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The new Galago Pro will feature the latest 13th Gen Intel CPU, including the i5-13500H and i7-13700H H-class processors, alongside integrated Intel graphics and a faster 144Hz screen. This marks a significant move for the Galago Pro as it is the first time the laptop will feature an H-class CPU.
The new Galago Pro raises the bar with enhanced specifications, boasting 2 more cores (14 vs 12), up to 4 additional threads, a higher max clock speed (5.0 GHz vs 4.7 GHz), and larger cache at 24MB vs 18MB. These improvements catapult the Galago Pro to the forefront of the Ultraportable laptop line, delivering unparalleled power and efficiency for seamless multitasking in an H class, lightweight beauty.
The latest System76 Galago Pro is a 3.2 pound laptop with a 14.1 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel, 144 Hz matte display as well as Thunderbolt 4, HDMI, and Gigabit Ethernet ports.
Available now with support for up to a 13th-gen Intel Core i7-13700H processor with 14 cores and 20 threads, it’s also the first member of the Galago Pro family to feature a 45-watt Core H-series processor.
On this episode of This Week in Linux, we got some news about the upcoming desktop environments of KDE Plasma 6 and COSMIC desktop from System76. Then we take a look a the news of CodeWeavers changing their company structure and the changes from Arch Linux.
A while back I presented USB 2.0 host support that was added to U-boot for the Radxa Rock-5B RK3588 Rockchip board. This time, USB 3.0 was added with support for the host and gadget.
Flatpaks are used a lot these days on Linux, but a lot of them don’t have a system to back up configuration files. So, if you move to a new Linux installation, you’ll have to re-configure all of your Flatpak apps.
Thankfully, a program like JdFlatpakSnapshot exists. With this program, a Linux user can back up their Flatpak configuration files in the form of a compressed snapshot for safekeeping. In this guide, we’ll show you how to create Flatpak app snapshots with JdFlatpakSnapshot.
Support for a light theme in GNOME Shell was merged upstream this week — though before anyone panic, I must stress it won’t be shipping as the default option…
A new version of NixOS, which is a Linux distribution based on the Nix package manager, has been released: NixOS 23.05 is now available. The release notes list numerous updates, including Nix 2.13, Linux 6.1, glibc 2.37, Cinnamon 5.6, GNOME 44, and KDE Plasma 5.27.
The 23.05 release was made possible due to the efforts of 1867 contributors, who authored 36566 commits since the previous release. Our thanks go the contributors who also take care of the continued stability and security of our stable release.
NixOS is already known as the most up to date distribution while also being the distribution with the most packages. This release saw 16240 new packages and 13524 updated packages in Nixpkgs. We also removed 13466 packages in an effort to keep the package set maintainable and secure. In addition to packages the NixOS distribution also features modules and tests that make it what it is. This release brought 282 new modules and removed 183. In that process we added 2882 options and removed 728.
Along with the standard deb version of the open-source operating system, Canonical will release an-all snap version.
Canonical says that it’s excited to explore the idea of a fully containerized and immutable Ubuntu desktop in the near future.
Canonical’s Snap packaging system has been the center of many controversies in the Linux world since its inception back in 2014.
There are two sides to it, one side supports Snaps due to its ease of use, and the other side isn’t a fan of Canonical’s closed-source approach to it.
And this upcoming move by them is just going to stir the pot even more.
Ubuntu published a blog post about its Ubuntu Core desktop work after this Ars Technica post was published. Noting that Snaps “are a little famous for having some rough edges on the desktop,” Product Manager Oliver Smith writes that, “[n]evertheless, we are excited to explore the idea of a fully containerised [UK sic] desktop, where each component is immutable and isolated.” Ubuntu, Smith writes, has been “steadily improving” desktop snaps, and, “in due course, when we think the entire system can be delivered this way,” a desktop Core version will be offered.
