Dangerously high temperatures forecast across Japan | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News (www3.nhk.or.jp)
Life-threatening high temperatures were forecast across Japan on Thursday, and officials are urging steps to avoid heatstroke.
Google Maps for Android rolling out much faster voice input powered by Assistant [Gallery] (9to5google.com)
The Google Maps app for Android has, for years now, had the same old voice input that’s slow and not as accurate as Google’s latest offerings. Finally that’s changing, as Google Maps is rolling out a new voice input experience powered by Google Assistant.
UFO hearings: whistleblower David Grusch says ‘non-human biologics’ found at alleged crash sites – as it happened (www.theguardian.com)
Monster Hunter Rise’s Character Creator Gives Me Gender Euphoria - Sidequest (sidequest.zone)
Canonical Announces Real-Time Ubuntu Optimized for Intel Core CPUs (9to5linux.com)
Officials investigate police dog attack on driver in Ohio (www.bbc.com)
Fibre optics could be the answer to water loss from leaky pipes: 48.6 billion cubic meters of water are lost globally daily (beehaw.org)
According to the International Water Association (IWA), the main culprits for this loss are underground leaks on water mains and service pipes....
Cyber Resilience Act: The future of software in the European Union (blog.sonatype.com)
Jaguars associate strength coach Kevin Maxen comes out as gay in a first for US-based pro leagues (apnews.com)
Wire welcomes the publication of Messaging Layer Security as RFC 9420 (wire.com)
After years of intense standards development, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) officially published today Messaging Layer Security (MLS) as RFC 9420. MLS is the first global open standard for end-to-end encrypted communications and has been jointly developed by industry peers and academic institutions. Wire was an...
Heat has killed at least 18 people in Arizona's Maricopa County this year (www.nbcnews.com)
69 more deaths are under investigation. The county is one of the few that has revamped its reporting to ensure heat deaths are accounted for.
‘Haiti is experiencing a brush with famine’: UN slashes food assistance (thehill.com)
A key international aid organization is slashing its food assistance program in Haiti, leaving 100,000 people without food aid they had previously counted on....
Dramatic fossil shows pugnacious mammal attacking a dinosaur (www.reuters.com)
Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say (www.houstonchronicle.com)
WASHINGTON — Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the...
AT&T and Verizon’s ancient lead cables have US lawmakers demanding action (arstechnica.com)
The WSJ reported, “For many years, telecom companies have known about the lead-covered cables and the potential risks of exposure to their workers, according to documents and interviews with former employees. They were also aware that lead was potentially leaching into the environment, but haven’t meaningfully acted on...
Oppose corporate shilling on Fedora in this poll. At 299 votes, original proposal is only chosen by 16% (discussion.fedoraproject.org)
Oracle takes on Red Hat in Linux code fight (www.zdnet.com)
Now, it's Oracle's turn to jump into the Red Hat open-source Linux code kerfuffle.
When Oscar was just a pup (reddthat.com)
12 years old now and still just as ready to play as ever
Spain: 6 injured in Pamplona bull run (www.dw.com)
A man has been charged with a cyber attack on the Discovery Bay water treatment facility (securityaffairs.com)
U.S. expected to announce cluster munitions in new package for Ukraine (www.cbsnews.com)
The Biden administration is expected to announce Friday it’s providing Ukraine with controversial cluster munitions in a weapons package, U.S. officials told CBS News....
[EFF] User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer (www.eff.org)
I found this interesting and was wondering how some of the larger instances handle the issues they outline such as...
[META] [Crosspost] Announcing a new Search Engine for Lemmy (www.search-lemmy.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/963301...
Chemists discover why photosynthetic light-harvesting is so efficient: The disorganized arrangement of the proteins in light-harvesting complexes is the key to their extreme efficiency (lemmy.world)
sciencedaily.com...
Microsoft 365 faces more GDPR headwinds as Germany bans it in schools: Redmond disputes report that 'it is not possible to use without transferring personal data to the USA' (www.theregister.com)
Germany’s federal and state data protection authorities (DSK) have raised concerns about the compatibility of Microsoft 365 with data protection laws in Germany and the wider European Union....
