Exclusive: ICC arrest warrant applications ready for Israel's Ben Gvir and Smotrich on apartheid charges
Arrest warrant applications against two prominent Israeli ministers on charges of apartheid are ready and with two deputy prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Middle East Eye can reveal.
If the warrants for National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich are issued, it will be the first time that the crime of apartheid is charged at an international court.
"Those applications for the arrest warrants are completely done," an ICC source told MEE. "The only thing that didn't happen was submitting them to the court," the source said on condition of anonymity.
Two ICC sources told MEE that the two deputy prosecutors, Nazhat Shameem Khan and Mame Mandiaye Niang, have not filed the applications due to the threat of US sanctions.
British-Israeli ICC defence lawyer Nicholas Kaufman told Israel's Kan public broadcaster in June that the US sanctions on four ICC judges were "meant to be designed to encourage the dropping of the arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Gallant". Raji Sourani, a lawyer representing Palestine at the ICC and ICJ, criticised the deputy prosecutors for their delay in applying for the warrants.
Raji Sourani, a lawyer representing Palestine at the ICC and ICJ, criticised the deputy prosecutors for their delay in applying for the warrants.
Exclusive: ICC arrest warrant applications ready for Israel's Ben Gvir and Smotrich on apartheid charges
Arrest warrant applications against two prominent Israeli ministers on charges of apartheid are ready and with two deputy prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Middle East Eye can reveal.
If the warrants for National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich are issued, it will be the first time that the crime of apartheid is charged at an international court.
"Those applications for the arrest warrants are completely done," an ICC source told MEE. "The only thing that didn't happen was submitting them to the court," the source said on condition of anonymity.
Two ICC sources told MEE that the two deputy prosecutors, Nazhat Shameem Khan and Mame Mandiaye Niang, have not filed the applications due to the threat of US sanctions.
British-Israeli ICC defence lawyer Nicholas Kaufman told Israel's Kan public broadcaster in June that the US sanctions on four ICC judges were "meant to be designed to encourage the dropping of the arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Gallant". Raji Sourani, a lawyer representing Palestine at the ICC and ICJ, criticised the deputy prosecutors for their delay in applying for the warrants.
Raji Sourani, a lawyer representing Palestine at the ICC and ICJ, criticised the deputy prosecutors for their delay in applying for the warrants.
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Even while vacationing abroad, Israelis can't escape the horrors of the Gaza war
I went to Greece for a weekend to see a new production of Aeschylus' "Oresteia" trilogy. In the open-air of ancient Delphi, the bloodcurdling deeds of Agamemnon at the end of the Trojan War were dredged up from the recesses of oblivion.
In the first hour, Agamenon was murdered. On the way to Troy, he sacrificed his daughter, Iphigenia, to the gods and was disposed of by his wife, Clytemnestra. In the second hour Clytemnestra is murdered by her son Orestes, along with her lover, Aegisthus. And then, in the finale, Orestes seeks shelter, the goddesses of revenge haunting him like crazy. They infest the stage, blood streaming revoltingly from their eyelids. Like monsters in Pac-Man after the game ends.
And then something unexpected happened. From the heart of the audience, a loud cry suddenly burst forth: "Palestine! Palestine! Palestine!" For a moment I wasn't sure that this was what I was hearing – after all, what's the connection between a Greek play and the Palestinian struggle? But hundreds of people in the audience joined in the rhythmic chant: "Palestine! Palestine! Palestine!" The crowd was seized by ecstasy.
Outside the theater, there's nowhere to escape. Messages and graffiti in Hebrew on the walls of Athens are protesting the genocide in the Gaza Strip. Written below the price of coffee and lemonade on the whiteboard of a café is "Fuck Zionism." The whole country seems to be rising up against Israel.
Graffiti in Athens that reads "Every IDF soldier is a war criminal. Occupiers - rapists - murderers. We don't want you here."
There's something paradoxical about a vacation experience in the summer of 2025. We go abroad in order to escape the burdensome malaise, to flee the awful situation in Israel. Yet it's abroad that reality cries out from the walls – like horror that pursues us in a dream. The idyllic vacation dream morphs into a nightmare. It's impossible to escape into sleep.
