How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform Oil Well Cleanup in State After State (www.propublica.org)
Last year, representatives of New Mexico’s oil industry met behind closed doors with the very groups with which they typically clash — state regulators and environmentalists — in search of an answer to the more than 70,000 wells sitting unplugged across the state. Many leak oil, brine and toxic or explosive gasses, and...
China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say (www.intereconomics.eu)
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How UK indie exhibitors are engaging younger audiences with arthouse cinema (www.screendaily.com)
The industry is used to stories about UK cinemagoing being in decline since the pandemic and younger viewers finding other ways to spend their leisure time. But a number of independent exhibitors counter that narrative based on their own experiences. While none downplay the struggles that arthouse cinema releases still face at...
shields.io badge for Mbin (and maybe kbin) (shields.io)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/13760290...
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults To NVIDIA On Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
Qualcomm Aiming For Snapdragon X Elite GPU Support In Linux 6.11 (www.phoronix.com)
A lot of people here seemed excited for these chips. It’ll be very interesting to see the gaming performance as this could bring in an entire new segment of portable devices running Linux if powerful enough to deliver solid battery life and CPU performance.
South Korea: Exploding lithium batteries spark deadly factory fire (www.bbc.com)
Hollo: Federated single-user microblogging software (github.com)
Gaza's missing children: Over 20,000 children estimated to be lost, disappeared, detained, buried under the rubble or in mass graves (www.savethechildren.org.uk)
GAZA, 24 June 2024 – Up to 21,000 children are estimated to be missing in the chaos of the war in Gaza, many trapped beneath rubble, detained, buried in unmarked graves, or lost from their families, said Save the Children. The agency’s child protection teams are reporting that the latest displacements caused by the offensive...
UK Retailer GAME To End All In-Store Video Game Sales (www.gfinityesports.com)
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 74 (fediversereport.com)
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European Union regulators accuse Apple of breaching the bloc's tech rules (www.cnbc.com)
We cater any event! (sh.itjust.works)
1,300 'most vulnerable' Hajj pilgrims died from heat wave in Saudi Arabia (www.upi.com)
TimeSplitters Looks Set For PS5 Release As Part Of PS2 Classics Line-Up | Retro Dodo (retrododo.com)
Sony’s PlayStation Plus Classics Catalog is expanding with nostalgic titles....
Andy Dyer, Known For His Work In Commodore Format, Total!, And Mega Fame, Has Passed Away | Retro Gaming News 24/7 (www.retronews.com)
Andy Dyer, a renowned figure in the British video game magazine industry known for his work at Commodore Format, Total!, and Mega Fame, has sadly passed away....
TIL about the TRAPPIST-1 Star System (en.wikipedia.org)
(it’s not a solar system because Sol is our star, specifically; we’re the only Solar system)...
Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft has been pushing hard for its users to sign into Windows with a Microsoft Account. The newest Windows 11 installer removed the easy bypass to the requirement that you make an account or login with your existing account. If you didn’t install Windows 11 without a Microsoft Account and now want to stop sending the...
Gaza peace talks at 'dead end' as Israel rejects permanent truce (www.newarab.com)
A senior Israeli official said on Saturday that negotiations over a ceasefire deal with Hamas have reached a dead end, with Israel unwilling to support a permanent ceasefire and the withdrawal of its forces from Gaza....
Brodie Robinson on Manifest v2 Phase Out (piped.video)
Direct link if piped is down: youtu.be/xuwpvrtXyfk