This is clearly shaping up to be the pinnacle of this decade's technology (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Phil Spencer Insists Games Launch Across Xbox Series X and S Despite Baldur's Gate 3 No-Show - IGN (www.ign.com)
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has addressed the fact Baldur's Gate 3 launches on PS5 before Xbox Series X and S in an interview at gamescom 2023.
Armored Core VI Review Thread (85/100) (opencritic.com)
Game Information...
TIL The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along transatlantic cable was $10 a word, with a ten word minimum. (www.pbs.org)
The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along the transatlantic cable was ten dollars a word, with a ten word minimum, meaning that a skilled workman of the day would have to set aside ten weeks’ salary in order to send a single message. As a practical matter, this limited cable use to governments (transmissions from the...
UO People is an accredited and tuition free college that offers full degrees and certificates (www.uopeople.edu)
If you’re considering doing online college, check to see if they offer your program!...
Hi-Rez Studios, the people behind Paladins and Smite, have stated that they will be using AI to clone voices and refused to add in any words to contracts that would protect actors from it (twitter.com)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/gaming/t/354777...
GNOME 44.4 Is Out to Improve Epiphany, GNOME Software, and More - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
Global water crisis could 'spiral out of control' due to overconsumption and climate change, UN report warns (www.cnn.com)
Fairphone 5 - release date and US support?? (www.fairphone.com)
Ever since I learned about the Fairphone, I keep trying to figure out when they’ll release the Fairphone 5....
New study reaffirms what we all knew – fossil fuel companies plot the path to climate ruin (www.thecanary.co)
Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term (www.cnn.com)
Trump has publicly rejected Project 2025 as Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has sought to tie him to some of the plan’s most extreme proposals. But in private, Vought said that those disavowals were merely “graduate-level politics.”
We played Valve’s secret new shooter: Deadlock (www.theverge.com)
It’s like Overwatch, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 all baked into a pie.
Ecovacs home robots can be hacked to spy on their owners, researchers say (techcrunch.com)
Malicious hackers can take over control of vacuum and lawn mower robots made by Ecovacs to spy on their owners using the devices’ cameras and microphones, new research has found....
Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens (www.androidauthority.com)
Israeli forces shoot US citizen in occupied West Bank (www.middleeasteye.net)
Israeli forces shot and injured an American citizen during a demonstration on Friday that was being held in Beita, a Palestinian village near the occupied West Bank town of Nablus, several Palestinian rights organisations have told Middle East Eye....
India in despair as Olympic wrestler disqualified from final despite cutting hair off (www.theguardian.com)
Trump’s ‘no choice’ comment on EVs reveal partisan divide over green tech (www.semafor.com)
And, it can't run Doom (sh.itjust.works)
Moto Tag officially goes on sale: It's basically a good Air Tag clone (www.androidauthority.com)
TL;DR...
Axios: Scoop: Trump stalled Black journalists interview over fact-checking (www.axios.com)
“I was prepared to go on stage to craft a statement, saying he decided not to go on stage because of fact-checking… we couldn’t compromise on that.”...
Antarctic temperatures rise 10C above average in near record heatwave (www.theguardian.com)
Ground temperatures across great swathes of the ice sheets of Antarctica have soared an average of 10C above normal over the past month, in what has been described as a near record heatwave....
Iran, its proxies will meet to discuss retaliation against Israel, say sources (www.reuters.com)
Funeral of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh held in Tehran...
Donald Trump suggests Kamala Harris suddenly 'became a Black person' (www.abc.net.au)
(the detail is that he's talking about how she self-identifies rather than her appearance itself, but that would ruin a perfectly good nottheonion moment)
Donald Trump says he 'probably' will debate Kamala Harris but 'can also make a case for not' (apnews.com)
Donald Trump on Monday seemed to back away from his earlier commitment to debate Vice President Kamala Harris, questioning the value of a meetup and saying he “probably” will debate but he “can also make a case for not doing it.”...
Kevin Roberts, architect of Project 2025, has close ties to radical Catholic group Opus Dei (www.theguardian.com)
Heritage Foundation leader has long received spiritual guidance from group and his policy goals align with its teachings
