Four more Israeli hostages have died in Hamas custody (www.nbcnews.com)
Glitch at New York Stock Exchange Throws Markets Into Chaos (gizmodo.com)
the swamp (lemmy.world)
China turns on 'world record' solar farm big enough to power Luxembourg (www.rechargenews.com)
Right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party fails to secure a majority in India’s national elections (peoplesdispatch.org)
Schenker shows off a Linux laptop prototype with Snapdragon X Elite at Computex 2024 (liliputing.com)
Trump Campaign Sent Cease-and-Desist Letter to ProPublica Attempting to Stop Their Latest Exposé. It Didn’t Work. (www.mediaite.com)
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign and businesses have provided “Significant financial benefits” to nine of the witnesses in his criminal cases, ProPublica reported Monday morning - shrugging off a threatening cease-and-desist letter sent by Trump’s attorney....
Fan-made Fallout 2 first-person remake now has over 100 developers working on it, and is targeting a Steam release while making 'fast progress' (www.pcgamer.com)
Warp Five: Costume Designer Anthony Tran Weaves Real Life and Past Influences into Discovery's Tapestry (www.startrek.com)
The problem with GIMP (www.spacebar.news)
Tesla Cybertruck Dominated by F-150 Lightning In Sand Drag Race (jalopnik.com)
Far-right activist attacks comedian on stage in Barcelona (TW: Violence) (www.chortle.co.uk)
Hong Kong detains artist on eve of the 35th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown (www.nbcnews.com)
Police in the Chinese territory took away Sanmu Chen on a street close to a park that for decades hosted an annual vigil to mourn the victims of the 1989 crackdown....
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Announced - Zen 5 Showing Big Generational Uplift (www.phoronix.com)
Car Deals Vanished During the Pandemic. They’re Coming Back. (www.nytimes.com)
For much of the last four years, automakers and their dealers had so few cars to sell — and demand was so strong — that they could command high prices. Those days are over, and hefty discounts are starting a comeback....
Russian legal foundation Pravfond linked to Kremlin activities spent millions of euros to finance propaganda and legal campaigns in Europe and around the world, leaked documents reveal (www.theguardian.com)
Leaked internal documents have exposed the activities of a Russian state-backed legal defence foundation that European intelligence agencies and analysts say is in fact a Kremlin influence operation active in 48 countries across Europe and around the world....
Trump Says Supreme Court Should Bail Him Out of Criminal Conviction (www.rollingstone.com)
The former president complained that his sentencing is set to take place days before the Republican National Convention...
Instagram is testing unskippable "Ad Breaks" lasting 3-5 seconds, disrupting user browsing experience (bgr.com)
Ruling party loses absolute majority in elections to the Indian Parliament, but likely to form government with support of allies (www.thehindu.com)
Preliminary results for the 2024 Indian General election suggest that the Bharatiya Janata Party is set to lose its absolute majority in the lower house of Parliament. However, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) it leads is projected to cross the halfway mark. The opposition INDIA alliance is projected to more than double...
India’s early election results point to rebuke for Modi and his party (www.washingtonpost.com)
Talking Tiananmen with a Chinese chatbot: Chinese developers hope to build the AI of the future. What, if anything, will it have to say about the past? (chinamediaproject.org)
As China strives to surpass the United States with cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence, the leadership is keen to ensure technologies reach the public with the right political blind spots pre-engineered. Can Chinese AI hold its tongue on the issues most sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party?...
Israel could have used smaller weapons against Hamas to avoid deaths in Gaza tent fire, experts say (apnews.com)
India Election Results Live: Modi ahead but markets plunge as landslide predictions fade (www.reuters.com)
"BJP and NDA’s seat share is lower-than-expected. There is only one state that has gone completely off the charts in our data: Uttar Pradesh. And that has pulled down the BJP’s own tally as well and this is the reason they are unable to touch the majority mark on their own at this point of time....
Star Wars: Hunters (lemmy.zip)
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