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College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down (gizmodo.com)

‘It’s not you, it’s me’ is the gist of college student qualms with dating apps. Hook-up culture declines while young people search for genuine connection.

YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge (gizmodo.com)

YouTube’s Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge::The video platform now requires users to disable their ad blockers with an immovable pop-up.

Elon offers Wikipedia $ 1 billion to change their name to Dickipedia (www.theguardian.com)

Now is a good time to flood Wikipedia with donations. For the first time in my life, i have just donated to them and will do so again. You can do it too for a minimum of €2, no requirement for recurring donations or any nonsense.

Hunter Biden, the son of the president, is indicted on federal gun charges (www.nbcnews.com)

‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen (www.theverge.com)

FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard (arstechnica.com)

Aww … poor little ISPs.

Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers (apnews.com)

The National Science Foundation, the federal agency that oversees the U.S. Antarctic Program, published a report in 2022 in which 59% of women said they’d experienced harassment or assault while on the ice, and 72% of women said such behavior was a problem in Antarctica....

ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfone, Updated (www.androidauthority.com)

Update from Asus...

We’re now finding out the damaging results of the mandated return to the office–and it’s worse than we thought (fortune.com)

Surprising no one but the mgmt teams…...

Reddit brings back r/place - tomorrow, July 20 (www.reddit.com)

Totally not suspicious timing at all....

Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” (arstechnica.com)

Ex-Trump Official Makes Stunning Revelation: Trump Talked About Executing People At Several WH Meetings (www.mediaite.com)

HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware (www.tomshardware.com)

On May 26, a user on HP’s support forums reported that a forced, automatic BIOS update had bricked their HP ProBook 455 G7 into an unusable state. Subsequently, other users have joined the thread to sound off about experiencing the same issue....

1,000 Harvard Students Walk Out of Commencement to Support 13 Seniors Barred from Graduation over Gaza (www.democracynow.org)

More than a thousand Harvard students walked out of their commencement ceremony yesterday to support 13 undergraduates who were barred from graduating after they participated in the Gaza solidarity encampment in Harvard Yard....

Biden administration canceling student loans for another 160,000 borrowers (apnews.com)

The Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 160,000 borrowers through a combination of existing programs....

EXCLUSIVE: ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes over October 7 attack and Gaza war | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says (thehill.com)

The first Neuralink implant in a human malfunctioned after several threads recording neural activity retracted from the brain, the Elon Musk-owned startup revealed Wednesday....

To be honest, it is quite complicated now as well with all of the proprietary software (sh.itjust.works)

So true (sh.itjust.works)

‘The Wire’ Creator David Simon Rips Into Baltimore Bridge Conspiracists, Calls Marjorie Taylor Greene A “Complete Submoronic Pratfall Of A Human Being’ (deadline.com)

American dream of owning a home is dead, majority of renters say (www.theguardian.com)

Exclusive: most renters surveyed by Harris Poll say the areas they live in have become so unaffordable they are ‘barely livable’...

Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’ (www.vice.com)

Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’::The New Zealand-based seller issued a notice to its Australian customers that shipments will continue regardless of the government’s vape reform.