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New Survey Reveals That Many Game Developers Consider Their Career Unsustainable (www.ign.com)
IGN can exclusively reveal the details from IATSE's 2023 Gameworkers.org Rates and Conditions Survey, where the organization asked hundreds of video game developers about their pay, benefits, and working conditions.
New Survey Reveals That Many Game Developers Consider Their Career Unsustainable (www.ign.com)
IGN can exclusively reveal the details from IATSE's 2023 Gameworkers.org Rates and Conditions Survey, where the organization asked hundreds of video game developers about their pay, benefits, and working conditions.
Mexico: Indigenous senator to take on ruling party (www.dw.com)
Senator Xochitl Galvez has been formally nominated as the 2024 presidential candidate opposing President Lopez Obrador's MORENA party.
Japan wrestles with its views on ‘outside people’ amid population crisis (www.theguardian.com)
Low birthrate and ageing population pose ‘an urgent risk to society’, but can opening its borders to skilled overseas workers fix the problem?
Man Used 80 Discarded Vape Batteries to Power an Electric Scooter Proving the Importance of E-Waste (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
A clever graduate has used 80 discarded vape batteries to power his e-scooter—and to make a point about waste.
Person in connection with dancer's stabbing death at Brooklyn gas station is in custody, police say (apnews.com)
Police have a person in custody in connection with the death of a gay man who was fatally stabbed after a confrontation between a group of friends dancing to a Beyoncé song and several young men who taunted them.
Proud Boys leader predicts Trump will pardon him as he bemoans prison food (www.newsweek.com)
In the wake of his 17-year jail sentence, Joseph Bigg said: "Oh, I know he'll pardon. I believe that with all my heart."
Teacher suicide exposes parent bullying in S Korea (www.bbc.com)
The tragedy has unleashed a wave of anger from primary school teachers across the country.
Canada issues travel advisory for LGBTQ+ residents visiting US (www.theguardian.com)
Canadian government issues warning after numerous discriminatory laws passed in Republican-controlled states
Zelensky ousts Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov - UPI.com (www.upi.com)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is shaking up the leadership of his nation's defenses Sunday, announcing the dismissal of Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov.
One of Louisiana’s only pediatric cardiologists has left the state over anti-LGBTQ legislation (www.cnn.com)
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Minnesota jail in lockdown as 100 inmates refuse to return to cells (www.bbc.co.uk)
Prisoners are reportedly protesting conditions at the facility amid hot conditions.
Japan tells citizens in China to lie low after Fukushima release (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Japan has told its citizens living in China to keep a low profile, including talking quietly in public, after Beijing blasted Tokyo for releasing treated radioactive water from a wrecked nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
Tesla Full Self Driving Is Now 'End-To-End AI' (odysee.com)
UK rents rise faster in deprived areas – and drag more people into poverty (www.theguardian.com)
Cost doubles in some poor urban districts, driven in part by mortgage rate rise, UK-wide study shows
Reddit users are reporting Christian websites for violating Virginia's new porn identification law, citing vulgar passages in the Bible (www.insider.com)
As more and more states pass laws targeting "pornographic material" in books and online, they are repeatedly running up against a problem: The Bible has not just a few passages that could be considered indecent
Six officers known as the ‘Goon Squad’ plead guilty to torturing two Black men, using a sex toy on them and shooting one of them (mississippitoday.org)
Are US politicians too old? Voters weigh in (www.bbc.com)
A recent health scare for Mitch McConnell has raised concerns about the age of America's politicians.
Berliners rave against the motorway as extension threatens 20 cultural venues (www.bbc.com)
Clubbers hold street party protesting against plan to flatten 20 venues in path of ring road extension
As Israel pushes punitive demolitions, family of 13-year-old Palestinian attacker to lose its home (apnews.com)
Earlier this year, 13-year-old Mohammed Zalabani boarded a bus at an Israeli army checkpoint in the Shuafat refugee camp and lunged at an Israeli police officer with a kitchen knife.
DeSantis' redistricting map in Florida is unconstitutional and must be redrawn, judge says (apnews.com)
A judge says that a Florida redistricting plan pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution.
Switch 2 leaks claim console runs “like a PS5”, FF7R to be launch title & more - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
After nearly 30 years, Pennsylvania will end state funding for anti-abortion counseling centers (apnews.com)
After nearly 30 years, Pennsylvania's new governor plans to end a contract with an organization that distributes funds to anti-abortion counseling centers.
EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes (www.hackingbutlegal.com)
When China’s prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn’t just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was a confluence of state repression and the sometimes capricious attention of a Western audience that, as she asserts, often views Chinese activists more as ideological tokens...
Was There A Game That Did Enemies Better Than Mass Effect 3? (www.dualshockers.com)
Mass Effect games are often praised for their cinematic storytelling and exceptional companions, but the series' unique approach to enemies is often overlooked.
Russia labels Nobel-winning journalist 'foreign agent' (www.reuters.com)
Russian authorities on Friday designated Nobel Prize-winning journalist Dmitry Muratov as a "foreign agent," a move often aimed at critics of Kremlin policies.
‘Heartbreaking’: Anti-Trans Healthcare Law Takes Effect in Texas (www.texasobserver.org)
Despite ACLU win in lower court, an appeal by the state means transgender kids and their families will feel the devastating effects of the ban.
Altagram publishes new crediting policy after Baldur's Gate 3 blunder (www.gamedeveloper.com)
The new policy will apply to "all internal employees and external vendors, subcontractors, and third-party providers."
Starfield review controversy traces game journalism's orbital decay (www.gamesindustry.biz)
More concerning than Bethesda’s decision to withhold early review codes from certain outlets is how heavily some sites are relying on the game to drive their business.
White man faces trial in US for shooting Black teen who went to wrong house (www.aljazeera.com)
Teenager Ralph Yarl was shot without warning through a door after going to the wrong house to collect his brothers.
Anonymous Sudan hacks X to put pressure on Elon Musk over Starlink (www.bbc.com)
Prolific hackers accused of being a front for Russian cyber-operation shares counter evidence with the BBC.
I Simply Do Not Have Room On My PC For Starfield (www.thegamer.com)
Baldur's Gate 3 is currently taking up all the storage space I would give to Bethesda's sci-fi RPG.
Driverless Cars Are Worse at Spotting Kids and Dark-Skinned People, Study Says (gizmodo.com.au)
New research shows driverless car software is significantly more accurate with adults and light skinned people than children and dark-skinned people.
Is conservative Islam gaining ground in secular Kosovo? (www.dw.com)
There have been a number of attacks on journalists in Kosovo in recent years. Now, conservative Muslims in the southern Kosovar city of Prizren are agitating against a news portal and a journalist.