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Unity apologises. (www.pcgamer.com)

Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor (proton.me)

‘It’s time we put a felon in the White House,’ California sheriff says (www.yahoo.com)

US vetoes widely supported resolution backing full UN membership for Palestine (apnews.com)

‘IRL Fakes:’ Where People Pay for AI-Generated Porn of Normal People (www.404media.co)

A Telegram user who advertises their services on Twitter will create an AI-generated pornographic image of anyone in the world for as little as $10 if users send them pictures of that person. Like many other Telegram communities and users producing nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images, this user creates fake nude images of...

Behind the scenes, Biden has grown angry and anxious about re-election effort (www.nbcnews.com)

Mercedes-Benz scales back electric ambitions as EV pessimism grows (arstechnica.com)

George Carlin AI comedy special is 'ghoulish' and 'creepy,' his daughter says (www.cbc.ca)

A new comedy special starts with the quote, “I’m sorry it took me so long to come out with new material, but I do have a pretty good excuse. I was dead.”...

Michelle Obama says she’s terrified about potential outcome of 2024 election (edition.cnn.com)

“What’s going to happen in this next election? I’m terrified about what could possibly happen, because our leaders matter. Who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit, it affects us in ways sometimes I think people take for granted,” Obama told Jay Shetty on his podcast “On Purpose.”...

Black, gay Trump supporter brutally taunted with slurs at rightwing conference (www.lgbtqnation.com)

When he complained, rightwingers sent him homophobic taunts online....

The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong (www.scientificamerican.com)

A better Revanced (grayjay.app)

Watched Louis Rossman today, and he’s part of the team behind a new app for watching online video content - not just youtube, but nebula, peertube, twitch and more....

Why BBC doesn't call Hamas militants 'terrorists' - John Simpson (www.bbc.co.uk)

I guess not strictly news - but with all of the vitriol I have seen in discussions on the Israel situation, that have boiled down to arguments over wording, I feel that this take from the BBC is worthy of some discussion....

Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

I left a couple of months ago. Couldn’t be happier....

How about that? (lemmy.ml)

The Fall of Stack Overflow (observablehq.com)

Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive....

RFK Jr. can't win. But he and Cornel West could put Trump back in the White House. (www.usatoday.com)

Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals (arstechnica.com)

Man in Air Force uniform set himself on fire in front of Israeli embassy (taskandpurpose.com)

X isn’t a source. This is.

Italian town in turmoil after far-right mayor bans Muslim prayers (www.theguardian.com)

Bangladeshi residents and others in Monfalcone say decisions to prohibit worship at cultural centres and banning burkinis at the beach is part of anti-Islam agenda...

'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs (www.pcgamer.com)

Suffering and success.

Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine (arstechnica.com)

Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine::Google accused DOJ of aiming to force people to use “inferior” search products.