Ovidio Guzman Lopez is one of the brothers left running a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel after notorious capo "El Chapo" was imprisoned in the U.S.

Archived version: archive.is/20250514230839/cbsn…

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17 family members of notorious cartel leader enter U.S. in deal with Trump administration, Mexico says

^{CBS News}

Germany's armed forces reported a 28% surge in soldier recruits from January to late July, compared with the same period last year, bolstering plans to boost NATO defences in response to what it sees as an increased threat from Russia.

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Indian state refiners halt Russian oil purchases amid Trump warnings, turning to Middle Eastern and West African grades.

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Content Warning: this article contains graphic and distressing testimony and images.

Research documents ‘horrific and extreme’ attacks by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and warns that impunity has meant such atrocities are expanding to new regions

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Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity – report

^{Tess McClure (The Guardian)}

When North Korea honored fallen Korean War heroes at a Victory Day ceremony last week.

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

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N. Korea secretly buries Ukraine war dead alongside Korean war heroes - Daily NK English

^{Lee Sang-yong (Daily NK English)}

https://mississippitoday.org/2025/07/28/attorneys-baffled-by-federal-court-order-with-factual-errors/

I gruppi Diggita (diggita.com/communities) sono nati con una missione precisa:

🔬 Divulgazione scientifica
💻 Cultura informatica
📰 Giornalismo indipendente

❌ Cosa non siamo:
- Vetrine personali
- Piattaforme promozionali
- Spazi per autopromozione

👉 Vi chiediamo di evitare:
- "Compra il mio libro"
- "Scarica il mio ebook"
- "Iscriviti al mio canale"
- "Vieni al mio evento/concerto"

Perché?
Vogliamo preservare la natura comunitaria e informativa di Diggita (diggita.com/), contrastando le dinamiche autoreferenziali che stanno invadendo altri spazi digitali (come certe derive su Mastodon).

Diggita è uno spazio collettivo, non un palcoscenico personale.
Grazie per contribuire a mantenerlo un luogo di contenuti utili e accessibili per tutti 🙂

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Seems like a total fluff piece for China, released exclusively in China, with a glowing interview in CCP mouthpiece Global Times being pretty much the only book review I can find. And what’s more, it’s getting blurb endorsements from Ctrip co-founder James Liang.

Has this book been reviewed elsewhere? And what’s happened to Kevin Kelly here?

China could be a global model by 2049: Wired founding executive editor

Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of the US magazine Wired, introduces the concept of

^{www.globaltimes.cn}

Samsung has decided to proceed with the Bootloader blocking also in Europe, a move that has caused a lot of discussion. Behind this choice is a European regulation that will come into force in August 2025 and which risks changing smartphone usage in Europe forever. This is why other manufacturers may soon follow suit.

From 1 August 2025, new provisions will come into force RED Directive (Radio Equipment Directive), which redefines the compliance requirements for all radio devices sold in Europe. This is a significant change, not so much for the amount of regulations introduced, but for the effect they will have on the entire Android ecosystem. The issue revolves around three articles that impose specific protections: against network interference, personal data compromise, and digital fraud. These are, in themselves, sacrosanct rules.

But the crux comes with the interpretation prevailingEach device must ensure full compliance not only with the hardware, but also with the software that controls the radio modules. This is where the bootloader comes in. Unlocking it essentially allows you to replace the original operating system with an alternative one, such as LineageOS or GrapheneOS.

But these systems, if they modify the radio drivers even minimally, invalidate the CE certification. An uncertified device can no longer be legally marketed or used, at least according to the most stringent reading of the law.

This scenario has therefore led Samsung to protect its devices. Not on a whim, but to avoid any software modifications falling under your legal liability. If a user installs a ROM that interferes with radio frequencies or compromises communications security, the manufacturer (and in some cases the importer) may be held directly liable.

RED does not explicitly talk about unlocking the Bootloader or custom ROM, but it opens one regulatory space in which the margins for maneuver are they narrow. And in doing so, it provides a solid argument for those who have been trying for years to close the loop between hardware, software, and services. After all, customizing the operating system also means breaking away from proprietary services and, therefore, from the model that ties the user to the brand.

