Spotify won’t open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process (arstechnica.com)
San Diego ponders a bid to take over its for-profit energy utility (grist.org)
Moscow warns West of escalation after Ukraine told it can hit Russia (www.bbc.com)
Russia has accused Nato and the US of “provoking a new level of tension” after the US and Germany became the latest allies to let Ukraine’s military to use Western-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia....
Astro Bot Is a 'New Beginning' and the 'Biggest Game We've Ever Made', Team Asobi Says - IGN (www.ign.com)
I finally figured out how to make Miez take her asthma medication properly (imgur.com)
Expand for all videos+text. English/German as always....
Deepfake of U.S. Official Appears After Shift on Ukraine Attacks in Russia (www.nytimes.com)
The fabricated video, which is drawn from actual footage, shows the State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller, seeming to suggest that the Russian city of Belgorod, just 25 miles north of Ukraine’s border with Russia, was a legitimate target for such strikes....
ASRock launches Radeon RX 7900 WS cards with blower coolers and 12V-2×6 power connectors (www.tomshardware.com)
Pride event canceled because they were going to give away banned books (www.lgbtqnation.com)
US Abrams tanks failing in Ukraine as Russia mocks them as ‘empty tin cans’ (www.yahoo.com)
Selaco Sets a New Standard for the FPS Genre (techraptor.net)
Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem ceases development, will shut down multiplayer in September (wolcengame.com)
Trial results for new lung cancer drug are ‘off the charts’, say doctors (www.theguardian.com)
Doctors are hailing “off the chart” trial results that show a new drug stopped lung cancer advancing for longer than any other treatment in medical history....
[Doug Jones interview] Star Trek Marks a Turning Point for a Secret Sci-Fi Legend (www.inverse.com)
Wine 9.10 Released With Upgrade To VKD3D 1.12, Brings DPI Awareness Improvements (www.phoronix.com)
Happy Pride Month, NCD! (lemmy.world)
It’s a summer of playing hooky: feeling pressured not to take their earned vacation, Americans are finding a loophole (fortune.com)
Paywall removed archive.is/i3X0N
Arizona can execute Danny Lee Jones, 6-3 Supreme Court rules (www.courthousenews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/arizona-can-execute-danny-lee-j…
Voice analysis shows striking similarity between Scarlett Johansson and ChatGPT (www.npr.org)
Journalists “deeply troubled” by OpenAI’s content deals with Vox, The Atlantic (arstechnica.com)
Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict (www.reuters.com)
Robotic 'Third Thumb' Makes Tasks Possible With One Hand; Can Be A Game Changer For The Disabled (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
This controllable prosthetic, the Third Thumb, attaches to the right hand, granting wearers the ability to perform a slew of one-handed tasks such as grasping objects, opening bottles, sorting cards, and even peeling a banana.
Vulkan 1.3.286 Released With One New Extension (www.phoronix.com)
Israel won’t end war for deal to free all hostages, PM’s aide said to tell families (www.timesofisrael.com)
Remember when the war was supposed to end when all the hostages were released?...
Is this actually credible?? (lemm.ee)
UK and US strike Houthis in Yemen after surge in shipping attacks (www.euronews.com)
The UK and the US struck 13 Houthi targets in several locations in Yemen on Thursday in response to a recent surge in attacks by the Iran-backed militia group on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, three US officials said....
