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Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code (cyberinsider.com)
Rockstar Games’ servers have been under heavy fire from massive DDoS attacks in recent days, causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online. These attacks come in the wake of Rockstar’s recent implementation of BattlEye, a new anti-cheat system designed to crack down on in-game cheating, sparking...
Nintendo Expands Switch Online's SNES Library With Four More Titles | Time Extension (www.nintendolife.com)
Nintendo Adds Four New SNES Games to Its Subscription Offerings...
Only ever played OOoT, MM, and WW. Just ordered an Analogue Pocket. Suggest an order.
Edit: turns out these are all bootleg and I’m a moron. Only two Zelda games were officially released for GBA....
US air force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing supreme court’s Chevron ruling (www.theguardian.com)
EPA says Tucson’s drinking water is contaminated but air force claims agency lacks authority to order cleanup...
Gunman who was killed by Yellowstone rangers had planned a July 4 mass shooting, park reveals (abcnews.go.com)
Yellowstone National Park officials say a gunman killed by park rangers as he fired a semiautomatic rifle at the entrance of a dining facility with 200 people inside had told a woman he planned to carry out a mass shooting...
Microsoft bans China-based employees from using Android devices for work, mandates switch to iPhones (www.techspot.com)
Microsoft has told all its employees in China that they will soon only be allowed to use iPhones for work purposes. The ban on Android devices is part of a security-related Microsoft initiative for providing a unified way of managing and verifying employee identities....
Sharing music collection easily?
What would be the easiest self hosted way to share a music collection privately?...
I hate Clouds - a personal perspective on why I think Clouds suck (loudwhisper.me)
I hope this won’t be counted as some form of self-promotion, even though I am sharing a post from my own blog....
Uber and Lyft now required to pay Massachusetts rideshare drivers $32 an hour (www.theverge.com)
Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. (mainichi.jp)
Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals
Initial scrolling of the Steam Summer Sale seems pretty lackluster, but digging through the comments sections in other threads, a few gems have stood out, and it doesn’t appear we have a thread dedicated to this yet, so post what you think are the best deals here!...
Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined (variety.com)
EU delays decision over scanning encrypted messages for CSAM (www.engadget.com)
Can I refuse MS Authenticator?
So my company decided to migrate office suite and email etc to Microsoft365. Whatever. But for 2FA login they decided to disable the option to choose “any authenticator” and force Microsoft Authenticator on the (private) phones of both employees and volunteers. Is there any valid reason why they would do this, like it’s...
Linus Tech Tips (LTT) release investigation results on former accusations (x.com)
There were a series of accusations about our company last August from a former employee. Immediately following these accusations, LMG hired Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation. Their website describes them as “one of the largest...
Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering (www.theguardian.com)
California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices (www.wshu.org)
Need this nationwide. I hate having fees added on to the price of what I’m ordering.
After Buying Up Studios, Xbox Says It Doesn't Have The Resources To Run Them (kotaku.com)
All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week (arstechnica.com)
Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced....
AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
A controversial bill that would require all new cars to be fitted with AM radios looks set to become a law in the near future. Yesterday, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) revealed that the “AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act” now has the support of 60 US Senators, as well as 246 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, making...
Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)
A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals"....
[Retro Dodo]Google is killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites (retrododo.com)
I know that the source is more focused on retro gaming as a topic but the topic of this post is Google and its pagerank algorithm which is more appropriate for this community....
MFA (lemmy.world)
10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox. (www.howtogeek.com)
10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.::The best browser sync out there.
Google confirms Gmail is “here to stay” amid speculation over plans to scrap the email service (www.itpro.com)
Google confirms Gmail is “here to stay” amid speculation over plans to scrap the email service::Claims that Google plans to sunset Gmail were a hoax, so there’s no need to panic
Bluesky opens to public registration (bsky.social)
What are the highest quality search engines?
It is becoming near impossible to find relevant information from search engines. Duckduckgo, SearXNG, Bing, Google, and so many more mainstream engines have a significantly high noise to signal ratio, and it is getting worse....
Apple asks its San Diego Siri quality control team to relocate to Texas (www.theverge.com)
I’m sure women will be stoked to have Apple relocate them to a state that could kill them.
Games that force you to make hard choices
Hey all!...
Biden wants to give more student debt relief in bankruptcy court. Not everyone's on board. (www.usatoday.com)
Life led Elizabeth Hadzic and Kim Coles to bankruptcy court....