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UK opens new chapter in digital regulation as parliament passes Online Safety Bill | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

WSL september update (devblogs.microsoft.com)

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/3219529

Libya floods: The bodies left unrecognisable by disaster (www.bbc.com)

Warning: This story contains details that some readers may find distressing....

Immortals of Aveum studio lays off nearly half of staff weeks after release (www.polygon.com)

Federal judge again declares Obama-era DACA program unlawful (www.cnn.com)

A federal judge in Texas ruled Wednesday that a regulation intended to preserve the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is unlawful, delivering a major blow to the Biden administration....

Colombian President: West’s Economic Blockade Against Venezuela is Reason Behind Migration Crisis (orinocotribune.com)

Going-to-the-Sun Point, Glacier NP, Montana, USA (postimg.cc)

New here, trying my hand at this…

Libya floods: Entire neighbourhoods dragged into the sea (www.bbc.com)

At least 2,300 have been killed, according to the ambulance authority in Derna, the worst affected city....

The international Red Cross cuts budget, staffing levels as humanitarian aid dries up (apnews.com)

The part of the international Red Cross that deals with conflict and prisoners of war announced Monday it will trim its projected budget by about one-eighth next year and cut nearly 20% of staff at its headquarters....

Rescue teams retrieve hundreds of bodies in Derna, one of the Libyan cities devastated by floods (apnews.com)

Rescue teams in eastern Libya have retrieved hundreds of bodies from the city of Derna that's been inundated by devastating floods.

Several wounded when gunmen open fire on convoy in Mexican border town (www.cbsnews.com)

At least three people were wounded when a convoy of vehicles crossing into Mexico from the U.S. was attacked by armed civilians early Saturday, Mexican authorities said....

Dunwoody dinosaur display to go extinct after complaint sent to city (www.wsbtv.com)

After a city notice to remove the dinosaurs deflated the display's joy, neighbors rallied behind it.

This week in KDE: power management galore (pointieststick.com)

DAZN's Early Piracy Targets May Include U.S. Govt. Domain Seizure Survivors * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

As reported in TorrentFreak, Italian regulator AGCOM has “successfully” blocked 45 pirate IPTV providers in Italy at the behest of commercial sports streaming company DAZN Italia. DAZN claims piracy steals €800,000 from live sports every single day (they are obviously batshit crazy)....

'Every liberal has a particle of hitler inside of them' (sh.itjust.works)

An 'upcoming Nintendo Direct' could see the return of a classic Nintendo series (www.gamescensor.com)

Skull And Bones Creative Director Has Reportedly Left (gameranx.com)

As if the game’s development process hadn’t been any more of a farce.

Telecom companies in India want tech firms to pay for network usage (techcrunch.com)

cross-posted from !technology...

Finally found a decently priced laptop using AMD's 780m iGPU | Lenovo UK Laptop configurator (www.lenovo.com)

The worst part of using a gaming laptop on Linux is that, despite the great work of open source developers and hobbyists, it’s still way too clunky to use a hybrid graphics setup imo. Once you want to use an interface that’s only connected to one GPU (such as HDMI) you’re left messing with switching utilities like...