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Gaza hospitals ceasing to function as water and fuel run out (www.theguardian.com)

Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter (www.androidauthority.com)

Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter::Today, Samsung posted its Q2 2023 financial results. The report says Samsung’s profits have dropped considerably compared to last year.

X now treats the term cisgender as a slur (www.engadget.com)

Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears (www.theverge.com)

Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)

Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy’s Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps...

Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? (www.androidpolice.com)

Lyft’s new feature lets women and non-binary riders request their driver’s gender (www.cnn.com)

Lyft is introducing a new feature that lets women and non-binary riders choose a preference to match with drivers of the same gender....

S.F. bakery won't serve cops, police union claims. Store says it's about the guns, not the cops (www.latimes.com)

San Francisco’s police union says a city bakery chain has a “bigoted” policy of not serving uniformed cops....

Sweden All In On Nuclear Energy, Dumps Renewable Target (greeninvesting.co)

Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while (newatlas.com)

James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe (www.livescience.com)

Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation (tuta.com)

Vanguard, the controversial anti-cheat software initially attached to Valorant, is now also coming to League of Legends....

Voter-approved Oregon gun control law violates the state constitution, judge rules (apnews.com)

A voter-approved Oregon gun control law violates the state constitution, a judge ruled Tuesday, continuing to block it from taking effect and casting fresh doubt over the future of the embattled measure....

Nashville college freshman Jillian Ludwig dies after being hit by a stray bullet at a local park (www.nbcnews.com)

I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me. (www.huffpost.com)

The mother of tattoo artist Shani Louk who was paraded semi-naked on a Hamas truck makes a public plea for more information (www.businessinsider.com)

The mother of a woman whose body was paraded through the streets by Hamas has pleaded for help finding her daughter....

Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself (www.theverge.com)

This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.

Putin Unleashes Record Bombing in Ukraine as the World Watches Gaza (www.thedailybeast.com)

Almost 90 bombs were dropped in one region in just 24 hours....

College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT (www.businessinsider.com)

College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.