Ubuntu’s post suggests that a Core-based desktop would allow for “secure boot, recovery states and hardware backed encryption,” experiments “with alternative desktop environment snaps,” and opting in to certain kernel channels, such as those with the latest NVIDIA drivers. Original post follows.]
Ubuntu Core has existed since 2014, providing a fully containerized, immutable Linux distribution aimed at Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing applications. Each piece of the system contains all the dependencies it requires, and just enough of its own tiny Linux architecture, that applications are largely sandboxed from one another, providing better security and, in theory, stability and ease of upgrades and rollbacks.
Ubuntu plans to release an all-snap immutable version of Ubuntu for the desktop, a move that could be a turning point for the Linux distro.
Canonical and its Ubuntu have done more to popularize Linux than virtually any other Linux distro, making the open source operating system accessible to the masses. In recent years, however, the company has made a number of decisions that have alienated users, none as much as snaps.
Snaps are Ubuntu’s universal package format, designed to work across all distros, including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, openSUSE, and more — all without requiring developers to build their apps for the specific distro they’re targeting.
The middle board in a trio of RISC-V Raspberry Pi alternatives finally gets a name and a spec sheet, but no price.
Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. Open source software at its finest.
New arXiv working paper on the relaunch of the CRAN Task View Initiative providing better infrastructure and workflows for proposing and maintaining CRAN Task Views and fostering interactions with the R community.
Regular expressions, often abbreviated as regex, are powerful tools used in programming to match and manipulate text patterns.
Given two Cartesian coordinates, here’s how you compute the distance between them: [...]
Git is one of the most popular Version Control Systems (VCS) currently in use, and it provides a wide range of commands to manage and manipulate the history of your codebase. Understanding these commands and their subtleties can significantly improve your efficiency and the way you work with a codebase.
Git, the popular distributed version control system, introduces a unique feature in its workflow known as the “staging area” or “index”. This intermediate space acts as a preparatory area for commits, providing developers with fine-grained control over their version history.
The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.70.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Version 1.70.0 of the Rust language is out. Changes include enabling the “sparse” protocol for Cargo, a couple of new types for the initialization of shared data, and more. “”You should see substantially improved performance when fetching information from the crates.io index.””
The temporary footbridge gave way earlier this month, injuring 24 people, most of whom were eighth grade teenagers on a school trip.
The Cha Cha Cha star’s home city of Vantaa is planning a large wall mural to mark the rapper’s Eurovision achievements.
With jokes about drinking and killer rabbits, the incredible discovery shows tropes of British humor stretch back centuries.
Back in 2016, a younger and mildly more optimistic Jay heard about a Kickstarter Campaign for a remake of the classic title, System Shock. Young Jay had fond memories of the original and immediately pledged $30 to help turn the dream into reality. Expected delivery was in December of 2017. Actual delivery for some was yesterday: May 30th, 2023.
A task force has not found any evidence that unidentified anomalous phenomena represent signs of extraterrestrial visits.
Key takeaways from the first public meeting of NASA’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena independent study team.
The state shows that poverty is no excuse for failing to teach kids to read.
Many of us have experienced their presence near hands-free sinks at bathrooms and near the automatic sliding doors of storefronts, malls and restaurants. You may have turned one on as a dimmable light switch to detect occupancy inside a room, shop, or commercial building. We have a guide on how to make one with Raspberry Pi to design your own home security system. Let’s find out everything there is about motion sensor lights, how to install one, and how they work to trigger a response when they detect the presence of a human or pet.
“…to provide aid to an estimated 80% of the population…”
There has been a significant increase in the number of drug users contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) over the past three years, the Hivpoint organisation says.
In a news release, the agency said the rules were “largely protective” of the wilderness but could be bolstered to better protect the BWCAW from light and sound pollution.
According to Stanford’s most recent “Alcohol and Drug Use Survey” results, students have reported increased rates of engaging in high-risk behaviors surrounding substances compared to 2019. A majority of students disagree with the University’s current policies on drugs and alcohol.
