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Robin Ince forced to quit Radio 4 over pro-trans views - Comic leaves Infinite Monkey Cage after pressure from bosses

The LoongArch CPU architecture changes have been merged for the Linux 6.19 merge window. This domestic Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS and RISC-V began with 64-bit LoongArch64 but with Linux 6.19 the foundation is being laid for LoongArch32 as a 32-bit variant.

While most CPU architectures went from a 32-bit to 64-bit world, Loongson is working back from 64-bit to 32-bit. They've been working on the LoongArch32 ABI and with Linux 6.19 that initial kernel port is being wired up.

Some DHS officials have threatened to quit and are concerned their emails are being monitored, sources say.

White House pressure to ramp up deportations has sparked rising tension and finger-pointing inside the Department of Homeland Security, with the agency’s secretary, Kristi Noem, and her top adviser blaming subordinates for not hitting arrest quotas and undermining their relationships inside the West Wing, according to two DHS officials with direct knowledge of the matter.

Noem and her close adviser Corey Lewandowski have sought to deflect blame from themselves for any White House frustration with the pace and scope of the deportations, pinning it instead on the leaders of the agencies in charge of immigration enforcement — acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott, the DHS officials said.

Underscoring the turmoil, Scott recently expressed concern to colleagues that Lewandowski is able to monitor his emails, the two officials and another DHS official said, sparking concern among other top staffers that their messages were being reviewed.

Is it intruded on his ability to control his image of appearing to be a jerk to handicapped people?

If you buy PC games at all (especially over the last 12 months given how positive the news around them has been) then you’ve probably heard of GOG.

GOG is a platform that sells games completely DRM-free, meaning there’s no Digital Rights Management shoehorned into the games. For a lil context, Mass Effect Legendary Edition or GTA V use DRM. Their system checks for an online connection and will outright stop you from playing your legally purchased, single-player game if you’re offline for too long. Gross, right?

GOG though refuses to sell games with this nonsense. Every game on GOG must have no DRM attached. From AAA to indie titles, with a lot that lean heavily toward older and classic releases.

Anyway...

I got the chance to chat to the developer of GameSieve. This is a site which lets you search, track and filter games for sale. GOG's site does a reasonable job with selling you games, but something like GameSieve was purpose built just to make all of this easier.

I chatted to them about how they made it, why they did, what goes into maintaining it, and a little on the future. If you've not visited the site before, make sure you do!

https://gamesieve.com/

They do such lovely work, I think it deserves a lot more recognition!

So, if you want to read through my interview with the dev, you can follow this link here. I do hope you enjoy this one too, I love GOG so much, so this was a blast to me!

New Content

• Verso's Drafts, a new playable environment, taking the characters of Expedition 33 to a brand-new location with new enemy encounters and surprises to discover :) Located on the World Map, next to Lumière - Accessible from Act III

  Esquie’s Underwater ability is required!

• New text and UI game localizations into Czech, Ukrainian, Latin American Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian, bringing the total number of supported languages to 19, with more to come!

• New costumes for each member of the Expedition, giving even more customization options for players throughout their adventure

• New boss battles for late-game players to overcome in the Endless Tower - They are variations of iconic bosses from the main game, designed to be even more challenging

• Added new Luminas and Weapons

• Added the "Old Key" quest item to the final area of the game - Previously obtainable only during the Prologue, this addition gives players a second chance to collect all journals within a single playthrough

New Features

• Added Photo Mode with plenty of settings and options for players to get creative with while capturing your favourite moments from the game, accessible at any time from the pause menu!

• Added Lumina Sets feature, allowing players to save up to 50 different lumina loadouts for adapting to plenty of different fighting tactics at any moment

• Added Abandon Battle option in the pause menu which can now be opened in battle

• Added HUD Scale setting, allowing players to adjust the size of in-game HUD elements from 80% to 120%

• Added FSR 4 support, including AMD temporal upscaling for sharper visuals and Frame Generation for smoother gameplay on compatible GPUs

• Added new filters for Pictos and Luminas and improved the UI

• Added input remapping for controller

Handheld PC improvements

• The game is now certified on Steam Deck and ROG Xbox Ally!

• Global improvement of text legibility

• Fixed multiple fog and lighting issues:
  Overly intense effects during the Flying Manor boss fight (which also impacted some cinematics) Overexposed areas in the Visages Overly dark areas in the Endless Tower

• Fixed FPS being capped at 30 on Steam Deck

• VSync can now be properly disabled in the settings when playing on Steam Deck

• Graphic settings are now adjusted for Steam Deck users

• Improved first-time setup flow:
  Controller input is now supported in installation wizards (no longer touchscreen-only)

• External controllers now switch seamlessly with the Steam Deck controls

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where using Battle Retry after a cinematic or automatic trigger could spawn the player out of the world if the last save was created in a different location

• The playtime displayed on save files now accurately reflects total playtime, including time spent on Game Overs (Note: this fix does not retroactively update existing save files.)

• Fixed inventory behaviour so that sort order now persists after closing the game menu

• Fixed issue preventing Intel XeSS Frame Generation setting from being accessible on PC Game Pass

• Fixed an issue where the usage of particular diacritic marks (e.g. ^, ~, ´, `) in Windows is blocked after launching the title

• Fixed Breaking Death always breaking all enemies when the character dies, it should only break the enemy that killed the character - As a result, it shouldn’t work when the character kills themself anymore

• Characters' turn order during a First Strike, triggered by attacking an enemy on the map, now correctly respects characters' Speed

• Fixed Boucharo giving +150% Critical chance instead of +50% Critical chance

• Fixed some Luminas giving unintended hidden +10% damage:
  Sweet Kill Teamwork Dead Energy II First Strike and others

• The Transportation Security Administration has been providing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement a list of people expected to travel through airports.