Trump heard on CNN tape discussing secret documents (www.bbc.com)
An audio recording in which Donald Trump appears to acknowledge keeping a classified document after leaving the White House has been obtained by US media....
Co-creator of lithium-ion battery and the oldest Nobel winner dies at age 100 (12ft.io)
Oil spill from Shell pipeline fouls farms and a river in a long-polluted part of Nigeria (apnews.com)
Billionaires ‘disappointed’ after superyachts banned from Naples port (12ft.io)
Young Saudi woman sentenced to more than 30 years in prison over tweets on human rights (web.archive.org)
Fatima al-Shawarbi, who is from Al-Ahsa province and believed to be under 30, reported to have used her anonymous Twitter account to highlight the plight of the Howeitat – a tribe whose members have been forcibly displaced for the Neom megaproject – women’s rights, and calling for a constitutional monarchy.
Social media giants to face multimillion-dollar fines for spreading fake news (12ft.io)
US says Wagner coup is ‘real’ and ‘serious’ as White House consults allies (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Joe Biden has been briefed on the chaotic situation in Russia with US officials describing it as “serious”....
Video update on Russia with context (youtu.be)
Beau of the Fifth Column talking about what’s going on in Russia
LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data to ICE So It Can Try to Predict Crimes (theintercept.com)
The legal research and public records data broker LexisNexis is providing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with tools to target people who may potentially commit a crime – before any actual crime takes place, according to a contract document obtained by The Intercept. LexisNexis then allows ICE to track the purported...
New research underscores benefits of gender-affirming hormones, rebutting anti-trans claims (www.statnews.com)
Actual evidence from actual scientists....
Elon Musk Silences Critics By Deactivating Accounts And Reaching Out To Their Employers (finance.yahoo.com)
Meteorologist resigns, citing PTSD from threats over climate change coverage (www.washingtonpost.com)
Who had this on their bingo card?
Tesla hacker discovers secret ‘Elon Mode’ for hands-free Full Self-Driving (www.theverge.com)
A Tesla software hacker has found an ‘Elon Mode’ driving feature that seems to allow Tesla vehicles with Full Self-Driving to operate without any driver monitoring....
The Guardian view on danger at sea: The contrast between the frantic hunt for a missing submersible and the failure to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean is illuminating (www.theguardian.com)
A massive operation is under way to find and save a stricken vessel and its passengers. As time passes, anxious families and friends wait with growing fear. The US coastguard, Canadian armed forces and commercial vessels are all hunting for the Titan submersible, which has gone missing with five aboard on a dive to the wreck of...
“My father handed my passport over to the draft board”: How war aggravated generational conflict in Russia (web.archive.org)
Amidst the war outbreak, numerous Russians experienced miscommunication with their close ones, resulting in family disputes, workplace conflicts, and strained friendships due to divergent perspectives. In interviews conducted by The Insider, people recounted their accounts of clashes with parents who resorted to threats of...
Estonia becomes the first ex-Soviet country to legalize gay marriages (www.themayor.eu)
The Riigikogu, Estonia’s Parliament, passed a new law which legalizes marriage for same-sex couples, thus becoming the first post-Soviet country to do so. That this happened in the month of June, which is generally when most Pride parades take place around the world, is also highly symbolic and poignant.
Swiss voters approve net-zero climate law to accelerate the country’s shift from fossil fuels to renewable energies and reach zero emissions by 2050 (web.archive.org)
It’s the first time that citizens have approved a net-zero law in a direct vote. In all, 59.1% of voters approved the government’s new climate and innovation law. The government and all major parties, except for the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, had called to vote in favour of the bill.
Techradar Just Shouted Out Beehaw! (www.techradar.com)
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Neowin mentioned Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon in their Reddit coverage today (www.neowin.net)
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TechCrunch shouted out Lemmy and Kbin in their Reddit coverage today: Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps (techcrunch.com)
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“I receive death threats on a daily basis": Chinese artist's exhibition in Poland will be attended by Western officials to prevent censorship by Beijing (web.archive.org)
On 9 June, executives at Ujazdowski Castle, a museum in Warsaw, expressed their “concern and astonishment” after the Chinese ambassador entered the museum and demanded the exhibition by Chinese artist Badiucao to be closed down. On 12 June, Yao Dongye visited the museum a second time to repeat his demand. Chinese-Australian...
Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko, who replaced supermarket price tags with anti-war statements, faces a 10-year sentence (web.archive.org)
Skochilenkos lawyers began presenting proof of her innocence. They weren’t able to question the prosecution’s experts, as they both failed to show up to the court hearing, saying that they had both ended up in a hospital. But the defence still has a lot of unanswered questions towards the experts. They are now planning on...
Inside North Korea: “We are stuck, waiting to die” (www.bbc.co.uk)
For months, the BBC has been communicating in secret with three North Koreans living in the country. They expose, for the first time, the disaster unfolding there since the government sealed the borders more than three years ago....