Samsung is just the first to move, but it's hard to imagine it will be the only one. Starting in August 2025, it's very likely that other manufacturers will follow suit, at least for the European market.

Goodbye Bootloader Unlock in Europe: What's Happening?

The landscape is changing for those who have turned modding into a form of digital control. Bootloader unlocking in Europe is at risk of disappearing.

^{Gianluca Cobucci (XiaomiToday.it)}

The New Orleans City Council is considering Ordinance 35,137 that would authorize the continued use of the live facial recognition system implemented by Project NOLA. Project NOLA, a non-profit organization, runs a centralized surveillance system that has equipped New Orleans with more than 200 facial recognition cameras at various establishments and residential locations. The program, run by a former officer, was until recently, sending law enforcement live, real time alerts of people identified by facial recognition from predetermined lists. The use of Project NOLA’s live facial recognition system by the New Orleans police was a clear violation of a preexisting 2022 city council ordinance that limited the use of facial recognition technology to searches involving specific cases with violent crime. The 2022 ordinance did not allow for the use of live facial recognition or the mass deployment of the technology. Despite the police’s clear violation of the ordinance, the New Orleans City Council is considering a new ordinance to sanction the mass deployment of live facial recognition.

The possibility that New Orleans will officially implement mass surveillance via facial recognition would be an about-face that would see New Orleans go from a 2020 ordinance that rightly banned facial recognition because of the heightened risk of false positives for Black people to embracing a dystopian future of a dragnet facial recognition surveillance that treats everyone as a suspect. This opens the door to a level of intrusion that we’ve only seen in authoritarian governments. The intrusion will not stop at our faces, Project NOLA can not only track faces, but also clothing, cars, and bikes. The kind of surveillance presents a real threat to our privacy, civil liberties, and undermines our democratic values.

https://epic.org/project-dystopia-how-a-little-known-non-profit-has-new-orleans-considering-mass-real-time-facial-recognition-surveillance/

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I look everywhere and I see people losing their social skills and with the rise of walled internet, that means that all forms of internet freedom/privacy will be lost.

Many people would suggest using VPN. The problem is that VPN companies need countries that respect privacy + not require ID to access internet, in order for them to work.

Is this the end?

In a Thursday speech, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Paul S. Atkins announced “Project Crypto,” an initiative to modernize the country’s securities rules and regulations to move financial markets on-chain.

“Under my leadership, the SEC will not stand idly by and watch innovations develop overseas while our capital markets remain stagnant,” he said at an America First Policy Institute event in Washington D.C. His plan includes measures to reshore crypto businesses that have left the country and to ensure that “archaic rules and regulations do not smother innovation and entrepreneurship in America.”

https://qz.com/sec-deregulate-cryptocurrencies-project-crypto

The Block BEARD bill broadly applies to service providers as defined in section 512(k)(1)(A) of the DMCA. This is a broad definition that applies to residential ISPs, but also to search engines, social media platforms, and DNS resolvers.

Service providers with fewer than 50,000 subscribers are explicitly excluded

U.S. Senators Introduce New Pirate Site Blocking Bill: Block BEARD * TorrentFreak

Efforts to introduce pirate site blocking to the United States continue with the introduction of the "Block BEARD" bill in the Senate.

^{Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)}

An in-person conference centered around the fediverse is happening this Friday and Saturday at UBC Robson Square in Vancouver, BC.

Put on by reiver@mastodon.social, it is bringing together a number of big names including Evan Prodromou (of AP fame), Dan Supernault (Pixelfed creator), and more!

> 🎉 FediCon is in 1 day!
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>If you already have a FediCon ticket, you should receive this reminder e-mail message.
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>🌐 FediCon
>📍 Vancouver (Canada)
>🗓️ August 1-2
>ℹ️ fedicon.ca
>🎟️ lu.ma/p4bbb941
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>🥳 lu.ma/kowist5x
>🥳 lu.ma/reg4appv

I'll be on stage speaking about some of ActivityPub's "hard problems", and what people are doing to fix them. It's a rehash and expansion of a talk I gave at FOSDEM this past February.

