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Now YOU can fly to space for $450,000: Virgin Galactic announces first public space tourism flight for three people in August (www.dailymail.co.uk)

The Federation should have used Linux, the superior OS (i.chzbgr.com)

EU regulator says Apple should be on hook for €14.3 billion tax bill (arstechnica.com)

Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working (www.businessinsider.com)

Night In The Woods Devs Cancel Highly Anticipated Follow-Up (kotaku.com)

The game got cancelled after the co-creator got sick. Get well soon, Benson....

Researchers find sensitive personal data of US military personnel is for sale online (www.cnn.com)

Teens exploited by fake nudes illustrate threat of unregulated AI (www.axios.com)

Westfield is but one example of an issue all school districts are grappling with as the omnipresence of technology — including artificial intelligence — impacts students' lives, the district's superintendent Raymond González said in a statement.

Avast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phones (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Loyalty above all: Removal of top Chinese officials seen as enforcing Xi's demand for obedience (apnews.com)

Microsoft tries to dump S.F. office space amid tech industry cost-cutting (www.sfchronicle.com)

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Google Chrome to soon get a new ‘IP protection’ feature: Here’s what it does (indianexpress.com)

Google will soon start testing a new ‘IP protection’ feature for Chrome users, offering them greater control over their privacy. The tech giant the upcoming feature prevents websites from tracking users by hiding their IP address using proxy servers owned by Google....

China’s leaders speed towards Japanisation (www.reuters.com)

China’s real estate market is in decline. Debt deflation hangs in the air. The country’s workforce is shrinking and GDP growth is trending downwards....

Google owes executive $1 million after losing gender bias lawsuit (www.theverge.com)

The jury agreed that Google retaliated when Rowe complained.

The Verge: So long, small phones / There are fewer choices than I thought — and I’m getting out before the end. (www.theverge.com)

A Hong Kong protester shot by police in 2019 receives a 47-month jail term (apnews.com)

Dutch Consumer Group Sues Amazon Over Data Tracking (www.livemint.com)

A consumer-rights group in the Netherlands sued Amazon on Wednesday over its alleged practice of tracking website visitors’ online activity, using recently expanded legal provisions allowing class actions....

This is political persecution’: Israel cracks down on internal critics of its Gaza war (www.972mag.com)

Palestinians, as well as some left-wing Jews, are being suspended from studies, fired from jobs, or arrested at night — all because of social media posts.

Moist wounds heal 2-3 times faster than dry wounds (woundeducators.com)

& www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3842869/...

New York City councilwoman arrested for bringing gun to pro-Palestinian rally: NYPD (abcnews.go.com)

The White House is walking back Biden's statement that he saw photographic evidence of beheaded children (www.businessinsider.com)

New Steam Deck just passed through the FCC — but is this Steam Deck 2? | (Spoiler No) (www.tomsguide.com)

…as spotted by Brad Lynch and TVKilledMi on X/Twitter, this model does support 6GHz triple-band Wi-Fi — suggesting that it has either Wi-Fi 6E or Wi-Fi 7. The original Steam Deck doesn’t even have Wi-Fi 6.