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.)
The FSF invited free software supporters to organize in-person community meetups in their area during May 2026, or LibreLocal month, to bring people together to swap ideas, learn from each other, and celebrate free software. People were encouraged to organize events grounded in freedom to help spread the free software philosophy.... "The success of these LibreLocals speaks to how many people globally are interested in free software and ready to build community, and it demonstrates the strength of our movement" [said FSF executive director Zoë Kooyman]. "People getting together like this also proves how computer freedom and digital rights are on people's minds. When we reject freedom-restricting software and promote software that respects user rights, it helps further so many other basic rights...."
The FSF has financially supported some of the events, but notes organizers are going above and beyond to create noteworthy events by any measure, and is impressed with the global network taking shape. "The energy we feel from all organizers is extremely motivating and we look forward to seeing LibreLocal events spread even wider over the next years! We want to support these initiatives even more, so we'll be looking to build a network of sponsors for future iterations as we work towards May 2027," says Heshan de Silva-Weeramuni, FSF program manager... William Goodspeed, the organizer behind the Beijing LibreLocal, reported that their meetup was double the size of last year's, and a number of very rich collaborative projects have emerged among the attendees.
Discussing the value of connecting people, de Silva-Weeramuni notes: "Free software supporters know that connecting with each other leads them to learn, experiment, and create great things that protect our individual and shared rights. The extraordinary contributions that free software has made to the world were born through such collaborations between like-minded people towards a freer society. This same global spirit of collectively building a better future is one of the inspiring things that we have once again seen unfold through this year's many LibreLocals."
The FSF invited free software supporters to organize in-person community meetups in their area during May 2026, or LibreLocal month, to bring people together to swap ideas, learn from each other, and celebrate free software. People were encouraged to organize events grounded in freedom to help spread the free software philosophy.... "The success of these LibreLocals speaks to how many people globally are interested in free software and ready to build community, and it demonstrates the strength of our movement" [said FSF executive director Zoë Kooyman]. "People getting together like this also proves how computer freedom and digital rights are on people's minds. When we reject freedom-restricting software and promote software that respects user rights, it helps further so many other basic rights...."
The FSF has financially supported some of the events, but notes organizers are going above and beyond to create noteworthy events by any measure, and is impressed with the global network taking shape. "The energy we feel from all organizers is extremely motivating and we look forward to seeing LibreLocal events spread even wider over the next years! We want to support these initiatives even more, so we'll be looking to build a network of sponsors for future iterations as we work towards May 2027," says Heshan de Silva-Weeramuni, FSF program manager... William Goodspeed, the organizer behind the Beijing LibreLocal, reported that their meetup was double the size of last year's, and a number of very rich collaborative projects have emerged among the attendees.
Discussing the value of connecting people, de Silva-Weeramuni notes: "Free software supporters know that connecting with each other leads them to learn, experiment, and create great things that protect our individual and shared rights. The extraordinary contributions that free software has made to the world were born through such collaborations between like-minded people towards a freer society. This same global spirit of collectively building a better future is one of the inspiring things that we have once again seen unfold through this year's many LibreLocals."
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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.
"The Merriam-Webster link is still in there, but you have to scroll..."
Earlier this week, Google rolled out a completely new Search experience, foregrounding AI summaries and kicking the traditional "10 blue links" far down the page. But the sheer scale of Google Search means there are lots of edge cases that the company doesn't seem to have considered...
Google has been catching some flack on social media for this, and it's easy to see why... For most users, that single reply is the only thing you'll see. And crucially, the AI response serves no conceivable value to a user searching the word "disregard." It's just a broken tool.
Google appears to have fixed the issue — sort of.
Now Googling the word "disregard" brings up a list of news stories about how Google's AI Overviews misinterpreted the word disregard in search queries.
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.
"The Merriam-Webster link is still in there, but you have to scroll..."
