Businesses that rush to use AI to write content or computer code, often have to pay humans to fix it.

'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'

^{Suzanne Bearne (BBC News)}

Il governo ha risposto a un’interpellanza del M5s, sul caso dei cinque poliziotti infiltrati dentro Potere al Popolo: “Gli operatori non hanno mai svolto attività di infiltrazione in alcun partito o movimento politico, hanno solo partecipato alle manifestazioni pubbliche organizzate da aggregazioni studentesche con connotazioni estremistiche, che avevano manifestato una crescente aggressività”, ha detto il sottosegretario Prisco, ammettendo che l’attività di controllo dentro Potere al Popolo è stata effettivamente svolta, per ragioni di sicurezza.

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The European Commission is sticking to its planned implementation of the AI Act. This is despite lobbying from companies such as ASML and Mistral for a two-year pause. The first obligations will take effect in August.

EU sticks to AI Act timeline despite pressure from companies - Techzine Global

EU sticks to AI Act implementation despite pressure from 46 CEOs for a pause. Obligations will come into force as planned from August 2025.

^{Berry Zwets (Techzine)}

crosspostato da: fedit.pl/post/276232

cross-posted from: fedit.pl/post/276231

L'iniziativa intende imporre agli editori di lasciare in uno stato funzionale (giocabile) i videogiochi che vendono o concedono in licenza (o le collegate funzionalità e risorse che vendono per i videogiochi che trattano) ai consumatori dell'Unione europea.

Nello specifico, punta a impedire che gli editori possano disattivare da remoto i videogiochi prima che siano forniti mezzi ragionevoli per mantenerli in funzione senza coinvolgere gli stessi editori.

L'iniziativa non intende acquisire la proprietà di tali videogiochi, dei diritti intellettuali associati o dei diritti di monetizzazione, né si aspetta che l'editore fornisca risorse per il suddetto videogioco una volta interrotto, lasciandolo in uno stato ragionevolmente funzionale (giocabile).

!skg@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Kierunkowy74

2025-06-27 12:05:41

Iniziativa dei cittadini europei - Mettiamo fine alla distruzione dei videogiochi

cross-posted from: fedit.pl/post/276231

L'iniziativa intende imporre agli editori di lasciare in uno stato funzionale (giocabile) i videogiochi che vendono o concedono in licenza (o le collegate funzionalità e risorse che vendono per i videogiochi che trattano) ai consumatori dell'Unione europea.

Nello specifico, punta a impedire che gli editori possano disattivare da remoto i videogiochi prima che siano forniti mezzi ragionevoli per mantenerli in funzione senza coinvolgere gli stessi editori.

L'iniziativa non intende acquisire la proprietà di tali videogiochi, dei diritti intellettuali associati o dei diritti di monetizzazione, né si aspetta che l'editore fornisca risorse per il suddetto videogioco una volta interrotto, lasciandolo in uno stato ragionevolmente funzionale (giocabile).

![url=https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/skg]Stop Killing Games[/url]

Informazioni sull'iniziativa | Iniziativa dei cittadini europei

^{citizens-initiative.europa.eu}

Fair enough.

Fairphone 6 gets a 10/10 on repairability

The Fairphone 6 is the fifth Fairphone in a row to ace iFixit’s teardown test, despite no longer offering tool-less battery swaps.

^{Dominic Preston (The Verge)}

Donald Trump loves to try to bully Mexico. But President Claudia Sheinbaum is showing the world how to stand up to the MAGA administration without playing into its hands.

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

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.

Mexico Is Showing the World How to Stand Up to Donald Trump

^jacobin.com

Kilmar Garcia Claims Torture at CECOT Prison

Abrego Garcia’s Attorneys Say He Faced Beatings and ‘Psychological Torture’ in El Salvador Prison

While the prisoners were kneeling, guards allegedly kept watch over them and would physically strike anyone who fell over from exhaustion, allege attorneys representing Abrego Garcia.

^{brad-reed (Common Dreams)}

Geometria e topologia svolgono un ruolo centrale nella fisica moderna, dalla formazione delle stringhe cosmiche nell'universo primordiale agli intricati modelli di crescita di foglie e petali di rosa. Da una prospettiva applicata, i difetti topologici sono fondamentali per comprendere i guasti meccanici nei materiali solidi e per descrivere i fenomeni di fusione nei sistemi bidimensionali.