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled on Tuesday that the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma, shall be granted immunity from current and future civil legal claims in exchange for a $6 billion settlement. This settlement will go towards efforts to help those suffering from opioid addiction.
Dennis Riches via Propaganda in Focus I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
A panel examining how Britain handled the pandemic wants copies of the former prime minister’s text messages, but the government is taking the matter to court.
Aviary today launches its new open-source Aviary project to help simplify open-source large language model (LLM) deployment.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libwebp, openssl, sssd, and texlive-bin), Fedora (bitcoin-core, editorconfig, edk2, mod_auth_openidc, pypy, pypy3.9, python3.10, and python3.8), Red Hat (kernel, openssl, pcs, pki-core:10.6, and qatzip), SUSE (chromium, ImageMagick, openssl-1_1, and tiff), and Ubuntu (cups, libvirt, and linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gke-5.15, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-hwe-5.19, linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-raspi).
A dataset used for machine learning may arrive in one format [...] but to conveniently use it for training, it must be converted to JSON or inserted into a database. The features are not just attractive to machine learning, but many business processes require similar functionality.
A group called “Dark Pink” is likely based in Southeast Asia and shows signs of development and ongoing activity, researchers say.
Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2023.2, the latest version of its popular penetration testing and digital forensics platform.
On Wednesday, RansomHouse threat actors claimed responsibility for the attack and provided a number of files as proof. They claim to have downloaded 2.5 TB of data.
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There is no statement or notice about any incident or breach on the hospital’s website. DataBreaches has sent an inquiry asking them about the claimed attack and their response to date. This post will be updated if a reply is received or more information becomes available.
Network and email security firm Barracuda today revealed that a recently patched zero-day vulnerability had been exploited for at least seven months to backdoor customers’ Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances with custom malware and steal data.
The company says an ongoing investigation found that the bug (tracked as CVE-2023-2868) was first exploited in October 2022 to gain access to “a subset of ESG appliances” and deploy backdoors designed to provide the attackers with persistent access to the compromised systems.
Toyota Motor Corp. today announced its discovery of yet another data breach — this time, two misconfigured cloud services were found leaking 260,000 car owners’ personal information over a seven-year period.
This discovery comes after the car manufacturer conducted an investigation of its cloud features in the wake of announcing earlier in the month that the data of 2.15 million customers was available for over 10 years to anyone on the Internet, also due to a misconfigured cloud bucket.
An Oregon radiology practice suffered a “significant” cyberattack over the Memorial Day weekend, according to published reports.
Medford Radiology Group has retained a team of computer forensics experts to help aid in its response. The 75-year-old practice also has alerted partner organizations such as the Asante and Providence hospital systems after learning of the incident on May 26.
“We are utilizing all available resources to offer radiology services and patient care to the extent possible while our experts and the Medford team work as quickly as possible to fully restore operations,” the practice said in a statement shared with local media outlets.
In this article we will not only address the part relating to the attack carried out by BlackByte on the IT systems of the City of Augusta, the theft of tens of GB of data or the real amount of the ransom requested by the ransomware group. Above all, we will tell about the negligence and errors committed by a high-level employee of the IT department and his poor management and security of the data of the employees and citizens of the American city, but above all of his lack of supervision
A URL on the license plates of 800,000 Maryland cars now redirects to an online casino based in the Philippines.
Ring previously allowed any employee to access customer’s private videos and failed to implement basic security mechanisms. Security issues raised by the FTC are ones Motherboard found during a 2019 hacking spree.
A similar tool to a dating app is intended to reduce youth unemployment. For three weeks, young people have been able to meet with companies for a 15-minute interview on a new digital platform called “Work Tinder” (Darba Tinderis). For the time being, the project has a high level of youth activity, but the participation of entrepreneurs is less inspiring, Latvian Radio reported May 31.
oncerns about the economy and anemic home sales are a potential problem for the smart home, according to conversations I had with attendees at the Parks Associates Connections smart home event in Dallas this week.
Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has threatened to take legal action against a data management firm for failing to protect the credit histories of about 180,000 people from unauthorised access.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data on Thursday said it received a complaint in December 2021 from an individual who found his credit data stored in a database called TE Credit Reference System had been accessed by eight money lending companies without his consent.
Law students and young lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover.
Lithuania recorded more than 4,000 cyber attacks in 2022, according to the Defence Ministry’s National Cyber Security Report published on Wednesday.
How did the worst leak in a decade take almost a year to be detected?
European Union officials met on May 31 with Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti in Bratislava as part of international efforts to end a crisis in Kosovo that for days has drawn ethnic-Serb demonstrators into the streets of northern towns in the former province of Serbia.
Qantas boss Alan Joyce says future pandemics, cyber attacks and global conflict still pose a threat to the airline industry as he prepares to depart the company after 15 years in the cockpit.
Gunmen killed one soldier and wounded another on May 31 when they opened fire on security forces escorting a team of polio workers during a door-to-door inoculation campaign in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold near the Afghan border, police said.
Everyone is writing about an interagency and international report on Chinese hacking of US critical infrastructure.
Lots of interesting details about how the group, called Volt Typhoon, accesses target networks and evades detection.
A plane passenger at Stockholm Arlanda Airport first claimed there was a bomb on board, later saying the threat was a “joke”.
The “unstoppable” weapons have been making a lot of headlines, but the truth is complicated.
Court records and Telegram message reveal the FBI’s investigation into a cybercrime gang called “the Comm” and a subgroup named “ACG.” Members are allegedly linked to a nationwide wave of swattings that targeted schools and universities.
As Henry Kissinger celebrated his 100th year birthday, during this Memorial weekend, mainstream media lauded his brilliance and lifetime of achievement. Predictably ignored, were the literally thousands of Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese children, whose chance to reach adulthood was cruelly severed by Kissinger- promoted airstrikes.
Other communities also burned, forcing thousands to flee.
The prisoners were accused of feeding information to a People’s Defense Force.
Lithuania will reinstate internal Schengen border controls before, during, and after the NATO summit in Vilnius.
The Kyrgyz Prosecutor-General’s Office on May 31 formally asked lawmakers to allow the prosecution of the leader of the opposition Butun (United) Kyrgyzstan party over alleged attempts to seize power.
A panel of UN judges on May 31 have rejected the appeals by two former Serbian intelligence officers against their convictions two years ago for murder, crimes against humanity, and other offenses in western Bosnia during the 1992-95 war there, and expanded their sentences in the process.
The European Union has announced sanctions on seven individuals accused of destabilizing actions against Moldova and that it was doubling its grant of macroeconomic support to 290 million euros ($310 million).
The Army closed the Al-Fatihab bridge linking Khartoum and Omdurman, while warplanes were flying over the area.
“The army hasn’t used its full deadly power, but it will be forced to do so…”
“Military activities continue in the region and may well increase very considerably in the near future”
A third man has now been charged in the murder of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay — the latest development in a case long thought cold. Federal prosecutors in New York filed an indictment Tuesday charging 49-year-old Jay Bryant in the 2002 shooting death of Jason Mizell, better known as Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay.
While these ICC arrest warrants may be the accountability spark Libya desperately needs, the country will require more to be uprooted.
When examining the public version of the defence strategic review, it’s important to remember that it’s an unclassified version of a classified document and we’re not seeing the full picture.
Host and Nonresident Senior Fellow Alia Brahimi speaks with the philosopher Professor Tony Coady about the key characteristics of mercenaries, the Geneva Conventions, and more.
On June 1, 2023, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the proposals prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Latvia’s involvement in the reconstruction of Ukraine in 2023, setting out specific support measures for the reconstruction of Chernihiv Oblast.
The Saeima urges NATO to take a decision on inviting Ukraine to participate in the alliance and to formulate specific tasks for the rapid integration of Ukraine into the alliance, the Saeima Press Service said on June 1.