Even while vacationing abroad, Israelis can't escape the horrors of the Gaza war
Israelis are taking their summer vacation abroad to escape the malaise of the war and the horrific sights in Gaza. But when they reach their destination, the walls shout reality at themOfri Ilany (Haaretz)
Democrats introduce joint resolution to end Trump’s ‘lawless’ DC takeover
Democratic lawmakers have introduced a joint resolution aimed at ending what they call Trump’s unlawful and unprecedented move to federalize the Metropolitan police department (MPD) in Washington DC.
Representative Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House judiciary committee, DC’s non-voting House delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and representative Robert Garcia, ranking member of the House committee on oversight and government reform introduced the resolution on Friday, invoking the District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973.
The resolution states that Trump has not demonstrated the existence of any special emergency conditions that would warrant the federalization of the police force. In the Senate, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland will sponsor the resolution.
Democrats introduce joint resolution to end Trump’s ‘lawless’ DC takeover
Legislation says special emergency conditions that would warrant federalization of DC police have not been metMarina Dunbar (The Guardian)
Microsoft launches inquiry into claims Israel used its tech for mass surveillance of Palestinians
Microsoft has launched an “urgent” external inquiry into allegations Israel’s military surveillance agency has used the company’s technology to facilitate the mass surveillance of Palestinians.
The company said on Friday the formal review was in response to a Guardian investigation that revealed how the Unit 8200 spy agency has relied on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to store a vast collection of everyday Palestinian mobile phone calls.
The joint investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call found Unit 8200 made use of a customised and segregated area within Azure to store recordings of millions of calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank.
Microsoft launches inquiry into claims Israel used its tech for mass surveillance of Palestinians
Company says use of its cloud technology to store millions of intercepted calls would breach terms of serviceHarry Davies (The Guardian)
The company who has fired employees who have spoken out about their complicity in the genocide is going to do an internal investigation?
Yeah, I'm sure this will be fruitful. 🙄
finishing torrents and seeding question
ok, i'll start grabbing the descriptive files too thanks!
i think the torrents i'm seeding that have very few seeds besides me are just a couple of movies without extra files so it should be fine for now but i'll take that into mind for the future.
this is true if you manually delete the txt file.
however, just unchecking it in the client doesn't result in a broken seeder - at least transmission-gtk 4 will write the "file.txt" even if you didn't check its box, or transmission will create a (sparse) "file.txt.part" file if there's additional pieces to the "file.txt" that you didn't download.
I would expect other clients to behave similarly.
A torrent software that breaks your big/video file sharing while calling it complete seems somewhat questionable, not following a good practice, for the reasons you said.
qBittorrent stores the partial file data of deselected files as generic files. Given that only with it the download and a recheck marks the big file complete, without it a recheck considers the big file unfinished (and if partial files are renamed it is despite being complete as a file), I presume it will also send out the block that is partially that file and another to other peers too.
If the other file is fully in the partial block qBittorrent even creates the files despite not having been selected for downloading.
Fun fact, you probably download the file anyway because it's smaller than one of the torrent blocks. That block contains info from a file you do want, so you download the whole block. Your torrent client just puts that file in a different place.
So ultimately it doesn't make a difference, except to show you the file. If you don't actually look at the files that often, I'd leave that file checked just to make it less complicated.
Israeli army unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas
Israeli army unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas
Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian reporters.Amos Brison (+972 Magazine)
Microsoft launches inquiry into claims Israel used its tech for mass surveillance of Palestinians
Microsoft launches inquiry into claims Israel used its tech for mass surveillance of Palestinians
Company says use of its cloud technology to store millions of intercepted calls would breach terms of serviceHarry Davies (The Guardian)
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New Documents Show First Trump DOJ Worked With Congress to Amend Section 230 that protects users’ online speech by protecting the online intermediaries we all rely on to communicate
New Documents Show First Trump DOJ Worked With Congress to Amend Section 230
In the wake of rolling out its own proposal to significantly limit a key law protecting internet users’ speech in the summer of 2020, the Department of Justice under the first Trump administration actively worked with lawmakers to support further eff…Electronic Frontier Foundation
AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over
AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over
China is “set up to hit grand slams,” longtime Chinese energy expert David Fishman told Fortune. “The U.S., at best, can get on base.”Eva Roytburg (Fortune)
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I don't really give a shit about the AI race and I genuinely hope that we lose it, because I feel like being a winner in that "industry" is inherently unsustainable.
