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Brilliant visuals and growing pains: examining the first generation of Unreal Engine 5 games (www.eurogamer.net)

Inside Google’s Plan to Stop Apple From Getting Serious About Search (www.nytimes.com)

Blood Money: How America’s Biggest Charities Are Bankrolling Hate Groups Without Anyone Noticing (www.importantcontext.news)

Internal Wix chat encouraged staff to support Israel’s ‘narrative’ in Hamas conflict (www.irishtimes.com)

Canada's chief accessibility officer 'furious' after Air Canada forgets her wheelchair (www.cbc.ca)

Two elderly Israeli women released from Hamas captivity after 17 days (www.haaretz.com)

archive.today link for those who hit a paywall: archive.is/ZJnM9...

The ‘Absolute Right’ To Commit War Crimes? Gaza, Israel And Labour ‘Opposition’ (www.medialens.org)

Medialens.org

Apple announces entry-level Apple Pencil with USB-C charging (www.theverge.com)

The new USB-C Apple Pencil supports hover with the iPad Pro and can attach magnetically — but at $79, it’s cheaper than the $129 second-gen Pencil....

The Hololive Military Industrial Complex (files.catbox.moe)

‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Used AI For A Dead Voice Actor’s Performance, With Permission (www.forbes.com)

There are uses of AI that are proving to be more than black and white. While voice actors, have protested their performances being fed into AI against their will, we are now seeing an example of this being done, with permission, in a very unique case.

Climate crisis will make Europe’s beer cost more and taste worse, say scientists (www.theguardian.com)

Deadly bird flu reappears in US commercial poultry flocks in Utah and South Dakota (apnews.com)

Highly pathogenic bird flu has made its first appearances in U.S. commercial poultry flocks this season, affecting one turkey farm in South Dakota and one in Utah and raising concerns that more outbreaks could follow....

World’s largest offshore windfarm project starts powering UK grid (www.theguardian.com)

The project, jointly developed by Britain’s SSE and Norway’s Equinor and Vårgrønn, will produce 3.6 gigawatts of power, enough for 6m homes a year, when it is completed in 2026....

Hezbollah fires on Israel after members killed in shelling (www.reuters.com)

Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired a salvo of rockets onto northern Israel on Monday in response to at least three of its members being killed in Israeli shelling on Lebanon....

Witnesses to FBI hunt for Civil War gold describe heavily loaded armored truck, signs of a night dig (apnews.com)

New eyewitness accounts are raising questions about the FBI’s secretive 2018 dig for a legendary cache of Civil War-era gold. Eric McCarthy says a heavily loaded armored car left the Pennsylvania site.

Militants on paragliders and '5,000' rockets: How Hamas carried out deadly Israel attack (news.sky.com)

The militant group began its offensive - which it named “Operation Al Aqsa Storm” - on Saturday with a barrage of missiles from Gaza followed by militants crossing the border....

I carried my pet chicken, Jessica, around in a bag in 1987. Today I found this Amazon product stealing my idea. (imgur.com)

Edit: Redid the post from scratch as a Mastadon post....

A nearly $3 billion net worth puts you among the richest 400 people in America—40 years ago, that'd be No. 1 (www.cnbc.com)

People may suffer ‘long colds’ more than four weeks after infection, study shows | Medical research (www.theguardian.com)

I had a cold last month, but I’m still getting rid of a mild cough. This seems pretty timely for me....

Colorful quantum dots snag 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Pennsylvania inmates sue over 'tortuous conditions' of solitary confinement (apnews.com)

Solitary confinement conditions in a Pennsylvania state prison are unconstitutional, worsening and creating mental illness in those held there, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of five inmates who say they have spent long periods in “torturous conditions.”...