America’s Clocks Are Still Falling Back Tonight Despite Trump’s Daylight Saving Push
Clocks “fall back” one hour tonight to end Daylight Saving Time — though many Americans want to end the twice-yearly clock change, reports Axios.

But the U.S. Congress “remains deadlocked about how to make that happen.”

The clocks are falling back despite a bipartisan House vote in July to make daylight savi … ⌘ Read more

French Lawmakers Back Per-Gigabyte Internet Traffic Tax
Companies like Google, Netflix, TikTok, and Meta may soon owe the French government, reports Tom’s Hardware:

France has approved a proposed tax that aims to tax the amount of internet data per gigabyte sent to French users in the country… According to minutes released by the National Assembly, members voted 11-10 in support of the motion on October 30 — which n … ⌘ Read more

Trump DHS Officials Asked CISA To Secretly Aquire and Hack a Voting Machine
Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from ProPublica: A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wanted Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. The appointees wa … ⌘ Read more

World’s Timekeepers Vote to Eliminate the Leap Second
Timekeepers have officially voted to eliminate the leap second, allowing Coordinated Universal Time to drift as much as one hour from Earth’s rotation before a correction is needed. The change ends decades of occasionally adding or subtracting seconds and replaces it with a hypothetical “leap hour” that likely wouldn’t be necessary for hundreds or even thousands of … ⌘ Read more

Debian Inference Portal Launches To Provide Free AI/LLM Inferencing To Debian Developers
With Debian voting to allow the responsible use of generative AI, there is now a new initiative funded by Scaleway to make it easier for Debian contributors to leverage AI: the Debian Inference Portal… ⌘ Read more

America’s Cryptocurrency ‘Clarity Act’ Fails Spectacularly, Despite Hundreds of Millions in Industry Lobbying
“The crypto industry’s top legislative priority failed on Tuesday in spectacular fashion,” reports Barron’s.

A procedural motion to advance the bill failed by a vote of 49 to 50, with a handful of Republicans joining all Democrats to shoot it down. The motion n … ⌘ Read more

Union Contract with Microsoft Ratified by 1,900 Blizzard Developers and Workers
Nearly 1900 Blizzard Entertainment workers “voted to ratify their first union contract with parent company Microsoft after over two years of bargaining,” reports Kotaku, “consolidating Blizzard’s many smaller unions into three larger bargaining units.”

The workers now gain new protections “on issues such as generati … ⌘ Read more

The classic Westwood / EA game Nox joins the GOG Preservation Program with new fixes
After their special Patron supporters voted, GOG have placed the classic Nox into their Preservation Program with a fresh set of fixes.

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UN Votes To Encourage Map Projections More Accurately Reflecting the True Size of Continents
The United Nations has an announcement. “The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to encourage governments, schools and tech companies worldwide to stop using maps that make Africa look far smaller than it really is.”

By 164 votes to one, Member States on Friday endorsed a resolution … ⌘ Read more

Debian Decides: Contributors Can Use Generative AI ‘Responsibly’
This week Debian voted on whether to ban AI-assisted contributions. The winning proposal? “Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tools” in its projects, documentation, and packaging… Generative AI “is neither exempt from nor subject to special rules beyond the standards already expected of Debian contributors.”

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Debian Linux developers vote to allow “Responsible Use of Generative AI”
The flood gates for generative AI in Debian Linux are now seemingly open, with the results from a recent vote now available.

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Debian Votes To Allow “Responsible Use Of Generative AI”
The voting is over and there is a winner now known in the much-debated Debian General Resolution voting over an AI policy for the Linux distribution… ⌘ Read more

Debian is Voting on Whether to Allow AI-Assisted Contributions
Debian developers are voting on whether to ban AI-assisted contributions, reports the blog Linuxiac, with a ballot listing eight proposals and a “None of the above” option.

