Businesswoman Tomasdottir becomes Iceland's next president (www.france24.com)
Businesswoman Halla Tomasdottir was on Sunday declared the winner of Iceland’s presidential election, final results showed, beating former prime minister Katrin Jakobsdottir whom critics said was too political for the post.
Navy sailor sentenced to 18 years in prison over espionage charges (www.nbcnews.com)
A U.S. sailor was dishonorably discharged and sentenced to 18 years in a military prison Thursday after being found guilty of espionage while working for the Navy in Japan....
Google Chrome change that weakens ad blockers begins June 3rd (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
A growing California wildfire spanning 14,000 acres is forcing residents to evacuate (www.cnn.com)
Mexico votes in election certain to bring country’s first female president (www.theguardian.com)
Kaspersky releases free tool that scans Linux for known threats (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
How U.S.-Hating ‘New Putin’ Emerged From the Shadows (www.thedailybeast.com)
Live updates: Mexico waits for historic election results as vote counting lags (apnews.com)
“Vote counts continue to lag in Mexico’s historic election. Despite private exit polls favoring frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum, The Associated Press bases its report on official results and will continue to update coverage as votes roll in.”
UNRWA says forced displacement has pushed over 1 million away from Rafah (www.reuters.com)
Forced displacement has pushed over a million people away from the Gazan city of Rafah, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said on Monday. The small city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip had been sheltering around 1 million Palestinians who fled Israeli assaults on other parts of the enclave, aid groups...
10-year-old Nvidia GPU is still receiving love from vendors — Asus debuts GeForce GT 710 EVO with 2GB GDDR5 memory (www.tomshardware.com)
In case you missed it: Bank info-stealing malware found in 90+ Android apps with 5.5M installs (mashable.com)
Black scholars criticize white writer's 'dehumanizing' use of blackface to write book on U.S. race relations (www.cbc.ca)
A Canadian journalist is defending his decision to travel the U.S. in blackface and write a book about racism, after facing a storm of criticism online....
Google Assistant continues to crumble in the 'Gemini era' (9to5google.com)
Nikki Haley writes ‘Finish Them!’ on Israeli bomb bound for Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
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South Korea to suspend military pact with North over trash balloons [Reuters | June 2, 2024 | Reuters] (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16123877...
100 years ago, US citizenship for Native Americans came without voting rights in swing states (apnews.com)
It’s been a century now since an act of Congress granted citizenship to Native Americans, but advocates say that right bestowed in 1924 still hasn’t translated into equal access to the ballot. Inequities are especially pronounced in remote regions across the U.S., and some key Southwestern states with large Native American...
Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage (www.tomshardware.com)
You can play it in your browser here.
TIL Catwoman canonically has a sidekick (batman.fandom.com)
75-hour weeks, obscure audits, and blatant “whataboutism”: Factory employees refute fast-fashion company Shein’s promises to make improvements (www.publiceye.ch)
Two years after our pioneering investigation into Shein’s southern Chinese manufacturing plants, a follow-up investigation highlights what the online fashion giant’s sustainability rhetoric is worth. Illegal working hours and piecework wages remain a typical feature of the everyday lives of the workers interviewed. Hence the...
Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy (foundation.mozilla.org)
European elections: Putin’s Twitter bots suspected of promoting Russian sabotage in Europe in support of the German and French far-right (inews.co.uk)
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Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric dam in critical condition after Russian strikes, authorities say (edition.cnn.com)
Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric dam, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), is in “critical condition” after it was hit in a Russian strike on Ukraine’s key energy facilities, authorities say....