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Atari enters into an agreement to acquire Digital Eclipse (www.globenewswire.com)
Digital Eclipse wrote a quick FAQ on their website: www.digitaleclipse.com/…/digital-eclipse-atari...
Deltarune Planned To Be Available For Purchase Once Chapter 4 Development Concludes; Substantial Progress Made (noisypixel.net)
Explains why I can’t get out of platinum rank (i.postimg.cc)
Ex-North Dakota lawmaker charged with traveling for sex with minor, receiving child sex abuse images (apnews.com)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A retired Republican state senator from North Dakota has been charged with traveling to Europe with the intent of paying for sex with a minor and with receiving images depicting child sexual abuse, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday....
Macron opposes gender-inclusive spelling as he inaugurates language museum (www.france24.com)
French President Emmanuel Macron looked to cement his legacy, and take on political opponents, with the inauguration on Monday of a monument to the French language deep in far-right heartland....
How do you moderate yourself? (kbin.run)
I seem to have a problem with moderating myself when it comes to playtime on Video Games, How do you keep yourself from just endlessly playing games?
Mastodon’s latest update makes it easier to follow the news (www.theverge.com)
Mastodon, the decentralized Twitter / X alternative, is adding lists to its Android app, according to a blog post from CEO and founder Eugen Rochko. Lists are available as part of the most recent Mastodon for Android update.
CSS is fun again (pdx.su)
Are phone notification LEDs still a thing?
Looking at all the features that older phones uses to have compared to newer ones, I never hear anyone talk about the removal of the notification LED. I personally really liked that feature, being able to see if I got an email, a text or missed a call without turning on my phone was awesome. My Samsung note 8 had this feature,...
Samsung releases its Android 14 update, US coming 'soon' (9to5google.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2747324 (!samsung)...
Biden releases AI executive order directing agencies to develop safety guidelines (www.theverge.com)
The executive order comes after a series of non-binding agreements with AI companies....
he finished Paper Mario 64 (lemmy.world)
I helped for the battles and reading the dialogues but he did all the exploring by himself. He’s so thrilled, but also sad it’s over. Now I’m hesitant between Pokemon FireRed (he loves Pokemon but that a lot more text to read) or PaperMario TTYD (but we don’t have a switch for the remaster version). Any other ideas for...
Facebook and Instagram launch an ad-free subscription model in GDPR countries (about.fb.com)
A few rule changes on community's reaction: Elon Musk personal rants, overzealous advertisement posts, non-essential crypto news effectively disallowed | Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ad
Non-essential crypto news covers crypto advertisement, insignificant news that does not affect legit users like XMR/ETH/BTC holders or darknet users, posts relating to garbage like Brave browser and its coin, and so on. Due to the multiple kinds of crypto posts that pop up, this rule will be applied subjectively on a...
Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002' (www.windowscentral.com)
Archive link: archive.ph/ajgMB...
Bandcamp... What now?
Now that Bandcamp has had huge layoffs, what about an opensource, Fediverse-friendly replacement? What can a FOSS product bring to the community and do better than Bandcamp?...
Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support (ghacks.net)
GAZA: 3,195 children killed in three weeks surpasses annual number of children killed in conflict zones since 2019 (www.savethechildren.net)
Since October 7, more than 3,257 children have been reported killed, including at least 3,195 in Gaza, 33 in the West Bank, and 29 in Israel, according to the Ministries of Health in Gaza and Israel respectively. The number of children reported killed in just three weeks in Gaza is more than the number killed in armed conflict...
NO! (startrek.website)
Android 14 will make it easier for apps to support passkeys soon (www.theverge.com)
Highly recommended notes apps
There are tons of Notes app available in the playstore and f-droid. I have use my fair share of them these are my best 5 recommendations. All of these are free to use and have to pay extra if you want specific features....
Would you prefer if games had a separate difficulty setting for boss fights?
I usually play games on “normal” difficulty these days, for a balanced challenge. However, I don’t particularly enjoy boss fights, or at least I don’t enjoy the extra challenge associated with them. Was thinking it would be nice if games had a separate setting so I could just set boss fights to “easy”, while not...
18+ Android 14 review: There’s always next year (arstechnica.com)
Android 14 offers a lightly customizable lock screen and not much else.
what custom rom do you use?
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How Biden is continuing to cancel student loan debt despite Supreme Court ruling (www.cnn.com)
Although the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s signature student loan forgiveness program in late June, his administration has found ways to cancel more than $48 billion in debt since then....
Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs (www.pcmag.com)
Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of ‘StripedFly’ malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that’s been targeting PCs for more than five years.
LA Councilman’s Aide Resigns After Holocaust Jokes About Amy Schumer (www.thedailybeast.com)
Josh Androsky, a former comedian, thought it would be fun to share puns about concentration camps....
Discussion: Is Android Doing Enough to Protect Your Privacy?
Google claims that privacy is a priority, and perhaps it is, but we can’t deny there’s an essential conflict of interest between protecting your privacy and Google being an advertising company....
House Speaker Mike Johnson Responds to New Round of Scrutiny About Black Son (www.vanityfair.com)
Mike Johnson’s meteoric elevation from an under-the-radar congressman from Louisiana to second-in-line to the U.S. presidency sent journalists, Democrats and Republicans alike to uncover information about the personal and professional history of the most right-wing and least experienced House Speaker in history, who took the...
Google is investigating Android 14’s multiple profile update bug - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Google has now acknowledged the issue and confirmed it’s looking into it.
Methheads (i.postimg.cc)
Why the original, 1999 version of EverQuest is still one of the best MMOs to play today (www.pcgamer.com)
FCC Wants to Bolster Amateur Radio (www.radioworld.com)
There’s some good background and explanation in this comment.
If this ActivityPub-fueled change takes off, it will break every social network into a thousand pieces (www.theverge.com)
Gaza 'disconnected from the planet' - but messages of fear trickle out (www.bbc.com)
A connectivity blackout means people cannot contact friends, family or even ambulances to help the injured.
"As Long as Palestine is Occupied, No Country is Free" (peoplesdispatch.org)
Spyro the Dragon creator says Mario and Sonic are now "embedded in our subconscious" (www.gamesradar.com)
While PragerU sought state approval, Education Commissioner provided support behind the scenes (www.nhpr.org)
As PragerU was seeking the green light to operate in New Hampshire, state Education Commissioner Edelblut lent a hand to the conservative media group’s expansion efforts.
Voters in at Least 10 States Are Trying to Protect Abortion Rights. GOP Officials Are Throwing Up Roadblocks. (www.propublica.org)
Republican officials are undermining citizen-led ballot initiatives that seek to protect the procedure. Ohio is the latest state to get protections on the November ballot....
Fuck off (lemmy.world)
Serious Android 14 bug on Pixels with multiple profiles enabled that just bricks your phone (arstechnica.com)
This happened to me. My phone was acting strange so I restarted it. After unlocking, it said ‘Phone is Starting’ for longer than usual. Then it said ‘Factory Resetting’, and shut down....
Disney Dreamlight Valley launches December 5th, will no longer be free-to-play on release (www.digitaltrends.com)
Gameloft was intending this game to be F2P on release, but they’ve backtracked on the decision and decided to keep it a paid game. Note that the game still has microtransactions.
Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds (www.latimes.com)
Why are (mobile) browsers so big?
Why are so many mobile browsers at least 100, if not 200 megabytes in size? Even Firefox Focus which is supposed to be small and, you know, focussed is 85MB big....
I'm probably going to get a lot of explanations in the comments (lemmy.world)