People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office (www.theguardian.com)
Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC' (www.pcgamer.com)
You heard him 4090 users, upgrade to a more powerful GPU.
Drag shows are protected by 1st Amendment, performers tell federal judge (www.texastribune.org)
Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level (vpncentral.com)
Japan: Can anything be done to stop population decline? (www.dw.com)
The latest numbers on Japanese population make for a dismal reading — the number of people who died in 2022 (1.56 million) was roughly twice as big as the number of newborn children (771,000). Based on residency registrations, the country’s Internal Ministry estimates a total population loss of some 800,000 last year. This...
DJI drone ban passes in U.S. House — 'Countering CCP Drones Act' would ban all DJI sales in U.S. if passed in Senate (www.tomshardware.com)
The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions (www.motor1.com)
So far there’s subscriptions for cruise control, adaptive beams, various navigation options, apple/google integration and my favorite, dual-zone climate.
Alec Baldwin indicted for involuntary manslaughter in fatal gunfire on film set (www.theguardian.com)
Grand jury in New Mexico charged the actor for a shooting on Rust set that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins...
CNN blocks Firefox with uBo (lemmus.org)
ProtonMail and SimpleLogin emails will be blocked from registering on websites (github.com)
This makes me 😭...
Israel arrests almost as many Palestinians as it has released during truce (www.aljazeera.com)
Over the first four days of Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange, Israel arrests 133 Palestinians while releasing 150....
‘Stop the price-gouging’: Biden hits corporations over high consumer costs (www.cnbc.com)
Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor (www.wired.com)
Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform (www.engadget.com)
The long fight to make Apple’s iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union’s Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires...
It shouldn't matter if people work multiple jobs. The former VP of HR at Microsoft shares how to react to double dippers — 'get over it.' (money.yahoo.com)
The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years (www.theverge.com)
Brain-eating cannibal back in public life after 10 years (www.the-express.com)
A man who killed and ate a man has been released back into public life after ten years....
Uno reverse 🔁 (sh.itjust.works)
Brands that don't buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification (www.theverge.com)
Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to retain the gold checkmark identifying...
What happened to the Crimea bridge and why is it important? (www.aljazeera.com)
Traffic on the single bridge that links Russia to Moscow-annexed Crimea and serves as a key supply route for the Kremlin’s forces in the war with Ukraine came to a standstill on Monday after one of its sections was blown up, killing a couple and wounding their daughter....
Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault. (lemmy.world)
Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete (adguard.com)
Netflix, once a pioneer of ad-free viewing that offered a break from traditional TV norms, is now contemplating launching free ad-supported versions of its service in markets like Europe and Asia, Bloomberg reported....
Consumers are so demoralized by inflation and high rates they've given up on saving for the American Dream and are spending money instead, economist says (fortune.com)
Gunmen in combat fatigues fire at crowds at Moscow concert hall, a big blaze follows (apnews.com)
Neo-Nazis march in Nashville, leave after being challenged (www.nbcnews.com)
The group left in a U-Haul box truck that was driven out of the county, police said, indicating the demonstrators were outsiders....
