United States and China fight to 40-40 draw for most Olympic gold medals (www.nbcnews.com)
It’s the first standoff in summer games history and it took a nail-biting U.S. women’s basketball win, in the final action of Paris 2024, to make happen....
POLITICO: We received internal Trump documents from ‘Robert.’ The campaign just confirmed it was hacked. (www.politico.com)
On July 22, POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account. Over the course of the past few weeks, the person — who used an AOL email account and identified themselves only as “Robert” — relayed what appeared to be internal communications from a senior Trump campaign official. A research dossier the campaign...
Bacteria Encode Hidden Genes Outside Their Genome — Do We? (www.cuimc.columbia.edu)
Since the genetic code was first deciphered in the 1960s, our genes seemed like an open book. By reading and decoding our chromosomes as linear strings of letters, like sentences in a novel, we can identify the genes in our genome and learn why changes in a gene’s code affect health....
How can I set a minimum time interval between consecutive mouse clicks in KDE Plasma 6?
My mouse right-click is double-clicking. I want to have a time interval between two clicks to register the second one. Is there a way to do this in KDE Plasma 6?
Palestinian horse centre in rebuild vow after West Bank demolition (www.bbc.com)
Slug in the grass [OC] (pixelfed.crimedad.work)
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Say cheese! (lemmy.world)
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Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning (lemmy.world)
TIL the first movie about the sinking of the Titanic premiered only 31 days after she sank, and was written by an actress who survived the sinking, who also starred in it. She later had a nervous brea (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL the first movie about the sinking of the Titanic premiered only 31 days after she sank, and was written by an actress who survived the sinking, who also starred in it. She later had a nervous breakdown and never acted again.
Random Trek Review: Voyager S04E07 ‘Scientific Method’
Random Trek Review: I am going to review random episodes of Trek shows using an online tool. I decided to start with random episodes of Voyager....
Help running AMD iGPU and NVIDIA dGPU on 2 monitors (fedia.io)
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How have you automated configuring your machines in terms of packages and dotfiles so it works cross-distro?
I’m looking for interesting tools to automate managing packaging and configuring everything automated....
Intel Raptor Lake 0x129 CPU Microcode Performance Impact On Linux (www.phoronix.com)
Amid Venezuela tumult, U.S. wants Latin American countries to lead in finding a solution (www.washingtonpost.com)
Child rape survivors face extraordinary barriers in states with abortion bans (www.theguardian.com)
Since fall of Roe, 14 states have passed near-total abortion bans – most with no exceptions for rape or incest survivors...
I have been dialing in espresso with a Vario grinder and wondering why I was getting such wildly inconsistent results. Turns out I mixed up the fine and coarse adjustment levers.
Facepalm
Introducing you to the next Bond (lemmy.world)
How American Fire Departments are Getting People Killed (www.youtube.com)
Mexico rejects Ukraine's request to arrest Russia's Putin during visit (www.reuters.com)
The Mexican president on Thursday rejected a request from Ukraine’s government to arrest Vladimir Putin if the Russian leader defies an international arrest warrant and attends the inauguration of Mexico’s next president in October. “We can’t do that,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters at a regular...
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Owner of Southport’s Windsor Mini Mart: ‘My shop was looted by rioters, then saved by strangers’ (www.bbc.co.uk)
Chanaka Balasuriya, the 47-year-old owner of Southport’s Windsor Mini Mart, has been deeply affected by the violent unrest that spread across the UK - but also by the acts of compassion that followed.
Israel-Gaza war live: Israel issues massive evacuation order in Khan Younis (www.theguardian.com)
Tunisia's electoral commission accepts just three candidates for presidential election (www.reuters.com)
TUNIS, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Tunisia’s electoral commission said on Saturday it had preliminarily accepted only three presidential candidates, including incumbent Kais Saied, amid widespread criticism of what the opposition says are moves to exclude serious contenders....