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Meta's Nick Clegg to step down, will be replaced by well-connected Republican (www.axios.com)

Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub (arstechnica.com)

AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives (arstechnica.com)

Nintendo Switch 2 Leaked Motherboard Analysis Suggests SoC Uses Samsung 5nm Node; NVIDIA DLSS 4K Upscaling Mentioned in New Patent (wccftech.com)

Linux Context Switching Internals: Part 1 - Process State and Memory (blog.codingconfessions.com)

"SPINACH": LLM-based tool to translate "challenging real-world questions" into Wikidata SPARQL queries (en.wikipedia.org)

More generally, this kind of task is called "Knowledge Base Question Answering" (KBQA). The authors observe that many benchmarks have been published for it over the last decade, and that recently, the KBQA community has shifted toward using Wikidata as the underlying knowledge base for KBQA datasets. However, they criticize...

Solidigm pulls out of consumer SSD market with discontinuation of drives (www.tomshardware.com)

Gar-Type is a free pixelart shooter based on a cosmic horror meme about a lazy, ravenous housecat (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

Link to game: lumpytouch.itch.io/gar-type

YSK: There's a site that lists delisted games (delistedgames.com)

The site also has pages for keeping track of what has been delisted from specific vendors, such as Steam, Epic or GOG for PC

GTA 5 Cheat Codes To Maximize Your Gameplay (www.the-headline.com)

Why Night Scenes in Video Games are so Hard to Make Right? (blenderdumbass.org)

Timberborn, releases a 2024 overview devlog featuring development milestone trailers, user map content winners, workshop highlights and more... (store.steampowered.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/23796573...

Canada joins the hunt for rare earths to make chips (www.tomshardware.com)

2024 Brought Even More Customization To Boxes.py (hackaday.com)

Luck be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play (blog.trampolinetales.com)

Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025 | Internet Archive Blogs (blog.archive.org)

CryZENx Unveils 30-Minute Zelda Ocarina of Time Preview (www.retronews.com)

CryZENx, a well-known indie developer, has released a stunning new 30-minute gameplay preview of his fan-made remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in Unreal Engine 5.5.

Mike Shapiro, the person behind G-Man in Half Life, just posted this on Twitter (nitter.poast.org)

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b2026e5f-9843-4e41-9c43-8e749691f7b4.png

The voice actor of the GMan just posted this promising cryptic HL3 rumor (fxtwitter.com)

LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series (9to5google.com)

Russia admits its homegrown consoles can't match the PS5 or Xbox Series (www.techspot.com)

UFO destroys two Israeli Iron Dome missiles, then jets away at Mach 30+ (rumble.com)

Retrotink 4k CE Announced and Mini Restock (www.retrotink.com)

The CE is a lower power version of what is now called the 4k Pro. It is priced at $475, which puts it more in direct competition with the morph paired with a analogue bridge (I think that bundle would be $350ish). RetroRGB has a nice break down of the differences (link in the article).

9 Things I Find Joyful About Tech in 2024 (mudkip.me)

I listed things I found positive in tech in 2024, including fields like Linux desktop developments, handheld gaming devices, the fediverse and open platforms.