Blast In Kabul's Hazara Area Kills At Least 1, Injures 11. (www.rferl.org)
Serbian president claims Russia warned him of potential coup attempt (tvpworld.com)
Minecraft-Inspired Demake Revives Classic on GameCube (www.retronews.com)
An indie developer, known as Meesedev, is creating a “Minecraft-inspired” game for the GameCube and Dreamcast, leveraging Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 as a base....
Floods displace thousands of families already in refugee camps in Sudan | Africanews (www.africanews.com)
Severe flooding has forced people displaced by Sudan’s civil war to relocate once again, adding further suffering to the plight of families already exhausted by conflict.
GeneralPDW's Lego Recreation of the original Legend of Zelda's Map (with closeups) (www.flickr.com)
An incredible amount of love and work went into this.
White House names Bezalel Smotrich as obstacle to ceasefire deal, says he is ‘jeopardizing’ hostage lives (forward.com)
“Some critics, like Mr. Smotrich, for example, have claimed that the hostage deals are a surrender to Hamas or that hostages should not be exchanged for prisoners. Mr. Smotrich essentially suggests that the war ought to go on indefinitely without pause and with the lives of the hostages of no real concern at all.”
Susan Wojcicki, longtime Google executive and former YouTube CEO, has died at 56 | PBS News (www.pbs.org)
Wojcicki played a key role in Google’s creation and served nine years as YouTube’s CEO, stepping down last year to focus on her “family, health, and personal projects I’m passionate about,” she said at the time.
Schools to teach children how to spot fake news and ‘putrid’ conspiracies online (www.independent.co.uk)
Children will be taught how to spot extremist content and fake news online under planned changes to the school curriculum....
[UK] Children to be taught how to spot fake news and 'putrid' conspiracy theories online in wake of riots (news.sky.com)
Changes to the curriculum could mean schoolchildren analyse articles in English lessons to weed out fabricated stories, learn how to identify fake news in computer classes and analyse statistics in maths....
Israel-Gaza war live: Israel issues massive evacuation order in Khan Younis (www.theguardian.com)
Kursk attack will pressure Russia and 'restore justice,' Zelenskiy says (www.reuters.com)
Moscow forces fight Kyiv’s troops in Kursk for sixth day...
Baltic Defence Line in Latvia gets its 'dragon's teeth' (www.euronews.com)
Concrete structures, also known as “Lego blocks”, will be placed along Latvia’s border with Russia and Belarus....
Zelenskiy suggests moves towards banning Orthodox church with Moscow ties (www.reuters.com)
Aug 10 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pledged on Saturday to “strengthen our Ukrainian spiritual independence”, suggesting that the country’s leadership was moving towards effectively banning the branch of the Orthodox Church that has links to Moscow....
Israel kills over 100 Palestinians in massacre at dawn (peoplesdispatch.org)
Israel broadens its evacuation orders after deadly strike on Gaza school-turned-shelter (apnews.com)
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza early Sunday after a deadly airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in the north killed at least 80 Palestinians, according to local health authorities. Israel said it targeted a militant command post, killing 19 fighters....
A man is seen climbing the Eiffel Tower, prompting an evacuation hours before closing ceremony (apnews.com)
PARIS (AP) — French police have evacuated the area around the Eiffel Tower after a man was seen climbing the Paris landmark hours before the Olympics closing ceremony Sunday....
Photos of 12 people released in riot probe appeal (www.bbc.com)
Police have released photographs of 12 people they want to speak to over riots which took place on Merseyside days after the deaths of three girls in Southport.
Help running AMD iGPU and NVIDIA dGPU on 2 monitors (fedia.io)
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China’s SMIC Accelerates Capacity Buildout as Chip War Evolves (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
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SteamOS could see a general distribution release, work with other handheld gaming PCs soon (www.techspot.com)
One of the Steam Deck’s primary advantages over more powerful handheld gaming PCs is its operating system, which is designed to mimic a game console interface within a Linux PC environment. Valve has long planned to bring the OS to other devices, but a recent Steam Deck software update includes the first mention of a rival...
Kamala Harris has cast more tie-breaking votes in the Senate than any VP in history (33) (ballotpedia.org)
While her two closest competitors John C. Calhoun (31) and John Adam’s (29) aren’t far off, it took them both two terms to reach those numbers....
Arizona Republican becomes first fake elector to plead guilty for role in Trump scheme (www.politico.com)
It’s the second victory for Arizona prosecutors this week in their sweeping case against many Trump allies....