Are there threadiverse related problems? I'd imagine so. Would love to include them in my presentation.

FediCon — Fediverse Conference

2 day Fediverse Conference on August 1st and 2nd, 2025

^fedicon.ca

Brilliant Labs is the startup behind Frame, the open-source smart glasses designed for hackers and other creative types. Today, the company is launching Halo, a new pair of glasses that, predictably for the age we live in, are being sold on the back of their AI features. Halo is a wayfarer-style pair (compared to the Panto-styled Frame) and, if you’re a spectacles wearer, you’ll be able to get prescription lenses in more than 100 countries thank to a partnership with SmartBuyGlasses.

Brilliant is happy to brag that Halo includes a camera, microphone and bone-conduction speakers in its slender chassis. A natural pitfall of many smart glasses has been the compromises necessary to keep weight down while still offering enough functionality to be useful. Being able to keep the weight to a trim 40 grams is one hell of an achievement, especially given the glasses have a color OLED display and a battery that promises to run for 14 hours on a single charge.

Unfortunately, instead of a display that overlays onto the lens, Halo "works" by projecting into your peripheral vision. I’ll be honest, these displays are becoming more of an irritation the more I use them, especially compared to models that have prisms inside the lenses.

Brilliant Labs launches its second-generation smart glasses

Brilliant Labs' new smart glasses are the Halo.

^{Daniel Cooper (Engadget)}

In tutti i dosaggi "abbiamo osservato una buona e rapida biodisponibilità", il che significa che il farmaco non si è scomposto rapidamente nell'organismo, afferma Mannowetz. In media, ci sono voluti dai due ai tre giorni perché i livelli di disponibilità del farmaco nel sangue si riducessero della metà, un risultato promettente che suggerisce che la pillola potrebbe essere necessaria solo una volta al giorno se in seguito si dimostrasse efficace nel ridurre lo sperma. Mannowetz prevede che il dosaggio finale che sarà disponibile nei negozi se il farmaco verrà approvato dalla Food and Drug Administration statunitense sarà probabilmente più vicino alla dose più elevata testata, 180 mg, anche se studi di follow-up aiuteranno a determinare la dose ottimale esatta.

Il team di ricerca non ha rilevato effetti collaterali avversi correlati al farmaco. Un vantaggio di un contraccettivo non ormonale è che, in teoria, c'è una minore probabilità di alcuni effetti collaterali come alterazioni della funzione sessuale, della libido o dell'umore.

Male Birth Control Pill YCT-529 Passes Human Safety Test

A hormone-free pill, called YCT-529, that temporarily stops sperm production by blocking a vitamin A metabolite has just concluded its first safety trial in humans, getting a step closer to increasing male contraceptive options

^{Hannah Seo (Scientific American)}

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tea-app-leak-worsens-with-second-database-exposing-user-chats/

L’altro giorno ho scoperto una cosa bellissima, che pare una moda dell’epoca a cui risale, mentre ora invece è roba vecchia e dimenticata… di almeno 3 anni fa, su YouTube… (io come al solito arrivo sempre tardi, e figuriamoci): i “subliminals” per finire in ospedale, in coma, o anche peggio; in ogni caso, per liberarsi […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…

minioctt

2025-07-31 14:21:07

subliminalaggio delle varie fini con musichette e videini

L’altro giorno ho scoperto una cosa bellissima, che pare una moda dell’epoca a cui risale, mentre ora invece è roba vecchia e dimenticata… di almeno 3 anni fa, su YouTube… (io come al solito arrivo sempre tardi, e figuriamoci): i “subliminals” per finire in ospedale, in coma, o anche peggio; in ogni caso, per liberarsi di tutte le responsabilità e le seccature, augurandosi che semplicemente dal fato arrivi, da un momento all’altro, senza fare niente personalmente, del bel meritato riposo!!! 🥰

youtube.com/watch?v=wCjz9rEp1K…

All’atto pratico non è nulla di assurdo o estremo: sono semplicemente dei video con musichette di sottofondo rilassanti (o a volte no), che vanno dal calmo kawaii a semplici rumori ambientali, e un’immaginetta a tema a schermo, cosa che potrebbe lasciare sicuramente in confusione dato il resto del contesto… Nella sostanza, invece, sono praticamente delle ambientazioni sensoriali messe su per favorire quelle che pare si chiamino “affermazioni subliminali“, molte delle quali sono puntualmente inserite in enormi listoni in descrizione al video, e si ricollegano ovviamente all’oggetto dello stesso… 🤯

