San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones (www.techspot.com)
Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he's found fragments of alien technology (abc11.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/359905...
Latvia swears in Edgars Rinkevics as EU's first openly gay president (www.bbc.com)
I wish for a world where this wasn’t news and wouldn’t matter anymore, but as the world is right now, this is still an issue in many countries, and therefore imo noteworthy and good news....
How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’) (arstechnica.com)
Here’s what is collected by Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.
Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling? | First Dog on the Moon [COMIC] (www.theguardian.com)
Morrowind modern game engine OpenMW 0.48 is readying to release (www.gamingonlinux.com)
The space telescope surveying the entire universe to understand dark matter and dark energy (lemmy.world)
theverge.com...
Seven Cuban athletes defect to Chile after Pan American Games (english.elpais.com)
According to sport journalist Francys Romero, 61 Cubans have broken their contracts or defected so far this year...
Wave-Powered Desalination System Produces 13,000 Gallons of Drinking Water a Day From Each Buoy (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
Thailand drops joint patrols with Chinese police after public backlash (www.reuters.com)
'Bionic breast' could restore sensation for cancer survivors (www.livescience.com)
Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages (therecord.media)
A Seattle-based appellate judge ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors.
Chinese Tesla rival Nio cuts 10% of workforce as CEO predicts 'intense competition' (www.cnbc.com)
Chinese Tesla rival Nio cuts 10% of workforce as CEO predicts ‘intense competition’::China’s Nio has been hit by weak consumer sentiment in the world’s second-largest economy, stiff competition and a price war started by Elon Musk’s Tesla.
Blinken meets Palestinian leader in West Bank, stepping up Mideast diplomacy as Gaza war escalates (apnews.com)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought his frenetic Mideast diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his latest bid to ease civilian suffering in the Gaza Strip and begin to sketch out a post-conflict scenario for the territory....
Israel's military and Hezbollah exchange fire along the tense Lebanon-Israel border (apnews.com)
Israeli warplanes conducted airstrikes along the border with Lebanon Saturday as the militant Hezbollah group attacked several Israeli army posts, including one that was struck with two large rockets....
Hezbollah Chief: US “Directly Responsible” For Gaza Atrocities, Will Soon Pay “Heavy Price” (www.gulf-insider.com)
Avast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phones (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Fwupd 1.9.7 Adds Support for More Synaptics Prometheus Fingerprint Readers (9to5linux.com)
New Atlas: Water can evaporate with just light, no heat, says surprising study (newatlas.com)
r/science
Silent Hill: Ascension fails to impress with greedy monetisation and cluttered UI (www.eurogamer.net)
'Replace syllabus with WhatsApp forwards': Netizens say ,as government drops evolution and pro-democractic teachings from syllabus. (www.livemint.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/7629685...
Orange juice prices hit all-time high amid bleak production outlook (www.reuters.com)
Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready (opensource.googleblog.com)
Hundreds storm airport in Russia in antisemitic riot over arrival of plane from Israel (apnews.com)
Stop blaming teeth for Cities: Skylines 2 performance problems, say devs (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
