The future of Vortex and the Nexus Mods app (www.nexusmods.com)
Vortex will continue to be our primary, supported mod manager for the foreseeable future and will be the application that we provide to support modding for upcoming titles such as Starfield....
US slaps China visa curbs for 'forced assimilation' in Tibet (www.dw.com)
The United States is to impose visa curbs on Chinese officials suspected of “forced assimilation” of Tibetan children at state-run schools, the US State Department said in a statement on Tuesday....
[DISCUSS] IBM using LLMs to convert COBOL to Java (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/3758187...
Is Crossover any good? Better than Lutris or PlayOnLinux? (www.codeweavers.com)
Websites for file transfer without downloading additional software or apps (megatech.ng)
The Talos IV Rebuilding Initiative (mastodon.online)
Poster-style illustration of a Talosian imagining their world reborn. By Fluffgar 2022.
Platelets Can Replicate the Benefits of Exercise in the Brain (qbi.uq.edu.au)
[OC] Zen Dragonfly (lemm.ee)
Seeking help for my boy (gofund.me)
fundraising page here...
Got any good ghost stories? (beehaw.org)
Or more broadly, creepy/unexplainable stories? Anything that’s happened that makes your skin crawl when you think about it....
Wildfires and Farming Activities May Be Top Sources of Air Pollution Linked to Increased Risk, Cases of Dementia (news.umich.edu)
British Museum worker sacked over missing treasures (www.bbc.com)
The museum dismisses a member of staff and police are investigating after items go missing.
[News] If You Have These 6 Personality Traits, You're More Vulnerable to Phishing Scams (www.makeuseof.com)
Summary...
North Korea enforces an anti-shorts law - but it's only affecting women (www.euronews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1517933...
[intro] bmakelib: The minimalist Makefile standard library you'd always wished for! (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/3413371...
Pacific Northwest heat wave could break temperature records through Thursday (www.npr.org)
Blood Simple. Several Russian journalists and activists were poisoned in Europe (theins.ru)
Elena Kostyuchenko, Natalia Arno, and Irina Babloyan, have long worked to expose the Kremlin’s lies. While traveling through Europe in the last year, each was poisoned by unknown toxins. Their cases remain unsolved. Why?
Federal officials plan to announce 2024 cuts along the Colorado River. Here's what to expect (apnews.com)
Federal officials this week are expected to ease water cuts for 2024 under a slightly improved outlook for the Colorado River’s health, though long-term challenges remain....
Armenia calls for UN help on Nagorno-Karabakh’s humanitarian situation (www.aljazeera.com)
Armenia appealed to the UN Security Council to convene an emergency meeting over what it called a “deteriorating humanitarian situation” in Nagorno-Karabakh after accusing Azerbaijan of blocking supplies to the disputed region....
Polish police arrrest five in swoop on cyber crime site (www.reuters.com)
WARSAW, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Polish police arrested five people suspected of being responsible for running a web platform that has been used to launch cyberattacks around the world, European policing agency Europol said on Friday.
Moon rocket blasts off, carrying Russia’s hope of first successful lunar landing since 1976 (www.theguardian.com)
The Luna-25 mission will seek to land near the south pole of the moon, collecting geological samples from the area, and sending back data for signs of water or its building blocks, which could raise the possibility of a future human colony on the moon.
Saving Vivaldi Social from doom: A Sysadmin adventure (vivaldi.com)
Georgia doctor decapitated baby using 'excessive force' in delivery (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1298292...