Biden rejects growing pressure to abandon his campaign, vows to stay 'to the end' (www.reuters.com)
Germany’s first African-born MP to stand down after racist abuse (www.theguardian.com)
The first African-born MP to enter the German parliament has announced he will not be standing in next year’s federal election, weeks after he revealed the hate mail, including racist slurs and death threats, he and his staff had received....
Judge delays ban on noncompete agreements for employees | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Trump judge?...
TIL sailing ships commonly moved around without wind by warping (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Warping is throwing an anchor either manually for a small ship or by rowing the anchor out and dropping it farther away for a larger ship. Then the ship would reel it to change position. Good for maneuvering in harbor. Etymologically related to “throwing” and essentially threading a needle across the sea....
DC Campaign to Submit Over 40K Signatures for Open Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting (ivn.us)
Seeing as how some people here on Lemmy get upset at any mention of Ranked Choice Voting and respond that, in their opinion, it’s not perfect, and that we should therefore keep the voting system we have while we debate which alternative is perfect for several decades, allow me to preemptively respond....
‘I am not made for war’: the men fleeing Ukraine to evade conscription (www.theguardian.com)
The US will pay Moderna $176 million to develop an mRNA pandemic bird flu vaccine (apnews.com)
don't use ladybird browser lol (cyberpunk.lol)
github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814
French elections: Far-right candidate to withdraw after Nazi cap picture emerges (www.lemonde.fr)
Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers (arstechnica.com)
In an open letter to publishers, more than 30,000 readers, researchers, and authors begged for access to the books to be restored in the open library, claiming the takedowns dealt “a serious blow to lower-income families, people with disabilities, rural communities, and LGBTQ+ people, among many others,” who may not have...
Supreme Court overturns Chevron decision, curtailing federal agencies' power in major shift (www.cbsnews.com)
The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a landmark 40-year-old decision that gave federal agencies broad regulatory power, upending their authority to issue regulations unless Congress has spoken clearly.
Ukraine says it thwarted a plot to overthrow the government (edition.cnn.com)
Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims (arstechnica.com)
Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is “dangerous malware” that’s secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday....
Neil Gaiman Denies Sexual Assault Allegations Made by Two Women (www.rollingstone.com)
Neil Gaiman — the best-selling author whose work includes comic book series *The Sandman *and the novels Good Omens and American Gods — has denied sexual assault allegations made against him by two women with whom he had relationships with at the time, Tortoise Media reports....
Black farmers' association calls for Tractor Supply CEO's resignation after company cuts DEI efforts (apnews.com)
The National Black Farmers Association called on Tractor Supply’s president and CEO Tuesday to step down after the rural retailer announced that it would drop most of its corporate diversity and climate advocacy efforts....
In Georgia, conservatives seek to have voters removed from rolls without official challenges (apnews.com)
They’re asking election administrators to use their data to purge voter registrations, which means names could be removed in a less public process than a formal voter challenge. The strategy could mean electors won’t be summoned in advance to defend their voting rights and the identities of those seeking to purge voters...
We Need to Talk About the State of Calendar Software on Desktop (nadim.computer)
Fun fact: If you use your bank to threaten adobe, they will waive the cancellation fee (imgur.com)
Not mine but this is actually what I did too....
The Supreme Court rules that state officials can engage in a little corruption, as a treat (www.vox.com)
Snyder v. US is the Republican justices’ latest decision weakening anti-corruption laws.
Google is switching the Pixel 9 to an ultrasonic fingerprint reader (www.androidauthority.com)
In just a few years, half of all states passed bans on trans health care for kids (www.npr.org)
Google Says AI Could Break Reality (www.404media.co)
Is social media fuelling political polarisation? (theconversation.com)
Once upon a time, newly minted graduates dreamt of creating online social media that would bring people closer together....
California to make financial literacy classes a requirement to graduate high school (abc7.com)
Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI (www.climateaction.org)
The leap in emissions is largely due to energy-guzzling data centers and supply chain emissions necessary to power artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The report estimated that in 2023, Google’s data centers alone account for up to 10% of global data center electricity...