Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants’ scientific names (www.theguardian.com)
Disneyland workers in Anaheim, California, vote to authorize strike (www.theguardian.com)
Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS (www.tomshardware.com)
Southwest Airlines, the fourth largest airline in the US, is seemingly unaffected by the problematic CrowdStrike update that caused millions of computers to BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) because it used Windows 3.1. The CrowdStrike issue disrupted operations globally after a faulty update caused newer computers to freeze and stop...
U.S. Launches Effort to Stop Russia From Arming Houthis With Antiship Missiles (www.wsj.com)
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"The Grindr Super Bowl": Gay dating app saw influx of users during Republican National Convention | Salon.com (www.salon.com)
Horse (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Chappell Roan says she's "pumped the brakes" on fame after fans give off "stalker vibes" (www.nme.com)
From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia’s leader beguiled the world (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: baraza.africa/post/1757994
Conspiracy Theorists Say Global Outage Was an Attack on Trump (gizmodo.com)
Tesla Sales Drop 17% in California (cleantechnica.com)
Treasury warns that anti-woke banking laws like Florida's are a national security risk (apnews.com)
The Treasury Department is warning that state laws that restrict banks from considering environmental, social and governance factors could harm efforts to address money laundering and terrorism financing....
Link-Busters Sent a Billion DMCA Takedown Requests to Google Search. (torrentfreak.com)
Sources: Israel strikes Hezbollah depot in Lebanon; Two soldiers wounded in north Israel (www.haaretz.com)
UK billionaire’s Israeli TV channel accused of axing show for Netanyahu (www.theguardian.com)
Len Blavatnik, the second-richest man in Britain, is facing a series of protests in the UK after his Israeli television channel was accused of cancelling programmes to please Benjamin Netanyahu....
Slowly but surely, Israel tightens its grip on Gaza’s lifeline to Egypt (www.theguardian.com)
In the months before the Israeli invasion, Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah was a lifeline, a place where thousands sought shelter or scrabbled to raise funds to cross into neighbouring Egypt....
Nigeria fines Meta $220 million over data violations (www.dw.com)
Nigeria’s consumer protection watchdog accused US tech giant Meta of abusing market dominance and sharing personal data without permission. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp....
Soulframe Reappears With Story Gameplay, Plans to Come to More Players this Fall - IGN (www.ign.com)
Sandra Hemme freed after 43 years in prison for murder she didn’t commit (www.bbc.com)
A woman who served 43 years for a murder she did not commit has been released after her conviction was overturned....
Unsettling apocalyptic survival game The Forever Winter dates a closed beta test, and you can join the Discord for a chance to take part. (www.pcgamesn.com)
Nvidia GPU partners reportedly cheap out on thermal paste, causing 100C hotspot temperatures — cheap paste allegedly degrades in a few months (www.tomshardware.com)
SNK VS. CAPCOM SVC CHAOS|Trailer (yt.artemislena.eu)
Utah to use pentobarbital to execute man instead of three-drug combination (www.theguardian.com)
Defense attorneys said the use of ketamine, fentanyl and potassium chloride could cause ‘excruciating suffering’...