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Dopingspektakel auf ideologischem Grund
In Las Vegas steigt am Sonntag ein gladiatorenhaftes Sportspektakel gemĂ€ĂŸ der derzeitigen Silicon-Valley-Ideologie: die „Enhanced Games“. Ziel sei es, das „menschliche Potenzial in Übermenschlichkeit zu verwandeln“, sportliche Leistungen sollen per Doping grenzenlos gesteigert werden. Investoren wie US-PrĂ€sidentensohn Donald Trump Jr. dĂŒrften sich vor allem ĂŒber die Steigerung ihrer Vermögen freuen: Die „Enhanced Games“ sind durch den Verkauf von Medikamenten und Hormonen eine Geldmaschine. ⌘ Read more

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AMD (Xilinx) is Excluding Linux From the Free Tier For Its FPGA Dev Tool
Long-time Slashdot reader Sun writes:

AMD has announced a change to the way they are licensing Vivado, their FPGA development tool
 Hidden between the lines of the announcement [of a new model starting with the 2026.1 release] is the change to the free of charge tier. AMD is adding more devices to be supported in this tier, 
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US Layoffs Haven’t Increased, and New Tech Industry Hiring Balances Firings
“The numbers show that layoffs in the U.S. are roughly at or below levels from before the pandemic,” reports the Washington Post, “although they are higher than in 2022 when businesses snapped up workers as the economy roared back to life


“A different measure that accounts for the growing U.S. workforce shows that layoffs aff 
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Goldene Palme fĂŒr Mungiu
Mit seinem Film „Fjord“ hat der rumĂ€nische Regisseur Cristian Mungiu am Samstag die Goldene Palme der 79. Filmfestspiele von Cannes gewonnen. Das gab die Jury bekannt. Der Film setzte sich gegen 21 andere Wettbewerbsfilme durch – unter anderem gegen jenen der Österreicherin Marie Kreutzer. ⌘ Read more

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Air France, Airbus Guilty of Corporate Manslaughter In 2009 Air France 447 Crash
Long-time Slashdot reader UnknowingFool shares this report from the BBC:

Air France and Airbus have been found guilty of manslaughter over a 2009 plane crash which killed 228 people. The Paris Appeals Court found the airline and aircraft manufacturer “solely and entirely responsible” for the incident, in which flig 
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Zehntausende Menschen bei Demo in Belgrad
Zehntausende Menschen sind in der serbischen Hauptstadt Belgrad fĂŒr Neuwahlen auf die Straße gegangen. Zu der Demonstration am Samstagabend aufgerufen hatten Studentengruppen, die auf neuen Schwung fĂŒr die vor anderthalb Jahren begonnenen Proteste gegen die Regierung und die Korruption im Land hoffen. Zuvor hatte die serbische Bahn den Zugsverkehr ĂŒberraschend eingestellt. ⌘ Read more

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Free Software Foundation’s Call for ‘LibreLocals’ Answered on Six Continents - With More Coming
The Free Software Foundation announced this week that “its global call for free software supporters to organize LibreLocals this May resulted in free software supporters organizing forty-six LibreLocal events on six continents thus far.” (And new dates and locations are being added daily. 
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Friday Google’s AI-Powered Search Results Glitched on the Word ‘Disregard’
On Friday TechCrunch reported they could no longer Google the word “disregard”.

Google’s AI Overview responded “Understood. Let me know whenever you have a new prompt or question!” below an icon for hearing the word “disregard” pronounced — then displayed several inches of blank whitespace.
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My Net Worth: Caroline Harvie-Teare, Venues Ìtautahi CEO
Caroline Harvie-Teare is a Cantabrian through and through. She grew up in Dunsandel, competed in the South Island horse-riding championships, and has spent much of her career serving the city she loves.

I grew up on a 2,500-acre (1,000ha) farm in Dunsandel for the first seven years of my life. Farm life’s pretty simple – it’s a pretty happy time. My dad built a really cool go-kart for my two older brother 
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LinkedIn leaders’ Open to Work book is a pep‑talk for the AI age
Open to Work, the new book from LinkedIn chief executive Ryan Roslansky and chief economic opportunity officer Aneesh Raman, is a quick read with a simple premise: work isn’t ending, but it is changing faster than most people can process, and standing still is no longer an option.

It’s pitched squarely at anxious workers who feel the ground shifting under their feet but don’t know what to do next. I 
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Projet de loi d’urgence agricole: des attaques sans prĂ©cĂ©dent sur l’eau
MĂ©gabassines, captage d’eau polluĂ©s, zones humides
 le volet «eau» du projet de loi d’urgence agricole adoptĂ© le 22 mai vise Ă  sĂ©curiser l’accĂšs Ă  l’eau des agriculteurs irrigants au dĂ©triment de toute considĂ©ration Ă©cologique. La gauche, mise en minoritĂ©, dĂ©nonce un mĂ©pris des donnĂ©es scientifiques. ⌘ Read more

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Des rouges et des verts avant l’étĂ©: MĂ©lenchon renoue avec la stratĂ©gie de la main tendue
Pour creuser l’écart Ă  gauche, le candidat insoumis espĂšre Ă©largir son socle. À dĂ©faut de voir Marine Tondelier et Fabien Roussel renversĂ©s en interne, il veut convaincre des Ă©lus des deux partis de rallier sa campagne, en Ă©change d’un soutien aux lĂ©gislatives. Jusqu’ici personne n’est sorti du bois, mais ses lieutenants mettent la pression. ⌘ Read more

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Researchers Say the Worst Climate Future is Less Likely. But the Best One is Also Slipping Away
Citing new research, the Associated Press reports that “modest gains in the fight to curb climate change have dialed back the most catastrophic of future heating.”
That’s the good news. But the same research “also confirmed that there’s no chance to limit warming to the international go 
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HĂŒrden bei EindĂ€mmung von Ebola-Ausbruch
Gewalt durch bewaffnete Milizgruppen, eine große Zahl an BinnenflĂŒchtlingen und eine schlechte Infrastruktur stellen die Helfer und Helferinnen vor große HĂŒrden bei der EindĂ€mmung des Ebola-Ausbruchs in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo (DR Kongo). Allein in der besonders betroffenen Provinz Ituri an der Grenze zu Uganda und dem SĂŒdsudan leben laut UNO mehr als 920.000 BinnenflĂŒchtlinge. Zudem ist die Sorge vor einer Ausbreitung der tödlichen Viruserkrankung in andere LĂ€nder groß. ⌘ Read more

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