Chinese cars are pouring into Mexico — and the U.S. is worried - Autoblog (www.autoblog.com)
In Snap Election, French Left Forms Alliance To Counter Far Right and Neoliberals (www.commondreams.org)
Files allegedly obtained in the 2021 CD Projekt hack indicate Cyberpunk 2077 was once planned to have a level or DLC set on the Moon (www.pcgamer.com)
Apple announced RCS with a whimper when it should have been a bang (www.theverge.com)
Trump Hits “I Have Black Friends” Stage of Total Racism (newrepublic.com)
“I have so many Black friends that if I were a racist, they wouldn’t be friends, they would know better than anybody, and fast,” Trump said. “They would not be with me for two minutes if they thought I was racist—and I’m not racist!”
US supreme court sides with Starbucks in union case over fired employees (www.theguardian.com)
Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla has reinstated certain add-ons for Firefox that earlier this week had been banned in Russia by the Kremlin....
A new challenger has appeared to challenge Soviet tanks for the title of The worst tank (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Build the greatest car parks ever in the Car Park Capital! (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Old style graphics (a la sim city) for a satirical game centered on a mechanic that was excluded by sim city because it would have been boring, as revealed by a developer...
Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
Run your own unbound or bind resolvers!
Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports (www.cnbc.com)
Apex friend? (sopuli.xyz)
A Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster Is Confirmed And In Development | Retro Gaming News 24/7 (www.retronews.com)
Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier has confirmed that a Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is indeed in development. This confirmation comes after speculation surrounding the credibility of frequent Atlus news leaker Midori, who recently admitted to adopting an online persona....
Bannon vows Trump’s opponents will be prosecuted in a second term | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, vowed investigations and prosecutions of those who have probed the former president and his political allies, declaring at a conservative gathering Saturday that Inauguration Day in 2025 will be “accountability day.”...
DeSantis rejects climate change rationale for record-breaking rain (www.washingtonpost.com)
‘Crime is out of hand’: how young people turned to far right in east German city (www.theguardian.com)
Germans under 25 gave the AfD 16% of their vote in the European elections, with particular support in the east...
New 6LP Metal Gear Solid: The Vinyl Collection Celebrates The Series's Music | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)
Laced Records has announced that it will be releasing a new 6LP collection featuring music from across the Metal Gear Solid series. The collection, titled Metal Gear Solid: The Vinyl Collection, is available to pre-order now and will contain 53 tracks spanning from Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake for the MSX all the way up until Metal...
Musescore piracy (github.com)
I remember 5 years ago Musescore allowed free downloads of sheet music with an account. Now, I’m trying to get back in to playing the piano, and I was surprised that they’re requiring you to pay, so fuck em...
Longi claims world record-breaking 34.6% efficiency for perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell (www.pv-magazine.com)
‘Anti-Woke’ Water Makes a Splash at Conservative Conference (www.thedailybeast.com)
Putin pledges truce if Ukraine exits occupied areas and drops NATO bid, likely a nonstarter for Kyiv (www.ctvnews.ca)
Justice Thomas raked in staggering $2.4 million in gifts, watchdog says (www.independent.co.uk)
Fix the Court, the group that released the findings, calculated the total in gifts from January 2004 to December 2023 and said the nine current justices received 344 gifts totaling nearly $3million....