Bungie's Marathon reboot gets new director as part of creative leadership shakeup (www.eurogamer.net)
Ummmm... (sh.itjust.works)
Gaming PCs Forecast to Recover After a Down Year in 2023 While Gaming Monitors Will Continue on Their Growth Trajectory, According to IDC (www.idc.com)
6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men (apnews.com)
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced by a federal judge starting Tuesday....
Texas border enforcement law again blocked in legal whiplash (www.reuters.com)
A Republican-backed Texas law that would allow state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border was blocked again by an appeals court on Wednesday, just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for it to go into effect....
Coming to Xbox Game Pass: Diablo IV, The Quarry, Ark: Survival Ascended, and More (news.xbox.com)
South Korea Sees Marriage Bump for First Time in Over a Decade (open.substack.com)
India Suffering a Quiet Decline in Foreign Direct Investment (thediplomat.com)
"The United States is willing to engage in bilateral arms control discussions with Russia and China right now, without preconditions" - US Ambassador to UN (usun.usmission.gov)
U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty...
XDefiant: огляд та найважливіше з Open Beta (tayemnakimnata.com) Ukrainian
Розповідаю про враження від публічного тесту гри XDefiant: режими гри, фракції, геймплей, мапи, дата виходу та платформи.
Scoop: Biden privately told Bibi he's not trying to push him out (www.axios.com)
Behind the scenes: During the call with Biden on Monday, Netanyahu complained about Schumer’s speech and Biden’s endorsement of it. He also claimed the public political attacks against him in the U.S. are interference in Israeli politics, the sources said....
Tennessee Lawmakers Want More Oversight of Juvenile Detention. The Department of Children’s Services Is Pushing Back. (www.propublica.org)
The commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services publicly said this month that the agency was working with lawmakers to address oversight gaps at juvenile detention facilities across the state. But behind the scenes, the department is working to water down a bill that would do just that, according to one of...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang debuts new $8,990 lizard-embossed leather jacket, also says something about AI GPUs | Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)
digiKam, KDE's powerful photo managing software, reaches version 8.3.0 (www.digikam.org)
Cuba's president blasts 'interventionist' U.S. amid protests over shortages (www.nbcnews.com)
BitTorrent is No Longer the ‘King’ of Upstream Internet Traffic (torrentfreak.com)
Why Blizzard Is Overhauling Overwatch 2 To Be More "Generous" (www.gamespot.com)
Chinese and western scientists identify ‘red lines’ on AI risks (www.ft.com)
‘Red alert’: last year was hottest on record by clear margin, says UN report (www.theguardian.com)
AI unicorn Inflection abandons its ChatGPT challenger as CEO Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft (www.forbes.com.au)
“While no one predicted this specific outcome, we shouldn’t be surprised,” added the investor Benaich. “If antitrust regulators make [mergers and acquisitions] prohibitively difficult, we should expect these bizarre semi-exits to become more common.”
NDP motion on Palestinian statehood passes after major amendments (www.cbc.ca)
Japanese Yen adds to post-BoJ losses, plummets to fresh YTD low against USD (www.mitrade.com)
■ The Japanese Yen dives to a multi-month low in the wake of the BoJ’s dovish hike on Tuesday....
DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest (www.theatlantic.com)
The geneticist Jim Wilson, at the University of Edinburgh, was shocked by the frequency he found in the U.K. Biobank, an anonymized research database: One in 7,000 people, according to his unpublished analysis, was born to parents who were first-degree relatives—a brother and a sister or a parent and a child. “That’s way,...
The world’s 100 worst polluted cities are in Asia — and 83 of them are in just one country (www.cnn.com)
All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking the health of billions of people worldwide....