Wall Street Journal fires Hong Kong reporter allegedly over her role as chair of Hong Kong Journalists Association advocating for press freedom (www.rappler.com)
The head of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) said she was fired by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Wednesday, July 17, after she refused demands from senior editors at the paper to sever ties with the organization and to not advocate for media freedoms....
TIL the term "Mad as a Hatter" likely came from hat makers using mercury and the resulting mercury poisoning. (en.wikipedia.org)
Mercury poisoning of hat-makers – In 18th and 19th century England, mercury was used in the production of felt, which was commonly used in the hat-making trade at the time. Long-term use of mercury products often resulted in mercury poisoning-induced erethism among hat-makers.[1][2] In the late 19th-century United States, a...
no seating nearby (lemmy.world)
Florida man arrested for allegedly throwing long 'white pole' at officers at Capitol on Jan. 6 (lawandcrime.com)
Chinese firm ByteDance, which owns TikTok, has lost its appeal against a European Union decision to designate the company a digital "gatekeeper" (www.dw.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/889819...
This is where gift cards are at (lemmy.world)
Google is close to making its biggest acquisition ever | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Google owner Alphabet is in advanced discussions to buy fast-growing cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23 billion, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN....
What Project 2025 Means for Our Cities | CityNerd (yt.artemislena.eu)
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Alleged ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ Leader Indicted Over Plot to Kill Jews (www.wired.com)
Police search for the truck driver who was filmed whipping migrants near Italian-French border (apnews.com)
Italian border police are looking for a truck driver who is shown on a widely circulated video whipping female migrants after he found them in the back of his truck near the French border, officials said Wednesday....
To Ratigan!
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How do you rank sums of single-digit numbers ?
tiermaker.com/…/sums-of-single-digit-numbers-2-9-…...
How climate change is altering the Earth’s rotation (ethz.ch)
The Earth’s axis of rotation is shifting due to climate change and movements in the Earth’s interior. The corresponding polar motion is triggered by shifts in mass such as the melting of polar ice caps....
Need help routing Wireguard container traffic through Gluetun container [Solved]
The solution has been found, see the “Solution” section for the full write up and config files....
Philippines and Japan finalize bi-lateral security pact over China’s increasingly aggressive behaviour in South China Sea and Taiwan Strait (www.lowyinstitute.org)
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Help me figure out if i downloaded something shady, please
Hi everyone, i’d like to start off by saying that i’ve been pirating for a while and have always stuck to sites that are reccommended on various megathreads and considered safe. Sorry for the long winded explaination....
Allmacworlds
It’s in the megathread but when doing some research on it I found a lot of mixed opinions on it. Some said it was good others said it wasn’t. Anyone got a definitive answer?
Meta won't offer future multimodal AI models in EU (www.axios.com)
Meta’s issue isn’t with the still-being-finalized AI Act, but rather with how it can train models using data from European customers while complying with GDPR — the EU’s existing data protection law....
Life, huh (lemmy.world)
Jon Stewart Reacts to Trump’s Assassination Attempt: “We Dodged a Catastrophe” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Underground caves do exist on the Moon, radar observations confirm (www.techspot.com)
“Permanent lunar colonies could soon become an attainable target for space agencies”