Stephen Miller Owns Up to $250,000 in Palantir Stock, Report Finds
Palantir is reportedly building a mega-database of Americans’ personal information for the Trump administration.
Conservatives are already losing their minds over Mamdani's apparent win
Elise Stefanik, Laura Loomer, and Charlie Kirk posted Islamophobic smears despite reports that Mamdani has faced threats and Islamophobic attacks prompting a police investigation.
WD escapes $0.5B in patent damages as judge cuts award to $1
WD escapes half a billion in patent damages as judge trims award to $1
: SPEX Technologies still gets the win, but failed to 'adequately tie a dollar amount' to infringing acts, says orderDan Robinson (The Register)
Chiusura M2 Cadorna-Garibaldi: petizione ufficiale per navetta sostitutiva con corsia preferenziale
Ciao a tutti, vi chiedo di supportare questa richiesta ufficiale al comune du Milano.
Tra poco la M2 verrà chiusa tra Cadorna e Garibaldi, per due mesi, e ATM non ha messo neanche un autobus sostitutivo.
Le soluzioni proposte da ATM fanno perdere come minimo mezz'ora, ogni volta. Un pendolare deve buttare un'ora ogni giorno, per questo scherzetto.
La richiesta linkata chiede al comune di Milano di istituire un autobus sostitutivo all'altezza, per minimizzare o disagi
Tutti i dettagli sono nella descrizione al link.
Può firmarla con SPID chi è residente a Milano, ma anche chi la frequenta perché ci lavora (io sono in questa categoria), o frequenta qualcuno che ci abita (i cosiddetti city users). In tal caso, quando si prova a firmare, bisogna compilare un'autocertificazione, seguendo le istruzioni, e poi aspettare che sia approvata (qualche info a questo link)
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Democrats' chances of winning back Senate surge after Murkowski bombshell
Murkowski is seemingly keeping a door open to potentially caucusing with Democrats moving forward, or at the very least in a more independent mode to avoid the current hardened partisan divide, according to an interview being released in full on Tuesday.Galen Druke, host of the GD Politics podcast, asked a hypothetical question about Murkowski being open to caucusing outside of the GOP if Democrats were to pick up three Senate seats in next year's elections, and if she had more opportunities to help her Alaskan constituents.
"There may be a possibility," Murkowski said, later adding, "There is some openness to exploring something different than the status quo."
It's an open question whether this being couched as a hypothetical allowed that response. It seems plausible that this is a gambit for other reasons.
Democrats' Chances of Winning Back Senate Surge After Murkowski Bombshell
Lisa Murkowski's potential openness to caucusing with Democrats could sway power in the Senate next year.Nick Mordowanec (Newsweek)
Siffleur Falls Trail (Extended), Kootenay Plains Ecological Reserve, Alberta
Moderate, 1,322 ft gain
9.5 mi Out and Back
Extending beyond Siffleur falls for another 2.3 mi to the edge of the Siffleur Wilderness area, this trail add-on increases the difficulty and the trail degrades as you get closer to the wilderness area. More views of the various rapids and falls as well as a closer look at Elbe Peak. Rope section at the end to climb a degraded hill, but not too difficult. I believe another tenth of a mile from where I turned around is a small campsite as mentioned in yesterday’s comments.
Elbe peak stabs its way upward while the Siffleur river flows through the canyon below.
The steep ridgeline of Elbe peak.
One of the better waterfalls beyond the main Siffleur falls, this is at the edge of the wilderness area and has another rapid out of frame below.
Queer Dating Apps: Beware Who You Trust With Your Intimate Data
When discussing the intersection of data privacy and LGBTQ+ experiences, it's inevitable to also talk about queer dating apps. Due to a smaller percentage of the population and a number of factors complicating in-person dating, people part of the queer community are more likely to seek online platforms to meet lovers and friends. Unfortunately, using queer dating apps can be very dangerous for privacy, and even for safety.Dating apps are generally horrible for everyone's privacy, but the queer population is at an even higher risk of harm due to discrimination, and even criminalization in certain regions.
