Army Corps of Engineers to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater a day as saltwater intrusion threatens New Orleans-area drinking water (www.cnn.com)
The US Army Corps of Engineers is planning to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater daily into the lower Mississippi River near New Orleans as saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico continues to threaten drinking water supply, officials said Friday....
Biden tells Zelenskyy that U.S. sending Ukraine ATACMS long-range missiles (www.nbcnews.com)
China climate envoy says phasing out fossil fuels 'unrealistic' (www.reuters.com)
The complete phasing-out of fossil fuels is not realistic, China's top climate official said, adding that these climate-warming fuels must continue to play a vital role in maintaining global energy security.
As Smartphone Industry Sputters, the iPhone Expands Its Dominance (www.nytimes.com)
As Smartphone Industry Sputters, the iPhone Expands Its Dominance::Apple, which is set to release a new iPhone on Tuesday, has increased its share of smartphone sales by converting Android customers and adding teenagers.
On Fox News' "The Five," Jessica Tarlov is redefining the image of the sacrificial liberal (www.salon.com)
The new lefty face might be one against four on the right-wing channel, but she’s winning fans with viral clapbacks
Secret records: Government says Marine's adoption of Afghan orphan seen as abduction, must be undone (apnews.com)
The U.S. government has warned a Virginia judge that an American Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan was flawed and could be seen as international child abduction.
New US sanctions target workarounds that let Russia get Western tech for war (apnews.com)
Press release from the State Department home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1731...
Apple announces iPhone 15 with USB-C, a camera upgrade, and the Dynamic Island (www.theverge.com)
Apple announces iPhone 15 with USB-C, a camera upgrade, and the Dynamic Island::Apple’s new iPhone 15 is the first iPhone with a USB-C port. The iPhone 15 also includes the Dynamic Island and a big camera upgrade.
'How am I in this war?': New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire's Ukraine dilemma (www.cnn.com)
Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon...
Tim Sweeney says Epic Games Store is open to devs using generative AI (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Can't wait for some REGROOPING to happen again (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker website (www.washingtonpost.com)
The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker website::undefined
Huawei's New Mystery 7nm Chip from Chinese Fab Defies US Sanctions (www.tomshardware.com)
Linux From Scratch 12.0 Published For Rolling Your Own Linux Build (www.phoronix.com)
Linux From Scratch 12.0 incorporates GCC 13.2, Glibc 2.38, GNU Binutils 2.41, and other updates. The Linux 6.4.12 upstream kernel is the default kernel version used for the LFS 12.0 guide....
US military plans to unleash thousands of autonomous war robots over next two years (techxplore.com)
US military plans to unleash thousands of autonomous war robots over next two years::The United States military plans to start using thousands of autonomous weapons systems in the next two years in a bid to counter China’s growing power, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced in a speech …
Maryland Man Pleads Guilty to Issuing Threats of Violence to an LGBTQI+ Advocacy Group (www.justice.gov)
A Maryland man pleaded guilty in a U.S. District Court in Baltimore to a federal crime for using a telephone to threaten a group that advocates for LGBTQI+ people.
EU imports record volumes of liquefied natural gas from Russia (www.ft.com)
“It’s shocking that countries in the EU have worked so hard to wean themselves off piped Russian fossil gas only to replace it with the shipped equivalent. It doesn’t matter if it comes from a pipeline or a boat — it still means European companies are sending billions to [Vladimir] Putin’s war chest.”
U.S. government hits Bankman-Fried and attorneys with 4 million pages of discovery. His lawyers argue that the government is overwhelming their client, without allowing him to prepare for court. (cryptoslate.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2935925...
Son stolen at birth hugs Chilean mother for first time in 42 years (apnews.com)
“The real story was these kids were stolen from poor families, poor women that didn’t know. They didn’t know how to defend themselves,” said Constanza del Rio, founder and director and Nos Buscamos....
Thousands converge on National Mall to mark the March on Washington’s 60th anniversary (apnews.com)
Thousands converged Saturday on the National Mall for the 60th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington, saying a country that remains riven by racial inequality has yet to fulfill his dream....
Meta is pulling the plug on Messenger Lite on Android (www.theverge.com)
tl;dr: Messenger Lite, Meta’s “less than 10MB to download” lightweight version of Messenger, will no longer be available on Android after Sep 18, as Meta redirects users to the Messenger app. The main Messenger app will also drop SMS support next month.
DOJ sues SpaceX alleging hiring discrimination against refugees and asylum recipients (www.cnbc.com)
The U.S. Department of Justice sued SpaceX on Thursday, alleging Elon Musk’s space company discriminated in its hiring practices against refugees and people granted asylum in the U.S....
WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Pssst, can I interest you in some free video games? (feddit.uk)
Howdy pardners, this is a cheeky self-plug for !freegames, a community I’ve created to post limited-time full-game free giveaways. It’s been going a month or two and I’m already claiming games faster than I can play them, so come and join me and make your what-game-to-play choice paralysis worse!