'Any story could be your last' - India's crackdown on Kashmir press (www.bbc.com)
5 million bees fall off a truck near Toronto and drivers are asked to close windows (www.npr.org)
Police west of Toronto on Wednesday warned drivers to keep their car windows closed after a truck spilled crates carrying 5 million bees onto a road....
Google announces event for Oct. 4, where new Pixel phone and smartwatch expected (www.cnbc.com)
Millions of additional salaried workers could get overtime pay under Biden proposal (www.npr.org)
The proposed rule would raise the threshold under which workers are automatically eligible for overtime pay to about $55,000 a year, from the current level of about $35,000.
Smoking significantly increases the risk of depression (tech.au.dk)
Reliable Desktop Linux Installation with Btrfs Snapshots, Snapper, and Rollbacks on Ubuntu (openSUSE style) (moslehian.com)
[All Clear Issued, Suspect in Custody] University of North Carolina police respond to ‘an armed and dangerous person on or near campus’ (www.cnn.com)
Edit: AlertCarolina issued an all clear message at 4:15pm local time....
CBC: Kleenex maker says famous tissues to be wiped out of Canada soon, citing 'unique complexities' (www.cbc.ca)
Growing up in Canada we did not refer to tissues as tissues. We called them Kleenex. It’s one of those weird Canadian-isms.
U.S. approves possible sale of F-16 search and track systems to Taiwan (www.cnbc.com)
The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $500 million sale to Taiwan of infrared search and track systems for F-16 fighter jets, as well as other equipment, the Pentagon said on Wednesday....
Gender Surgeries Nearly Tripled From 2016 Through 2019, Study Finds (www.nytimes.com)
The number of gender-affirming surgeries, intended to align patients’ physical appearance with their gender identity, nearly tripled in the United States between 2016 and 2019, according to a new analysis published in JAMA Network Open on Wednesday....
2023 is Already the Deadliest Year on Record for Palestinians in Occupied West Bank, says UN Envoy (peoplesdispatch.org)
Canada considering foreign student visa cap to address housing shortage (www.reuters.com)
Tesla data breach blamed on ‘insider wrongdoing’ impacted 75,000 (www.scmp.com)
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Alleged SK hynix-Made NAND For Apple Discovered Hiding In Cheap SSDs (www.tomshardware.com)
Republican feud over 'root canal' spending cuts raises US gov't shutdown risk (www.reuters.com)
Members of the hardline House Freedom Caucus are pushing to cut spending to a fiscal 2022 level of $1.47 trillion, $120 billion less than President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to in their May debt ceiling compromise....
Canada wildfire evacuees say Facebook's news ban 'dangerous' in emergency situation (www.cbc.ca)
Canada wildfire evacuees say Facebook’s news ban ‘dangerous’ in emergency situation::The ongoing fight between tech company Meta and the federal government over subsidizing news publishers means links to news sources are being blocked on sites like Facebook and Instagram. Wildfire evacuees in the Northwest Territories say...
"Sound of Freedom" creators pay funder accused in child kidnapping (www.newsweek.com)
How Drones Are Helping Demine Ukraine (gizmodo.com)
We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile (lemmy.world)
Kansas Cops Raid Small Town Newspaper In Extremely Questionable ‘Criminal Investigation’ (www.techdirt.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1463853...
Bridge closed, due to raids (media.kbin.social)
Your arch system (with xfce, kde or lxqt) suddenly takes 20 sec to open firefox etc? (forum.manjaro.org)
This is a bug I just experienced on one of my manjaro computers. I was puzzled as fuck because cpu/io usage wasn’t high but it was pretty slow....
More than 40 feared dead after boat sinks in Mediterranean near Lampedusa (www.theguardian.com)
Investigating the 'spiritual healers' sexually abusing women (www.bbc.com)
What is not in the article is that the problem is basically built into Islam since there are four reliable muslim male witnesses required in order to punish a rapist and when those witnesses are not available often the women is punished since she admitted with her rape allegations that she had extramarital sex....
Niger coup: Wagner taking advantage of instability - Antony Blinken (www.bbc.com)
Russia’s Wagner mercenary group is “taking advantage” of instability in Niger, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told the BBC.