The AI hype is so infuriatingly frustrating.
Chinese infrastructure and manufacturing lead is real. You don't need to believe any propaganda, just travel and observe.
The asterisks are not about their usecase but political.
Chinese infrastructure and manufacturing lead is real.
And if you ignore the theory of comparative advantage, not only is it real, but it also matters. Otherwise, not.
I also run a consistent payment deficit with my barber. Should that be corrected?
No need to discuss defecit. That's a totally unrelated item. My statement was purely about their infra and manufacturing lead in multiple sectors.
Imagine you are a top student and some other student suddenly gets better marks than you in multiple subjects. You do need to introspect and see where you can improve (Or if you even care about those subjects).
If you don't care about infra and manufacturing, no need to sweat
We've been hearing about this decades.
Yes, you've been hearind that for decades, just like climate change: if you wait for an abrupt treshold with a clear before/after cut , you're going to wait for a while.
China has developed an advanced high speed trains network. You have no idea how much US looks backward on that.
China still opens coal burning power plants, jut also a very large number of renewable and nuclear power plants. They're serious about electrification.
They took the lead in scientific publication.
US needs to put up tariffs to protect its car makers from being wiped out by Chinese ones. Western car makers rely more and more on Chinese batteries suppliers.
All the signs are there. You just need to ackowledge them.
People underestimate just how corrupt, dysfunctional, and incompetent the Chinese system is under the CCP.
As compared to what? In the US, corruption is legal, it's called campaign donation and SuperPAC. At this stage, elections pick which pack of oligarchs will rule: GOP donators or Dems donators.
If the system is so much better, where are the high speed trains, advanced power grid, decarbonation plan, school that can get high potentials to the top, decent healthcare system?
Where are the fruits of this less corrupt dysfunctional and incompetent system?
China's isolation give it the illusion that it's better, but in reality, it's even worse.
Alother delusion from local US news. China is not that isolated, they have developed deep relations with a number of countries in Africa and middle east, and they're a privileged trade partner with many more. Worse even: with the current US policy of tariffs, several countries that were reluctant to have deeper ties with China are pushed in their arms.
Every major Chinese achievement from their mass transit system to their big corporations to their economic growth to them pulling ahead technologically to so many more, all come with big asterisks attached that make them much more questionable.
Meaning what? Their high speed trains are absolutely working. In large cities, half of the cars in the street are electric cars, majority from domestic brands and a few Tesla. They have very advanced and very cheap mass transit networks.
As I was saying: it's just like global warming: if you sit and wait claiming it's not really happening and/or not that bad, you're totally unprepared when disasters hit you.
The only thing I will agree with you here is their emonomy is not half as great as they want to claim. The estate market has been in a free fall in all but the big 4 cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Guandong, Shenzhen).
But if the US wants to be the first power of the rest of the 21st century world, they need to wake up!
This is the dawn of the new Chinese century. I have no doubt in 20 more years China will be in an even stronger position as the USA continues to decline.
We, the USA, could do all the stuff that would make us competitive. That would require more socialism, more taxing of billionaires, more spending in green energy, education, transportation, healthcare becoming affordable and an actual human right for all in our borders, a real plan to transition off fossil fuels and shore up our domestic energy production and electric grid.
Idk more than that of course but that's the elevator pitch.
We won't do it though because corrupt capitalism and the oligarchy.
Maybe we will if at some point enough of us are struggling but we're pretty fat and have plenty of entertainment to distract us even if we are being fucked. So ... Yeah ... Desperately hoping I'm wrong about most of my predictions, devastated as I keep seeing them come true.
This is the dawn of the new Chinese century.
Betting on a totalitarian kleptocracy saving the world is as unwise as betting in the 1980s that already overworked Japanese wage slaves could be overworked even further.
I didn't say they were going to save the world, no more than the USA did or any nation state turned empire.
