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Amazon's MMO New World Being Review Bombed Over Upcoming Relaunch (techraptor.net)

Pharma Exec Will Testify About Ozempic's Absurd Price Tag After Pressure From Bernie Sanders (gizmodo.com)

$843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players (www.gamesradar.com)

Cities skylines 2 is broken (beehaw.org)

I managed to make this much income with a tiny city within hours of booting up the game again, I don’t know what they did, but it seems they broke the economy so hard it’s now TOO easy to make money.

Donald Trump gets to sidestep the consequences of his conviction. Most people with criminal records don’t (www.independent.co.uk)

A Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster Is Confirmed And In Development | Retro Gaming News 24/7 (www.retronews.com)

Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier has confirmed that a Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is indeed in development. This confirmation comes after speculation surrounding the credibility of frequent Atlus news leaker Midori, who recently admitted to adopting an online persona....

Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset (www.gamespot.com)

People can still be kicked off juries for being LGBTQ+. This out congresswoman's bill would end that (www.lgbtqnation.com)

Bloat and 'Bigotry': Six Democrats Join With House GOP to Pass $833 Billion Pentagon Budget (www.commondreams.org)

Prof Arturo Casadevall: ‘It is hubris to think a fungal pandemic can’t happen to us’ (www.theguardian.com)

Arturo Casadevall is a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has spent four decades investigating how fungi can both improve and devastate life as we know it. His new book, What If Fungi Win?, charts how we might overcome the rising threat....

Wine Staging 9.11 Released With A Patch For A 17 Year Old Bug Report (www.phoronix.com)

UK ‘morally incoherent’ for sending arms to Israel and aid to Gaza, says Oxfam chief (www.theguardian.com)

Harvard Scholars Suggest Pollsters Ask Questions to AI Simulations of Voters Because Real People Won't Answer The Phone (futurism.com)

Instead of asking humans who they would vote for, try to understand the nuances of their thoughts and concerns, let those messages bubble up to candidates so they can adjust their campaign to meet voters' demand, instead of that, why not just segment humans into a bunch of shallow stereotypes (the socialist Millennial, the...

This week in KDE: Final Plasma 6.1 polishing and new features for 6.2 (pointieststick.com)

Files allegedly obtained in the 2021 CD Projekt hack indicate Cyberpunk 2077 was once planned to have a level or DLC set on the Moon (www.pcgamer.com)

Rare tissue-damaging bacteria spreads in Japan (www.japantimes.co.jp)

A disease caused by a rare tissue-damaging bacteria is spreading in Japan after the country relaxed COVID-era restrictions....

Moonring on Steam (free beer alert) (store.steampowered.com)

“A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.”

Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software (switching.software)

A great resource that makes it quick and easy to find alternatives to Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe and many more.

Yuzo Koshiro's 'The Story Of Thor/Beyond Oasis' OST Is Being Re-Released On Vinyl | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)

Wayô Records has announced that it will release Yuzo Koshiro’s phenomenal soundtrack to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis action RPG The Story of Thor (known as Beyond Oasis in North America) as a limited edition double-LP this September. The music for this soundtrack was recorded directly from a Mega Drive console, following a...

Chinese cars are pouring into Mexico — and the U.S. is worried - Autoblog (www.autoblog.com)

Biden says the next president may get to name two Supreme Court justices (www.npr.org)

LOS ANGELES – President Biden on Saturday night said he expects the winner of this year’s presidential election will likely have the chance to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court – a decision he warned would be “one of the scariest parts” if his Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, is successful in...