Three Weeks in Veloren 216 (veloren.net)
Chinese city hunts for dozens of crocodiles (www.dw.com)
Chinese media reported on Tuesday that more than 70 crocodiles had escaped after deluges in Guangdong province caused a lake at a crocodile farm to overflow....
Chinese state media censors itself after highlighting poem about corrupt leaders (www.theguardian.com)
VKD3D-Proton v2.10 brings various game fixes, DirectStorage additions and lots more (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Iran, US on verge of prisoner swap under Qatar-mediated deal (www.reuters.com)
When $6 billion of unfrozen Iranian funds are wired to banks in Qatar as early as next week, it will trigger a carefully choreographed sequence that will see as many as five detained U.S. dual nationals leave Iran and a similar number of Iranian prisoners held in the U.S. fly home, according to eight Iranian and other sources...
Samsung Galaxy A54 beats the Galaxy S22 in getting a taste of One UI 6 beta (www.androidpolice.com)
This makes the A54 the first Samsung mid-range to get the One UI 6 beta. Guess owning a high-end smartphone doesn’t necessarily mean you’re prioritized for the beta updates....
Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood (www.propublica.org)
Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college. The school has been gobbling up the remaining houses ever since.
US applications for unemployment benefits fall to lowest level in 7 months (apnews.com)
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week fell to the lowest level in seven months with the labor market seemingly resistant to the higher interest rates put in to place to cool hiring....
Do you like reading books like this? Too politicial? (lemmus.org)
Bad Robot, Greg Berlanti, Chuck Lorre Among Overall Deals Suspended at Warners (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Warner Bros. Television Group has also suspended pacts for Mindy Kaling and Bill Lawrence.
Introducing yet another AutoMod for Lemmy (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.basedcount.com/post/225787...
Douglas Lenat, Who Tried to Make A.I. More Human, Dies at 72 (www.nytimes.com)
NYT gift article expires in 30 days....
Observation of an Alice ring in a Bose–Einstein condensate - Nature Communications (www.nature.com)
Preview: ‘Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan – The Making Of The Classic Film’ With Authors Interview (trekmovie.com)
Here're the most popular Steam Deck games for August 2023 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Darling Progress Report Q2 2023 | Darling Development Blog (blog.darlinghq.org)
Darling is an open source compatibility layer that allows you to run macOS software on Linux. One of the Darling developers, @facekapow, has recently written up a new progress report:...
New Survey Reveals That Many Game Developers Consider Their Career Unsustainable (www.ign.com)
IGN can exclusively reveal the details from IATSE's 2023 Gameworkers.org Rates and Conditions Survey, where the organization asked hundreds of video game developers about their pay, benefits, and working conditions.
Profiling & Optimizing KRunner (write.as)
Decades After Dictatorship, Chile Mounts Search for Hundreds Who Vanished (www.nytimes.com)
NYT gift article expires in 30 days....
Hyundai and LG will invest an additional $2B into making batteries at Georgia electric vehicle plant (apnews.com)
Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution said Thursday they will spend an additional $2 billion and hire an extra 400 workers to make batteries at the automaker’s sprawling U.S. electrical vehicle plant that’s under construction in Georgia....
Palestinian minor shot dead by Israeli occupation forces in occupied Jerusalem (peoplesdispatch.org)
[Finland's] government coalition revealed the contents of its anti-racism statement -- in the wake of a summer of racism and far-right scandals [from the cabinet] (yle.fi)
Post title from the lead paragraph for better context. I prefer original ones but felt it missed the beat somewhat. Hope I didn’t add much bias....
Hong Kong: Cantonese language group shuts down after targeting by national security police (www.theguardian.com)
UFC, NBA & NFL Want to Fight Live Streaming Piracy With ‘Instant’ DMCA Takedowns. (torrentfreak.com)
Pet owner ‘bill shock’ worsening the mental health crisis among Australian vets, inquiry told (www.theguardian.com)
Father of veterinarian who took own life calls for more education on how much it really costs to own a pet
