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Star Wars Outlaws Requires The Internet To Install It (kotaku.com)

As Palestine applies for full UN membership, what’s in the way? (www.aljazeera.com)

Approval requires at least nine votes in favour, with no vetoes. The UNSC’s five permanent members – the US, Russia, China, France and Britain – hold vetoes....

Quebec separation re-enters political debate thanks to TikTok-friendly leader (www.theguardian.com)

Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon speaking loudly and often after party win over Coalition Avenir Québec...

Explosive device thrown onto porch of Satanic Temple in Massachusetts. No injuries were reported (apnews.com)

German art museum fires worker for hanging his own painting in gallery (www.theguardian.com)

The 51-year-old man had smuggled his work into the display at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne “in the hope of achieving his artistic breakthrough”, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported, citing police sources.

Unprecedented US War Drills and Naval Deployments Raise Fear of War in Korea (truthout.org)

Larian publishing director on mass layoffs: 'None of these companies are at risk of going bankrupt. They were just at risk of pissing off the shareholders' (www.pcgamer.com)

Speaking with Game File (users will encounter a paywall) at the Game Developers Choice Awards, Larian director of publishing Michael Douse gave his take on the current state of the industry, including some sharp criticism on the wave after wave of mass layoffs we’ve been seeing....

Fugitive former US city councillor enlists with Russia for war in Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)

Israel, U.S. believe Iran is about to retaliate for Israeli bombing of Syria consulate, officials say (www.cbsnews.com)

"Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives (blog.documentfoundation.org)

Schleswig-Holstein, the northern German federal state, will be a digital pioneer region and the first German state to introduce a digitally sovereign IT workplace in its state administration. With a cabinet decision to introduce the open-source software LibreOffice as the standard office solution across the board, the government...

The Scottish golf courses disappearing into the sea (www.bbc.com)

Some of Scotland’s oldest golf courses are in danger of disappearing into the sea due to climate change, according to those trying desperately to save them....

It could well be a blockbuster hurricane season, and that’s not a good thing (arstechnica.com)

Tech titans assemble to decide which jobs AI should cut first (www.theregister.com)

Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web (blog.mozilla.org)

Bodies of 6 aid workers killed in Israeli strike transported from Gaza as fallout grows (abcnews.go.com)

Food price fears as Brexit import charges revealed (www.bbc.com)

The government has revealed how much companies will have to pay to import foods from the EU due to Brexit....

Been getting a lot of these emails lately (imgflip.com)

Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade (www.eurogamer.net)

Spectator rushes stage at CS2 tournament and gets tackled into trophy, smashing it to pieces (www.pcgamer.com)

Georgia Republican official and outspoken election denier caught voting illegally 9 times (eu.usatoday.com)

Cross-post from slrpnk.net/post/8104275...

AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them. (wapo.st)

Artificial intelligence is spurring a new type of identity theft — with ordinary people finding their faces and words twisted to push often offensive products and ideas

Putin says Russia will not attack NATO, but F-16s will be shot down in Ukraine (www.reuters.com)

Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies F-16 fighters to Ukraine then they will be shot down by Russian forces, President Vladimir Putin said late on Wednesday....