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Richard MacManus / The New Stack: A look at Meta’s plan to adopt ActivityPub for Threads, what makes ActivityPub attractive, and the technical challenges and social pressure Meta will face  —  From a developer point of view, the fact that Meta’s Threads app has quickly gone over 100 million sign-ups isn’t the most interesting part of this latest Twitter clone.

Ukrainian soldiers ride an infantry fighting vehicle along a road not far from Bakhmut, Donetsk region amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. PHOTO: Anatolii Stepanov, AFP Russia plans to display NATO equipment it has destroyed in Ukraine outside the embassies of Western countries that supplied it, parliamentary speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Wednesday. “The proposal to install burned equipment …

If you’ve so much as booted up a Remedy game in the last 20 years, you’ll know there’s one thing that all of its projects has. No, I’m not talking about a Poets of the Fall/Old Gods of Asgard song (not this time, anyway). I’m talking about live-action. Think about it: the most obvious implementation of live-action in Remedy games …

As Hollywood grinds to a halt with the ongoing WGA strike and potential SAG-AFTRA strike, the 2023 Emmy nominations were announced as planned on July 12. Television Academy Chair Frank Scherma and actor Yvette Nicole Brown presented the nominations live from Los Angeles. This year’s Emmys follow a spate of TV finales from acclaimed series like “Succession,” “Barry,” “Ted Lasso,” …

Amid a concerted effort by global law enforcement to crack down on ransomware attacks, payments to hackers and even the volume of attacks fell in 2022. But the trend doesn’t seem to be holding for 2023, and attacks have shot up again. Data from cryptocurrency tracing firm Chainalysis indicates that victims have paid ransomware groups $449.1 million in the first …

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Link’s challenge in Tears of the Kingdom is to take down a grand evil threat to save the world of Hyrule. But while many players choose to take on the game’s final boss, Ganon, with a traditional means of sword fighting, others have taken to finding more clever, rather humiliating forms of foiling Ganon’s plans. The Yakuza Devs Should Cast …

Pedro Pascal and Jenna Ortega scored lead Emmy nominations for acting in drama and comedy series on Wednesday, becoming the first actors of Latin descent to do so in their categories since 1999 and 2008, respectively. Pascal, who is Chilean-American, is the first Latino to earn a best lead actor in a drama series nomination since Jimmy Smits in 1999 …

According to n-tv, Berlin has opted to set up the hub on its own territory, instead of Poland Germany will build a tank maintenance plant for Ukraine on its own soil, and possibly an additional facility in Lithuania, the n-tv news outlet reported on Wednesday, citing an anonymous German official. The decision has also been reported by Handelsblatt newspaper, which …

In the year and a half since Xbox announced its intentions to acquire Activision-Blizzard for $68.7 billion way back in January of 2022, it’s felt at times like we’re all just kids in the backseat of a car asking, “Are we there yet?.” Everyone’s a little sick of hearing about it by now, but every few weeks it seems like …