A million more U.S. workers can now get overtime pay: 'Most employers absolutely do want to get this right' (www.cnbc.com)
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán to meet with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago (www.theguardian.com)
Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, will fly to Mar-a-Lago on Thursday to meet with Donald Trump, according to two sources with knowledge of the meeting....
State of Text Rendering 2024 (behdad.org)
[The author assumes] a high-level understanding of how text rendering works, for example, what shaping is. If that does not sound familiar to you, you might want to review State of Text Rendering (2009), and Modern text rendering with Linux: Overview (2019).
Billionaire Sung Kook ‘Bill’ Hwang convicted of fraud by New York jury (www.theguardian.com)
Archegos Capital Management’s founder guilty of 10 of 11 criminal counts over investment firm that collapsed in 2021...
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker Is Coming To MiSTer And Analogue Pocket This Week | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)
FPGA developer Jotego has announced the upcoming release of a core for Moonwalker, the iconic 1990 Sega System 18 arcade game. Known for its isometric beat 'em up gameplay and distinctive visual style, Moonwalker originally captivated gamers on the Sega Genesis and Master System, but now it’s making its way to modern platforms...
Utah drag queen Tara Lipsyncki was forced to sell her childhood home & go into hiding after far-right attacks (www.advocate.com)
A grieving mom’s TikTok videos spark online speech battle (www.washingtonpost.com)
The grift behind Project 2025: Leader John McEntee made an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA men (www.salon.com)
Double Dragon 3D revival announced for PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Xbox One, and PC (www.gematsu.com)
South Korean politician links rising male suicides to women (www.bbc.com)
A politician in South Korea is being criticised for making dangerous and unsubstantiated comments after linking a rise in male suicides to the increasingly “dominant” role of women in society....
Columbia removes 3 deans for texts that touched on "antisemitic tropes" (www.axios.com)
These are the texts in question
Cuba foils plot to sneak arms onto island from U.S., official says (www.reuters.com)
US heatwave tied to four Oregon deaths as temperature records are shattered (www.theguardian.com)
More than 146 million Americans under extreme heat alerts as dangerous weather fuels outbreak of new wildfires...
Modi and Putin talk trade as Ukraine mourns airstrike (www.dw.com)
The Russian and Indian leaders met on the heels of a deadly attack on a children’s hospital in Kyiv. The US urged Modi to press Putin to respect international law....
French election gridlock means yet more uncertainty for Europe (www.politico.eu)
Emmanuel Macron’s battles at home means he risks losing sway in Brussels....
Sudachi is DmcaD and the developer want to counter it back (x.com)
West Texas Pastor Who Used Illegal Donations From Churches to Campaign for Office Is Fined $3,500 (www.propublica.org)
Chinese developers scramble as OpenAI blocks access in China (www.theguardian.com)
Mask bans are growing in popularity. Critics call the trend a 'dog whistle' to quell protest. (www.nbcnews.com)
Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?” (www.goldmansachs.com)
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott thinks LLM “scaling laws” will hold despite criticism (arstechnica.com)
AMD's latest integrated graphics perform like an eight-year-old Nvidia midrange GPU — Radeon 890M achieves GTX 1070 performance in Geekbench and lags behind GTX 1650 Super by 15% (www.tomshardware.com)
Instagram influencer jailed for trafficking and slavery (www.bbc.com)
The leader of Nepal's largest communist party has been named the country's new prime minister (abcnews.go.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17994517
The PIRA weaponised shit. I have nothing to add. (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