I do think China will eclipse America when it comes to being in a position of strong global leadership and the hegemonic power on the world stage. The USA seems to be shirking our duties, reshaping and destroying our society's moral fabric, racing towards worse and worse education results and hellbent on making sure our healthcare is broken and our people are fat and dumb.
It's not a winning recipe, even with a military that can dominate.
Every country has its problems and its demons, China is no different and certainly their problems are complex and grand. As far as greater or lesser evils - I'd put the USA and China about on par for all the fucked up stuff we have done the past hundred years and keep doing now.
I'd love to at least visit China sometime - honestly there's so much fascinating history and getting to see a different approach to community building and infrastructure planning would be neat.
Where can i find reference book on pharmacy?
I'm looking for reference books like Vogel's and remington and for my course.
Does someone know a good place to find them?
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Zebra Crossing: An easy-to-use digital safety checklist
Zebra Crossing: An easy-to-use digital safety checklist
An easy-to-use digital safety checklistzebracrossing.narwhalacademy.org
Consumer Advocates Demand Investigation into Elon Musk’s Grok AI Tool Facilitating Illegal Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery
A coalition of consumer protection, privacy, and digital rights advocacy organizations led by CFA filed a formal request for investigation yesterday afternoon calling on state and federal regulators to investigate and enforce laws against xAI for their promotion, creation, and facilitation of sharing non-consensual intimate imagery (“NCII”) through their “spicy” feature on Grok Imagine, their AI image and video generation platform.
Consumer Advocates Demand Investigation into Elon Musk’s Grok AI Tool Facilitating Illegal Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery · Consumer Federation of America
A coalition of organizations led by CFA filed a formal request for investigation calling on state and federal regulators to investigate and enforce laws against xAI for their promotion, creation, and facilitation of sharing non-consensual intimate im…Consumer Federation of America
New Cloudflare Pirate Site Blocking May Already Involve Thousands of Domains
Last month Cloudflare began blocking pirate site domains already subject to blocking orders obtained years ago by Hollywood studios at the High Court in London. With no public announcement from any of the parties and no official information to accurately determine the scale, our estimate of a couple of hundred sites/domains was deliberately low. New information indicates one thousand domains is more realistic, but we can't rule out double that amount either.
New Cloudflare Pirate Site Blocking May Already Involve Thousands of Domains * TorrentFreak
New information indicates that Cloudflare blocking of pirate sites in the UK may affect one thousand domains; double that can't be ruled out.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
Display Next Hackfest 2025
Display Next Hackfest 2025
A few weeks ago, a bunch of display driver and compositor developers met once again for the third iteration of the Display Next Hackfest. The tradition was started by Red Hat, followed by Igalia (thanks Melissa), and now AMD (thanks Harry).swick's blog
China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card
MicroSD cards are tiny but slow; the M.2 storage sticks in your PC are blazing fast but bigger and fully enclosed. Now, a new type of SSD out of China could be the best of both worlds — and it’s already set to appear in two cutting-edge gaming portables.Chinese storage manufacturer Biwin is calling it the “Mini SSD,” though another manufacturer refers to it as the “1517”; it measures just 15mm x 17mm x 1.4mm thick, smaller than a U.S. penny and just slightly larger than MicroSD. Despite that, it offers maximum sequential read speeds of 3,700 megabytes per second (or 3,400MB/s writes) over a PCIe 4x2 connection, and offers 512GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities.
I suspect this will go over about as well as Samsung's UFS cards.
So, now we have yet another competing standard for removable storage.
China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card
Chinese storage manufacturer Biwin is launching the “Mini SSD,” and it measures just 15mm x 17mm x 1.4mm thick, smaller than a U.S. penny.Sean Hollister (The Verge)
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The beauty of a text only webpage
Light websites directories:
- Light Web;
- Bear Blog;
- no-JS Club;
- 1MB Club;
- 512KB Club;
- 250KB Club.
512KB Club
The 512KB Club is an exclusive list of web pages weighing less than 512 kilobytes.Kev Quirk (512KB Club)
How to validate a large torrented file is clean?
