DOS_deck offers free, all-timer DOS games in a browser, with controller support (arstechnica.com)
Weird DMCA takedown: Google Play bans app because it can load WarnerBros.com (arstechnica.com)
Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference (arstechnica.com)
Researchers beat Windows Hello fingerprint sensors with Raspberry Pi and Linux (arstechnica.com)
Google Drive users say Google lost their files; Google is investigating (arstechnica.com)
Baldur’s Gate 3 bug caused by game’s endless mulling of evil deeds (arstechnica.com)
"Unnoticed and eternally active acts of theft and violence" to be fixed soon.
GameMaker throws shade at Unity, makes its 2D engine free or $100 for most (arstechnica.com)
For most games, a license is either free or the cost of a medium-nice dinner.
Meet “Amaterasu”: Astronomers detect highest energy cosmic ray since 1991 (arstechnica.com)
The Telescope Array in Utah's West Desert picked up a rare particle with 244 EeV energy.
Rocket Report: Beyond Gravity to study fairing reuse; North Korea launches satellite (arstechnica.com)
Eric Berger’s Rocket Report. Nice short summaries of a number of topics:...
North Korea launched a satellite, then apparently blew up its booster (arstechnica.com)
North Korea launched a small military spy satellite Tuesday on the country’s first successful orbital launch since 2016. This, alone, would be newsworthy, but this launch comes with a twist.
USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide (arstechnica.com)
Review: New Atari 2600+ doesn’t justify its plus sign (arstechnica.com)
Infocom’s ingenious code-porting tools for Zork and other games have been found (arstechnica.com)
Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 (arstechnica.com)
The “Manifest V3” rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.
A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams (arstechnica.com)
Let’s not send a few thousand people to Mars as a big experiment in survival....
Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 (arstechnica.com)
The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.
After robotaxi dragged pedestrian 20 feet, Cruise founder and CEO resigns (arstechnica.com)
Musk files lawsuit claiming Media Matters manipulated X by scrolling down (arstechnica.com)
X's complaint alleged that Media Matters "manipulated" the platform's algorithm to generate inorganic ad placements to form a "blatant smear campaign," but the complaint seemingly admitted that no statements that Media Matters published were false. Media Matters will likely argue that advertisers could interpret its reporting...
A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams (arstechnica.com)
A book review on the latest Weinersmith creation. It’s true, there is so much we don’t know....
Cities: Skylines 2’s troubled launch, and why simulation games are freaking hard (arstechnica.com)
280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles (arstechnica.com)
Elektrofahrräder senken die Nachfrage nach fossilen Kraftstoffen 4 mal mehr, als Elektroautos (arstechnica.com)
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