US to extend China tariff pause another 90 days
US to extend China tariff pause another 90 days
US President Donald Trump signed an extension just before midnight in Beijing, when the pause was to expire.Al Jazeera
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The BBC helped kill Anas al-Sharif. Its reporting will kill more journalists
How is it possible for a BBC reporter to have made the following obscene observation in his segment on Israel’s murder at the weekend of Al-Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif: "There's the question of proportionality. Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?"
Unpacking the depraved journalistic assumptions behind this short “question” is no small task.
Imagine that Israel finally allows western journalists into Gaza after blocking their entry for nearly two years. A team of five familiar BBC faces covering the region set up shop in Gaza and work out of an improvised studio inside the enclave.
Then news breaks that that their studio has been hit by an Israeli strike, and all five killed: Jeremy Bowen, Lyse Doucet, Yollande Knell, Lucy Williamson and Jon Donnison.
Israel doesn’t claim the strike was a mistake, but celebrates the killings. It says it has secret evidence that one of them – let’s say Jon Donnison, who made the observation above – was secretly recruited by Hamas’ military wing while in the enclave.
Can we imagine the BBC or any other western news organisation framing the segment in the following terms: "There's the question of proportionality. Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?"
The BBC helped kill Anas al-Sharif. Its reporting will kill more journalists
The media are legitimising the murder of journalists by Israel – and they are doing it because they are racist propagandists for a system of western colonial control in the Middle EastJonathan Cook
The BBC helped kill Anas al-Sharif. Its reporting will kill more journalists
How is it possible for a BBC reporter to have made the following obscene observation in his segment on Israel’s murder at the weekend of Al-Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif: "There's the question of proportionality. Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?"
Unpacking the depraved journalistic assumptions behind this short “question” is no small task.
Imagine that Israel finally allows western journalists into Gaza after blocking their entry for nearly two years. A team of five familiar BBC faces covering the region set up shop in Gaza and work out of an improvised studio inside the enclave.
Then news breaks that that their studio has been hit by an Israeli strike, and all five killed: Jeremy Bowen, Lyse Doucet, Yollande Knell, Lucy Williamson and Jon Donnison.
Israel doesn’t claim the strike was a mistake, but celebrates the killings. It says it has secret evidence that one of them – let’s say Jon Donnison, who made the observation above – was secretly recruited by Hamas’ military wing while in the enclave.
Can we imagine the BBC or any other western news organisation framing the segment in the following terms: "There's the question of proportionality. Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?"
The BBC helped kill Anas al-Sharif. Its reporting will kill more journalists
The media are legitimising the murder of journalists by Israel – and they are doing it because they are racist propagandists for a system of western colonial control in the Middle EastJonathan Cook
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The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviourOut of the Software Crisis
How Big Cloud becomes Bigger: Scrutinizing Google, Microsoft, and Amazon's investments
In an AI gold rush, those selling the proverbial pickaxes are surest to win: cloud companies provide scalable managed computational resources as a subscription service now used by most businesses to store their data, and as a primary ingredient to build and use AI. Just three companies—Amazon, Microsoft, and Google—control two thirds of global cloud compute market share, collectively comprising “Big Cloud.” This highly concentrated market raises concerns regarding digital sovereignty, slowed innovation, and a concentration of corporate power.In this report, we explore an underrecognized manner in which AI ecosystems increasingly depend on Big Cloud: Big Cloud’s investment in other companies. We show how Big Cloud companies are prolific investors widely deploying hundreds of billions of dollars over thousands of deals, often in smaller, lesser-known startups. We find that:
1. While some regulators have begun to scrutinize the largest of these deals—such as Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI or Google and Amazon in Anthropic—the ecosystem-wide scale of this investment is hard to overstate: Big Cloud invests as frequently and at similar amounts to the largest venture capital firms and startup accelerators. Further, Big Cloud invests about ten times as often as other Big Tech companies, and ten to a hundred times more in total dollar amounts.
2. Via accelerator programs, Big Cloud companies lock startups into their cloud infrastructure. Big Cloud ensnares young startups in their cloud ecosystem via cloud credits while requiring startups use the Cloud company’s other tech, and incentivizing strategies with particularly heavy cloud needs, such as generative AI.
