https://www.boomlive.in/decode/when-a-face-scan-decides-who-eats-and-who-keeps-their-job-29048

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAkrmfkC1L4

We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.

80 Years After the Trinity Nuke Test, We’re Still Living an Atomic Nightmare | Truthout

^{Jared (Truthout)}

A lawsuit filed by former Commissioner Thomas Donlon alleges that the NYPD’s Community Response Team was a “rogue” unit that answered “only to City Hall.” The complaint draws extensively from ProPublica’s reporting.

Lawsuit: NYC Mayor Eric Adams Ran “Criminal Enterprise”

^ProPublica

The church is among hundreds of religious sites Israel has attacked in its genocide.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/truthout.org…

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.

Israel Strikes Catholic Church in Gaza That Got Nightly Calls From Pope Francis

^{Sharon Zhang (Truthout)}

They cited the union’s pledge to “defend democracy against Trump’s embrace of fascism” and cutting ties with the ADL.

Republicans Introduce Bill to Revoke the Charter of Largest US Teachers Union

^{Jake Johnson (Truthout)}

Tucked into the legislation are provisions that pave the way for migrant children to face longer periods in detention.

Trump’s Tax Law Seeks to Override Rules Protecting Children in Immigration Jail

^{Candice Norwood (Truthout)}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSlnZGlHxig

The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, released a new video message on Thursday directed at 'Israeli' soldiers operating in Gaza, urging them to surrender rather than face death in combat.

Published via the group's military media channel on Telegram, the video delivers a direct warning: "To the Israeli Nazi soldiers in Gaza, our fighters will inevitably reach you. If you choose not to fight and wish to save your life, do this: drop your weapon, raise your hands, and follow field instructions."

The message continues, emphasizing that captivity is a better alternative than death, assuring: "We promise to keep you alive and protect you until the nearest deal."

Better captive than dead: Qassam’s message to 'Israeli' soldiers in Gaza

Qassam Brigades fighters

^{Roya News}

I am using a laptop, with a cheaper monitor that only has one hdmi input. I have two devices that I want to use on this monitor, My laptop and my xbox series, so I got an hdmi switcher.

The xbox handles switching to and from it's input without a hitch, but my laptop can takes up to a minute to recognize the switch and display to the monitor, sometimes not recognizing it at all.

I was thinking that having the laptop continue to output the display whether or not it recognizes the monitor as disconnected would help make switching between them more seamless. Is there a way to achieve this?

I am using KDE and I have the "Do Nothing" option selected under close lid in power options.

Texas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victim

Merz said the returns agreement signed by the UK and France last week should be expanded into a three-way pact with Germany to mount a more coordinated response to irregular migration. “The cooperation between the United Kingdom and France … has to be complemented by an agreement that we aim to achieve between the three of us: UK, Germany, France,” he said via a translator.

Merz’s call for a trilateral agreement comes as pressure grows from the far-right Alternative für Deutschland in Germany, where migration and defence spending have become politically volatile. Critics have accused his Christian Democratic Union party of lacking a clear alternative to populist rhetoric, even as Merz tries to position himself as a stabilising force in Europe.

Merz calls for UK, Germany and France to align on migration and defence

German chancellor’s proposal for strategic axis comes as London and Berlin sign first treaty since second world war

^{Aletha Adu (The Guardian)}

Chi la sta seguendo? A me la prima stagione è piaciuta tantissimo :hearts: E la sesta puntata della seconda stagione è wow! :sob:

#mastoserie #serietv #netflix #morfeo #serietvfilm #cinema serietv #tvshows #tvseries #mastotv #mastotvseries #mastomovies #UnoSerie #unoserietv

The biggest ride-hailing companies globally are struggling to keep their electric vehicle promises.

In 2020, Uber, the world’s largest ride-hailing company, set a target for all its rides and deliveries to be zero-emission by 2040. As of 2025, only a few hundred thousand out of its 7.1 million drivers have adopted green rides.

Grab, Southeast Asia’s biggest ride-hailing company, is targeting carbon neutrality by 2040. Last year, 7% of all Grab rides and deliveries used low- or zero-emission modes of transport, including electric and hybrid vehicles, cyclists, and walkers.

While Uber, Lyft, and Grab don’t disclose the precise number of EVs in their fleets, each platform has less than 1% EVs globally, research and advisory firm Gartner estimates.

“Even though we have seen immense growth in EV adoption by these companies, it is highly unlikely they will achieve 100% EV adoption in the next decade,” Shivani Palepu, transport tech analyst at Gartner, told Rest of World. Palepu expects the shift to electric to vary “drastically” by region.

