Moderate 10.7 mi Out and Back
2,500ft elevation gain
Extends from Emerald Lake Trail
Hiked 6/5/25

This fantastic hike leaves Emerald lake and climbs into a large bowl in between Wapta Mtn and the Oresident range. Bowl area is full sun while keeping a fairly steep pace on the way into Yoho Pass. Deep snow at time of hike for over 1 mile on pass, melty on way back with post-holing. Very Popular. Same trail I saw the Ruffed Grouse on that I posted a while ago, reposted in here as well.

Wapta mountain sits across from the serene waters of Yoho lake. Still a little avalanche to be let go of on the mountain, and that side of the lake was still deep snow. Red chairs just out of frame.

Looking up towards Angle Peak with a large field of snow still at the top of the Avalanche zone beyond it.

The view as you decend from Yoho pass back into the valley shows the many tracks the stream flows take in the large avalanche zone feeding into Emerald Lake. Mt Deville lies behind the Tocher ridge in the distance.

A ruffed grouse was on the trail as I turned a corner, trusting in it's camoflage until the right moment to make a break.

Short video if the seasonal fall on Bluesky

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling and punctuation reflects the original.

^{National Archives}

In a memo to employees earlier this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a vision for a near-future in which "personal [AI] superintelligence for everyone" forms "the beginning of a new era for humanity." The newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs—freshly staffed with multiple high-level acquisitions from OpenAI and other AI companies—will spearhead the development of "our next generation of models to get to the frontier in the next year or so," Zuckerberg wrote.

Reading that memo, I couldn't help but think of another "vision for the future" Zuckerberg shared not that long ago. At his 2021 Facebook Connect keynote, Zuckerberg laid out his plan for the metaverse, a virtual place where “you're gonna be able to do almost anything you can imagine" and which would form the basis of "the next version of the Internet."

Zuckerberg believed in that vision so much at the time that he abandoned the well-known Facebook corporate brand in favor of the new name "Meta." "I'm going to keep pushing and giving everything I've got to make this happen now," Zuckerberg said at the time. Less than four years later, Zuckerberg seems to now be “giving everything [he's] got" for a vision of AI “superintelligence," reportedly offering pay packages of up to $300 million over four years to attract top talent from other AI companies (Meta has since denied those reports, saying, “The size and structure of these compensation packages have been misrepresented all over the place").

Once again, Zuckerberg is promising that this new technology will revolutionize our lives and replace the ways we currently socialize and work on the Internet. But the utter failure (so far) of those over-the-top promises for the metaverse has us more than a little skeptical of how impactful Zuckerberg’s vision of “personal superintelligence for everyone" will truly be.

Looks like Zuck is angling for the golden shoehorn award (a real thing at one of the papers I worked for). It would be nice if all these failures actually put a dent in Meta's income, but who's really going to notice tens of billions being lost when you essentially own a money-printing scheme?

Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse”

Zuckerberg and company talked up another supposed tech revolution four short years ago.

^{Kyle Orland (Ars Technica)}

The traffic receded as Chicago withdrew into the distance behind me on Interstate 90. Barns and trees dotted the horizon. The speakers in my rental car, playing Spotify from my smartphone, put out the opening riff of a laid-back psychedelic-rock song. When the lyrics came, delivered in a folksy vibrato, they matched my mood: “Smoke in the sky / No peace found,” the band’s vocalist sang.

Except perhaps he didn’t really sing, because he doesn’t exist. By all appearances, neither does the band, called the Velvet Sundown. Its music, lyrics, and album art may be AI inventions. Same goes for the photos of the band. Social-media accounts associated with the band have been coy on the subject: “They said we’re not real. Maybe you aren’t either,” one Velvet Sundown post declares. (That account did not respond to a request for comment via direct message.) Whatever its provenance, the Velvet Sundown seems to be successful: It released two albums last month alone, with a third on its way. And with more than 850,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, its reach exceeds that of the late-’80s MTV staple Martika or the hard-bop jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley. As for the music: You know, it’s not bad.

It’s not good either. It’s more like nothing—not good or bad, aesthetically or morally. Having listened to both of the Velvet Sundown’s albums as I drove from Chicago to Madison, Wisconsin, earlier this week, I discovered that what may now be the most successful AI group on Spotify is merely, profoundly, and disturbingly innocuous. In that sense, it signifies the fate of music that is streamed online and then imbibed while one drives, cooks, cleans, works, exercises, or does any other prosaic act. Long before generative AI began its takeover of the internet, streaming music had turned anodyne—a vehicle for vibes, not for active listening. A single road trip with the Velvet Sundown was enough to prove this point: A major subset of the music that we listen to today might as well have been made by a machine.

