Retired firefighter and veteran comes out as gay — in his obituary (www.advocate.com)
SteamOS 3.6.4 Preview for Steam Deck has fixes for DualSense, DisplayPort and more (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Purism (creator of FOSS friendly phones and hardware) 2023 financial report , income grew by 350% in three years and the company is profitable (puri.sm)
Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit (www.theregister.com)
HR software biz BambooHR surveyed more than 1,500 employees, a third of whom work in HR. The findings suggest the return to office movement has been a poorly-executed failure, but one particular figure stands out - a quarter of executives and a fifth of HR professionals hoped RTO mandates would result in staff leaving....
Epic Games Store has leaked a lot of unannounced games, including The Last of Us Part 2, Final Fantasy 9 Remake and a new Turok game (www.dsogaming.com)
Italy’s parliament erupts into violence over government bill (tvpworld.com)
Italy’s parliament erupted into violence on Wednesday when a lawmaker was attacked while trying to hand an Italian flag to another MP over a local government bill....
UN Report Finds Israel Has Committed Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza (truthout.org)
In a report released on Wednesday by the UN Commission of Inquiry that covers the period from October 7 to the end of 2023, the commission found that Israel has committed a large range of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza....
This Is How the 3D Pipes Windows Screensaver Was Created (www.howtogeek.com)
Saudi Arabia's petro-dollar exit: A global finance paradigm shift (www.tbsnews.net)
China's chip exports are booming but may be nearing overcapacity, stoking fears of chip glut — SMIC revenues rise as profits fall (www.tomshardware.com)
Israel reportedly hits Gaza safe zone as ceasefire discussions persist (www.middleeasteye.net)
Israel has launched land, sea and air strikes on al-Mawasi, a designated safe zone in Gaza, according to Palestine’s Wafa news agency....
China’s maritime militia: the shadowy armada whose existence Beijing rarely acknowledges (www.theguardian.com)
They look like simple fishing boats but are capable of swarming in huge numbers to help Beijing stake its territorial claims in the South China Sea...
The Danger of Nuclear War is Real (t.me)
Massive Attack pull out of gig in Georgia in solidarity with protesters (www.theguardian.com)
British band Massive Attack have pulled out of a concert in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, in protest against the government’s “attack on basic human rights”....
Cases of deadly disease caused by ‘flesh-eating’ bacteria hit record high in Japan (www.straitstimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16815561
India's Rajasthan finds some MDH and Everest spices unsafe for consumption (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/26625068archive.is/MrM5W...
Meta Is Lying to You in New Quest VR Ad (www.howtogeek.com)
Paramount and Skydance agree to terms of a merger deal (www.cnbc.com)
The number of hate groups in the U.S. has almost doubled in two years (www.lgbtqnation.com)
World Bank Financing Arm Rejects Calls to Directly Compensate Victims of Harm at Kenya Schools (theintercept.com)
Xi acclaims Chinese AI expert Andrew Yao who renounced US citizenship (www.scmp.com)
Armello studio League of Geeks is 'going into hibernation for the foreseeable future' and may not be back (www.pcgamer.com)
Elon Musk has unusual relationships with women at SpaceX, WSJ reports - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Responsive Design Go Brrrr (sh.itjust.works)
BREAKING NEWS: EU Commission announces preliminary tariffs up to 38% on Chinese EVs (www.euractiv.com)
The EU will impose additional tariffs of 17.4% to 38.1% on electric cars produced in China, the European Commission announced on Wednesday (12 June), as preliminary results from its anti-subsidy investigation confirmed prices are being distorted by Chinese state support....