Ride-hailing leaders like Uber, Lyft, Grab, are far from hitting their EV goals - Rest of World

EV adoption by major platforms is at low single digits as infrastructure gaps and costs derail climate goals.

^{Munira Mutaher (Rest of World)}

I've been experiencing freezes after ~1h of playing. Those are hard freezes when even switching workspace doesn't work. Restarting the game helps for another hour

I've tried what few options from protondb but haven't noticed much change

Am I the only one?

• GPU: Radeon 5700 xt
• CPU: AMD
• 48 GB RAM
• SSD

https://www.protondb.com/app/1172710

I decided to go with Linux mint for my laptop. After installing it alongside windows 10, it won't boot into either. If I reboot from my USB stick, it says that maybe it's too far away from the start of the drive to be detected. But I believe there is some intel /hp stuff that includes some kind of boot that might also be interfering. Does anyone have a good way forward from here?

Link from boot repair: paste.ubuntu.com/p/GJcsXfRkrj/

Hi everyone,

I’d like to share an idea I refined together with ChatGPT, combining AI’s strengths with human expertise to create something truly impactful.

🌿 Proposal Summary

“ChatGPT Mental Health Plan” – a new subscription tier or add-on offering hybrid mental health support:
1. AI-powered emotional support and journaling tools
2. Guided pattern-recognition for stress, anxiety, and burnout
3. Optional upgrade to connect with licensed counselors or therapists (e.g. 1–2 virtual sessions/month)
4. Collaboration with trained psychology professionals
5. Privacy-first design with full user consent

🧩 Why this matters:

• Mental health is a growing global crisis, especially among teens and young adults
• Traditional therapy often has access barriers (cost, time, stigma)
• ChatGPT already provides comfort, but combining it with real counselors could offer life-changing support

💡 Benefits:

• AI scales emotional support affordably
• Human professionals provide clinical depth when needed
• Potentially life-saving early intervention for those who otherwise wouldn’t seek help

This post was drafted with assistance from ChatGPT — proof that AI-human collaboration can fuel real-world ideas.

I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or suggestions on how to make this proposal even stronger or more feasible.

Thanks for reading!

https://www.boomlive.in/decode/when-a-face-scan-decides-who-eats-and-who-keeps-their-job-29048

We all know that AI is expensive, but a new set of algorithms developed by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Intel Labs, and d-Matrix could significantly reduce the cost of serving up your favorite large language model (LLM) with just a few lines of code.

Presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning this week and detailed in this paper, the algorithms offer a new spin on speculative decoding that they say can boost token generation rates by as much as 2.8x while also eliminating the need for specialized draft models.

Speculative decoding, if you're not familiar, isn't a new concept. It works by using a small "draft" model ("drafter" for short) to predict the outputs of larger, slower, but higher quality "target" models.

If the draft model can successfully predict, say, the next four tokens in the sequence, that's four tokens the bigger model doesn't have to generate, and so we get a speed-up. If it's wrong, the larger model discards the draft tokens and generates new ones itself. That last bit is important as it means the entire process is lossless — there's no trade-off in quality required to get that speed-up.

Boffins detail new algorithms to losslessly boost AI perf by up to 2.8x

: New spin on speculative decoding works with any model - now built into Transformers

^{Tobias Mann (The Register)}

I believe that the time has come for a new Social Media Bill of Digital Rights. Just as the original Bill of Rights protected individual freedoms from government overreach, we need fundamental protections for our digital communities from corporate control and surveillance capitalism.

So what could such a Social Media Bill of Rights include?

• The right to privacy & security: The ability to communicate and organize without fear of surveillance or exploitation.
• The right to own and control your identity: People and their communities must own their digital identities, connections and data. And, as the owner of an account, you can exercise the right to be forgotten.
• The right to choose and understand algorithms (transparency): Choosing the algorithms that shape your interactions: no more black box systems optimizing for engagement at the expense of community well-being.
  The right to community self-governance: Crucially, communities of users need the right to self govern, setting their own rules for behavior which are contextually relevant to their community. (Note: this does not preclude developer governance.)
• The right to full portability – the right to exit: The freedom to port your community in its entirety, to another app without losing your connections and content.

ActivityPub is of course mentioned.

We Deserve Better: A New Social Media Bill of Rights

Earlier this year, I was a part of a CNN documentary, Twitter: Breaking the Bird, which gave memuch pause for reflection about the state of social media and how we got here. This year alonewe’…

^Techdirt