US government proposes easing some restrictions on drones traveling long distances
A new federal rule would make it easier for companies to use drones over longer distances out of sight of the operator without having to go through a cumbersome waiver process.
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Trump threatens EU with 35% tariff if investment pledge falls through
The US president added that he "can do anything I want" with Brussels' $600 billion worth of pledged investments
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GOP congressman faces heated town hall where hundreds boo him for supporting Trump's big bill
Republican congressman Mike Flood has gotten an earful during a Nebraska town hall held to defend his support of President Donald Trump's tax breaks and spending cuts law.
Bangladesh to hold parliamentary elections in February 2026, interim leader Yunus says
Bangladesh's interim leader and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus announced Tuesday that national elections will be held in February 2026, aiming to restore democratic governance following the ousting of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last year.
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Prison bosses make room for possible influx before planned protests across England
Exclusive: Possible arrests at protests against Palestine Action ban and asylum hotels likely to stretch prisons
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Prison bosses make room for possible influx before planned protests across England
Exclusive: possible arrests at protests against Palestine Action ban and asylum hotels likely to stretch prisonsRajeev Syal (The Guardian)
The age of storage: Batteries primed for India’s power markets
Extreme price swings in wholesale electricity markets and growing concerns around grid instability are opening up new markets for energy storage. Batteries are now a critical solution to drive value for both capital and consumers.
IPTV FAQ and articles
"welcome to iptv.surf! here you’ll find a collection of articles from IPTVGroupBuy (rip) that will help you get started on your IPTV journey."
I posted a link to an archive of most of this stuff in an earlier post but this url is much more convenient.
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Invite only - "please do not go posting this on open forums" "please try to stick to people you actually talk to"
I still don't get the appeal of discord for this kind of stuff. Seems like a matter of time before it gets shut down too and all the useful info isn't discoverable by regular people. But I'm uninformed when it comes to discord.
Got it - thanks for the response. I agree with you, Discord seems suboptimal. But, if that’s where the discussion is, there’s not much choice.
Lemmy seems like a great solution, honestly
EU interior ministers want to exempt themselves from chat control bulk scanning of private messages.
It's clear and simple mass surveilance. You might not have something to hide now, but maybe you will one day if your country plunges into fascism or other authoritarianism or they will make something that is now legal illegal retroactively like has happened with abortion in the US. Protect your rights while you can.
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Agenda Prep for August 2025 ForumWG Meeting
Agenda preparation for the April ForumWG meeting can be found at this public link (anyone can make comments for review.)
Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 17h00 to 18h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held on 7 August 2025.
We will be discussing:
- FEP 7888/f228 adoption update
- Context Inheritance
- Context Ownership
- Merging of Contexts (aka "cross-posting")
2025-08 Agenda
August 2025 Agenda Forum and Threaded Discussions Task Force Format Information gathering prior to the meeting will be held asynchronously via the fediverse, with topics posted on one of the following two locations: https://community.nodebb.Google Docs
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Was there a meeting? Could you provide a short summary?
I am particularly interested in cross posting.
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silverpill@mitra.social there was! I am very bad with putting together minutes but I will put some together tomorrow (hopefully)
For cross posting essentially I outlined how Piefed does it, and how NodeBB hopes to do it differently, but there are some moderation concerns.
Will elaborate more in the minutes.
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This is a test comment, sorry for the inconvenience (and thanks for your work!)
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@tuneintodetuned No, pero aquí parece haber un ejemplo: https://community.nodebb.org/post/105411 Voy a comentar en ese hilo, desde Mastodon, con un enlace a este comentario, a ver qué pasa ¿vale?Mastodon
Piracy Shield Widens Scope to Protect Movie & TV Premieres & Live Music
Piracy Shield Widens Scope to Protect Movie & TV Premieres & Live Music * TorrentFreak
Italy's Piracy Shield will widen its scope to protect movie and TV show premieres and live music after amendments were adopted last week.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
Kernwapens: 80 jaar na Hiroshima
In de jaren 90/00 waren vrijwel alle grote internationale conflicten gerelateerd aan civiele nucleaire programma’s en of die gebruikt werden voor militaire doeleinden: Noord-Korea, Irak, Iran, noem maar op. Kernwapens zijn daarna een poosje uit het nieuws geweest, maar na de aanvallen op nucleaire installaties in Iran, een – klein – beetje aandacht voor de Israelische kernwapens en het dreigen met een kernoorlog door Medvedev en de reactie van Trump om onderzeeërs met kernwapens richting Rusland te sturen, is het weer ‘hot news’. En de veel gehoorde opmerking dat Rusland Oekraine nooit had aangevallen als Oekraine in 1992 haar kernwapens niet weggedaan had (vaak dezelfde mensen die de aanval op Iran verdedigen), geven een troebele boodschap. Want wat ze eigenlijk zeggen: zorg dat je kernwapens hebt, dan wordt je niet aangevallen. Natuurlijk geldt dat alleen voor onze vrienden. Een ernstige vergissing: kernwapens maken de wereld niet veiliger en dus kernenergie ook niet. Sterker nog: vrienden kunnen zomaar vijanden worden en dan kan een civiel nucleaire programma ook zo maar een reden voor een aanval zijn.
