China Plays Rare Earths Card in EV Tariff Negotiations With EU
China Plays Rare Earths Card in EV Tariff Negotiations With EU
Negotiations around Beijing's rare earth blockade have now become part of talks on the EU's tariffs on China-made electric vehicles (EVs)Asia Financial
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What the U.S. Feared Is Happening: China’s Chip Empire Is No Longer a Fantasy—Huawei and Xiaomi Just Opened a New Front
What the U.S. Feared Is Happening: China’s Chip Empire Is No Longer a Fantasy—Huawei and Xiaomi Just Opened a New Front
Cut off from U.S. technology, China’s biggest tech giants weren’t supposed to recover this fast. A surprise comeback is reshaping the balance in the chip industry. What Huawei and Xiaomi pulled off is already turning heads in Washington.Evelyn Hart (Indian Defence Review)
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OpenAI, which is also fighting a string of copyright lawsuits, donated $50 million this year to a group of research institutions including Oxford University’s 400-year-old Bodleian Library, which is digitizing rare texts and using AI to help transcribe them.When the company first reached out to the Boston Public Library, one of the biggest in the U.S., the library made clear that any information it digitized would be for everyone, said Jessica Chapel, its chief of digital and online services.
“OpenAI had this interest in massive amounts of training data. We have an interest in massive amounts of digital objects. So this is kind of just a case that things are aligning,” Chapel said.
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UK | Fewer than half of young men believe abortion should be legal, poll finds
Exclusive: Just 46 per cent of young men support abortion in all or most cases, almost half as many as older generations
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2 killed and 32 injured after a bridge collapses at a tourist destination in western India
At least two people have died and 32 others are injured after an iron bridge over a river collapsed at a popular tourist destination in India’s western Maharashtra state
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Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds
Lowy Institute report shows trust in the US has tumbled to lowest level since thinktank began polling
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What makes the US the most powerful country in the world? It's our cultural exports, our educational institutions, and our technology. We spent decades handing all our technology over to China, and undermining education. Now Trump has poisoned the American brand for at least a generation.
China is way ahead on building a science and technology culture, and promoting education. The dividends from those investments are already paying off, and they are going to start compounding.
A lot of Americans still think of China as the place to make cheap goods, but their manufacturing sector has benefited from decades of stolen expertise. It turns out there are benefits from having engineers and factory workers in the same location. Faster feedback means faster development. Now the US is falling behind.
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Hot air balloon accidents in Turkey: 1 dead, 31 injured
The pilot of one of the balloons lost his life, 31 tourists were injured.
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Israel kills 59 Palestinians in Gaza, many while trying to get aid
Thirteen starving Palestinians killed while trying to get food near the Netzarim Corridor and in Rafah’s al-Mawasi area.
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Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository
Trump administration's whole-government AI plans leaked on GitHub
: The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished when we asked questions, but don't worry - we captured backupsBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
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This Microsoft-backed AI startup just collapsed after faking its AI services with 700 real engineers
Microsoft backed this $1.5 billion AI startup that was just discovered to be 700 engineers pretending to be AI
In a story that sounds like it's out of a sitcom, "AI" startup Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and publicly backed by Microsoft, has just collapsed after it was discovered its AI was actually just 700 Indian engineers manually working on tick…Zac Bowden (Windows Central)
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Advice on a CAD solution
I'm in need of a CAD program with an easy aproach for someone with zero experience on this type of software.
3D printing is not a concern
I intend to draw the blueprints for my house. The building is old, no blueprints exist for it, and I intend to make renovations to it, so having blueprints to work on to plan the renovations will be a huge help.
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I've been doing amazing stuff in FreeCAD. It has a lot of power that lets me do things I never thought I would be able to do. It's also riddled with bugs that will make you want to throw your computer out the window.