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Allow me to come clean: I worry every time Max Boot vents enthusiastically about a prospective military action. Whenever that Washington Post columnist professes optimism about some upcoming bloodletting, misfortune tends to follow.
With the war in Ukraine raging, and Putin threatening to use nuclear weapons, the world is moving ever closer to complete annihilation.
Poland and the United States must keep Ukraine front and center, maintain transatlantic unity, and champion democratic values. Our Warsaw Week charted a way forward.
Drone strikes in Moscow have the Kremlin on high alert. In Georgia, the pro-Russia Prime Minister blamed NATO for Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Despite the existential challenges created by Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine continues to make progress toward the reform of the country’s deeply discredited judicial system, writes Olena Halushka.
Ukrainian law students and young lawyers are reporting for JURIST on developments in and affecting Ukraine. This dispatch is from Yulii Kozub, a law student from Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. He files this from Vienna. On Tuesday, May 30, there was a mass aerial drone strike on Moscow.
Russian air attacks on Kyiv have come in relentless waves. Yet very little has penetrated the patched-together but increasingly sophisticated air defense network. Here’s why.
Ruslan Stefanchuk, chairman of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, was presented with an Aleksandras Stulginskis Star, an award established by the Lithuanian parliament, at a ceremony on Thursday.
Several dozen people rallied outside the Russian Embassy in Vilnius to protest the abduction of Ukrainian children.
“If You Indict Putin, Make Sure Joe Biden Is With Him” – Alfred de Zayas on Ukraine and International Law
A court in Russia’s Urals city of Yekaterinburg on June 1 fined a local branch of the Memorial human rights group 300,000 rubles ($3,700) for allegedly discrediting Russia’s armed forces involved in Moscow’s ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has asked NATO for a “clear” decision on Ukraine’s future with the Western military alliance as another wave of air strikes on Kyiv killed at least three people, including one child, who were shut out of an air-raid shelter.
Besides increasing interest rates, the war has generated loss of purchasing power, reduced consumption, and deterioration in working conditions.
The Biden administration undermines its cause with strategically witless statements.
The question of how to guarantee Ukrainian security loomed over a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Norway and a gathering of European leaders in Moldova.
They were among three people killed in a Russian missile attack, officials said. Ukraine opened an investigation, as Russians described shelling and evacuations in border regions.
Russia has recently increased the pace and intensity of its strikes on the Ukrainian capital.
“This year is for decisions,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said at the European Political Community gathering, which sought to showcase Western solidarity amid the Kremlin’s war.
NATO will monitor the skies over Moldova as more than 40 European leaders attend a summit close to Ukraine’s borders to show support for both countries as Kyiv prepares a counteroffensive against Russia’s invasion.
↺ RFERL ☛ U.S. Lawmakers Support International Tribunal To Prosecute Crimes Of Aggression In Ukraine
U.S. lawmakers and a top U.S. diplomat expressed support on May 31 for the creation of an international tribunal separate from the International Criminal Court (ICC) to try crimes of aggression that have taken place during the war in Ukraine.
Vilnius Picture Gallery hosts yet another exhibition in collaboration between the Lithuanian National Museum of Art and the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Ukraine. This time, the exhibition features two cycles of engravings by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya.
Finland shares a 1,300-kilometre border with Russia. During the Cold War and until recently, its so-called “Finlandisation” doctrine meant neutrality, but the war in Ukraine has changed everything. Today, Finland is on its guard. Anti-Russian sentiment runs strong among the population, which has not forgotten the country’s previous armed conflicts with Moscow, as FRANCE 24’s team on the ground reports.
Three people including a child were killed in a Russian missile strike on Kyiv early on Thursday, Ukrainian officials said. Ten people were injured in the strike. Follow our live blog for the latest developments on the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).
President Volodymyr Zelensky pressed his case for Ukraine to be part of the NATO military alliance as he joined European leaders on Thursday in Moldova ahead of an expected counter-offensive against Russia’s invasion.
