Australia’s defense minister on Wednesday won a defamation case over a six-word tweet that called him a “rape apologist.” From a report: Critics and experts said the court case exemplified the conservative governmentâ(TM)s heavy-handed approach toward regulating damaging commentary on social media — what Prime Minister Scott Morrison called “a Read more…
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The U.S. city of Carmel, Indiana (population: 102,000) has 140 roundabouts, “with over a dozen still to come,” reports the New York Times. “No American city has more. The main reason is safety; compared with regular intersections, roundabouts significantly reduce injuries and deaths. “But there’s also a climate benefit.” Because Read more…
The north-German state of Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch to open source software…” reports Mike Saunders from LibreOffice. “By the end of 2026, Microsoft Office is to be replaced by LibreOffice on all 25,000 computers used by civil servants and employees (including teachers), and the Windows operating system is to be Read more…
