“Leaving your Steam Deck inactive for more than 5 minutes may stop the game from accepting inputs,” according to the Elden Ring X account. A hotfix is in the works. Some users are also unexpectedly seeing an “inappropriate activity detected” warning when they try to play.
Not great timing given the new update and Shadow of the Erdtree’s imminent launch!
The California Department of Industrial Relations says that Amazon didn’t provide employees written notice of quotas they have to follow — a requirement of the Warehouse Quotas law. “The employer argued they did not need a quota system because they use a peer-to-peer evaluation system,” according to a press release.
The regulator found more than 59,000 violations across two warehouses.
The show, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, is an adaptation of The Hedge Knight, a novella by George R.R. Martin. There will be six episodes in this initial season.
Here’s the show’s synopsis, from Warner Bros. Discovery:
A century before the events of “Game of Thrones,” two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros… a young, naïve but courageous knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, and his diminutive squire, Egg. Set in an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living memory, great destinies, powerful foes, and dangerous exploits all await these improbable and incomparable friends.
CMF by Nothing’s “Phone 1” looks like it will have a cool rotating dial — perhaps like the CMF Buds. You can see a few more teases of the phone on CMF by Nothing’s X account, and for rumored specs, check out 91Mobiles.
The Phone 1 will be announced on July 8th at 5AM ET alongside the Buds Pro 2 and the Watch Pro 2.
Bloomberg has a big report on X’s efforts to let you make payments through the app, including that it has made agreements with payment processors like Stripe.
Bloomberg also found not-great financials from 2023:
[Documents] show that X generated $1.48 billion in revenue in the first six months of 2023, down almost 40% from the same period in 2022, before Musk bought the company.
If you want the TL;DR, read Kurt Wagner’s Threads thread.
Paradox Tectonic, which employs 24 people, has been working on the game since 2019, but the studio is being shut down following the life sim’s cancelation, according to Paradox Interactive.
I asked if all Tectonic employees are being laid off and if any staffers will be offered other positions at Paradox, but spokesperson Jesse Henning declined to comment.
