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Loki, WandaVision & The Mandalorian Become First Disney+ Shows to Get Physical Releases (www.cbr.com)

WD refused to answer our questions about its self- wiping SanDisk SSDs (www.theverge.com)

Lily Pads [OC] (lemmy.world)

I’m also on pixelfed now!...

Ex-medical chief Jonathan Van-Tam takes job with Covid vaccine giant Moderna. Move may spark fresh questions over ‘revolving door’ between government and business. (www.independent.co.uk)

A central Kansas police force comes under constitutional criticism after raiding a newspaper (apnews.com)

Several press freedom watchdogs condemned the Marion Police Department’s actions as a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution’s protection for a free press. The Marion County Record’s editor and publisher, Eric Meyer, worked with his staff Sunday to reconstruct stories, ads and other materials for its next edition...

Shrooms - A place to discuss the growing, hunting, and the experience of magical fungi. (sh.itjust.works)

A new home for the Shrooms Community! All psychoactive species welcome! Discussion and Cultivation of magical fungi. No Sales Allowed.

Russia confirmed that the bridge was not hit, which means the bridge is fucked (media.kbin.social)

Quake II gets a remaster for PC and consoles—and it’s exactly what it needs to be (arstechnica.com)

Quake II gets a remaster for PC and consoles—and it’s exactly what it needs to be::It features both split-screen and online multiplayer, new levels, and 4K.

U.S. to Fund a $1.2 Billion Effort to Vacuum Greenhouse Gases From the Sky (www.nytimes.com)

Fruit is disappearing from Italian orchards due to extreme weather, farmers warn (www.euronews.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1221470...

Now official: you can buy a refurbished Steam Deck from Valve (www.gamingonlinux.com)

The confirmed pricing is:...

Hiroshima marks a-bomb anniversary, calls nuclear deterrence "folly" (www.reuters.com)

TOKYO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Japan on Sunday marked the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on Hiroshima, where its mayor urged the abolition of nuclear weapons and called the Group of Seven leaders' notion of nuclear deterrence a "folly".

Movie extras worry they'll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans (www.npr.org)

Movie extras worry they’ll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans::undefined

Team creates simple superconducting device that could dramatically cut energy use in computing (phys.org)

(Not LK-99)

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

The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide::The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British...

Swedish embassy in Baghdad stormed, set alight over Koran burning (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/614691...

Afghanistan: Women protest against beauty salon closures (www.bbc.co.uk)

Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the European Union over Teams, Office 365 (www.windowscentral.com)

Heatwave latest: Europe and US and China gripped by extreme temperatures - BBC News (www.bbc.com)

Twitter, Threads, and the misunderstood nature of engineering (beehaw.org)

Complex internet services fail in interesting ways as they grow in size and complexity. Twitter’s recent issues show how failures emerge slowly over time as relationships between components degrade. Meta’s quick launch of Threads demonstrates how platform investments can compound over time, allowing them to quickly build on...