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Amazon plans to hold Prime Day 2025 from July 8 until July 11, lasting four days instead of the usual two and open for Prime members (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685299/amazon-prime-day-2025-dates-when

Amazon Prime Day stretches to four days of deals this year
Amazon’s 2025 Prime Day will begin Tuesday, July 8th, and lasts through Friday, July 11th. There will be a ton of smart home, headphone, TV, laptop deals.

Juul can continue selling its tobacco and menthol e-cigarettes, FDA says | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/juul-can-continue-selling-its-tobacco-and-menthol-e-cigarettes-fda-says/

Messieurs les censeurs bonsoir
« La Belle et la Bête », de Jul, soutenu par plusieurs politiques après avoir été retoqué par l’éducation nationale
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe…

Offensive politique contre le ministère de l’éducation nationale autour de l’album « La Belle et la Bête », de Jul
Retoqué par l’éducation nationale, « La Belle et la Bête », revisité par le dessinateur Jul et édité par les Musées nationaux, sortira mercredi en librairie. Dans une vidéo et un texte, l’auteur de BD, qui s’estime « censuré », s’est offert le soutien de plusieurs politiques.

« Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025 »
Perhaps it’s time to return to DNS’s original distributed design.
#dns #distributed #cloudflare

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of service for Gateway DNS. We’re deeply sorry for this outage. This outage was the result of an internal configuration error and not the result of an attack or a BGP hijack. In this blog post, we’re going to talk about what the failure was, why it o…

Pacific Freedom Forum Chair Robert Iroga says Pacific countries are facing a "critical moment" for press freedom, as journalists face lawsuits and prosecution (Kate Lyons/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/…

"Was hier geschieht, ist strukturelle Diskriminierung in Reinform: eingebettete Machtstrukturen, die bestimmte Gruppen systematisch benachteiligen, während sie als neutrale Verwaltungspraxis erscheinen. Diese normalisierten Ausschlüsse werden nicht als direkte Diskriminierung wahrgenommen – und genau das macht sie so gefährlich." @…

Die Diskriminierungsarchitektin: Wie Julia Klöckner queere Sichtbarkeit systematisch demontiert
Wenn Neutralität zur Waffe wird Julia Klöckner hat in ihrer Rolle als Bundestagspräsidentin eine bemerkenswerte Entscheidung getroffen: Das Regenbogennetzwerk der Bundestagsverwaltung darf nicht mehr am Christopher Street Day in Berlin teilnehmen. Die Begründung? "Neutralitätspflicht". Eine Argum

AMD unveils the Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series CPUs, including the flagship $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX with 96 cores, set for July 23 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/709005/amd-threadripper-9000-pro-wx…

AMD’s new 96-core Threadripper CPU will set you back $11,699
AMD is launching its new Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-series on July 23rd. The flagship processor will be priced at $11,699.

Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training starting July 1, and enforces a new age limit of 16 for users globally (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/mastodon-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-ai-model-tra…

Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training | TechCrunch
Days after Elon Musk-owned X updated its terms to explicitly prohibit AI model training, decentralized social network Mastodon updated its own rules to bar any kind of model training, as well.

Memo: Intel's manufacturing VP said Intel plans to cut 15%-20% of staff, starting in July, "to meet our affordability challenges and current financial position" (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/…

Intel will lay off 15% to 20% of its factory workers, memo says
Next month’s layoffs will take place at Intel factories around the world but could have an especially big effect in Oregon.

The News/Media Alliance says the webhost of 12ft.io, which helped users bypass paywalls, took down the site on July 14 following the trade association's efforts (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/709209/news-media-alliance-12ft-io-takedo…

News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline
The News/Media Alliance has announced that it has “successfully secured” the takedown of the paywall bypassing tool, 12ft.io.