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Zelenskyy: If Trump Has Plan to End the Ukraine War 'He Should Tell Us Today' (www.commondreams.org)

Dr Disrespect Admits To 'Inappropriate' Messages With Minor: 'I'm No Fucking Predator Or Pedophile' (kotaku.com)

‘Too many old people’: A rural Pa. town reckons with population loss (www.washingtonpost.com)

There is a deepening sense of fear as population loss accelerates in rural America. The decline of small-town life is expected to be a looming topic in the presidential election....

H5N1 Bird Flu Isn’t a Human Pandemic—Yet. American Contrariness Could Turn It into One (www.scientificamerican.com)

When H5N1 avian influenza started spreading among dairy cattle across the U.S. this year, regulators warned against consuming unpasteurized milk. What happened? Raw milk sales went up....

Voyager 1 Once Again Returning Science Data From All Four Instruments (hackaday.com)

Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp (www.reuters.com)

Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans.

I'm Not a Programmer, but Here’s Why Linux Is My Daily Driver (www.howtogeek.com)

Chinese cars are pouring into Mexico — and the U.S. is worried - Autoblog (www.autoblog.com)

FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days (www.theregister.com)

Long-term carrier lock-in could soon be a thing of the past in America after the FCC proposed requiring telcos to unlock cellphones from their networks 60 days after activation....

Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs (www.xda-developers.com)

Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' (www.businessinsider.com)

TIL norway has a homocide map with exact locations of murders. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

Link to the site...

Donald Trump shares stage with rightwing activist who's discussing stoning gay people to death (www.lgbtqnation.com)

Russia Loses Last Black Sea Missile Ship (www.kyivpost.com)

Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks (apnews.com)

The company says in the documents that the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it’s getting too much electrical current. A wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. The Austin, Texas, company says it knows of no crashes or injuries caused by the problem....

What is your favourite shell to use

What’s your favourite to use? Mine is Fish due to its ease of use and user friendly approach....

Summer is the worst season of the year, isn't?

The sun sucks, being forced to shower like every 4 hours just to not feeling sweaty, the fucking mosquitoes, the fact you can’t wear anything that you want anymore due the heat, the people outside… The fucking beach. I try to avoid it… The fucking sand, not a fan of it. Is scratchy, harsh, annoying and it infiltrates in...

Labour wins majority in UK General Elections as Tories lose two-thirds of seats (www.theguardian.com)

The Labour party has won over 400 seats (out of 650) in the 2024 UK General Elections, and Keir Starmer is expected to replace Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister. The Conservatives, in power for the last fourteen years, have suffered a rout, losing over two-thirds of their seats. The SNP has collapsed in Scotland, mostly to Labour,...

Hezbollah and Hamas flags waved during pro-Palestinian demonstration in New York (today.lorientlejour.com)

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are surging "faster than ever" to beyond anything humans ever experienced, officials say (www.cbsnews.com)

One of the major drivers of the exceptional heat building within Earth’s atmosphere has reached levels beyond anything humans have ever experienced, officials announced on Thursday. Carbon dioxide, the gas that accounts for the majority of global warming caused by human activities, is accumulating “faster than ever,”...