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A four-player co-op extraction game where a Lovecraftian island warps your perception while you haul treasure back to the ship.

The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu drops a squad of treasure hunters onto a cursed jungle island, then spends the rest of the run making them doubt everything they see. It’s a co-op extraction game built around a simple promise and a nasty twist. Grab the loot the captain wants, drag it back to your galleon, and try to leave before the island stops playing fair.

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2569760/The_Mound_Omen_of_Cthulhu/

Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology are being sued by seventeen plaintiffs in the California Northern District Court, who allege that the three tech manufacturers are colluding to artificially increase the price of RAM.

Seventeen individual plaintiffs, including three small businesses, have launched a class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California against the three largest RAM and chip manufacturers in the world: Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology. The plaintiffs allege that the three tech companies are colluding to raise the prices of RAM by keeping supplies artificially low, blaming it all on an AI data center-driven “RAMpocalypse” rather than corporate policy.

The Garciaguirre et al v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al case was filed earlier this week, on June 25, in the California Northern District Court, and lists three small computer retailers, Troy’s Computers LLC, JB Tech Solutions LLC, and WNTD Fab LLC, among its seventeen plaintiffs.

The plaintiffs claim that Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology are essentially part of a cartel that is collaborating to inflate DRAM and chip prices by controlling the overwhelming majority of the market. While proving that will obviously be a lot harder than alleging it, it’s no secret that the three companies own roughly 90 percent of the DRAM market.

And it’s no secret that Samsung and SK Hynix have been previously indicted for doing exactly what the plaintiffs are accusing them of doing now. In 2005, two Samsung executives and one Hynix America executive were indicted by a San Francisco jury for DRAM price-fixing and “bid-rigging.”

Bid-rigging can take many forms, but in this example, Samsung and Hynix America were accused of “issuing price quotations in accordance with the agreements reached” during private meetings, and “agreeing during those meetings and telephone conversations to charge prices of DRAM at certain levels to be sold to certain [original equipment manufacturers]” in the United States.

more links: https://wccftech.com/memory-trio-samsung-sk-hynix-micron-face-class-action-lawsuit/

Summary

• The Linux Foundation, joined by leading organizations, today announced Akrites, a coordinated effort to remediate and disclose vulnerabilities in critical open source software.
• Akrites establishes a shared Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) and a single, standardized Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) process, built on confidentiality-first principles and industry-standard tooling.
• Founding members commit engineering talent, security expertise and funding to harden the shared open source software that banks, hospitals, power grids, telecoms, governments, and AI labs depend on.
• Organizations that contribute engineering resources or funding to the security of critical open source are invited to participate and can learn more at https://akrites.org/.

https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/this-month-s-windows-11-update-broke-the-recycle-bin-onedrive-and-possibly-your-pc-s-stability

https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/

Lossless Scaling Tutorial: Upscaling & Frame Generation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTgGAzip9X0

Spanish genre legend Álex de la Iglesia (The Day of the Beast, The Bar) is making his animation directorial debut with Ages of Madness: The Howling of the Jinn, an adult-aimed CG feature that aims to become the first major animated adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s mythos for the big screen. Production on the ambitious project is scheduled to begin later this year.

more about: https://www.animationmagazine.net/2026/06/ages-of-madness-animated-lovecraft-feature-taps-goya-winner-alex-de-la-iglesia/

During my last trip to Kyoto, I stumbled upon these figures while walking around Yodobashi Camera (a large "electronics and many other things" store that can be found in most major cities in Japan).

The first collection of five vintage existential horror Science Fiction, aka Cosmic Horror, short stories that were written by other authors than H. P. Lovecraft. With a special exception for «The Curse of Yig» that was ghost written by Lovecraft. To what extent is unknown, but probably a lot.

Each story with its own take.

The stories presented here are:

0:00 Introduction

1:04 The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long

40:54 Dig Me No Grave by Robert E. Howard

1:17:46 The Curse of Yig by Zealia Brown Reed

2:04:33 The Secret of Kralitz bu Henry Kuttner

2:27:06 The Tree of Life by C. L. Moore

Selected and read by myself, Tom Trussel.

Which of these stories is your favorite? Share your thoughts below!

Stories of Futures Past presents a set of vintage Science Fiction short stories, narrated by myself, Tom Trussel.

After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

Starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, THE END OF OAK STREET also stars Maisy Stella and Christian Convery. The film is written and directed by David Robert Mitchell and produced by J.J. Abrams, Hannah Minghella, Jon Cohen, David Robert Mitchell, Matt Jackson, and Tommy Harper.

Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oB9AxspVow

The game is set in Antarctica in 1939. Two human factions—the Nazis and a guardian group known as the Kaitiaki—are heading deep into the Antarctic, each with their own agenda. The Nazis seek to harness the power of an ancient, unimaginable entity for destructive purposes, while the Kaitiaki aim to put that power back to sleep, as they have been tasked to do for generations. The player takes on the role of a local penguin drawn to strange sights and sounds, witnessing the human characters as they encounter ancient ruins and slowly descend into madness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Wj_AwWRmM

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47372299

A handful of anonymous bots have taken over fact-checking on X.

This isn’t hyperbole. In the first three weeks of May, just eight AI contributors wrote 50.3% of all visible Community Notes on the platform.

When the program launched five years ago, X positioned it as a way to harness the knowledge of users to add context and corrections to tweets. It described Community Notes as a way to “broaden the range of voices” fighting misinformation.

Then, in July 2025, X started allowing people to use automation to mass-generate and submit AI notes. That new feature made it inevitable that human writers would eventually be overtaken by bots. But it happened faster than I predicted.