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In 2019, Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan. Productivity jumped 40% (www.cnn.com)

Doom Eternal's new official mod support includes 'the very same tools' used to create the game (www.pcgamer.com)

Election disinformation from Elon Musk is drawing billions of views on X (www.motherjones.com)

'#BigDadEnergy': Internet claps as Walz pauses event to help rally-goer and pass out water (www.rawstory.com)

As Trump fumes, Republicans wince at ‘public nervous breakdown’ (www.politico.com)

Donald Trump spent Monday morning labeling the turmoil in the global financial markets the “Kamala Crash,” giving Republicans hope that he might turn his focus to an economic message....

Tech CEOs are backtracking on RTO mandates—now, just 3% want workers in the office full-time (fortune.com)

Leaders are perhaps experiencing more resistance than they had anticipated....

OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid (www.theguardian.com)

Japan rivals Nissan and Honda will share EV components and AI research as they play catch up (techxplore.com)

An inmate’s body temp was 107.5 when he died. The state of Texas says heat did not kill him. (www.kut.org)

Russia is relying on unwitting Americans to spread election disinformation, US officials say (apnews.com)

The Kremlin is turning to unwitting Americans and commercial public relations firms in Russia to spread disinformation about the U.S. presidential race, top intelligence officials said Monday, detailing the latest efforts by America’s adversaries to shape public opinion ahead of the 2024 election....

The Official Teaser Trailer for Star Trek: Section 31 Is Here (www.startrek.com)

Direct YouTube link

'It'll Be Fixed!': Trump Tells Supporters No Need to Vote in the Future. (www.commondreams.org)

ISPs seeking government handouts try to avoid offering low-cost broadband (arstechnica.com)

Bing has been revamped to prioritize AI search results – whether you like it or not (www.techradar.com)

Microsoft has just announced a huge update to Bing that overhauls the search engine to put AI-powered answers first....

Google and Brave The Only Search Engines Able To Index Reddit (www.webpronews.com)

at least we have competitions

The UK says it conducted a 'groundbreaking' trial of a laser beam weapon that can neutralize targets for $0.12 a shot (www.businessinsider.com)

The UK said it test-fired a laser beam weapon in a “groundbreaking” trial....

Alexa had “no profit timeline,” cost Amazon $25 billion in 4 years (arstechnica.com)

First Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha with COSMIC DE Drops on August 8 - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

Johnson: Replacing Biden on ticket would be 'wrong,' 'unlawful' (abcnews.go.com)

This was always the plan. They will contest any replacement and then only Trump will be on the ballot. AOC tried to warn you fucking people. This is why Biden needed to go over a year ago and the PARTY said “fuck you guys” until it was too hard to fucking ignore.

Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS (www.tomshardware.com)

Windows 3.1, launched in 1992, is likely not getting any updates. So, when CrowdStrike pushed the faulty update to all its customers, Southwest wasn’t affected (because it didn’t receive an update to begin with)....