Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings ( www.cnbc.com )
At an all-hands meeting last week, Google executives responded to employee questions about declining morale even with financial performance improving.
[ META ] What is the community's opinion of Pop!_OS?
It’s an Ubuntu downstream maintained by Linux box maker System76 which is targeted for both general usability and design/media applications. They will soon be debuting their own home-spun desktop environment, Cosmic DE, which is highly anticipated by the Linux community....
Nintendo ending Twitter/X support on Switch on June 10th ( mynintendonews.com )
Putin is ready to launch invasion of Nato nations to test West, warns Polish spy boss ( www.lbc.co.uk )
Supercharged thunderstorms: have we underestimated how climate change drives extreme rain and floods? ( theconversation.com )
Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio ( www.theverge.com )
Today, one day after Microsoft announced that it would shut down four of its games studios, Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, held a town hall to discuss the division’s future goals. “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards,” Booty told employees, according to internal remarks shared with The Verge....
MACKLEMORE - HIND'S HALL ( youtu.be )
EA studios 'hunger' to start using generative AI 'as quickly as possible,' says CEO ( www.pcgamer.com )
As if EA didn't already make bland, derivative games...
Freddie Mercury riding Darth Vader ( lemmy.world )
Freddie Mercury, comes out for an encore riding on the shoulders of Darth Vader. Houston, August 10, 1980
54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances ( www.cnbc.com )
Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna reveal bill to ‘cancel all medical debt’ ( www.theguardian.com )
CNN's Burnett asks Biden how he is going to turn the economy around. He said he already has. ( www.cnn.com )
Barron Trump, 18, to Make Political Debut as Florida Delegate to the Republican Convention ( www.usnews.com )
The numbers aren't looking good ( lemmy.world )
Matrix rule ( pawb.social )
Mark Hamill will voice The Joker in Multiversus ( www.videogameschronicle.com )
Not really my type of game but hearing Conroy and Hamill together would be nice.
Meanwhile, in Edmonton ( slrpnk.net )
cackling laughter reverberating off of the walls of a secret cave by the river
rule ( lemmy.world )
What exactly are the "mini sweet peppers" that grocery stores sell? ( us.amazon.com )
I had a customer come into my garden center today and ask for "those mini sweet peppers. you know, the ones grocery stores sell". I have no idea what those peppers are. I suggested a sweet pimento, but they wanted the grocery store was selling....