A 1-Minute Trailer At Summer Game Fest Costs $250K [Update] (kotaku.com)
Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest begins later this week and people around the world are excited to see all the trailers and teasers. And a new report, corroborated by Kotaku, reveals the high price it costs publishers and devs to show their games at the event....
Chinese nationals ran cybercrime syndicate from Zambia (www.bbc.com)
Twenty-two Chinese nationals have pleaded guilty to committing cyber-related crimes in Zambia....
Meth-addict fish, aggro starlings, caffeinated minnows: animals radically changed by human drugs – study (www.theguardian.com)
From brown trout becoming “addicted” to methamphetamine to European perch losing their fear of predators due to depression medication, scientists warn that modern pharmaceutical and illegal drug pollution is becoming a growing threat to wildlife....
Operation Overload: how pro-Russian actors flood newsrooms -mostly in Ukraine, France and Germany- with fake content and seek to divert their efforts (checkfirst.network)
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Revealed: the carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza after months of Israeli bombing (www.theguardian.com)
The carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza will be greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 135 countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the unprecedented death toll, new research reveals....
Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis (www.theguardian.com)
More than $100bn of public money has been awarded to private investors in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) courts, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet....
European elections: Centre left struggles to hold back surge from right (www.bbc.com)
“The very soul of Europe is at risk,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warned fellow European centre-left politicians who had gathered in Rome ahead of a difficult EU election campaign....
Yuntai: Hiker finds pipe feeding China's tallest waterfall (www.bbc.com)
A controversy over a waterfall has cascaded into a social media storm in China, even prompting an explanation from the water body itself....
Why Canadians are angry with their biggest supermarket (www.bbc.com)
Late last year, Emily Johnson took to Reddit to share her frustration with how expensive food in Canada has become....
European Central Bank cuts main interest rate by 0.25 points (www.theguardian.com)
Citing a sustained fall in inflation, the ECB said its deposit rate would be cut to 3.75% from a record high of 4%, putting it ahead of the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, which have yet to cut interest rates.
Putin warns that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets (apnews.com)
President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory....
IEA: Clean energy investment to reach $2 trillion in 2024 (www.dw.com)
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), more money is being invested in solar power than in all other sources of electricity combined....
Exclusive: Biden tells Muir US weapons will not be used to strike Moscow, Kremlin (abcnews.go.com)
Several killed in Czech train crash, dozens injured (www.dw.com)
At least four people were killed when a passenger train collided head on with a freight train in the Czech city of Pardubice, according to rescue services....
Nicole Shanahan Is Just Getting Started (www.wired.com)
Billionaires in Silicon Valley are opening up to Trump. It's not just because of taxes. (finance.yahoo.com)
Donald Trump is set for a major stop in the 2024 money race Thursday when he travels to Silicon Valley for a high-profile fundraiser with tech billionaires.
Donald Trump's "foamy saliva" in campaign video raises questions (www.newsweek.com)
Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog (hacks.mozilla.org)
I think this way of implementing and using AI is actually good from all perspectives (probably except some legal aspects but I don’t think Mozilla will add a legally grey feature). What do you think about it?...
WebX: An alternative for the World Wide Web - browse websites such as buss://yippie.rizz made in HTML, CSS and Lua. Custom web browser, custom HTML rendering engine, custom search eng (github.com)
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Quinn Evans completes restoration of historic Detroit train station for Ford Offices (www.dezeen.com)
Leading UK cyclist out of Tour of Britain after being struck at ‘high speed’ by 4x4 (www.theguardian.com)
'Internal purposes only': Memo backs claim Trudeau government suppressing carbon-tax impact data (nationalpost.com)
Octopath Traveler Now Available On PlayStation; Octopath Traveler II Now Available On Xbox (noisypixel.net)
Seems like it’s part of Square’s new strategy to make their games more cross-platform