My success with FreeCAD comes from extremely strict version control and years of use. I've learned to live with a few specific bugs. For example, external geometry doesn't work and hasn't for 14 months. Don't believe the forum when they say it works. It does not. In any given sketch, you will be able to make is 0 or 1 external link work properly without breaking your drawing. If you have more than one external link, even if you aren't using any of them, it will give you a "wire not closed" error when trying to pad or pocket.
Oddly, the subshape binder works perfectly and it is the illegitimate brother of external links. It even uses the external link tool to define import links from the binder object. Using a master sketch and the subshape binder is absolutely brilliant and wildly productive.
It comes down to having several tools to do any given thing but only one or two may be working.
There is a decent architectural plug-in for FreeCAD. I think Yorik wrote it, some time ago, but it's brilliant. I've used it for doing exactly what you describe on several house projects and it's helped quite a bit with renovations.
SweetHome3d is also a decent app but extremely primative and it's not going to create professional looking blueprints for anyone. It's really just a toy but can be extremely useful for mocking up a design or room layout. I have used it for years with great benefit. It's simple, quite powerful, and a brilliant visualization tool.
Honestly, if you want to create real blueprints to give to a builder, you're going to need Windows or OSX and one of a handful of applications, preeminently AutoDesk REVIT. REVIT is probably over specified for your purpose but it's the adult table. At least know it's there if you find linux apps have too many shortcomings.
Look at QCad. They have a paid ($40), and a free version that is fully functional and open source. It's the most autocad-like app out there, so learning that has the advantage of learning the UI of autocad too.
LibreCad that others suggested was forked from Qcad about 15 years ago and hasn't moved much in terms of features. While QCad has. So in my opinion, it's the best solution.
Then there's Freecad, but that's more about 3D cad, and it's more complicated overall.
Saudi Arabia executes journalist Turki al-Jasser on treason, terrorism charges
Saudi Arabia executes journalist Turki al-Jasser on treason, terrorism charges - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., June 14, 2025 — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior announced the Saturday execution of prominent Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, who had been detained for seven years on charges of treason, foreign collaboration, funding terroris…CPJ Staff (Committee to Protect Journalists)
Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived
Nadya Tolokonnikova, the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, was sitting in a replica Russian prison cell in downtown Los Angeles when the police started shutting down the streets around the art museum.
Tolokonnikova was only three and a half days into what was supposed to be a “durational performance” reenacting her two years as a political prisoner in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
But Donald Trump had ordered national guard troops into Los Angeles, over the objections of California’s governor, and the protests against immigration raids that Trump wanted to target were happening just a block from the gallery where Tolokonnikova was performing.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) hastily decided to shut its doors. But Tolokonnikova, 35, whose political art has left her as a wanted criminal in Russia, chose to continue her performance inside the empty museum.
“Police State Exhibit Closed Today Due to the Police State,” she posted on Instagram.
Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived
Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police stateLois Beckett (The Guardian)
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Trump vetoed Israeli plan to kill Iranian supreme leader: US official
Washington (AFP) – US President Donald Trump vetoed an Israeli plan to assassinate Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a senior US official told AFP Sunday."We found out that the Israelis had plans to hit Iran's supreme leader. President Trump was against it and we told the Israelis not to," said the US official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Earlier Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dodged a question about reports that Trump had asked his country not to kill Khamenei.
"I'm not going to get into that," he told Fox News.
"But I can tell you,... we'll do what we need to do, and I think the United States knows what is good for the United States," he said.
The comments came as Israel and Iran exchanged another barrage of missiles Sunday, with residents told to seek shelter as booms were heard over Jerusalem, and aerial defense systems reportedly activated in Tehran.
After decades of enmity and a prolonged shadow war fought through proxies and covert operations, the latest conflict marked the first time the countries have traded fire with such intensity, triggering fears of a lengthy conflict that could engulf the entire Middle East.
It began Friday, when Israel launched an attack that has killed top military commanders and nuclear scientists, and struck military bases, nuclear sites and residential areas across the country.
As Israel struck targets across Iran again on Sunday, Netanyahu vowed to make the country pay a "heavy price" for killing Israeli civilians.
