Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Unity’s Runtime Fee debacle cost it the trust of several indie developers, and led to Slay the Spire 2 being made in Godot.
Fewer people now say representative democracy is a very good way to govern in many countries surveyed. (www.pewresearch.org)
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Russia-Ukraine war latest: Putin 'may launch all-out bid to seize second city' - as Western officials fear major Russian advance (news.sky.com)
Zelenskiy thanks Germany for new Patriot system at 'critical time' (www.reuters.com)
Wield The Hammer - Neon Odin (neonodin.bandcamp.com)
Beijing is spending big in order to “de-risk” itself from Australia in a move that could cripple Aussies. (www.news.com.au)
How Subscription Services are designed to BANKRUPT you (piped.video)
Related: The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok
Threads on Mastodon and The Bright Future of the Fediverse (www.augment.ink)
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Beta Is Now Available for Download with GNOME 46, Linux 6.8 - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
ext2: mark as deprecated - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree (git.kernel.org)
Florida blocks heat protections for workers right before summer (www.npr.org)
Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place? (carlnewton.github.io)
Over the past year or so I’ve been playing with the idea of a decentralised social platform based on your location. By putting physical location at the centre of the experience, such a platform could be used to bring communities together and provide a source of local information when travelling. Please let me know what you...
Iran's Revolutionary Guard seizes a container ship near Strait of Hormuz amid tensions with West (apnews.com)
Commandos from Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard rappelled down from a helicopter onto an Israeli-affiliated container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel Saturday, the latest in a series of attacks between the two countries....
RocketStar Successfully Demonstrates FireStar™ Nuclear Fusion-Enhanced Pulsed Plasma Propulsion Drive - The Debrief (thedebrief.org)
First launches July and Octubre 2024 - see also rocketstar.nyc
Apple users "don’t know what is going on": New study shows that Apple's default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off (www.aalto.fi)
'Privacy. That’s Apple,’ the slogan proclaims. New research from Aalto University in Finland begs to differ....
Free cash programs spread as more cities expand the anti-poverty safety net (www.nbcnews.com)
New AMD CPU leak looks like a perfect fit for Steam Deck 2 (www.pcgamesn.com)
In Ukraine’s West, Draft Dodgers Run, and Swim, to Avoid the War (www.nytimes.com)
I believe in another Israel – one not defined by Benjamin Netanyahu and his cronies (www.theguardian.com)
The Israel that I meet every day is made up of people who want to forge a path towards peace and security for all...
It’s time for my booty smacks (lemm.ee)
He goes from arm to arm of the couch and looks back meowing incessantly until I go over and bongo his booty until he has had enough. Then, the other arm, and repeat… all day.
Baldur's Gate 3 actors reveal the darker side of success fuelled by AI voice cloning [official actress's voice cloned to read very nasty stuff] (archive.is)
American women are stockpiling abortion pills amid political uncertainty (www.businessinsider.com)
Donald Trump’s views on abortion are muddled at best and threatening at worst....
She Was Kidnapped a Decade Ago With 275 Girls. Finally, She Escaped. (www.nytimes.com)
Kidnapped from their dormitory exactly 10 years ago, the 276 captives known as the Chibok Girls were catapulted to fame by Michelle Obama, by churches that took up the mostly Christian students’ cause and by campaigners using the slogan “Bring Back Our Girls.”...
A Russian pacifist helped Ukrainians flee the country. Then the Kremlin caught him (www.theguardian.com)
Since the start of the war over two years ago, a discreet network of unofficial Russian volunteers like Demidenko has sprung up that have helped tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees displaced by the war to get out of Russia. Many of the Ukrainians were forcibly deported to Russia or ended up in the country after finding no...
Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images (www.bloomberg.com)
When Adobe Inc. released its Firefly image-generating software last year, the company said the artificial intelligence model was trained mainly on Adobe Stock, its database of hundreds of millions of licensed images. Firefly, Adobe said, was a “commercially safe” alternative to competitors like Midjourney, which learned by...
