Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson finally explains his decision to bid $3.2B for parking meters before walking away ~transport Article 787 words 23 votes
Flathub bans AI-coded apps – with some exceptions ~tech Article 463 words, published Jun 1 2026 30 votes
Fines doubled as teens outsmart Australia's world-first social media ban ~tech social media facebook Article 398 words, published Jun 29 2026 37 votes
Finland's last landline call has been made as the Nordic country becomes the latest to retire copper-wire phones in favour of fibre ~tech Article 357 words 31 votes
Google must pay record €4.1 billion fine, top EU court rules ~tech google android Article 532 words 43 votes
Five million Americans dropped ACA health insurance after the Republican Party let prices rise ~health Article 780 words 24 votes
OpenAI says the US government will vet users of its latest AI model ~tech security.national Article 13 votes
Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California ~tv Article 205 words 24 votes
The White House now determines which customers can access new AI models ~tech Article 943 words 18 votes
In the US abortion wars, new frontline is pills via telehealth ~health medicine Article 1313 words 12 votes
Norway, one of the first countries to ban smartphones in schools, is now imposing a near-ban on AI in elementary schools ~tech Article 373 words 17 votes
Britain and Canada join Australia in banning social media for children under sixteen ~tech social media Article 1499 words 32 votes
Finland's libraries are increasingly being valued not by how many books they lend, but how they help societies function ~books libraries.national Article 219 words 21 votes
‘Ghost jobs’ could soon be illegal in New York ~life work Article 710 words, published Jun 12 2026 34 votes
Rolls-Royce will build small nuclear power plants for Sweden in a major boost for the British engineering group's ambitions to lead the development of the nascent technology in Europe ~enviro Link 19 votes
Sweden has halved its borrowing since facing financial meltdown in the 1990s, without raising taxes – and what Britain can learn from this experience ~finance economics Article 1502 words 17 votes
Drawbacks to Iceland having its own currency likely exceed the benefits, the country's Finance Ministry said, citing the conclusions of a government-commissioned report ~finance Article 21 votes
'Stop Killing Games' movement gains momentum: California Assembly passes game protection bill ~games Article 529 words 43 votes
Colorado approves balcony solar, requires utilities to accept meter collars ~enviro energy.renewable Article 480 words, published May 8 2026 31 votes
Public backlash after Utah county approves 62 sq miles of development sites for data center ~tech Article 1142 words 39 votes
The US campaign to turn healthy people into Alzheimer’s patients ~health.mental Article 330 words 27 votes
‘It’s shameful’: New York City’s elite lash out at Zohran Mamdani’s second-home tax ~finance Link 69 votes
How democratic governments came to view VPNs as circumvention software that must be restricted ~tech privacy security Link 35 votes
Norway puts United Nations Environment Programme project funding on hold, raising fears for plastics treaty talks ~enviro pollution plastics Article 862 words 3 votes
Norway doubles down on oil and gas production – energy minister says country has a ‘responsibility’ to address shortfalls caused by wars in Ukraine and Middle East ~enviro Article 771 words 11 votes
In a village in Norway, humans representing flora and fauna of all kinds meet to reimagine ‘nature-centric governance’ ~enviro conservation Article 1215 words, published Apr 10 2026 7 votes
Norway is reopening three gasfields that it shut down last century as demand from Europe for alternatives to Russian and Middle Eastern supply increases ~enviro Link 19 votes
US landlords want to be paid for pandemic losses and hope to reach a deal with the Donald Trump administration ~finance business Article 252 words 24 votes
Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives. ~tech Article 1198 words, published Apr 30 2026 37 votes
India’s major airlines on ‘verge of closing down’ as high fuel costs sting ~transport Article 258 words 25 votes
USA to mandate surveillance tech for new cars also determing fitness to drive by 2027 ~transport Article 517 words, published Mar 9 2026 44 votes
We must keep age verification from killing anonymity online ~tech privacy internet Article 1311 words, published Apr 23 2026 53 votes
This nine-seat plane takes off in fifty meters – Norway hopes it will connect people in remote areas ~transport Article 513 words 12 votes
Planned Parenthood is turning to services like Botox to stay afloat ~health Article 718 words 18 votes
China calls for ‘concerted’ efforts to tackle excess solar production ~enviro energy.renewable Article 35 votes
How Copenhagen built a metro for free by capturing land value to finance infrastructure ~transport Video 28:35 7 votes
World's top condom maker Karex to raise prices sharply as Iran war strains supply chain ~health Article 375 words 17 votes
US senator to introduce bill aimed at ending sports blackouts, making games easier to watch for fans ~sports Article 636 words, published Apr 16 2026 23 votes
Finnish transport minister Lulu Ranne says a long-delayed cross-border train to Sweden should begin rolling this summer ~transport Article 1649 words, published Apr 12 2026 9 votes
Sovereign Cloud stats every CIO needs before their next board meeting ~comp privacy Article 385 words 7 votes