Phil Spencer blames capitalism for games industry woes: 'I don't get [the] luxury of not having to run a profitable growing business' (www.pcgamer.com)
What Really Happened on October 7? (prospect.org)
The Israeli regime and its noxious mouthpieces in Washington have spouted so many lies about what Hamas did on October 7 that the conversation is often driven toward rebutting the charges that the group “beheaded 30 babies” or sliced a four-month-old fetus out of a dead woman, or gouged the eyes and breast out of a mother...
Mpox cases nearly double what they were at the same time last year (abcnews.go.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13665619...
I received this "free gift" with an Aliexpress order (slrpnk.net)
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The WHO declared aspartame "possibly" causes cancer. Here’s what that means. | Vox (www.vox.com)
DOOM Captcha - Captchas don't have to be boring (vivirenremoto.github.io)
GOP Lawmaker Thinks He Exposed Busload of 'Illegals' … It Was the Gonzaga Basketball Team (www.rollingstone.com)
US tells Israel it need not close bank accounts of sanctioned settlers (www.timesofisrael.com)
Germany Is Seizing Jews’ Money Again: It’s fine, they’re pro-Palestine (novaramedia.com)
A pro-Palestine Jewish activist group has had its bank account frozen in Germany for the second time in seven years, after the bank requested a full list of its members’ details in what experts believe is a breach of German law. The group suspects the move was triggered by its involvement in a forthcoming pro-Palestine...
Russia criticised for using veto to end UN monitoring of North Korea sanctions (www.theguardian.com)
Russia has blocked the renewal of a UN panel monitoring sanctions against North Korea, weeks after the body said it was investigating reports of arms transfers between Moscow and Pyongyang....
China's president says it doesn't need ASML — tells Dutch PM it will continue with advanced technological progress regardless (www.tomshardware.com)
Yellen says China's rapid buildout of its green energy industry 'distorts global prices' (apnews.com)
Yellen, who is planning her second trip to China as Treasury secretary, said Wednesday in Georgia that she will convey her belief to her Chinese counterparts that Beijing’s increased production of green energy also poses risks “to productivity and growth in the Chinese economy.”...
Conjoined twin Abby Hensel is now married (www.nbcnews.com)
Abby and Brittany Hensel, who documented their lives in the TLC reality series “Abby & Brittany,” have a new member of the family....
Bloomberg: US and UK tracking $20 billion in crypto transfers to Russia (kyivindependent.com)
Russian veto brings an end to the UN panel that monitors North Korea nuclear sanctions (apnews.com)
“Everyone Will Die in Prison”: How Louisiana’s Plan to Lock People Up Longer Imperils Its Sickest Inmates (www.propublica.org)
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The installation process of different Linux distributions (feddit.de)
Russian network that 'paid European politicians' busted, authorities claim (www.bbc.com)
A Russian-backed “propaganda” network has been broken up for spreading anti-Ukraine stories and paying unnamed European politicians, according to authorities in several countries....
Forgejo forks its own path forward (forgejo.org)
This is from last month, but I haven't seen any discussion of it. Seems like Forgejo is now a hard fork of Gitea, instead of being a soft fork like it was over the previous year....
endlessh-go: a Golang SSH tarpit that traps bots/scanners (github.com)
Why did more than 1,000 people die after police subdued them with force that isn't meant to kill? (apnews.com)
Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn’t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient’s head off the floor....
Russia intensifies attacks on Kharkiv, draining Ukraine's air defense and civilian morale (kyivindependent.com)
Russian troops on March 27 attacked Kharkiv, killing a 59-year-old man and injuring 19 people, including four children. This was the first time since 2022 that Russian troops used a glide air bomb, reportedly a new-type UMPB D-30 munition, to strike the city....
Two thirds of CD Projekt developers are now working on The Witcher 4, reaching its target staff size (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Horizon Forbidden West PC - Optimised Settings vs PS5 - The DF Breakdown (yt.artemislena.eu)
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