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Russia’s war against Ukraine

Firefighters work at the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian drone and missile strike in Kyiv on June 23. (Aleksandr Gusev / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images)

After 40 months of waging full-scale war on Ukraine, Putin condemns ‘unprovoked aggression against Iran.’ Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has killed tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians, and the true extent of the death toll is simply not known.

Zelensky arrives in UK to boost defense cooperation as Russia intensifies attacks against Ukraine. Zelensky’s visit comes just a few hours after yet another Russian attack on Kyiv, which killed at least seven.

Ukraine returns bodies of 3 Russian soldiers repatriated as remains of Ukrainians, Interior Ministry says. Ukraine has said the practice of passing off the bodies of Russian soldiers as Ukrainian is part of an attempt to obscure the scale of its military losses from the Russian public.

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Ukraine strikes Atlas oil depot in Russia’s Rostov Oblast, General Staff says. The facility supplies fuel and lubricants to Russian military units.

Lion attacks collaborator at safari park in Russian-occupied Crimea. Following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, Oleg Zubkov renounced his Ukrainian citizenship and began cooperating with the Russian authorities.

Russia ordered 2 assassination attempts on popular journalist Dmytro Gordon, Ukraine security service says. Dmytro Gordon, a prominent Ukrainian journalist and YouTube host with 4.5 million subscribers, is known for his sharp criticism of Russian aggression.

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Explained: How Ukraine and Russia swap prisoners of war

Even after Ukraine cut diplomatic ties with Russia in 2022, prisoner exchanges have continued as one of the few remaining channels of communication between the two countries.

Photo: Andrew Kravchenko / AFP via Getty Images

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Ukraine war latest: Russian attack on Kyiv kills at least 9, injures 33

According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia deployed 368 aerial weapons, including 352 attack drones, 11 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, and 5 Iskander-K cruise missiles.

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Human cost of Russia’s war

‘It was impossible to look at‘ — Russian mass missile, drone attack on Kyiv kills at least 9, injures 33. Russia launched a wave of missile and drone attacks on Kyiv and surrounding region overnight on June 23.

Russian attacks on Sumy Oblast kill 3 people, including 8-year-old boy. Russian forces launched a drone attack on Sumy Oblast overnight on June 24, killing three people, including an 8-year-old boy, and injuring three others, Governor Oleh Hryhorov reported.

2 killed, 12 injured in Russian missile strike on Odesa Oblast. The attack targeted a local educational institution and destroyed the building, Odesa Oblast Governor Oleh Kiper said.

International response

Serbia halts all arms exports amid Russian scrutiny over Ukraine. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on June 23 that Serbia has halted all arms exports, denying that the move was in response to Russian criticism over munitions reportedly reaching Ukraine.

Aerospace giant Airbus to train Ukrainian specialists in aircraft maintenance. As part of the deal, Airbus will send representatives to Ukraine to train local specialists, who will then become certified instructors for aircraft maintenance.

Zelensky, Starmer hail ‘massive step forward‘ in military cooperation. During a joint visit to a U.K. military training site for Ukrainian personnel, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he and Zelensky held “an excellent bilateral meeting” and had agreed to an “industrial military co-production agreement.”

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Trump downplays Iran’s missile strikes on US bases in Iraq and Qatar, calls response ‘very weak.’ At least 10 missiles were fired at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar and at least one toward a base in Iraq, Axios reported.

Exclusive: Ukrainian deputy prime minister suspected of corruption says he won’t step down. Ukrainian minister and deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Chernyshov has been formally named a suspect in a high-profile illegal land grab case, becoming the highest-ranking official in Ukrainian history to face such charges.

Ukrainian energy giant to build $115 million solar program with British partner. Ukraine’s largest private energy company DTEK and British clean energy group Octopus Energy have launched a program to install rooftop solar panels and battery storage systems at Ukrainian businesses and public institutions, DTEK announced in a press release on June 23.

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When President Trump ordered a military strike on Iran’s nuclear program, he was confronting a crisis that the United States unwittingly set in motion decades ago by providing Tehran with the seeds of nuclear technology.

Tucked into Tehran’s northern suburbs is a small nuclear reactor used for peaceful scientific purposes, which has so far not been a target of Israel’s campaign to eliminate Iran’s nuclear weapons capability.

