Salon, internet’s oldest general interest publication, shuts down after thirty-one years
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Finland says it will restrict entry to the country for Russian athletes because of the war in Ukraine – change takes effect from Monday
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Jake Lang thought he was outing a furry convention; it turns out it was actual cats
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A stunning rebuke of anti-trans US politics: Republicans spent $200 million attacking trans people and lost everything
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California’s utility wildfire liability conundrum could put clean energy projects in a delay doom loop
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Norway will suspend further reservation of electricity connections for data centers while the country figures out how to handle the burden they place on the the grid
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UK has backed prospect of a new subsea data cable between Shetland and Norway, saying it would boost national resilience at a time of increasing foreign threats to critical infrastructure
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Environmental leadership can shape the future of carbon removal
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Hungary releases communist-era secret police files to the public
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I updated a vintage viral political video to fit the 2026 midterms
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Finland has warned that Russian athletes will not be allowed to enter the country, following a landmark ruling permitting Russia's return to international ice hockey competitions
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Recent media coverage has raised questions about the status of a Danish government pilot project involving Collabora Office – we would like to provide some background
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Growing number of families in Denmark are taking children with special needs out of regular schools, saying the system fails to accommodate neurodivergent students
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Icelandic public broadcaster RÚV has announced that they will not be returning to the Eurovision Song Contest for the upcoming 2027 edition in Burgas
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Danish government wants to ban a fast-growing breed known as “turbo chickens,” setting up another clash with the farm sector over animal welfare
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How to build real peace
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Mink farming will end in Denmark by August 2029 after the government decided to drop plans to pursue an exemption to an EU-wide ban on the practice
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Denmark has quietly ended its Collabora pilot, halting a major effort to replace Microsoft software and achieve greater technological independence
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Norway to extend proposed under-sixteen social media ban to online games and messaging apps
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America’s next big healthcare reform might already be underway
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AirTM gains ground in Venezuela despite Nicolás Maduro’s blockade (2020)
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All eighty books banned in Minnesota last year came from one school
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Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for developing economic models that help governments and central banks respond to booms and recessions
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Norwegian government has detailed plans to finance a second orbital launch pad at Andøya Spaceport
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Denmark government hack leaked 8.7 million citizen's ID's: the password was "123456"
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Denmark introduces bill to protect people's faces and voices from deepfakes – would still allow satire, parody and political/social criticism unless it constitutes misinformation
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Norwegian government has given a permit to a mining company to release waste into Førde fjord despite a seventeen-year battle by campaigners and a supreme court ruling against it
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US closely monitoring case of lab worker who ‘possibly’ died of plague in Siberia, says Marco Rubio
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Norway is planning a temporary ban on smart glasses in some public places, amid rising global concern at the spread of the AI-enabled recording devices
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Danish government confirms its Central Person Register was hacked – data breach affects eight million citizens and includes names, addresses, and social security numbers
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2026 Nobel Peace Prize could go galactic, with an award to the International Space Station – rare symbol of global cooperation in a quest toward the heavens at a time when multilateralism is crumbling
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Oatly, the world's largest producer of oat milk, is sending a new message to its consumers – most people want their governments to take action on climate change
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OpenAI hacked Australia's Medicare portal
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
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EU turns to Norway and Canada for space launch sites – space commissioner is touring potential locations for launchers as the bloc tries to boost its satellite capabilities
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Paramount settles with California, other states over Warner Bros merger
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Fifteen years since Occupy Wall Street. An analysis of its effects.
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European Commission will maintain its ban on new oil and gas drilling in the Arctic, despite fierce pressure from oil-rich Norway to drop the ban
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Ineos has opened a carbon dioxide storage site off the Danish coast, as momentum builds in Europe for the fledgling but expensive technology
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On US Democrats who cave in response to anti-trans attack ads
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From peas to paper to web portals: the evolution of the ballot in America
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Ed Sheeran’s tour in trouble after opening acts drop out in solidarity with rapper Macklemore
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Israel’s culture minister threatens to revoke the citizenship of ‘NAZA’ filmmakers
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Canada's oil windfall may yet wipe out its losses from tariffs
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Deepfake crisis spreads across Finnish schools, workplaces and military – law does not prevent the creating of such material
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Iceland to submit bill that could ban whaling in its waters – government has faced mounting pressure to ban the practice
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Google will buy up to half the electricity produced by one of Finland's nuclear power plants as part of a record €13bn investment in the country's AI infrastructure
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How easy is it to shut down our modern world by attacking the systems that synchronise time and space? Meet the jammers at Jammertest, an open-air hacking festival in Norway, finding out.
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Denmark is a cycling nation, but our research shows rates are declining – here's why
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UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size
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