Life is Strange studio Deck Nine accused of toxic workplace culture in new report (www.eurogamer.net)
Minecraft will now require Java 21 and a 64Bit OS, as of 24w14a (www.minecraft.net)
Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? (www.nytimes.com)
Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse (www.theguardian.com)
Here's the column Meta doesn't want you to see: Read the Kansas Reflector's piece about Facebook's climate change ad policy (www.thehandbasket.co)
Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites (retrododo.com)
It honestly breaks my heart to write this article,...
"Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives (blog.documentfoundation.org)
Schleswig-Holstein, the northern German federal state, will be a digital pioneer region and the first German state to introduce a digitally sovereign IT workplace in its state administration. With a cabinet decision to introduce the open-source software LibreOffice as the standard office solution across the board, the government...
Russians Pirate Premier League, Add Their Own Graphics & Commentators (torrentfreak.com)
Pirate IPTV Investigations Are Expensive, Time-Consuming & Prone to Misfire (torrentfreak.com)
Plex Asks GitHub to Take Down 'Reshare' Repository Over Piracy Fears (torrentfreak.com)
The mind-bending new rules for doing business in China (www.economist.com)
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Ubuntu 24.04 Improves Power Efficiency on Laptops - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Xi Jinping’s misguided plan to escape economic stagnation (www.economist.com)
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US, EU economic system struggling to 'survive' against China, US trade chief warns (www.euractiv.com)
Airplane passenger fined in Sydney for urinating in a cup (apnews.com)
A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup during a delay in deplaning after landing at Sydney Airport....
ASUS refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools as promised [after being sued] (www.androidauthority.com)
Israeli military fires two senior officers as report finds strike on aid workers was in ‘violation of commands’ (www.cnn.com)
Millennials are exhausted by working more for less. (www.theguardian.com)
(water is wet and fire is hot).
What's behind China's gold-buying spree? (www.dw.com)
For more than a year, China’s central bank has been buying up large amounts of gold. The move, along with the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, have helped spike the price of the precious metal to new highs....
Joe Lewis spared jail time for part in ‘brazen’ insider trading conspiracy (www.theguardian.com)
The British billionaire Joe Lewis was spared jail time for his part in a “brazen” insider trading conspiracy on Thursday, and was instead fined $5m and given a three-year probation by a New York judge....
What Ecstasy Does to Octopuses (www.theatlantic.com)
Autoworkers at Alabama’s Mercedes-Benz Plant File for a Union Election (prospect.org)
Exclusive: Tesla scraps low-cost car plans amid fierce Chinese EV competition (www.reuters.com)
The decision represents an abandonment of a longstanding goal that Tesla chief Elon Musk has often characterized as its primary mission: affordable electric cars for the masses. His first “master plan”, opens new tab for the company in 2006 called for manufacturing luxury models first, then using the profits to finance a...
