Power-Drunk Junta Tries Selling MIlitary-owned Myanmar Beer at Gunpoint (www.irrawaddy.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/5296807...
Over 5,200 people feared dead, another 10,000 missing after flooding in Libya, officials say (abcnews.go.com)
How Covid Affects the Heart (www.nytimes.com)
During the first two years of the pandemic, from March 2020 to March 2022, there were approximately 90,000 more deaths in the United States attributed to cardiovascular disease than were expected for that span of time....
Thousands of migrant children test NYC schools system (www.bbc.com)
Since April 2022, 110,000 migrants have come to New York, with 10,000 arriving a month, largely bused here to the Port Authority terminal by conservative leaders from border states like Texas, in a political dispute about border security....
‘Bashar out!’: Protests in southern Syria over economy now target president (www.aljazeera.com)
Hundreds of people have protested in southern Syria to urge President Bashar al-Assad to step down, capping nearly two weeks of demonstrations that had erupted over poor living conditions but have spiralled into renewed calls for political change....
Password-stealing Chrome extension smuggled on to Web Store (www.malwarebytes.com)
cross-posted from !google...
Sources reveal Israeli shipments to Myanmar military after coup (www.frontiermyanmar.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/4693396...
Italian ex-premier says French missile downed an airliner in 1980 by accident in bid to kill Gadhafi (apnews.com)
Revealed: Home Office secretly lobbied for facial recognition ‘spy’ company (www.theguardian.com)
Facewatch uses cameras to check faces against a watch list and, despite widespread concern over the technology, it has already been introduced in hundreds of high street shops and supermarkets....
/e/OS - Murena Smartphones (monero.town)
cross-posted from: monero.town/post/444500...
Nebraska volleyball stadium event draws 92,003 to set women's world attendance record (apnews.com)
Nebraska’s fight song begins, “There is no place like Nebraska.” When it comes to volleyball, those words never rang more true than Wednesday night....
Amazon CEO says 'it’s probably not going to work out' for employees who defy return-to-office policy (apnews.com)
Vanilla OS 2.0 Alpha Available Now (vanillaos.org)
Idalia has strengthened into a hurricane as it moves toward Florida, where it is expected to make landfall with powerful winds and a life-threatening storm surge (www.cnn.com)
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Photos: Acai berry craze boosts incomes in the Amazon, but at a cost (www.aljazeera.com)
Working in the sweltering heat of the Brazilian Amazon, Jose Diogo scales a tree and harvests a cluster of black berries: acai, the trendy “superfood” reshaping the world’s biggest rainforest, for better and worse....
8 Reasons Why WhatsApp Was Able to Support 50 Billion Messages a Day With Only 32 Engineers (newsletter.systemdesign.one)
Apptronik’s Apollo is the latest humanoid robot to beat Tesla to market | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
Apptronik unveiled a new workforce robot today.
Entire town of Hay river in Canada ordered to leave as wildfires encroach (www.reuters.com)
If any of you watch the History Channel, Hay River is where Ice Pilots NWT used to be filmed. Buffalo Airways has since relocated to Yellowknife which was evacuated last week.
BRICS invites Saudi, Iran and others to join developing world bloc (www.reuters.com)
Netflix is going to let DVD.com subscribers keep any unreturned discs (www.theverge.com)
Netflix is sending DVD.com out in style....
Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule (www.newyorker.com)
[Corp Blog] Ultimate guide to the 19 best secure, encrypted, and private email services (adguard.com)
In an article discussing secure email services, the need for data protection online is emphasized due to personal details in emails being vulnerable to hackers. Encrypted secure email is recommended for its ability to turn emails into code readable only with a special key, ensuring data privacy and trust-building. The article...
Cash, cars and homes seized in $735m Singapore anti-money laundering raids (www.bbc.com)
The tech jobs market is as strong as it ever was (techcrunch.com)
US, Japan, South Korea to announce deeper defense cooperation at Camp David summit (apnews.com)
The United States, Japan and South Korea are expected to announce plans for expanded military cooperation on ballistic missile defenses and technology development in the face of growing concern about North Korea’s nuclear program when the countries’ leaders gather at Camp David for a summit Friday, according to two senior...
