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Stay productive and connected with these new Android features - Google Blog (blog.google)

Android is announcing new features to help you improve productivity, connectivity and individuality as you go about your day-to-day life.

Fear Grows for Myanmar’s Bagan After Temples Suffer Fresh Flooding (www.irrawaddy.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/4693218...

Palestinian Prisoners to Launch Hunger Strike Against Increasing Israeli Restrictions (peoplesdispatch.org)

After outrage over Taylor Swift tickets, reform has been slow across the US (hosted.ap.org)

When thousands of fans couldn’t get tickets for megastar Taylor Swift’s summer stadium tour, some diehards paid upwards of 70 times face value to see their favorite artist in person — an outrage that prompted congressional hearings and bills in state legislatures to better protect consumers....

YSK: Instructables.com runs maker contests of all sorts and offer prizes (www.instructables.com)

Bosnia and Herzegovina elections undemocratic, amplify ethnic divisions - Human Rights Court (www.euronews.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2073232...

Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew developer announces closure (www.eurogamer.net)

Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars (www.npr.org)

Self-driving cars have flooded San Francisco's streets, and not everyone is happy. Street activists have been using a low-tech solution to incapacitate the vehicles.

Hero of the Kingdom II for free on GoG (www.gog.com)

Super Blue Moon (August 30th 2023) (earthsky.org)

ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON runs well on Steam Deck and desktop Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)

SpaceX, NASA launch four astronauts from four countries | CNN (www.cnn.com)

The SpaceX Crew-7 mission launched from Florida on Saturday morning, hosting one of the most internationally diverse astronaut crews to date, with members from the US, Japan, Russia and Denmark....

Thailand Sentences 7 to Jail for Protesting Myanmar Coup (www.irrawaddy.com)

In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged barricades survived (apnews.com)

And car after car was turned back toward the rapidly spreading wildfire by a barricade blocking access to Highway 30....

China Pouring in Billions to Prop Up Myanmar's Military Regime (www.irrawaddy.com)

African Union issues ambiguous view on possible Niger military intervention (www.theguardian.com)

The African Union (AU) appears to have left room open for military intervention by a west African political bloc to restore democracy in Niger, as Algerian state radio said it had refused a French request to fly over its airspace for a military operation....

Makulu Linux Gets an Upgrade (www.makululinux.com)

While you weren’t looking, Makulu Linux went through a rebranding, a rebase on Debian 12, and got a bunch of new features like an on-board local AI virtual assistant!

New Emulator Lets Some x86-64 Games Run on RISC-V Dev Board (www.tomshardware.com)

Wine-GE-Proton8-14 Released (github.com)

FSR is no longer enabled by default as it was found to limit in-game resolutions in some games. To enable/use it you will need...

EV battery imports face scrutiny under US law on Chinese forced labor (www.reuters.com)

Mercedes-Benz USA (MBGn.DE), Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE), Denso (6902.T), Continental AG (CONG.DE) and ZF Friedrichshafen AG (ZFF.UL) - said they had not had products detained under UFLPA....

Russia shuts down human rights group Sakharov Center (www.aljazeera.com)

Joshua Ashton 🐸: “Elden Ring HDR on Linux! Had to implement the legacy (and terrible) NVAPI HDR interfaces and pretend my AMD GPU was NVIDIA. Check it out! :D” (landofkittens.social)

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Is there any Bittorrent V2 tracker? (www.bittorrent.org)

The same question was archived on r/trackers. Would like to get notified when a compatible tracker is available for testing, it’s not even clear if there is an implementation just yet....

Amazoned! Online Vendors Abused and Screwed Over (particl.news)

Amazon is known for its anti-competition practices. While they aggressively charge you for every sale you make, they also get to see all of your sales data; valuable information to have if you want to launch products. Even better if you plan on launching copycats! In more than one way, just by selling on their platform, they get...