An Israel offensive into Lebanon risks an Iranian military response, top US military leader says (apnews.com)
Kamala Harris says abortion bans are creating 'a health care crisis' (www.nbcnews.com)
Apple’s App Store breaches EU’s Digital Markets Act (techcrunch.com)
A few months after opening a non-compliance case on Apple and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Commission has shared its preliminary findings with Apple. And the bottom line is that the current App Store rules are in breach of the DMA. Confirmed violations of the DMA can lead to fines of up to 10% of global annual...
US Supreme Court divisions expected to be exposed as final rulings loom (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, managed to bridge its ideological divide in major rulings this month involving constitutional gun rights and access to the abortion pill, but that could change as the court heads into what may be the final week of its term....
Intense phase of Israel's war with Hamas about to end, Netanyahu says (www.nbcnews.com)
Apple charged with breaching EU tech rules, faces another probe (www.reuters.com)
European Union antitrust regulators charged on Monday that Apple breached the bloc’s tech rules, a charge that could result in a hefty fine for the iPhone maker which also faces another investigation into new fees imposed on app developers....
China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say (www.intereconomics.eu)
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Overturning Roe Didn’t Just Cut Off Access. It Sabotaged Science, Too. (www.motherjones.com)
Petty Politics Sabotages Science. Details at 11.
How Sweden's youth homes nurtured killers, creating Europe's gun crime capital (www.reuters.com)
The killer was only 14 and had lived in youth homes as a ward of the authorities since he was eight....
Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter (arstechnica.com)
Car dealerships in North America revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/23769946...
US prosecutors want Boeing to face criminal charges (www.bbc.com)
US prosecutors have recommended that the Department of Justice (DoJ) brings criminal charges against Boeing....
Exclusive: Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
Last November, just weeks into the war in Gaza, Amichai Chikli, a brash, 42-year-old Likud minister in the Israeli government, was called into the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, to brief lawmakers on what could be done about rising anti-war protests from young people across the United States, especially at elite universities....
Russia-Ukraine war live: Volodymyr Zelenskiy orders purge of Ukraine state guard after alleged assassination plots (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, told the new chief of Ukraine’s state guard service to clear its ranks of people discrediting it after two of its officers were accused of plotting to assassinate senior officials....
1.3m Pirate IPTV Users 'Blacked Out' During Euro 2024, Italian Police Claim * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
Structural problems with tech platforms prevent fact-checkers from focusing on harm and virality (www.poynter.org)
A fire at a lithium battery factory in South Korea kills 22 mostly Chinese migrant workers (apnews.com)
A fire likely sparked by exploding lithium batteries swept through a manufacturing factory near South Korea’s capital on Monday, killing 22 mostly Chinese migrant workers and injuring eight, officials said....
Qualcomm Aiming For Snapdragon X Elite GPU Support In Linux 6.11 (www.phoronix.com)
A lot of people here seemed excited for these chips. It’ll be very interesting to see the gaming performance as this could bring in an entire new segment of portable devices running Linux if powerful enough to deliver solid battery life and CPU performance.
South Korea: Exploding lithium batteries spark deadly factory fire (www.bbc.com)
How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform Oil Well Cleanup in State After State (www.propublica.org)
Last year, representatives of New Mexico’s oil industry met behind closed doors with the very groups with which they typically clash — state regulators and environmentalists — in search of an answer to the more than 70,000 wells sitting unplugged across the state. Many leak oil, brine and toxic or explosive gasses, and...