Russian soldiers say they dream of conquering Ukrainian cities and moving their families there in haunting recruitment ad (www.yahoo.com)
An Australian journalist has called her baby Methamphetamine Rules (www.stuff.co.nz)
Just some lighter news to break up the doom a bit
We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score | iFixit News (www.ifixit.com)
Ransomware Hackers Steal Millions From Vegas Casinos (odysee.com)
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What's it like using a microSD card on Android in 2023? (www.androidauthority.com)
“Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook publishers [Updated] (arstechnica.com)
“Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook publishers [Updated]::Previous efforts to unmask the people behind Libgen have failed.
Google Authenticator Blamed to have made one company’s network breach much, much worse (arstechnica.com)
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Rolling Stone Founder: Women, Black Musicians Not ‘Articulate Enough’ on ‘Intellectual Level’ to Feature in New Book (www.nationalreview.com)
Outdated snap packages - Issues Canonical Needs to Address Before Releasing an "All Snap" Desktop (popey.com)
Canonical is planning an ‘All Snap’ desktop next year. It will likely be available side-by-side with the traditional deb-based installation we’ve been used to since 2004....
PSA: a recently-fixed image parsing vulnerability in Chrome (and things that use Chrome, such as Electron apps) is being actively exploited in the wild. install your updates! (nvd.nist.gov)
Chrome was updated September 11...
Video shows school employee hitting 3-year-old nonverbal autistic child in the head and knocking him to the floor, attorney alleges (www.cnn.com)
Video from an Ohio school’s hallway camera shows a school employee chasing a 3-year-old down the hall and hitting him in the head from behind, knocking him to the ground, an attorney for the boy’s family alleges....
French watchdog halts iPhone 12 sales over too-high radiation - minister (www.reuters.com)
PARIS, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Apple must stop selling its iPhone 12 model in France due to above-threshold radiation levels, France’s junior minister for the digital economy told newspaper Le Parisien in an interview published on Tuesday....
Mexico’s Moment: The Biggest US Trading Partner Is No Longer China (www.bloomberg.com)
The new Cold War is a business opportunity, and Mexico looks better placed than almost any other country to seize it....
Apple announces iPhone 15 with USB-C, a camera upgrade, and the Dynamic Island (www.theverge.com)
Apple announces iPhone 15 with USB-C, a camera upgrade, and the Dynamic Island::Apple’s new iPhone 15 is the first iPhone with a USB-C port. The iPhone 15 also includes the Dynamic Island and a big camera upgrade.
Fox Corp Hit With Yet Another Lawsuit Over ‘Longstanding Practice of Allowing Conspiracy Theories’ (www.mediaite.com)
US sets new record for billion-dollar climate disasters in single year (www.theguardian.com)
Country has experienced 23 extreme weather events costing $1bn or more already this year, passing previous mark of 22 in 2020...
Here Are Some ‘Starfield’ City Maps, Since The Game Doesn’t Have Any (www.forbes.com)
Starfield's maps are not defensible, but fans are already starting to fix them.
Asteroid behaving unexpectedly after Nasa's deliberate Dart crash (www.bbc.co.uk)
Asteroid behaving unexpectedly after Nasa’s deliberate Dart crash::A school teacher and his students have discovered that an asteroid deliberately hit by a Nasa spacecraft is behaving in a weird way.
Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule (www.latimes.com)
Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule::Grindr has lost about 45% of its staff as it enforces a strict return-to-office policy that was introduced after a majority of employees announced a plan to unionize.
Meta is back in the office three days a week, as WFH continues to die (www.theverge.com)
TIL: There is a community on Lemmy that is preserving old cooking recipes. (lemmy.world)
The GDP gap between Europe and the United States is now 80% (www.lemonde.fr)
It was early this summer, before Americans started crossing the Atlantic to savor the sweetness of European life. Prices are very much affordable for them there, and the Wall Street Journal gave the reason as being Europe’s inexorable impoverishment: “Europeans are facing a new economic reality, one they haven’t...
TIL researchers recorded the brain waves of a dying person, they showed patterns similar to those occurring during memory recall. (blog.frontiersin.org)
Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain and discovered rhythmic brain wave patterns around the time of death that are similar to those occurring during dreaming, memory recall, and meditation. Now, a study published to Frontiers brings new insight into a possible organizational role of the brain during...
Ukraine says it has manufactured and fired a long-range missile (www.washingtonpost.com)
Ukrainian officials say their military is now using a long-range missile that was designed and manufactured domestically and can reach targets inside Russia
Weaker subscription deals have hit indie publishers, says analyst | GamesIndustry.biz (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Smaller subscription deals and the underperformance of certain titles have had a severe impact on Devolver and TinyBuild, says stockbroking firm Goodbody....