How do you validate that what you torrented is clean/no malware/spyware? Specifically, I torrented two things:
- Astute Graphics Plug-ins Elite Bundle 3.9.1.7z from teamos. It is 678MB so I can't upload to Virustotal
- Master Collection 2025 from uztracker (which is listed on monkrus's website's list of trackers). *It is 37.5GB so I can't upload to Virustotal.
I'm not sure what I should to do to be honest.
Edit: Would splitting the 37.5GB file into 650MB pieces and then scanning with virustotal help? Not sure if downloaded files need to be whole for it to work properly.
This is the results from virustotal (I could only scan 4 files in the master collection without running the iso)
Thank you.
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It it incredibly difficult to vet with 100% certainty that a binary you run it safe. If you have the source code, its so much easier. As others have said, the best way in piracy to be safe is downloading from a reputable source. Monkrus is pretty good. I am assuming you're referring to the Adobe master collection? If so, GenP is excellent (and open source).
If you are on windows, one thing you can do is run any programs in sandboxie and see what it writes to the disc. If it tries to edit things that it shouldn't like the registry or parts of the os that would be a red flag.
You could also setup firewall rules to block the application from accessing the internet. I am on macOS so I use a program called little snitch (lulu by objective see is also good). I am not familiar with the windows side of things. But essentially what I do is block the program and any processes it starts.
If you want to learn more about malware, objective-see.org/ is a great resource. It's macOS focused however but I've learned a ton from it. In particular their book on mac malware teaches a lot of analysis techniques.
The Objective-See Foundation
A non-profit foundation, focusing on macOS security.The Objective-See Foundation
Under the hood (not de's or gui) what REALLY separates linux from windows?
Is it just / ?
I kid. But really, besides "its all a file", if you take away the gui, is the only difference the syntax ? How libraries interact? How disks are mounted ?
If we stripped all ms's junk out and made windows open source, would we still prefer linux?
When you get to a very basic level, is one of them more efficiently coded?
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Yes we would still prefer Linux.
Windows is just a single object without any modularity. With Linux by itself is of course just a barebones kernal waiting to be added to. You can choose which gnu libraries to use you can chose which package manager to use you can chose which desktop environment to use (or ommit it entirely.) Windows doesn't have that option.
As well since the source code for linux has been open for over 30 years people know how it works, it would take ages for people to study windows and actually figure out how to do anything with it.
Up until 95, Windows was mostly a desktop environment for DOS. From 95 to ME, Windows was an OS that used DOS as its bootloader. Not sure how to put it, but it was simplistic and fundamentally different from Linux.
The thing with NT-based Windows (including modern editions) is that the underlying system is joined at the hip with the GUI. Whereas Linux with your choice of coreutils is a perfectly capable OS without the GUI, many features of Windows are only accessible through the GUI.
Given enough time and resources, pretty much anything exclusive to Windows could be ported to Linux and vice versa. A lot of the difference just comes down to history and the ensuing conventions, workflows, and file hierarchies.
Even if we stripped out all the cruft and spaghetti code from Windows, there would be lots of nasty idiosyncrasies in its design, informed by its OS/2 and VMS (see Dave Cutler) heritage, profit maximization, revolving door of devs and interns, and years of bending over backwards to accommodate legacy programs.
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President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare
President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare
The White House’s recently-unveiled “AI Action Plan” wages war on so-called “woke AI”—including large language models (LLMs) that provide information inconsistent with the administration’s views on climate change, gender, and other issues.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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0200 Decentralization: The process by which the activities are distributed away from a central authority
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0500 CDC: Hacktivism, free and open source software and encryption
0600 Gardening: Wether guerilla or not it beautifies the places and combats global warming
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ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity
The University of Rhode Island's AI lab estimates that GPT-5 averages just over 18 Wh per query, so putting all of ChatGPT's reported 2.5 billion requests a day through the model could see energy usage as high as 45 GWh.A daily energy use of 45 GWh is enormous. A typical modern nuclear power plant produces between 1 and 1.6 GW of electricity per reactor per hour, so data centers running OpenAI's GPT-5 at 18 Wh per query could require the power equivalent of two to three nuclear power reactors, an amount that could be enough to power a small country.
ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity
But the figures rely on hardware and usage assumptions that may be inaccurate.Anton Shilov (Tom's Hardware)
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Tech hasn't improved that much in the last in the last decade. All that's happened is that more cores have been added. The single-thread speed of a CPU is stagnant.
My home PC consumes more power than my Pentium 3 consumed 25 years ago. All efficiency gains are lost to scaling for more processing power. All improvements in processing power are lost to shitty, bloated code.
We don't have the tech for AI. We're just scaling up to the electrical senand demand of a small country and pretending we have the tech for AI.
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The CIA Trained Fulgencio Batista’s Torturers in Cuba
Fulgencio Batista’s Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities had a blood-spattered record of torture and political killings before the 1959 revolution. Declassified files show how the CIA nurtured the bureau and its repressive techniques.
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They never stopped training torturers.
How Fort Bragg special operations troops created a drug cartel
A bizarre criminal conspiracy in the ranks of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command at a military base in North Carolina.Matthew Petti (Reason.com)
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Ukrainian soldiers in Kherson, Ukraine, on Aug. 8, 2025. (Fermin Torrano / Anadolu via Getty Images)
Trump says Putin ready to make a peace deal with Ukraine. “I believe now he’s convinced that he’s going to make a deal. He’s going to make a deal. I think he’s going to,” U.S. President Donald Trump said.
Putin to present Trump with ‘historical materials‘ framing Ukraine as artificial state, Kyiv claims. The package includes geographical maps intended to justify Russia’s territorial claims and ongoing military aggression, Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation claimed.
Anchorage security ramps up before Trump-Putin talks on Ukraine’s future, Bloomberg reports. Security arrangements follow strict reciprocity protocols, with each side matching the other’s personnel and resources — from motorcade composition to the number of translators and secure waiting rooms.
Russia unveils delegation for Putin-Trump Alaska meeting, expects no agreement signed. The Russian delegation will include Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, and Russian Direct Investment Fund head Kirill Dmitriev.
Russia may be preparing to test nuclear-powered missile ahead of Trump talks, Reuters reports. Planet Labs imagery showed stacks of shipping containers, cranes, and a helicopter at the launch site, as well as two radar-equipped aircraft parked at Rogachevo military airfield since mid-July, Reuters reported.
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84 Ukrainians return from Russian captivity in latest prisoner swap — some held since 2014. Ukraine has secured the return of 84 soldiers and civilians from Russian captivity in a fresh prisoner swap with Moscow, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Aug. 14.
Drone reportedly hits apartment building in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don, officials say 13 injured. Residents heard the sound of an incoming drone before an explosion, Telegram channels reported. The blast occurred in the city center near Voroshilovsky Avenue, according to the independent Russian Telegram channel Astra.
Ukrainian drone strike sets fire to Russia’s Volgograd oil refinery, Kyiv confirms.
The facility processes over 15 million metric tons of oil every year, amounting to 5.6% of Russia’s refining capacity, the Ukrainian military said.
Russian Su-30SM fighter jet likely down near Snake Island, Ukrainian Navy says.
The twin-engine, two-seat aircraft – designed for both air superiority and ground attack – crashed for unknown reasons, the Ukrainian Navy said.
Zelensky meets Starmer in UK day before Trump-Putin summit. President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the latter’s residence in Downing Street on Aug. 14, Sky News reported, citing Starmer’s office.
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Ukraine war latest: Trump says Putin ready to make a peace deal with Ukraine
The talks in Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, will be the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders since Trump returned to office and Putin’s first visit to the U.S. in a decade.
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Trump doesn’t have enough leverage to stop Russia, Ukrainian soldiers say ahead of Alaska talks
The U.S. and Russian leaders are set to meet in Alaska on Aug. 15, with Trump saying the talks could involve some “swapping” of territories between Ukraine and Russia.
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Can Trump offer Ukraine’s minerals to Putin? Not without unraveling the global legal order, experts warn
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering offering Moscow access to Ukraine’s natural minerals in the Russian-occupied territories, a move Ukrainians say would be illegal and damaging to Washington’s reputation.