3. More so than when other Big Tech companies or VC firms invest, startups funded by Big Cloud are more likely to rely on Big Cloud as their lead or sole investor. These relationships allow Big Cloud to exercise significant influence over startups and bend them to their interests.
4. Amid concerns that vertical integration may give one firm too much control over AI supply chains—such as chips, cloud, or data—our work shows that Big Cloud is investing in a way that brings many of the same risks as conventional forms of vertical integration: when Big Cloud invests in an AI supply chain company—such as a Data, X-as-a-Service, or Internet infrastructure company—that company is often more likely to be dependent on that Big Cloud company as their sole or lead investor, compared with other investors.
5. Intensifying concerns about threats to global digital sovereignty, we find that American Big Cloud companies make global investments at a far greater pace than other investors we compare against. Just over half of all Big Cloud investments are made internationally, about twice the frequency of large VCs, top accelerators and other Big Tech companies. Big Cloud also invests through accelerators abroad much more often than at home, highlighting the need for global regulatory scrutiny of startup accelerator programs.While these practices merit creative regulatory and policy responses, we emphasize that such interventions should proceed in light of the following overarching implications:
— Dependence on Big Cloud is not just technical or contractual. It is also financial, as a source of investment. This compounds the need for structural separation: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft must be compelled to split their cloud business from their other businesses that run on the cloud, per past calls, so that they do not both provide infrastructure and compete with the customers and investees relying on that infrastructure.— Big Cloud companies are huge investors, which sets them apart from all other large tech companies. Any one of these investments may be small and insignificant, but they cumulatively shape the startup and developer ecosystem in Big Cloud companies’ interest. Thus, in addition to “deal by deal” scrutiny, in which only the largest deals receive attention, regulators and researchers should monitor and scrutinize these investments and their effects in an ecosystem-wide, cumulative, and ongoing manner.
First 3D printed titanium rocket fuel tank can handle 330 bar pressure under -196°C | by Korea Institute of Industrial Technology
South Korean researchers have achieved a major milestone in space manufacturing by successfully testing the world's first 3D-printed titanium fuel tank to pass extreme cryogenic pressure conditions, marking a breakthrough that could transform how spacecraft components are produced.
The 640mm diameter tank, manufactured using Ti64 titanium alloy through Directed Energy Deposition (DED) 3D printing, withstood pressures of 330 bar while cooled to -196°C with liquid nitrogen during testing at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). The pressure test exposed the tank to forces 165 times greater than standard tire pressure, demonstrating its reliability under the extreme conditions of space missions.
3D printing tackles titanium to create rocket parts
The technology offers a flexible alternative to traditional forging for the 'New Space' industry.Annie Colbert (Popular Science)
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Average U.S. Household Debt Around $152,000 As Of Second Quarter
Average U.S. Household Debt Around $152,000 As Of Second Quarter | NewsRadio 740 KTRH | KTRH Local Houston and Texas News
KTRH-AM covering local news from Houston and across Texas.KTRH Local Houston and Texas News
Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes'
Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace
Google has called Gemini's habit of self-abuse "annoying."Lincoln Carpenter (PC Gamer)
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Let's Stop Chat Control
Let's stop the EU chat control! - stopchatcontrol.eu
The European Commission launched an attack on our civil rights with chatcontrol. In order to put pressure on the policy makers of EU we need to come together!stopchatcontrol.eu
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After 5 years of no connectivity, India and China to resume direct flights as early as next month
After 5 years of no connectivity, India and China to resume direct flights as early as next month
India and China are preparing to resume direct passenger flights as early as next month, aiming to restore air connectivity suspended since the Covid-19 pandemic. Indian airlines have been asked to prepare for flights to China on short notice.ET Online (Economic Times)
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'Blatant Attempt to Bust Our Unions': Trump Admin Moves to Gut Labor Protections at VA | Common Dreams
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cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34329656
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Aug 07, 2025
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins notified the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and several other unions that he was implementing an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, which required the termination of collective bargaining agreements for agencies whose missions are related to national security.
