Report: WB Discovery looking to sell off games, other divisions to prevent total breakup (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Square Enix sales drop year-on-year, despite release of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (web.archive.org)
Better ASUS ROG Ally X support on Linux is coming with a big kernel patch (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Secret of the Mimic TBA [no mention on platforms yet] (www.gematsu.com)
Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks free EA on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
Man in hospital after suspected hate crime attack in Belfast (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli minister says it may be ‘moral’ to starve 2 million Gazans, but ‘no one in the world would let us’ (edition.cnn.com)
A social archipelago: Against social media colonialism (draft) (gils.nexus)
I don’t usually self promo but I was interested in the concept of a social archipelago facilitated by closed federation/allowlisting, in response to a lot of the bigotry and spam that’s on the Fediverse and how difficult it can be to moderate. I was also curious about how Beehaw/Lemmy users feel about allowlisting and closed...
You might get a discount or free coffee but you’re also being played by the multi-billion dollar gamification industry. (theconversation.com)
Sci-Fi author Robert J. Sawyer releases archive of WordStar 7 (sfwriter.com)
Slingcode is a personal computing platform in a single html file. (slingcode.net)
Pakistani man with ties to Iran is charged in plot to carry out political assassinations on US soil. (www.voanews.com)
Long Battle for a Ruined City Takes a Desperate Turn (www.nytimes.com)
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California’s Two Biggest School Districts Botched AI deals. Here Are Lessons From Their Mistakes. (themarkup.org)
Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike’s bogus DMCA takedown (arstechnica.com)
Doesn’t CrowdStrike have more important things to do right now than try to take down a parody site?...
Google Search is an illegal monopoly — what happens now? (www.theverge.com)
A federal judge has ruled that Google has an illegal monopoly in the US. “The market reality is that Google is the only real choice” as the default search engine, Judge Amit Mehta said in his decision, and he determined it had gotten that way unfairly. It’s a ruling that could portend big changes for the company, but we...
Cambodia breaks ground on controversial $1.7 billion canal funded by China (www.cnn.com)
Cambodia broke ground Monday on a controversial, China-funded canal to link the capital Phnom Penh to the sea, despite environmental concerns and the risk of straining ties with neighboring Vietnam....
The left loves Tim Walz. Can he unite the Democrats? (www.vox.com)
Elon Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' after Twitter takeover (apnews.com)
US-Australia talks focus on China's 'coercive behavior,' climate change. (www.voanews.com)
Getting PSVR2 working on PC isn't as easy as it should be (www.eurogamer.net)
Does everyone hate Google now? | Google's story over the last two decades has been a tale as old as time: enshittification for growth (arstechnica.com)
Google’s story over the last two decades has been a tale as old as time: enshittification for growth. The once-beloved startup—with its unofficial “Don’t Be Evil” motto—has instead become a major Internet monopolist, as a federal judge ruled on Monday, dominating the market for online search. Google is also...