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‘Murdered in cold blood’: stories emerge of Israelis killed at Gaza border (www.theguardian.com)

Friends and relatives say Hamas killed a grandmother, parents protecting their children, and an entire family during raids...

Mike McMahan Calls On Fans To Help Keep ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ From Facing The Same Fate As ‘Prodigy’ (trekmovie.com)

Say goodbye to the COVID-19 vaccination card. The CDC has stopped printing them (apnews.com)

Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices (www.theverge.com)

[US] A nationwide emergency alert will be sent to all U.S. cellphones Wednesday (www.nbcnews.com)

A nationwide test of the emergency and wireless alert systems will be conducted Wednesday at 2:20 p.m. ET, when a message will be sent to all cellphones, TVs and radios....

Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘scourge’ continues (www.theguardian.com)

"Text editing on mobile isn’t ok. It’s actually much worse than you think, an invisible problem no one appreciates." (jenson.org)

GOP congressman calls for execution of “sodomy-promoting” US Army general (www.lgbtqnation.com)

Alien life may not be carbon-based, new study suggests (www.space.com)

Alien life may not be carbon-based, new study suggests::Self-sustaining chemical reactions that could support biology radically different from life as we know it might exist on many different planets, a new study finds.

An NYPD security robot will be patrolling the Times Square subway station (www.engadget.com)

An NYPD security robot will be patrolling the Times Square subway station::The NYPD is deploying a robot with four cameras to patrol the Times Square subway station.

Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion - The Official Microsoft Blog (blogs.microsoft.com)

Today we take the next step to unify these capabilities into a single experience we call Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion. Copilot will uniquely incorporate the context and intelligence of the web, your work data and what you are doing in the moment on your PC to provide better assistance – with your privacy and...

Court: Lawsuit Can Continue Against Library That Moved All LGBTQ Children’s Books To The Adult Section (www.techdirt.com)

A lawsuit, filed by patrons of a county library in Arkansas, has been allowed to move forward by a federal court. The First Amendment lawsuit plausibly alleges the library’s decision to move anything determined to be “LGBTQ” from the children’s section to the adult’s section violates the First Amendment right to...

The Xbox Series S Is More Popular Than The Xbox Series X (insider-gaming.com)

According to documents from Microsoft's recent case against the FTC, the Xbox Series S is more popular than the Xbox Series X

Giorgia Meloni: I won’t allow Italy to become Europe’s refugee camp (www.theguardian.com)

Prime minister says Italy ‘under incredible pressure’ from large number of arrivals from north Africa.

Brazil's president calls U.S. economic embargo on Cuba 'illegal,' condemns terrorist list label (www.reuters.com)

Developers fight back against Unity’s new pricing model (www.theverge.com)

Calls for Starbucks boycott grow amid aggressive union-busting activities (www.theguardian.com)

French agency says the iPhone 12 emits too much radiation, tells Apple to withdraw it (abcnews.go.com)

'If the Black players don’t like it here, they should go back to Africa and see how bad it is' - Buffalo Bills owner (deadspin.com)

Former reporter claims Bills owner Terry Pegula, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones made racist comments about hiring, social justice protests...

NASA finally admits what everyone already knows: SLS is unaffordable (arstechnica.com)

NASA finally admits what everyone already knows: SLS is unaffordable::“At current cost levels the SLS program is unsustainable.”

Putin: West put ethnic Jew to rule in Ukraine to 'cover glorification of Nazism' (www.unionleader.com)

Sept 5 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a television interview on Tuesday, without citing evidence, that Western powers had installed Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is of Jewish heritage, as president of Ukraine to cover up the glorification of Nazism....

Black holes keep 'burping up' stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don't know why (www.livescience.com)

Black holes keep ‘burping up’ stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don’t know why::Years after ripping stars to shreds, 24 black holes suddenly flared up with radio waves in inexplicable ‘burping’ bouts. Half of all star-killing black holes may experience the same.