Despite the risks, LGBTQ+ people still need to fulfill their social and romantic needs like anyone else.
This isn't an easy task outside the online realm either. Discrimination can be much worse in physical environments that aren't specifically catering to the queer community. In some regions, this can even mean a greater risk of physical aggression.
LGBTQ+ people aren't necessarily safe to date in the same ways cisgender heterosexual people are, increasing the need for safe spaces.
Another important factor is that a smaller percentage of the population necessarily creates a smaller dating pool. Even if someone were to avoid entirely online services, if they aren't located in a town large enough to host LGBTQ+ venues and events, or if they live in an environment where revealing their queer identity could be unsafe to them, online spaces might be their only viable option to find connections.
Sadly, this isn't ideal. In today's world, it seems very few services (if any) are considering the importance of data privacy for dating apps seriously enough.
For this reason, it is crucial to acknowledge the dangers, and learn about ways to minimize the risks, and to stay safe while looking for romantic or sexual partners online.
Queer Dating Apps: Beware Who You Trust With Your Intimate Data
At the intersection of data privacy and LGBTQ+ experiences, it's inevitable to talk about queer dating apps. Unfortunately, most are horrible for data privacy.Privacy Guides
Help Mikayla Raines get justice! Make noise and let the press know about Reddit safegaurding r/saveafoxsnark even after a poor innocent women commited suicide!
Hey there! There is a Reddit subreddit called r/saveafoxsnark which bullied, harrased and spread outright lies about an animal rescuer and digital content creator called Mikayla Raines, which pushed her to commit suicide. Reddit is not banning r/saveafoxsnark even after an innocent women committed suicide! I was not comfortable being a member of a platform which gives space to communities which basically pushes someone to commit suicide. By being there I was letting Reddit gain money by selling my data, so I decided to not allow it anymore. I was a long time Reddit qunkie and couldn’t quit it and kept on going back there. But never again! I have permanently moved into Lemmy! Please help me spread this and help Mikayla get justice! Make Reddit accountable!
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@reddit_lies: Mikayla Raines, founder of "Save a Fox Rescue" just took her own life. 2 months ago she was seen on r/SaveAfoxSnark attempting to defend herself from her detractors. Here's how the subreddit's creator ...…threadreaderapp.com
I guarantee that a random Italian living in a tiny nowhere village knows more about the US than your average US citizen knows about Italy. I don't know a single person who doesn't know the difference between Washington state and Washington the city.
I have however spoken to Americans who couldn't point to the United States on an atlas.
To be fair if we're talking geographically, it'd be more fair to compare knowledge of the US to knowledge of the whole of Europe.
If we're talking about history it's a bit different.
Mike Johnson Mocks Millions of Americans About to Lose Medicaid
Mike Johnson Mocks Millions of Americans About to Lose Medicaid
Donald Trump’s tax bill will kick millions of Americans off Medicaid. House Speaker Mike Johnson says those people should “do something constructive.”Andrew Perez (Rolling Stone)
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Judge rules mostly for Anthropic in AI book training case
LLMs can hoover up data from books, judge rules
: Anthropic scores a qualified victory in fair use case, but got slapped for using over 7 million pirated copiesIain Thomson (The Register)
CDC’s once-revered vaccine panel now a “farce”—calls grow to scrap meeting
CDC’s once-revered vaccine panel now a “farce”—calls grow to scrap meeting
The panel is scheduled to meet Wednesday with an anti-vaccine agenda.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
I Tried the First Chromebook ARM With an NPU. It Will Help Me Work Smarter, Not Harder
I Tried the First Chromebook With an NPU. It Will Help Me Work Smarter, Not Harder
Lenovo's new flagship Chromebook Plus 14 is the first Chromebook with a high-powered NPU—courtesy of MediaTek—and it’s bringing some truly slick, exclusive AI smarts. I checked it out firsthand at Google's offices.Matthew Buzzi (PCMag UK)
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When the AI bubble bursts
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Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books
Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books
A judge has sided with Anthropic in a copyright case that determined that the company training its AI models on purchased books is fair use.Emma Roth (The Verge)
Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades execute complex ambush on zionist force in Gaza
Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades execute complex ambush on zionist force in Gaza
Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced on Tuesday that its fighters carried out a complex ambush targeting a Zionist force entrenched inside a house south of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.www.saba.ye
The ceasefire with Iran reveals the limits of Israel’s power — and its dependence on the U.S.
