Diablo 4 Steam page is up - Release Date: 17 Oct, 2023 (store.steampowered.com)
In Singapore, a certificate to own a car now costs $106,000 (www.reuters.com)
Israeli settler, far-right activist: 'Spitting on Christians is a Jewish custom' (www.jpost.com)
The Pixel 8 is Google’s best opportunity to bring its AI ideas together under one roof (www.theverge.com)
Panama Canal reduces the maximum number of ships travelling the waterway to 31 per day (apnews.com)
Afghanistan's Embassy in India ceases operations (www.dw.com)
New Delhi does not recognize Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, who took power in 2021. The announcement comes amid reports the ambassador and other senior diplomats left India in recent months and sought asylum elsewhere.
Anti-China Rhetoric Is Off the Charts in Western Media (thediplomat.com)
Scientists reveal cellular changes unique to early Alzheimer's disease (medicalxpress.com)
Stair Climbing Reduces Heart Disease Risk by 20%, Potentially Surpassing the Benefits of Walking (www.theinnovativehorizon.com)
The small pro-labor news site that has the Biden White House’s ear (www.washingtonpost.com)
!RetroAchievements - For news and discussion on fan-made achievements for retro games! (retrolemmy.com)
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The Taliban reportedly meets with Huawei over Afghanistan surveillance plan (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
War Thunder user leaks restricted military documents for AH-64D Apache Longbow (nichegamer.com)
War Thunder has leaked restricted military documents AGAIN for the third time in a month. This time it's the AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicoptor. User BarteG98PL posted the "fully unclassified"
North Korea Allows Foreigner Entry for First Time Since 2020 (www.bloomberg.com)
PipeWire 1.0 Planned For Release Later This Year (www.phoronix.com)
Ransomware team may be selling stolen Sony data (www.gamescensor.com)
Migratory birds can adapt to climate change by moving north, study shows (phys.org)
‘Isekai action RPG’ Mononoke no Kuni announced for PlayStation, Switch, PC, iOS, and Android (www.gematsu.com)
Go on an adventure with your adorable puppy Musashi in a roguelite 3D open-world inhabited by beastmen and gods in Mononoke no Kuni. Fish, work the farm, and cross islands by boat to go around various lands....
India suspends visas for Canadians as row escalates (www.bbc.com)
India has suspended visa services for Canadian citizens amid an escalating row over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil....
Inside ShadowDragon, The Tool That Lets ICE Monitor Pregnancy Tracking Sites and Fortnite Players (www.404media.co)
ShadowDragon tracks BabyCenter, a website for people expecting children, as well as social media sites specifically for Black people, bodybuilders, and the fetish community.
Genetically Modified Bacteria Break Down Plastics in Saltwater (news.ncsu.edu)
World Community Grid passes 820,000 years of donated computation time towards finding new genetic predictors of cancer (www.worldcommunitygrid.org)
World Community Grid is a volunteer computing project where people can donate their computer’s spare computational power to science (similar to folding@home). This week they announced some results of their research and having passed the 800,000 CPU-year mark which is pretty incredible....
A Sliding Score Means ‘Starfield’ Is Now Xbox Series X’s 47th Highest Rated Game (www.forbes.com)
When the review embargo first dropped, Starfield was sitting at something like an 88 on Xbox and an 89 on PC. Not 90+ the way I think Bethesda may have been hoping, and yet still extremely good.
Cybersecurity issue prompts computer shutdowns at MGM Resorts properties across US (apnews.com)
A “cybersecurity issue” led to the shutdown of some casino and hotel computer systems at MGM Resorts International properties across the U.S., a company official reported Monday....
Vatican holds unprecedented beatification of Polish family of 9 killed for hiding Jews (www.nbcnews.com)