The Tehran Research Reactor’s real significance is symbolic: It was shipped to Iran by the United States in the 1960s, part of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” program that shared nuclear technology with U.S. allies eager to modernize their economies and move closer to Washington in a world divided by the Cold War.

Today, the reactor does not contribute to Iran’s enrichment of uranium, the arduous process that purifies the raw ingredient of nuclear bombs into a state that can sustain a massive chain reaction. It runs on nuclear fuel far too weak to power a bomb. Several other nations, including Pakistan, bear at least as much responsibility for Iran’s march to the threshold of nuclear weapons capability, experts say.

A pre-revolution Iran is nigh impossible to envision.

After 20 years, being able to look at any corner of the planet in Google Earth doesn't seem that impressive, but it was a revolution in 2005. Google Earth has gone through a lot of changes in that time, and Google has some more lined up for the service's 20th anniversary. Soon, Google Earth will help you travel back in time with historic Street View integration, and pro users will get some new "AI-driven insights"—of course Google can't update a product without adding at least a little AI.

Google Earth began its life as a clunky desktop client, but that didn't stop it from being downloaded 100 million times in the first week. Today, Google Earth is available on the web, in mobile apps, and in the Google Earth Pro desktop app. However you access Earth, you'll find a blast from the past.

For the service's 20th anniversary, Google was inspired by a social media trend from last year in which people shared historical images of locations in Google Maps. Now, Google Earth is getting a "time travel" interface where you can see historical Street View images from almost any location.

God, this makes me feel old. I remember when it first came out (I most likely learned about it from Ars) ... I was living with my girlfriend who would later become my first wife, and I was glued to my tower while she was at her desk on her laptop.

We showed each other the places we'd lived over the years -- like, individual buildings -- and that out of the way, we started exploring and calling each other over for interesting finds.

I'm pretty certain we lost a solid two days. It's hard to believe, now, that the post-9/11 world was "simpler times." Back then, everyone in our age bracket longed for the stability and simplicity of pre-election 2000.

Google rolls out Street View time travel to celebrate 20 years of Google Earth

Google Earth wowed everyone 20 years ago, and it’s still pretty cool.

^{Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)}

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/24/iran-demands-security-council-condemn-us-violations-of-international-law/

I'm looking for an easy to use, light weight app to connect to my local SMB share (via username and password).

Any suggestions?

The "big" ones either cost or are shit.

A longtime government lawyer told Congress that Justice Department leaders planned to knowingly defy court orders and withhold information from judges to advance the Trump administration's aggressive deportation goals, according to a newly published whistleblower complaint.

The lawyer, Erez Reuveni, previously won awards and commendations over nearly 15 years at the Justice Department, including from Republican appointees in the first Trump administration. But he was put on leave and then fired in April after he told a federal judge an immigrant had been deported in error.

Reuveni ultimately decided to blow the whistle to lawmakers and watchdogs at the Justice Department and the Office of Special Counsel, detailing what he called defiance and noncompliance in three separate immigration cases this year. His accusations add to broader concern about the Trump administration's repeated clashes with the judiciary over immigration and other policies.

Florida has begun building a detention centre - dubbed the 'Alligator Alcatraz' - to temporarily hold migrants on an air strip in the Everglades.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the facility would be funded "in large part" by the Federal Emergency Management Agency's shelter and services programme, which was previously used to provide accommodation and other aid for undocumented migrants.

The mayor of Miami-Dade County, Daniela Levine Cava, a Democrat, criticised the plan, saying "the impacts to the Everglades ecosystem could be devastating".

The Florida Everglades are a unique environmental region comprising marshes, prairies, forests, mangroves and estuaries. Uthmeier said the facility would not be located within Everglades National Park.

'Alligator Alcatraz': Florida building migrant detention centre in Everglades

The facility could be completed within months and have the capacity to hold around 1,000 people.

^{Ali Abbas Ahmadi (BBC News)}

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404 Media

2025-06-24 13:43:47

‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops

A new site, FuckLAPD.com, is using public records and facial recognition technology to allow anyone to identify police officers in Los Angeles they have a picture of. The tool, made by artist Kyle McDonald, is designed to help people identify cops who may otherwise try to conceal their identity, such as covering their badge or serial number.

