Starmer ‘shocked’ about prisons crisis as early release scheme prepared | Prisons and probation | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Drunken driver who snapped photo going 141 mph before deadly collision imprisoned for 17 years (abcnews.go.com)
Darryl Anderson was drunk behind the wheel of his Audi SUV, had his accelerator pressed to the floor and was barreling toward a car ahead of him when he snapped a photo of his speedometer. The picture showed a car in the foreground, a collision warning light on his dashboard and a speed of 141 mph (227 kph)....
2-year-old Arizona girl dies after dad leaves her in car during triple-digit heat: Police (abcnews.go.com)
A 2-year-old girl has died after her father left her in a hot car in Arizona, where residents are enduring triple-digit temperatures, according to authorities....
Treasury, IRS announce 'major milestone' of $1 billion in past-due taxes collected from millionaires (www.cnbc.com)
The Treasury Department and the IRS announced the collection of more than $1 billion in tax debt from high-income individuals over the past year....
Colorado dropped Medicaid enrollees as red states have, alarming advocates for the poor (kffhealthnews.org)
Colorado stands out among the 10 states that have disenrolled the highest share of Medicaid beneficiaries since the U.S. government lifted a pandemic-era restriction on removing people from the health insurance program....
Anger mounts in southeast Texas as crippling power outages and heat turn deadly (www.cnn.com)
Frustrations are mounting across southeast Texas as residents enter a fourth day of crippling power outages and heat, a combination that has proven dangerous – and at times deadly – as some struggle to access food, gas and medical care....
State of Text Rendering 2024 (behdad.org)
[The author assumes] a high-level understanding of how text rendering works, for example, what shaping is. If that does not sound familiar to you, you might want to review State of Text Rendering (2009), and Modern text rendering with Linux: Overview (2019).
Billionaire Sung Kook ‘Bill’ Hwang convicted of fraud by New York jury (www.theguardian.com)
Archegos Capital Management’s founder guilty of 10 of 11 criminal counts over investment firm that collapsed in 2021...
Taiwan monitors Chinese military surge, calls China a threat to stability (www.rappler.com)
In its daily update on Chinese military activity over the past 24 hours, released on Thursday morning, Taiwan’s defense ministry said it had detected 66 Chinese military aircraft around the island....
Nato summit: Ukraine on 'irreversible path' to membership (www.bbc.com)
Nato members have pledged their support for an “irreversible path” to future membership for Ukraine, as well as more aid....
IdentifyMobile incident exposed 200M records from hundreds of companies (stackdiary.com)
British bulk SMS provider IdentifyMobile exposed 200M records because a developer misconfigured an AWS S3 bucket and made it public. A research group from Germany spotted the issue and were able to access more than six terabytes of data. The said data included not only SMS message content but also phone numbers, sender names,...
Benji Gregory, Child Star of ‘Alf,’ Dies at 46 (variety.com)
Dead of heatstroke at 46. The poor guy also got a medical discharge from the Navy in 2005 and had a service dog, so that may have been a contributing factor, whatever the issue was.
Double Dragon Is Getting a 3D Beat 'Em Up From Arc System Works - IGN (www.ign.com)
Valve Made A DOTA Fighting Game And It's Out Now [in a DOTA2 patch] (kotaku.com)
AMD reportedly preps Hawk Point CPU without the NPU — Ryzen 7 8745HS is a Ryzen 7 8845HS clone but with the XDNA NPU chopped off [NPU=Neural process unit==AI] (www.tomshardware.com)
OBS encoding enhancements come to Nvidia's Maxwell GPUs — GeForce GTX 900 series can now leverage the Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting feature (www.tomshardware.com)
PC and Xbox Game Pass are getting a worldwide price hike (web.archive.org)
Riot was working on a Smash Bros-style fighting game, but MultiVersus helped convince it to pull the plug (www.pcgamer.com)
DXVK 2.4 brings D8VK for Direct3D 8 support, frame rate limiter adjustments, lots of game fixes (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate on Steam in Q4 2024 (store.steampowered.com)
Journalist in Gaza Describes Last 24 Hours as the Deadliest in Months (truthout.org)
Unofficial Reddit API (github.com)
I am making a Unofficial Reddit API, which mimics the official one....
Rare Neo Geo Glass Cleaner Up for Auction at 300,000 Yen | Retro Gaming News 24/7 (www.retronews.com)
A Retro Collector’s Dream: Neo Geo Glass Cleaner Goes Under the Hammer...
Mysterious Unreleased Dreamcast Game Images Surface After 23 Years | Retro Dodo (retrododo.com)
After a long silence, an unreleased Dreamcast game from Japanese studio Nextech has finally seen the light of day with footage surfacing online. This technical demo of Farnation, discovered after years of searching and speculation, reveals gameplay that was thought to have been lost for over two decades....
China accelerates green steel shift as EU levies loom, researchers say (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17862836