Two-person indie studio Chequered Ink launched a pack of 10,000 game assets to “give budding developers an alternative to AI”, which includes over 9,000 graphics for platformers, RPGs, puzzle games, board games, and more, as well as over 700 sound effects.

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The TL;DR is that the organization that controls the HDMI standard won’t allow any open source implementation of HDMI 2.1.

I’ve been working on a “Linux Inside Out” series and wrote a post that might interest folks here who like low(ish)-level / OS internals.

[…] Alex Jennings, associate secretary to the Deputy Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office, acknowledged Ottawa receiving the formal declaration from the province but confessed that the staff “thought it was a joke from New Brunswick.” […]

Fleeing an abusive home life, she went on to win a national Space Invaders tournament, taught herself to program and left a trail of popular games in her wake.

The New York Times filed a copyright lawsuit against Perplexity, joining other publishers using legal action as leverage to force AI companies into licensing deals that compensate content creators.

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In the video games space, the acquisition means Warner Bros. Games and its subsidiaries—including Avalanche Software, NetherRealm Studios, Portkey Games, Rocksteady Studios, TT Games, WB Games Boston, WB Games Montreal, WB Games New York, and WB Games San Francisco—will soon be under the Netflix banner.

While NTFSPLUS continues to be developed as a new and modern NTFS open-source driver for Linux systems, at the moment NTFS3 from Paragon Software remains the most capable NTFS file-system driver within the mainline kernel. For the Linux 6.19 merge window a variety of fixes have landed for this driver.

After launching Gemini 17 Gen3 in September 2024, TUXEDO has now introduced the next generation of their powerful Linux laptop line, Gemini 17 Gen4 INTEL, a new 17-inch Linux notebook positioned as an affordable desktop replacement.

Anything new you’re picking up? A playthrough you’re finishing up? Playing the new Nightreign DLC? Let us know!

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Meet the oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, a Laysan albatross. At age 75, she is still raising chicks: this is her latest, whom she is looking after at their nest at Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge, Hawaii, US. Researchers estimate she has laid 60 eggs in her long life, and is on at least her second husband.

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Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The breaches include the deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’, the lack of transparency of its advertising repository, and the failure to provide access to public data for researchers.

Cross posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/40600495

India’s government is reviewing a telecom industry proposal to force smartphone firms to enable satellite location tracking that is always activated for better surveillance

Totally new-to-me artist, who does seem to be from Ukraine based on various clues. Evidently his clients are mainly Europeans looking for modern art, posters and digital works to be created from their family coat of arms.

Seems to be over now.

They’re nice pictures, but I was glad to see the comments pointing out how processed they are. Made me feel better about my own pictures!

Today’s game is some more Shadow of Mordor. I got around to finally finishing the quest where you poison the grog. While doing it i had noticed that this Adaptation of Mordor is weirdly green. It’s an interesting take (and not one that i’m opposed too) but i thought it was interesting too see. I feel like as far as i remember the games portrayed them as just black rock as far as the eyes could see.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/40593125

I just noticed multiple websites show this error. This isn’t just me, right?

NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention of scientists. This planet orbits the star within the “Goldilocks zone"—a distance where water on its surface is theoretically possible, but only if the planet has an atmosphere. And where there is water, there might be life.

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

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Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.

A Wild West for Crayola prices.

It appears Meta’s Horizon Worlds may literally and figuratively not have legs after all.

She’s 1/3 of a trio that we tried fostering but who quickly decided we were family.

RICHMOND, Va. — Several ICE agents had their internal organs forcibly removed during a recent raid on the Slave Pit, home of the extraterrestrial rock band GWAR, confirmed absolutely horrified sources.

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This was not an attack; the change was deployed by our team to help mitigate the industry-wide vulnerability disclosed this week in React Server Components. We will share more information as we have it today.

Guess when and where 5 pictures were taken.

Name countries to travel from the Start Country to the End Country. Try to get there in the fewest guesses!