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Qualcomm goes where Apple won't, readies official Linux support for Snapdragon X Elite | Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)
Most of the functionality is present but many important bits are still being developed.
Why has the ‘15-minute city’ taken off in Paris but become a toxic idea in UK? (www.theguardian.com)
The rise of financial sovereignty — and why some Australians believe they don't have to pay tax - ABC News (www.abc.net.au)
The sovereign citizen movement rejects the legitimacy of the government. Its fast-growing popularity has had authorities scrambling to get a handle on how far its tentacles have reached....
New Zealand's glaciers shrinking faster, scientist warns (phys.org)
We flew to the southern-most glaciers, ones that we’ve not seen since 2018," said Lorrey on the back of this year’s trip....
Real-world CO2 emissions of cars are 20% higher than indicated. For plug-in hybrids they are 250% higher. (climate.ec.europa.eu)
cross-posted from: feddit.it/post/6569904...
‘The cheap option’?: why the Gold Coast may be on track to build the most expensive light rail in the world (www.theguardian.com)
Alon Levy, co-lead of the transportation and land use program at New York University’s Marron Institute, has spent years studying why some countries are able to build transport infrastructure cheaply and others aren’t....
As NZ unemployment rises, Kiwis are making their way across the Tasman (www.abc.net.au)
Bad in NZ or hyperbole ?
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’ (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9336139...
WA councillor appears on Russian TV, congratulates Vladimir Putin on election victory (www.abc.net.au)
A West Australian councillor has endorsed and congratulated Vladimir Putin on his election win during a bizarre appearance on Russian state television....
Australia's first solar garden sprouts in Grong Grong, taking the renewables boom to the community (www.abc.net.au)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8872514...
Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9429920...
Scientists' urgent call: End destruction and forge a just, sustainable future (phys.org)
The authors argue that centuries of imperialism, extractive capitalism, and population growth have pushed Earth’s ecosystems beyond their limits, and created a broadening pattern of social inequality. The review summarizes the grave threats facing the planet but rejects a “doom and gloom” philosophy. Instead, the authors...
Sperm whales drop 'bubble of poo' off WA to prevent orca attack in rarely recorded encounter (www.abc.net.au)
Even ScoMo would be proud. Escaped in a cloud of diarrhea
New Zealand man filmed trying to ‘body slam’ an orca in actions described as ‘idiotic’ (www.theguardian.com)
Wot ?
This mega-city is running out of water: What will 22 million people do when the taps run dry? (phys.org)
Ubiquitous water tankers are a lifeline as the 22 million people in this metropolitan area wait for rain and a little relief....
World | Free Full-Text | The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major Population Correction Is Inevitable (www.mdpi.com)
Homo sapiens has evolved to reproduce exponentially, expand geographically, and consume all available resources. For most of humanity’s evolutionary history, such expansionist tendencies have been countered by negative feedback. However, the scientific revolution and the use of fossil fuels reduced many forms of negative...
Greens senator threatens Woolworths CEO with six months in prison for contempt of Senate (www.abc.net.au)
Global coral bleaching event called by US climate agency for the fourth time in history after year of extreme ocean heat (www.abc.net.au)
This is something everyone should be worried about, and everyone should be angry about, frankly,” NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch coordinator Derek Manzello said....
Melbourne man 'dumbfounded' after finding out he lost Australian citizenship 33 years ago (www.abc.net.au)
Wtf ?
Great Barrier Reef suffering ‘most severe’ coral bleaching on record as footage shows damage 18 metres down (www.theguardian.com)
Ward said the impact of bleaching had been extensive across 16 sites that she visited in the reef’s southern section, affecting coral species that had usually been resistant to bleaching. Some coral had started to die, a process that usually takes weeks or months after bleaching occurs....
Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offs (phys.org)
“You’ve got a chemical cocktail in these tires that no one really understands and is kept highly confidential by the tire manufacturers,” said Nick Molden, CEO of Emissions Analytics. “We struggle to think of another consumer product that is so prevalent in the world and used by virtually everyone, where there is so...
160 pilot whales stranded and 26 confirmed dead in Western Australia – video (www.theguardian.com)
Why the kookaburra’s iconic laugh is at risk of being silenced (theconversation.com)
As climate change results in more bushfires and we continue to clear-fell old habitat trees, the fate of the laughing kookaburra – our icon of the ages – could be sealed. That once-ubiquitous call will be heard no more.