Data Brokers Are Hiding Their Opt-Out Pages From Google Search
We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online – The Markup
Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found.themarkup.org
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Own Your Data
Delete your account or access the personal data organizations have on you using this free service.YourDigitalRights.org
Data Brokers Are Hiding Their Opt-Out Pages From Google Search
We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online – The Markup
Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found.themarkup.org
Reddit blocks Internet Archive to end sneaky AI scraping
Reddit blocks Internet Archive to end sneaky AI scraping
The Internet Archive confirmed it’s in ongoing discussions with Reddit after block.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years
AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years
Around 175,000 households still use dial-up Internet in the US.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veilid
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So we must censor everything to protect us from misinformation which allows the censors to determine what is available and what is lot.
Sounds an awful lot like China.
Geez Brits. One shit decision after another. Just like your western children.
US: Father, why did you vote for Brexit?
UK: Son, who are you to talk? You voted for Trump twice. Now shut up before your mother chimes in...
France: No wonder I took the house in the divorce and left you with your father.
US: Well at least I didn't abandon my affair baby Haiti.
France:...
UK: Did you really have to go there son?
So we must censor everything to protect us from misinformation which allows the censors to determine what is available and what is lot.
Yeah, I think this is a terrible way to address the problem and very likely a way for elites to re-assert their control over information sources using this emergency.
It's certainly not about 'protecting children' in the way that they're presenting it.
10 ChatGPT-5 Prompts That Will Save Your Startup Time and Money
10 ChatGPT-5 Prompts That Will Save Your Startup Time and Money
Starting a startup is like juggling flaming swords while riding a unicycle—exciting but tricky.OpenGrowth (OpenGrowth Weekly Newsletter)
Cybersecurity ‘red teams’ to UK government: AI is rubbish
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Cybersecurity ‘red teams’ to UK government: AI is rubbish
The UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is run by Peter Kyle MP, who knows nothing about science or technology and brags that he cribs from ChatGPT to do his job. The Department al…Pivot to AI
androidastica sparizione delle icone dei ragni (glitch per cui le scorciatoie web spariscono dal launcher)
Tutte le volte che penso, presumo, ritengo di odiare tremendamente Android… puntualmente scopro che il mio odio è sempre più basso di quello che davvero dovrebbe essere per questo sistema oberativo letteralmente bacato, infestato dai problemi, introgolato di merda che porca puttana… SPARISCONO LE FOTTUTE SCORCIATOIE SULLA SCHERMATA HOME!!! Una roba così pestifera non è […]
Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act rules
Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act rules
A High Court ruling in the UK has quashed Wikipedia’s attempt to overturn part of the country’s divisive Online Safety Act.David Mouriquand (Euronews.com)
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📊 Solo il 6% della plastica è usato per l’abbigliamento. Perché la moda inquina così tanto?
Uno studio dell’UNDP rivela che solo il 6% della plastica globale finisce nell’abbigliamento, contro il 31% degli imballaggi o il 16% dell’edilizia. Eppure, la moda è spesso considerata uno dei settori più inquinanti al mondo. Come mai?
🔍 Cosa non dice quel 6%?
I dati dell’UNDP misurano solo la plastica come materia prima, ma l’impatto della moda va ben oltre:
• 🌊 Inquinamento idrico: Il 20% dell’inquinamento industriale delle acque viene dalle tinture tessili (Banca Mondiale). I tessuti sintetici (es. poliestere) rilasciano microplastiche, responsabili del 35% dell’inquinamento da microplastiche negli oceani (IUCN).
• ☁️ Emissioni : La moda produce 4-10% delle emissioni globali di CO₂ (più di aerei e navi insieme, UNEP).
• 🗑️ Rifiuti : Ogni secondo, un camion di vestiti finisce in discarica o viene bruciato (Ellen MacArthur Foundation). Meno dell’1% viene riciclato.
• 💧 Risorse: Una maglietta di cotone richiede 2.700 litri d’acqua (WWF).
🏆 La moda è davvero il 2° settore più inquinante?
Dipende dagli studi:
• 1° posto: Petrolio e gas.
• 2° posto: Alcuni includono la moda per l’insieme di danni (acqua, CO₂, rifiuti). Altri la piazzano dopo agricoltura o allevamento.