Earlier this week, Google rolled out a completely new Search experience, foregrounding AI summaries and kicking the traditional "10 blue links" far down the page. But the sheer scale of Google Search means there are lots of edge cases that the company doesn't seem to have considered...
Google has been catching some flack on social media for this, and it's easy to see why... For most users, that single reply is the only thing you'll see. And crucially, the AI response serves no conceivable value to a user searching the word "disregard." It's just a broken tool.
Google appears to have fixed the issue — sort of.
Now Googling the word "disregard" brings up a list of news stories about how Google's AI Overviews misinterpreted the word disregard in search queries.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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 goal set in 2015."
Researchers' new list of seven plausible carbon pollution scenarios for the future are pushing aside two staples of climate policy: the extremes on either end. The extremes have become less probable in the past several years because of how we power our world. Carbon dioxide, released from the burning of gas, oil and coal, is chiefly responsible for warming. Increasing use of green energies, like solar, wind and geothermal, which don't emit carbon dioxide, have lowered top end carbon pollution projections. However, because those changes haven't been fast enough, the bottom end projections have risen.
The Paris climate agreement in 2015 set a goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times, or the mid-1800s, giving rise to the mantra "1.5 to stay alive," but now scientists say that even their best case scenario still shoots past that signature temperature mark. On the other end, those same new scenarios no longer include the coal-heavy future that would lead to 4.5 degrees Celsius (8.1 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming by 2100, a scary scenario that many scientific studies used in their future projections.
The new proposed worst case scenario has an end-of-the-century warming of about 3.5 degrees Celsius (6.3 degrees Fahrenheit), a full degree (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) less than the old scenario, while the updated best case future is a couple tenths of a degree Celsius (0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than previously theorized, squeezing past the Paris goal, said climate scientist Detlef Van Vuuren of Utrecht University, lead author of a recent study laying out future scenarios. "There is kind of a narrowing of the futures. It cannot be as bad as we thought, but it cannot be as good as we hoped," said Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.
The scenarios include a "middle" one where by the end of the century the world warms 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, which is roughly the path society is currently on, scientists said... Because carbon pollution keeps rising globally and stays in the atmosphere for about century, the best case scenario is for warming to shoot past the 1.5 degree mark, peak at 1.7 degrees Celsius (3.1 degrees Fahrenheit) for maybe as long as 70 years, and eventually somehow come back down below 1.5 degrees if a technology can be designed to remove massive amounts of carbon from the air, said nine of the 10 scientists interviewed for this article. The world is warming at a pace of a tenth of a degree Celsius (nearly 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit) every five years, they said.
That's the good news. But the same research "also confirmed that there's no chance to limit warming to the international goal set in 2015."
Researchers' new list of seven plausible carbon pollution scenarios for the future are pushing aside two staples of climate policy: the extremes on either end. The extremes have become less probable in the past several years because of how we power our world. Carbon dioxide, released from the burning of gas, oil and coal, is chiefly responsible for warming. Increasing use of green energies, like solar, wind and geothermal, which don't emit carbon dioxide, have lowered top end carbon pollution projections. However, because those changes haven't been fast enough, the bottom end projections have risen.
The Paris climate agreement in 2015 set a goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times, or the mid-1800s, giving rise to the mantra "1.5 to stay alive," but now scientists say that even their best case scenario still shoots past that signature temperature mark. On the other end, those same new scenarios no longer include the coal-heavy future that would lead to 4.5 degrees Celsius (8.1 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming by 2100, a scary scenario that many scientific studies used in their future projections.
The new proposed worst case scenario has an end-of-the-century warming of about 3.5 degrees Celsius (6.3 degrees Fahrenheit), a full degree (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) less than the old scenario, while the updated best case future is a couple tenths of a degree Celsius (0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than previously theorized, squeezing past the Paris goal, said climate scientist Detlef Van Vuuren of Utrecht University, lead author of a recent study laying out future scenarios. "There is kind of a narrowing of the futures. It cannot be as bad as we thought, but it cannot be as good as we hoped," said Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.
