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As Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users (techcrunch.com)

South Korea to mass produce lasers that can take out drones at $1.50 a hit (www.cnn.com)

South Korea is beginning the mass production of a low-cost laser weapon that has successfully shot down small drones during testing, the country’s key arms agency said Thursday....

Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50% (archive.ph)

A new report estimates that the company led by Elon Musk accounted for just under half of all battery-powered vehicles sold in the second quarter of the year.

Texas woman arrested for allegedly attempting to drown 3-year-old Palestinian Muslim child in possible hate crime (www.nbcnews.com)

YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes (www.youtube.com)

Child Advocates Back Surgeon General's Call for Tobacco-Like Warnings on Social Media (www.commondreams.org)

Three Wishes

New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds (bgr.com)

What if charging your phone took less time than brushing your teeth? A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could very well hold the key to a next-gen charger capable of recharging your phone in just 60 seconds....

Steve with GN Considering Linux (www.youtube.com)

@26:07 he says as a business he’s considering Linux on his computers because of Windows privacy violations. It’s great to hear someone with such a wide audience talking about using Linux.

Pope Francis is gearing up for the first millennial saint, a web developer known as 'God's influencer' (ca.news.yahoo.com)

Carlo Acutis, a teenage website developer, was attributed a second miracle by Pope Francis, advancing his path to becoming the first millennial saint.

Describe an episode in the worst possible way

I’ll start: a naked guy complaining to his host that there’s less light than advertised.

Analysis Finds Nearly 100% of Campus Gaza Protests Have Been Peaceful (www.commondreams.org)

Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died (www.seattletimes.com)

I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. (lemmy.ml)

Found here, where the image also has the text as an ALT image description. chaos.social/

US accuses China of backing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (www.politico.eu)

Beijing is “picking a side” and can’t claim to be neutral any more, the US ambassador to NATO tells POLITICO....

You think Linux is living a Renaissance with Gaming and New Non-Technical Users? (lemmy.ml)

Biden condemns ‘antisemitic protests’ — and absence of Palestinian empathy, too (www.politico.com)

Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom (apnews.com)

One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room...