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Australia recruit Hussey for Ashes build-up

Australia recruit Michael Hussey as a long-term batting consultant to help them prepare for the 2027 Ashes and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

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Salon, internet’s oldest general interest publication, shuts down after 31 years

Website known for politics, arts and culture coverage announces closure just weeks before anniversary Salon, one of the early internet’s pioneering publications, is closing after more than three decades, the outlet announced on Thursday. “It’s difficult to find the right words for the end of something that has meant so much to so many people. Salon was never just a website,” Salon said in a statement. “It was an idea about what journalism could be, born at a moment when the internet was still a largely unexplored frontier.” Continue reading...

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Salon, internet’s oldest general interest publication, shuts down after 31 years

Website known for politics, arts and culture coverage announces closure just weeks before anniversary Salon, one of the early internet’s pioneering publications, is closing after more than three decades, the outlet announced on Thursday. “It’s difficult to find the right words for the end of something that has meant so much to so many people. Salon was never just a website,” Salon said in a statement. “It was an idea about what journalism could be, born at a moment when the internet was still a largely unexplored frontier.” Continue reading...

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Google, Meta and TikTok sue California to block law protecting children from addiction risk

Law bans social media platforms from providing minors features such as autoplay that lead to compulsive use Google, Meta and TikTok have sued California to block enforcement of ⁠a new state law intended ⁠to limit the risk ​of addicting children under 16 to social media platforms. The law, known as Assembly Bill 1709, prohibits such platforms from offering underage children “psychologically exploitative features” that could lead to compulsive use, such as providing ⁠personal recommendations and sending videos through autoplay features. It also requires the deletion of children’s accounts with t

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Google, Meta and TikTok sue California to block law protecting children from addiction risk

Law bans social media platforms from providing minors features such as autoplay that lead to compulsive use Google, Meta and TikTok have sued California to block enforcement of ⁠a new state law intended ⁠to limit the risk ​of addicting children under 16 to social media platforms. The law, known as Assembly Bill 1709, prohibits such platforms from offering underage children “psychologically exploitative features” that could lead to compulsive use, such as providing ⁠personal recommendations and sending videos through autoplay features. It also requires the deletion of children’s accounts with t

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Serbia has banished the monsters from Belgrade – it was, and still is, a truly wonderful revolution

The Student List has shown my generation, who protested against the Milošević regime in the 1990s, how we should have done it, says Serbian writer Barbi Marković

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Tokyo demands Moscow release seized Japan Tobacco assets

Tokyo said Friday it had demanded the immediate release of Japan Tobacco's assets seized in Russia, as relations with Moscow sour following the arrest of a Japanese journalist on spying allegations.

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Australia recruit Hussey as consultant for Ashes and 2027 World Cup

Mike Hussey was Friday appointed a consultant coach to the Australian team for next year's blockbuster Ashes series against England and the 2027 World Cup.

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BBL veteran Chris Lynn serves secret drugs ban after allegedly testing positive for cocaine

Big Bash League record runscorer handed one-month suspension after he was tested on day he played in England’s T20 Blast finals in July

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Pope Leo on emotional South America tour weeks after cancer surgery

Pope Leo XIV heads to South America on Friday for an emotionally charged reunion with the continent that helped shape his priesthood, three weeks after undergoing lung cancer surgery.

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Tech firms suffer bloodbath as US midterms fuel AI fears

Asian tech firms suffered a bloodbath Friday as investors tracked a collapse on Wall Street fuelled by fears that Democrats will ramp up regulations of the AI industry following their blowout victory…

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