How GOP's Crypto Bills Would Benefit Trump and His Family
A new analysis details precisely how a slate of proposed cryptocurrency bills making their way through Congress this week, if passed, will enrich U.S. President Donald Trump and members of his family who are heavily invested in the crypto markets.
How GOP's Crypto Bills Would Benefit Trump and His Family
Passing any bill that lets the president "enrich himself from deeper in the shadows is a recipe for American workers getting sold out to the highest bidder," warned the head of Accountable.US.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
Bill Would Subject Lawmakers to Same Work Reporting Mandates GOP Just Imposed on Medicaid, SNAP Recipients
Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi introduced the BURDEN Act to make federal lawmakers fill out the same paperwork that their new law forces on low-income Americans.
Bill Would Subject Lawmakers to Same Work Reporting Mandates GOP Just Imposed on Medicaid, SNAP Recipients
"If congressional Republicans think these burdens are appropriate for struggling families, then members of Congress should shoulder them too," said BURDEN Act sponsor Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
GHF Guards Gassed Starving and Fenced in Palestinians, Causing a Deadly Stampede
“It’s as if they meant to kill you. They meant to suffocate you”—eyewitnesses describe a nightmarish scene at a GHF hub on Wednesday in Khan Younis.
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The Father Of Silent Hill Says Their Next Game Won't Be A Slitterhead Sequel
The man who gave us Silent Hill reveals that his next video game project won't be a sequel to Slitterhead. Instead, there are new ambitions.
CBP Agents Can Have Gang Tattoos — as Long as They Cover Them Up
U.S. immigration officials have sent people to CECOT because of what they deemed gang tattoos. CBP grooming standards allow them.
Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again
Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again
Peacock is raising the subscription price of its Premium and Premium Plus tiers by $3 starting July 23.Ian Carlos Campbell (Engadget)
Popular Ontario summer-travel spot sees the most new measles cases for the week
Popular Ontario summer-travel spot sees the most new measles cases for the week
Public Health Ontario is reporting 32 new measles cases this week, 19 of which are in Huron Perth. That brings the total case count to 2,276 since an outbreak began last fall.globalnewsdigital (Global News)
My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs
My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs
One of my favorite AI dev products today is Full Line Code Completion in PyCharm (bundled with the IDE since late 2023). It’s extremely well-thought out,...Normcore Tech
Steam file transfer over local network?
Anyone got this to work between a linux host and a steamdeck?
I am using the arch package of steam on the host, I opened the necessary ports, but I can't get the two to download from each other (just to be safe I completely disabled the firewall on both devices and tested, doesn't work).
Steam's remote connection logs mention receiveing broadcast from the other device and when I start the download, the server briefly starts saying "hosting local file transfer" in its downloads page but stays in 0% a little while and disappears.
This works for me between Desktop Arch with pacman Steam install and my Steam Deck.
Never had to do anything special to set it up, I use the GNOME suite so I guess network-manager takes care of any network specifics.
She's a master craftsman of programming.
How Android phones became an earthquake warning system
How Android phones became an earthquake warning system
The system uses phones’ accelerometers to trigger warnings ahead of the shaking.John Timmer (Ars Technica)
China's Robotaxi Companies Are Racing Ahead of Tesla
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News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline
News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline
The News/Media Alliance has announced that it has “successfully secured” the takedown of the paywall bypassing tool, 12ft.io.Emma Roth (The Verge)
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archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet
Do you like reading articles in publications like Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal or the Economist, but can’t afford to pay what can be hundreds of dollars a year in subscriptions? If so, …Gyrovague
Keep display output when monitor "Disconnected"
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.
When the wayland people stop pretending you don't need it
in 3 to 5 years, sometime around when they realize that network transparency is really important actually
GitHub - VirtualDrivers/Virtual-Display-Driver: Add virtual monitors to your windows 10/11 device! Works with VR, OBS, Sunshine, and/or any desktop sharing software.
Add virtual monitors to your windows 10/11 device! Works with VR, OBS, Sunshine, and/or any desktop sharing software. - VirtualDrivers/Virtual-Display-DriverGitHub
The Sandman - 2° Stagione
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
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Ride-hailing giants’ electric promises are stalling worldwide
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)
[Dune: Awakening] freezes after some time of playing
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
trying to dual boot laptop
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/
Do you know if you installed in legacy BIOS or EFI mode? If its EFI then most BIOS screens have a method to then pick the actual EFI entry (if the bootup discovers more than one) and you can then set it to boot Linux (and hopefully your Linux install did a probe OS and chainloaded to your Windows Boot). I had this issue before.