A protracted war of attrition in Ukraine serves Beijing’s interests in that it will lead to the long-term weakening of Russia, thereby fundamentally shifting the Sino-Russian power balance in China’s favor.
The most critical issues on the agenda include climate change and its impacts on Antarctica.
Efforts to decrease logging and the move away from natural gas contributed to the decline in emissions, according to the agency.
A team led by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has developed a low-cost cobalt-based catalyst to be used to produce hydrogen from water electrolysis.
The European Union is trying to assemble the building blocks to produce electric cars, but subsidies are luring companies to the United States.
A $528 billion plan to clean up 54 million gallons of radioactive bomb-making waste may never be achieved. Government negotiators are looking for a compromise.
On Wednesday, the Lithuanian government backed a proposal to extend the existing natural gas price compensation for households for the second half of the year, but scrapped the state subsidies for electricity.
ZeroAvia and Birmingham Airport (BHX) have expanded their partnership to explore on-site renewable hydrogen production at the UK airport.
With the Colorado River in near crisis, and talks on water use gridlocked, Arizona, California, and Nevada recently agreed to cut use. Their proposal shows progress, but has limits.
Homeownership rates in the European Union (EU) have experienced a notable decline between 2012 and 2020, driven primarily by the decreasing ownership among young adults and low-income groups. This trend has resulted in an increase in the reliance on private rentals among the 20-29 age group, leading to housing insecurity and adequacy issues. A comprehensive report by Eurofound, titled “Unaffordable and Inadequate Housing in Europe,” sheds light on the housing problems faced by EU citizens, identifies affected population groups, analyzes relevant policies, and provides policy recommendations to improve the situation.
Also, uninsurable climate risks. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
The Senate passed a bill Thursday to raise the debt ceiling into 2025 and cut the deficit, sending the bill to President Biden’s desk.
The largest insurer in California said it would stop offering new coverage. It’s part of a broader trend of companies pulling back from dangerous areas.
The deal also includes the acquisition of Handelsbanken’s asset management and investment services operations, according to S-Bank.
“We will have to wait until next year for a significant increase in prices,” Nordea economist Juho Kostiainen said.
A tight labor market means many teen summer workers have secured more hours and better pay. Meanwhile, states are considering a variety of proposals to expand teens’ roles in the workplace, a move critics worry will erode hard-won protections for minors.
There is no obvious question about the country’s fiscal future that the Republican Party’s current policies propose an answer to.
An overwhelming bipartisan coalition pushed through the compromise struck by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden, even as lawmakers in both parties signaled displeasure with the plan.
The Norwegian company plans to continue offering its logistics services to other firms in Finland.
In her latest work to be translated into English, Annie Ernaux examines the malaise of the modern supermarket.
Nearly 800 mortgage products taken off market within a week
Johnson & Johnson pelvic mesh victims have expressed dismay at efforts by their law firm, Shine Justice, to stiff them with extortionate finance costs. Callum Foote investigates.
GOP leaders are starting to recognize that what the government funds is more popular than they like to claim.
The debt-ceiling deal rests on a cruel and ineffective policy.
Lithuania’s real gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of this year amounted to 16 billion euros at current prices, down 2.5 percent compared to the same time last year, Statistics Lithuania said in its second estimate.
Further evidence of the drain Denel is on the public purse comes from Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan replying to a Parliamentary question.
Fewer employers looking for workers means 270 employees at job search site ZipRecruiter will soon be out of a job.
The company is cutting 20% of its staff by the end of this month, the company disclosed in a filing late Wednesday.
“This action was taken in response to current market conditions and after reducing other discretionary expenses, with a view toward driving long-term efficiency,” according to the filing.
The company had previously said it is experiencing a “typical softness in jobs posting” in January, but sounded other alarms about a slowing in the labor market. Its first quarter revenue fell 19% from a year earlier and it forecast that its revenue in the current quarter would be down nearly 30% from the second quarter of 2022.
The job search site still projects adjusted earnings that are roughly the same for this year as last year, although it said to do so it would “respond to our environment quickly” by “increasing our focus on profitability during times of decreased demand from employers.”
