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Officials say suspects in foiled plot at Taylor Swift shows hoped to kill as many people as possible (apnews.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18415933

WADA statement on Reuters story exposing USADA scheme in contravention of World Anti-Doping Code (www.wada-ama.org)

Device fingerprinting that stops fraud, builds trust, and drives growth. (shield.com)

Stop Fraud at the Root with Device Identification & Intelligence. Expose Fake Accounts with Persistent Device IDs, Stop multi-accounting at the source with the global standard for device identification. SHIELD’s Device ID uniquely identifies devices across app and web platforms with over 99.9% accuracy - even after advanced...

U.K., U.S. ambassadors to skip Nagasaki peace ceremony (www.asahi.com)

With attention on Gaza, Jewish settlers expand in the West Bank (www.npr.org)

Court: Transgender people in prisons can get gender-affirming care [in Connecticut] (ctmirror.org)

UK riots: how does the violence compare with unrest in August 2011? (www.theguardian.com)

The sight of scurrying looters and widespread rioting across multiple English cities may be an unusual one. But the disorder has a 21st-century precedent in another overheated August....

U.S. chip, EV industries struggle to take off despite huge subsidies (asia.nikkei.com)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/39661841...

Nothing behind the eyes (lemmy.world)

Winter

Wake Up! (lemmy.world)

Now I want to try a cup for myself (sh.itjust.works)

This will be the first geothermal energy storage system on the Texas grid (electrek.co)

How Audio Illusions Trick Our Brains (www.youtube.com)

WHO declares Mpox global health emergency (www.bbc.com)

WHO declares mpox a global public health emergency for second time in two years (www.nbcnews.com)

WHO declares mpox a global health emergency as African outbreak grows (www.washingtonpost.com)

Paywall removed archive.is/i96DD

SBU says it busted Russian spy network, including ex-members of Yanukovych's security (kyivindependent.com)

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on Aug. 14 it had uncovered a Russian intelligence cell that included two former members of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych’s security detail and an active member of Ukraine’s National Guard....

Struggling to assess ICC's next step on PM, defense chief, Israel pushes to delay warrants (www.haaretz.com)

TIL during the 2010 Commonwealth Games small monkeys roamed the Delhi streets and couldn't be removed because of religious reasons. So instead a larger species of monkey (The Colobinae) was brought in (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL Adolf Hitler was sent by the German armed forces to infiltrate the German Worker's Party led by Anton Drexler. The party was the precursor to the Nazi party that would be led by Hitler. (en.wikipedia.org)

‘Two-tier justice’ in Britain is real – but it’s not what the right says it is (www.theguardian.com)

A functioning society depends on equality before the law. If crimes are not treated equally and dispassionately by the justice system, we lose trust in democracy and each other. But as sentences begin to be passed on racists who rioted earlier this month, we see once again a blatantly unequal application of the law....