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BBC News and BBC Sounds launched a Discord server in late June for the Newscast podcast, letting the audience influence the news; the server has 3,700 members (pressgazette.co.uk)

YouTube will soon require watch history to be enabled to show video suggestions (support.google.com)

On the flip side, this also means users have the option to have a cleaner, less cluttered interface....

It's time to change how we cover Elon Musk (www.platformer.news)

After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach

"I'll give you something to cry about" (slrpnk.net)

Arizona’s extreme heat is killing honeybees and melting their homes (www.accuweather.com)

As deadly, unrelenting heat scorches Arizona, some entomologists are growing concerned about the increasing number of dead honeybees – a species vital to our ecosystem, especially food production.

5 things to know about the latest charges against Donald Trump (www.npr.org)

Former President Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday on charges he participated in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results — an effort that reached a bloody crescendo as his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021....

Giving birth in America continues to get deadlier (www.axios.com)

Heaviest rain in a decade kills 11 in Beijing as raging torrents wash away roads and cars (www.cnn.com)

Deadly downpours have triggered landslides and floods that swept away cars and destroyed roads in Beijing, as the remnants of Typhoon Doksuri unleashed the heaviest deluge in a decade over parts of northern China.

NATO Planes Watched As Three Civilian Ships Ran Russia’s Naval Blockade Of Ukraine (www.forbes.com)

Sunday’s successful blockade run could signal to international shippers that it’s reasonably safe to resume operations from Ukrainian ports.

‘Situation dangerous’: Polish PM warns as Wagner fighters move closer to border (www.scmp.com)

A group of a hundred soldiers from the Russian Wagner Group have moved closer to the Belarusian city of Grodno near the Polish border, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday....

Male Nurse Convicted of Sexually Assaulting 9 Incarcerated Women (jezebel.com)

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Florida’s Environmental Failure Is a Warning Sign for the U.S. (time.com)

How DeSantis's environmental policies crippled Florida in the climate change era, and what the rest of the country should learn from the mistakes.

Jury orders Google to pay $339M for patent-infringing Chromecast (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft to face EU competition investigation over Teams and Office bundling (www.irishtimes.com)

Facebook & Instagram fined: How the small country of Norway could finally break Meta's business model. (tutanota.com)

Facebook & Instagram fined: How the small country of Norway could finally break Meta’s business model.::With a fine of only $100,000 Norway could destroy Facebook’s & Instagram’s business model relying on personalized ads.

Belarus abducts thousands of Ukrainian children (www.telegraph.co.uk)

Norway’s Privacy Battle With Meta Is Just Getting Started (www.wired.com)

Mishaal Rahman: "Android 14 seems to have quietly eliminated a trick some apps were using to keep themselves alive when the OS tried to kill them" (androiddev.social)

Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices (arstechnica.com)

Internet service providers and their lobby groups are fighting a US plan to prohibit discrimination in access to broadband services. In particular, ISPs want the Federal Communications Commission to drop the plan’s proposal to require that prices charged to consumers be non-discriminatory.