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Ukrainian soldiers on fighting to reclaim their homes from Russia
For Ukrainian soldiers born and raised on lands occupied by Russia, the fight for their home is deeply personal.
So much so that some say their decision to serve was driven by a desire for revenge as by a sense of civic duty and justice.
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Human cost of Russia’s war
July saw highest civilian casualties in Ukraine since 2022, UN says ahead of Trump-Putin summit. “Only the first three months after the Russian Federation launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine saw more killed and injured than in this past month,” said Danielle Bell, head of the U.N. human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine.
Russian attacks kill at least 8, injure 18 across Ukraine over past day. Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 45 Shahed-type drones, other UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), and two S-300/400 missiles overnight from several directions.
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From ‘war criminal’ to US guest — Trump invites Putin out of isolation
After Moscow launched its full-scale invasion, Putin limited travel largely to close allies and regional partners, Iran, China, and North Korea, avoiding Western capitals entirely.
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Trump may entertain Russia’s ‘land swap’ plan, but Ukraine won’t
Various media outlets reported that Moscow had proposed Ukraine’s handover of the remaining part of its eastern Donetsk Oblast in exchange for a ceasefire.
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US sanctions Russian crypto exchange over cybercrime — day before Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. The U.S. Treasury Department has re-designated the Russian-linked cryptocurrency exchange Garantex Europe OU, accusing it of directly enabling ransomware gangs and other cybercriminals by processing over $100 million in illicit transactions since 2019.
Trump prefers talks over new Russia sanctions but has ‘many measures’ ready, White House says. “What comes after that meeting is up to President Trump,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News. “He wants to sit down and look the Russian president in the eyes and see what progress can be made.”
India shifts oil purchases away from Russia before Trump-Putin Alaska meeting, Bloomberg reports. This week, state companies Indian Oil Corp. and Bharat Petroleum Corp. secured supplies from the United States, Brazil, and Middle Eastern producers for September-October delivery, Bloomberg reported.
Japan says Russian military obtained banned machine tools via Chinese firms.
Japanese authorities found that over 300 precision machine tools made by Tsugami Corp., sold to seven Chinese firms, had gone missing and were later used by Russia to produce weapons components.
In other news
Poland detains Ukrainian teen accused of vandalizing monuments on Russia’s behalf. According to Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak, the teenager vandalized monuments of victims of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and defaced buildings with anti-Polish slogans on behalf of foreign powers.
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Republicans who backed Trump’s anti-environment bill have accepted over $105m from big oil
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes billions of dollars in giveaways to fossil fuel companies and their executives
US | Babysitter who provided young girls to her boyfriend for sexual assault sentenced to 100 years in prison
Brittney Lyon provided her boyfriend Samuel Cabrera girls as young as three to drug, bind and abuse in exchange for going on dates, prosecutors say
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Fracne | Emmanuel Macron decries ‘antisemitic hatred’ after memorial tree cut down
French president vows to punish those who felled tree planted in memory of Jewish man tortured to death in 2006
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120,000 Ukrainians in US at risk of deportation as Biden-era program lapses, WSJ reports
The issue concerns refugees who have lived in the country since Aug. 16, 2023, under the Uniting for Ukraine program, devised by the Biden administration to allow Ukrainians to stay in the country on humanitarian parole.
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Air Canada, flight attendants enter final day before strike deadline
It's the final day before a potential work stoppage could ground all Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge flights.
