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Return-to-office orders look like a way for rich, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back from employees (www.businessinsider.com)

Return-to-office orders look like a way for rich, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back from employees::White-collar workers temporarily enjoyed unprecedented power during the pandemic to decide where and how they worked.

Biden to reinstate labor rule shelved by Reagan, giving construction workers a pay boost (www.usatoday.com)

In a nod to labor unions, President Joe Biden is moving to boost wages for construction workers on projects paid for with federal funding, a step that would appeal to a key constituency ahead of next year’s presidential election and potentially shrink the pay gap between northern and southern states.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs law to protect doctors who mail abortion pills to other states (apnews.com)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law on Wednesday that aims to stop other states from prosecuting doctors and pharmacists who mail abortion pills to patients in places where the procedure is banned....

Update: Unity office death threat was made by a Unity employee (www.polygon.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/5340114...

Biden worries ‘extreme’ supreme court can’t be relied on to uphold rule of law (www.theguardian.com)

Joe Biden worries that the “extreme” US supreme court, dominated by rightwing justices, cannot be relied upon to uphold the rule of law....

iFixit Tears Down McDonald's McFlurry Machine, Petitions Government for Right to Hack Them (www.404media.co)

ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule (arstechnica.com)

AAAAAHHH! Listens carefully (slrpnk.net)

Meta being fined $100k a day for personalized ads in Norway (techcrunch.com)

Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago (www.techspot.com)

Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago::undefined

Israel Committing 'Textbook Case of Genocide,' Holocaust Historian Says (www.newsweek.com)

Newsweek

Drag shows are protected by 1st Amendment, performers tell federal judge (www.texastribune.org)

‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K (www.forbes.com)

Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine (arstechnica.com)

Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine::Google accused DOJ of aiming to force people to use “inferior” search products.

Steam Deck OLED announced (www.steamdeck.com)

New OLED screen. New APU. And lots of small hardware improvements.

Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level (vpncentral.com)

Texas Republicans Ban Women From Using Highways for Abortion Appointments (www.newsweek.com)

Lubbock County, Texas, joins a group of other rural Texas counties that have voted to ban women from using their roads to seek abortions....

Biden signs historic order moving prosecution of military sexual assault outside chain of command | (www.cnn.com)

President Joe Biden on Friday ordered a historic change to the Uniform Code of Military Justice by transferring key decision-making authorities outside the military chain of command in cases of sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, murder and other serious crimes.

The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)

Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

Can't ticket what you can't catch (sh.itjust.works)

Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste. (arstechnica.com)

Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.::With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.

Pope Francis calls out fossil fuel companies, says climate action is too slow (www.nbcnews.com)

Pope Francis made his strongest statements yet about climate change Wednesday, rebuking fossil fuel companies and urging countries to make an immediate transition to renewable energy....