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Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose because 'when the astronauts went to the moon, there was nothing there' but 'they certainly weren't bored' (www.pcgamer.com)

Sure Todd, lol

YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)

Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet....

In Spain, dozens of girls are reporting AI-generated nude photos of them being circulated at school: ‘My heart skipped a beat’ (english.elpais.com)

Police investigation remains open. The photo of one of the minors included a fly; that is the logo of Clothoff, the application that is presumably being used to create the images, which promotes its services with the slogan: “Undress anybody with our free service!”

patriotic guitar twangles (lemm.ee)

Joe Biden wants more people to start living in empty offices (www.businessinsider.com)

Biden to announce first-ever federal office of gun violence prevention (www.politico.com)

President Joe Biden will announce the creation of the first-ever federal office of gun violence prevention on Friday, fulfilling a key demand of gun safety activists as legislation remains stalled in Congress, according to two people with direct knowledge of the White House’s plans....

Firefox to become first mobile browser to support desktop extensions later this year (blog.mozilla.org)

Source: blog.mozilla.org/…/prepare-your-firefox-desktop-e…...

Biden Wants Arms Deals With Israel to Be Done in Complete Secrecy, Without Congress (truthout.org)

Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM (9to5google.com)

The Chrome team says they’re not going to pursue Web Integrity but…...

France to ban female students from wearing abayas in state schools (www.bbc.com)

i hate that it's very often like this (sh.itjust.works)

Don't ask (lemmy.zip)

Google search is over (mastodon.social)

Via @rodhilton...

A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades (www.straitstimes.com)

SO. MUCH. THIS.

4-Year-Old Fatally Shot By Woman Who Was Teaching Her 'Firearm Safety,' Authorities Say (www.huffpost.com)

Warning: Article has detailed accounts of the shooting...

Looking for games with strong female leads for my daughter (even just to watch as I play). Came across this link, but they're a bit age-inappropriate. Any suggestions from the community? (gameranx.com)

Edit: Daughter is only 5 so she’s unlikely to play much but she watches me and as long as it’s not too violent, it should be fine

Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS (www.phoronix.com)

According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That’s a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months… It’s also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2%...

Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin (www.mercurynews.com)

There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.

🔥 AEW PRESENTS: ALL-IN! Discussion thread 08/27/23 🔥 (None)

IT'S HERE!!! Today, AEW comes to us LIVE from a packed Wembley Stadium in London, England! The card for this epic PPV includes:...

Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds (www.gamesindustry.biz)

YSK: Signal is a great secure private messenger app comparable to others on the market. (restoreprivacy.com)

“When you use Signal, your data is stored in encrypted form on your devices. The only information that is stored on the Signal servers for each account is the phone number you registered with, the date and time you joined the service, and the date you last logged on.”...