I don't understand streaming music as a concept. My collection of individual tracks stands at about 1,700 (clocking in at 190 hours -- that is 22 hours more than a week), and there are several full albums atop that.

In my 40s, new music discovery has been a low priority, but if I'm really in the mood, I'll find a weekly radio mix from known quality DJs and hop over to Beatport if something moves me.

The use case for streaming is ... you don't want to choose what you listen to, pay monthly for stuff you'll never own and pay for a higher data plan? That sounds like radio with really expensive extra steps (I ceased listening to the radio after being thrust into the rave scene in the late '90s, and through interactions with others came to the conclusion that I was missing out on nothing.).

I'm sure "AI" can produce perfectly milquetoast music, but are you ever going to want to listen again? I have tracks I've listened to hundreds of times because they mean something to me emotionally (and often have a temporal element wherein I remember where I was living and what I was doing the first time I heard it) -- and most of my tracks do not have lyrics.

Layering nonsensical lyrics atop forgettable melodies sounds more like torture than a service providing any value.

My Road Trip With the Velvet Sundown

Nobody cares if music is real anymore.

^{Ian Bogost (The Atlantic)}

What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani’s socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to get there.

What Can Zohran Accomplish? - Dissent Magazine

What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani's socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to get there.

^{Dissent Magazine}

The move blindsided the State Department, Ukraine, European allies and members of Congress, who demanded an explanation from the Pentagon.

The Defense Department held up a shipment of U.S. weapons for Ukraine this week over what officials said were concerns about its low stockpiles. But an analysis by senior military officers found that the aid package would not jeopardize the American military’s own ammunition supplies, according to three U.S. officials.

The move to halt the weapons shipment blindsided the State Department, members of Congress, officials in Kyiv and European allies, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter.

Critics of the decision included Republicans and Democrats who support aiding Ukraine’s fight against Russia. A leading House Democrat, Adam Smith of Washington, said it was disingenuous of the Pentagon to use military readiness to justify halting aid when the real reason appears to be simply to pursue an agenda of cutting off American aid to Ukraine.

Hegseth halted weapons for Ukraine despite military analysis that the aid wouldn’t jeopardize U.S. readiness

Suspending the shipment of military aid to Ukraine was a unilateral step by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to four sources.

^{Gordon Lubold (NBC News)}

A group of Florida Democratic state lawmakers was blocked from entering the Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention facility in the Everglades Thursday, despite citing legal authority for an official legislative site visit.

Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried issued a statement following the incident, saying, "Lawmakers on the ground were just blocked from entering a state-funded detention site because of so-called 'safety concerns.' This is a taxpayer-funded facility, run by the State of Florida. Our elected officials have every legal right to walk through those gates."

Fried added, "What are Ron DeSantis and his administration trying to hide? If it's unsafe for lawmakers to visit, how is it safe for anyone inside?"

Democratic lawmakers denied entry to Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention site

Ahead of the attempted site visit, the Democratic lawmakers said, "As lawmakers, we have both the legal right and moral responsibility to inspect this site."

^{CBS Miami Team (CBS Miami)}

A new analysis of over 25,000 broadcast mentions shows how mainstream media led with Israel over rent, child care, and transit.

How Broadcast Media Covered Zohran Mamdani's Win

^{Waleed Shahid (Waleed’s Substack)}

Legal experts are concerned that immigration judges with only six weeks of training will not uphold constitutional protections for migrants.

Florida plans to deputize 9 National Guardsmen as immigration judges to increase deportations

^{Autumn Billings (Reason.com)}

Former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has slammed “US mercenaries” for the killing of hundreds of starving Palestinians in Gaza, accusing the EU of being “unwilling” to take any action against “these crimes.”

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/us-mercenaries-killed-510-starving-palestinians-in-gaza-former-eu-chief/

Sono indubbiamente fin troppo solita annunciare a gran voce, senza mai farmi problemi ad esagerare, che “è finita“… ma questa volta, guardate, lo è assolutamente oltre ogni passata misura. Se me ne fregasse ancora la benchéminima cosa riguardo il gaming online su PC, almeno, in questo momento starei certamente fumando, contemporaneamente di rabbia e di […]

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2025-07-04 20:25:54

“The Call of Duty Hacking Situation is Wild…” — “La Call of Duty Hacking Situazione è Pazza…”