More and more older adults are working—in large part because they want to.
The hard-fought deal pleased few, but lawmakers assessed it was better than the alternative — a devastating economic upheaval if Congress failed to act.
China’s crackdown on technology firms and covid lockdowns had cooled foreign companies’ enthusiasm for doing business in the country. Recent high-profile visits from global leaders signal a change is afoot.
Macau’s new national security law took effect on Tuesday, imposing wider restrictions on political opposition and civil society in the Chinese city. The gambling hub has a separate legal system from the Chinese mainland, largely based on Portuguese law, and national security legislation was first enacted in 2009.
Western companies are increasingly cognizant—and wary—of the risks of doing business in China, especially after recent high-profile raids targeting foreign consultancies.
Federal prosecutors obtained the recording as part of their investigation into the former president’s handling of classified documents.
↺ New York Times ☛ How Angela Paxton Could Help Decide the Fate of Her Embattled Husband, Ken Paxton
In Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial this summer, 31 state senators will decide whether to permanently remove him as Texas attorney general. One is his wife.
As the 2024 US presidential primary campaign season begins, the most likely final contest is a rematch between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
A man who briefly worked as an aide to U.S. Rep. George Santos has told House investigators he got his job after sending a series of payments to one of the Republican’s top deputies. Derek Myers worked briefly as a legislative assistant to Santos. After he was let go, he accused Santos of sexual harassment. Myers told staff of a House subcommittee Wednesday that when he was trying to get Santos to hire him in January, he sent at least six $150 payments to Vish Burra, the Republican’s director of operations. Myers said he sent the money unsolicited because he believed Burra wasn’t getting paid at the time and couldn’t afford food. But he said he also hoped it might help him get a job. Burra declined to comment.
Gov. Greg Abbott chose John Scott, a former deputy attorney general, to head the office while Attorney General Ken Paxton faces impeachment charges.
The irrational element of partisan hostility has seemingly created a political culture resistant to correction or reform.
An up-to-date page so you can keep track of all the UK’s national newspaper editors.
The WAN-IFRA survey indicated it is management, rather than individual journalists, driving adoption.
The Hong Kong government has officially tabled a bill for overhauling the District Council, as an official accused former councillors of “swindling” votes in the 2019 election by inciting hatred towards the government amid the anti-extradition bill unrest.
Six people – including two teachers, a social work student, and a then-District Council election candidate – have been convicted of rioting in relation to a protest in Central on November 12, 2019. Three others were acquitted of the same charge, according to local media reports.
Kosovo Olympic authorities have asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to open disciplinary proceedings against Novak Djokovic, accusing him of stirring up political tensions by saying “Kosovo is the heart of Serbia” at the French Open.
Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Don’t say it. Don’t do it. Don’t show it. Don’t post it. Don’t speak about it. Don’t show any expressions.
A Hong Kong pro-democracy busker has been acquitted of organising a prohibited group gathering after the judge cast doubt over the reliability of a police officer’s testimony. Oliver Ma appeared at Eastern Magistrates Court on Tuesday afternoon wearing a light-blue collared shirt.
Strengthening Finland’s economic growth is crucial for the health of public finances. Therefore, the Finnish Entrepreneurs propose numerous actions in their growth program that would allow companies to take more risks and foster growth. The government program should promote local agreements in workplaces, limit political and illegal strikes, and reform unemployment and social security to make work more profitable.
California’s coming debate on reparations can build on lessons from other places that struggle with healing the legacy of racial and other abuse.
What do past choices mean for future relationships? Celine Song’s graceful debut, “Past Lives,” offers emotional complexity as it explores what connects people over time.
The worst of the industry is expensive and runs from useless to counterproductive.
The police will start fining car passengers for carrying open containers of alcohol, according to Ramūnas Matonis, spokesperson for the Police Department.
An engaged and informed community is important for governance, development and an effective democracy at any time, but that’s especially so in Bougainville right now.