I also had an HP recovery partition getting invoked every time windows booted and detected change. The remedy wiping the drive to her ride of that stupid partition
Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS
Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS
Linux has surpassed 5% desktop market share in the US (5.03% in June 2025), per StatCounter, driven by privacy concerns, rising costs of Windows/macOS, and user-friendly distros like Ubuntu.Ryan Gibson (WebProNews)
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Proposal: Integrate a Human+AI Hybrid Mental Health Support Plan into ChatGPT (Co-created with ChatGPT 🤖)
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!
Boffins detail new algorithms that boost AI perf up to 2.8x
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 TransformersTobias Mann (The Register)
We Deserve Better: A New Social Media Bill of Rights
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
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Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US
For the first time ever, Linux has clawed its way past the five per cent desktop market share barrier in the United States so maybe 2025 is finally the much predicted year of Linux on the desktop.StatCounter’s latest figures for June 2025 show Linux holding 5.03 per cent of the US desktop market. That might sound modest, but it is a massive milestone for the open-source faithful who have been banging on for decades that Linux would one day break through. Even more satisfying, Linux has now overtaken the “Unknown” category in the stats, a small but symbolic victory that shows the growth is no longer being ignored or misattributed.
It took a grinding eight years for Linux to crawl from one to two per cent by April 2021. Another 2.2 years were needed to hit three per cent in June 2023. From there it snowballed, taking only 0.7 years to cross four per cent in February 2024 and just four months later Linux is through five per cent.
Analysts say AI workloads, the backlash against surveillance-heavy proprietary platforms, and the never-ending trainwrecks of Apple have made Linux a more attractive option for ordinary users. Microsoft’s increasingly locked-down Windows 11, with its forced online accounts and hardware restrictions, has not helped either.
I guess Apple and MS are finally finding out.
Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US
2025 really is the year of Linux on the desktop For the first time ever, Linux has clawed its way past the five per cent desktop market share barrier in the United States so maybe 2025 is finally the much predicted year of Linux on the desktop.Nick Farrell (Fudzilla)
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UK online safety law is going to change the way we use the internet
UK online safety law is going to change the way we use the internet
The UK's Online Safety Act is intended to stop children from accessing pornography online, but its potential implications are much wider reachingMatthew Sparkes (New Scientist)
You mean this Bill Gates?
GATES, GMOs & GEOENGINEERING
In 2006, the BMGF (Bill and Melinda Gate's Foundation) donated $100 million and formed an alliance with the Rockefeller Foundation to help spur a “green revolution” in Africa, with a major focus being to encourage the use of pesticides and “advanced” (i.e. GMO) seeds.
In 2010, the BMGF purchased 500,000 shares in Monsanto, the world’s largest producer of GMO food as well as pesticides like glyphosate (Roundup), making it abundantly clear that this so-called benevolent charity is up to something other than eradicating disease and feeding the world’s poor.
Since 2015, the BMGF has donated a total of $15 million to two global campaigns aimed at “ending world hunger” by encouraging small farmers around the world to use GMOs.
Interestingly, while the BMGF is heavily promoting GMO to farmers, at the same time it’s investing in the ‘Doomsday Crop Diversity Vault,’ a seed bank located in Norway. Other investors include the Norwegian government, the Rockefeller Foundation, and major GMO seed and agrichemical companies.
Food for thought … Why is the BMGF pushing GMO seeds (which destroy the plant seed varieties) while at the same time investing tens of millions of dollars to preserve every seed variety known in a bomb-proof doomsday vault near the remote Arctic Circle “so that crop diversity can be conserved for the future”? Think about it.
Since 2007, Gates has been personally funding and closely involved in the Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (FICER), based at Harvard University, which carries out research into the possibility of blocking the sun in order to mitigate global warming, using chemicals or particles of metals such as aluminum.
In 2012 FICER announced their intention to spray sun-reflecting sulphate particles into the atmosphere to artificially cool the planet, and they also contemplated using aluminum for the same purpose.
That’s right, it’s no longer a “conspiracy theory” folks. Those ‘criss cross’ lines in the sky aren’t funny shaped clouds and they aren’t normal exhaust from planes. They are chemical trails (aka “chemtrails“) being intentionally sprayed into the atmosphere. Heck, there are actually multiple patents on this technology.
