Praise Cheeses (feddit.de)
Biden Warns Israel Not to Occupy Gaza (www.nytimes.com)
Trump charged by Justice Department for efforts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss (apnews.com)
Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC (www.androidcentral.com)
How do I turn this stupid brain of mine off? (slrpnk.net)
Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other's Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video (www.rollingstone.com)
It’s like watching a clown show. Maybe he should watch more porn and grow up.
X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history (www.theverge.com)
“Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” the privacy policy reads. It doesn’t include any details on what kind of biometric information this includes — or how X plans to collect it — but it typically involves fingerprints, iris...
Dibbs (lemmy.zip)
FCC moves forward with its plan to restore Obama-era net neutrality protections (www.engadget.com)
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to move forward with a plan to restore Obama-era net neutrality protections. The rules could be re-established as soon as next spring, but the FCC's effort could face legal challenges.
Poland cuts tax for first-time homebuyers and raises it for those buying multiple properties (notesfrompoland.com)
Ukraine destroys prized US$1.2 billion Russian air-defence system with cruise missiles, reports say (www.scmp.com)
The advanced S-400 ‘Triumf’ air-defence system was destroyed in a joint operation by Kyiv’s security service and navy, Ukrainian intelligence sources said The attack off the coast of Yevpatoriya was orchestrated through the aerial drones and Neptune domestic missiles, Ukrainian official Anton Gerashchenko said...
Scientist warn 1 billion on track to die from climate change. (www.sciencealert.com)
On this day in 1991, Linus Torvalds announced he was working on what would become Linux (www.xda-developers.com)
‘It was a plague’: Killarney becomes first Irish town to ban single-use coffee cups (www.theguardian.com)
Killarney used to accept it as a price of being a tourist town: ubiquitous disposable coffee cups spilling from bins, littering roads and blighting the area’s national park....
Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk (www.theguardian.com)
The Chandrayaan-3 mission has successfully landed on the Moon’s south pole (www.theverge.com)
Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade (arstechnica.com)
Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade::North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google.
Time’s almost up (sh.itjust.works)
Ukraine blows up five jets ‘deep within Russian territory’ (news.yahoo.com)
Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station (www.fox2detroit.com)
Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station::undefined
Safety first (sh.itjust.works)
Lucy Letby will die in prison after receiving 14 whole-life sentences (news.sky.com)
Nearly 80% of Texas' floating border barrier is technically in Mexico, survey finds (www.cbsnews.com)
A joint U.S.-Mexico topographical survey found that 787 feet of the 995-feet-long buoy line set up by Texas are in Mexico.
Twitter neighbours complain of lit-up ‘X’ sign working at high intensity (www.theguardian.com)
New logo for Elon Musk’s social network strobes over San Francisco neighbourhood, prompting complaints and mobilising building inspectors
