France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people ( gazettengr.com )
Piracy Is Coming Back, Baby! ( www.thegamer.com )
Canadian government pulls all advertising, escalating showdown with Meta ( nationalpost.com )
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Iran faces legal action over downing of Ukrainian plane ( www.politico.eu )
Pornhub cuts off more US users in ongoing protest over age-verification laws ( arstechnica.com )
Economic inequality cannot be explained by individual bad choices, study finds ( phys.org )
Air Pollution Is Deadlier Than You Think ( www.wired.com )
Biden mocks Tuberville for touting broadband funding he voted against ( thehill.com )
Good. He’s been working against his constituents long enough, he needs to be called out for it.
US Patent and Trademark Office notifies filers of years-long data leak ( techcrunch.com )
Bulgaria must rid its spy services of Russia-backed agents, says head of leading party ( www.politico.eu )
Twitter bug marks regular users as spambots, restricting their accounts ( arstechnica.com )
Victims lose €3.5m in scam accusing them of viewing child abuse images ( www.theguardian.com )
Greek election looks set to strengthen PM Mitsotakis’ power ( www.politico.eu )
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Ukrainian intelligence shows Moscow is plotting 'terror attack' on nuclear plant, Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims ( news.sky.com )
How Russia's National Space Corporation 'Roscosmos' helps pro-Kremlin bikers kill Ukrainians ( web.archive.org )
Rather than focusing on the advancement of astronautics, which is facing difficulties, organizations like Roscosmos are currently providing support to the motorcycle group known as the Night Wolves, who are engaged in the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin found the nationalist macho values of the Wolves, combined with their...
German energy prices are so high they're driving companies to relocate, industry body says ( www.cnbc.com )
Ballsy EU Commission moves to make Russia pay for Ukraine ( www.politico.eu )
A whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018. Then he was fired. ( techcrunch.com )
No whaling this summer: Iceland halts fin whale hunting in move that likely spells end to controversial practice ( web.archive.org )
The decision follows on the heels of a report authored by a council of specialists on animal welfare, which found that fishing methods do not comply with the Act on Animal Welfare.
America's housing shortage is keeping home prices high ( www.axios.com )
We’re also seeing a rapid increase in commercial vacancies with WFH. But there are big challenges and costs to turning commercial properties into residential....
Techradar Just Shouted Out Beehaw! ( www.techradar.com )
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Reddit r/pics votes on reopening with sexy pictures of John Oliver only ( old.reddit.com )
Voting has now closed....
“I’ve been facing the worst kind of poverty”: China is calling in loans to dozens of countries from Pakistan to Kenya, often granted on opaque terms ( web.archive.org )
A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them borrowed from China under its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). An analysis has found paying back this debt is consuming an ever-greater amount of the tax revenue needed to keep schools open,...
Strikes and protests in China’s manufacturing sector drastically increased in 2023, wage arrears most common cause ( web.archive.org )
The China Labour Bulletin recorded 108 factory workers’ protests since early January, more than twice the amount recorded in all of 2022. Reduced orders from international buyers and poor economic conditions have led factories to lay off workers, relocate to reduce costs, or shut down altogether, the Bulletin says.