In states with affirmative-action bans, colleges have tried many strategies to achieve diversity, with no clear solution. Now, as the Supreme Court considers the fate of affirmative action, colleges nationwide may soon face the same test.
As much as conservatives love to pooh-pooh the gender and sexual identities that come into awareness every so often, they sure seem to love coming up with new names for the LGBTQ+ community such as “skittles” or the “alphabet mafia.”
Supporters of the Indigenous voice say the rubber can hit the road now the lower house has voted to set up the referendum. Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney said the push for the voice was entering a new phase as the campaign got into full swing.
Amid allegations that a fan may have been drugged and raped during a Rammstein concert in Vilnius, Lithuanian police say that officers may not have enough experience how to deal with such reports.
In a cross-party move, Nevada governor Joe Lombardo became one of few Republican governors to sign a bill protecting out-of-state abortion patients and in-state providers on Tuesday. Mr. Lombardo said he would respect the will of voters.
Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo approved Senate Bill (SB) 131 Tuesday, becoming one of the first Republican governors to enshrine legal protections for out-of-state abortion patients and in-state providers. The legislation codifies Executive Order (EO) 2022-08 which was issued by Nevada’s former Governor Steve Sisolak last year.
An older law still prohibits most abortions in the state, but it is less strict about exceptions for medical emergencies.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court Wednesday struck down two abortion bans as unconstitutional, but abortion remains illegal in the state.
The fast-food chain, once a darling of conservatives, has joined other corporations in pursuing diversity, equity and inclusion policies, prompting some on the right to accuse it of going “woke.”
Jurors have found “That ’70s Show” star Danny Masterson guilty of two out of three counts of rape and could get 30 years to life in prison. The jury reached the verdict Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom, where Masterson was led out in handcuffs. It was the second trial for the 47-year-old actor, after a jury deadlocked in his first. Masterson has been convicted of raping two women at his home between 2001 and 2003. Prosecutors say he drugged the women so he could assault them, then used his prominence in the Church of Scientology to avoid consequences for decades.
Activists in Kazakhstan have cancelled a planned parade on May 31 to mark the Day of Remembrance of Political Persecution, saying police had detained several of their colleagues and created other impediments to holding the event.
A few weeks ago we ran a survey on your experiences with Mobile Internet performance in Zimbabwe. We collected a total of 939 responses and for all those that participated a very big thank you to you. The survey data is available to view here in the form of a spreadsheet.
If I asked you how valuable ZW$5000 was this time last year, you would struggle to answer that. You would only get an idea of the value by looking for an invoice from that time, or by trying to remember what the price of something that’s not subject to price controls was.
A couple of years ago Econet Wireless and EcoCash Holdings called for an early redemption of debentures. That may sound like Greek to some but you can get the explainer here: Econet Wireless Zimbabwe calls for early redemption of debentures.
↺ JURIST ☛ US Supreme Court declines case regarding Reddit’s liability for hosting child pornography
The US Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear a case alleging that social media platform Reddit wrongly hosted sexually explicit images and videos of underage individuals, amounting to child pornography. As a result, a ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which dismissed the victims’ claim, will stand.
The U.K. music industry has unilaterally agreed to improve streaming metadata delivered to DSPs like Spotify and Apple Music. An agreement drawn up by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) with the help of music industry experts has been reviewed and signed by BPI, AIM, ERA, MMF, and Hipgnosis Songs Fund.
One of Freddie Mercury’s early drafts, which is being auctioned by Sotheby’s, shows that he crossed out “Mongolian” and substituted the now-famous title.
↺ Digital Music News ☛ Rod Stewart Calls Off Hipgnosis Catalog Acquisition — “Not the Right Company”
Rod Stewart has called off his catalog acquisition talks with Hipgnosis Songs after a lengthy negotiation process. Steward will now take his ball home and retain ownership of his catalog — or seek a higher bidder. “This catalog represents my life’s work,” the 78-year-old singer said in his statement to DMN.
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