Sono indubbiamente fin troppo solita annunciare a gran voce, senza mai farmi problemi ad esagerare, che “è finita“… ma questa volta, guardate, lo è assolutamente oltre ogni passata misura. Se me ne fregasse ancora la benchéminima cosa riguardo il gaming online su PC, almeno, in questo momento starei certamente fumando, contemporaneamente di rabbia e di paura, perché con questa nuova notizia si sono superati davvero tutti i limiti — letteralmente, in senso informatico! 🥱

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Nella versione Game Pass per Windows di Call of Duty WWII, è infatti zompato fuori un bel problema… alcuni utenti starebbero avendo il PC violato, di punto in bianco, senza fare niente, semplicemente perché finiti in partite online con il tizio sbagliato. Super yikes! Le investigazioni al momento rivelano che questo potrebbe essere dovuto ad un buco presente nel motore di gioco, di cui il codice è stato palesemente riciclato in tanti CoD (come è prassi nell’industria), perché chi di dovere magari non si è accorto della vulnerabilità… che è a dir poco strano, perché la vulnerabilità, di tipo ROP (ammesso sia questa, perché piccole cose negli anni sarebbero state patchate), è pubblicamente nota almeno dal fottuto 2017. E colpirebbe in particolare la versione di Microsoft del giochino perché, a differenza di altre, non userebbe un server centrale per gestire le partite, bensì il classico peer-to-peer da due soldi per cui un utente della lobby fa da server… ed ecco il disastro, se invia dati volutamente malevoli ai client. 💀

Questo è cosa succede sostanzialmente quando i giochi, che sono comunque oltre ogni dubbio prodotti software di grandissima complessità, li sviluppano (e poi li gestiscono, come Microsoft che fa la distribuzione della sua versione) aziende che puntualmente non hanno il minimo rispetto del concetto stesso di sicurezza informatica quando si tratta dei dispositivi degli utenti consumer (tranne se sono console da loro stessi prodotte)… E qui non parliamo nemmeno di anti-cheat livello kernel o altre trovate sataniche di quel tipo, eh! Non so precisamente come giri CoD WWII, ma su Windows ovviamente un processo non ha bisogno di alcun permesso speciale per eseguire comandi arbitrari o file puzzolenti che riescono comunque a fare grandi danni (per esempio, rubare tutti i file, che è un grande business ormai)… e i giocatori da console o telefono in questo momento staranno giustamente ridendo ai PC gamer. 💔

Ovviamente, queste falle gravissime si verificano anche perché nel campo si usa ancora fin troppo codice non-memory-safe… E attenzione, non sto auspicando che l’industria sia costretta dai tempi che cambiano ad adottare Rust — non piace in primis a me, quindi certamente non lo augurerei a quei poveri sviluppatori schiavizzati dalle AAA — ma regà, porca miseria… C#? JavaScript, che con V8 ha prestazioni quasi da codice nativo? Qualsiasi cosa che non sia C++ nel 2025??? (Ah e, certamente non sarebbe malaccio se Microsoft si decidesse a mettere in campo i soldi per dei server veri, anziché usare questo peer-to-peer forzato… e già che ci stanno, non sarebbe male se si decidessero a implementare un po’ di sicurezza userspace in Windows, come invece Linux ha da anni e anni tra Flatpak e compagnia…) 😭

#CallOfDuty #CoD #CoDMW2 #CoDWWII #exploit #GamePass #gaming #hacking #Microsoft #online #RCE #ROP #videogiochi #vulnerabilità #vulnerability

Game Hacking reinvented? - A COD Exploit

A few years ago, I became aware of a security issue in most Call of Duty games. Although I did not discover it myself, I thought it might be interesting to see what it could be used for.

^{Maurice Heumann (Maurice's Blog 🐍)}

It is, in fact, extermination. And the means is sadistic, evil and utterly inhumane. Not normal!

Impunity and Defiance: Has Slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza become 'Normalized'? - Palestine Chronicle

If 'normalization' has become a Zionist ritual of bloodshedding, how long will the world allow it to fester? asks Iqbal Jassat.

^{admin (Palestine Chronicle)}

Il mercato degli asset digitali è sempre più attivo e, con esso, la sicurezza degli account è finita sotto i riflettori. Negli ultimi tempi, gli attacchi informatici si sono moltiplicati: molti utenti si sono visti sottrarre i propri asset senza alcun preavviso, e la mancanza di consapevolezza in tema di sicurezza si è rivelata la più grande vulnerabilità. La piattaforma JZMOR ha sempre posto la sicurezza degli asset degli utenti al centro della propria missione, costruendo una protezione multilivello attorno al concetto di “anti-truffa”. Dai dettagli dell’impostazione delle password al sistema di gestione del rischio intelligente dell’intera piattaforma, ogni fase è stata testata sul campo.

