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Animal Rising to Release Factory Farm Footage in Legal Challenge to UK Government, Demands 2040 Phase-Out https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/animal-rising-release-factory-farm-footage-legal-challenge-uk-government/

Animal Rising to Release Factory Farm Footage in Legal Challenge to UK Government, Demands 2040 Phase-Out - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
British animal rights organization Animal Rising has announced it will release previously unseen footage from inside British factory farms on September 1,

Kaliforniens Gouverneur lässt Kill Switch für KIs prüfen
Kaliforniens Gouverneur Gavin Newsom hat eine Executive Order erlassen, die nun unter anderem einen „Kill Switch“ für KI-Modelle prüfen lässt.
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Kaliforniens Gouverneur lässt Kill Switch für KIs prüfen
Kaliforniens Gouverneur Gavin Newsom hat eine Executive Order erlassen, die nun unter anderem einen „Kill Switch“ für KI-Modelle prüfen lässt.

The Irish government has cancelled a planned procurement framework worth up to €1bn for Microsoft software and services after concerns were raised during the tender process.
https://www.computing.co.uk/ne…

Ireland scraps €1bn Microsoft tender after procurement concerns
The Irish government has cancelled a planned procurement framework worth up to €1bn for Microsoft software and services after concerns were raised during the tender ...

A UK report on the plan to require social platforms to prominently show "trustworthy news" acknowledges that criteria for trustworthiness are yet to be defined (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/the-brit

The British government wants to force more trustworthy news into your doomscrolling
The British government is asking social media companies to put more news — real news, produced by public service broadcasters like the BBC — high up in people's feeds. And if companies refuse, it'll pass laws to require it. That's the main takeaway from a new report issued Tuesday on a host …

Sources: the Trump administration is pressing Meta to submit its AI models for voluntary review; Meta is the only major US AI developer without an agreement (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/busines

U.S. Presses Meta to Agree to A.I. Reviews
Federal officials are urging the lone major tech company holdout to allow government safety evaluations, weeks after ordering Anthropic to pull its latest model.

The title of this letter gives a flavour of what the UK looks like from the outside:

"Can post-Brexit Britain become governable?"
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/06/23/whether-post-brexit-…

Can post-Brexit Britain become governable?
Good luck to Andy Burnham in trying to find a path that has eluded the last five prime ministers

Mexican government list of journalists and political opponents sparks outcry
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is under fire after a top aide publicly named dozens of journalists, media outlets and opposition figures as part of a
hostile ‘digital ecosystem’ attacking her government.
Critics decry the lists as blacklists that stigmatize independent media in one of the world’s deadliest countries for reporters.
The release of the lists comes as Sheinbaum’s administr…

Did Mexico create a blacklist of journalists and politicians? The president says no
The Mexican government's creation of lists of journalists and opposition figures has stirred memories of the 'enemies list' of the Nixon administration in the U.S.

POL-GF: Beim Onlinekauf entscheidet die Zahlungsart LK Gifhorn (ots) - Die Polizeiinspektion Gifhorn ermittelt aktuell in zwei Betrugsfällen beim Onlinehandel. In beiden Fällen hatten Personen aus dem Landkreis Gifhorn Waren über verschiedene Verkaufsplattformen erworben. Die gewählte Zahlungsart ... https://www.pressepo…

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a stopgap measure to head off a government shutdown until early December,
with its Republican leaders seeking to defuse a volatile issue in the run-up to the November midterm elections.
The continuing resolution authorizing government spending until 4 December passed by a vote of 220-205,
roughly along party lines.
It next heads to the Senate, where it will need to win bipartisan support to clear the chamber.
T…

House passes spending bill to head off government shutdown before midterms
Measure authorizes spending until 4 December as Republicans seek to avoid volatile issue in election season

POL-GF: Polizeieinsatz im Gifhorner Norden Gifhorn (ots) - Am heutigen Nachmittag kam es in der Straße "Hohe Luft" in Gifhorn zu einem Polizeieinsatz. Eine Anwohnerin hatte gegen 13:05 Uhr über den Polizeinotruf gemeldet, dass ein Mann auf seinem Balkon einen schusswaffenähnlichen ... https://www.presseportal.d…