The PC Gaming Show returns June 9 to celebrate its 10-year anniversary and the most exciting new PC games (www.pcgamer.com)
Sprouting Makeovers in BeamNG.drive v0.32 (beamng.com)
Half-Life remake Black Mesa has a big upgrade with DXVK 2.3.1, optimizations and bug fixes (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Descent 3 engine made open source and MIT licensed (github.com)
My Raspberry Pi Turned into a Robo-Dog and I am Loving it (itsfoss.com)
VirtualBox 7.0.16 Released with Initial Support for Linux 6.8 and 6.9 Kernels (9to5linux.com)
Ahead of UK’s foreign affairs committee inquiry, a whistleblower says that "Beijing paid bribes" and alleges UN cover-up of special favours for China (committees.parliament.uk)
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Borderlands 3 community scores a big win for science: 'These players have helped trace the evolutionary relationships of more than a million different kinds of bacteria that live in the human gut' (www.pcgamer.com)
Mass grave found at Gaza hospital occupied by Israeli forces (www.aljazeera.com)
A new mass grave has been discovered at al-Shifa Hospital where a two-week siege by the Israeli army has turned the facility into a graveyard and put what was once Gaza’s largest medical complex out of service.
Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs (www.pcgamer.com)
Israeli tanks push back into northern Gaza, warplanes hit Rafah, say residents (www.reuters.com)
Israeli tanks pushed back into parts of the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday which they had left weeks ago, while warplanes conducted air strikes on Rafah, the Palestinians’ last refuge in the south of the territory, killing and wounding several people, medics and residents said....
So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post (arstechnica.com)
Will they never learn? - US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call ‘Stasi-Like’ | WIRED (www.wired.com)
Google Messages moves RCS ‘provided by’ status in settings (9to5google.com)
A small change to Google Messages settings moves where you can find who’s providing your Rich Communication Services (RCS).
Throw off the Yoke (slrpnk.net)
I fucking love this subset of memes. These, and possum memes
Israel's defence against Iran attack 'cost over $1bn' (www.newarab.com)
YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked (arstechnica.com)
Johnson’s Plan for Ukraine Aid Meets Republican Pushback, Muddying Its Path (www.nytimes.com)
Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday encountered stiff resistance from Republicans as he embarked on a complicated and politically perilous strategy to push legislation through the House to send aid to Israel and Ukraine — all while beating back a threat to his own job....
Google employees protest company’s work with Israeli government (thehill.com)
Explosions, fire reported at military airfield in occupied Crimea (kyivindependent.com)
Explosions were reported in the town of Dzhankoi in occupied Crimea near a military airfield during the early hours of April 17, according to Russian-affiliated telegram channels. Following the explosions, a large-scale fire reportedly broke out at the airfield....
Netanyahu aims to trap west into war across Middle East, warns Iranian diplomat (www.theguardian.com)
Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to trap the west into a total war across the Middle East that would have incalculable consequences for the region and the world, Iran’s top diplomat in the UK has claimed, in his first interview since Tehran launched an unprecedented missile and drone attack against Israel at the weekend....
Could the U.S. force treatment on mentally ill people (again)? (www.npr.org)
Members of self-proclaimed anti-government group ‘God’s Misfits’ held in killings of Kansas women (apnews.com)
Two Kansas women who vanished as they tried to pick up children for a birthday party two weeks ago were killed over a custody dispute involving a group of anti-government Oklahomans calling themselves “God’s Misfits,” authorities said Monday....
