Danish law banning public burning of Quran sparks outcry (www.lemonde.fr)
Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency (arstechnica.com)
Automated background removal was also added recently.
People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office (www.theguardian.com)
Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC' (www.pcgamer.com)
You heard him 4090 users, upgrade to a more powerful GPU.
I has come to my attention that some users have never heard of F-droid. F-droid is a free software app store for android (f-droid.org)
Google is working on essentially putting DRM on the web (github.com)
The much maligned “Trusted Computing” idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google’s ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google’s...
Hospitals have special protection under the rules of war. Why are they in the crosshairs in Gaza? (apnews.com)
JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital.
A staggering 80% of American households are financially worse off than they were before COVID-19 (finance.yahoo.com)
Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble (mashable.com)
Iphone 15 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Reddit users are reporting Christian websites for violating Virginia's new porn identification law, citing vulgar passages in the Bible (www.insider.com)
As more and more states pass laws targeting "pornographic material" in books and online, they are repeatedly running up against a problem: The Bible has not just a few passages that could be considered indecent
Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon (www.bbc.com)
https://archive.li/10BV3...
Brands that don't buy enough Twitter ads will lose verification (www.theverge.com)
Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to retain the gold checkmark identifying...
Russian Anti-War Activist Sentenced To Six Years In Prison For Internet Posts (www.rferl.org)
Why aren’t health warnings on cigarettes expanded to alcohol? (rabble.ca)
Drag shows are protected by 1st Amendment, performers tell federal judge (www.texastribune.org)
Ubisoft reportedly deleting customer accounts with purchased games if they have been inactive for too long (twitter.com)
Michael @LegacyKillaHD...
San Francisco bakery sparks debate by refusing to serve armed police (www.independent.co.uk)
Business says it doesn’t serve anyone who is armed
Danish government will introduce new law to ban burning the Quran (www.euronews.com)
'Hell on wheels': Teen convicted of crashing car at 100 mph, killing boyfriend and friend (www.nbcnews.com)
“This was not reckless driving. This was murder,” the judge said before she read out Mackenzie Shirilla’s verdict Monday afternoon.
Elon Musk attacked German support for migrants and promoted a call to support the AfD, a far-right extremist political party (www.businessinsider.com)
In the post shared by Musk, the account lamented the presence of humanitarian groups in the Mediterranean Sea that rescue migrants from distressed vessels....
NY woman who fatally shoved singing coach, age 87, is sentenced to more time in prison than expected (apnews.com)
A New York judge sentenced a woman who pleaded guilty to fatally shoving an 87-year-old Broadway singing coach onto a Manhattan sidewalk to six months more in prison than the eight years that had been previously reached in a plea deal.
Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter? (variety.com)
Elon Musk said he will charge all X/Twitter users a fee to be on the platform. He suggested that such a change would be necessary to deal with the problem of bots on the platform....
Hawaii cannot ban guns on beaches, US judge rules (www.reuters.com)
A federal judge has blocked the state of Hawaii from enforcing a recently enacted ban on firearms on its prized beaches and in other areas including banks, bars and parks, citing last year’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights.
Google tries to defend its Web Environment Integrity (techreport.com)
I’m happy to see this being noticed more and more. Google wants to destroy the open web, so it’s a lot at stake....