✅ Conclusione
Quel 6% è solo la punta dell’iceberg. L’inquinamento della moda deriva dall’intero ciclo: produzione, uso, smaltimento. Serve un cambio sistemico, non solo sostituire il poliestere.
Cosa fare?
• Sostenere la moda circolare.
• Comprare meno, indossare di più.
• Pretendere trasparenza dai brand.
📌 Fonte: UNDP | Ellen MacArthur Foundation
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🔗🇬🇧 Only 6% of plastic production goes to clothing—so why is fashion a top polluter?
Plastic production: Only 6% goes to clothing (UNDP) - suite123
The UNDP released a breakdown on plastic production: Only 6% of plastic production goes to clothing—so why is fashion a top polluter?suite123
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Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe dies two months being shot at campaign event
The right-wing presidential candidate was shot at a campaign event in June
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good ideas about how to give more user agency in a scrolling list of content
Coordinated network amplifies child sex abuse on X, researchers warn
Researchers warn of coordinated network to amplify child sexual abuse content on X
At least 150 accounts shared “millions” of posts on X over a four-day period in July that encouraged users to buy child exploitation materials, an investigation has found.Anna Desmarais (Euronews.com)
Call for action: Help draw attention to ForgeFed
Golden opportunity: Microsoft CoreAI Github shenanigans ..
We have seen various huge influxes of people to the fediverse from Twitter and other platforms. At these times countless fedizens sprung into action to advocate for fedi, and helping out.
With the recent developments at Github with their CEO stepping down and not being replaced, and GH effectively becoming part of Microsoft's AI division we have yet another event where it is time to promote the powers of ActivityPub and the potential of ForgeFed to help lead us towards the future of the social web.
social.coop/@smallcircles/1150…
@fr33domlover is the initiator and together with André Jaenisch the only two persons who try to both further the specifications as well as build reference implementations for them. With the help of NLnet support via NGI0 funding.
As fedi dev community now is the time to attract attention to their work, and perhaps spend a bit of time to provide feedback to the open issues in the ForgeFed tracker, that has been very sparse thus far.
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See also:
This morning ForgeFed features on the front page of Hacker News..
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A prior discussion was at September 2023..
Meta makes conservative activist an AI bias advisor following lawsuit
Robby Starbuck, who has held online campaigns to pressure companies into axing DEI policies, will help Meta address ‘ideological and political bias.’
Meta makes conservative activist an AI bias advisor following lawsuit
Meta will have conservative activist Robby Starbuck serve as an advisor to address “ideological and political bias” within the company’s AI chatbot, according to The Wall Street Journal.Emma Roth (The Verge)
Ryzen 7 5700X3D reportedly reaches 'end-of-life' — AMD's last eight-core Zen 3 3D V-Cache CPU ends production
The only remaining Zen 3 3D-VCache CPU is the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, but that chip is exclusive to Latin America.
Eight-core Arrow Lake CPU listed for $150 overseas — Core Ultra 3 205 may not be directly available in retail, though
The Core Ultra 5 225 will no longer be the most affordable Arrow Lake CPU.
Data breach at Dutch medical laboratory Clinical Diagnostics NMDL much larger than expected
Update: Following an investigation by RTL Nieuws (in Dutch), the problems at and affecting the Clinical Diagnostics laboratory appear to be much more serious than initially reported. In addition to the data of 485,000 women, all kinds of other data has also been stolen. This includes data from skin, urine, and penis examinations.
Data breach at Dutch medical laboratory much larger than expected - Techzine Global
Hackers steal data from 485,000 women at a laboratory that conducts cervical cancer screening. Test results remain reliable.Berry Zwets (Techzine)
Smetanina denove prezidanto de REU
Rusia Esperantista Unio (REU) elektis kiel sian novan prezidanton Svetlana Smetanina, la eksigitan ĉefdelegiton de UEA. REU plu ne pagos siajn kotizojn al UEA, kvankam la asocion nun minacas eksigo.