I built ovosim using AI
I’ve been curious about what AI tools can do, so I decided to try building something with them.
The result is OVOSIM — a small eSIM store for travelers.
There’s no AI behind the product itself. I just used AI to help me write, design, and put it all together faster.
It’s simple, it works, and I enjoyed making it.
If you’re curious, here it is: www.ovosim.com
Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles | 404 Media
Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
Wikipedia editors just adopted a new policy to help them deal with the slew of AI-generated articles flooding the online encyclopedia. The new policy, which gives an administrator the authority to quickly delete an AI-generated article that meets a certain criteria, isn’t only important to Wikipedia, but also an important example for how to deal with the growing AI slop problem from a platform that has so far managed to withstand various forms of enshittification that have plagued the rest of the internet.Wikipedia is maintained by a global, collaborative community of volunteer contributors and editors, and part of the reason it remains a reliable source of information is that this community takes a lot of time to discuss, deliberate, and argue about everything that happens on the platform, be it changes to individual articles or the policies that govern how those changes are made. It is normal for entire Wikipedia articles to be deleted, but the main process for deletion usually requires a week-long discussion phase during which Wikipedians try to come to consensus on whether to delete the article.
However, in order to deal with common problems that clearly violate Wikipedia’s policies, Wikipedia also has a “speedy deletion” process, where one person flags an article, an administrator checks if it meets certain conditions, and then deletes the article without the discussion period.
For example, articles composed entirely of gibberish, meaningless text, or what Wikipedia calls “patent nonsense,” can be flagged for speedy deletion. The same is true for articles that are just advertisements with no encyclopedic value. If someone flags an article for deletion because it is “most likely not notable,” that is a more subjective evaluation that requires a full discussion.
At the moment, most articles that Wikipedia editors flag as being AI-generated fall into the latter category because editors can’t be absolutely certain that they were AI-generated. Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of WikiProject AI Cleanup and an editor that contributed some critical language in the recently adopted policy on AI generated articles and speedy deletion, told me that this is why previous proposals on regulating AI generated articles on Wikipedia have struggled.
“While it can be easy to spot hints that something is AI-generated (wording choices, em-dashes, bullet lists with bolded headers, ...), these tells are usually not so clear-cut, and we don't want to mistakenly delete something just because it sounds like AI,” Lebleu told me in an email. “In general, the rise of easy-to-generate AI content has been described as an ‘existential threat’ to Wikipedia: as our processes are geared towards (often long) discussions and consensus-building, the ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly. Of course, AI content is not uniquely bad, and humans are perfectly capable of writing bad content too, but certainly not at the same rate. Our tools were made for a completely different scale.”
The solution Wikipedians came up with is to allow the speedy deletion of clearly AI-generated articles that broadly meet two conditions. The first is if the article includes “communication intended for the user.” This refers to language in the article that is clearly an LLM responding to a user prompt, like "Here is your Wikipedia article on…,” “Up to my last training update …,” and "as a large language model.” This is a clear tell that the article was generated by an LLM, and a method we’ve previously used to identify AI-generated social media posts and scientific papers.
Lebleu, who told me they’ve seen these tells “quite a few times,” said that more importantly, they indicate the user hasn’t even read the article they’re submitting.
“If the user hasn't checked for these basic things, we can safely assume that they haven't reviewed anything of what they copy-pasted, and that it is about as useful as white noise,” they said.
The other condition that would make an AI-generated article eligible for speedy deletion is if its citations are clearly wrong, another type of error LLMs are prone to. This can include both the inclusion of external links for books, articles, or scientific papers that don’t exist and don’t resolve, or links that lead to completely unrelated content. Wikipedia's new policy gives the example of “a paper on a beetle species being cited for a computer science article.”
Lebleu said that speedy deletion is a “band-aid” that can take care of the most obvious cases and that the AI problem will persist as they see a lot more AI-generated content that doesn’t meet these new conditions for speedy deletion. They also noted that AI can be a useful tool that could be a positive force for Wikipedia in the future.
“However, the present situation is very different, and speculation on how the technology might develop in the coming years can easily distract us from solving issues we are facing now, they said. “A key pillar of Wikipedia is that we have no firm rules, and any decisions we take today can be revisited in a few years when the technology evolves.”
Lebleu said that ultimately the new policy leaves Wikipedia in a better position than before, but not a perfect one.
“The good news (beyond the speedy deletion thing itself) is that we have, formally, made a statement on LLM-generated articles. This has been a controversial aspect in the community before: while the vast majority of us are opposed to AI content, exactly how to deal with it has been a point of contention, and early attempts at wide-ranging policies had failed. Here, building up on the previous incremental wins on AI images, drafts, and discussion comments, we workshopped a much more specific criterion, which nonetheless clearly states that unreviewed LLM content is not compatible in spirit with Wikipedia.”
