Azerbaijan Unilaterally Closed Armenian Airspace as Ground War Begins (www.ainonline.com)
The enshittification marches on – use Signal [WhatsApp] (about.fb.com)
Sean Penn: Will Smith slap wouldn’t have happened if Oscars had let Zelenskiy speak (www.theguardian.com)
CDC recommends updated Covid-19 vaccines for everyone 6 months and older (www.cnn.com)
Clinical studies of the vaccines showed that all significantly boosted antibodies against currently circulating coronavirus variants.
Stream any torrent in sync with your friends (github.com)
Multiplex, an app to watch torrents together. It provides an experience similar to Apple’s SharePlay and Amazon’s Prime Video Watch Party, except for any torrent instead of a specific streaming service. Thanks to WebRTC, it doesn’t require a server to sync playback, and can use a gateway if a viewer can’t use BitTorrent....
Putin: West put ethnic Jew to rule in Ukraine to 'cover glorification of Nazism' (www.unionleader.com)
Sept 5 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a television interview on Tuesday, without citing evidence, that Western powers had installed Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is of Jewish heritage, as president of Ukraine to cover up the glorification of Nazism....
Warner Bros. Discovery Says Ongoing Strikes Will Mean $300M-$500M Hit to 2023 Earnings (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
"The company now expects to exceed $1.7 billion in free cash flow for the third quarter of 2023, in part due to the strong performance of 'Barbie' as well as incremental impact from strike-related factors," the entertainment giant says in a regulatory filing.
Gary Wright, singer of the mid-1970s hit ‘Dream Weaver,’ dies at 80 (www.nbcnews.com)
Gary Wright, the musician best known for his hit singles “Dream Weaver” and “Love Is Alive,” has died. He was 80. Wright’s son Dorian confirmed the news to Variety; no cause of death was announced....
The racism scandals rocking Finland: The executive of the Nordic country is trying to overcome the crisis caused by the xenophobic comments made by several ministers in the past (english.elpais.com)
USA Today and Other Newspapers Are Churning Out AI-Generated Sports Stories (futurism.com)
Lede AI, the company powering Gannett's AI sports efforts, is supplying a number of local news publishers with the same service.
Long COVID Recovery Remains Rare (time.com)
Without proven treatments, many people are still sick....
China’s stockpiling of ASML chip-making machines push imports past 2023 estimates (www.scmp.com)
China’s imports of Dutch lithography machines have surged this year, with the first seven months already surpassing ASML Holding’s previous forecast for 2023 sales to China, according to a new report, as Chinese firms stock up on the equipment ahead of new export curbs....
Gitlab working on ActivityPub for Merge/Pull requests (writing.exchange)
Greece wildfires: 79 people arrested for arson (www.bbc.com)
‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Cast Talks About The Big Change For Season 4 (trekmovie.com)
Found holding open a classic car hood at a car show (lemmy.zip)
Maui's emergency management chief resigns, citing health reasons, a week after start of deadly wildfires | CNN (www.cnn.com)
A catastrophic breach of the United Kingdom electoral register affects tens of millions of residents following a cyberattack at the U.K. Electoral Commission (techcrunch.com)
US Supreme Court to scrutinize Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement (www.reuters.com)
The court also paused bankruptcy proceedings concerning Purdue and its affiliates and said in a brief order that it would hold oral arguments in December in the administration’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling upholding the settlement. The court’s new term begins in October.
BBC News and BBC Sounds launched a Discord server in late June for the Newscast podcast, letting the audience influence the news; the server has 3,700 members (pressgazette.co.uk)
YouTube will soon require watch history to be enabled to show video suggestions (support.google.com)
On the flip side, this also means users have the option to have a cleaner, less cluttered interface....
It's time to change how we cover Elon Musk (www.platformer.news)
After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach
"I'll give you something to cry about" (slrpnk.net)
Arizona’s extreme heat is killing honeybees and melting their homes (www.accuweather.com)
As deadly, unrelenting heat scorches Arizona, some entomologists are growing concerned about the increasing number of dead honeybees – a species vital to our ecosystem, especially food production.