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Albury resident 'crying out' for justice 19 years after surviving horrific massacre in east Africa (www.abc.net.au)

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China: UN experts demand information on nine imprisoned Tibetan human rights defenders (news.un.org)

The experts sounded the alarm on the lack of information provided by Chinese authorities - deeming it a deliberate attempt to “make the world forget” about the individuals who are spending year after year in isolation.

The Manipulation Problem: Conversational AI as a Threat to Epistemic Agency (arxiv.org)

Niger’s crisis belongs to the West (www.newstatesman.com)

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For real this time: Samsung launches One UI 6 beta (www.androidpolice.com)

The beta is only available for Samsung Galaxy S23 phones and they also expanded its availability to more regions: China, Germany, India, Poland, South Korea, the UK, and the US.

Why it matters where your data is stored (www.bbc.com)

Security experts discover flaw in the random-number generator used to create wallet private keys on Libbitcoin Explorer 3.x versions (milksad.info)

Bad actors are actively exploiting this flaw to steal funds from affected wallets on multiple blockchains, they say.

If you’ve heard that people have problems with the head of mastodon (gargron) this recent little incident might be an example. (github.com)

The link is to a GitHub discussion, where gargron shuts down a discussion because he’s made a unilateral decision and then locks the thread to avoid debate....

Ethnic clashes bring Indian state Manipur to the brink of civil war (globalvoices.org)

South Korea: 1,000 buses evacuate scouts from disaster-hit World Jamboree (www.bbc.com)

Intel's deepfake detector tested on real and fake videos (www.bbc.com)

Intel’s deepfake detector tested on real and fake videos::We tested Intel’s new tool, “FakeCatcher”, on videos of Donald Trump and Joe Biden - with mixed results.

Traditional Indigenous Education Creates Stable Productive Members (popularresistance.org)

I never understood why so-called ‘highly intelligent’ people never merely looked at the man-made non-indigenous educational system and realized it is a totally unnatural way for humans to learn, just because we have sophisticated technology does not mean the modern educational construct creates better human beings who are...

Baldur’s Gate 3 Now One of the Biggest Steam Games Ever - IGN (www.ign.com)

Baldur’s Gate 3’s huge launch swelled over the weekend, with the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game breaking the 800,000 concurrent players barrier on Sunday, August 6.

Biden vowed to reform immigration detention. Instead, private prisons benefited (www.reuters.com)

The stalled reform coincided with a boom in private prison revenues from ICE contracts during the Biden administration and an increase in the percentage of detainees being held in private facilities, according to an analysis of ICE data by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) shared exclusively with Reuters.

Russia unleashes strikes against Ukraine; Kyiv targets Crimea bridge (www.aljazeera.com)

Russia says it shot down a drone heading for Moscow in the third such attack in a week, while officials in both Russia and Ukraine have confirmed Ukraine targeted two bridges linking Crimea to the mainland....