Scientific Journals Are Publishing Papers With AI-Generated Text
The ChatGPT phrase “As of my last knowledge update” appears in several papers published by academic journals.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models
Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models
Today we are announcing Genie 3, a general purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments. Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds...Google DeepMind
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Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So
Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So
The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so, these services must introduce age checks to prevent chi…Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Piracy Shield Widens Scope to Protect Movie & TV Premieres & Live Music
Piracy Shield Widens Scope to Protect Movie & TV Premieres & Live Music * TorrentFreak
Italy's Piracy Shield will widen its scope to protect movie and TV show premieres and live music after amendments were adopted last week.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
Seattle's one fully pedestrianized street is hosting...an automotive photo shoot
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Advertising cars with the exact scene that carbrained people are constantly getting in the way of is ridiculously ironic.
Carbrained people want to enjoy the beauty and lifestyle that comes from walkable cities, but those things only exist because people aren't driving.
They want to drive on empty roads (that are empty because nobody else has cars) to get to a beautiful leaf-shaded downtown with cafés and shops (that only exist because of dense mixed-use cities) then park in an always-vacant spot right outside the door (that is only vacant because everyone else walked or biked)
The "dream lifestyle" of car ownership is a fakery that only exists if cars are an exclusive luxury for a tiny number of people. It's fundamentally elistist, and selfish. But nonetheless that's the lifestyle advertisers continue to push, and the public continues to lap up.
Yes. Like "You're not stuck in traffic. You are traffic."
But getting people to think through anything just seems impossible. It's like most people never really advance beyond toddler levels of reasoning.
Is there a way to show fixed categories in custom page?
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Yuting_11 that's an interesting use case... I don't think we have a widget that does that right now, but a widget to display a single (or multiple) categories could be interesting!
If multiple, though, then you'd probably want to be able to order them, so that makes it difficult.
Fedicon 2025 is currently taking place. All the videos are being posted in this PeerTube account
The videos for FediCon 2025 are going to uploaded to the following PeerTube account:
@fedicon
FediCon
What if the Fediverse met... in real life? 🌐 FediCon 📍 Vancouver, Canada https://fedicon.ca Hash-Tags: #FediCon #FediCon2025 @fedicon@techhub.social (Managed by @reiver@mastodon.social )Spectra Video
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Ci sono fitness tracker che non mandano i miei dati di salute agli USA?
Sono alla ricerca di un buon fitness tracker per iniziare a fare cardio in maniera più misurata.
Ero interessato a Polar e Oura in quanto alternative EU (entrambe aziende finlandesi), ma entrambe mandano dati (di salute, quindi sensibili secondo l'art. 9 GDPR) ad AWS.
Siete a conoscenza di soluzioni EU o almeno non USA, cinesi, russe o israeliane, che non mandino i miei dati ad aziende di quelle stesse nazioni?
Mi piacerebbe potermi organizzare con qualcosa di self-hosted, ma ancora non credo di esserne capace.
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Ah, perdonami, quando hai parlato di soluzione selfhosted devo aver frainteso!
Forse in questo caso l'opzione migliore è un device che sia ben supportato da GadgetBridge.
Da quello che vedo i device meglio supportati sono i Mi Band, ma quasi tutti quelli che hanno svoltato con questa soluzione usano gli orologi Garmin.
Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Australian Productivity Commission is considering it
Should big tech be allowed to mine Australians’ text and data to train AI? The Productivity Commission is considering it
Interim report on digital economy also mulls changes to privacy rules and copyright collections to help harness AI’s benefitsPatrick Commins (The Guardian)
Die Welt von Palantir und Alex Karp – „Watching you“ (2024)
Als hätte „Minority Report“ in deutschen Amtsstuben das Denken ersetzt. Der Dokumentarfilm von Klaus Stern stellt den Menschen vor, der diese Vision verkauft – und mit ihr eine technoide Version der Totalüberwachung salonfähig macht. Dass der Film dabei selbst ein Teil dieser Normalisierung wird, ist die bittere Pointe. Er zeigt, was er nicht kritisiert. Das ist sein größtes Problem. (Dokumentarfilm, ARD, Neu)
Die Welt von Palantir und Alex Karp - "Watching you" (2024)
Als hätte "Minority Report" in deutschen Amtsstuben das Denken ersetzt. Der Dokumentarfilm von Klaus Stern stellt den Menschen vor, der diese Vision verkauft – und mit ihr eine technoide Version der Totalüberwachung salonfähig macht.NexxtPress
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An Open Letter to Yuzo Koshiro: I’m Sorry About the Piracy, but You Probably Made a Suboptimal Choice
An Open Letter to Yuzo Koshiro: I’m Sorry About the Piracy, but You Probably Made a Suboptimal Choice
Dear Mr Koshiro First of all, congratulations on releasing Earthion on PC. It’s beautiful work, and the love and passion involved is clear from the first screen shot. I really appreciate that you re...Safety Stoat Studios (itch.io)
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Russia’s war against Ukraine
People shelter in an underground walkway during an air raid alarm in the center of Kyiv on Aug. 4, 202. (Sergei Supinsky / AFP via Getty Images)
5 Russian fighter jets hit by Ukraine’s SBU in drone operation in occupied Crimea, one destroyed. Drones operated by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) targeted an airfield in the city of Saky.
