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Light Phone Is Making Its Dumb Phone More Useful With Third-Party ‘Tools’
Wired

A new developer program for LightOS allows anyone to create tools for the Light Phone, whether that’s a local public transit app for your city or a way to read ebooks.

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Two women die trying to cross Channel in small boat
BBC News

The boat, carrying 82 people, ran aground on a beach in northern France, says local official.

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Wildfire tears through hundreds of acres in Arizona
BBC News

Firefighters were tackling the blaze that local officials estimated to stretch 558 acres (2.3 sq km).

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How the winner-takes-all voting system has turned on Labour and the Tories
BBC News

The first-past-the-post system favoured Reform in this English local elections

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Palestinians in West Bank and some in Gaza vote in local elections
BBC News

Local elections are held in the occupied West Bank and in one Gazan city, though Hamas and other groups are not taking part.

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Georgia Data Center Secretly Guzzled 30 Million Gallons of Water Before Paying a Dime
Gizmodo.com

Local residents complained of low water pressure. When the county utility investigated, it realized a data center had been draining the water system for months without paying.

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Newscast
BBC News

Reform UK gains and Labour losses in the early English local election results.

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Meta is running get-rich-quick ads for its AI tools
The Verge

Manus, an AI company Meta acquired for $2 billion last year is running ads promising quick, easy money with AI: Find local businesses without websites or with bad websites, have AI build them one, then call them up and sell it to them. As part of the campaign…

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Calls grow over hospital care for jailed Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi
BBC News

On Friday her family said the 54-year-old had been taken from prison to a local hospital after a sharp deterioration in her health.

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Who won the local elections in Greenwich?
Yahoo Entertainment