Arizona-based political strategist. “He’s grasping around. I think he’s desperately grasping around with his instincts. I don’t think his team has any way to put their handle on this, and so he’s...
U.S. intelligence official: Russia will likely use propaganda to support Trump over Harris (www.nbcnews.com)
The U.S. intelligence community believes the Kremlin will direct its propaganda efforts to support former President Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election, an intelligence official indicated on a media call Monday....
Twitter API has a list of users who are allowed to use racial slurs (beehaw.org)
EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11 (Phoronix) (www.phoronix.com)
Ted Ts’o sent out the EXT4 updates today for Linux 6.11. He explained in that pull request:...
Trump Site Launches Limited-Edition Assassination Attempt Sneakers (www.rollingstone.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17659585
Thailand is set to roll out a controversial $13.8 billion handout plan in digital money to citizens (apnews.com)
Thailand’s prime minister said Monday that eligible businesses and individuals can register from August for digital cash handouts, a controversial program that will cost billions of dollars and is meant to boost the lagging economy....
Ken Levine says BioShock nearly went nowhere and was almost canceled: "We can't make those games because they don't sell" (www.gamesradar.com)
What’s interesting to me is of course how cheaply Bioshock got made compared to today’s blockbuster hits. Somewhere, we took the wrong turn in regards to modern game development, truly....
Disney hack leads to 1.2TB of Slack communications leaked online (stackdiary.com)
In a significant data breach, hacktivist group NullBulge has infiltrated Disney’s internal Slack infrastructure, leaking 1.2TB of sensitive data. This breach, posted on the cybercrime platform Breach Forums on July 12, 2024, exposes many of Disney’s internal communications, compromising messages, files, code, and other...