‘Massive’ Ukrainian drone strike targets Russian railway station in Volgograd Oblast, local official claims. Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that a total of 61 Ukrainian drones were shot down over various regions of the country overnight.
Ukraine confirms drone strike on fuel depot at Russia’s Sochi airport. Videos posted to social media purported to show the view from a plane landing at the airport with the burning depot clearly visible.
Ukrainian strike destroys Russian S-300 in occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, General Staff says. Russian forces use the system to attack Ukrainian-controlled territory and target frontline military positions of the Ukrainian army.
Zelensky says mercenaries from Asia and Africa fighting for Russia in northeastern Ukraine. “The soldiers on this front are recording the participation of mercenaries from China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and African countries in the war. We will respond,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a statement.
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Ukrainian forces repel Russian assault on border checkpoint in Kharkiv Oblast, kill ‘more than ten’ soldiers, military says. The village of Hoptivka lies on the Ukrainian-Russian border, adjacent to Russia’s Belgorod Oblast.
Russia restores runway at occupied Donetsk Airport for kamikaze drone launches, ISW says. Satellite imagery captured in July 2025 shows visible changes at the airport.
Russian forces regrouping near Dnipro River as they prepare for more active ‘island war,’ Ukrainian military officials say. A decrease in assault operations is “related to the regrouping of the relevant Russian units in order to eventually resume more active assaults on the island zone of the right bank of Kherson Oblast,” military spokesperson Serhii Bratchuk told the Kyiv Independent.
Ukrainian soldier working as Russian ‘mole,’ sending GRU military positions, SBU claims. The SBU has detained several people this year accused of working for Russian forces in Ukraine.
Trump says Witkoff may visit Russia this week, calls Putin and team ‘wily characters.’ U.S. President Donald Trump said that his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, may travel to Russia on Aug. 6 or 7 — just days before a deadline for Moscow to reach a peace deal with Ukraine or face secondary tariffs targeting its oil exports.
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Zelensky restores anti-corruption agencies’ independence — but leaves one key change intact
The changes that eliminated the independence of prosecutors other than those from SAPO were not reversed. Experts say that these amendments are at odds with the European Union’s requirements for countries attempting to join the union.
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‘Better now than never’ — Ukraine announces competition for anti-smuggling director 7 months late
After a seven-month delay, Kyiv has finally launched a competition for a State Customs Service director to tackle illegal smuggling that costs the country billions of dollars every year. The news comes as Ukraine faces pressure to push ahead with delayed reforms.
Photo: Michael Sorrow/Anadolu via Getty Images
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New study warns Kyiv must break up old business order to thrive post-war
To reverse course and capitalize on its emerging tech ecosystem and future reconstruction efforts, Ukraine must dismantle the influence of sluggish state-owned enterprises and politically favored large firms.
Photo: Diego Fedele/Getty Images
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Operation Vistula – Expulsion of Ukrainians from post-war Poland
Following World War II and the subsequent redrawing of borders in Europe, Polish authorities forced out roughly 700,000 Ukrainians from their homes in what became Poland’s new southeastern frontier.
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Human cost of Russia’s war
Russian drone strikes kill 3 in Kharkiv Oblast. The attacks struck a residential building and a moped, killing three civilians in the Chuhuiv district. Local prosecutors are investigating the attack as a war crime.
Russian attacks kill 7, injure 13, including 4-month-old girl, over past day. Zaporizhzhia Oblast suffered the heaviest toll in the latest wave of Russian attacks, with three fatalities confirmed.
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,057,140 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022. The number includes 1,010 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
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Pokrovsk is the city of my childhood. Now I watch it die
“The last time we came back to Pokrovsk was in June 2025. The city was mostly destroyed. People who stayed lived in basements or destroyed apartments, or were buried right in the courtyards of their houses,” writes Olena Zashko, videographer at the Kyiv Independent.
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International response
Netherlands to deliver $579 million in US weapon systems to Ukraine, including Patriot missiles. “I am sincerely grateful to the Netherlands for their substantial contribution to strengthening Ukraine’s air shield,” President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote, saying this is “the first such step” among NATO countries.
China rejects US demands to halt Russian, Iranian oil imports. Beijing insists it will continue to secure its energy supplies based on national interests despite pressure from Washington and the threat of punitive tariffs.
Latvia blocks 10 websites spreading Russian propaganda. Baltic states have been raising alarms about a growing Russian threat to the region and NATO.
In other news
Ukrainian lawmaker, ex-governor jailed in drone procurement corruption case. According to investigators, officials involved in the scheme allegedly received up to 30% of contract funds as kickbacks. Among those detained are lawmaker Oleksii Kuznetsov and former Luhansk Oblast Governor Serhii Haidai.
Russia abandons moratorium on deployment of short, intermediate-range missiles. The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Aug. 4 that it no longer considered itself bound by the moratorium due to recent actions by the United States.
