The decision has been widely criticized as a violation of the employees’ First Amendment rights.

EPA Suspends Over 140 Employees for Signing Letter of Dissent

^{Stephen Prager (Truthout)}

The Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has strongly denied the allegation.

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Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians

^{Lucy Williamson (BBC News)}

Julia Liuson, president of the Microsoft division responsible for developer tools such as AI coding service GitHub Copilot, recently sent an email instructing managers to evaluate employee performance based on their use of internal AI tools like this.

"AI is now a fundamental part of how we work," Liuson wrote. "Just like collaboration, data-driven thinking, and effective communication, using AI is no longer optional — it's core to every role and every level."

Liuson told managers that AI "should be part of your holistic reflections on an individual's performance and impact."

Microsoft's performance requirements vary from team to team, and some are considering including a more formal metric about the use of internal AI tools in performance reviews for its next fiscal year, according to a person familiar with the situation. This person asked not to be identified discussing private matters.

Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'

Microsoft is asking some managers to evaluate employees based on how much they use AI internally, and the software giant is considering adding a metric related to this in its review process, Business Insider has learned.

^{Business Insider Africa}

Hi,

There's an option for night light to be manually controlled, but then it has to be enabled by default on boot ("always on") :

There's also an option to disable it by default, but then it requires opening settings to enable ("always off") :

How to make it manual but without enabling it by default ?

Thanks

Result:

🔶 LDM: 28.3% (+17.3)

🌹 LAB: 27.4% (+0.8)

➡️ RFM: 25.6% (-6.6)

🙋 Ind: 15.7% (-8.0)

🌳 CON: 1.6% (-5.0)

🌍 GRN: 1.4% (New)

Lib Dems win Durham County Council seat from Reform UK in by-election

The Liberal Democrats have won a seat from Reform UK on Durham County Council.

^{Joshua Nichol (The Northern Echo)}

What the senator claimed was a difficult decision was just a case of backroom deals and abandoned principles.

When the Republican-controlled Senate passed the disastrous megabill on Tuesday, the deciding vote came from Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The Alaskan lawmaker, who has long claimed to be a moderate, got over the finish line the bill for Donald Trump’s priorities, which would send billions of dollars to ICE, extend tax cuts for the wealthy, kick large abortion providers out of the Medicaid program, and knock millions of low-income people off their health insurance.

Murkowski cast this vote just a week after she suggested in a podcast interview that she’d consider becoming an independent and caucusing with Senate Democrats. She cast this vote, which could shutter nearly 200 Planned Parenthood clinics, after repeatedly painting herself as “pro choice.” She cast this vote after Planned Parenthood called the bill a “backdoor abortion ban” and said it could eliminate one in four abortion providers nationwide.

As Bolts Magazine Editor-in-Chief Daniel Nichanian noted after the vote: “The Senate’s small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she’s supporting will harm the nation’s 339 million other residents.”

Lisa Murkowski’s vote for the 'big, beautiful bill' shows she's useless as an abortion rights ally

Murkowski advanced President Trump’s priority bill, which would increase ICE funding, extend tax cuts for the wealthy and enact major Medicaid cuts.

^{Susan Rinkunas (MSNBC)}

CoMaps shares core functionality with Organic Maps. It allows users to plan and navigate trips entirely offline. It's entirely free to use, with no ads, and it collects no personal data. Additionally, its efficient design ensures minimal battery consumption, making it suitable for travelers seeking private, uninterrupted navigation.

What sets CoMaps apart is a fully transparent governance approach. All decisions about the app's development are made publicly, with users and contributors having a voice in its future direction. This focus on community engagement aims to deliver value for its users rather than prioritize profit.

https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/organic-maps-fork-comaps-launches-on-major-app-stores-for-ios-and-android/

Tesla said it delivered 384,122 vehicles in the second quarter, down 13.5% from 443,956 units a year ago

Tesla posted another big drop in quarterly deliveries on Wednesday, putting it on course for its second straight annual sales decline as demand falters due to backlash over CEO Elon Musk’s political stance and an ageing vehicle lineup.

The stock has lost 25% of its value so far this year as investors feared brand damage in Europe, where sales have slumped most sharply, and in the US from Musk’s embrace of rightwing politics and his role in spearheading the Trump administration’s cost-cutting effort.

The day Trump and Musk split publicly in early June, Tesla lost about $150bn in market value. Its share price has somewhat recovered in the ensuing month, but Trump and Musk have likewise reignited their feud as they spar over Trump’s sweeping tax bill.

Tesla vehicle deliveries drop sharply as Musk backlash affects demand

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

They rejected kings and were sincerely concerned about the possibility of a dictatorship. But we need to move past founder-worship and focus on justice.

Of Course The Founding Fathers Would Have Hated Trump

^{Nathan J. Robinson (Current Affairs Inc)}

Microsoft has confirmed it is to axe another 9000 with its continued push into AI. I just find it incredible because for me AI is NOT the answer in any way shape or form.....

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxl0w…

Microsoft to cut up to 9,000 jobs as it invests in AI

The US tech giant will axe 4% of its global workforce and plough money into artificial intelligence.

^{Lily Jamali (BBC News)}

At least 11 Palestinians were injured on Friday during a series of assaults carried out by illegal Israeli settlers and soldiers in the northern West Bank district of Nablus, according to local activists and medical sources, Anadolu reports.

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11 Palestinians injured in illegal Israeli settlers, army attacks in occupied West Bank

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^{Middle East Monitor}

https://scitechdaily.com/physicists-close-in-on-the-fifth-force-that-could-unlock-the-mystery-of-dark-matter/

MSM hacks like Beth Rigby attended the Spectator summer garden party - after it published another vile column by Rod Liddle

Spectator promotes mass-murdering people who oppose genocide

^{Ed Sykes (The Canary)}

It was not immediately clear what caused the issue but officials ruled out a cyber attack

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Prague at standstill after huge power outage hits the Czech Republic

^{Ap Correspondent (The Independent)}

Palestinian journalists live through the same brutal conditions they cover — and describe a pattern of direct targeting by Israeli forces.

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The Israeli Plot to Extinguish the Journalists Documenting Genocide

^{Neha Madhira (The Intercept)}

Fawning for Trump’s favor, European leaders are ramping up military spending at the expense of public benefits.

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Europe Puts Social Programs on Chopping Block to Appease Trump on NATO Funding | Truthout

^{Merula Furtado (Truthout)}

It joins Starcraft II and Heroes of the Storm in development purgatory.

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Blizzard is winding down support for its Warcraft mobile game

Activision Blizzard has announced that Warcraft Rumble, it’s

^{Ash Parrish (The Verge)}

Three months to go until support ends, and Microsoft's flagship operating system squeaks past its predecessor

We're number 1! Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10

: Three months to go until support ends, and Microsoft's flagship operating system squeaks past its predecessor

^{Richard Speed (The Register)}

The company gave him a $20 refund for his efforts.

Recertified HDD vendor goHardDrive caught leaking thousands of customer details — company pays astonishingly low $20 bug bounty for discovery of inexplicable online database of names, addresses, phone numbers, and more

^{Jowi Morales (Tom's Hardware)}

Flew too close to the sun.

Nvidia's incendiary 12VHPWR connector consumes its latest victim — Chinese RTX 3060 Ti melts down despite modest power draw after ASUS shipped it with the wrong cable

^{Hassam Nasir (Tom's Hardware)}