The scenarios include a "middle" one where by the end of the century the world warms 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, which is roughly the path society is currently on, scientists said... Because carbon pollution keeps rising globally and stays in the atmosphere for about century, the best case scenario is for warming to shoot past the 1.5 degree mark, peak at 1.7 degrees Celsius (3.1 degrees Fahrenheit) for maybe as long as 70 years, and eventually somehow come back down below 1.5 degrees if a technology can be designed to remove massive amounts of carbon from the air, said nine of the 10 scientists interviewed for this article. The world is warming at a pace of a tenth of a degree Celsius (nearly 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit) every five years, they said.
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Lando Norris gained a position during the Sprint in Canada after Kimi Antonelli ran wide while battling George Russell.
Kimi Antonelli admits that he will "need to review" the incident between himself and team mate George Russell during the Canadian Grand Prix Sprint, with the Mercedes driver initially suggesting he was "pushed off".
Charles Leclerc is feeling more positive about what might be possible for Ferrari in the Canadian Grand Prix due to his pace en route to P5 in Saturday's Sprint.
Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff has given his verdict on the clash between Kimi Antonelli and George Russell in the Canadian Grand Prix Sprint, stating "you can't expect to have a lion in the car and a puppy outside" regarding the Italian teenager.
George Russell survived a tense clash with his team mate Kimi Antonelli to win the Sprint in Canada.
George Russell has reflected on his victory in the Canada Sprint, with the Briton reacting to the close battle he shared with Mercedes team mate Kimi Antonelli.
We’ve picked the best odds available on the market to anyone looking to bet on the Canadian Grand Prix Qualifying session.
Alisha Palmowski claimed a commanding win in the Opening Race of the F1 ACADEMY weekend in Montreal.
Gisèle Pelicot was drugged and sexually assaulted by her husband and several other men over almost a decade
Gisèle Pelicot has described the moment she fell in love and was able to trust again after her rape ordeal orchestrated by her former husband in France.
Pelicot, 73, waived her right to anonymity during the trial of Dominique Pelicot, who was jailed for 20 years in 2024 for drugging and raping her and allowing other men to sexually assault her while she was unconscious, over almost a decade.
Speaking at the Hay festival in Wales on Saturday, she said she never thought she could trust a man again before meeting her partner, Jean-Loup Agopian.
The campaigner said: “It’s something that I didn’t think could happen, especially at my age, first of all, I didn’t really want to fall in love, but life decided otherwise.
“We met, our trajectories crossed at one moment and I met this young man of 73… You see, you can fall in love at any age, it happened to me, it can happen to you, I’m convinced of it.
“I didn’t think that I’d be able to trust a man, but it’s what happened to me, so you see that everything can be allowed in life, you must never despair.”
Pelicot appeared at the festival to discuss her memoir A Hymn to Life and was interviewed on stage by Lady Kennedy.
She said that “society has got to wake up” on the issue of violence against women, and that it’s an “appalling evil that touches all borders”.
Continue reading...Five times the bridesmaid, finally the bride, the Barcelona forward Ewa Pajor shrugged off the pain of all her Champions League final losses, scoring twice, as they punished a profligate Lyonnes to earn a fourth European title.
Pajor stole the show, before Salma Paralluelo’s sublime double at the death doubled their tally. The Polish forward moved two goals clear of Alessia Russo’s nine to secure this season’s golden boot, but it was the trophy with sweeping ribbon-like handles that was all Pajor coveted.
Continue reading...Order aimed at preventing spread of Ebola to US affects travelers who have visited three countries in last 21 days
US authorities have temporarily banned green-card holders from entering the country if they have traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda or South Sudan in the last 21 days.
The order issued on Friday is part of an expanding attempt to prevent Ebola from entering US borders. A previously announced travel restriction blocked only people without US passports who had visited those countries from entering but exempted US citizens and lawful permanent residents.