Russian gasoline prices hit record high amid Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries, Russian media reports. A market source told the Russian state outlet Kommersant that Ukrainian attacks on oil facilities on Aug. 2 contributed to the price hike.
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Piracy Shield Widens Scope to Protect Movie & TV Premieres & Live Music
After focusing on IPTV services offering pirated live football matches from Italy's Serie A, legal amendments adopted by telecoms regulator AGCOM last week will widen the scope of the Piracy Shield blocking platform. The now-infamous claim, that pirate streams will be blocked inside 30 minutes, now applies to movie and TV premieres, and other events broadcast live. The more serious issues concern VPNs, DNS providers and whoever AGCOM decides to pursue next.
Piracy Shield Widens Scope to Protect Movie & TV Premieres & Live Music * TorrentFreak
Italy's Piracy Shield will widen its scope to protect movie and TV show premieres and live music after amendments were adopted last week.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
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Venghino siori: Microsoft aumenta il montepremi di Zero Day Quest a 5 milioni di dollari
Microsoft offrirà premi fino a 5 milioni di dollari in premi per il concorso di hacking Zero Day Quest di quest'anno, che l'azienda descrive come "il più grande evento di hacking della storia".
Anche la Zero Day Quest dello scorso anno ha generato una partecipazione significativa da parte della comunità della sicurezza , in seguito all'offerta di Microsoft di 4 milioni di dollari in premi per vulnerabilità nei prodotti e nelle piattaforme cloud e di intelligenza artificiale. Dopo la conclusione della gara di hacking di novembre, Microsoft ha annunciato di aver pagato 1,6 milioni di dollari , avendo ricevuto oltre 600 segnalazioni di vulnerabilità.
Per la competizione di quest'anno, Redmond ha aumentato il montepremi a 5 milioni di dollari, concentrandosi sulla risoluzione dei problemi di sicurezza nel cloud computing e nell'intelligenza artificiale.
A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records
A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records | UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
For Immediate Release August 4, 2025 Contact: Journalism@berkeley.edu A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.Andrea Lampros (UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism)
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UNWatch legally appealed Elon Musk to remove Francesca Albanese's blue Twitter checkmark
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📢 Beta Testers Wanted – DNA Companion (Bioinformatics Android Tool)
Hey fellow devs and researchers 👋
I'm currently beta testing an Android app I built called DNA Companion — designed for students, scientists, and researchers working with DNA sequences, PCR, or bioinformatics.
The app is simple, offline, and meant to support basic sequence work without cloud dependencies or ads.
🔬 Key Features:
Convert DNA sequences and generate complementary strands
Highlight invalid or non-DNA characters (e.g., typos, mixed content)
Support for degenerate bases (like R, Y, M, K — useful in primer design)
100% offline – no data collection, no ads
Save, copy, and export sequences with ease
🧪 Why I’m Posting:
Google requires 12+ testers to use the app for 14 days before I can go live on the Play Store. If you're interested in supporting indie dev + science tools, I'd really appreciate your help!
💡 How to Join the Beta Test:
1️⃣ Join the tester group
👉 groups.google.com/g/companiond…
2️⃣ Opt in to the beta
👉 play.google.com/apps/testing/o…
3️⃣ Install the app
After opting in, you’ll be able to download from the Play Store.
💰 The app is currently set at $3.59 AUD (~$2.39 USD) during the test — this helps me avoid bots and keep it sustainable.
🙌 No need to leave reviews. Just keeping the app installed for 14 days helps a lot!
Let me know if you’re testing your app too — I’ll gladly return the favor and test yours in return.
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Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…Techdirt
Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.The Cloudflare Blog
Ignoring the self-promo part of the article, Cloudflare is in big part responsible for all of this. Their home page promotes mostly "AI" tools, they are even offering "pay-per-crawl" to make it a viable business model.
So while you correctly shit on Perplexity, don't forget that Cloudflare is even worse enemy and not a friend.
How to block Israel in qbittorrent (or any similar torrent client)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/3207959
I was going to make this exact tutorial but when making it I found out someone beat me to it about a year ago so I figured I'd repost that one instead since it's a bit more in depth. Also while in many countries people use VPNs to torrent, making measures like this less helpful, occupiers of Palestine don't really tend to use a VPN due to minimal prosecution so catching them with this method is a lot easier than it would be against a country like the US for example.
We first need to obtain a blocklist of all possible Israeli ip addresses. This can be obtained from two sources.
- ip2location.com/free/visitor-b… (choose peer guardian format)
- iblocklist.com/
Due to the nature of how IP addresses are distributed, these blocklists have to be updated, but that isn't a huge concern for us right now.
