Russian propagandist justifies missile strike on Ukraine’s main children’s hospital because Ukrainians 'are not people' (khpg.org)
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Why Bernie Sanders Is Thanking Elon Musk. (www.commondreams.org)
Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees (arstechnica.com)
Google Messages is fixing this glaring RCS issue (APK teardown) (www.androidauthority.com)
Just weeks after we complained about how over-compressed Google Messages RCS images are, it looks like a fix is already in the works.
Sega Sues Online Troll Who Harassed Its Staff, And Wins (kotaku.com)
Google and Microsoft consume more energy than 100+ countries | Windows Central (www.windowscentral.com)
Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan's reporting of the Donald Trump Assassination Attempt (yt.artemislena.eu)
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Great catch (gvid.tv)
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn released on Steam [10% off] (store.steampowered.com)
SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand (linuxiac.com)
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'Shameful' BBC story on Israel's killing of disabled man revised (www.newarab.com)
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J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Capitalism (indypendent.org)
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...
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)
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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....
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....
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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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....