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Republicans push conspiracy theories after Hunter Biden verdict: ‘A fake trial’ (www.theguardian.com)

Rightwing politicians repeat unfounded theories that gun trial verdict is a ‘distraction’ from worse Biden crimes...

Denmark recalls Korean ramen for being too spicy (www.bbc.com)

Spread of tiger mosquito behind rise of dengue fever in Europe (www.bbc.com)

An invasive species of mosquito has set up home in 13 countries in the EU, including France, Spain and Greece, with experts linking their presence to a rise in dengue fever in Europe....

Russian attacks on power grid provoke the worst energy crisis of the war in Ukraine (english.elpais.com)

Air strikes have left the country with less than half of its electricity generation capacity, leading to daily power outages of 10 hours or more, a situation experts say will deteriorate further ahead of winter...

French conservatives move toward far-right alliance (www.dw.com)

The leader of France’s Republicans party has said he would be open to an alliance with Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally in snap French elections. Such an alliance would break a decades-old taboo....

Germany launches 11th-hour bid to avert trade war with China (www.politico.eu)

Germany wants the EU to set tariffs on electric vehicles at a low level to avoid severe retaliation from Beijing....

Ikea’s CEO has solved the Swedish retailer’s global ‘unhappy worker’ crisis by raising salaries, introducing flexible working and subsidizing childcare (fortune.com)

New York City Mayor Eric Adams condemns ‘pure antisemitism’ outside Oct. 7 memorial (www.washingtonexaminer.com)

…blasted those who held up Hezbollah and Hamas flags, both considered terrorist organizations by the United States, as well as protesters who carried a banner saying, “Long live October 7th.”...

Photoflare, simple, cross-platform image editor (Photofiltre clone) (photoflare.io)

Wayfinder has returned to Steam [...] and a way to continue playing following the end of the game’s service [offline] (www.pcgamesn.com)

Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85 (www.latimes.com)

I have mixed feelings on the pronoun use, but having read some of her autobiographical writing I don’t think she would have taken much issue with it. This piece is more focused on her work in computer engineering, so I felt it was appropriate to post here.

Single-line Intel Meteor Lake Linux patch boosts performance by 72% (www.tomshardware.com)

AMD's Ryzen 9000 won't beat the previous-gen X3D models in gaming, but they'll be close — improved 3D V-Cache coming, too (www.tomshardware.com)

Nvidia will increase shader counts but not ROPS on RTX 50-series GPUs — except on the lowest tier GB207, according to leak (www.tomshardware.com)

Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Gameplay Reveal (invidious.fdn.fr)

Youtube

Path of Exile 2: Witch Gameplay Walkthrough (invidious.fdn.fr)

Youtube

Everwayne - Announcement Trailer (invidious.fdn.fr)

Youtube

Sumo Group to lay off up to 15 percent of staff in cost reduction effort (www.gematsu.com)

Hundreds of thousands of people are now clicking a Banana on Steam [people leave it on, idle, for Steam's gift] (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Four Israeli soldiers killed in explosion of booby-trapped house in Rafah, southern Gaza (archive.is)

Four Israeli soldiers were killed Monday and six wounded in combat in the southern Gazan city of Rafah....

Nintendo, Xbox, And PlayStation Have All Now Abandoned Twitter/X Integration (archive.is)

So, really, a win for everybody.

If AI can now speak Italian, it can certainly replace us... (sopuli.xyz)

Neutrinos: The inscrutable “ghost particles” driving scientists crazy (arstechnica.com)

We haven’t pinned down the masses of any individual neutrino, and we don’t even know which ones are heavier than the others. When it comes to our ability to collect raw data, neutrinos present a triple threat: they’re incredibly lightweight (even the electron weighs over 5 million times more than all the neutrinos...