When you downloaded the file for Israel from either site, it should look something like this:
Israel:2.16.36.0-2.16.36.255 Israel:2.22.233.0-2.22.233.255 Israel:2.52.0.0-2.55.255.255 Israel:2.57.228.0-2.57.231.255 Israel:2.58.33.0-2.58.33.255 Israel:3.2.42.0-3.2.42.63 Israel:3.5.56.0-3.5.59.255 Israel:5.22.128.0-5.22.135.255 Israel:5.28.128.0-5.28.191.255 Israel:5.29.0.0-5.29.255.255 Israel:5.100.248.0-5.100.255.255
If you wish to add more nations to the list such as TERF island or the 4th Reich, then you can append the files on top of each other into one file.Once you have the file, rename it with the
.p2pextension so that qbittorrent will use it. Then, in your qbittorrent client, go toPreferences -> Connection. At the very bottom you should see a section labeledIP Filtering. In the Filter Path checkbox, select your .p2p file. You may also check the box to block trackers as well.In other bittorrent software (hopefully you're using one that's libre) there should be a similar option for ip filtering.
There you go! You have effectively banned Israel from being your peer while you're doing p2p transfers. This won't stop Zionists from peering with you using a VPN or other undetected server, but this has done wonders for my mood.
Always remember to port forward and seed when torrenting (A non-Zionist VPN like AirVPN or ProtonVPN can allow you to do that). Only a Zionist does a download and run.
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1. github.com/qbittorrent/qBittor…From the discussion post:
I was talking on my part, don't know about others. I'm a constant seeder (7+ years) and monitor peers from time to time or when downloading something.
During these years I've never seen a single Israeli seed on a rare torrent, or high download traffic from them. I'm being completely honest, the only time I see them is when they are downloading something from me.
Block Visitors by Country | IP2Location
Free web application to download IP address list by countries for use by firewalls or web servers.IP2Location
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If I am honest, some torrents are still alive because of russians. Every so often I will see Israel and Russia as one full seeder.
As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs | Katrina vanden Heuvel
War profiteering is a phenomenon as ancient as war itself, but Albanese’s investigation shows that the military-industrial-technological complex is reaping uniquely horrible payoffs in Palestine. Albanese describes how companies led by Lockheed Martin have built fighter jets for Israel that have carried out bombings which have killed or wounded almost 200,000 Palestinians. She describes Palantir’s work with the Israeli military, and its consummation of that partnership by holding a board meeting in Tel Aviv (Palantir has denied involvement in IDF programs identifying Gaza targets). And she brings to light how Caterpillar Inc equipment has demolished homes and hospitals, crushing to death civilians stuck inside those structures.Perhaps the most hypocritical offenders are the members of the Magnificent Seven. Google’s unofficial motto was once “Don’t be evil,” but now the company has joined Amazon to provide cloud computing services to Israel and its military for a persuasive $1.2bn. Albanese quotes an Israeli colonel who calls this technology “a weapon in every sense of the word”, a cloud as deadly as any poison gas.
Beyond pouring into the streets, Americans can also boycott the corporations living large while the population of Palestine dwindles. The employees of those very companies can do the same, like the 50 now-terminated workers at Google who led “No Tech for Apartheid” protests last year. Otherwise, the warning recently issued by Beinart will remain true: “Blood is on our hands as Americans because it is our weapons that are responsible for those children starving to death.”
As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs
A report this month details US corporate involvement in IDF actions. Grassroots organizing offers opportunity for changeKatrina vanden Heuvel (The Guardian)
L'incerto destino della valle che detiene l'insepolta kryptonite d'Europa - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
L'incerto destino della valle che detiene l'insepolta kryptonite d'Europa - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Poiché il processo tecnologico della moderna civiltà industrializzata può essere rappresentato da una serie di gradini, ciascuno dei quali caratterizzato dall’imprescindibile necessità di determinate risorse, consapevolezze e competenze situazionali.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Palantir tops $1 billion in revenue for the first time, boosts guidance
The AI software provider’s revenues grew 48% during the period and hit $1 billion for the first time.
The software analytics company has seen a boost from President Donald Trump’s focus on cutting government costs.
Palantir tops $1 billion in revenue for the first time, boosts guidance
Palantir surpassed Wall Street's estimates and lifted its full-year outlookSamantha Subin (CNBC)
As someone who worked at a gas station for many years, I definitely don't miss this. For some reason the Women's room was always consistently bad (I assume because they all hovered) while the Men's room was relatively easy to clean.
But every week or so there was something like the image in the Men's room that made me regret being born. I'm sure there's a lesson in there about outliers messing up the average or something.
There is a federation problem on Programming.dev
This is a photo of how I see my post on programming. Dev instance.
This is how I see my post from my alt account on Reddthat.
UK-made cars could be forced to include breathalysers and 'black boxes'
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/49484066
After the UK left the EU, Brussels introduced the General Safety Regulation 2, which set out principles to make cars safer with the fitting of key components.These included a pre-installed interface to allow a breathalyser locking system to be installed, as well as Event Data Recorders, which are similar to black boxes found in aircraft.
