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54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances (www.cnbc.com)

Xbox Has Had More Studio Closures Than First Party Game Releases So Far In 2024 (twistedvoxel.com)

We've almost reached the end of the 1st half of 2024, and Xbox has had more studio closures than first party game releases in the year so far.

Remembering Prey, Arkane Austin’s masterpiece (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

Zed Decoded: Linux when? - Zed Blog (zed.dev)

Conservatives crushed by ‘worst local election result’ in years (www.theguardian.com)

Spread of Tory losses leads former minister to say there’s ‘no such thing as a safe seat any more’...

Autonomous excavator constructs dry stone wall (electrek.co)

Helldivers 2 Steam page reviews are now "Mostly negative" with "mixed" overall (old reviews are switching too) (archive.is)

“These ‘Little Gazas’ are disgusting cesspools of antisemitic hate”: Tom Cotton rails against pro-Palestinian protests (www.yahoo.com)

Nintendo DMCAs Yuzu forks on GitHub (github.com)

Unsurprising move. People should’ve moved them elsewhere.

‘Indefensible’: UK prisoner jailed for 23 months killed himself after being held for 17 years (theguardian.com)

A proposed experiment could bring scientists closer to answering the long-standing question of whether gravity is a classical or a quantum phenomenon. (physics.aps.org)

Piracy (slrpnk.net)

Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Earlier this month, we wrote that some of Intel’s recent high-end Core i9 and Core i7 processors had been crashing and exhibiting other weird issues in some games and that Intel was investigating the cause....

Hunter Biden threatens to sue Fox News for airing 'revenge porn' (abcnews.go.com)

Moscow may seize private US assets in Russia if US seizes frozen reserves, says Putin ally (www.reuters.com)

Russia may respond to any U.S. confiscation of its currency reserves frozen in the West by seizing the assets, including property and cash, of U.S. citizens and investors in Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, a senior security official, said on Saturday....

Fake job interviews target developers with new Python backdoor (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Scientists Have Studied the Mysterious Behavior of Cats Sitting on Squares (www.vice.com)

Iraqi TikTok star Om Fahad shot dead outside Baghdad home (www.theguardian.com)

Officials say unidentified man killed influencer who had previously been imprisoned over dancing videos...

‘In the US they think we’re communists!’ The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living (www.theguardian.com)

When Marisa Fernández lost her husband to cancer a few years ago, her employers at the Eroski hypermarket went, she says, “above and beyond to help me through the dark days afterwards, rejigging my timetable and giving me time off when I couldn’t face coming in.”...

Emergency Exit Slide Detaches As Delta Flight Takes Off, Forces Return to New York JFK (headtopics.com)

Three women contract HIV from dirty “vampire facials” at unlicensed spa (arstechnica.com)

Trendy, unproven “vampire facials” performed at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico left at least three women with HIV infections. This marks the first time that cosmetic procedures have been associated with an HIV outbreak, according to a detailed report of the outbreak investigation published today....