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Wind and solar energy overtake fossil fuels to provide 30% of EU electricity (www.theguardian.com)

A Complete History of Birdo’s Gender (www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com)

Looper is a mind-bending puzzle game that challenges you to think inside the box (www.polygon.com)

Meta addresses AI hallucination as chatbot says Trump shooting didn’t happen (arstechnica.com)

Meta “programmed it to simply not answer questions,” but it did anyway.

Meta to pay Texas $1.4 billion in facial recognition case (www.texastribune.org)

Meta had been using facial recognition software on photos uploaded to Facebook without Texans’ consent.

Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support. (forum.lightburnsoftware.com)

As a advid user of lightburn for my business, this truely saddens me....

Venezuelans protest as observers say presidential vote undemocratic (www.reuters.com)

Independent observers invited by Venezuelan officials slam poll - BBC News (www.bbc.com)

"The New Path for Bungie", 220 people, 17% of Bungie, laid off (www.bungie.net)

They are no longer going to be any form of independent from Sony/PlayStation anymore. The Final Shape’s sales were never going to be able to prevent this from happening, says Jeff Grubb on his morning news show (paraphrased).

Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow (www.eurogamer.net)

Finally, on 27th July, Blow noted the “whole industry is having a hard time” and then, when asked how many of his development team are working on the compiler for programming language Jai, Blow replied: “None, because we can’t afford to pay anyone because the sales are bad.”...

Russian-UK dissident Kara-Murza disappears from jail in latest sign a prisoner swap with West may be close (www.reuters.com)

MOSCOW, July 31 (Reuters) - Vladimir Kara-Murza, a dual Russian-British national jailed on treason charges for 25 years, has been moved from his prison in Siberia and is being sent elsewhere, Russia’s prison service told Reuters.

Samsung is marketing Galaxy Z Flip phones as police bodycams (www.engadget.com)

US appeals court lets Texas keep river barrier against border crossings (www.reuters.com)

July 31 (Reuters) - Texas can keep a 1,000-foot (300-meter) long floating barrier in the Rio Grande to deter illegal border crossings by migrants at the river separating the United States and Mexico, a U.S. appeals court has ruled, rejecting a challenge by President Joe Biden’s administration....

China Wants to Start a National Internet ID System | The government said the proposal would protect online privacy. Critics said it could further concentrate government control over the internet. (www.nytimes.com)

Colorado water officials dream big, team up after feds drop $450 million for water projects (coloradosun.com)

The federal government has planned since 2022 to spend $450 million on water projects in four Western states, including Colorado. Last week, water officials finally learned which projects are eligible — and they’re planning to dream big....

Tulane Study Says New Drug Shows Promise in Clearing HIV from Brain (news.tulane.edu)

Venezuela: While US Politicians Call Fraud, American Election Observers Endorse Results (www.mintpressnews.com)

Boeing announces new CEO amid ‘challenging’ year. (www.voanews.com)

Protests in Kenya and Uganda highlight corruption at the top - but political elites don’t give in without a fight. (theconversation.com)

A Nearly $3 Billion Shortfall in VA Benefits Is Looming. The Senate Has Proposed a Fix, But Time Is Running Out. | Military.com (www.military.com)

Here we go again.

Bumble and Hinge allowed stalkers to pinpoint users’ locations down to 2 meters, researchers say (techcrunch.com)

In a new academic paper, researchers from the Belgian university KU Leuven detailed their findings when they analyzed 15 popular dating apps. Of those, Badoo, Bumble, Grindr, happn, Hinge and Hily all had the same vulnerability that could have helped a malicious user to identify the near-exact location of another user, according...