Everyone’s Invited To The Copyparty
Everyone’s Invited To The Copyparty
Setting up a file server can be intimidating to the uninitiated. There are many servers to choose from, and then you need to decide how to install it — Docker? Kubernates? Well, what’s …Hackaday
I've literally never felt like I needed a file server to be easier and support more protocols, and this seems like it's trying to do way too much at once. HTTP is beautiful and convenient but as a bespoke javascript-heavy API it's really not a particularly great way to manage files, FTP sucks and if you still need it for something you need to re-evaluate your life choices, TFTP is useful in extremely niche applications that I wouldn't want to hook my entire file server up to anyway and certainly don't want running along side these other options, WebDav is fine but again really only necessary in niche applications which you don't need or want your entire file system hooked up to (or if you don't know how to VPN) and this doesn't seem to support SFTP/SSHFS which is what I would consider a modern standard for a secure file transfer protocol.
Just use Samba and/or ssh, every Linux distribution comes with packages for them. Both are widely used and battle-hardened, and between the two they are compatible with almost everything. You don't really need all that other stuff.
In some ways it’s the inverse of the UNIX Philosophy: instead of doing one thing perfectly, this program is doing everything [9001] could think of, and doing it “good enough”.
As a believer in the UNIX philosophy (armed with an understanding of why it is fundamentally useful) it horrifies me that either developers or users think this is a good thing.
I'm not sure if this would fall under the definition of "skill issue", but I've never had any luck getting Samba to work on even a local network.
This may be the same argument at "immutable" distros, having an environment where the user cannot fuck it up will be the best way to spur adoption rates, and eventually ambitious users will use more granular methods like you described.
I probably will use this.
As US climate data-gathering is gutted, Australian forecasting is now at real risk
This year, Australia has experienced record-breaking floods, tropical cyclones, heatwaves on land and in the ocean, drought, coral bleaching, coastal erosion and devastating algal blooms. Over the past five years, insured losses from extreme events have risen to A$4.5 billion annually – more than double the 30-year average.But even as damage from climate change intensifies, political change overseas is threatening Australia’s ability to track what’s happening now, and predict what will happen next.
The United States has historically been a world leader in earth observation systems and freely sharing the gathered data. Sharing of data, expertise and resources between scientists in the US and Australia makes possible the high-quality weather, climate and ocean monitoring and forecasting we rely on.
But this is no longer guaranteed. Under the Trump administration, key US scientific institutions and monitoring programs are facing deep cuts. These cuts aren’t just cosmetic – they will end essential data gathering. Australia has long relied on these data sources. When they dry up, it will make it much harder for scientists to look ahead.
As US climate data-gathering is gutted, Australian forecasting is now at real risk
For decades, Australia has relied on data from US satellites, floats and monitoring programs. Planned deep cuts put Australian forecasting at riskThe Conversation
Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Detained & Beaten by IDF, But US Media Ignores It
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/33699653
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33855533
Chris Smalls, the former Amazon Labor Union president who led the first successful U.S. union drive at Amazon's Staten Island warehouse in 2022, was violently detained by Israeli forces on July 26-27, 2025, while participating in a Gaza aid mission"When he reached the Israeli prison, U.S. human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals," the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced. "They choked him and kicked him in the legs, leaving visible signs of violence on his neck and back"
Smalls was aboard the Handala, an aid ship attempting to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, when Israeli Defense Forces seized the vessel and detained its crew. As the only Black person among the 20 detained activists, Smalls faced notably harsher treatment
The U.S. government failed to contact any of the seven American citizens aboard, while other countries like France, Spain and Italy reached out to their detained nationals. According to Palestinian American attorney Huwaida Arraf, who was released due to her Israeli citizenship, the activists refused deportation and began a hunger strike
"I'm thinking of Chris Smalls. And about how, because he's Black, no Greta Thunberg, no celebrity, no darling of the liberal class, he might not make it out alive," wrote author Camonghne Felix
While smaller unions condemned Smalls's detention, the Teamsters union remained silent despite having recently affiliated with the Amazon Labor Union.
Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Detained & Beaten by IDF, But US Media Ignores It
On Monday, details emerged that not only was Smalls detained, but he was physically beaten by the IDF. He was the only Black member of the Freedom Flotilla on the Handala.Mike Elk (Payday Report)
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Convinced my organisation to use Mastodon and Bsky. Any userfull tools to automate crossposting?
I know that there should be tools to make it easier to publish content to Twitter/Bluesky/Mastodon, without doing the work thrice. Do you know a good one? Can you share your experience with using them? Thanks! I hope the new platforms are not gonna get ditched immediately...
Edit: Wow I didn't expect that the solutions were often expensive and complex tools (with way too much "AI").
