BMW, Mini, Rolls-Royce, Toyota, and Lexus are switching EV plugs (arstechnica.com)
Moopsy, I choose you! (preview.redd.it)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 drops the always-online requirement, but only for Steam Deck (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Steam Deck users can now play Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 offline (support.activision.com)
Berkeley Lab to lead US hunt for element 120 after breakdown of collaboration with Russia (www.chemistryworld.com)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is setting its sights on creating element 120 as part of a new US effort to discover the first elements in row eight of the periodic table. The move follows the breakdown of the US–Russian partnership, which had previously discovered the five heaviest elements, following the Russian...
Amazon River falls to lowest in over a century amid Brazil drought (www.reuters.com)
Cities: Skylines II - Updates on Modding (store.steampowered.com)
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Former Bank of China boss arrested on corruption charges (www.theguardian.com)
Vulnerability Patching for F-Droid apps | F-Droid News (f-droid.org)
Local Newspapers Are Vanishing. How Should We Remember Them? (www.propublica.org)
As smaller newspapers shrink or disappear, it’s easy to romanticize the role they played. But one reporter’s memories of the heyday of local journalism reveal a much more complicated reality.
CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 (arstechnica.com)
Blinken says Israeli actions are not retailatory but defensive (www.cnn.com)
US House speaker nominee Scalise drops out of race, deepening crisis (www.reuters.com)
Scalise, the Majority Leader, had secured his party’s nomination to replace ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy but was still short of the 217 votes needed to be elected on the House floor, as several of his fellow Republicans said they would not support him....
Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei Trolls Israel in Unprecedented Hebrew Tweet (www.newsweek.com)
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has taken aim at Israel over social media in a first-ever Hebrew-language message posted on X, formerly Twitter, as the country continues to battle with a comprehensive attack launched by Hamas over the weekend....
IMF Pushes World’s Poorest Countries into “Starvation Diet” as Debt Burdens Spiral (peoplesdispatch.org)
Arab League chief heads to Moscow for talks after Hamas attack on Israel (www.reuters.com)
Arab League Chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit headed to Moscow on Sunday for talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the situation in Gaza after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched the biggest attack on Israel in years....
Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire was ‘built on lies,’ US prosecutor says (www.cnn.com)
In their opening statements to a newly sworn-in jury in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, lawyers laid out previews of their cases, offering two divergent narratives for the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire....
UAW workers and Mack Trucks reach deal to avoid strike (www.reuters.com)
The UAW is currently in the third week of an ongoing strike against the Detroit 3 automakers, General Motors (GM.N), Ford and Chrysler parent Stellantis (STLAM.MI)....
Cannot read files from SD card which works fine under windows (gehirneimer.de)
I have a SanDisk 256GB extreme pro SD card for my camera. It works perfectly fine with the camera and with windows, but when I instert it into the card reader on linux (fedora 38) I can't copy any files from it:...
Fairly interesting article I just read about Yoji Shinkawa, the lead artist from the Metal Gear Solid games. (www.cookandbecker.com)
Panasonic to produce solid-state battery for drones by 2029 (asia.nikkei.com)
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