“We deserve to know who is shooting us in the face even when they have their badge covered up,” McDonald told me when I asked if the site was made in response to police violence during the LA protests against ICE that started earlier this month. “fucklapd.com is a response to the violence of the LAPD during the recent protests against the horrific ICE raids. And more broadly—the failure of the LAPD to accomplish anything useful with over $2B in funding each year.”

“Cops covering up their badges? ID them with their faces instead,” the site, which McDonald said went live this Saturday. The tool allows users to upload an image of a police officer’s face to search over 9,000 LAPD headshots obtained via public record requests. The site says image processing happens on the device, and no photos or data are transmitted or saved on the site. “Blurry, low-resolution photos will not match,” the site says.

“fucklapd.com uses data provided by the City of Los Angeles directly to the public,” McDonald told me in an email. “This data has been provided in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits. That means all of this information belongs to the public and is a matter of public record. fucklapd.com is not scraping any data.”

In addition to potentially identifying officers by name and serial number, FuckLAPD.com also pulls up a police officer’s salary.

“Surprisingly it [the domain name] only costs $10 a year to exercise my first amendment right to say fucklapd.com,” McDonald said.
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I tested the tools by grabbing an image of a white and bald police officer from an LAPD press conference addressing its use of force during the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. I uploaded the image to the site, and within a few seconds the site presented me with nine headshots of officers who could be possible matches, all of them bald white men. The first correctly identified the cop in the image I uploaded.

Clicking “view profile” under the result sent me to the Watch the Watchers site by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a community group based in the Skid Row neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles. “All of the information on this website comes from records that were deliberately made public by the City of Los Angeles in response to either public records requests or public records lawsuits,” the Watch the Watchers site says. “We plan to keep refreshing this data from new public records requests as well as to add other data.” Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is not associated with FuckLAPD.com and did not endorse the site.

McDonald told me that since the site launched, it had around 50,000 visitors, but “Because the analysis happens on-device I have no way of knowing what people are using it for, except for some people who have posted screenshots to Twitter or Instagram,” he said.

In 2018 McDonald made another tool called ICEspy which used hundreds of photos of ICE employees from LinkedIn and does much the same thing as FuckLAPD.com. “This app is designed to highlight and embarrass the organization committing atrocities against refugees and immigrants to the United States,” ICEspy’s website says. That tool originally used a Microsoft API, before Microsoft restricted access to it. McDonald said on X that he recently relaunched the tool to run locally on devices. 404 Media tested ICEspy using images of ICE employees on LinkedIn to verify if the tool worked and each result was incorrect; McDonald indicated on X he was looking for others to re-scrape LinkedIn and update the database.

Over the last few months ICE officers have consistently worn masks, neck gaiters, sunglasses, and baseball caps to shield their identity while often refusing to provide their name or even confirm the agency they belong to. This includes while violently assaulting people, detaining U.S. citizens, and pointing weapons at bystanders, leaving little room for recourse or accountability against the individual agents or the agency.

ICE’s constant use of masks has created a climate where people cannot be sure that the heavily armed group of men coming towards them are really federal agents or not. In Philadelphia, a man pretended to be an ICE agent in order to rob an auto repair shop and zip tie an employee. In Brooklyn, a man posed as an immigration officer before attempting to rape a woman.

ICE claims that assaults against its officers have increased by 413 percent, and use this as the justification for covering their faces. But as Philip Bump showed in the Washington Postthere are still plenty of questions about those numbers and their accuracy. ICE says its officers’ family members have been doxed too.

Neither the LAPD or ICE responded to a request for comment.

Joseph Cox contributed reporting.

Woman says man posed as ICE agent before attempted rape in Brooklyn

A 51-year-old woman was approached by a man who said he was an ICE agent before attempting to sexually assault her.

^{Eyewitness News (ABC7 New York)}

JD Vance has suggested Iran’s estimated 400kg (882lb) stockpile of enriched uranium, which is just short of weapons-grade, remains intact despite the recent US bombing campaign against Iran.

On Monday, the vice-president told Fox News that the location of the uranium “is not the question before us”, and said the relevant question was: “Can Iran enrich the uranium to weapons-grade level and can they convert that fuel into a nuclear weapon?”

