Roblox Studio boss: children making money on the platform isn't exploitation, it's a gift (www.eurogamer.net)
In an interview with Roblox Studio head Stefano Corazza at GDC in late March, where a new suite of AI-powered creation tools was demoed, I asked about the reputation Roblox hac gained and the notion that it was exploitative of young developers, since it takes a cut from work sometimes produced by children....
Share your Cell Lab creations! Think Spore cell stage, but much more advanced. (www.cell-lab.net)
This is a niche game for people with an interest in biology, about multicellular evolution that is unlike anything else out there. I am looking for other people to share creations with and maybe even have them face off in an environment together. It runs on an older version of Android but I use the bluestacks emulator to play on...
Medellín, Colombia, bans sex work in two areas after U.S. tourist found with minors (www.nbcnews.com)
The ban will be in effect for six months, and some bars will be required to close by 1 a.m. for the next month, according to a statement from the mayor’s office....
Biden administration set to greenlight $18 billion sale of F-15 fighter jets to Israel (edition.cnn.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14095378...
Accessibility guides about using Mastodon from a blind perspective (social.growyourown.services)
Apple finally has a way to defeat ChatGPT | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)
Biden Demands Immediate Gaza Cease-Fire in Call With Israel’s Netanyahu (www.wsj.com)
He also called on Israel to take immediate steps “to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers” and “made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps,” according to the White House statement....
Disney’s Steam Deck controlled droids are coming back to Galaxy’s Edge (www.pcgamesn.com)
Spain to recognize Palestinian statehood by July (www.politico.eu)
Italian island overrun by goats is offering them free to anyone who can catch them (www.cnn.com)
Joe Lewis spared jail time for part in ‘brazen’ insider trading conspiracy (www.theguardian.com)
The British billionaire Joe Lewis was spared jail time for his part in a “brazen” insider trading conspiracy on Thursday, and was instead fined $5m and given a three-year probation by a New York judge....
After Killing of US Aid Worker in Gaza, the US Doubles Down on Military Aid to Israel (peoplesdispatch.org)
Embedding the Servo Web Engine in Qt (www.kdab.com)
While the task of writing a brand new standard-compliant browser engine is infamous as being almost unachievable nowadays (and certainly so with Chromium coming in at 31 million lines of code), the Rust ecosystem has been brewing up a new web rendering engine called Servo. Initially created by Mozilla in 2012, Servo is still...
UN rights council demands halt to arms sales to Israel (www.france24.com)
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday demanded a halt in all arms sales to Israel, highlighting warnings of “genocide” in its war in Gaza, which has killed more than 33,000 people....
Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse (www.theguardian.com)
TIL that NodeBB is working on implementing Activity Pub compatibility (community.nodebb.org)
“NodeBB is at this year’s FediForum, and one of the breakout sessions centred around the Theadiverse, the subset of ActivityPub-enabled applications built around a topic-centric model of content representation....
The Miseducation of Kara Swisher (thebaffler.com)
Silicon Valley was supposed to be “different,” or so veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher wanted to believe. Facebook was going to bring people together, in the process strengthening our communities, our democracies, our world; Google was going to deliver the vast stores of human knowledge to our fingertips; Tesla was going...
Western sanctions hamper Russian efforts to repair refineries (www.reuters.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/12949136...
Russia's primary chipmaker is struggling with a defect rate of about 50 percent (www.techspot.com)
Sanctions have crippled Baikal’s production and packaging capabilities...
Life is Strange studio Deck Nine accused of toxic workplace culture in new report (www.eurogamer.net)
Banking bottleneck due to threat of sanctions causing six-month delays for Russia-China payments, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/12950703...
Turkey Inflation Accelerates Again, Nears 70% Despite Rate Hikes (www.bloomberg.com)
Turkish consumer prices accelerate less than expected...
The mind-bending new rules for doing business in China (www.economist.com)
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France: Audrey Mondjehi jailed for obtaining Strasbourg attacker's gun (www.bbc.com)
A man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for helping an Islamist attacker who killed five people at a French Christmas market in December 2018....