Anti-truffa non è solo un concetto vago. Su JZMOR, la maggior parte degli incidenti di sicurezza parte in realtà da un punto spesso trascurato: la creazione della password. Molti utenti ancora utilizzano password semplici come la propria data di nascita, numero di telefono o addirittura combinazioni ovvie come “123456”, che per un hacker equivalgono a trovare una porta lasciata aperta. JZMOR, invece, invita attivamente gli utenti a impostare password complesse e dispone di un sistema di verifica della forza della password, aiutando gli utenti a evitare le trappole delle password deboli.

JZMOR consiglia inoltre agli utenti di attivare l’autenticazione a due fattori (2FA), creando così una barriera di sicurezza a più livelli combinando la verifica del dispositivo con la password. Rispetto ai metodi tradizionali di autenticazione singola, questo approccio rende quasi impossibile l’accesso da parte degli hacker. In un contesto in cui sono frequenti i furti di account, queste misure anti-truffa rappresentano la prima linea di difesa per la sicurezza degli asset degli utenti.

Ma JZMOR non si limita a proteggere l’accesso all’account: il concetto di anti-truffa è applicato a tutti i livelli del sistema. La piattaforma è dotata di un sistema intelligente di gestione del rischio basato sull’AI, capace di monitorare in tempo reale il comportamento degli utenti e rilevare operazioni sospette, come trasferimenti improvvisi di grandi somme o accessi da indirizzi IP sconosciuti. In questi casi, il sistema blocca immediatamente la transazione e richiede la verifica dell’identità dell’utente, evitando l’aggravarsi del rischio potenziale.

Inoltre, JZMOR adotta un meccanismo di separazione tra hot wallet e cold wallet, conservando la maggior parte degli asset degli utenti in ambienti offline, eliminando così la possibilità di attacchi remoti da parte degli hacker. In combinazione con frequenti audit di sicurezza, certificazioni di conformità globali e l’uso di tecnologie multi-firma, JZMOR ha costruito un ecosistema anti-truffa completo, replicabile e verificabile. Per ogni utente che opera sulla piattaforma, questo non rappresenta solo una protezione, ma una promessa concreta di sicurezza.

JZMOR si impegna anche nella formazione e sensibilizzazione degli utenti, attraverso attività educative, interazioni con la community e la diffusione di conoscenze sulla sicurezza. Vengono organizzati corsi sulla sicurezza nel mondo crypto e pubblicate guide pratiche contro le truffe, affinché ogni utente possa mantenere alto il livello di vigilanza e prontezza in un contesto in continua evoluzione. La piattaforma non si limita a fornire strumenti, ma sviluppa competenze anti-truffa: questa è la vera differenza tra JZMOR e gli exchange tradizionali.

In un’epoca in cui i metodi di truffa evolvono di giorno in giorno, il livello di difesa determina spesso il destino dei tuoi asset. JZMOR, grazie a una struttura tecnologica in costante aggiornamento e a strategie pratiche per gli utenti, ha portato il concetto di “anti-truffa” nei minimi dettagli. Scegliere JZMOR significa assicurare visibilmente i tuoi asset digitali.

Google AdSense announced a new feature to "Fill empty in-page ads" by showing "contextually-relevant suggestions related to your page and site inside unfilled ad spaces." In short, if an ad is not filled by Google on your page, then Google will look for other ways to monetize that ad spot.

I should note at the top, that Google will turn this on by default for all AdSense publishers within 30 days. So if you want, you can opt out of it.

New Google AdSense Fill Empty In-Page Ads

^{Barry Schwartz (Search Engine Roundtable)}

Google AdSense announced a new feature to "Fill empty in-page ads" by showing "contextually-relevant suggestions related to your page and site inside unfilled ad spaces." In short, if an ad is not filled by Google on your page, then Google will look for other ways to monetize that ad spot.

I should note at the top, that Google will turn this on by default for all AdSense publishers within 30 days. So if you want, you can opt out of it.

New Google AdSense Fill Empty In-Page Ads

^{Barry Schwartz (Search Engine Roundtable)}

The convergence of natural and human-influenced factors is probably intensifying the heat wave in the Mediterranean, a region that saw consecutive years of record-breaking ocean warmth in 2023 and 2024.

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It's been a long time coming, but news might finally start emerging for The Wolf Among Us 2. Here's the latest rumor spreading online.

Rumor: Telltale Games Working With Influencers For The Wolf Among Us 2 Marketing Campaign - Gameranx

^{Dennis Patrick (Gameranx)}

EA has announced plans to end services for Bioware title Anthem this January 2026, marking nearly seven years of total lifetime.