The Iranian stockpile of uranium was believed to have been located mainly at Isfahan, which houses a conversion facility that turns uranium into the form that can be fed into centrifuges for enrichment.

JD Vance suggests Iran’s uranium stockpile is still intact despite US strikes

Vice-president said the bombing was a ‘success’, but reports suggest the stockpile was probably moved elsewhere

^{Edward Helmore (The Guardian)}

Bill Clinton’s last-minute endorsement of Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s mayoral race is all too fitting: both men represent the corporate Democratic establishment, opposed by socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, that has abandoned the working class.

Clinton’s Endorsement of Cuomo Is Grotesque but Predictable

^jacobin.com

Emil Bove III, a Trump judicial nominee, voiced his intent to disobey court orders as others stonewalled and misled judges, according to a complaint.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/justice-department-emil-bove-trump-deportations-reuveni.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RU8.Z0bt.agEk9_0slwzk

Compared to the whine and roar of the planes that came before, when the plane I had come to see appeared, the first thing I noticed was the lack of noise. As the plane circled back, and glided overhead on its second pass, the plane’s electric motor gave off a soft hum.

The several hundred aviation enthusiasts who lined the taxiway with me at San Carlos Airport, heads craned towards the sky, had likely come to see that morning’s finale: an acrobatics display featuring the Sukhoi West Demo Team.

I had come to see the B23 Energic. The plane’s diminutive size – it measures just under 22 feet from nose to tail and a little more than 30 feet wide at the wings – belies its outsized role in the future of aviation.

Airports are already busy reducing emissions from operations on the ground and at the gate. Emissions from planes in flight account for a much larger share of the sector’s overall carbon footprint and will be commensurately difficult to clean up.

Travelers alive today may never fly across and between continents on fully electric planes. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a role for battery electric planes today.

In fact, the B23 Energic will be used to train the next generation of European pilots beginning next year.

H55 is targeting the B23 Energic at flight schools, aero clubs, military academies, and private pilots. The 100-kilowatt electric motor and 49 kilowatt-hour battery pack allows for around 70 minutes of flight time. One hour of charging yields one hour of flight time.

For flight schools, the big selling points are the low operating costs and quiet operation.

The electricity cost for 1-hour of flight is just $7 (at 20 cents/kWh), according to Bristell.

A glimpse of the future of aviation

On the sidelines of the Biggest Little Air Show in San Carlos, California, Quitting Carbon got an up-close look at the B23 Energic all-electric plane.

^{Justin Gerdes (Quitting Carbon)}

Non inizia per davvero una nuova settimana in termini lavorativi personali, se non esce fuori un nuovo esterrefacente bug sul mio assolutamente meraviglioso apprezzatissimo Windows 10… e anche stavolta non è qualcosa che vedo per la prima volta, ma adesso ho avuto modo di filmare (talmente che son rognosi codesti troiai). Ed è tutto assurdo […]

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minioctt

2025-06-24 20:52:40

finestraica pigrizia con del rendering schifatico.

Non inizia per davvero una nuova settimana in termini lavorativi personali, se non esce fuori un nuovo esterrefacente bug sul mio assolutamente meraviglioso apprezzatissimo Windows 10… e anche stavolta non è qualcosa che vedo per la prima volta, ma adesso ho avuto modo di filmare (talmente che son rognosi codesti troiai). Ed è tutto assurdo come al solito… 😭

Quello che è successo stavolta, e che ovviamente succede solo a momenti alterni in base a nessun criterio logicamente discernibile, è che alcune finestre (di explorer, nello specifico… non mi sembra di averlo mai notato con altre finestre che tengo non massimizzate) magari prendono e smettono di renderizzare le zone che sono al di fuori dell’area dello schermo, nel mio caso perché spostate troppo verso destra. Normalmente non succede nulla di strano mettendo le finestre in fuori, mentre in certi casi la finestra finisce in questo stato semi-glitchato, in cui si osservano due distinte merdate: 💩

