Libreoffice released an Android version! (www.libreoffice.org)
Currently it is a “viewer” (renderer with usable UI) and editing features are experimental....
‘Children in pieces’: Israeli raids on Gaza ‘safe zone’ kill 71, wound 289 (www.aljazeera.com)
Bitter tensions as reporters feel misled by White House over Biden health (www.theguardian.com)
With Joe Biden’s candidacy teetering in the wake of last month’s alarming debate showing, journalists who had covered his presidency full-time for years suddenly asserted that it lacked that most basic political element: credibility....
Avengers Assemble! Heavyweight New Plan to Force Biden Out (www.thedailybeast.com)
A House Democrat says a heavyweight group of “super friends” is being assembled to head to the White House and tell Biden it’s time to go....
Senior official says Netanyahu holding up hostage-truce deal with new demands (www.timesofisrael.com)
Channel 12 quotes officials as saying that they believe Netanyahu is trying to delay a deal because he is likely to lose his coalition over the deal, with far-right parties vowing to quit if the agreement goes through.
Is there a way to know by checking all of the boxes, if it's safe to swim here? (green2.kingcounty.gov)
My friends keep begging me to go swimming at this location. I’ve been told by locals that it’s not a wise decision. I was wondering how I can tell? I don’t think it’s about bacteria, but more there are a ton of boats, planes and former industrial waste in the area. Can I tell from these tests?...
Woman swept to sea while swimming at a Japanese beach rescued 37 hours later and 50 miles away (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/22143154
App that tracked fuel tankers in China used to transport cooking oil is disabled (www.theguardian.com)
App reportedly received a surge in queries this week after newspaper exposed food safety scandal...
The NSA Has a Long-Lost Lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper (www.schneier.com)
The NSA has a video recording of a 1982 lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper titled “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” The agency is (so far) refusing to release it....
Elon Musk's X deceives users and breaches online content rules, EU says (www.cnbc.com)
Hotel sued over claim they ignored Black man’s resume until he used a white name (www.independent.co.uk)
US and Germany foiled Russian plot to assassinate CEO of arms manufacturer sending weapons to Ukraine (www.cnn.com)
US intelligence discovered earlier this year that the Russian government planned to assassinate the chief executive of a powerful German arms manufacturer that has been producing artillery shells and military vehicles for Ukraine, according to five US and western officials familiar with the episode....
Journalist in Gaza Describes Last 24 Hours as the Deadliest in Months (truthout.org)
Microsoft fixes Windows 11 bug causing reboot loops, taskbar freezes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing restart loops and taskbar problems on Windows 11 systems after installing the June KB5039302 preview update....
Everything Samsung Announced at Galaxy Unpacked in Paris (www.wired.com)
Judge signals he’s likely to dismiss Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case (www.politico.com)
Vivaldi: "Many have tagged us in discussions about a specif…" - Vivaldi Social (social.vivaldi.net)
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Should have downloaded more RAM (sh.itjust.works)
Rich People Are Freezing Themselves to Stay Wealthy Forever (archive.is)
The interesting thing about this is that these people never stop to think that the future they dream off might never happen. Aside from the fact that their cryo company might just go under, they don’t ever consider that in 200 years they might just wake up under a dystopia.
Los Angeles-Orange County home prices 10 times greater than incomes, report finds (www.ocregister.com)
Paywall removed: archive.is/eyxeJ...
Schumer Hints at Bill to Carve Trump’s Jan. 6 Acts Out of Presidential Immunity (truthout.org)
Threaded has hit the App Store! (apps.apple.com)
Threaded is a very simple Mastodon client, that is meant to look like the newest social media Threads made by Meta Platforms. It integrates perfectly with your Mastodon account, and matches the Threads vibe, while having Mastodon-only features....
Qualcomm hires former AMD ray tracing expert for its GPU team (www.tomshardware.com)
Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town (time.com)
Over the course of several months in 2024, TIME spoke to more than 40 people in the Granbury area who reported a medical ailment that they believe is connected to the arrival of the Bitcoin mine: hypertension, heart palpitations, chest pain, vertigo, tinnitus, migraines, panic attacks. At least 10 people went to urgent care or...
The battle over J&J’s bankruptcy plan to end talc lawsuits (www.reuters.com)
After being rebuffed twice by federal courts, the $350 billion healthcare giant is attempting again to end the litigation in a so-called “Texas two-step” bankruptcy. The maneuver involves offloading its talc liability onto a newly created subsidiary, which then declares Chapter 11. The goal is to use the proceeding to force...