The ceasefire with Iran reveals the limits of Israel’s power — and its dependence on the U.S.
Israel has been exposed as a dependent colony that relies on the West for its military adventures. And even still, it has failed to turn this advantage over Iran into strategic success. The Israel doctrine appears to be meeting its limits.Abdaljawad Omar (Mondoweiss)
Il prestigio imperituro che deriva dal possesso del fringuello più soave del Belgio - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Il prestigio imperituro che deriva dal possesso del fringuello più soave del Belgio - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Il sovrapporsi dei cristalli lucidi sotto l’impulso fotonico dei raggi diurni; il congelamento dei tenui rivoli soltanto in parte paralleli, che diventano nel giro di minuti totalmente uniformi; la sottile scurezza rispetto al codice della conformità…Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
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This “just use linux” mentality is peak broke-brain logic.
You think spending an hour every day troubleshooting and googling how to fix it is some badge of honor? Congrats, you saved $0 and burned the only free hour you had after work. Hope the "Freedom" was worth it.
Linux isn’t free. It costs time, energy, and attention — the three things high-performers guard with their life. Compile time, Maintenance, debugging, dependancies, cleanup — you’re bleeding hours to save pennies. That’s not frugality, that’s time poverty.
You’re not a developer. You’re a tired guy distro hopping at 10pm convincing yourself it’s “self care.” Meanwhile someone else paid $100 for Windows, finished a deck, hit the gym, and got 8 hours of sleep. But hey, you configured your system by hand. King shit.
And don’t even start with the “but privacy!” cope. 90% of y’all using Linux aren’t toppling goverments or hacking banks. You’re watching Youtube, checking Gmail, Twitter, and scrolling the same niche subreddit every night. You’re not optimizing for privacy, you’re optimizing for feeling morally superior while wasting time.
Time is the only real flex. You get more of it by buying it back. If that costs $100 for Windows, that’s a steal. If you’re in any field where leverage matters — CAD, Excel, Adobe — and you’re still compiling Linux from scratch like it’s 1999, you’re not serious.
This isn’t about being rich. It’s about understanding what moves the needle. High-output people don’t micromanage their PCs — they outsource. You want to be productive? Stop pretending Linux is a virtue. It’s not. It’s a time sink.
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Tourist claims he was denied entry to U.S. because of Vance meme on phone
A Norwegian tourist has accused American authorities of denying him entry into the U.S. because he had a popular meme of JD Vance saved on his phone.
Mads Mikkelsen, 21, told his hometown newspaper Nordlys that he was subjected to “abuse of power and harassment” by officials at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Mikkelsen claims that immigration officials stopped him for questioning and quizzed him “about drug trafficking, terrorist plots, and right-wing extremism,” all of which he said was “totally without reason.” He says he was placed in a holding cell.
Tourist Claims He Was Denied Entry to U.S. Because of Vance Meme on Phone
Mads Mikkelsen, 21, claims he was pressured into granting access to his phone at Newark Airport. Agents then uncovered a popular meme of the vice president.Josh Fiallo (The Daily Beast)
Il seme del fico sacro: Mohammad Rasoulof racconta l'Iran, oggi
Il seme del fico sacro: Mohammad Rasoulof racconta l'Iran, oggi - Lucky Red
Il regista esule rende uno spaccato definitivo dell'Iran mentre ci racconta del suo nuovo film, Il seme del fico sacro.Chiara Natali (Lucky Red)
Norwegian tourist, 21, is barred from entering the US after ICE guards find meme showing JD Vance with a bald head on his phone
Norwegian tourist, 21, is barred from entering the US after ICE guards find meme showing JD Vance with a bald head on his phone
Mads Mikkelsen , 21, arrived at New Jersey 's Newark Airport on June 11 excited about his holiday.Olivia Allhusen (Daily Mail)
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The Trump administration is making an unprecedented reach for data held by states
The Trump administration's push to rapidly amass sensitive personal information about hundreds of millions of people living in the U.S. is extending to a rich new vein of information: troves of databases run by states. In some instances, the data could be leveraged to enhance the federal government's immigration enforcement efforts — a break with longstanding norms and practices that also raises legal questions."Every week we're seeing new examples of this administration demanding or sharing sensitive government data for unprecedented uses," said Nicole Schneidman, who heads the technology and data governance team at Protect Democracy, a nonprofit legal center that describes its mission as "defeating the authoritarian threat."
