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Missing deaf pet skunk found after garden escape (www.bbc.com)

A deaf pet skunk that escaped from a garden has been found....

Transgender minors in Nebraska, their families and doctors brace for a new law limiting treatment (apnews.com)

As Nebraska’s new law restricting gender-affirming care for minors goes into effect this weekend, families with transgender children and the doctors who treat them are steeling themselves for change. But exactly what and how much change is anyone’s guess....

Russia accuses Ukraine’s Western allies of helping last week’s attack on Black Sea Fleet headquarters (www.pbs.org)

Russia on Wednesday accused Ukraine’s Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week’s missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet’s headquarters on the annexed Crimean Peninsula....

AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology' (techcrunch.com)

How to Hide a $2 Trillion (Google) Antitrust Trial (www.thebignewsletter.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5486771...

Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month | Kagi Blog (blog.kagi.com)

Kagi is a paid alternative to ad-supported search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo. It has recently revised its pricing model, reducing the cost for a plan with unmetered searches from $25 per month to $10....

Fentanyl plus stimulants drives ‘fourth wave’ of overdose epidemic in the U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)

The U.S. is in the throes of what researchers have deemed a “fourth wave” of the opioid crisis, a phase characterized by overdose deaths caused by the combination of stimulants and the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl....

We can’t rely on Russia to protect us anymore, Armenian PM says (www.politico.eu)

Russia’s catastrophic invasion of Ukraine means Armenia can no longer rely on Moscow as a guarantor of its security, even as fears grow of a return to open conflict with Azerbaijan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told POLITICO in an interview....

Residents asked to stay indoors after escaped Pennsylvania killer is spotted again, and police say he is armed (www.cnn.com)

A Monday night sighting of the convicted killer who escaped from an eastern Pennsylvania prison nearly two weeks ago jolted the surrounding community into high alert and prompted school closures Tuesday, after police warned the inmate now has a weapon.

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

'One Piece' review: Netflix does the impossible (mashable.com)

I try synthetic salmon and enter the “uncanny valley” of taste (arstechnica.com)

Federal judges rule against provisions of GOP-backed voting laws in Georgia and Texas (apnews.com)

Federal judges in Georgia and Texas have ruled against key provisions of two controversial election laws passed two years ago as the Republican Party sought to tighten voting rules after former President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential contest....

Government's own experts found 'barbaric' and 'negligent' conditions in ICE detention (www.npr.org)

These findings are all part of a trove of more than 1,600 pages of previously secret inspection reports written by experts hired by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. In examining more than two dozen facilities across 16 states from 2017 to 2019, these expert inspectors found...

Second Ecuador politician killed in less than a week (www.bbc.co.uk)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1477218...

Why Baldur’s Gate III is an accidental PS5 console exclusive (www.engadget.com) Japanese

Larian is having trouble fitting Baldur’s Gate III on the Xbox Series S, the lower-priced and lower-powered console in Microsoft’s ninth-generation lineup....

Robbie Robertson, Leader of The Band, Dies at 80 (variety.com)

Guitarist-songwriter-singer Robbie Robertson, who led the Canadian-American group the Band to rock prominence in the 1970s and worked extensively with Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, has died. He was 80....

How smart speakers, fitness trackers and even baby monitors are being used by domestic abusers (www.euronews.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1221538...

AMA with Lemmy creators is live (lemmy.ml)

over at lemmy.ml/post/2920188

Kickstarting a book about Enshittification since Amazon will not carry it (pluralistic.net)

Another example of how big tech is just corrupted to the core....

Retroid Pocket 2S now live. What's your preferred handheld for retro gaming? (www.goretroid.com)

EU says slavery inflicted 'untold suffering', hints at reparations (www.reuters.com)

July 18 (Reuters) - The European Union (EU) said on Tuesday that Europe’s slave-trading past inflicted “untold suffering” on millions of people and hinted at the need for reparations for what it described as a “crime against humanity”....