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Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Addresses Studio Closures (www.ign.com)

“The closure of any team is hard obviously on the individuals there, hard on the team,” Spencer said. "I haven’t been talking publicly about this, because right now is the time for us to focus on the team and the individuals. It’s obviously a decision that’s very hard on them, and I want to make sure through severance...

Gabby Petito's Family Wants to Address 'Missing White Woman Syndrome' (www.jezebel.com)

Windows just changed my desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update (lemmy.world)

In my view, this is unacceptable…...

Inside the Base Where Israel Has Detained Thousands of Gazans (www.nytimes.com)

‘It’s time we put a felon in the White House,’ California sheriff says (www.yahoo.com)

TES4 NPC Dialog in OpenMW continues to improve thanks to cc9cii's dedication and hard work! (www.youtube.com)

TES4 a.k.a Oblivion on OpenMW is looking better every time cc9cii posts a new video!...

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Four American educators stabbed in park in northeast China, says US media and officials (www.reuters.com)

Four American educators from a small Iowa university were injured in a stabbing attack in a public park in northeast China’s Jilin province on Monday, according to U.S. media and U.S. government officials....

California police kept death in custody a secret for seven years, inquiry reveals (www.theguardian.com)

Darryl Mefferd’s death was labeled an ‘accident’, but a report questions a Vallejo police officer’s role in the fatal incident...

After its reputation went up in flames, Humane warns users its charging case may too (www.engadget.com)

U.S. Considers Expanded Nuclear Arsenal, a Reversal of Decades of Cuts (www.nytimes.com)

Pebblebee Tag for Android review: I couldn't Find My Device (www.androidpolice.com)

Russian warships will arrive in Havana next week, say Cuban officials citing ‘friendly relations’ (www.denverpost.com)

Turkey's inflation passes 75% in what economists believe is peak (www.cnbc.com)

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Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone?

I’m asking because as a light-skinned male, I always use the standard Simpsons yellow. I don’t really see other light-skinned people using an emoji that matches their skin tone, but often do see people of color use them. Maybe white people don’t naturally realize a need to be explicit with emoji skin-tone or perhaps it’s...

India under its longest-ever heatwave, with worse to come (www.straitstimes.com)

Where the CHIPS Act money has gone (www.theverge.com)

LGBTQ+ activists warn against normalizing Europe's far right (www.dw.com)

LGBTQ+ activists share their stories with DW to warn against the potential consequences should nationalist and far-right parties make their expected gains in the European elections....

Japan's economy is shrinking, although slightly less than previously thought (apnews.com)

1,000 Harvard Students Walk Out of Commencement to Support 13 Seniors Barred from Graduation over Gaza (www.democracynow.org)

More than a thousand Harvard students walked out of their commencement ceremony yesterday to support 13 undergraduates who were barred from graduating after they participated in the Gaza solidarity encampment in Harvard Yard....

Target, ‘Junk Science’ and Unreliable Testimonies: The Contentious Conviction of 15-Year-Old Mahdi Ali (unicornriot.ninja)

How do I schedule a steam download manually?

There’s this game I’m trying to download, and it’s big enough that it’s going to take several days of continuous downloading to get. I have about half of it so far. I want it to download during my scheduled auto update hours, and pause in the morning when I wake up. Sounds simple, right?...