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Inner Mongolia reports two cases of bubonic plague (www.reuters.com)

Sync for Lemmy Beta 29 release notes (play.google.com)

Beta 29...

NCD is a pathway to abilities some consider to be...unnatural (media.kbin.social)

Hawaii death toll tops 93 as it becomes deadliest wildfire in US modern history (www.independent.co.uk)

The blazes on the island are now the country’s worst in terms of casualties for over a century, while authorities have warned that the effort to find and identify the dead is still in its early stages, as crews with cadaver dogs have covered just 3 per cent of the search area.

A Discothyrea sexarticula Borgmeier worker on the top of the head of a Dinoponera Roger worker (lemmy.eco.br)

OG photography by Guilherme Ide.

'Suits' Was Streamed For 3 Billion Minutes on Netflix and the Writers Were Collectively Paid $3,000 (nofilmschool.com)

The sorry state of streaming residuals shows why SAG and the WGA are striking.

Japan Earthquake Alert App moves from Twitter to Mastodon, currently has 488k posts & 19.9k followers (unseen-japan.com)

original article headline: “Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X”...

Apple has plowed over $500 billion into stock buybacks since 2012 — more than Visa, JPMorgan, or Exxon are worth (markets.businessinsider.com)

Apple has plowed over $500 billion into stock buybacks since 2012 — more than Visa, JPMorgan, or Exxon are worth::Only eight companies in the S&P 500 have larger market values than Apple’s outlay on share repurchases over the last decade.

All hail lemmyverse.net (feddit.it)

Youtube-dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban (torrentfreak.com)

They should just move to a jurisdiction that does not care for US thugs.

Pokémon Company Uses Fan Music In Trailer Without Crediting The Fan - Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)

Fans are expressing their concerns after The Pokémon Company seemingly used fan-created music in a recent trailer for the Pokémon Scarlet & Violet DLC, The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero. The uproar began shortly after today’s Pokémon Presents wrapped up. While many tuned in for updates on things like Detective Pikachu...

The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices (arstechnica.com)

For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn’t want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in....

China population: 2023 births could plunge by a quarter from record low set last year, academic warns (www.scmp.com)

WordPress drops Twitter social sharing due to API price hike (mashable.com)

Twitter continues to lose vital support from major companies.

Steam Deck Enables Man to Not Play Hundreds of Games On the Go (hard-drive.net)

CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking (www.theverge.com)

What's your favorite memory from childhood? (kbin.social)

I'm too tired now to give a nice explanation, but probably playing with Legos with my dad as a kid. Either that or waking up on a REALLY stormy summer morning and going to grandma's house.

Steam of water is all you need (lemm.ee)

Now official: you can buy a refurbished Steam Deck from Valve (www.gamingonlinux.com)

96% of young people in the EU uses the internet daily (www.eureporter.co)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1222938...

Early adopters in Mexico lend their eyes to global biometric project (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/486175 (!aistuff)...

Valve is now selling refurbished Steam Decks with up to £110 off (www.eurogamer.net)

Reflections on my first Star Trek Conference (medium.com)

I went to the Star Trek Convention last week - it was my first time there and I had a blast. Overall a great experience and it’s safe to say I have some new friends that I’m looking forward to seeing again next year. At the same time, I found all of the cash-only photos and signatures with the actors to be pretty...