Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut is currently Sony's fourth biggest launch on Steam (www.pcgamesn.com)
Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs (mastodon.sdf.org)
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Biden says US will withhold weapons from Israel if it invades Rafah (www.reuters.com)
May 8 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday publicly warned Israel for the first time that the U.S. would stop supplying it weapons if Israeli forces make a major invasion of Rafah, a refugee-packed city in southern Gaza....
'Your Name' Movie Producer Confesses To Have Paid Over 20 Underage Girls For Sexual Favors - Animehunch (animehunch.com)
The Wakayama Prefectural Police revealed on May 8, 2024 that Your Name. movie producer Koichiro Itou has been referred to prosecutors for additional violation of Child Prostitution & Pornography law in Japan, after it came to light that he had paid an underage girl for sexual intercourse....
Video Game Execs Are Ruining Video Games ["introduction of layoffs to boost (company) share prices"] (jacobin.com)
Jan. 6 Situation Room Officer Reveals Trump Fans ‘Came That Close’ To Murdering VP In Stunning New Interview (www.mediaite.com)
Former White House Situation Room officer Mike Stiegler revealed that then-President Donald Trump never called down to check on then-Vice President Mike Pence as Trump fans hunted him at the Capitol, and that we were “that close” to losing the VP....
OpenAI announces GPT-4o, new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time. (openai.com)
#148 Variable Styles · This Week in GNOME (thisweek.gnome.org)
Gunman Who Shot Slovak PM Linked to Pro-Russian Extremist Group (www.kyivpost.com)
Spain denies port of call to ship carrying arms to Israel (www.theguardian.com)
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New York Is Suing Anti-Abortion ‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers’ Over ‘Abortion Pill Reversal’ Disinfo (www.jezebel.com)
Elections opportunity for Kurdish-Turkish de-escalation – US think tank (May 8th, 2023) (rojavainformationcenter.org)
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The upcoming Turkish elections on May 14, especially if they yield an opposition victory, will be “a rare opportunity” for the US to broker a Turkish-Kurdish peace, argues a new report by the New Lines Institute, a Washington-based think tank....
Biden should have pardoned Trump on federal charges, Mitt Romney says (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden should have pardoned Donald Trump on all federal criminal charges the moment they were announced, the Utah senator and former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said....
‘Magic David called’: David Copperfield repeatedly contacted Jeffrey Epstein (www.theguardian.com)
‘Magic David called’: David Copperfield repeatedly contacted Jeffrey Epstein...
Intel® Arc™ & Iris® Xe Graphics - Windows* (www.intel.com)
Billionaires urged NYC mayor to sic police on Columbia encampment (www.theverge.com)
Estonia ‘seriously’ discussing sending troops to ‘rear’ jobs in Ukraine, official says (breakingdefense.com)
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The Motorola Razr+ is about to get a sequel, but still hasn’t gotten an Android 14 update (9to5google.com)
At the top of Benjamin Netanyahu's agenda: self-preservation (www.cbc.ca)
Like many Israelis, Galon blames Netanyahu for not preventing the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, which left more than 1,200 dead and resulted in the capture of more than 250 hostages. Israel responded with a ferocious military campaign in Gaza that has killed upward of 35,000 people, according to the Gaza health ministry....
Three-year-old CPU beats Intel's fastest current chip in RAM benchmark — 7 GHz Core i9-11900K tops 8.3 GHz Core i9-14900KS in PYPrime 32B (www.tomshardware.com)
China-Russia relations: Putin and Xi no longer have a partnership of equals (www.bbc.com)
TLDR:****- China’s president Xi wants to maintain an alliance with Putin’s Russia, while also knowing that close ties with a pariah puts at risk his stable ties with the West which he needs to help his ailing economy....
Crockett slams Greene as ‘racist’ following contentious House committee meeting | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett criticized Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her “racist,” following a tense House Oversight markup Thursday evening that quickly devolved into personal attacks....
Why Piracy Fears are Keeping Some Researchers from Accessing the Games They Need (www.ign.com)
A Serial Killer from the U.S. Preyed on Young Women in Canada (www.nytimes.com)
The Linux kernel is a CNA - so what? (www.codethink.co.uk)