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SoraSNS for Mastodon & Bluesky
"Sora offers access to Mastodon, Bluesky, and the federated networks Misskey and Firefish." - featured in TechCrunch article > Compatible: Connect with Mastodon, Misskey, Bluesky, and Pleroma instances.App Store
Two men forcibly disappeared in Egypt after storming police station over Gaza blockade
Two men forcibly disappeared in Egypt after storming police station over Gaza blockade
Two men have been forcibly disappeared in Egypt following their alleged participation in the storming of the State Security headquarters at the Ma’asara police station in Helwan in southern Cairo in protest of Egypt's alleged complicity in the Gaza s…Katherine Hearst (Middle East Eye)
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Brazil’s President to Trump: ‘I Want to Be Treated With Respect’
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The Role of AI and Big Data in Modern Geotechnical Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering is a specialized branch of civil engineering that focuses on the behavior of earth materials, such as soil and rock, and their interaction with man-made structures. Engineers in this field analyze the physical, chemical, and mechanical properties of the ground to ensure the stability and safety of construction projects. Their work is essential for designing foundations, retaining walls, slopes, tunnels, and other infrastructure that must withstand natural forces like earthquakes, landslides, and erosion. By applying principles of soil mechanics and rock mechanics, geotechnical engineers help mitigate risks and optimize construction methods for long-term durability.
One of the key responsibilities of geotechnical engineering is conducting site investigations before construction begins. This involves soil sampling, laboratory testing, and in-situ measurements to assess ground conditions, such as bearing capacity, settlement potential, and groundwater levels. Advanced techniques like geophysical surveys and computer modeling are also used to predict how the soil will behave under different loads. These evaluations help engineers recommend appropriate foundation types—whether shallow (e.g., spread footings) or deep (e.g., piles or caissons)—to support structures safely and economically.
Geotechnical engineers also play a crucial role in addressing environmental and geohazard challenges. They design solutions to stabilize landslides, reinforce embankments, and prevent soil liquefaction during earthquakes. Additionally, they work on projects involving landfills, contaminated site remediation, and coastal protection systems to minimize environmental impact. With climate change increasing the frequency of extreme weather events, their expertise is becoming even more vital in developing resilient infrastructure that can adapt to changing conditions.
The field of geotechnical engineering continues to evolve with advancements in technology and materials. Innovations such as ground improvement techniques (e.g., soil stabilization with geosynthetics or grouting) and real-time monitoring systems enhance the precision and efficiency of geotechnical projects. Collaboration with other engineering disciplines ensures comprehensive solutions for complex challenges. As urbanization expands and infrastructure demands grow, geotechnical engineering remains fundamental to building safe, sustainable, and cost-effective structures on and below the Earth’s surface.
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Geotechnical Engineering Market
Geotechnical Engineering Market Research Report Information by Type (Underground City Space Engineering, Slope and Excavation Engineering, and Ground and Foundation Engineering), by Application (Municipal Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, Bridge an…Snehal Singh (Market Research Future)
Netanyahu 'presents plan to annex parts of Gaza'
Netanyahu 'presents plan to annex parts of Gaza'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that Israel will move to annex parts of the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire agreement with Hamas is not reached, according to Israeli media.Nadav Rapaport (Middle East Eye)
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Netanyahu has stated that Israel will move to annex parts of the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire agreement with Hamas is not reached
Soo, this basically is a guarantee that no actual cease fire will ever happen.......
It's still upsetting that the west in general still fails to challenge the government of Israel's narrative when it comes to any "cease fire". First of all, a cease fire generally implies that both sides are still engaged in hostilities. When in reality a cease fire in this scenario is more of the offer of the cessation of a genocide, which they could do unilaterally at anytime.
Secondly, there was already a "cease fire" deal where Hamas returned hostages and Israel failed to stop hostilities and never released their hostages. There is no reason to assume Israel is ever going to negotiate with any sort of good faith, and it should be called out to by anyone within reaching distance of a microphone.
Israeli ambassador to UAE being sent home over 'undignified' behaviour at bar: Report
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Hebrew media reported last week that Shelley was out on a Friday night in Abu Dhabi with friends and acted in an “undignified” manner that “crossed the boundaries of personal space” on Friday evening.
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In 2023, Haaretz reported that Shelley personally responded to an Israeli visa inquiry by a Brazilian woman. He told her in correspondence and in video chats that she needed to meet him in person before he would help her obtain a visa to visit Israel.
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“When I turned on the camera, I saw he was lying on the bed, sweating,” the woman recounted. “He said he’d just returned from a walk. It was very inappropriate. I asked him if he’d rather talk later, and he said, ‘No, let’s talk now.’ He asked to meet with me in person and invited me to dinner in Brasilia. I felt pressured and harassed.”
Israeli ambassador to UAE being sent home over 'undignified' behaviour at bar: Report
Israel’s ambassador to the UAE is being summoned home from his post over “undignified” behaviour at an Emirati bar that upset the UAE, according to Hebrew media reports.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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This one was released and returned to Israel within a day of being arrested in Vegas for "luring a child with a computer for a sex act."
Israeli government official arrested in Nevada in internet crimes against children sting
Tom Artiom Alexandrovich was released and returned to Israel after being charged with luring a child for a sex actRamon Antonio Vargas (The Guardian)
In a video call with her, Shelley appeared shirtless and lying on a bed.
You missed the best bit.
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Canada never stopped arming Israel despite pledge to halt new permits, report says
Canada never stopped arming Israel despite pledge to halt new permits, report says
The Canadian government misled the public when it said it was pausing all new weapons export permits to Israel last year, a new report published on Tuesday says.Yasmine El-Sabawi (Middle East Eye)
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