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Caves Story+ free on Epic Games (store.epicgames.com)

Another free game on Epic. Store description:...

Tropical Storm Idalia threatens flooding in North Carolina after damaging thousands of Florida homes (www.cnn.com)

Tropical Storm Idalia keeps pounding the Southeast’s Atlantic coast, prompting flash flood warnings in North Carolina as parts of Florida’s west coast survey extensive damage from the most powerful hurricane to slam its Big Bend region in more than a century....

Intel Demos 8-Core, 528-Thread PUMA Chip with 1 TB/s Silicon Photonics (www.tomshardware.com)

Norway oil and gas exploration round attracts bids from 25 companies (www.reuters.com)

The latest offer added 78 new blocks in the western part of the Barents Sea and 14 blocks in northwestern part of the Norwegian Sea to the already existing APA area....

Vanilla OS 2.0 Alpha Available Now (vanillaos.org)

The SynthID watermark from Google DeepMind can detect AI-generated images - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Google has developed a tool called SynthID that can watermark AI-generated images in a way that is imperceptible to humans but detectable by AI. The watermark is embedded in pixel values without noticeably changing the image. SynthID is being launched for use with Google Cloud’s image generator to verify original photos. While...

Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1) (undeadly.org)

Microsoft will enable Exchange Extended Protection by default this fall (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Microsoft recommends doing the following, depending on what security update you have installed:...

Couple desperate for baby having sex wrong way for 4 years - and wife is still a virgin (www.mirror.co.uk)

Shrimp aglio e olio with cherry tomatoes in squid ink pasta (imgur.com)

Cooked by my wife, with love.

Caste matters The caste of a chair (scroll.in)

How oppressive upper castes in an Indian state's local governments (Tamil Nadu’s panchayats) use chairs and the protocols surrounding them to discriminate against Dalit women presidents.

Duty After School 2023 Discussion (en.wikipedia.org)

A feel good(?maybe) end of the world story where we are saved by high school seniors....

Flatpak Lands Support For Wayland Security Context (www.phoronix.com)

The Flatpak open-source app sandboxing tech has merged support for the Wayland security context protocol.

China's Centaline Property says mainland China unit has 'huge' unpaid developers' commissions (www.channelnewsasia.com)

The Hong Kong property agency’s mainland arm, Centaline Property Agency (Shenzhen), has not recovered some commission fees as property developers grapple with the debt crisis and liquidity crunch, Centaline said. The Shenzhen unit has paid fixed salaries up to July, Centaline said, adding that all of units were operating...

UK’s Sunak plans to skip UN General Assembly in September (www.miamiherald.com)

Turning a broken sock into a dog toy (youtube.com)

Onyx loves playing with our old socks. Probably a bad thing to train him to play with though…

Xbox at the Crossroads | Opinion by Rob Fahey (www.gamesindustry.biz)

I thought this was an interesting read. Fahey points out some of the potential risks and rewards of Xbox’s current strategy of competition through acquisition. A small excerpt:...

Unrepentant Ben Gvir spars with Bella Hadid over Jewish vs. Arab rights claim (www.timesofisrael.com)

Longevity Gene from Naked Mole Rats Extends Lifespan of Mice (www.rochester.edu)

The successful transfer of a gene that produces HMW-HA paves the way for improving the health and lifespan of humans, too....

Building a digital army: UN peacekeepers fight deadly disinformation (news.un.org)

US seeks to extend longstanding scientific research agreement with China (www.theguardian.com)

The US is seeking a six-month extension to a decades-old science and technology agreement with China so that it can undergo negotiations with Beijing to “strengthen” the pact, the state department has said....

Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are among 6 nations set to join the BRICS economic bloc (apnews.com)

Iran and Saudi Arabia are among six countries that will join the BRICS bloc of developing economies as new members from 2024, South Africa’s president said Thursday....