Boomers and Gen X might get their news from Fark, but more people under 30 get it from TikTok. Wait, TikTok has articles? [Stupid]

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How to set up parental controls on your Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S

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If you’ve treated the kids in your household to an Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S, you’ll of course want them to have fun — but you’ll also want to put limits on what they can do on the console, especially if they’re younger children.

These consoles are built with all the necessary options for adding child profiles and managing what those profiles can do. The features all tie into a larger Microsoft Family Safety feature that works across multiple devices, and it’s free to use as part of your existing Microsoft (and Xbox) account.

The level of detail you can go into is impressive, right down to which specific websites your child can look at. If you don’t want to configure every option individually, there are preset profiles you can...

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Pakistani police searching for father in connection with death of Sara Sharif

Family members of 10-year-old girl found dead at her home near Woking fled to Punjab, say Surrey police

Pakistani police are searching for a man in connection with the death of his 10-year-old daughter in Surrey, officers in the eastern Punjab province have said.

Sara Sharif was found dead at her home near Woking on 10 August. Surrey police identified her father, Urfan, as well as his partner Beinash Batooil and his brother Faisal Malik as people with whom they wanted to speak as part of their investigation.

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French general in charge of Notre-Dame rebuild dies in mountain fall

Body of former chief of defence staff Jean-Louis Georgelin, 74, found on Mount Valier in Pyrénées

The French army general appointed by Emmanuel Macron to oversee the reconstruction of the fire-ravaged Notre-Dame Cathedral has died while hiking in the Pyrénées.

Mountain gendarmes discovered the body of Jean-Louis Georgelin, 74, the former chief of the defence staff, after he failed to return to a mountain refuge on Friday.

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Where is Popeye? [Sad]

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Damon Motors HyperSport First Ride: The Electric Superbike Is a Promising Prototype

This 200-horsepower beast is Damon’s bid to bring safe, electric motorcycles to the masses. WIRED put the HyperSport to the test.

Security News This Week: US Energy Firm Targeted With Malicious QR Codes in Mass Phishing Attack

New research reveals the strategies hackers use to hide their malware distribution system, and companies are rushing to release mitigations for the “Downfall” processor vulnerability on Intel chips.

Apple Will Finally Pay for Throttling iPhones With ‘Batterygate’ Settlement

Plus: Amazon Music gets pricier, a bunch of people still want to ban TikTok in the US, and it’s only getting hotter on planet Earth.

Check Out These Winning Pics of Plants, Fungi, Whales, and Dinosaurs

The BMC Ecology and Evolution photo competition has come to an end, and the winners and runners-up cover a diverse sweep of the animal and fungal kingdoms.

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‘It all disappeared with Brexit’: Craft beer boom ends as more than 100 UK firms go bust

New trade barriers were compounded by Covid and tax changes

Kimi Karjalainen and his brother Marko poured their life savings into Bone Machine Brewing Co when it opened in Pocklington, East Yorkshire, in 2017 before moving to Hull, as part of the craft beer revolution that swept Britain.

“The entire investment, not including time and labour that we gave for free, was about £70,000,” Karjalainen said. Four weeks ago, it was gone. “That was my parents’ retirement.”

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Photoshop this refreshing break [Photoshop]

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The fight over what’s real (and what’s not) on dissociative identity disorder TikTok

TikTok’s dissociative identity disorder community thinks doctors don’t know what’s going on. Some doctors feel the same about them.

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Louisiana court upholds ‘lookback window’ in win for Catholic abuse victims

Law allows victims of abuse by clerics to file lawsuits for damages regardless of whether deadline had otherwise lapsed

A Louisiana state appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of a law temporarily suspending filing deadlines for people seeking damages over long-ago sexual abuse claims, handing a victory to survivors and a setback to the Roman Catholic diocese opposing them in the case.

The ruling, from a panel of judges with Louisiana’s third circuit court of appeal in Lake Charles, is the first to uphold a 2021 law in the state which opened a three-year window for victims of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits for damages regardless of whether the deadline to do so had otherwise lapsed.

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Montana Youth Win a Historic Climate Case

A victory for Montanans’ right to a clean, healthy environment could set a precedent for other climate lawsuits throughout the United States.