He also strongly suggested to Fox News that Israel had killed Iran's intelligence chief Mohammad Kazemi, saying it had recently "got the chief intelligence officer and his deputy in Tehran" as its jets carried out raids over the capital.
Trump has insisted that Washington, a strong ally of Israel, "had nothing to do" with Israel's bombing campaign.
But he also threatened to unleash "the full strength and might" of the US military if Iran attacked US interests, later urging the two foes to "make a deal."
Trump stressed to ABC News Sunday that the United States is "not at this moment" involved in the military action, but said it was "possible we could get involved."
He also said he would be "open" to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin being a mediator to resolve the conflict.
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Two tutorials to start 3d on godot - super simple
I found these two super simple tutorials to get started with a 3d character and its animation tree.
Is there a way to have the script automatically written by the animationtre ?
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NASA Mars Orbiter Captures Volcano Peeking Above Morning Cloud Tops
NASA Mars Orbiter Captures Volcano Peeking Above Morning Cloud Tops
The 2001 Odyssey spacecraft captured a first-of-its-kind look at Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earth’s tallest volcanoes.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week
A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week
The NISAR satellite will be able to detect centimetre-sized changes on Earth’s surface, providing crucial data for agriculture and climate modelling.The Conversation
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A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week
A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week
The NISAR satellite will be able to detect centimetre-sized changes on Earth’s surface, providing crucial data for agriculture and climate modelling.The Conversation
'Immediate' Pirate IPTV Shutdowns? No Problem, Please Ask Us Yesterday * TorrentFreak
'Immediate' Pirate IPTV Shutdowns? No Problem, Please Ask Us Yesterday * TorrentFreak
Sports rightsholders have revised their calls for illegal streams to be taken down inside 30 minutes, with “immediately” the new standard.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
Corrupt Russian officers are suspected to be selling information to Ukraine
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Migrating qbit data from Mac to Linux
Hello all,
I'm having some issues that probably stem from lack of education on computers, so if some kind soles out there can give me some assistance I'd very much appreciate it.
My immediate goal is to take all my torrent data from my MacBook qbittorrent (latest version) to my old laptop that I just loaded ElementaryOS on. This way I can have my files seeding at all times instead of when I have my mac up and running. I have all the actual media on a external SSD so I don't have to or want to redownload all the torrents on the Elementary pc.
I've done some basic reading but all the articles and youtube vids I see are just migrating from one windows to another windows machine. Duplicating the data in the app data and drag and dropping it. I've even seen the recommendation to have the same version of qbittorrent to make the swap easy. Now my under educated mind is confused on going from Mac to Linux since its a completely different OS and therefore a different "version" of qbit. I imagine its possible but I'm feeling out of my depth.
I'd really love if someone can point me in the right direction if they can.
On the Mac, open qbittorrent, select all torrents in the client, and export them as torrent files or magnets, whichever you prefer.
Copy all the torrent/magnet files to a thumb drive or something and copy them to the elementary laptop.
On the elementary laptop, start without an internet connection. Connect the external drive with all the downloaded files, mount it if elementary doesn't auto mount it, and note the path.
Open qbittorrent.
Set the default save path in qbittorrent to the path of the mounted drive with all of your downloaded files.
If you want to do it in bulk, now add all the torrent files to QBittorrent. You may have to verify the file location for the torrents to make sure it sees the files on the drive.
Once you're certain all the loaded torrents are pointing to the save path for the files, you can close qbittorrent, connect the laptop to the internet, and relaunch qbittorrent.
It should verify all the files it finds for the torrents, which can take some time if you have a lot of torrents, and once verified it'll automatically start seeding
Goid luck!!
That's the process I've used when switching machines for seeding, and it works great, just takes time for it to recheck all the files.
I followed your guide and everything works perfectly now! Thanks so much. I hope you don’t mind if I ask you a follow up question since you seem wise in the ways of wizardry.
