Malaysia evicts 500 ‘sea nomads’ (www.bangkokpost.com)
Russia's biggest energy company says it'll take it at least 10 years to recover gas sales lost because of the Ukraine war (finance.yahoo.com)
Russia’s gas giant Gazprom won’t recover gas sales lost to the Ukraine war for at least a decade....
Legends of Adventure: The Story of Sierra On-Line (www.backerkit.com)
I hope this is cool to post here. It’s a Backerkit project for a documentary about Sierra On-line. I grew up playing these and figured there might be some other old farts around who would be interested....
UK election: TikTok users being fed misleading election news, investigation finds (www.bbc.com)
Young voters in key election battlegrounds are being recommended fake AI-generated videos featuring party leaders, misinformation, and clips littered with abusive comments, the BBC has found....
Nvidia, Microsoft and Apple are bigger than China's stock market (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
This highlights how stock market plays a far bigger role in US economy than it does in China....
Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes (nichegamer.com)
Young job seekers are finding it tougher to find employment, despite a bustling labor market: 'It was brutal' (www.cnbc.com)
Remote Amazon tribe finally connects to internet — only to wind up hooked on porn, social media (nypost.com)
VLC 3.0.21 Adds New AMD VQ Enhancer Filter, Improves Opus Ambisonic Support (9to5linux.com)
How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI (www.wired.com)
South Africa’s President Announces Plan to Form National Unity Government (www.nytimes.com)
Led by the A.N.C. since the fall of apartheid, South Africa has been in limbo since the watershed election on May 29 when voters punished the ruling party for failing to address issues like skyrocketing unemployment, regular power outages and high rates of crime....
US and allies warn China is intensifying its efforts to recruit Western military pilots (www.cnn.com)
The warning from the U.S. and its four closest intellignce partners follows several arrests of U.S. service members for allegedly trying to pass info to China....
Jewish US Army Major Explains Why He Resigned Over Gaza | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
After Harrison Mann’s resignation from the U.S. military was finalized on Monday, the Jewish U.S. Army major who worked in the Defense Intelligence Agency gave a pair of interviews this week explaining his decision to resign over American support for Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip....
Russian adult content provider forced to entrap gay men online by Dagestan police (novayagazeta.eu)
A Russian male adult content provider was detained in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan for the second time in two weeks on Wednesday after reportedly being forced to entrap gay men online by the republic’s police....
Behind ‘Suicide Squad,’ the Year’s Biggest Video-Game Flop (www.bloomberg.com)
Without paywall: archive.ph/wUSey
Behind ‘Suicide Squad,’ the Year’s Biggest Video-Game Flop (www.bloomberg.com)
Archive link in case the original link doesn’t work: archive.is/5mnQ4
Octopath Traveler Now Available On PlayStation; Octopath Traveler II Now Available On Xbox (noisypixel.net)
Seems like it’s part of Square’s new strategy to make their games more cross-platform
Updated AMD GPU Firmware Makes Valve's Steam Deck More Robust Against Buggy Apps (www.phoronix.com)
USAID says it will send $90 million in aid to Gaza (www.npr.org)
Missouri joins other red states in trying to stamp out ranked choice voting (www.npr.org)
ST. LOUIS — Five states have banned ranked choice voting in the last two months, bringing the total number of Republican-leaning states now prohibiting the voting method to 10....
Rooster in the mirror: these birds may be smarter than we thought (www.cbc.ca)
TL;DR: New method of the mirror test shows self awareness in roosters. General suggestion that the mirror tests that have done in the past may have been misleading/not getting the right picture
Mexico man dies from first human case of bird flu strain H5N2 (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists are on alert for signs the virus is adapting to spread more easily among humans, after the WHO announced the death from April...
France will send Mirage fighter jets to Ukraine, Macron says (www.politico.eu)
President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France would send Mirage 2000 fighter jets to Ukraine, in what would appear to be a significant increase in his country’s direct military support to Kyiv....
Tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all fraud charges in Hewlett-Packard trial (www.theguardian.com)
Humane warns AI Pin owners to “immediately” stop using its charging case (www.theverge.com)
Humane warns AI Pin owners to stop using charging case due to potential fire safety risk from certain battery cells....
