Warframe Players Have Baldur’s Gate 3 To Thank For New Romance System (kotaku.com)
Google's reCAPTCHAv2 is just labor exploitation, boffins say • The Register (www.theregister.com)
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Indian priests invoke heavenly powers for Kamala Harris | The Straits Times (www.straitstimes.com)
Call me, General Dynamics (i.imgur.com)
Violence against women at 'epidemic' levels and is a threat on par with terrorism, UK police warn (abcnews.go.com)
Violence against women and girls has reached epidemic levels and police are treating it as a threat on the same scale as terrorism, Britain’s police chiefs said Tuesday....
France Unbowed MP sparks outrage by saying Israeli Olympians not welcome (www.theguardian.com)
An MP for the radical-left France Unbowed party has sparked outrage after saying Israeli athletes are not welcome at the Paris Olympics and calling for protests against their presence....
Nvidia could lose up to $12 billion in revenue if US bans new China-oriented GPU — analysts believe the H20 will get the banhammer soon (www.tomshardware.com)
How J.D. Vance Went From Green Tech Investor to Climate Change Doubter (www.rollingstone.com)
Hungary facing fuel crisis as Ukraine turns up heat on Russian oil supplies (www.politico.eu)
Sky-high prices and electricity shortages could hit Hungarians within “weeks” after Kyiv imposed a partial ban on Russian oil passing through its territory....
Joe Biden is taking Paxlovid, even though doctors know it doesn't really work (www.businessinsider.com)
John Deere ends support of 'social or cultural awareness' events, distances from inclusion efforts (apnews.com)
Farm equipment maker John Deere says it will no longer sponsor “social or cultural awareness” events, becoming the latest major U.S. company to distance itself from diversity and inclusion measures after being targeted by conservative backlash....
'Shameful' BBC story on Israel's killing of disabled man revised (www.newarab.com)
A BBC report published on Tuesday on the killing of a disabled Palestinian man by Israel has drawn intense backlash, following what activists described as a “misleading headline” and “dehumanisation of Palestinians” amid the war in Gaza....
nano 8.1 released (www.nano-editor.org)
Three hikers die in Utah parks in suspected heat-related cases (www.theguardian.com)
The hikers were a father and daughter lost in Canyonlands and a woman who passed out at Snow Canyon state park...
'It was a cult': Traumatizing troubled teens (azmirror.com)
Trump picks Ohio Sen. JD Vance for vice president (www.nbcnews.com)
new sharkey instance now open: cyberpunk.gay (cyberpunk.gay)
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Queer Amsterdam wants to ban Israeli flags at Pride Walk, Halsema prohibits ban (nltimes.nl)
Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema reports that there is no ban on carrying the Israeli flag during the Pride Walk organized by Queer Amsterdam on July 20. “The Pride Walk is a manifestation that falls under the right to demonstrate. However, freedom to demonstrate does not give the right to impose censorship on demonstrators. An...
CachyOS Introduces New Repository Optimized for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUs (9to5linux.com)
A new CachyOS snapshot for July 2024 is out today with various improvements and some exciting new features, especially for AMD users, as well as the usual bug fixes and other changes to improve your experience....
Police release bodycam from outside Uvalde classroom shooting (www.bbc.com)
NYT: Putin Has Victory in His Grasp (www.nytimes.com)
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Exclusive: Only Gaza ceasefire will delay retaliation, say Iranian officials (www.reuters.com)
Only a ceasefire deal in Gaza stemming from hoped-for talks this week would hold Iran back from direct retaliation against Israel for the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on its soil, three senior Iranian officials said....