France orders ban on all pro-Palestinian protests (www.politico.eu)
Business is going well (sh.itjust.works)
Man says police officer had no right to pull him over because she’s on OnlyFans (www.independent.co.uk)
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US jail practices are racist and an 'affront to human dignity,' UN experts say (www.reuters.com)
In a report published on Thursday, three U.N.-appointed experts said they had found practices in U.S. prisons that amounted to “an affront to human dignity” in visits in April and May....
Epic Games is laying off about 830 employees, divesting Bandcamp (www.reuters.com)
Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp (kotaku.com)
Google accused of directing motorist to drive off collapsed bridge (www.bbc.com)
Philip Paxson’s family are suing the company over his death, alleging that Google negligently failed to show the bridge had fallen nine years earlier....
Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player "Useless" (futurism.com)
Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community (arstechnica.com)
Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.
A disturbing number of TikTok videos about autism include claims that are “patently false,” study finds (www.psypost.org)
A disturbing number of TikTok videos about autism include claims that are “patently false,” study finds::A recent study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders found that a significant majority (73%) of informational videos on TikTok tagged with “#Autism” contain inaccurate or overgeneralized...
Egypt bans niqab in schools (www.middleeasteye.net)
The Egyptian government has announced a ban on the wearing of the face-covering niqab in schools from the beginning of the next term on 30 September....
DOOM Eternal removed Denuvo and it plays great on Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)
X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history (www.theverge.com)
“Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” the privacy policy reads. It doesn’t include any details on what kind of biometric information this includes — or how X plans to collect it — but it typically involves fingerprints, iris...
BBC News - Luis Rubiales: Spanish FA will take legal action over Jennifer Hermoso 'lies' (www.bbc.co.uk)
Kamala Harris allies deploy new Trump attack line: he is ‘just plain weird’ (www.theguardian.com)
US Democrats have spent recent days trying out a relatively new attack line on Donald Trump: that he is weird. The tactic is almost certainly calibrated to resonate with young and independent voters who, polls show, are moving from marked disinterest in the now-dropped matchup between Joe Biden and his presidential predecessor...
Mary Trump: Kamala Harris terrifies my 'flailing' uncle to the 'point of incoherence' (www.rawstory.com)
["]His childish nickname for her is 'laughing Kamala' because she feels joy, and joy is something he has never experienced and doesn’t understand. Faced with the reality that he is now running against a vibrant, intelligent, experienced woman who is fully two decades younger than he is, Donald spent Sunday and Monday flailing,...
Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue (mashable.com)
South Korea to mass produce lasers that can take out drones at $1.50 a hit (www.cnn.com)
South Korea is beginning the mass production of a low-cost laser weapon that has successfully shot down small drones during testing, the country’s key arms agency said Thursday....
Actor George Clooney, a high-profile Biden supporter and fundraiser, asks president to leave race (apnews.com)
Thousands of Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah in its fight against Israel (apnews.com)
“Systemd is the future” (www.phoronix.com)
Initially the bug report was shot down by systemd developer Luca Boccassi of Microsoft with:...
Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues (www.tomshardware.com)
American Airlines passenger sued by FAA after being duct taped to seat (www.independent.co.uk)
Arizona man planned a mass shooting targeting African Americans at an Atlanta concert to incite a race war, feds say (www.nbcnews.com)
California socialite Rebecca Grossman sentenced to 15 to life for killing 2 kids in crosswalk (www.nbcnews.com)
A wealthy California woman who co-founded a burn center foundation in the Los Angeles area was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison Monday for the hit-and-run killings of two children while they were in a crosswalk more than three years ago....