EA Will Be Ending Services For Anthem After Nearly Seven Years - Gameranx

^{Ryan Parreno (Gameranx)}

We're all being fleeced.

Data reveals many GPUs are still selling for 50% more than MSRP — Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 are worst offenders

^{Jowi Morales (Tom's Hardware)}

Julia Liuson, president of the Microsoft division responsible for developer tools such as AI coding service GitHub Copilot, recently sent an email instructing managers to evaluate employee performance based on their use of internal AI tools like this.

"AI is now a fundamental part of how we work," Liuson wrote. "Just like collaboration, data-driven thinking, and effective communication, using AI is no longer optional — it's core to every role and every level."

Liuson told managers that AI "should be part of your holistic reflections on an individual's performance and impact."

Microsoft's performance requirements vary from team to team, and some are considering including a more formal metric about the use of internal AI tools in performance reviews for its next fiscal year, according to a person familiar with the situation. This person asked not to be identified discussing private matters.

Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'

Microsoft is asking some managers to evaluate employees based on how much they use AI internally, and the software giant is considering adding a metric related to this in its review process, Business Insider has learned.

^{Business Insider Africa}

Hi,

There's an option for night light to be manually controlled, but then it has to be enabled by default on boot ("always on") :

There's also an option to disable it by default, but then it requires opening settings to enable ("always off") :

How to make it manual but without enabling it by default ?

Thanks

Result:

🔶 LDM: 28.3% (+17.3)

🌹 LAB: 27.4% (+0.8)

➡️ RFM: 25.6% (-6.6)

🙋 Ind: 15.7% (-8.0)

🌳 CON: 1.6% (-5.0)

🌍 GRN: 1.4% (New)

Lib Dems win Durham County Council seat from Reform UK in by-election

The Liberal Democrats have won a seat from Reform UK on Durham County Council.

^{Joshua Nichol (The Northern Echo)}

What the senator claimed was a difficult decision was just a case of backroom deals and abandoned principles.

When the Republican-controlled Senate passed the disastrous megabill on Tuesday, the deciding vote came from Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The Alaskan lawmaker, who has long claimed to be a moderate, got over the finish line the bill for Donald Trump’s priorities, which would send billions of dollars to ICE, extend tax cuts for the wealthy, kick large abortion providers out of the Medicaid program, and knock millions of low-income people off their health insurance.

Murkowski cast this vote just a week after she suggested in a podcast interview that she’d consider becoming an independent and caucusing with Senate Democrats. She cast this vote, which could shutter nearly 200 Planned Parenthood clinics, after repeatedly painting herself as “pro choice.” She cast this vote after Planned Parenthood called the bill a “backdoor abortion ban” and said it could eliminate one in four abortion providers nationwide.

As Bolts Magazine Editor-in-Chief Daniel Nichanian noted after the vote: “The Senate’s small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she’s supporting will harm the nation’s 339 million other residents.”

Lisa Murkowski’s vote for the 'big, beautiful bill' shows she's useless as an abortion rights ally

Murkowski advanced President Trump’s priority bill, which would increase ICE funding, extend tax cuts for the wealthy and enact major Medicaid cuts.

^{Susan Rinkunas (MSNBC)}

CoMaps shares core functionality with Organic Maps. It allows users to plan and navigate trips entirely offline. It's entirely free to use, with no ads, and it collects no personal data. Additionally, its efficient design ensures minimal battery consumption, making it suitable for travelers seeking private, uninterrupted navigation.

What sets CoMaps apart is a fully transparent governance approach. All decisions about the app's development are made publicly, with users and contributors having a voice in its future direction. This focus on community engagement aims to deliver value for its users rather than prioritize profit.

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Tesla said it delivered 384,122 vehicles in the second quarter, down 13.5% from 443,956 units a year ago

Tesla posted another big drop in quarterly deliveries on Wednesday, putting it on course for its second straight annual sales decline as demand falters due to backlash over CEO Elon Musk’s political stance and an ageing vehicle lineup.

The stock has lost 25% of its value so far this year as investors feared brand damage in Europe, where sales have slumped most sharply, and in the US from Musk’s embrace of rightwing politics and his role in spearheading the Trump administration’s cost-cutting effort.

The day Trump and Musk split publicly in early June, Tesla lost about $150bn in market value. Its share price has somewhat recovered in the ensuing month, but Trump and Musk have likewise reignited their feud as they spar over Trump’s sweeping tax bill.

Tesla vehicle deliveries drop sharply as Musk backlash affects demand

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}