I’m hoping to make this old laptop a jellyfin server as well. And this may seem a dumb question but I’d be remiss not to ask. I’m planning to leave this plugged in all the time. I already turned off the sleep/suspend feature. Is it safe to keep the battery in? To remove the battery I’d have to open it up and remove it and I don’t know if it’s worth the hassle.
Again thanks for your previous advice and if you have the time to answer this double thanks
Trump’s Military Parade Gives Shoutouts To Corporate Donors: ‘Special Thanks To Our Sponsor – Coinbase’
That included Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange that donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee in January. The following month, Trump’s Securities and Exchange Commission dismissed a lawsuit against the company.
Trump’s Military Parade Gives Shoutouts To Corporate Donors: ‘Special Thanks To Our Sponsor – ...
President Donald Trump's military parade on Saturday featured 22 corporate and foundation sponsors, some of which received shoutouts over the public address system.Michael Luciano (Mediaite)
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Prefiguration.
The idea of resisting domination by living outside it. Creating your own grassroots community structures without state or corporate control.
'Immediate' Pirate IPTV Shutdowns? No Problem, Please Ask Us Yesterday
Sports rightsholders have revised their calls for illegal streams to be taken down inside 30 mins. It must now happen much more quickly, with the word 'immediately' given the thumbs up. How much of this additional pressure is bargaining strategy isn't clear, but in site-blocking countries like Italy, the UK, and Canada, detecting pirate infrastructure isn't a last minute effort. Many targets earmarked for blocking are identified not just hours in advance, but in some cases days earlier.
'Immediate' Pirate IPTV Shutdowns? No Problem, Please Ask Us Yesterday * TorrentFreak
Sports rightsholders have revised their calls for illegal streams to be taken down inside 30 minutes, with “immediately” the new standard.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
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No names are mentioned in the submission but platforms including Twitch, Vercel, Scaleway, and CDN77, were previously reported as voluntarily cooperating after their IP addresses kept getting blocked as LaLiga aggressively pursued action against pirate sites. As a result of this voluntary cooperation, disruption to their businesses due to site blocking measures seemed to reduce quite quickly.Set company on fire.
Company cooperate to not get set on fire.
"Voluntary cooperation is high"
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Why boycotting the Harry Potter TV show accomplishes nothing and what to do instead.
I have to say, this is just such an in-the-weeds moral stance that it crosses the boundary of reasonableness. Honestly, it's this sort of thing that drove me away from left wing styles of thinking a while ago.
The impact you make on the world in any of your possible actions with regard to Harry Potter is miniscule. Like, truly, utterly insignificant. Are you going to organize an anti-potter boycott? Participate in a protest? Harass the actors in an online trolling movement? Throw eggs at JK Rawling's house? Great! Go do all those things! Actively participate in changing the world for the better! These actions might actually lead to real change.
But denying yourself pleasures in the name of moral purity accomplishes nothing. If all you do is sit at home and think to yourself "I wanna watch the new Harry Potter thing, but I can't, because then I'm a bad person." (or in this case, "I wanna talk to my friends about the new Harry Potter thing I pirated, but I can't, because then I'm a bad person) then you are accomplishing literally nothing except making yourself miserable. Again, if you are going to actually do something, then go do it! But if you don't have the time or energy or interest or social battery to actually do something, then shaming yourself or others into not doing things is actively counterproductive. Go take a road trip without calculating if the pleasure you will derive is worth the carbon footprint! Eat an ice cream cone without feeling bad about the the suffering of the factory farmed cow it came from! Get one of those good-paying jobs in oil and gas or defence and make some goddamned money! You are simply not important enough for any of these actions to have any actual real-world impact. The only thing that happens is that you convince yourself that if you ever enjoy anything, then you are a bad person. You train yourself to constantly be looking for the ways in which life's simple pleasures are destroying the world, so you can feel bad about them.
Just stop it. Be happy. Do whatever you need to do to chill out and enjoy your life and gain some sense of contentedness and security. And then go out and make the world a better place by actually doing something. Hyper-anxious, shame-ridden, depressed know-it-alls rarely create effective social change because no one wants to hang out with them. No one see them and thinks "yeah, that's what I want my life to look like."
