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Canonical's Snap Store Hit By Malicious Apps (www.phoronix.com)

Scientists just opened the lid to NASA’s asteroid sample canister (arstechnica.com)

Scientists just opened the lid to NASA’s asteroid sample canister::“There is some black dust-like material that’s visible. We’re hoping that’s from Bennu.”

YouTube is axing its ad-free Premium Lite subscription plan - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

I was happily using this for a year or so now. Feels fairer than using an ad blocker. But now they apparently want more money out of people. Feels like some sort of internet video apocalypse is happening, where the services become extremely fragmented and expensive, like YouTube, netflix, hbo, Hulu, Disney+ and whatnot. Each...

Yelp has a wall of shame for businesses caught paying for fake reviews (www.engadget.com)

Yelp has a wall of shame for businesses caught paying for fake reviews::Yelp has a new tool to help people track businesses that have tried to manipulate their standing on the review platform…

Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender (www.theonion.com)

So let’s talk about this Wayland thing (pointieststick.com)

Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite …

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Stoner Cats’ NFTs get smoked by the SEC (techcrunch.com)

‘Do You Know Who I Am?’: Lauren Boebert Thrown Out of Beetlejuice Musical For Allegedly Vaping, Causing a ‘Disturbance’ (www.mediaite.com)

Caribbean nations set to demand royal family makes reparations for slave trade (www.theguardian.com)

Lloyd’s of London and Church of England also to be approached over role in past exploitation

Powerful quake in Morocco kills more than 1,000 people and damages historic buildings in Marrakech (apnews.com)

The US should not normalize Modi’s autocratic and illiberal India at the G20 (www.theguardian.com)

Despite his lip-service to democracy and human rights, Biden keeps embracing autocrats and would-be autocrats

YouTube under no obligation to host anti-vaccine advocate’s videos, court says (arstechnica.com)

YouTube under no obligation to host anti-vaccine advocate’s videos, court says::YouTube had the discretion to take down content that harmed users, judge said.

Greece starts limiting Acropolis daily visitors to tackle overtourism (www.cnn.com)

One of Greece’s most famous landmarks is trialing limiting its daily visitors, starting today....

France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet (blog.mozilla.org)

In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list. Such a move...

Microsoft is unbundling Teams from Office in Europe to address regulator concerns (www.theverge.com)

Why a highly mutated coronavirus variant has scientists on alert (www.nature.com)

"Pirates" fought off by Italy's Special Forces in Major Operation were Distressed Migrants (www.euronews.com)

Georgia police investigating online threats to Trump grand jury (www.the-independent.com)

Looming auto workers strike could cost $5 billion in just 10 days, new analysis says (www.cnbc.com)

The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips, explained (www.pcgamer.com)

Google's Bard Urges Google to Drop Web Environment Integrity (archive.is)

I asked Google Bard whether it thought Web Environment Integrity was a good or bad idea. Surprisingly, not only did it respond that it was a bad idea, it even went on to urge Google to drop the proposal.

The New 'Futurama' Successfully Reboots the Show for 2023 (www.wired.com)

The animated sci-fi sitcom returns with satirical humor for a new era.

Plex's Winamp-inspired music player Plexamp is now free | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Well this is cool. Now time for me to a media server again.

Morality police patrols return to Iran streets as Mahsa Amini anniversary nears (observers.france24.com)

Nearly 10 months after Iran’s so-called “morality police” disappeared from the streets during mass protests over the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian police announced July 16 that they had resumed patrols targeting “immoral clothing.” Amateur videos and first-hand reports from our Observers in Iran indicate...