Definire i difetti, tuttavia, richiede una configurazione di riferimento, tipicamente uno sfondo ordinato idealizzato. Nei cristalli, gli atomi sono disposti in strutture reticolari periodiche, rompendo la simmetria traslazionale continua in un sottogruppo discreto. Questo sfondo ordinato consente una definizione precisa di difetti come dislocazioni e disclinazioni.

Al contrario, i materiali amorfi, come il vetro di una finestra, mancano di ordine a lungo raggio. Le disposizioni atomiche sono disordinate oltre poche distanze interatomiche, rendendo l'identificazione e la classificazione dei difetti particolarmente elusive. Eppure, questa non è solo una sfida accademica: la capacità di prevedere dove e come un vetro potrebbe rompersi sotto stress ha implicazioni dirette per la progettazione, la sicurezza e l'ingegneria dei materiali.

Negli ultimi anni sono stati compiuti progressi significativi nell'identificazione dei difetti topologici nei vetri. Tuttavia, questi sviluppi sono stati in gran parte limitati a modelli bidimensionali semplificati, limitandone la rilevanza per i materiali reali. In una recente pubblicazione su Nature Communications , la Dott.ssa Arabinda Bera e il Professor Alessio Zaccone (Università degli Studi di Milano), in collaborazione con il Professor Matteo Baggioli (SJTU), hanno introdotto, per la prima volta, una definizione robusta dei difetti topologici nei vetri tridimensionali.

Hunting for topological defects in three-dimensional glasses | La Statale News

A study on topological defects, in which the University of Milan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University collaborated, is published on Nature Communications.

^{lastatalenews.unimi.it}

After successfully fending off three subpoenas from filmmakers seeking user data related to piracy discussions, Reddit is back in federal court. The company is now requesting over $55,000 in legal compensation, suggesting that these repeated requests amount to an "anti-piracy publicity campaign" that chills lawful speech by Reddit’s users.

Reddit Claims Anti-Piracy Subpoenas Are a "Publicity Campaign," Seeks $55K in Fees * TorrentFreak

Reddit seeks over $55k in fees from filmmakers, arguing their repeated subpoenas for user data are an "anti-piracy publicity campaign".

^{Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)}

Mamdani, a 33-year-old New York state assemblyman, shocked the political world last month with a primary win over former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned his position in 2021 after several women accused him of sexual harassment.

The Times noted that on the campaign trail, Mamdani touted his Muslim faith and South Asian ancestry. He was born in Uganda in 1991 and moved with his parents to South Africa five years later. Two years later, the family moved to New York.

::: spoiler The Times report cited a figure who goes by the name Crémieux on X and Substack:

• Last month’s cyberattack appears to have been carried out in order to see if Columbia was still using race-conscious affirmative action in its admission policies after the Supreme Court effectively barred the practice in 2023.
• While Mr. Mamdani was not a target of the hack, the information about him was included in a database of millions of student applications to Columbia going back decades. The data was shared with The Times by an intermediary who goes by the name Crémieux on Substack and X. He provided the data under condition of anonymity, although his identity has been made public elsewhere. He is an academic who opposes affirmative action and writes often about I.Q. and race.
  :::

One of the speakers at the conference is billed under a social media alias, Cremieux, but the Guardian has corroborated that the account is apparently run by Jordan Lasker, a long-time proponent of eugenics.

::: spoiler The @cremieuxrecueil X account has been boosted or engaged with dozens of times by that platform’s proprietor, Elon Musk, often on the topic of falling birthrates.

• On 27 November, Musk reposted a Cremieux comment on falling birthrates, adding: “With rare exception, all countries are trending towards population collapse.”
• On 29 April, Cremieux posted: “Only about a third of the world even meets replacement rate fertility. This is the biggest problem of our time.” Musk responded: “Yes.”
• Musk has also boosted or responded favorably to Cremieux posts on other rightwing hobby horses such as crime in Portland, Oregon, and allegations that Democrats had created loopholes in the asylum system.
• Away from X, Cremieux runs a Substack also featuring posts on the supposed relationships between race and IQ. A prominently featured post there seeks to defend the argument that average national IQs vary by up to 40 points, with countries in Europe, North America, and East Asia at the high end and countries in the global south at the low end, and several African countries purportedly having average national IQs at a level that experts associate with mental impairment.
  :::

New York Times Grants Race Science Enthusiast Anonymity in Mamdani Hit Piece

The paper granted the source of the hacked documents anonymity. That person is a known enthusiast of race science.