Bill Forsyth — „Local Hero“ (1983)
Ein Film aus einer anderen Zeit. Ein Märchen. Über einen Oligarchen, dem es noch genügt hat, die Sterne nur zu beobachten – statt Raketen zum Mars zu schicken. In Schottland. Vielleicht der schönste Film, den Sie dieses Jahr gesehen haben werden. Mit Sicherheit ein lebenslänglicher Lieblingsfilm. (ARD, Wh)
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Filme in der ARD: Local Hero - hier anschauen
Spielfilm 1983 MacIntyre ist ein erfolgreicher Manager des texanischen Ölkonzerns Knox Oil. Zwar kommen seine Vorfahren aus Ungarn, doch wird MacIntyre von seinem Chef, dem Konzernbesitzer und leidenschaftlichen Hobbyastronomen Felix Happer, wegen…www.ardmediathek.de
Quattro anni di battaglie nel più orribile conflitto della storia dei primati fin troppo umani - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Quattro anni di battaglie nel più orribile conflitto della storia dei primati fin troppo umani - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Cantami o Diva, del pelide Figan l’ira funesta, che tanti lutti addusse ai Kahama, di Godi, De, Hugh e Charlie.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
new academic book about the fediverse just released!!!
Better social media is possible.
In his new book Move Slowly and Build Bridges, Robert W. Gehl tells the story of the activists, software developers, artists, and everyday people who have built the fediverse, a noncentralized alternative social media system. Unlike big tech corporations like Facebook, TikTok, or X, the fediverse is comprised of thousands of small, independent communities who use a Web protocol to communicate with one another.
These small communities govern themselves and moderate content at the human scale — compare that to Facebook and X, which try to moderate global conversations. And the fediverse isn’t built in order to gather user data and sell attention to marketers — it’s a more privacy-respecting social media alternative.
The most notable part of the fediverse is Mastodon. Founded in 2016, Mastodon was positioned as an alternative to Twitter. Like Twitter (or X), Mastodon members can post, like, share, and connect with one another across the world. Unlike Twitter/X, Mastodon can be completely under the control of its members, from how it’s run to its underlying software.
Making a noncentralized, ethically run social media system isn’t easy. The people building the fediverse have faced long hours, burnout, angry debates, and, worst of all, bigotry, death threats, and discrimination. They face constant, nagging doubts: Can we really do this? Can noncentralized social media survive in a world that is used to corporate social media? Can we—all of us—have our own social media?
As Move Slowly and Build Bridges shows us, the answer is yes, but it’s going to take a struggle.
The soy milk is OK
Lactose in enough quantities gets my tummy rumbling in a bad way so I'm trying out alternatives.
Oat milk in hipster coffee drinks is pretty good.
Soy milk as a protein and calcium beverage is fine. Tastes OK.
There is lactose-free milk too but that is still suspect. Either it's not all the way lactose free or too much of any kind of dairy quakes my intestines.
The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed
The train that never came - how maglev technology was derailed - TechCentral
This is the first in a series of articles about amazing technologies that promised to change the world but which did no such thing.Ivo Vegter (TechCentral)
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Palestine Action ban ‘could become Starmer’s poll tax moment’ as backlash grows
Palestine Action ban ‘could become Starmer’s poll tax moment’ as freedom of speech row grows
Baroness Chakrabarti said the proscription of the group risks exacerbating community tensions, and campaigners warned the ban was a threat to freedom of speechKate Devlin (The Independent)
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Do something and actually help people
Palestine action got banned for doing something in order to actually help. Youre pissing on the wrong foot here buddy
Banning protests in the UK under the fake guise of terrorism is a despicable move that makes us no different to Russia or China or countries we are supposedly superior to because of our moral human rights framework.
Gaza has proved all of this to be a hoax. It shows that tolerating a genocide and war crimes against brown people only invites the same authoritarian tactics to be rolled out against Western populations when they become troublesome.
Starmer is a fascist cunt.
Ill conceived idea to resurrect a dead torrent
Hi, let me know if this is obviously stupid and won't work. I'm an old pirate but obviously still pretty uneducated. I've got a dead torrent that's a collection of roms. 4 seeders, 800 abandoned peers (ungrateful basterds). Seeders are rarely online or can't provide more than 8% after a week. The roms are pretty mainstream and it's strange for this torrent to have been abandoned.
If I can find find the exact releases of as many roms as possible in the collection from other singular sources, can I resurrect this torrent by just copy+overwrite into the unfinished folder? is it that simple or is this hubris? am I too old to be this stupid?
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