Embracer Group Cancels ‘Deus Ex’ Video Game (www.bloomberg.com)
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Where's Our Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Review? (IGN denied review code) (www.ign.com)
In a bad-vibes moment, they’re denying a huge outlet like IGN a review code. No matter what I think of IGN in particular (nothing good tbh), that’s not something I can find a real explanation for other than “We made DC’s Gollum and want to avoid bad press as long as we can”.
American Debt: The typical American household is now paying a record $1,583 a month in various loans (www.cbsnews.com)
Housing is now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. renters, study finds (www.npr.org)
The explicit AI-created images of Taylor Swift flooding the internet highlight a major problem with generative AI (www.fastcompany.com)
‘How to greenwash’: propane industry tries to rebrand fuel as renewable (www.theguardian.com)
Netflix wants to retire basic ad-free plan in some countries, shareholder letter says (www.cbsnews.com)
Netflix will implement the change in Canada and the U.K. in the second quarter of the year before “taking it from there,” the letter said....
Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX (www.spacebar.news)
FCC To End Broadband Discounts For Poor People After Republicans Undermine Program (www.techdirt.com)
In short Republicans are going to screw over 23 million poor Americans because they don’t want Democrats getting political credit for helping them during an election season. And because our press is generally broken and afraid of calling a duck a duck, this is going to get dressed up as a genuine concern about wasteful...
A page to gather interest in a small Android phone (smallandroidphone.com)
Hearing complaints over property taxes, some Georgia lawmakers look to limit rising values (apnews.com)
With a runup in home values sparking higher property taxes for many Georgia homeowners, there is a groundswell among state lawmakers in this election year to provide relief....
A Colorado town's newspapers were stolen after a story about rape charges at the police chief's house (apnews.com)
Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief’s house while the chief was asleep, the owner and publisher...
Content is King? - How it sucked out the joy of personal websites (jeena.net)
Now who is laughing? (slrpnk.net)
New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs industry wide scrambling (arstechnica.com)
Houthi official promises safe passage for Russian, Chinese ships through Red sea (www.newindianexpress.com)
Chicago banned unannounced migrant drop-offs. Now this Texas charter bus company is suing over the restrictions (www.cnn.com)
A charter bus company hired by the state of Texas to transport migrants to Chicago is trying to flip the script on the border crisis in a federal lawsuit against the city alleging that its ordinance banning unannounced migrant drop-offs is unconstitutional and punishes transportation companies working with Texas, court documents...
Poultry processor hit with proposed $212,646 fine after second worker, a teen, killed by machine | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
No joke: Feds are banning humorous electronic messages on highways (apnews.com)
It’s no joke. Humorous and quirky messages on electronic signs will soon disappear from highways and freeways across the country....
Evolve - A brand new GNOME Theme Manager (arcnations.wixsite.com)
Hasn’t been released fully yet by the developer but looks interesting....
None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway (conspirator0.substack.com)
Our AI-generated future is going to be fantastic....
Scientists Unveil Radical Plan to Drill Into a Volcano For Near-Unlimited Energy (www.sciencealert.com)
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China tells US it will 'never compromise' on Taiwan (www.bbc.com)
China has said it will “never compromise” on the issue of Taiwan, in its first military talks with the US since 2021....