In order to lead by example you have to show a path to a better world. Not a cell.
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“The squirt guns are to bother the tourists a bit,” Andreu Martínez said with a chuckle after spritzing a couple seated at an outdoor cafe. “Barcelona has been handed to the tourists. This is a fight to give Barcelona back to its residents.”Martínez says his rent has risen over 30% as more apartments in his neighborhood are rented to tourists for short-term stays. He said there is a knock-on effect of traditional stores being replaced by businesses catering to tourists, like souvenir shops, burger joints and “bubble tea” spots.
“Our lives, as lifelong residents of Barcelona, is coming to an end,” he said. “We are being pushed out systematically.”
They have a point. People may dismiss this as “xenophobia” but I see it more as a matter of class divisions where rich tourists are prioritised over lower class residents.
windowsanza nonaggiornante quando il disco è fuso al completo
Qualche ora fa, semplicemente accendendo il PC, ho involontariamente e accidentalmente (perché non lo stavo affatto cercando, e perché la situazione per cui questa cosa è possibile è parecchio problematica sotto tutti gli altri punti di vista) scoperto un modo per bloccare permanentemente gli aggiornamenti automatici di Windows… senza smanettare, senza fare cose strane, senza […]
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windowsanza nonaggiornante quando il disco è fuso al completo
Qualche ora fa, semplicemente accendendo il PC, ho involontariamente e accidentalmente (perché non lo stavo affatto cercando, e perché la situazione per cui questa cosa è possibile è parecchio problematica sotto tutti gli altri punti di vista) scoperto un modo per bloccare permanentemente gli aggiornamenti automatici di Windows… senza smanettare, senza fare cose strane, senza nemmeno essere un amministratore del sistema. Per l’appunto, non era mia intenzione bloccare gli aggiornamenti, ma a quanto pare questo è esattamente cosa succede quando il disco C: è pieno quasi fino all’orlo (nonché quando è pieno fino all’ultimo byte, ma in quello stato non funzionano bene neanche le app, quindi sarebbe ovvio). 💣
Ecco qua: avvio il PC, in cui la mia partizione C: ha appena 1 GB e mezzo di spazio libero, ed esce questo bel messaggio a schermo (ambiguo come al solito sul momento, ma cliccando Maggiori informazioni si capisce subito tutto)… perché ops, alla Microsoft non bastano 1 miliardo e passa di byte (!) per installare un semplice aggiornamento cumulativo. Da qui ne deduco che, se lo spazio disponibile rimanesse così poco all’infinito, Windows non riuscirebbe mai a scaricare nessun aggiornamento; di conseguenza, gli aggiornamenti sarebbero bloccati per sempre. 🥴Ci sarebbe da dire che, in realtà, spesso noto la quantità di spazio disponibile sul disco cambiare da sola, riducendosi o espandendosi con margini che vanno dal centinaio di MB al paio di GB, senza che io faccia nulla di particolare (cosa normale, sarà questione che ogni tanto l’SSD viene trimmato, o che le mie applicazioni e il sistema operativo smuovono le proprie cache), quindi non saprei quanto davvero questo sia affidabile come metodo per bloccare gli aggiornamenti, qualora ce ne fosse bisogno (che, ripeto, non è il mio caso)… Eppure, a pensarci bene, da qualche settimana ho il disco così strapieno, e da qualche settimana non noto arrivare aggiornamenti… per cui… 😹
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in reply to LCP • • •My last loaf (who passed away almost exactly one year ago) was an “extra fluffy / toasted / moldy” blend.
She was special. RIP, Ellie!
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in reply to OhStopYellingAtMe • • •Such a pretty cat! My condolences.
Happy cake day as well!
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in reply to LCP • • •Our loaf here is Pumpernickel / Burnt (Very dark grey).
He is such a sweet cat.
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