• Guardando dalla vista Alt+Tab, si vede che la finestra ha effettivamente il contenuto aggiornato nella parte per cui questa è visibile a schermo, mentre per la parte in cui è oltre si vedono o i pixel precedenti al momento in cui è scattato il glitch (e stavolta questo è il caso), oppure proprio del nero (probabilmente bit di memoria resettati a zero, quindi pixel #000). 🕳️
• Trascinando la finestra da fuori a più in dentro l’area dello schermo, sul bordo limitrofo si vedono apparire per delle frazioni di tempo i pixel lì rimasti non aggiornati, esattamente come visibili dall’Alt+Tab (quindi in questo caso colorati, altrimenti neri), mentre contemporaneamente quella parte di finestra si aggiorna e si sbugga. Il resto che rimane oltre lo schermo rimane glitchato, mentre ciò che è stato spostato in dentro rimane sglitchato (almeno fin quando la maledizione non colpisce di nuovo la finestra). 🎃

Anche stavolta, un problema molto stupido, ma guardate che cazzo di roba! (E guardate come nel mentre fa la sua guest appearance un altro glitch che postai mesi fa…) Come minchia si fa ad introdurre un problema simile in un sistema operativo?! Pensare che io faccio sempre gli aggiornamenti (ho liberato spazio da quell’ultima volta, eh…), ma questi bug continuano a rimanere. Anzi, molti di quelli che io ho qui sopra pare ci siano ancora anche su Windows 11, dopo anni e anni… E che cazzo, cioè, è da un trentennio che in un modo o nell’altro la shell di Windows è completamente rotta, e non cambia mai niente in questo senso… e allora mi spiegate a che minchia servono tutti gli infiniti aggiornamenti, se non risolvono mai i veri problemi che si incontrano? Vaffanculo!!! ☄️💣🔪👹

#000 #bug #explorerExe #glitch #UI #visual #Windows #Windows10

The jury ordered chiropractor David Walls-Kaufman, 69, to pay damages to Erin Smith for assaulting her husband, Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith, on Jan. 6, 2021.

A federal jury on Monday awarded $500,000 to the widow and estate of a police officer who killed himself nine days after he helped defend the U.S. Capitol from a mob of rioters, including a man who scuffled with the officer during the attack.

The eight-member jury ordered that man, 69-year-old chiropractor David Walls-Kaufman, to pay $380,000 in punitive damages and $60,000 in compensatory damages to Erin Smith for assaulting her husband, Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith, inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. They awarded an additional $60,000 to compensate Jeffrey Smith’s estate for his pain and suffering.

The judge presiding over the civil trial dismissed Erin Smith’s wrongful-death claim against Walls-Kaufman before jurors began deliberating last week. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said no reasonable juror could conclude that Walls-Kaufman’s actions were capable of causing a traumatic brain injury leading to Smith’s death.

Jury orders man to pay $500K for assaulting Jan. 6 officer who killed himself after Capitol riot

The jury ordered 69-year-old chiropractor David Walls-Kaufman to pay damages to Erin Smith for assaulting her husband, Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith, on Jan. 6, 2021.

^{The Associated Press (NBC News)}

Anti-government protests continue daily in central Tbilisi with demonstrators accusing the ruling Georgian Dream party of being pro-Russia and derailing the country’s efforts to join the EU.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/euronews.com…

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Georgia jails opposition figures as ruling party denies arrests are politically motivated

^{Gavin Blackburn (Euronews.com)}

Defense for 55-year-old music mogul indicates they do not intend to call any witnesses of their own

US rests case against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in sex-trafficking and racketeering trial

^{Anna Betts (The Guardian)}

From renewed conflict to a resurgent regime, people tell of their fears, concerns … and a glimmer of hope

Archived version: archive.is/newest/theguardian.…

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‘A pause before something worse’: Iranians wary of what future holds

^{Shah Meer Baloch (The Guardian)}

Spain encouraging immigration even as US seeks to restrict it

Archived version: archive.is/newest/independent.…

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Spain eases visa rules to draw foreign students barred from US by Trump

^{Reuters (The Independent)}

Home Office to bar group under anti-terrorism laws, with officials said to be investigating possible Tehran funding

Archived version: archive.is/newest/theguardian.…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

UK protest group Palestine Action denies Iran funding as it faces ban

^{Haroon Siddique (The Guardian)}

Context:

In ZFC set theory (which most of modern maths is built upon). The natural numbers are defined as recursions of empty sets.

Ie.
0 = ∅ (the empty set)

1 = {∅} = {0}

2 = {∅, {∅}}
etc…