Boeing sales tumble as the company gets no orders for the 737 Max for the second straight month (apnews.com)
Armenian leader announces plan to leave Russia-dominated security alliance (CSTO) as ties with Moscow sour (apnews.com)
Canada Says It Won’t Give Arms To Azov, Despite U.S. Policy Change (www.readthemaple.com)
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Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle (www.theguardian.com)
The US swimmer Lia Thomas, who rose to global prominence after becoming the first transgender athlete to win a NCAA college title in March 2022, has lost a legal case against World Aquatics at the court of arbitration for sport – and with it any hopes of making next month’s Paris Olympics....
Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship (theintercept.com)
Castlevania ReVamped Blends ‘Classicvania’ And ‘Metroidvania’ Together -- Retro Gaming News 24/7 (www.retronews.com)
Lv4 Games, a team of dedicated Castlevania fans, has created a fan-made game called Castlevania ReVamped that aims to bring together the nostalgic aesthetics of the NES-era Castlevania games with the modern, non-linear gameplay of Metroidvanias. This blend of classic and contemporary elements results in an impressive mix that...
White Supremacist Group At General Mills Used KKK Imagery To Intimidate, Silence Black Workers, Lawsuit Alleges (atlantadailyworld.com)
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Massive Attack pull out of gig in Georgia in solidarity with protesters (www.theguardian.com)
British band Massive Attack have pulled out of a concert in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, in protest against the government’s “attack on basic human rights”....
Italy’s parliament erupts into violence over government bill (tvpworld.com)
Italy’s parliament erupted into violence on Wednesday when a lawmaker was attacked while trying to hand an Italian flag to another MP over a local government bill....
Apple surpasses Microsoft as world's most valuable company after unveiling AI plans (www.cnbc.com)
Samsung Galaxy S24 FE with Exynos 2400 surfaces in benchmarks (www.fonearena.com)
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Xi acclaims Chinese AI expert Andrew Yao who renounced US citizenship (www.scmp.com)
Supreme Court rules U.S. must pay more for Native American tribes’ health care - SCOTUSblog (www.scotusblog.com)
Book about book bans banned by Florida school board (www.theguardian.com)
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Microsoft's new Paint Cocreator requires an NPU — AI-powered feature requires 40 TOPS of performance and a Microsoft account (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft quietly added a new AI feature, called Cocreator, into its raster graphics editor included in every version of Windows since 1985. You need a Copilot + PC with an NPU that can deliver 40 TOPS or better to use it. So, you need to shell out at least $1,099 to get one of the new Snapdragon X Windows Copilot+ PCs that...
India's Rajasthan finds some MDH and Everest spices unsafe for consumption (www.reuters.com)
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Middle East Crisis: Blinken Calls Some Hamas Changes to Cease-Fire Proposal ‘Unacceptable’ (www.nytimes.com)
Speaking at a news conference in Doha, Qatar, alongside Qatar’s prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Mr. Blinken said that “a deal was on the table that was virtually identical” to one that Hamas put forward on May 6....
World Bank Financing Arm Rejects Calls to Directly Compensate Victims of Harm at Kenya Schools (theintercept.com)
UNHCR report says nearly 120 million people were displaced around the world in 2023, the twelfth year in a row that the figure has risen. (www.npr.org)
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Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles (apnews.com)
Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request (theintercept.com)
Mozilla, the maker of the popular web browser Firefox, said it received government demands to block add-ons that circumvent censorship....