How to Export All Your Photos and Videos Out of Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Messenger

You’ve probably got a ton of photos and videos in your social media and messaging apps at this point—pictures of sunsets posted to Instagram, pictures of the kids posted to family WhatsApp groups, and so on—but you might not necessarily have those pictures and videos saved anywhere else.

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Fark.com more popular than ever [Obvious]

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Britney Spears speaks to fans about divorce from Sam Asghari

Singer tells 42 million Instagram followers she ‘couldn’t take the pain anymore’ and will as strong as she can

Britney Spears has spoken about the recent announcement she and her husband, Sam Asghari, are to divorce, telling fans she “couldn’t take the pain any more” but will remain strong in the face of adversity.

Asghari cited “irreconcilable differences” in documents filed at a court in Los Angeles, which also revealed that the couple separated almost three weeks ago. The documents said he also intended to obtain financial support and legal costs from Spears.

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12 Best Early Labor Day Deals (2023): Luggage, Grills, and Outdoor Gear

Labor Day weekend arrives in a few weeks, but sales on weighted blankets, couches, and mattresses have already started.

Doctors from the NSS Institute of Pediatrics recommend not tossing your babies into a ceiling fan. Still working on their trailblazing bathwater study [Obvious]

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‘A day of pain and loss’: five killed in Russian strike on Chernihiv

Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemns attack in which 37 people were wounded, including 11 children

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Five people were killed and 37 wounded when a Russian missile struck a central square in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, the interior ministry said on Saturday.

People had been on their way to church to celebrate a religious holiday when the strike took place, the ministry said, adding that 11 of the wounded were children.

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‘It baffles me’: what drew a mild lawyer with a liberal past into Trump’s election plot?

Kenneth Chesebro – low-profile, bright, seemingly decent – is not your average Trump guy. So how did he become the architect of the election subversion scandal?

One individual stands out among the 18 Donald Trump acolytes who were indicted in Georgia this week over their participation in the former president’s alleged racketeering enterprise to overturn the 2020 election.

He is distinct not for his chutzpah and braggadocio – those qualities are trademarked by Trump. Instead he stands out for the opposite characteristics: his demure, scholarly demeanor that has left those who have known him utterly baffled by his eruption from a left-leaning attorney working in relative obscurity into a key figure in the glaring lights of a historic criminal prosecution.

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Guatemala elections to serve as crucial test for democracy in Central America

Polls show centre-left anti-corruption candidate has the lead as Sunday’s vote takes place against backdrop of smear campaigns

Guatemala is bracing for elections this weekend seen as a key test for the rule of law, amid growing concerns over the state of democracy in Central America. Sunday’s vote takes place against a backdrop of smear campaigns, legal manoeuvring and an apparent effort to force the leading candidate out of the race.

Opinion polls show the centre-left anti-corruption candidate Bernardo Arévalo with a double-digit lead over his opponent, Sandra Torres, a former first lady who in 2011 divorced her husband in a failed attempt to dodge a constitutional ban on close relatives of the incumbent running for the office.

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‘My goals in life vanished’: Afghan students rocked by US visa denials

Students trying to attend university in the US tell of their frustration after being rejected over the ‘immigrant intent’ test

Yalda Azamee blinked back tears as she stared down at the American consular officer.

“He did not even give me a chance to explain myself; he rejected me right away. He didn’t even look at my documents,” she said, rushing out of the US embassy building on to the streets of Islamabad to cry.

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Fears grow for property sector as WeWork scrambles to stay afloat

As company warns of ‘substantial doubt’ over its future, experts say consequences for commercial landlords could be dire

WeWork, the troubled office share behemoth, was once valued at $47bn. On Friday, the company was forced to combine 40 of its shares into one in an effort to keep its stock price above $1 and avoid being delisted from the New York stock exchange.

The dramatic rise and fall of WeWork has been well documented, but as the company warned there was “substantial doubt” it would stay in business, experts suggest the impact for the already troubled commercial property sector could be dire.

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The Race to Save Yellowknife From Raging Wildfires

Some residents of Yellowknife are staying behind to fight back wildfires that could soon engulf the Canadian city. Others have shared harrowing stories as they race to escape the flames.