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His Skull Was Taken From Congo as a War Trophy. Will Belgium Finally Return It? (www.nytimes.com)

For decades, Belgium failed to return the remains of hundreds of people taken by force from former colonies. A draft law could change that, but critics say it is not going far enough....

A Way A Lone A Last A Loved A Long The Shuttlepod One (startrek.website)

Song of the Day: Work It by Missy Elliott (youtu.be)

Asus’ next ROG Ally will be the ROG Ally X (www.theverge.com)

"Yeah, yeah, I totally know what a lion looks like, just give me the brush" (lemmy.world)

Virginia judge to decide whether state law considers embryos as property (apnews.com)

A trial is underway in Virginia that will determine whether state law allows frozen embryos to be considered property that can be divided up and assigned a monetary value....

Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook (arstechnica.com)

The tool is nearly ready to be released, Zuckerman told Ars, but the University of Massachusetts Amherst associate professor is afraid that Facebook owner Meta might threaten legal action if he goes ahead. And his fears appear well-founded. In 2021, Meta sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creator of the original Unfollow...

Has Generative AI Already Peaked? - Computerphile (www.youtube.com)

A new paper suggests diminishing returns from larger and larger generative AI models. Dr Mike Pound discusses....

Microsoft's payment to Bobby Kotick would cover the salaries of Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin employees for over 17 years.

FYI, the article is in Spanish: hobbyconsolas.com/…/desarrollador-summerfall-stud…

[Retro Platinum] King's Quest: Quest for the Crown (1984-05-10) (retrolemmy.com)

cross-posted from: retrolemmy.com/post/6261478...

Why don't computers have "computer-numbers" equivalent to phone numbers

Why doesn’t every computer have 256 char domain name, along with a private key to prove it is the sole owner of the address?...

Dead Games News: Response from UK Government (www.youtube.com)

Does anyone know why SteamOS is based on arch rather than Debian?

Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?

Green Hill [OC] (lemmy.world)

Nikon D40 | Nikkor AF-S DX | ISO 800 | 60mm | f16 | 1/160s

Russians try to break through Ukrainian defence lines north of Kharkiv (www.theguardian.com)

Russian forces have attacked across the Ukrainian border to the north of Kharkiv in a potential effort to open a new front in the war and intensify the pressure on Ukraine’s second city....

US overtakes China as Germany's top trading partner (www.reuters.com)

The United States overtook China as Germany’s most important trading partner in the first quarter of this year, according to Reuters’ calculations based on official data from the German statistics office....

Goku gives Cell a Senzu Bean (youtu.be)

Did Goku do the right thing?

Israel military calls on Palestinian civilians to evacuate Rafah (www.reuters.com)

Israel’s military said on Monday it had begun encouraging residents of Rafah to evacuate the southern Gazan city as part of a ‘limited scope’ operation, but did not immediately confirm media reports this was part of preparation for a ground assault....