Rohingya: At least 23 dead, 30 missing after boat sinks (www.bbc.com)
As many as 30 others are missing after the boat foundered and was abandoned by crew on Sunday.
300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before (edition.cnn.com)
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Released with Linux 6.2 Kernel and Mesa 23.0 Graphics Stacks (9to5linux.com)
Writers Guild Sets New Negotiations Session With Studios, Streamers for Aug. 11 (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
The WGA informed members Thursday that the AMPTP requested the meeting in response to the guild's proposals that were outlined Aug. 4 in the so-called talks about talking.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart: Linux & Windows Benchmark (German -> Google Translate) (www-computerbase-de.translate.goog)
It’s quite rare to see articles that compare Linux and Windows gaming benchmarks so here it is from Computerbase. Translated by Google Translate as the article is originally written in german....
Veilid Framework - A New Decentralized Application Framework by cDC members (Cult of the Dead Cow) (veilid.com)
Presented by Christien ‘DilDog’ Rioux and Katelyn ‘Medus4’ Bowden at DefCon 31...
Age of Coordination (blog.erlend.sh)
California judge pauses sweeping of homeless encampments amid heatwave (www.theguardian.com)
Order was issued against the city of Sacramento after advocates called out the municipality for violating its own order
‘I shout from the rooftops I exist’: Brazilians identifying as Indigenous up by 90% in 12 years (www.theguardian.com)
The 37-year-old is part of a growing number of Brazilians reclaiming their Indigenous identity, as reflected in new census data published on Monday. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the number of people identifying as Indigenous has increased by nearly 90% in just 12 years, from 896,917 to...
Twilight of the Serial Killer: Cases Like Gilgo Beach Become Ever Rarer (www.nytimes.com)
Rex Heuermann, the meticulous architectural consultant who the authorities say murdered three women and buried them on a Long Island beach more than a decade ago, may have been among the last of the dying breed of American serial killers....
Boris Johnson vows to protect newts threatening plans for pool at his country manor (www.independent.co.uk)
4 Big Positive Changes coming to Google Search – including removing Private Info and Images from Search (beehaw.org)
Google has announced several key changes to make its search platform safer for users by giving more control to South Africans (and other countries) over what personal information appears in results....
Play Store Deals (lemmy.ca)
The goal of this community is to share when Android apps on the Google Play Store go on sale, either at a reduced price or for free.
Apple patent could let Vision Pro visualize electrical currents, radio signals, Wi-Fi output, more (www.digitaltrends.com)
This could help engineers diagnose problems, or let you fix them yourself. Sensors don’t necessarily need to be on headset, but could be on connected device, such as Apple Watch or iPhone.
US military may put armed troops on commercial ships in Strait of Hormuz to stop Iran seizures (apnews.com)
The U.S. military is considering putting armed personnel on commercial ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, in what would be an unheard of action aimed at stopping Iran from seizing and harassing civilian vessels, five American officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.
OpenCalc : terminal-based calculator (github.com)
v1.0 : support a basic amount of operation(addition, exponent, square root, division, etc…)
The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free? (www.wired.com)
Rise of the Triad, the Nightdive release is here (www.gog.com)
Sure, you could have ran RotT in a number of sourceports, DOSBox, or even a virtual machine if you were determined, but the experience of getting it up and running on a modern system hasn’t been great....
How to spot fake reviews online (www.bbc.com)
Does Texas A&M’s botched hire spell doom for classroom diversity? Some say yes (apnews.com)
Just days later, McElroy’s tenure offer unraveled after the university buckled under backlash from Texas Scorecard, a conservative website, and an unspecified group of individuals close to the university who opposed her previous diversity initiatives. A new state law will limit that and the discussion of race and inclusion on...
Peru: Indigenous women and police clash in anti-government protest (www.bbc.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/868638...
React os is still alive! I don't know about you guys but I'm personally hope this will get to a point where it can replace windows in legacy environments (reactos.org)
Ukraine moves Christmas Day in snub to Russia (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/832755...
Olympics threaten to erase a symbol of Paris, say riverside booksellers (www.reuters.com)
PARIS, July 29 (Reuters) - Booksellers along the river Seine say the Olympics threaten to erase a symbol of Paris, after they were told by local authorities that they will have to remove their stalls for the Summer Games opening ceremony in 2024 for security reasons....
More than 900 migrants drown off Tunisia's coast in 2023 (www.dw.com)
More than 900 migrants have drowned off Tunisia’s coast so far this year, the country’s Interior minister, Kamel Feki, said on Wednesday....
