Commented - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

'Renters Are Struggling': Economists Back Tenant-Led Push for Federal Rent Control (www.commondreams.org)

China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report (infosec.exchange)

GitCode, a git-hosting website operated Chongqing Open-Source Co-Creation Technology Co Ltd and with technical support from CSDN and Huawei Cloud....

Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:...

Protesters throw soup at Mona Lisa in Paris (www.theguardian.com)

Visitors at Louvre look on in shock as Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece attacked by environmental protesters...

Biden Warns Israel Not to Occupy Gaza (www.nytimes.com)

German Chancellor Scholz speaks out against new nuclear power (www.reuters.com)

Growth in german wind capacity is slowing. Soo… then the plan is to keep on with lignite and gas? Am I missing something?...

Germany begins dismantling wind farm for coal (euobserver.com)

German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia....

Donald Trump says he'll revoke Joe Biden's protections for trans people 'on day one' (www.advocate.com)

Israel announces 'total' blockade on Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)

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Charles Littlejohn: Man who stole and leaked Trump tax records sentenced to 5 years in prison (www.cnn.com)

The man who stole and leaked former President Donald Trump and thousands of other’s tax records has been sentenced to five years in prison....

Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement ‘extremist’ (apnews.com)

Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization....

Musk's interference to protect Russia allowed Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities, and resulted in the deaths of civilians including children - Zelensky advisor. (sh.itjust.works)

One of many articles: nbcnews.com/…/musk-stopped-ukraine-attack-russian…

Google is already pushing Web Environment Integrity into Chromium (github.com)

Can Biden be replaced as Democrat nominee? Who could replace him? (www.bbc.com)

The first presidential debate is done and the aftermath has not been good for the incumbent, Joe Biden....

Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you (www.techspot.com)

JK Rowling, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk are fuming over Scotland’s hate crime law (www.politico.eu)

It was no April Fool’s joke....

'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death (abcnews4.com)

Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says (arstechnica.com)

Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year (www.wired.com)

Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but to call out the for-profit surveillance business models it competes against....

Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade (arstechnica.com)

Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade::North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google.

Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says (www.dw.com)

In short, we aren’t on track to an apocalyptic extinction, and the new head is concerned that rhetoric that we are is making people apathetic and paralyzes them from making beneficial actions....

Remote Work to Wipe Out $800 Billion From Office Values, McKinsey Says (www.bloomberg.com)

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I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system? (www.vox.com)

I’d like to know other non-US citizen’s opinions on your health care system are when you read a story like this. I know there are worse places in the world to receive health care, and better. What runs through your heads when you have a medical emergency?...

GAZA: 3,195 children killed in three weeks surpasses annual number of children killed in conflict zones since 2019 (www.savethechildren.net)

Since October 7, more than 3,257 children have been reported killed, including at least 3,195 in Gaza, 33 in the West Bank, and 29 in Israel, according to the Ministries of Health in Gaza and Israel respectively. The number of children reported killed in just three weeks in Gaza is more than the number killed in armed conflict...