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NBC to use AI-generated version of Al Michaels' voice during Summer Olympics (www.nbcnews.com)

US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports average hourly wage growth has surpassed inflation for 12 straight months (www.epi.org)

Games where an emulated console version outclasses the PC port? (kbin.run)

I’m putting a lot of my old games on my steam deck by buying their PC ports whenever they go on sale....

Supreme Court halts enforcement of the EPA's plan to limit downwind pollution from power plants (apnews.com)

US Crime Rate Drops to ‘Historic’ Lows With Murders, Rapes, and Robbery Plunging, New Statistics Show (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)

NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks (www.engadget.com)

India to mandate USB-C connectors on smartphones and laptops by 2026 (www.gsmarena.com)

Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms (arstechnica.com)

CNN reports 20-year record low debate viewership (www.salon.com)

TIL about Wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic worldview of accepting the simple, imperfect, and transient things in the world. Similar to kintsugi (repairing broken pottery with golden paste), it's abou (en.wikipedia.org)

don't use ladybird browser lol (cyberpunk.lol)

github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

TIL sailing ships commonly moved around without wind by warping (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Warping is throwing an anchor either manually for a small ship or by rowing the anchor out and dropping it farther away for a larger ship. Then the ship would reel it to change position. Good for maneuvering in harbor. Etymologically related to “throwing” and essentially threading a needle across the sea....

Chinese Brands Will Sell A Third Of The World's Cars By 2030: Study (insideevs.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17489670

DC Campaign to Submit Over 40K Signatures for Open Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting (ivn.us)

Seeing as how some people here on Lemmy get upset at any mention of Ranked Choice Voting and respond that, in their opinion, it’s not perfect, and that we should therefore keep the voting system we have while we debate which alternative is perfect for several decades, allow me to preemptively respond....

‘I am not made for war’: the men fleeing Ukraine to evade conscription (www.theguardian.com)

Even wealthy Americans are struggling to make ends meet (www.cnn.com)

Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers (arstechnica.com)

In an open letter to publishers, more than 30,000 readers, researchers, and authors begged for access to the books to be restored in the open library, claiming the takedowns dealt “a serious blow to lower-income families, people with disabilities, rural communities, and LGBTQ+ people, among many others,” who may not have...

Supreme Court overturns Chevron decision, curtailing federal agencies' power in major shift (www.cbsnews.com)

The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a landmark 40-year-old decision that gave federal agencies broad regulatory power, upending their authority to issue regulations unless Congress has spoken clearly.

Banker Who Slugged Woman at NYC Pride Event Charged With Assault (www.thedailybeast.com)

Author who recommended killing Palestinian journalists receives German ‘peace prize’ (skwawkbox.org)

Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims (arstechnica.com)

Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is “dangerous malware” that’s secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday....