Mask bans are growing in popularity. Critics call the trend a 'dog whistle' to quell protest. (www.nbcnews.com)
AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream (www.wired.com)
NYC Black Residents Die From Heat Stress At Double The Rate Of White Residents, Report Says (newsone.com)
Final Fantasy 7: An oral history (www.polygon.com)
How Japan has avoided the gaming industry’s persistent layoffs (www.theverge.com)
Massive car dealer ransom attack is mostly over after 2 weeks of work-arounds (arstechnica.com)
Taliban: Female athletes do not represent Afghanistan at the Paris Olympics this month. (feminist.org)
World's First Dragon Ball Theme Park to Open in Saudi Arabia - IGN (www.ign.com)
Trump-backed GOP platform says states should be allowed to extend constitutional rights to embryos (www.salon.com)
Why am i Blue? (youtube.com)
France’s elections showed a polarized country (www.vox.com)
The real lesson for America in the French and British elections (www.vox.com)
Tales of Lost TV: The Secret Weapon of 117 (Stage 7) - Gene Roddenberry's possibly lost first produced science fiction script (www.tvobscurities.com)
A copy of the script is still in existence, but no one appears to have scanned it in- tvobscurities.com/…/gene-roddenberrys-secret-defe…...
Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real people (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/14383028
Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months (www.theverge.com)
Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?” (www.goldmansachs.com)
Magnus archives, fan community (lemmy.world)
I saw someone else has posted here previously but it seems to be pretty dead and I can’t really get in touch with the person over it so I started another one and I plan on doing some weekly content on there if anyone is interested :)
Redditor has worst possible experience with Google’s new Find My Device network (www.androidpolice.com)
One Redditor tested Google’s Find My Device network against Apple’s Find My Network by shipping an AirTag and a Pebblebee tracker to a different state and tracking the package through the respective apps....
New Sentinel nuclear warhead program is 81% over budget. But Pentagon says it must go forward (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The new Sentinel nuclear warhead program is 81% over budget and is now estimated to cost nearly $141 billion, but the Pentagon is moving forward with the program, saying that given the threats from China and Russia it does not have a choice....
Ukraine is releasing thousands of prisoners so they can join the fight against Russia (apnews.com)
DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — At a rural penal colony in southeast Ukraine, several convicts stand assembled under barbed wire to hear an army recruiter offer them a shot at parole. In return, they must join the grueling fight against Russia....
Thanks to a $1 billion gift, most Johns Hopkins medical students will no longer pay tuition (apnews.com)
Most medical students at Johns Hopkins University will no longer pay tuition thanks to a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies announced Monday....
Unfathomable': Lancet Study Estimates Gaza Death Toll May Exceed 186,000 (www.commondreams.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17363648...
Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour (Update) (www.androidauthority.com)
Hamas accuses Netanyahu of placing ‘obstacles’ to truce-hostage negotiations (www.timesofisrael.com)
Hamas on Monday accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of putting hurdles in front of ceasefire negotiations, with talks aimed at reaching a truce-hostage release deal set to renew this week....