US to build new nuclear gravity bomb (www.defensenews.com)
US to build new nuclear gravity bomb::Experts say this new higher-yield nuclear bomb appears intended to pave the way for retiring the older B83 megaton bomb.
House Speaker Mike Johnson Responds to New Round of Scrutiny About Black Son (www.vanityfair.com)
Mike Johnson’s meteoric elevation from an under-the-radar congressman from Louisiana to second-in-line to the U.S. presidency sent journalists, Democrats and Republicans alike to uncover information about the personal and professional history of the most right-wing and least experienced House Speaker in history, who took the...
A Detective Sabotaged His Own Cases Because He Didn’t Like the Prosecutor. The Police Department Did Nothing to Stop Him. (www.propublica.org)
It's a dad's duty (sh.itjust.works)
State House Candidate in Virginia Condemns Leak of Sex Tapes (www.nytimes.com)
Susanna Gibson, a Democrat running in one of seven tossup House seats in the closely divided legislature, denounced the “illegal invasion of my privacy.”...
US caver who became trapped 1,000 metres deep in Turkey is moved halfway to surface (www.reuters.com)
Tech firms fail to tackle Russian propaganda - EU (www.bbc.com)
Source: Google Pixel 8 will get more Android OS updates - 9to5google (9to5google.com)
Low effort meme (programming.dev)
Lenovo quietly launched the world’s lightest laptop but it won’t sell it outside Asia (www.techradar.com)
Signs at Spanish beaches warn English-speaking tourists to stay away (www.independent.co.uk)
The threat of rock falls, water contamination and jellyfish have been used to deter visitors from Mallorcan beaches
How Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism (www.wired.com)
Scots students finish 'stiff' charity challenge cycling 400 miles from Cock Lane to Dick Place (www.dailyrecord.co.uk)
Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI (www.theonion.com)
Kendrick Lamar's company just dropped a limited-edition 'dumb' phone. It's already sold out. (www.businessinsider.com)
Kendrick Lamar enters the tech space with a collaboration on the Light Phone 2. Light phones offer minimalistic experiences without apps or color.
"This is a tremendous achievement" - Lemmy is sitting at ~36K active daily users across all instances (join-lemmy.org)
‘Qantas can't guarantee flights’, airline says, after allegedly selling 8,000 flights that were already cancelled — arguing what it did was reasonable and that “airlines can't guarantee specific fl... (home.nzcity.co.nz)
‘Qantas can’t guarantee flights’, airline says, after allegedly selling 8,000 flights that were already cancelled — arguing what it did was reasonable and that “airlines can’t guarantee specific fl…::Qantas has launched its legal defence in the ACCC "“ghost flights”" case — allegedly selling 8,000 flights...
Global billionaire tax could yield $250 billion annually, study says (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/7812592...
US Vetoes Resolution Calling for ‘Humanitarian Pause’ (www.truthdig.com)
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Rishi Sunak considers tax cut for top earners after byelection defeats (www.theguardian.com)
This week in KDE: colorblindness correction filters (pointieststick.com)
Yes, This Is Israel’s 9/11 (theintercept.com)
Both the U.S. and Israel were stunned to experience the ultraviolence they mete out to others....
Latino, Black enrollment in advanced math shot up after this simple change. (www.nbcnews.com)
Latino and Black students in advanced math courses grew when Texas districts stopped relying on recommendations and automatically enrolled qualifying students....
X.Org Hit By New Security Vulnerabilities - Two Date Back To 1988 With X11R2 (www.phoronix.com)
Made public today was CVE-2023-43785 as an out-of-bounds memory access within the libX11 code that has been around since 1996. A second libX11 flaw is stack exhaustion from infinite recursion within the PutSubImage() function of libX11… This vulnerability has been around since X11R2 in February of 1988....
Drug mimics exercise in mice, raises metabolism, increases endurance, burns fat (medicalxpress.com)
