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DOOM: The Dark Ages announced for Steam in 2025 (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Zimbabwe police officers terrorised by goblins at night (bulawayo24.com)

GeForce RTX 50 series laptop GPUs reportedly leaked — mobile Blackwell with GDDR7 en route for 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)

Israeli minister Benny Gantz resigns from war cabinet over absence of post-war Gaza plan (www.middleeasteye.net)

Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz resigned from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on Sunday citing, amongst other reasons, the absence of a post-war plan for Gaza....

SPLORP! (i.imgur.com)

Just in case the direct link doesn’t work properly: i.imgur.com/IgbRs9y.mp4...

Seoul will restart anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker broadcasts in retaliation against trash balloons (apnews.com)

South Korea says it will restart anti-North Korean propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in border areas in response to continuing North Korean campaigns to drop trash on the South with balloons....

Trump pushes early and mail-in voting initiative ahead of November despite casting doubt on voting methods for years (www.cnn.com)

Study: From 1979 to 2013 Wages of Low-Wage Workers Fell 5%; While Wages of High-Wage Workers Rose 41% (medium.com)

Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)

This is a good example of how copyright’s continuing obsession with ownership and control of digital material is warping the entire legal system in the EU. What was supposed to be simply a fair way of rewarding creators has resulted in a monstrous system of routine government surveillance carried out on hundreds of millions of...

Mexico health ministry: bird flu patient died of chronic disease, not the virus (www.reuters.com)

Giant viruses discovered living in Greenland's dark ice and red snow | Live Science (www.livescience.com)

The giant viruses might infect algae that are increasing Greenland’s ice melt. These viruses could help kill off the damaging algal blooms, helping to reduce some of the impacts of climate change.

World of Warcraft: The War Within Releases in August - IGN (www.ign.com)

Does the form factor between 3.5" and 2.5" matter in a NAS server? (slrpnk.net)

Been finding some good deals on 2.5 disks lately, but have never bought one before. Have a couple of 3.5 disks on the other hand in my Unraid server. Wondering how much it matters wether I get a 2.5 or not? What form factor do you prefer/usually go for?

Four universities in Taiwan to close due to dip in enrolment (www.straitstimes.com)

Amazon’s AI Warehouses Isolate Workers and Hinder Union Organizing, New Report Finds (www.404media.co)

Amazon’s use of AI and robotics in its warehouses isolates workers and negatively impacts union organizing drives, a new report finds....

"The" search engine before and after product management (slrpnk.net)

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/10371173...

Nobody messes with the Picard (startrek.website)

Not my OC

Rudy’s Coffee Roastery Also Just Went Bankrupt (www.thedailybeast.com)

Over 1 million new users and over 600 new servers added in one month across the fediverse. (fedidb.org)

The countries with the most Fediverse servers are rich and former/current colonial powers. One of the best true barometers of the success of the Fediverse is how quickly we can turn that on its head. (sopuli.xyz)

In the end I don’t think internet users in rich powerful countries are the users most likely to benefit and invest their time into in the fediverse. They might be the ones with the most free time, money and privilege around computers which makes being on the leading edge of niche technologies far easier, but I don’t think...