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A Stoccolma la scomparsa dei contanti ha creato vari problemi
A Stoccolma la scomparsa dei contanti ha creato vari problemi
Per esempio alle donne vittime di violenza domestica, ma non soloIl Post
Subaru Telescope Discovers "Fossil" of the Early Solar System
The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system.The object officially designated 2023 KQ~14,~ was found as part of the survey project FOSSIL (Formation of the Outer Solar System: An Icy Legacy), which takes advantage of the Subaru Telescope's wide field of view. The object was discovered through observations taken in March, May, and August 2023 using the Subaru Telescope.
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Subaru Telescope Discovers "Fossil" of the Early Solar System | Obsevation Results | Subaru Telescope
The Subaru Telescope has revealed a fourth member of the sednoids, a group of small bodies with peculiar orbits around the outer edge of the Solar System that includes Se...Subaru Telescope
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Microsoft saved $500 million using AI — after slashing over 15,000 jobs in 2025
Microsoft saved $500 million using AI — after slashing over 15,000 jobs in 2025
While AI may not be the direct cause of Microsoft’s recent layoffs, it’s already delivering impressive productivity gains — saving $500 million in the call center alone last year.Kevin Okemwa (Windows Central)
Dutch MPs want citizens to own the copyright to their faces
A majority of Dutch MPs are backing a proposal to give citizens the copyright to their body, facial features, and voice to prevent people from creating AI-generated deepfakes and putting them online.
Denmark has already announced it will extend copyright law to ensure people maintain the right to their own person and GroenLinks-PvdA, VVD, NSC and D66 MPS now want to follow suit.
They have also called for action against big tech companies that do not act against the dissemination of deepfakes on their platforms.
Obando said any case against big tech companies would be a “challenge” and may turn into a battle of “David against Goliath”. “An individual would have to take on an often anonymous perpetrator or a big tech platform,” he said.
Privacy watchdog Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) is calling on people who are the victims of sexually suggestive deepfakes to report them so it can impose fines and other measures.
Duursma and Obando both warned that the new legislation could compromise freedom of expression. However, parody and satire using deepfakes would still be allowed under the proposed rules.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps
Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit focused on open-source social media | TechCrunch
Jack Dorsey backs nonprofit 'and Other Stuff' with $10M to build open social technology.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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Hackers Are Finding New Ways to Hide Malware in DNS Records
New ways, but they are really creative!
https://www.wired.com/story/dns-records-hidden-malicious-code/
Liberating clients from servers, without throwing out baby with bathwater
"With targeted FEPs and pioneering implementations like Flowz, the Fediverse can break free of proprietary client APIs and monolithic client/server implementations and empower a new wave of social web innovation."
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This is such a valuable insight! There are 2 extremes in decentralised social app dev, one where an app is just a dumb terminal for a particular server, and then the inverse, pure P2P apps with no server. But there is a middle ground. Apps can be a focus of UX development, and access different servers as needed to provide functionality that's impractical (if not impossible) to do with pure P2P networks.
ActivityPub Client API: A Way Forward | Steve Bate
The ActivityPub Client-to-Server (C2S) protocol was envisioned as a cornerstone of the decentralized social web, along with the Server-to-Server (S2S) protocol.Steve Bate
I may bring an additional more top-down design perspective into consideration and to ideate on, but please let me know if that is better addressed in a separate topic.
What if we "Liberate people from clients, apps and servers"?
If the "fediverse facilitates online communication and social interaction between people", then the ActivityPub protocol specifies how to implement an abstraction on top of servers and clients in order to provide "a distributed network of addressible actors for the exchange of social activities". This abstraction no longer relies on the notion of servers and clients, though for certain social networking use cases you may opt to re-introduce them (.. but then they live as concepts in this higher level of abstraction).
Though conceptually the ActivityPub spec didn't prescribe this, the dominant abstraction for "joining the fediverse" in the present day involves "select an app, select a server that hosts your app of choice, and use a client that supports that app, to access it". In other words, currently fediverse offers a predominantly app-centric view of the world. But this need not be the only view that is supported, and I advocate a shift towards having a fediverse of mixed apps & services, and elaborate a service-oriented view e.g. as a compliant AP protocol extension.
In the service-oriented view - and in a paradigm shift towards app-free computing - there wouldn't necessarily be "Instances" as we have today, but parties that are positioned as fediverse access providers. You can compare this to the telecom sector, providing the plug in your house to deliver TV, phone and internet services at your doorstep.
When relating that to a good software with ActivityPub C2S support, I can envision that people after gaining access and becoming fedizens, can easily discover, obtain and wire services together in interesting ways that support their social networking use cases and needs. And dynamic UI/UX that supports that, based on service configuration and protocol (control) data exchange.
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