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EU Adopts Groundbreaking Business Value Chain Law (www.hrw.org)

(Brussels) – The new EU directive adopted on May 24, 2024, requiring large companies to ensure human rights respect in their value chains signals a new era for corporate accountability, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch issued a question-and-answer document about the provisions, strengths, and weaknesses of the...

From 2017 to 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor recovered $3 billion in stolen wages from employers (medium.com)

TIL Key West had an incredibly corrupt fire chief in the 70s. His name was "Bum" Farto, and not for the reason you would expect. (www.mentalfloss.com)

Preview The ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season (And Series) Finale With New Images, And Clip From “Life, Itself” (trekmovie.com)

Ukraine Faces a Crucial Moment in the War (www.newyorker.com)

Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games (aftermath.site)

De-Dollarization: China’s Move Away From the U.S. Dollar (www.visualcapitalist.com)

My Hopes for We Distribute - deadsuperhero (deadsuperhero.com)

For the past few years, I've been running a tech blog focused on the Fediverse. It's evolving into a bonfide news organization.

Gigantic Iceberg in Antarctica Tears Loose in Major Calving Event (www.sciencealert.com)

Chinese team reports patient’s diabetes cured with cell therapy in world first (www.scmp.com)

Code Goes In, Art Comes Out (www.tylerxhobbs.com)

Trying to buy a house is 'playing a game you can't win' (www.bbc.com)

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Poland presents plan to fortify border to Russia, Belarus (www.dw.com)

Defense officials in Poland have shared details on a plan to strengthen the country’s eastern border. They say Poland is at constant risk of hostile actions by Russia and its ally, Belarus....

China is flexing its missile arsenal in a new simulation for a mass Taiwan attack as the US watches Beijing's Rocket Force closely (www.businessinsider.com)

China released a simulation video on Friday of how it could strike Taiwan with waves of missiles....

Google Pixel 9 successor: First proof of a "Samsung-free" Tensor G5 chip in the Pixel 10 (www.notebookcheck.net)

India elections: PM Narendra Modi claims he has been chosen by God (www.theguardian.com)

Indian leader tells interviewer God ‘just keeps making me do things’ but that he ‘cannot dial him directly’...

Bigme Hibreak: These smartphone come with a color E-Ink screen and also Android 14 (www.notebookcheck.net)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16133938...

World has ‘moral responsibility’ to help small island states survive climate crisis – UN agency chief (www.theguardian.com)

Vulnerable economies must be supported with finance and practical aid to find long term solutions, says Jorge Moreira da Silva of Unops...

Millions in US face extreme-heat threat as experts urge better protections (www.theguardian.com)

Recommendations include heat forecasts and outdoor-worker safeguards to prevent thousands of deaths and injuries...

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...