The Most Popular Digital Abortion Clinics, Ranked by Data Privacy

Telehealth companies that provide abortion pills are surging in popularity. Which are as safe as they claim to be?

5 Best Webcams (2023): 1080p, 4K, Pan-Tilt-Zoom Cameras

You might see your coworkers in only two dimensions, but don’t let that stop you from looking your best.

Zero-degree line at record height above Switzerland as heat and fire hit Europe

Weather ballon climbs to 5,300 metres before temperature falls to 0C amid late-summer heatwave

A Swiss weather balloon had to climb to an unprecedented 5,300 metres (17,400ft) before the temperature fell to 0C (32F), meteorologists have said, as a late-summer heatwave and wildfires continue to pummel swathes of continental Europe.

A man was found dead in a blaze raging north of Athens on Monday as the Greek government warned of an “extreme” risk of fire across the country, while more than half of mainland France was placed under an amber heat alert.

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CBI to step back early from top firms’ boardroom diversity initiative

High-profile companies reportedly discussed cutting ties with the business lobby group

The Confederation of British Industry will step back earlier than planned from its role in a boardroom diversity initiative involving the UK’s biggest companies, as the business lobby group struggles to recover from sexual misconduct allegations.

The CBI had been at the heart of the Change the Race Ratio campaign, which champions racial and ethnic minority representation on UK company boards and leadership teams, with some of its staff helping to run it.

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AMD adds 4th-gen Epycs to AWS in HPC and normie workload flavors

Silicon joins Amazon's homegrown Gravitons, Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons

AMD's fourth-gen Eypc processors have arrived on Amazon Web Services in your choice of general-purpose and high-performance compute (HPC) tasks.…

Samsung announces the first game to support new HDR10 Plus Gaming standard

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Almost two years after its initial announcement in October 2021, Samsung says the first game to support the HDR10 Plus Gaming standard is nearing release. That game is The First Descendant, a free-to-play third-person shooter from Nexon which is running an open beta starting September 19th.

Samsung’s announcement doesn’t specify which platforms the game will support HDR10 Plus Gaming on, but we’re assuming it’s PC rather than consoles given neither Sony nor Microsoft have announced support for this latest HDR format on their platforms. On PC, Nvidia announced it was adding support for HDR10 Plus Gaming to its RTX and 16-series graphics cards in November 2022.

HDR calibration without the sliders

The big advantage being advertised for...

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No laws were broken by the reporter who was a target of the illegal raid, search, and seizure attempt to shut down a local Kansas newspaper [Followup]

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Indonesian rescuers end search for crew member missing from surf boat

Four Australians and two crew were saved after their boat capsized off Sumatra, but hopes of finding the remaining person on board appear over

Rescuers have ended their search for a missing Indonesian crew member one week after a boat with seven on board hit bad weather off Sumatra island, officials said on Monday.

The search was launched last week after authorities received a report that one of two boats headed for Pinang island from Nias island had failed to reach its destination.

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"Melbourne man charged with lighting fires had ducklings in his underwear, police allege" [Weird]

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‘Ahead of its time’: wooden car goes under the hammer in Bristol

Hustler DIY kit car was crafted by former Rolls-Royce engineer and school woodwork teacher in 1980s

It has had one careful owner, has never failed an MOT and there is no way the body work is going to rust.

But whoever buys John Brazier’s car at auction next month will have to get used to some pretty odd looks when they take it out for a spin.

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The World’s Workers Are Donning Cooling Vests to Battle Record Heat Waves

Garments that can be packed with ice or equipped with fans are becoming increasingly popular among workers exposed to high heat.

Scammers Used ChatGPT to Unleash a Crypto Botnet on X

A botnet apparently connected to ChatGPT shows how easily, and effectively, artificial intelligence can be harnessed for disinformation.

How to Upgrade Wi-Fi in Your Laptop or Desktop: Wi-Fi Card or USB Adapter

Want faster Wi-Fi on your trusty old laptop or desktop? Here’s how to upgrade it yourself with a new Wi-Fi card or USB adapter.

Nerves build as India moon mission prepares to make first successful south pole landing

Chandrayaan-3 moves into prelanding orbit amid failure of Russian mission

As it was announced that Russia’s first lunar mission in 47 years had crashed on to the moon, India’s own mission, the Chandrayaan-3 lander, moved into prelanding orbit.

