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Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Users

Age verification laws are already coming for Americans’ access to free speech.

Reason

Bluesky blocks app in US state over new law

Social media app says Mississippi’s HB 1126 law has serious free speech and privacy implications

The Independent UK

Bluesky goes dark in Mississippi over 'likely unconstitutional' age verification law

The law requires social media sites to verify and track the ages of all users in the state.

PC Gamer

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Former Diablo head now in charge of next BioShock — He might be able to save the troubled series (again)

Rod Fergusson, formerly head of Diablo at Blizzard Entertainment, is the new studio head of Cloud Chamber, the team working on the next BioShock game.

Windows Central

JD Vance ‘sitting at the kids table’ as Trump-Zelensky talked draws raves: ‘See how much smoother things go’

It was a sharp contrast to Zelensky’s meeting with Donald Trump in March, when the vice president berated him for not saying ‘thank you’ enough

The Independent UK

Social media accounts of Palestinians desperate for funds are being flagged as spam

People in Gaza use Bluesky to crowdfund for milk and diapers – repeated deletion of their profiles has spawned a guerrilla verification squad

The Guardian - US

125 Hilarious Tweets From July That Slapped Harder Than A Mosquito Bite

Is Twitter (X) the ultimate gift that keeps on giving?

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New data shows Xbox is utterly dominating PlayStation's storefront — accounting for 60% of the Q2 top 10 game sales spots

Imagine this scenario a few years ago. It's no longer PlayStation, but Xbox itself that is now the biggest sales force on Sony's own console ecosystem.

Windows Central

Viral horror game Mouthwashing no longer appears in Itch.io search results, but that's not because of the new crackdown on NSFW games, marketplace confirms

Mouthwashing hasn't been indexed on Itch.io since last October

GamesRadar

The Age-Gated Internet Is Here

Goodbye, online anonymity.

Reason

"It might be porn games now, but they won't stop there": Game devs join players and artists rallying against credit card companies after mass NSFW game delisting

Meanwhile, Itch posts and hastily deletes an endorsement of AI-generated messaging

GamesRadar

The MMQB’s All-Quarter Century Team From 2000 Through 2025

Our NFL writers and editors voted on the best players at every position over the past 25 years. Here are our 78 players deserving of honors.

Sports Illustrated

Bluesky’s bringing in UK age verification – expect other social networks to follow

The Online Safety Act starts to bite, and it applies to all kinds of social networks and services.

Musk Vs Zuckerberg: Two Richest Men Battle Over Daily Social Media Users

Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg almost ended up in a cage fight over their competing social media platforms. Musk may not want to look at the latest metrics from X rival Threads, or he could be proposing a cage match again.

Benzinga

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We Got This Covered

John Cusack shares ‘anti-Semitic’ post and then deletes it, but the internet remembers!

How is this an accident?

Benzinga

Mark Cuban Says Med School Should Be Free—'For $10B A Year, We Would See A Change In The Profession, Career Paths, And The Cost Of Care'

Billionaire Mark Cuban is doubling down on his idea that medical school in the U.S. should be tuition-free. “There are 100k students in med school each year. Room and board is about 100k per year. For $10B a year, med school could be free,” Cuban said recently on Bluesky.

The Independent UK

The Latest: US says foreign students seeking visas must unlock social media accounts

The U.S. State Department says it is restarting the process for foreigners to apply for student visas but says all applicants must have their social media accounts set to ‘public’ to allow review by officials

Salon

The cringe-ification of protest

Social media is undermining the power of protest by framing it as "cringe," making the front line of change weaker

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Salon

NYC Democrats condemn Lander arrest

Lander has been charged with assaulting law enforcement, but video shows that federal agents were the aggressors

The Independent UK

Former Coast Guard officer and sharpshooter accused of threatening to assassinate Trump

Peter Andrew Stinson allegedly began making threats against Trump as early as 2020, say prosecutors

Fortune

Bluesky is backfiring. Mark Cuban says the 'lack of diversity of thought' is actually pushing users back to X

The billionaire argues Bluesky’s liberal-heavy user base creates an echo chamber.

GamesRadar

Days Gone studio Sony Bend reportedly lays off 30% of its staff as it works on new game following live service cancelation

About 40 people have been impacted by the Bend Studio layoffs

The Guardian - US

Misinformation about LA Ice protests swirls online: ‘Catnip for rightwing agitators’

Many posts spread the idea that mayhem overtook LA while police confrontations were limited to a small part of the city

PC Gamer

No, Geoff Keighley—Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was not made by a team of 'under 30 developers,' and devs say repeating the myth is 'a dangerous path'

SGF's fascination with small staff sizes discredits the integral work of external contractors and contributors.

Tom’s Hardware

Hackers discover Nintendo Switch 2 exploit one day after launch — minor hack allows running custom code on top of OS

Bluesky user David Buchanan discovered a userland Return-Oriented Programming vulnerability on the Switch 2.

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