Namibia high court overturns law banning consensual gay sex (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17125300
Pakistani 'blasphemy vigilante' mob kills man (www.dw.com)
A crowd of vigilantes in Pakistan killed and burned the body of a man whom they accused of desecrating the Quran. Police registered a case against the mob of hundreds....
Politician who pushed Philippines natural gas boom is behind firm that planned to profit (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17124918
Crackdown on hunger-striking Myanmar prisoners in Indian jail – (eng.mizzima.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/23589476...
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Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Article textNewly-restructured Swedish conglomerate, Embracer Group, will leverage AI models to bolster game production. As noted in Embracer’s annual report, the company has adopted a new AI policy package it claims has the capability to “massively enhance” its production process by “increasing resource efficiency,...
China says Dalai Lama must 'thoroughly correct' his political views (www.reuters.com)
Majority of Japanese support government-run dating apps (www.asahi.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/21037419
China's AI-Powered Sexbots Are Redefining Intimacy, But There Will Be Limitations - Are We Ready? (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
China’s sex doll industry is embracing AI, creating interactive companions for a growing market. Though promising intimacy, technical and legal hurdles remain.
Beaten schoolchildren, military training, and Kremlin propaganda: new report accuses Russia of violating international law through 'Russification' of Ukrainian education system (www.hrw.org)
Russian authorities are imposing the Russian curriculum and Kremlin propaganda in Ukrainian schools in occupied areas of Ukraine and have retaliated against school workers if they refuse to implement the imposed Russian curriculum, a report published by Human Rights Watch days....
The US plans to halt some orders for Patriot missiles and give them to Ukraine instead: report (www.businessinsider.com)
The US plans to stop open orders for Patriot interceptor missiles, the Financial Times reported....
Arizona AG sues governor for attempt to swipe opioid funding for Department of Corrections (www.salon.com)
Elden Ring – Patch Notes Version 1.12 (en.bandainamcoent.eu)
They nerfed blasphemous blade’s ability. It’s so over....
From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction (arstechnica.com)
Death toll tops 1,000 after Haj marked by extreme heat (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Israel Has “Systematically Violated” Laws Regarding Civilian Harm, UN Finds (truthout.org)
Israeli forces have demonstrated a pattern of systematically targeting densely populated civilian areas across hundreds of attacks in Gaza that likely violate international wartime laws, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) found in a report released Wednesday....
US reputation on the line at Second Thomas Shoal (asiatimes.com)
Beluga whale pair move from Ukraine's war-torn Kharkiv to Spain's Valencia (www.reuters.com)
MADRID, June 20 (Reuters) - Marine biologists have moved a pair of beluga whales from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv - the target of daily shelling by Russian forces - to the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, in what they described as a long and risky international rescue operation....
VR support for GNOME Wayland is here! (gitlab.gnome.org)
Megaconstellations of satellites are burning up in our atmosphere. That could have consequences (www.cbc.ca)
There are an estimated 11,500 tonnes of space objects orbiting Earth, which would include even the smallest pieces around one millimetre in size (likely satellite collisions). But there are far larger objects in space, including spent rocket stages and upwards of 9,000 functioning satellites. More than half of them are SpaceX...
South Korea blasts Russia-North Korea deal, says it will consider supplying arms to Ukraine (apnews.com)
South Korea’s presidential office on Thursday condemned an agreement reached by Russia and North Korea that vowed mutual defense assistance in the event of war and said it will reconsider its policy of limiting its support to Ukraine to non-lethal supplies....
Stonehenge sprayed with orange powder paint by Just Stop Oil activists (www.theguardian.com)
If you ever wanted to read about fake druids vs. environmental activists, now’s your chance.
Deluge of fake news websites threatens to drown out truth during US election (www.theguardian.com)
Fears that ‘pink slime’ sites could be as harmful to political discourse as foreign disinformation in 2016 and 2020...