The first one is still the original proposal to ban LLM-assisted contributions by changing the Debian Social Contract. This would stop generative AI from being used for direct D … ⌘ Read more

Debian Developers Begin Voting Over LLM Usage Within The Project
Debian developers have been considering a general resolution over LLM usage within the project. After collecting a variety of proposals, voting has now commenced for Debian developers to decide how comfortable they are with AI / Large Language Model contributions in the project or not… ⌘ Read more

FCC Kills TV Ownership Cap, Claiming Authority Over Limit Set By Congress
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 today to eliminate the National Television Ownership Rule, claiming authority to repeal a limit that was set by Congress over 20 years ago. The rule prohibits any single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent … ⌘ Read more

California Bill To Preserve Online Games Fails Committee Vote
California’s Protect Our Games Act, which would require publishers to warn players before shutting down paid online games and offer refunds or continued access, failed to advance after a state Senate committee vote. Four state senators voted in favor, three voted against, and four abstained. Engadget reports: The committee unanimously voted in favor of g … ⌘ Read more

Digital Euro Expected To Launch By 2029 After EU Backing
The European Parliament’s economic committee has backed a digital euro designed to reduce Europe’s dependence on US-controlled payment networks such as Visa and Mastercard. The ECB-backed currency is targeted for launch by 2029 after a full parliamentary vote and negotiations with EU member states. Euronews reports: Under the proposal, consumers would be able to … ⌘ Read more

New UK Referendum Would Flip ‘Brexit’ Result of a Decade Ago, Poll Finds
It’s the 10-year anniversary of Britain’s “Brexit” vote withdrawing from the European Union.
But a new UK poll “shows that a new Brexit referendum would reverse the vote that led to Britain’s departure,” reports Bloomberg:

Fifty-two percent of Britons think the UK should rejoin the EU, according to an Ipsos survey of 1,137 British … ⌘ Read more

Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/israeli-firm-blackcore-also-suspected-meddling-nyc-scotland-votes-french-2026-06-11/

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La Suisse vote sur la limitation de sa population à 10 millions d’habitants
Une initiative de l’extrême droite helvétique, qui est soumise au référendum dimanche, propose de limiter la population pour faire avancer ses thèmes xénophobes et son emprise sur la démocratie. Un discours qui séduit l’électorat conservateur du pays. ⌘ Read more

Poland To Jail Online Streamers of Violent Crime For Up To 5 Years
Polish lawmakers have voted to criminalize “trash streaming,” with up to five years in prison for online broadcasts of serious crimes such as rape or murder, animal cruelty, humiliating violence, gambling promotion, or even simulated depictions of those acts. Reuters reports: The move is part of a broader push by Poland to tighten regulation o … ⌘ Read more

Intelligence artificielle et droit d’auteur: l’occasion manquée des députés
Une proposition de loi votée à l’unanimité au Sénat ne sera finalement pas discutée dans la niche parlementaire du groupe communiste ce jeudi. Elle prévoyait que les entreprises d’IA soient tenues responsables a priori” “des violations du droit d’auteur. Les macronistes ont bloqué cette mesure décriée par le monde de la tech. ⌘ Read more

‘No plan’: Taylor shoots down One Nation seat-sharing deal
Liberal frontbencher Tony Pasin has urged his party to negotiate with Pauline Hanson so that Liberal and One Nation candidates do not cannibalise each other’s vote. ⌘ Read more

Seattle Enacts Year-Long Ban On New AI Datacenters
Seattle has enacted a one-year moratorium on new datacenters, making it the largest U.S. city to do so as the backlash against AI infrastructure grows across the country. The city council voted unanimously in favor of the ban. The Guardian reports: Lawmakers have framed the pause as an opportunity to draft regulations specifically targeting the electricity-hungry datacenters bei … ⌘ Read more

Why reawakened abortion debate won’t help the Liberals or Labor
The major parties must stop trying to capture the “women’s vote” - they might just begin to win women’s trust. ⌘ Read more

Project Hail Mary Directors Set To Produce New High-Concept Sci-Fi Comedy
Phil Lord and Chris Miller are adding another comedy to their slate. The duo behind Project Hail Mary will produce a new feature for Universal Pictures. The project signals a clear vote of confidence from the studio in rising comedic voices. For Lord and Miller, whose Project Hail Mary became one of the biggest blockbusters […]

