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
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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

Harvard Votes On Limiting ‘A’ Grades
Harvard faculty are voting on a proposal (PDF) to curb grade inflation by limiting solid A grades to 20% of students in a class, plus four additional A’s per course. Axios reports: Grade inflation is at a tipping point at Harvard. A move to make A grades harder to come by at one of the world’s leading universities could influence grading debates at peer institutions. Solid A’s account for nearly two-thi … ⌘ Read more

Violences sexuelles dans la culture: une proposition de loi déposée, mais loin d’être votée
Les parlementaires qui avaient mené une commission d’enquête sur le sujet ont choisi le premier jour de compétition cannoise pour déposer un texte contenant des mesures générales en faveur des victimes de violences sexuelles. Lequel devra se frayer un chemin dans l’agenda très serré de l’Assemblée. ⌘ Read more

Le Sénat rejette l’aide à mourir et vote pour le développement des soins palliatifs
Pour la seconde fois, le Sénat a rejeté le texte sur l’aide à mourir, dès son article 2. Le texte doit donc repartir à l’Assemblée. Une très large majorité a en revanche été trouvée en faveur des soins palliatifs. ⌘ Read more

Google DeepMind Workers Vote To Unionize Over Military AI Deals
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Employees at Google DeepMind in London have voted to unionize as part of a bid to block the AI lab from providing its technology to the US and Israeli militaries. In a letter addressed to Google’s managing director for the UK and Ireland, Debbie Weinstein, the workers asked the company to recognize th … ⌘ Read more

Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals
UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings. ⌘ Read more

Musk v. Altman Kicks Off, DOJ Guts Voting Rights Unit, and Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we get into how the Elon Musk-Sam Altman trial goes way beyond their rivalry and could have major implications both for OpenAI and also the AI industry at large. ⌘ Read more

How Trump Weaponized the DOJ Division That Kept Elections Fair
The Trump administration has effectively forced out more than two dozen experienced lawyers from the DOJ’s Voting Section, the part of the agency responsible for upholding the Voting Rights Act. ⌘ Read more

The Justice Department Has Destroyed Its Voting Rights Section
There were around 30 attorneys in the DOJ’s voting section on the day of Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Three months later, all but two were gone. Now the election deniers are in control. ⌘ Read more

The Justice Department Has Destroyed Its Voting Rights Section
There were around 30 attorneys in the DOJ’s Voting Section on the day of Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Three months later, all but two were gone. Now the election deniers are in control. ⌘ Read more

Community Votes to Deny Water to Nuclear Weapons Data Center
A Michigan township has voted to impose a one-year moratorium on providing water to hyperscale data centers, a move aimed at delaying a planned facility that would support Los Alamos National Laboratory’s nuclear weapons research. The moratorium may not be enough to stop the project, however: “the University and LANL plan to break ground on the data cent … ⌘ Read more

Fedora Verified: a proposal to recognize Fedora contributor status
The Fedora Project has been wrestling with the question of who should be able to vote in\
Fedora elections recently, with project membership being a major topic at\
the Fedora Council face-to-face held in early February. Now the
project is considering a new contributor status, “Fedora Verified”,
and is [looking\
to get input](https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-verified-rec … ⌘ Read more

US Congress Fails to Pass Long-Term FISA Extension, Authorizes It Through April 30
Yesterday the U.S. Congress approved “a short-term extension” of a FISA law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets, reports CNN — but only until April 30. Republican congressional leaders had sought an 18-month extension, but “failed to secure” the votes after “clamoring from some … ⌘ Read more

Tech Companies Are Trying To Neuter Colorado’s Landmark Right-to-Repair Law
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Today at a hearing of the Colorado Senate Business, Labor, and Technology committee, lawmakers voted unanimously to move Colorado state bill SB26-090 – titled Exempt Critical Infrastructure from Right to Repair – out of committee and into the state senate and house for a vote. … ⌘ Read more

Swiss E-Voting Pilot Can’t Count 2,048 Ballots After USB Keys Fail To Decrypt Them
A Swiss e-voting pilot was suspended after officials couldn’t decrypt 2,048 ballots because the USB keys needed to unlock them failed. “Three USB sticks were used, all with the correct code, but none of them worked,” spokesperson Marco Greiner told the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation’s Swissinfo service. The canton … ⌘ Read more

Swiss Vote Places Right To Use Cash In Country’s Constitution
Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to use physical cash. “The vote means Switzerland will join the likes of Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, which have already written the right to cold, hard cash in their constitutions,” reports Politico. From the report: Official results revealed that 73.4 percent of … ⌘ Read more

DuckDuckGo Users Vote Overwhelmingly Against AI Features
DuckDuckGo recently asked its users how they felt about AI in search. The answer has come back loud and clear: more than 90% of the 175,354 people who voted said they don’t want it.

The privacy-focused search engine has since set up two versions of its tool: noai.duckduckgo.com for the AI-averse and yesai.duckduckgo.com for the curious. Users can also tweak se … ⌘ Read more

French Lawmakers Vote To Ban Social Media Use By Under-15s
French lawmakers have voted to ban social media access for children under 15 and prohibit mobile phones in high schools, positioning France as the second country after Australia to impose sweeping age-based digital restrictions. The Guardian reports: The lower national assembly adopted the text by a vote of 130 to 21 in a lengthy overnight session from Mon … ⌘ Read more