^{Michael Luciano (Mediaite)}

https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/its-too-late-david-suzuki-says-the-fight-against-climate-change-is-lost/

Some key insights from the article:

Basically, what they did was to look at how much batteries would be needed in a given area to provide constant power supply at least 97% of the time, and the calculate the costs of that solar+battery setup compared to coal and nuclear.

In a recent discussion it was mentioned that the search function in Lemmy is awkward to use and could be improved. As a result I already made two small changes:
- Change community selector to use !community@example.com format (#3218)
- Search field in community sidebar (#3217)

Are there any other UI or UX changes you can think of to improve searching in Lemmy? Im mainly looking for frontend changes, such as reorganizing the input positions, changing default values etc.

Bob Vylan's performance at Glastonbury has sparked condemnation, but UK guilt for complicity in genocide is driving this hysteria about punk bands

'Death to the IDF' is not antisemitic. Where is the outrage over Israeli crimes in Gaza?

^{Middle East Eye}

https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-bans-uncertified-recalled-power-banks-planes-2025-06-27/

FOIA.

The Justice Department is advancing a radical theory of presidential power, nullifying Congress’s foreign affairs powers whenever the president finds them inconvenient.

These letters provide a legal rationale (if it can be called that) for the Trump administration’s commitment not to enforce the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACAA), the divestment-or-ban law that the Supreme Court upheld in January. The letters make two central claims, both of which are astonishing in their breadth and implications for executive power.

• Akamai Technologies
• Amazon
• Apple Inc.
• Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
• Fastly, Inc.
• Google, Inc.
• LG Electronics USA, Inc.
• Microsoft Corporation
• Oracle Corporation
• T-Mobile US, Inc.

SCOTUS Tiktok

^{www.documentcloud.org}

FOIA.

The Justice Department is advancing a radical theory of presidential power, nullifying Congress’s foreign affairs powers whenever the president finds them inconvenient.

These letters provide a legal rationale (if it can be called that) for the Trump administration’s commitment not to enforce the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACAA), the divestment-or-ban law that the Supreme Court upheld in January. The letters make two central claims, both of which are astonishing in their breadth and implications for executive power.

• Akamai Technologies
• Amazon
• Apple Inc.
• Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
• Fastly, Inc.
• Google, Inc.
• LG Electronics USA, Inc.
• Microsoft Corporation
• Oracle Corporation
• T-Mobile US, Inc.

SCOTUS Tiktok

^{www.documentcloud.org}

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/32434347

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Main Topic: The increasing integration of Big Tech companies with the US government and military, specifically focusing on the commissioning of tech executives into the Army Reserve.

Key Points:

• Tech Execs Joining the Army: Executives from Meta, OpenAI, and Palantir are joining the US Army Reserve as part of a new "Innovation Corps" (Detachment 2011) to bring tech upgrades to the military.
• Motivations: The tech executives cite patriotism and a desire to equip the military for conflicts with high-tech adversaries like China. The speaker suggests the tech sector will also profit from this arrangement.
• Fascism Analogy: The speaker draws a parallel to fascism, where there is no separation between the public and private sectors, and corporations and the government work together for the same goals.
• Debunking the "Aversion" Myth: The speaker refutes the idea that Silicon Valley was previously averse to working with the military, citing examples like the Snowden revelations and existing contracts between tech companies and intelligence agencies (CIA, NSA).
• Historical Context: The speaker references John Poindexter and Palantir's origins, highlighting the long-standing relationship between Silicon Valley and the intelligence community.
• Alarming Language: The speaker finds the language used by the tech executives about uniting American innovation with the military's mission to be alarming, echoing the core tenet of fascism.
• Eisenhower's Warning: The speaker invokes Dwight Eisenhower's warning about the militarization of American life, suggesting that this integration is a realization of that warning on a grander scale.

Highlights:

• The commissioning of tech executives into the Army Reserve is presented as a significant development, symbolizing the deepening ties between Big Tech and the US military.
• The speaker emphasizes the potential dangers of this integration, drawing parallels to fascism and raising concerns about the erosion of the separation between corporate and state power.
• The historical context provided challenges the narrative of a recent shift in Silicon Valley's relationship with the military, revealing a long history of cooperation.

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