Meet My A.I. Friends | Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future. (www.nytimes.com)
After Buying Up Studios, Xbox Says It Doesn't Have The Resources To Run Them (kotaku.com)
Gemini is now out (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11717217...
SteamOS 3.6: How the Steam Deck atomic updates are improving (www.collabora.com)
UNRWA to close East Jerusalem headquarters after arson attack by ‘Israeli extremists’ | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
In a statement on social platform X, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said the arson attack was the latest in a series of threats, harassment and violent incidents perpetrated by Israelis against the agency’s staff over the past two months....
Wake up babe ne Kamate droped (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
I used resume spammers to apply for 120 jobs. Chaos ensued. (www.businessinsider.com)
'Real men wear diapers': Trump supporters wear nappies (news.sky.com)
A Blog to Satisfy Your Monthly COSMIC Fix(es) (blog.system76.com)
That's Life (lemmy.today)
It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass (Opinion) (kotaku.com)
North America’s biggest city is running out of water (www.vox.com)
After abysmally low amounts of rainfall over the last few years, the reservoirs of the Cutzamala water system that supplies over 20 percent of the Mexican capital’s 22 million residents’ usable water are running out....
Rogue Voltage is a refreshing and very creative engineering roguelike (www.gamingonlinux.com)
United Nations General Assembly backs Palestinian bid for membership (www.aljazeera.com)
Israeli war cabinet votes to expand Rafah operation area, amid growing U.S. concerns (www.axios.com)
Amid growing U.S. concerns about the humanitarian situation in Rafah, the Israeli security cabinet approved last night the “expansion of the area of operation” of the Israel Defense Forces in the southern Gaza city, according to three sources with knowledge of the details....
Attacks on German politicians stir memories of Nazi past (www.politico.eu)
Recent assaults spark national debate over Germany’s increasingly raw political climate, with some seeing echoes of its dark history....
This Week in Self-Hosted (10 May 2024) (selfh.st)
His Skull Was Taken From Congo as a War Trophy. Will Belgium Finally Return It? (www.nytimes.com)
For decades, Belgium failed to return the remains of hundreds of people taken by force from former colonies. A draft law could change that, but critics say it is not going far enough....
Asus’ next ROG Ally will be the ROG Ally X (www.theverge.com)
Virginia judge to decide whether state law considers embryos as property (apnews.com)
A trial is underway in Virginia that will determine whether state law allows frozen embryos to be considered property that can be divided up and assigned a monetary value....
Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook (arstechnica.com)
The tool is nearly ready to be released, Zuckerman told Ars, but the University of Massachusetts Amherst associate professor is afraid that Facebook owner Meta might threaten legal action if he goes ahead. And his fears appear well-founded. In 2021, Meta sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creator of the original Unfollow...
[Retro Platinum] King's Quest: Quest for the Crown (1984-05-10) (retrolemmy.com)
cross-posted from: retrolemmy.com/post/6261478...
Russians try to break through Ukrainian defence lines north of Kharkiv (www.theguardian.com)
Russian forces have attacked across the Ukrainian border to the north of Kharkiv in a potential effort to open a new front in the war and intensify the pressure on Ukraine’s second city....
US overtakes China as Germany's top trading partner (www.reuters.com)
The United States overtook China as Germany’s most important trading partner in the first quarter of this year, according to Reuters’ calculations based on official data from the German statistics office....
Israel military calls on Palestinian civilians to evacuate Rafah (www.reuters.com)
Israel’s military said on Monday it had begun encouraging residents of Rafah to evacuate the southern Gazan city as part of a ‘limited scope’ operation, but did not immediately confirm media reports this was part of preparation for a ground assault....