Continue reading...NIJMEGEN (ANP) - De patiënt die op 21 mei in het Radboudumc is opgenomen wegens een lage verdenking op ebola, is negatief getest op die ziekte. "Dat betekent dat uit bloedonderzoek blijkt dat deze patiënt geen ebola heeft. De patiënt krijgt de nodige zorg op een normale zorgafdeling", meldt het Nijmeegse ziekenhuis zaterdag.
Over de identiteit van de patiënt konden het Radboudumc en het RIVM eerder niets zeggen. Hij of zij lag aanvankelijk op een speciaal ingerichte afdeling voor ernstige infectieziekten.
SergioQ79 - Osanpo Photographer - has added a photo to the pool:
Nagoya di sera rallenta improvvisamente.
Tra edifici più moderni compare questa piccola struttura consumata dal tempo.
“Harikyū” e “massage”: agopuntura, moxibustione, massaggi.
Un tipo di attività che in Giappone continua a esistere in silenzio, spesso negli stessi edifici da decenni.
L’insegna scolorita, i muri segnati dall’umidità, la strada bagnata e il neon minimo raccontano una città molto diversa da quella piena di schermi e rumore.
Una Nagoya più ferma, più quotidiana.
夜の名古屋は急に静かになる。
新しい建物の間に、時間が止まったような小さな建物が残っている。
「はり灸」と「マッサージ」。
鍼灸や昔ながらの施術を行う場所。
色あせた看板、湿気で傷んだ壁、濡れた道路、最低限の灯り。
そこにはネオン街とは違う名古屋の姿がある。
もっと静かで、もっと普通の夜。
Nagoya slows down at night.
Between newer buildings, this small timeworn structure suddenly appears.
“Harikyū” and “massage”: acupuncture, moxibustion and traditional treatments.
The kind of business that still quietly exists in Japan, often inside the same buildings for decades.
The faded signs, humid walls, wet street and minimal neon lighting reveal a very different side of the city.
A quieter, more ordinary Nagoya.
SergioQ79 - Osanpo Photographer - posted a photo:
Nagoya di sera rallenta improvvisamente.
Tra edifici più moderni compare questa piccola struttura consumata dal tempo.
“Harikyū” e “massage”: agopuntura, moxibustione, massaggi.
Un tipo di attività che in Giappone continua a esistere in silenzio, spesso negli stessi edifici da decenni.
L’insegna scolorita, i muri segnati dall’umidità, la strada bagnata e il neon minimo raccontano una città molto diversa da quella piena di schermi e rumore.
Una Nagoya più ferma, più quotidiana.
夜の名古屋は急に静かになる。
新しい建物の間に、時間が止まったような小さな建物が残っている。
「はり灸」と「マッサージ」。
鍼灸や昔ながらの施術を行う場所。
色あせた看板、湿気で傷んだ壁、濡れた道路、最低限の灯り。
そこにはネオン街とは違う名古屋の姿がある。
もっと静かで、もっと普通の夜。
Nagoya slows down at night.
Between newer buildings, this small timeworn structure suddenly appears.
“Harikyū” and “massage”: acupuncture, moxibustion and traditional treatments.
The kind of business that still quietly exists in Japan, often inside the same buildings for decades.
The faded signs, humid walls, wet street and minimal neon lighting reveal a very different side of the city.
A quieter, more ordinary Nagoya.
Een 48-jarige Rotterdammer is zaterdagochtend om 06:00 uur aangehouden, nadat hij auto's bleek te hebben vernield met een schroevendraaier. Dit gebeurde op de Rechter Rottekade.
Multi-instrumentalist en singer-songwriter Bob Seger word hier in ere gehouden met deze cover van een liedje uit 1972 over de eenzaamheid en verveling die gepaard gaat met het beroep van rondreizend muzikant.
Er kleeft minder glamour aan dat bestaan dan je zou denken. Een carrière van zestig jaar, van 1961 tot 2019. Achttien studioplaten, met een verkoopcijfer van 75 miljoen. En wie kent ‘m nog?
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