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A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades (www.straitstimes.com)

SO. MUCH. THIS.

4-Year-Old Fatally Shot By Woman Who Was Teaching Her 'Firearm Safety,' Authorities Say (www.huffpost.com)

Warning: Article has detailed accounts of the shooting...

Looking for games with strong female leads for my daughter (even just to watch as I play). Came across this link, but they're a bit age-inappropriate. Any suggestions from the community? (gameranx.com)

Edit: Daughter is only 5 so she’s unlikely to play much but she watches me and as long as it’s not too violent, it should be fine

Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS (www.phoronix.com)

According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That’s a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months… It’s also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2%...

Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin (www.mercurynews.com)

There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.

🔥 AEW PRESENTS: ALL-IN! Discussion thread 08/27/23 🔥 (None)

IT'S HERE!!! Today, AEW comes to us LIVE from a packed Wembley Stadium in London, England! The card for this epic PPV includes:...

Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds (www.gamesindustry.biz)

Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall (www.gamescensor.com)

A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore. (www.theverge.com)

Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough (www.theregister.com)

France wants your browser to censor the web, and Mozilla is petitioning against it (foundation.mozilla.org)

More context: blog.mozilla.org/…/france-browser-website-blockin…

Like a hot tub: Water temperatures off Florida soar over 100 degrees (www.nbcnews.com)

Hamas blocks foreign nationals from leaving Gaza (www.telegraph.co.uk)

“Officials said that Israel and Egypt were prepared to let foreigners leave the Strip which is under heavy Israeli bombardment, but Hamas had refused.”

‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K (www.forbes.com)

Israel declares siege of Gaza as Hamas threatens to start killing hostages (www.theguardian.com)

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Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it. (mashable.com)

Twitter To Rebrand As X (www.theverge.com)

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