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“Excellence, respect, friendship”: Why hijab bans in French sports defy Olympic values and human rights Why hijab bans in French sports defy Olympic values and human rights (www.amnesty.org)

railroad hazzard (mozilla.social)

Fmovies Has Gone Offline, the End of a Pirate Streaming Giant? (torrentfreak.com)

Heritage Auctions Will Auction The Prototype Controller Of The Nintendo PlayStation | Retro Gaming News 24/7 (www.retronews.com)

Nintendo PlayStation Prototype Controller Up for Auction...

Open Letter: "The European Union must keep funding free software" (nextgraph.org)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/859623...

Six people are found dead in a hotel in downtown Bangkok, with poisoning a possibility (apnews.com)

The bodies of six people were found Tuesday in a luxury hotel in downtown Bangkok and their deaths may have been caused by poisoning, police and officials said....

Apex Legends Piles Up 10,000 Negative Steam Reviews As Players Fight Price Hikes (kotaku.com)

Google tests out Gemini AI-created video presentations (www.theverge.com)

Google is launching its new Vids productivity app in Workspace Labs with the idea that “if you can make a slide, you can make a video in Vids.” Announced in April, Vids allows users to drop docs, slides, voiceovers, and video recordings into a timeline to create a presentation video to share with coworkers. Making it...

ThemeChanger 0.12.0 - now it can set the theme of libadwaita apps (github.com)

Hello. I released a new version of my theme changing app for Linux....

Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages (www.wired.com)

RNC official: Nothing in our platform says we won't ban abortion nationwide (www.motherjones.com)

TIL the first Internet search engine was “Archie”, which was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal. It’s still around today (en.wikipedia.org)

Wait, you can invade a country without committing atrocities? -Gerasimov (sh.itjust.works)

r*ddit

Microsoft is enabling BitLocker device encryption by default on Windows 11 (www.theverge.com)

Ruling: Fetus can be referred to as 'unborn human being' in Arizona abortion measure voter pamphlet (apnews.com)

An informational pamphlet for Arizona voters, who will decide in the fall whether to guarantee a constitutional right to an abortion, can refer to an embryo or fetus as an “unborn human being,” the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday....

AI stole my job and my work, and my boss didn’t know or care (www.theregister.com)

Earlier this year I got fired and replaced by a robot. And the managers who made the decision didn’t tell me – or anyone else affected by the change – that it was happening....

Google says it observed Iran trying to hack the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns (www.nbcnews.com)

TIL The first commercial graphing calculator was introduced by Casio in 1985 for $75. By 1986 it had been adopted by a program in Ohio schools, and other states soon followed (americanhistory.si.edu)