How a Washington Tax Break for Data Centers Snowballed Into One of the State’s Biggest Corporate Giveaways (www.propublica.org)
One of Washington’s largest corporate tax breaks has grown alongside a data center boom in Central Washington, including this data center in East Wenatchee owned by the Sabey Corp. Despite forgoing more than $474 million since 2018, the state can’t say how many jobs were created by the tax break. During that same time frame,...
Substantial improvement to GTA3 on the Dreamcast (xcancel.com)
This is now running on a 16MB stock Dreamcast!
Israel strike on Gaza school shelter kills around 100 people, Hamas-run media office says (www.reuters.com)
Secure Jobs, Uncertain Future: China’s Growing Appetite for Government Employment (www.cfr.org)
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The Future Is Here! Pop!_OS's Much Awaited COSMIC Desktop is Now Available for Alpha Testing (news.itsfoss.com)
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Russia Imposes Anti-Terror Measures In 3 Regions As Ukraine Continues Incursion. (www.rferl.org)
Israel bombs Gaza school whilst displaced Palestinians prayed, killing at least 100 (www.middleeasteye.net)
At least 100 Palestinian civilians, including children, were killed at dawn on Saturday after Israeli forces targeted a school in Gaza City whilst displaced people performed morning prayers....
Opinion | Don’t Get Fooled Again by Crypto (www.nytimes.com)
Crush House is a parody of reality TV with nothing real to say about its subject (www.pcgamer.com)
Palantir partners with Microsoft to sell AI to the government (www.theverge.com)
Palantir, the company named for the dangerous seeing-stones that tended to mislead their users, has announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver services for classified networks in US defense and intelligence agencies....
Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion (arstechnica.com)
Roblox banned in Türkiye following nationwide Instagram block (www.turkiyetoday.com)
Goofy Doofus (i.imgur.com)
Mesmerized (i.imgur.com)
‘Order from Amazon’: Tech giants storing mass data for Israel’s war (www.972mag.com)
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This week in KDE: SVG Breeze cursors and more thumbnails (pointieststick.com)
First up is something cool: support for SVG-based cursor themes! This allows compatible themes to always display beautiful sharp cursors at any size, and has already been rolled out for the Breeze Light and Breeze Dark cursor themes. It does not use the Hyprcursor system, and we have not yet upstreamed it to be a different...
State of Nova Launcher (novalauncher.com)
YouTube is now testing a built-in sleep timer, but only with Premium subscribers (9to5google.com)
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