It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine (steamdeckhq.com)
Half of Gaza water sites damaged or destroyed, BBC satellite data reveals (www.bbc.com)
Biodiversity loss is biggest driver of infectious disease outbreaks, says study (www.theguardian.com)
Biodiversity loss is the biggest environmental driver of infectious disease outbreaks, making them more dangerous and widespread, a study has found....
Small-Town Politics, National Consequences: The Supreme Court takes up a Texas power struggle involving allegedly retaliatory arrests of two councilwomen. (www.texasobserver.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/small-town-politics-national-co…
Blinken Says Israeli Units Accused of Serious Violations Have Done Enough to Avoid Sanctions. Experts and Insiders Disagree. — ProPublica (www.propublica.org)
The Trouble with Forking Mastodon (wedistribute.org)
A lot of people have talked about the possibility of forking Mastodon to get the many improvements their communities need. Making such an effort successful is another discussion entirely.
Unlocking the bootloader of some Qualcomm devices when the display is broken, PoC (github.com)
Just thought I’d share. Probably nothing new or fancy, but may help some of you find a way to repurpose devices that aren’t worth repairing into home servers or something: e.g. op5 I’ve used has better CPU compared to raspberry pi 4, can run linux (postmarketos, albeit with some caveats), and costs less if bought with...
Steve Albini, Influential Producer of ’90s Rock and Beyond, Dies at 61 (www.nytimes.com)
Steve Albini, a rock musician and revered audio engineer who played a singular role in the development of the sound of alternative rock music in the 1980s, the ’90s and beyond — recording acclaimed albums by Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Pixies and hundreds of others — while becoming an outspoken critic of the music industry, died...
Bruh, take a break already (slrpnk.net)
TIL: UN Resolution 3379 Passed in 1975 with a vote of 72 to 35 Determined that Zionism is A Form of Racism (medium.com)
US revokes Intel, Qualcomm's export licenses to sell to China's Huawei, sources say | Reuters (www.reuters.com)
Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape (www.gamespot.com)
I don’t think big companies know how to make a good FPS campaign anymore, let alone hone in on classic deathmatch multiplayer. The last FPS I bought was Half-Life: Alyx four years ago, and the first one to come along and interest me since then was Phantom Fury, but I’m letting that one iron out bugs for a few weeks before I...
Tesla is under a federal wire fraud probe for misleading investors (arstechnica.com)
Building game worlds with creative lifehacks from the field of writing (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Devolver co-founder says large-scale game dev "crushing under its own weight a little bit" (archive.is)
A Russian Influence Campaign Is Exploiting College Campus Protests (www.wired.com)
Valve launches Proton 9.0 with improved game compatibility and more - KitGuru (www.kitguru.net)
With a Nintendo Switch 2 on the way, I hope Valve make a Steam Deck 2 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Huawei's new phone uses more China-made parts, memory chip (www.reuters.com)
Chemicals in car interiors may cause cancer — and they’re required by US law: (thehill.com)
To please Putin, universities purge liberals and embrace patriots (www.washingtonpost.com)
V Rising has launched out of Early Access! (steamcommunity.com)
"A genocidal government": Discussion with Cosette Wu, the woman behind the Harvard speech disruption criticizing the Chinese Communist Party (focustaiwan.tw)
Link to the archived version....
'We must not forget': How a bombing by US turned China into a superpower (www.business-standard.com)
Israel-Gaza live: Israel shells Rafah as Biden warns against major ground offensive - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Heavy shelling is reported in Rafah, in the southern Gaza strip, as US President Joe Biden warns Israel against a major offensive there...