Schneidman said Americans should understand "the data that they have entrusted to state governments right now is truly a target."
The Trump administration is making an unprecedented reach for data held by states
The Trump administration's push to rapidly amass sensitive personal information about hundreds of millions of people living in the U.S. is extending to a rich new vein of information: troves of databases run by states. In some instances, the data could be leveraged to enhance the federal government's immigration enforcement efforts — a break with longstanding norms and practices that also raises legal questions."Every week we're seeing new examples of this administration demanding or sharing sensitive government data for unprecedented uses," said Nicole Schneidman, who heads the technology and data governance team at Protect Democracy, a nonprofit legal center that describes its mission as "defeating the authoritarian threat."
Schneidman said Americans should understand "the data that they have entrusted to state governments right now is truly a target."
Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026.
An enrollment wizard will be available through notifications and in Settings, making it easy to enroll in ESU directly from your personal Windows 10 PC. Through the enrollment wizard, you’ll be able to choose from three options:
- Use Windows Backup to sync your settings to the cloud—at no additional cost..
- Redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
- Pay $30 USD (local pricing may vary).Once you select an option and follow the on-screen steps, your PC will automatically be enrolled. ESU coverage for personal devices runs from Oct. 15, 2025, through Oct. 13, 2026. Starting today, the enrollment wizard is available in the Windows Insider Program and will begin rolling out as an option to Windows 10 customers in July, with broad availability expected by mid-August
Stay secure with Windows 11, Copilot+ PCs and Windows 365 before support ends for Windows 10
When we launched Windows in 1985, we set out to revolutionize computing—guided by the belief that technology should be accessible, intuitive and powerful for everyone. Nearly 40 years later, that same vision continues to drive us forward. Today, WiWindows Experience Blog
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The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun
Warning: incoming rant.
Employers are drowning in AI-generated job applications, with LinkedIn now processing 11,000 submissions per minute—a 45 percent surge from last year, according to new data reported by The New York Times.Due to AI, the traditional hiring process has become overwhelmed with automated noise. It's the résumé equivalent of AI slop—call it "hiring slop," perhaps—that currently haunts social media and the web with sensational pictures and misleading information. The flood of ChatGPT-crafted résumés and bot-submitted applications has created an arms race between job seekers and employers, with both sides deploying increasingly sophisticated AI tools in a bot-versus-bot standoff that is quickly spiraling out of control.
The Times illustrates the scale of the problem with the story of an HR consultant named Katie Tanner, who was so inundated with over 1,200 applications for a single remote role that she had to remove the post entirely and was still sorting through the applications three months later.
The last time I got a job without a prior connection was in 2012, and it (audiobook conversion) wasn't even in my field.
When I quit my job in January 2020 (great timing), it took two-and-a-half years, and after sending out more than a thousand applications across several industries -- after using two different companies for ATS résumé optimization -- I eventually only got a job as a billing clerk because I met the owner of a logistics concern in a detox program.
I'm focusing squarely on networking outside of events designed for it. Honestly, the grueling online process is a step up from being told in person that you're missing a key skill, with each hiring manager listing a different skill.
My résumé isn't linear, because I've been stuck in a cycle of finding emergency jobs since a newspaper layoff in 2006. There were a few papers in there, but man, have they liked their layoffs for decades now.
