An amusing survey of weird but readable Treklit offerings (gamerant.com)
It seems that with long hiatuses in new onscreen Trek ahead, genre coverage is starting to profile Trek novels again....
Vice Press Launches Star Trek Poster Print Series with Both Classic Artwork and New Designs (blog.trekcore.com)
XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.18 Released With Accent Color Support, New Clipboard & Input Capture Portals (www.phoronix.com)
WSJ News Exclusive | China’s Former Foreign Minister Ousted After Alleged Affair, Senior Officials Told (www.wsj.com)
The U.S.-China trade war is counterproductive–and the Huawei P60’s chip is just one of its many unforeseen ramifications (fortune.com)
Oracle Unveils AI-Powered Clinical Assistant to Enhance Patient Care (www.maginative.com)
SFF Gaming - A hub for all things Sci-fi and Fantasy gaming, from video games to tabletop and beyond (sffa.community)
SFF Gaming...
FFXIV - Tales under the new moon short story #4 (A Legacy Of Hope) is now available (na.finalfantasyxiv.com)
Hands-on: ‘Watch Unlock’ on Pixel Watch is shockingly quick and easy (9to5google.com)
Made a ton of progress on my knight helmet today! (youtube.com)
openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2023/36 & 37 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) (dominique.leuenberger.net)
Federal court rules Obama-era DACA program still unlawful (www.washingtonpost.com)
ghostarchive.org/archive/knG0Y...
Friday Facts #375 - Quality | Factorio (factorio.com)
Every Item, Entity, and Equipment has 5 possible qualities now, and each quality tier gives an improved bonus value, used for most of the stuff...
‘Poolman’ Review: Chris Pine’s Noir-Drenched L.A. Comedy Is a Shrill Misfire (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Pine directs and stars in this misguided 'Chinatown' spoof with Annette Bening, Danny DeVito and Jennifer Jason Leigh in thankless supporting roles....
How Seattle’s Scarecrow Video plans to share its vast library nationwide (www.seattletimes.com)
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/how-seattles-scarecrow-video-plans-to-share-its-vast-library-nationwide/
China AI and Semiconductors Rise: US Sanctions Have Failed (www.semianalysis.com)
Stable Audio: Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion — Stability AI (stability.ai)
Stability AI introduces their AI model for creating audio and music. You can try it out now: www.stableaudio.com
Biden lies about witnessing 9/11 and being at ground zero (nypost.com)
Spelldrifter free on Epic Games (store.epicgames.com)
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China President Xi’s absence from G20 won’t affect summit consensus: India (www.aljazeera.com)
Chinese President Xi Jinping skipping the weekend G20 summit in New Delhi is not unusual, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar says, adding that the decision has nothing to do with tense ties with New Delhi....
PS2 Era Monster Hunter 1, G and DOS are finally online again! (mholdschool.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/3153331...
FantasticFiction - A Website that allows you to sign up and follow your favourite authors, get notifications etc (www.fantasticfiction.com)
Don’t know if people know of this site or not but just in case you don’t, it’s pretty damn good. All they require is an email address (I used an anon one with no issues). You can follow up to 100 authors and get alerts when new stuff is announced and published....
Judge Zia Faruqui is trying to teach you crypto, one ‘SNL’ reference at a time (www.protocol.com)
cross-posted from: links.hackliberty.org/post/68352
Switch 2 leaks claim console runs “like a PS5”, FF7R to be launch title & more - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
Canada shut its land border to asylum seekers. More refugees came anyway (www.reuters.com)
Canada prides itself on welcoming immigrants and aims to bring in a record half a million new permanent residents in 2025 to deal with an acute labor shortage. But it has sought to discourage those applying for asylum, chiefly through an agreement with the U.S. under which each country turns back asylum seekers....
