South Koreans cast votes for new president to succeed Yoon after his ouster over martial law declaration

Millions of South Korean voters are casting their ballots on Tuesday for a new president in a snap election following the ouster of former President Yoon Suk Yeol. Yoon, a conservative, faces trial on rebellion charges over his short-lived martial law declaration in December. Pre-election surveys suggested Lee Jae-myung, Yoon’s liberal archrival, appeared poised to…

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Puerto Rico permits nonbinary gender marker on birth certificates in landmark court decision

Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court has reached a decision to allow nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people to update their birth certificates. The action was brought about by six non-binary individuals born in Puerto Rico who filed a lawsuit claiming that “the Commonwealth’s current Birth Certificate Policy violates the right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of…

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TikTok isn’t really working right now

Just after 11PM ET, many people started reporting problems with TikTok, which isn’t completely offline, but definitely has been dealing with some kind of outage. Downdetector listed 44,000 reports at our last check, and the issue isn’t fixed yet. Based on reports from Reddit, Twitter, Bluesky, and looking at our own devices, at the moment,…

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