#105 Legendary Saturday Edition (thisweek.gnome.org)
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from July 15 to July 22.
India Hands Over Missile Corvette INS Kirpan to Vietnam - News18 (www.news18.com)
Star Trek: Discovery | Fifth and Final Season - Look Ahead | SDCC 2023 (startrek.com)
Robots.txt for LLMs (matt-rickard.com)
BBC Under Fire for Doing Pesticide Giant’s PR (www.desmog.com)
Search Warrant Reveals New Details As Police Take Fresh Look at Tupac Shakur Murder (timesofsandiego.com)
REC.O.R.D: The Realistic Mobile FPS is here to beat Unrecord (www.risinginsider.com)
Why the EU cannot admit Ukraine as a member (12ft.io)
The EU may well receive Ukraine as a candidate for accession and then leave it to rot in the antechamber, just as happened with Turkey. Right now, the EU is structurally not equipped to deal with Ukraine....
Docker & Reverse Proxies (kbin.social)
Mooching off this other post...
The Rise and Fall of Trilobyte [developers of The 7th Guest] - by Geoff Keighley (victorianrobot.tumblr.com)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/784516...
Indian opposition unites in attempt to oust Narendra Modi (www.theguardian.com)
Included in the coalition are India’s largest national opposition, the Congress party, as well as powerful regional parties such as Trinamool Congress, which governs the state of West Bengal under the popular chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, and the Aam Aadmi party, which governs Delhi and Punjab....
Farage makes fresh allegations against UK's Coutts over account closures (www.reuters.com)
Watch: Fiery crash as passenger train ploughs into truck in Indonesia (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/589106...
Paris 2024 Olympics: Concern over French plan for AI surveillance (www.bbc.co.uk)
Indonesia’s orphanages turn to TikTok to plead for donations (www.aljazeera.com)
Medan, Indonesia – Every night, the staff at the Mutiara Mulia orphanage go through the same ritual....
Why have there been large coalitions of countries throughout history that come together to draft agreements about the boundaries of war and what constitutes a war crime (like the Geneva Convention), but none have ever made war itself a crime? (kbin.social)
Why can't the U.N. just make war illegal?
Your Legal Responsibilities As a Cat Owner - Can you be sued if your cat bites someone? It's complicated. (lifehacker.com)
Microsoft brings Bing Chat to the enterprise (techcrunch.com)
At its annual Inspire conference, Microsoft unveiled Bing Chat Enterprise, a version of Bing Chat with business-focused data privacy and governance controls. With Bing Chat Enterprise, chat data isn’t saved, Microsoft can’t view a customer’s employee or business data and customer data isn’t used to train the underlying...
How to Redeem Social Media (www.theatlantic.com)
In Praise of Phone Numbers (www.theatlantic.com)
Switzerland fights to contain forest fire near Italy border as winds pick up (ghostarchive.org)
BITSCH, Switzerland, July 18 (Reuters) - Swiss firefighters on Tuesday were battling a forest fire that has forced more than 200 people to evacuate, and authorities warned winds were making the blaze difficult to contain....
USAID chief visits Odesa, unveils $250m for Ukrainian farmers (www.reuters.com)
US government launches the Cyber Trust Mark, its long-awaited IoT security labeling program (techcrunch.com)
World Bank chief warns mistrust splitting Global South and West (www.aljazeera.com)
The new head of the World Bank has warned that growing divides between rich and poor nations risk deepening poverty in the developing world, at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in India....
