Japan and the Philippines sign a defense pact in the face of shared alarm over China (apnews.com)
Louisiana 'miracle baby' 'Miracle baby' survives days alone on a roadside (www.bbc.com)
A days-long search for a missing baby boy in Louisiana has ended after a truck driver spotted the one-year-old crawling through the grass alongside a busy highway....
new Minisforum AtomMan G7 PT looks like a great tiny gaming rig, featuring an AMD Ryzen 7735HS CPU and a Radeon RX 7600M XT GPU [$1,249 barebone or $1,499 32GB ram, 1TB SSD, Win11] (www.pcgamesn.com)
LibreOffice 24.2.4 Community available for download - The Document Foundation Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
PureOS Optional Subscription Added to Advance Development (puri.sm)
Do NOT trust Apple Intelligence! (invidious.fi)
US ‘pressuring UK to block ICC’s Netanyahu arrest warrant’ (www.theguardian.com)
Labour officials at the weekend told the Guardian that in opposition Labour had rejected the Conservative legal challenge to the ICC jurisdiction and its policy remained unchanged in government, but did not say if the claim was being withdrawn as a result.
Meta's CrowdTangle, which has been used to track misinformation, is set to disappear in August as elections take place worldwide. Its replacement isn’t as transparent or accessible. (www.cjr.org)
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IdentifyMobile incident exposed 200M records from hundreds of companies (stackdiary.com)
British bulk SMS provider IdentifyMobile exposed 200M records because a developer misconfigured an AWS S3 bucket and made it public. A research group from Germany spotted the issue and were able to access more than six terabytes of data. The said data included not only SMS message content but also phone numbers, sender names,...
AMD reportedly preps Hawk Point CPU without the NPU — Ryzen 7 8745HS is a Ryzen 7 8845HS clone but with the XDNA NPU chopped off [NPU=Neural process unit==AI] (www.tomshardware.com)
China is building two-thirds of new wind and solar globally, report says (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17862476
Latvian and Estonian court documents show how the Russian government is recruiting Baltic citizens to vandalize and set fire to targets in the West (theins.press)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/675777...
Samsung's biggest union extends its strike indefiniately • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Congress OKs bill overhauling oversight of troubled federal Bureau of Prisons (apnews.com)
The Senate passed legislation Wednesday to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny....
Attackers Have Been Leveraging Microsoft Zero-Day for 18 Months (www.darkreading.com)
Hundreds Say Nebraska Group Tricked Them Into Signing Anti-Abortion Ballot (www.jezebel.com)
Feds poised to sue pharmacy gatekeepers over high drug costs (www.politico.com)
The FTC action would target often high costs by trying to curb rebates it says drug makers pay to steer patients to their brand name products....
‘Dota 2’ Adds ‘Street Fighter’ Style Fighting Game In Crownfall Update (www.forbes.com)
DXVK Release Version 2.4 (github.com)
D3D8 support...
Programming Languages with purpose (www.aprogrammerlife.com)
Programming Languages with purpose
Gaza death toll: how many Palestinians has Israel's campaign killed (www.reuters.com)
Chinese auto exports surge, partly offsetting a sales slump at home (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17827050
Johns Hopkins med school will be free for most after $1 billion donation (www.axios.com)
Starting this fall, most students at Johns Hopkins’ medical school will attend tuition-free thanks to a $1 billion donation from billionaire Mike Bloomberg....
Oregon county seeks to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for extreme heat (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/14335560...