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Affaire Lyhanna: manifestantes et parlementaires réclament «une révolution», «maintenant»
Une coalition de député·es a appelé lundi l’exécutif à inscrire à l’agenda parlementaire le vote d’une «loi intégrale» transpartisane contre les violences envers les femmes et les enfants, soutenue par des milliers de manifestantes partout en France. ⌘ Read more

Taylor blames Albanese’s budget for plummeting Coalition vote as One Nation surges
After a fourth poll showed One Nation inching ahead of Labor, Angus Taylor told this masthead that Labor’s budget had “further eroded trust in the political system”. ⌘ Read more

Auckland Council’s PC120 decision could be revisited in RMA reforms
The Auckland Council’s decision on contentious housing intensification could be for naught, as resource management reform looms.

Councillors on Tuesday are set to vote on PC120, a plan change to meet housing intensification requirements, after the Government in April passed a law to downgrade the city’s house planning target from two million dwellings [to 1.4m dwellings](https://busin … ⌘ Read more

Criticisms Rise Before Vote on America’s Cryptocurrency ‘Clarity Act’
An upcoming vote in a few weeks on America’s cryptocurrency “Clarity Act” is “rattling Wall Street and consumer advocates,” reports CNN, with its proposal to regulate the bulk of crypto markets through America’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission. “It allows crypto companies to operate, at long last, in compliance with U.S. rules, rather … ⌘ Read more

The NZX: Not enough belles at the ball
The market, as the hackneyed phrase goes, is a “voting machine in the short term and a weighing machine in the long term”.

And this tends to be true. I mean, the market is often inefficient in the short term, but over the long run, exceptional companies are rewarded with high stock prices and mediocre companies with low stock prices. ⌘ Read more

Cadmium: l’Assemblée vote un texte ambitieux pour réduire la contamination des Français
Les députés ont adopté mercredi 3 juin une proposition de loi abaissant progressivement les teneurs autorisées en cadmium dans les engrais phosphatés. La France est un des pays européens les plus touchés par la contamination à ce métal lourd hautement toxique. ⌘ Read more

Les élections législatives en Éthiopie entachées par le conflit au Tigré
Alors que des millions de citoyens et de citoyennes ont voté lundi 1er juin, sous la contrainte ou par conviction, des millions d’autres, de la région septentrionale, ont été privés de leur droit civique. ⌘ Read more

Not Every Byte Gets a Vote
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La «loi Bétharram» votée in extremis à l’Assemblée: «Les bourreaux doivent savoir que la société ne les protégera plus jamais»
Malgré les quelque 200 amendements, la loi «post-Bétharram» visant à protéger les enfants et à lutter contre les violences en milieu scolaire a été votée à l’unanimité au terme d’une soirée éprouvante lundi 1er juin. ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Tuesday, June 02
Which was the first self-governing country in the world to grant women the right to vote in parliamentary elections?
Table Mountain overlooks which of the following cities? Cape Town, Toronto or Rio de Janeiro?
Which animal lives in a drey?
Which country will celebrate its semiquincentennial in July?
Where was New Zealand’s first capital?
What name was given to films in the 1930s, 40s and 50s that were made as a companion to a main feature in a double-bill programm … ⌘ Read more

Malgré la «paix totale» promise, la Colombie subit une nouvelle vague de violences
La Colombie vote dimanche pour élire celui qui succédera à Gustavo Petro, premier chef d’État de gauche du pays sud-américain. Sa priorité sera de lutter contre les groupes armés et le crime organisé. Reportage dans le département du Cauca, où les communautés autochtones tentent de résister. ⌘ Read more

L’Assemblée nationale abroge le Code noir: «Ce vote est un début, qu’il soit aussi un avertissement!»
Les débats qui se sont tenus jeudi 28 mai dans l’hémicycle ont révélé l’hypocrisie du Rassemblement national, tout en résonnant avec l’actualité brûlante des discriminations et du racisme dans la France contemporaine. Nombre de députés ont déploré l’inaction du chef de l’État en la matière. ⌘ Read more

Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says
Article URL: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/corporations-have-the-right-to-vote-in-delaware-town-judge-says

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Drone Ports and Funding Mayhem: Trump’s Ballroom Has Turned Toxic
“Republicans are just going to have to suck it up and get it done,” says one Trump aide about the funding melee. The votes, though, may simply not be there. ⌘ Read more

Pour ne pas récompenser une élue LFI, la revue politique «Le Trombinoscope» modifie le vote de son jury
Un panel de journalistes régionaux avait fait le choix de récompenser la députée LFI Alma Dufour à l’occasion d’un prix organisé par la revue «Le Trombinoscope». Le résultat du vote final a été modifié au profit d’une autre parlementaire locale, appartenant à la majorité présidentielle. ⌘ Read more

Le Sénat vote le projet de loi Ripost, défouloir sécuritaire de la majorité
Les sénateurs ont adopté en le durcissant un texte fourre-tout vanté comme un «choc d’autorité» par Laurent Nuñez, qui empile les mesures répressives destinées à lutter contre les raves-parties, les rodéos urbains ou encore la consommation de protoxyde d’azote. ⌘ Read more

Le Sénat vote pour allonger la rétention des étrangers jugés dangereux
Les deux chambres du Parlement n’ont pas abouti au même texte. Une commission mixte paritaire devrait donc être convoquée pour parvenir à un compromis. ⌘ Read more

Le protégé de Macron nommé gouverneur de la Banque de France: «Une gifle pour la démocratie»
Si trois cinquièmes des députés se sont opposés à la nomination d’Emmanuel Moulin à la tête de la plus puissante institution financière du pays, l’ex-secrétaire général de l’Élysée a été sauvé par le Sénat. À l’Assemblée, le socialiste Philippe Brun a révélé que Nicolas Sarkozy était personnellement intervenu pour influencer les votes. ⌘ Read more

Trump Wants to Be the Hero Vapers Don’t Really Need
The White House says Trump’s pro-vape stance is based on “gold standard science.” It feels more like vice-signaling to a demographic that often doesn’t vote—over products that are widely available. ⌘ Read more

Armée française: 36 milliards d’euros pour que rien ne change?
L’Assemblée nationale a voté mardi 19 mai une rallonge de 36 milliards d’euros pour la défense d’ici à 2030. Un gros effort pour les Françaises et les Français, qui ne permettra pas pour autant à leur armée d’être prête à un «choc de haute intensité», comme le demandent régulièrement état-major et gouvernement. ⌘ Read more

États-Unis: face à l’offensive trumpiste contre le droit de vote des Noirs, la mobilisation s’organise
Plus de soixante ans après l’adoption de la loi sur le droit de vote, une décision de la Cour suprême, fin avril, l’a pratiquement vidée de sa substance. Dans les États du Sud, les héritiers de la lutte pour les droits civiques appellent à la mobilisation avant les élections de novembre. ⌘ Read more

Fedora’s AI Developer Desktop Initiative Blocked by Community Backlash
The blog It’s FOSS has an update on the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Initiative, a proposed platform for AI/machine learning workloads on Fedora. It’s now been blocked “after two Fedora Council members retracted their earlier approval votes.”

The initiative was proposed by Red Hat engineer Gordon Messmer, aiming to deliver an Atomic D … ⌘ Read more

Bill To Block Publishers From Killing Online Games Advances In California
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A bill focused on maintaining long-term playable access to online games has passed out of the California Assembly’s appropriations committee, setting up a floor vote by the full legislative body. The advancement is a major win for Stop Killing Games’ grassroots game preserv … ⌘ Read more

[$] Friction in Fedora’s over AI developer desktop initiative
A push by Red Hat employees to create a Fedora “AI Developer
Desktop” with support for out-of-tree kernel drivers and AI toolkits
has been met with objections from some long-time members of the Fedora
community. After more than a month of sometimes heated discussion, the
Fedora\
Council had voted
to approve the initiative; however, a last-minut … ⌘ Read more