News on Sunday of the Russian failure was met with excitement and nervousness in India: excitement that India was now poised to win the race to become the first country to land a craft on the moon’s south pole; nervousness that its mission could also go horribly wrong at the last moment.

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Elon Musk admits X ‘may fail’ after glitch deletes Twitter photos

Platform’s users voice concern as it removes pictures and links on posts made before December 2014

Elon Musk, the ownerof the app formerly known as Twitter, has said the social media site “may fail,” after a glitch caused pictures posted before December 2014 to be deleted.

In a post on the site, renamed X, Musk said: “The sad truth is that there are no great ‘social networks’ right now.”

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‘I Was Shadowbanned:’ How Hinge's Algorithm Decides Who You Date

Last year, a friend came to me with a strange tech problem. “The algorithm is screwing me over,” he said, peering over a drink at a bar in Manhattan’s East Village. Anthony, a 31-year old engineer who asked to withhold his real name, had been on the dating app Hinge for five years. He said he always had a hard time…

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"Soccer for peace" event cancelled after participants attempt to reenact Anchorman rumble scene [Ironic]

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Murder of Black community activist, 72, in Brazil prompts calls for action

María Bernadete Pacífico, whose son was shot dead in 2017, killed by gunmen at her home in Bahia

Human rights organisations in Brazil are clamouring for justice following the murder of a Black community activist who had been receiving threats.

María Bernadete Pacífico, a community and religious leader in the Pitanga dos Palmares quilombo– an Afro-Brazilian settlement of descendants of escaped slaves in the north-east state of Bahia – was killed on Thursday evening.

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Adderall Shortages Are Dragging On—Can Video Games Help?

People with ADHD have been dealing with a stimulant shortage in the US for almost a year. Some researchers say digital therapeutics could help fill the gap.

The Dark History ‘Oppenheimer’ Didn't Show

Coming from the Congo, I knew where the essential ingredient for the atomic bombs was mined, even if everyone else seemed to ignore it.

Version 5 of systemd-free Debian remix Devuan is here

Debian Bookworm without the controversial init – or the platform support, or the polish

Devuan 5.0 "Daedalus" is derived from Debian 12 "Bookworm", but with the controversial systemd init replaced by the user's choice of sysvinit, openrc or runit.…

Met police taking no further action on cash-for-honours claims involving king’s charity

Force launched investigation after reports alleged offers of help were made to secure honours for Saudi national

No further action will be taken by detectives who have been investigating cash-for-honours allegations involving the ing’s charity the Prince’s Foundation, the Metropolitan police said.

The force launched the investigation in February after media reports alleged offers of help were made to secure honours and citizenship for a Saudi national.

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UK housebuilders’ shares plunge amid fastest drop in asking prices in five years

Crest Nicholson forecasts lower profits after number of first-time buyers plunges

Britain’s housebuilders were the top stock market fallers on Monday morning after one of the biggest companies issued a profit warning and new data showed the fastest drop in asking prices in five years.

Taylor Wimpey led the fallers on FTSE 100, down 3%, with Persimmon, Berkeley and Barratt down about 2%. The property website Rightmove fell 1%.

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North Korea abruptly cancels first post-Covid international commercial flight

Air Koryo flight from Pyongyang cancelled two hours after its scheduled arrival in Beijing

North Korea’s national airline’s first commercial flight since it largely closed itself off from the world in early 2020 in response to the Covid pandemic has been abruptly cancelled.

Journalists gathered on Monday at Beijing’s Capital international airport to await Air Koryo flight JS151 from Pyongyang, due to arrive at 9.50am.

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‘Gigantic step backwards’: far-right gains in Chile threaten abortion rights

Concerns mount as ultraconservative Republican party’s ‘right to life’ proposal could be enshrined in constitution

The hard-won right to an abortion in Chile is at risk of being overturned, activists have warned, as the country’s far right moves to enshrine protection for “the life of the unborn child and maternity” in a new constitution.

Concerns have grown over the ultraconservative Republican party’s plans to pare back reproductive rights in Chile as it now holds significant sway in the fate of the country’s constitutional saga.

“Clearly, there is great concern over the risks to women and children implied by the suggested amendments, which threaten the most basic rights of human beings,” said Lieta Vivaldi, the director of Alberto Hurtado University’s gender and social justice programme.

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