Tarkov studio claims it actually doesn't have the server capacity for everyone who bought the game for $150 to play its upcoming PvE mode, still wants players to pay extra (www.pcgamer.com)
At USC, arrests. At UCLA, hands off. Why pro-Palestinian protests have not blown up on UC campuses (www.latimes.com)
GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse (github.com)
This service is still in Alpha release but is already deployable and usable, and federates with other Fediverse servers....
Many Ukrainian Prisoners of War Show Signs of Trauma and Sexual Violence (www.nytimes.com)
Ukraine is just beginning to understand the lasting effects of the traumas its prisoners of war experienced in Russian captivity, but it has been failing to treat them properly and returning them to duty too early, say former prisoners, officials and psychologists familiar with individual cases....
American Airlines keeps mistaking 101-year-old passenger for baby (www.bbc.com)
Escape From Tarkov developer finally apologizes for pricey PvE controversy (www.pcgamesn.com)
Let's discuss: Mass Effect (beehaw.org)
The format of these posts is simple: let’s discuss a specific game or series!...
Microsoft and IBM make MS-DOS 4.00 Open-Source (alternativeto.net)
He Worked for the Nastiest People in Politics. Now He’s Airing Dirty Laundry. (www.politico.com)
Italy can do without Russian gas, says energy minister (www.politico.eu)
Rome has no reason to oppose EU sanctions targeting Russian LNG, Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin says....
Larian publishing director says "marketing's dead" because players don't want to be "bamboozled," and "we learned that with Baldur's Gate 3" (www.gamesradar.com)
This has some really interesting implications that are not restricted to gaming.
Mussolini’s Hometown Can’t Figure Out How to Quit Him (www.thedailybeast.com)
Biden grants clemency to crack and cocaine dealers (www.washingtontimes.com)
Biden's 13th-Quarter Approval Average Lowest Historically, Least Popular President in 70 Years (news.gallup.com)
Will the American Oligarchy Accept Limits or Choose World War Three? (www.nakedcapitalism.com)
Sanders hits back at Netanyahu: ‘It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable’ (www.theguardian.com)
The true power and capability of American UAVs (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Biden administration restores protections for gay and transgender Americans seeking health care (www.cnn.com)
Far-right AfD launches EU election campaign amid turmoil (www.euronews.com)
Germany’s far-right AfD party launched its EU election campaign amidst controversy, including the absence of its lead candidate due to an espionage-related arrest and declining poll ratings....
U.S. Voter Turnout (www.presidency.ucsb.edu)
Why is voter turnout in the U.S. consistently within the 50-60% range? I’m specifically curious if anyone has specific reasons they can’t or typically choose not to vote in presidential elections.
Daughter of prominent Palestinian poet killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza (www.cnn.com)
Shaima Refaat Alareer, the daughter of a prominent Palestinian poet, was killed alongside her family in an Israeli airstrike on a house west of Gaza City on Friday, according to multiple sources, four months after her father died in a similar attack....
China’s Xi says the U.S. needs to accept Beijing’s rise for bilateral relations to improve (www.cnbc.com)
Chinese jets fly sorties over Taiwan strait in show of force as US delegation departs (www.theguardian.com)
Taiwan has reported that a dozen Chinese warplanes flew sorties close to the island on Saturday, in a sudden surge of military activity just hours after the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, left Beijing following talks with President Xi Jinping and top Chinese officials.
Junk science is cited in abortion ban cases. Researchers are fighting the ‘fatally flawed’ work (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers are calling for the retraction of misleading anti-abortion studies that could influence judges in critical cases...
