Commented - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Ken Levine says BioShock nearly went nowhere and was almost canceled: "We can't make those games because they don't sell" (www.gamesradar.com)

How VPN connection affects your phone’s battery life? (m.gsmarena.com)

A Wedding Puts India’s Gilded Age on Lavish Display (www.nytimes.com)

AVP has yet to sell 100k units (gizmodo.com)

Delta Airlines appears to think Palestinian flag is "terrifying" (www.theguardian.com)

Hungary's Orban meets Trump on 'peace mission' (www.dw.com)

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with former US President Donald Trump in Florida to discuss “ways to make peace.” The meeting took place shortly after a NATO summit in Washington....

The retirement savings crisis: Why more Americans can’t afford to stop working (www.usatoday.com)

Riot was working on a Smash Bros-style fighting game, but MultiVersus helped convince it to pull the plug (www.pcgamer.com)

OpenAI board shakeup: Microsoft out, Apple backs away amid AI partnership scrutiny (arstechnica.com)

Nancy Pelosi stops short of saying Biden should stay in the race, says 'time is running short' for him to decide (www.nbcnews.com)

You Can Now Quadruple The Original Xbox's RAM, But We Wouldn't Advise It Just Yet | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)

The original Xbox shipped with 64MB of RAM, which was quite a lot for its time in 2001 but seems small by modern standards. A modder called Prehis2oricman has quadrupled the amount of available RAM to 256MB using a custom RAM module that consists of two parts: a RAM chip and an interposer allowing use of all eight memory slots...

US mountaineer buried by avalanche 22 years ago found preserved in ice, police say (www.theguardian.com)

How Disinformation From a Russian AI Spam Farm Ended up on Top of Google Search Results (www.wired.com)

Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage (fedi.simonwillison.net)

simonwillison.net/…/hangout_servicesthunkjs/

I feel like my new shirt belongs here (sh.itjust.works)

r*ddit

TSA sets new single-day record with more than 3 million travelers at airport security (abcnews.go.com)

The previous 2.99M record was set just last month....

The Internet Archive Rescues MTV News’ Web Site, Making 460,000+ of Its Pages Searchable Again (www.openculture.com)

cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/14303847...

Kenyans accused of witchcraft then murdered for land in Kilifi (www.bbc.com)

Republicans demand Biden’s doctor sits for interview about medical assessments (www.independent.co.uk)

Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” (www.themoscowtimes.com)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/536301...

C O P E B O A T (sh.itjust.works)

Papal arch enemy Archbishop Vigano found guilty of schism and excommunicated (www.reuters.com)

Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a fierce ultra-conservative critic of Pope Francis, has been found guilty of schism and excommunicated, the Vatican’s doctrinal office said on Friday. Vigano, the papal envoy in Washington from 2011-2016, went into hiding in 2018 after alleging that the pope knew for years about sexual...