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Starfield install size reveal; it is now preload (www.gamescensor.com)

AI Isn’t Banning Books in Iowa Schools. Republicans Are. (theintercept.com)

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The Top 8 Best BitTorrent Clients for Linux in 2023 (www.geeksmint.com)

School district uses ChatGPT to help ban library books (www.popsci.com)

Faced with new legislation, Iowa's Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books 'contain a description or depiction of a sex act.'

AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless - The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans (qz.com)

AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless - The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans::The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans

YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures (www.theverge.com)

Mozilla allows desktop extensions on Firefox for Android (www.theregister.com)

Leave no trace: Finland removes litter bins from national parks (yle.fi)

Lina Khan: The most feared person in Silicon Valley is a 34-year-old in DC (finance.yahoo.com)

Lina Khan is a key architect of an aggressive attempt by Washington to rein in tech giants. Amazon may be next....

Refugees overqualified and underpaid in Germany (www.dw.com)

Obada Hijjo has not had an easy time since he arrived in Germany four years ago. Trained as a policeman in Turkey, the 30-year-old Palestinian initially worked for the police in the West Bank. But, when a case he was involved resulted in a threat to his life, he and his wife were forced to leave the country. Now he is stranded...

Exclusive: A veteran FBI agent told Congress that investigations into Giuliani and other Trump allies were 'suppressed' (www.businessinsider.com)

The FBI agent's bombshell allegations of political bias appeared in a leaked statement made to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Just want a solid gaming laptop (reddit.com)

My mom likes to play No Man’s Sky and Valheim, but her Asus TUF started freezing on games. RMA found no problems and sent it back to her but it still happens. I ordered a Legion for her but now I see these posts about all Nvidia 40-series laptops freezing up. What’s a gaming mom supposed to do?

President of Niger: My country is under attack and I’ve been taken hostage (www.washingtonpost.com)

This is an opinion piece by the democratically elected president of Niger.

[IDW's Star Trek: Day of Blood #1 comic] Star Trek Confirms an Underrated TNG Crew Member Is Destined for Command (screenrant.com)

I hoped for Barclay but it’s Beverly Crusher.

Passengers were stuck on plane for 7 hours with no air conditioning, no food or water provided, woman says (www.kcbd.com)

How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk (www.platformer.news)

Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang in the balance

PipeWire 0.3.77 Released (gitlab.freedesktop.org)

PipeWire 0.3.77 (2023-08-04)...

Woman's escape from cinder block cell likely spared others from similar nightmare, FBI says (apnews.com)

A woman who escaped her kidnapper by punching her way out of a homemade cinder block cell at a home in southern Oregon likely saved other women from a similar fate, authorities said, by alerting them to a man they now suspect in sexual assaults in at least four more states.

Pittsburgh synagogue gunman gets death penalty (www.bbc.co.uk)

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No shooter, no injuries reported at US Capitol after 'bad call,' police say (www.reuters.com)

WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Police found no shooter and no one injured after reports of a possible active shooter in the U.S. Capitol complex on Wednesday after a possible “bad call,” Washington Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Hugh Carew said....