Putin Won’t Attend BRICS Summit in Person, South Africa Says (www.bloomberg.com)
By S’thembile Cele July 19, 2023 at 6:57 AM EDT...
I might be on a list now... most likely several more lists... (sh.itjust.works)
French woman hit by apparent meteorite while relaxing on her terrace (gizmodo.com)
Evergrande: Crisis-hit Chinese property giant reveals $81bn loss (www.bbc.co.uk)
San Antonio police kill Melissa Perez in her own home during mental health crisis - Liberation News (www.liberationnews.org)
West Bank ‘not occupied’ territory, says Ron DeSantis (www.aljazeera.com)
Speaking to Christian Zionist group, Florida governor and Republican US presidential candidate pledges support for Israel....
Europeans Are Becoming Poorer. ‘Yes, We’re All Worse Off.’ (archive.is)
An aging population that values its free time set the stage for economic stagnation. Then came Covid-19 and Russia’s war in Ukraine....
The spam bots have now found Threads, as company announces its own ‘rate limits’ (techcrunch.com)
A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out" (privacy.thenexus.today)
When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon"....
AMD's latest integrated graphics perform like an eight-year-old Nvidia midrange GPU — Radeon 890M achieves GTX 1070 performance in Geekbench and lags behind GTX 1650 Super by 15% (www.tomshardware.com)
MSI warranty claim database was publicly accessible via Google (stackdiary.com)
According to the YouTube channel Gamers Nexus, over 600,000 customer warranty claims for MSI products were publicly accessible via Google search. MSI, a leading computer hardware and peripherals manufacturer, had exposed data that included sensitive information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, and specific order details.
GNOME Foundation Announces Transition of Executive Director | Holly Million stepping down after 10 months (foundation.gnome.org)
GNOME announced an interim director of Richard Littauer, who joined last week....
Palestinians living abroad have accused Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning - cutting them off from crucial online services (www.bbc.com)
They say it has left them unable to access bank accounts and job offers - and stopped them using Skype, which Microsoft owns, to contact relatives in war-torn Gaza....
TIL in 1985 French government agents bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship docked in Auckland, New Zealand, killing a freelance photographer (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Colorado public health officials confirm new case of human plague (www.independent.co.uk)
Public health officials in Colorado have confirmed that a human has tested positive for the plague, a rare but potentially deadly infectious disease that’s typically spread through flea bites....
South Korean politician links rising male suicides to women (www.bbc.com)
A politician in South Korea is being criticised for making dangerous and unsubstantiated comments after linking a rise in male suicides to the increasingly “dominant” role of women in society....
Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths (apnews.com)
Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. are still being drawn to Death Valley National Park, even though the desolate region known as one of the Earth’s hottest places is being punished by a dangerous heat wave blamed for a motorcyclist’s death over the weekend....
Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town (time.com)
Giant phallus-shaped iceberg floating in Conception Bay surprises residents of Dildo, Canada (www.livescience.com)
It’s a bit old but the shape and the city name were so funny that I couldn’t not post it XD
Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real people (www.theguardian.com)
Kyiv children’s hospital hit as Russian missile attack kills at least 29 in Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
An unknown number of people have been trapped under rubble after Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital was hit during a daylight Russian missile barrage that the authorities said had killed at least 29 people across the country....
West Texas Pastor Who Used Illegal Donations From Churches to Campaign for Office Is Fined $3,500 (www.propublica.org)
A West Texas pastor who used his parish’s resources to campaign for office and several pastors from other churches who donated to him were fined after the state’s ethics commission determined that each violated election law....
Students Target Teachers in Group TikTok Attack, Shaking Their School (www.nytimes.com)
Japanese man sentenced to 17.5 years in prison, and 20 strokes of the cane in Singapore for rape (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17634274
Vandals in Austria behead sculpture of Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus (www.theguardian.com)
Artist behind controversial piece in Linz cathedral says vandalism shows there are still ‘people who question women’s right to their own bodies’...
