The diminishing returns of in-office mandates (www.bbc.com)
In-person collaboration has been linked to high performance and job satisfaction, but these benefits don’t increase with more days spent in the office....
ECJ fines Hungary €200 million for breaking asylum rules (www.dw.com)
The ECJ fines Hungary €200 million for violating European Union asylum rules. Hungary must comply with EU migration policies and pay €1 million per day until it does....
Record 120 million people displaced globally — UN report (www.dw.com)
A UN report reveals that 120 million people were forcibly displaced globally in 2024 due to conflict and violence. This marks a record high, affecting 1.5% of the world’s population....
Cope & Seethe Treaty Organization (sh.itjust.works)
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Chrome OS switching to the Android Linux kernel and related Android subsystems – OSnews (www.osnews.com)
Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts (wedistribute.org)
iOS 18 Hints At A Buttonless Future For iPhone 16, Improved Battery On The Horizon (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
The latest iOS 18 update strongly hints that Apple’s forthcoming iPhone 16 lineup might incorporate the highly anticipated solid-state buttons....
China’s credit engine, which once powered industries and markets all over the world, is stuck in low gear – and set to stay there (www.bloomberg.com)
Data for May due this week is forecast to show a resumption of loan growth after a shock contraction in April, the first for almost two decades. But nobody expects a return to the days when Beijing would engineer borrowing booms to speed up the world’s second-biggest economy....
Obsidian CEO responds to worries Xbox could shut them down, too: 'I'm not worried about tomorrow' (www.pcgamer.com)
Hands on with the Zotac Zone gaming handheld: It's got a gorgeous screen, but the competition is ramping up [AMD Ryzen 7 8840U, 780M GPU,16GB Ram, 7-inch AMOLED 1080p, ~800$] (www.pcgamer.com)
Armello studio League of Geeks is 'going into hibernation for the foreseeable future' and may not be back (www.pcgamer.com)
Path of Exile 2 devs working on Steam Deck compatibility (www.pcgamesn.com)
With Nvidia raking in money with its high-end AI GPUs, its chip-producer TSMC has hinted it could increase its silicon making prices. (www.pcgamesn.com)
Startup claims it can boost any processor's performance by 100X — Flow Computing introduces its 'CPU 2.0' architecture (www.tomshardware.com)
Dino Crisis is the series most Capcom fans want to see get a new game (web.archive.org)
Epic Games Store has leaked a lot of unannounced games, including The Last of Us Part 2, Final Fantasy 9 Remake and a new Turok game (www.dsogaming.com)
Proton 9.0-2 brings better controller support in launchers, more playable games, lots of bug fixes (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers' (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Castlevania ReVamped Blends ‘Classicvania’ And ‘Metroidvania’ Together -- Retro Gaming News 24/7 (www.retronews.com)
Lv4 Games, a team of dedicated Castlevania fans, has created a fan-made game called Castlevania ReVamped that aims to bring together the nostalgic aesthetics of the NES-era Castlevania games with the modern, non-linear gameplay of Metroidvanias. This blend of classic and contemporary elements results in an impressive mix that...
Russia Accused of ‘Deliberate Pattern’ of Starvation Tactics Against Ukrainian Civilians in Siege of Mariupol City in Submission to the International Criminal Court (ICC) (globalrightscompliance.com)
The link contains also an version of the report in Ukrainian....
Israel reportedly hits Gaza safe zone as ceasefire discussions persist (www.middleeasteye.net)
Israel has launched land, sea and air strikes on al-Mawasi, a designated safe zone in Gaza, according to Palestine’s Wafa news agency....
The climate crisis is solvable, but human rights must trump profits (www.nature.com)
China’s maritime militia: the shadowy armada whose existence Beijing rarely acknowledges (www.theguardian.com)
They look like simple fishing boats but are capable of swarming in huge numbers to help Beijing stake its territorial claims in the South China Sea...
