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Lightyear, the Dutch solar car maker goes back in business after restructuring caused by bankruptcy (insideevs.com)

Andrea González picked to replace Ecuador’s assassinated presidential candidate (www.theguardian.com)

Villavicencio’s Build party, or Construye in Spanish, announced on social media that Andrea González was replacing the 59-year-old as its presidential candidate in the 20 August vote.

This week in KDE: Plasma 6 development continues (pointieststick.com)

Japan Earthquake Alert App moves from Twitter to Mastodon, currently has 488k posts & 19.9k followers (unseen-japan.com)

original article headline: “Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X”...

TIL - Henry Ford built a failed community called “Fordlândia” in Brazil, he planned it as an industrial utopia. (99percentinvisible.org)

Scientists Control Human DNA with Electricity (www.vice.com)

Researchers used electric stimulation to switch on exact genes involved in regulating insulin. Blood glucose concentrations of model mice returned to normal.

With Sales Dropping, Disney Will No Longer Sell DVDs And BlueRays In Australia And New Zealand (www.forbes.com)

Another reason why people across the globe will pirate instead of buying an expensive and limited subscription....

Israelis’ defiance of Netanyahu holds a lesson for anyone who cares about democracy | Jonathan Freedland (www.theguardian.com)

US Spies Are Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance ‘Loophole’ (www.wired.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/795503...

The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)

‘It’s pillage’: thirsty Uruguayans decry Google’s plan to exploit water supply (www.theguardian.com)

Developer remakes The Simpsons: Hit and Run from scratch (insider-gaming.com)

Twitter removed half its HQ sign — then the police arrived (www.theverge.com)

No blowtorches in sight.

A brewery is making beer with recycled wastewater, purified using a process developed by NASA (www.businessinsider.com)

A brewery is making beer with recycled wastewater, purified using a process developed by NASA::The company relies on the same recycling methods that NASA uses to allow astronauts to drink water in space.

Biden, Xi set to pledge ban on AI in autonomous weapons like drones, nuclear warhead control: sources (www.scmp.com)

Kmart: Australian supermarket pulls 'Merry Ham-mas' Christmas bag (www.bbc.co.uk)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/5301538...

The US is quietly arming Taiwan to the teeth (www.bbc.com)

27 dead after Hurricane Otis makes landfall in Mexico as Category 5 storm (abcnews.go.com)

It's Day 20 with no House speaker, and lower-level names seek Trump's support and race for the gavel (apnews.com)

Republicans gathered late in the evening to hear quick speeches from the congressmen seeking the job, though none has a clear shot at the gavel. Eight candidates are in the running for one speaker after one dropped out. Behind closed doors, they made their elevator pitches to colleagues ahead of internal party voting....