Queste asserzioni subliminali, a loro volta, in sostanza sono non altro che delle “preghiere atee”, passatemi il termine, dove semplicemente si esprime un desiderio dicendo la cosa in questione al tempo presente, come se fosse già realtà, o al futuro prossimo, come se si ha la certezza che diventerà realtà a breve. Non ho ben capito nella pratica come si usano — se si devono dire a mente, ad alta voce, o che — ma, stando ai commenti (per quanto ci si possa mai fidare dei commentatori medi di YouTube), a differenza delle preghiere religiose, queste qui sembrano statisticamente funzionare abbastanza… (Ho trovato in realtà per caso anche un video che spiegherebbe come si usano questi contenuti, ma non l’ho guardato, vabbè: “This is how you PROPERLY listen to subliminals | law of assumption“) 💣

Ma, ovviamente, il “🦋coma forzato🦋 (ascolta una volta)” è solo la punta della piramide di ghiaccio galleggiante (“iceberg”), e un po’ lo si scopre semplicemente seguendo i video correlati, mentre per il resto è bastata qualche ricerca ad intuito. Da un lato questi subliminali sono usati per le cose più assurde e irrealistiche, come che ne so, avere la pelle pulita, o ottenere bei soldi, o superare gli esami, o in generale avere fortuna… mentre dall’altro, appunto, si scende fino alla morte!!! Ma anche solo di questi “negativi” è pieno, sono tantissimi, tant’è che anche riassumerli tutti in questo post non è il caso… ma, quelli che ho trovato finora li lascio in una lista qui: memos.octt.eu.org/m/SEGBfde5dx…. (Alcuni hanno musiche davvero belline.) 😻

In generale, mi colpisce che alcuni si impegnano molto a creare questi robi… soprattutto 1 (un) canale, che esce praticamente per qualsiasi query relativa al finire in ospedale, “chai’s hospital“, e che purtroppo trovo allucinante, ma ha video per tipo 20 condizioni mediche diverse, terminali e non. Sul morire direttamente si va invece un po’ sull’impossibile, perché, mentre alcuni si fermano al creare affermazioni per avere un infarto o arresto cardiaco (cose che possono capitare), molti altri vanno sul “respawnare” in un’altra realtà o cose di quel tipo, che per quanto sappiamo sono fisicamente impossibili, e quindi probabilmente cazzate belle e buone. Però oh, quelle plausibili sono già tante e sufficienti… 😳🙏

#subliminals

chai's hospital

♡Important Information♡ + + + Hi! My name's Chai and I run this account :) I go by any pronouns. I always prioritize requests! Here's some info if you'd like to request a subliminal: -I only do subliminals that are medical-related/fit the theme o…

^YouTube

https://apnews.com/article/spacex-musk-starlink-china-satellites-759e53143378357ce3af21ca8a6916df

Recently, we reported on LibreOffice, accusing Microsoft of intentionally using complex file formats as a tactic to lock in users to Microsoft Office, hindering open source alternatives like LibreOffice.
Now, Microsoft has banned LibreOffice developer, Mike Kaganski, from using its services, citing an "activity that violates [its] Services Agreement".

According to Mike, this happened last Monday when he tried to send a technical email to the LibreOffice dev mailing list, which is a normal part of his routine, but Thunderbird returned an error saying the message couldn't be sent. His account was blocked upon retry, and he found himself completely logged out of his Microsoft account.....

Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal

A LibreOffice developer has shared his experience of having his Microsoft account banned, and how the company has been uncooperative in helping him recover it.

^{David Uzondu (Neowin)}