Searching on LinkedIn and Indeed are pointless, and the smaller job boards are scarcely better, given that they want a single career track, no deviations. Nobody wants a polymath, and even after removing early positions, gauging my age is easy enough -- aging into a protected class didn't help.
And the last time I got a job simply by walking in, résumé in hand, was 2010.
Add to this the sheer volume of ghost jobs online, messages from "recruiters" who start out seemingly interested in my background but are actually MLM "be your own boss" types, and the whole experience is not only a timesink but aggressively dehumanizing.
If you can't be honest during the hiring process, why on Earth should I trust you as an employee?
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Israel kills more than 80 people in Gaza, including dozens of aid seekers
Israel kills more than 70 people in Gaza, including dozens of aid seekers
More than 400 Palestinians have died at GHF sites since their operation began in rising daily killings of the hungry.Al Jazeera
Google’s new robotics AI can run without the cloud and still tie your shoes
Google’s new robotics AI can run without the cloud and still tie your shoes
Google’s Carolina Parada says Gemini has enabled huge robotics breakthroughs, like the new on-device AI.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
iOS 26 Beta 2 tones down the Liquid Glass effect
iOS 26 Beta 2 tones down the Liquid Glass effect
The update is available to all registered users part of the Apple Developer Program. Apple has released its second iOS 26 beta to developers, and the...Michail (GSMArena)
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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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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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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…Yana Prots (The Kyiv Independent)
How the United States Helped Create Iran’s Nuclear Program
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.
Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026, with strings attached
Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026, with strings attached
End-of-support date isn’t changing, but extra year will be functionally free.Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
Google rolls out Street View time travel to celebrate 20 years of Google Earth
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)
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Circular Microcomputers embedded and powered by repurposed smartphone components
Citronics, meet the world’s first Circular Microcomputers
Citronics is the only company in the world able to transform retired smartphones into circular microcomputers, at industrial scale.Citronics
‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
‘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)
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(free) App for SMB file share access?
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.
Fired Justice Department lawyer accuses agency of planning to defy court orders
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.
'Alligator Alcatraz': Florida building migrant detention centre in Everglades, funded in large part by FEMA
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)
JD Vance suggests Iran’s uranium stockpile is still intact despite US strikes
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 elsewhereEdward Helmore (The Guardian)
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Clinton’s Endorsement of Cuomo Is Grotesque but Predictable
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.
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Nearly a quarter of NYC’s early voters were new Democratic primary participants
Nearly a quarter of NYC’s early voters were new Democratic primary participants
A total of 385,184 New Yorkers voted early in this primary election, compared to 191,197 in 2021.Brigid Bergin (Gothamist)
Justice Dept. Leader Suggested Violating Court Orders, Whistle-Blower Says
Emil Bove III, a Trump judicial nominee, voiced his intent to disobey court orders as others stonewalled and misled judges, according to a complaint.
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 […]
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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
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Un incidente a luci rosse per Chris Robinson durante la gara dei 400 metri ostacoli
Un incidente a luci rosse per Chris Robinson durante la gara dei 400 metri ostacoli
Lui si chiama Chris Robinson ed l'atleta che ha stravinto la gara dei 400 metri ostacoli valida per il World Athletics Continental Tour, registrando anche il suo miglior tempo stagionale.Gayburg
Jury orders man to pay $500K for assaulting police officer who killed himself after Capitol riot
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)
DeepSeek accused of powering China’s military and mining US user data
DeepSeek accused of powering China’s military and mining US user data
Explosive allegations reveal the AI firm’s role in battlefield simulations, chip smuggling, and exploiting systemic export control loopholes.Gyana Swain (Computerworld)
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[Le Parisien] Paul Pogba will sign with Monaco until 2027
Mercato : Paul Pogba va bien signer à Monaco
INFO LE PARISIEN. L’international français, écarté des terrains depuis près de deux ans, va s’engager avec le club monégasque pour deux saisons. À 32 ans, la star mondiale va découvrir la Ligue 1.Harold Marchetti (Le Parisien)
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