Air Canada, flight attendants enter final day before strike deadline - Wings Magazine
It's the final day before a potential work stoppage could ground all Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge flights.Wings Staff (Wings Magazine)
US Government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says
US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says
It appears Grok’s antisemitic rants stopped it from becoming feds’ go-to chatbot.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
riempimento della squachiavanza porta la morte ad essere dischica… (Sharkey prende troppo spazio ed è un problema)
È doloroso trovarmi qui ad ammetterlo a me stessa ma, ancora una volta, scopro che i miei piani di dominazione del mondo sono stati troppo ambiziosi; almeno per ora, in questa fase più iniziale. Ovviamente tutto bene col mio codice, anche se è ancora nelle fasi iniziali… i problemi inaspettati sono piuttosto arrivati con Sharkey, […]
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riempimento della squachiavanza porta la morte ad essere dischica… (Sharkey prende troppo spazio ed è un problema)
È doloroso trovarmi qui ad ammetterlo a me stessa ma, ancora una volta, scopro che i miei piani di dominazione del mondo sono stati troppo ambiziosi; almeno per ora, in questa fase più iniziale. Ovviamente tutto bene col mio codice, anche se è ancora nelle fasi iniziali… i problemi inaspettati sono piuttosto arrivati con Sharkey, che nell’arco di una settimana mi avrà sequestrato almeno 1 GB di disco col suo database di merda, e non penso di dover spiegare quali calcoli fare per capire che una situazione del genere è insostenibile. Quindi, ho dovuto per il momento abbassare il tiro, prima che il disco del server mi si riempia in misura da costringermi a levare tutto quanto… 😖
Il problema è sostanzialmente una combinazione di 3 fattori: la mole di dati in ingresso generata da migliaia di utenti di migliaia di istanze ogni giorno è gigantesca (e il mio server non ha problemi a processarla, ma ecco, sono troppi miliardi di byte), il database è strutturato di merda (con troppi dati derivati che occupano inutilmente spazio, nonché francamente colonne inutili)… e, soprattutto, il software non ha alcun meccanismo per cancellare dati vecchi, quindi per ripulire periodicamente le note di utenti di istanze terze, o comunque quei dati che sono riottenibili. E per Misskey è da anni che la gente chiede aiuto per questo problema, ma la richiesta continua a naufragare, si vedano #13157 e linkate… e per Sharkey ugualmente è da un po’ di tempo che si parla di questo schifo, ma, forse, il fato per una buona volta mi vuole bene: 3 settimane fa in #1017 qualcuno sembra aver preso interesse a lavorarci… 😨Comunque sia, il problema per me è ora, e quindi ho come minimo dovuto disattivare i relay, che sono dei cosi che si aggiungono per far scambiare i messaggi tra la propria istanza ed altre pur senza avere relazioni di follow con migliaia di utenti (…perché non so chi cavolo seguire io, e a me pochi mi cagano), e così l’influsso di note e allegati è passato da decine di migliaia al giorno a poche decine e basta al giorno, che è persino meno di quanto ho sulla Spacc BBS… Ma questo quindi significa direttamente che, per il momento, non avrò un flusso costante estremamente sparso e variegato di conversazioni che posso passare all’intelligenza artificiale per farla funzionare in modo completamente autonomo e a dir poco extracircostanziale. (Non che io avessi finito di scrivere il codice per questa parte, eh, ma prima o poi quello sarà pronto… e i dati allora mancheranno.) 💨
Avrei quasi la mezza idea di, pur non sapendo se questa mossa potrebbe in parte rompere l’applicazione (ma, come si suol dire, cip ciop fa l’uccellino, YOLO fa il cormorano… e in ogni caso farei un backup prima), creare uno script per fare in modo grezzo la pulizia del database… ma purtroppo non è affatto una stronzata filtrare tutto per cancellare solo i dati effettivamente ridondanti, ossia le note solo da server terzi (e fin qui ok) che non hanno relazioni internamente alla mia istanza (niente reazioni o commenti o boost da parte dei miei utenti, non sono salvate tra i preferiti, e così via), e poi cancellare anche i file a queste associati dall’altra tabella (aiuto!!!). E oltre alle note, che sono rogne, e agli allegati, che invece mi fanno proprio incazzare visto quanto occupano pur essendo solo metadati (il contenuto dei file non viene scaricato!), volendo pulire pure gli utenti è la fine… 😭
Vabbè, viste le parole (…poco attendibili?) di quella persona sconosciuta di cui sopra, però, mi conviene evitare di sbattermi, e piuttosto semplicemente pregare affinché tale promessa si trasformi in codice… al più presto. Se la mia speranza (e i miei bot potentissimi…) proprio deve morire, allora lo farà solo dopo la mia istanza, non prima!!! 😾
#1017 #database #Misskey #server #Sharkey #spazio #storage
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Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
As subscription costs rise and choice diminishes on legal sites, film and TV fans are turning to VPNs and illicit streamers, with Sweden – home of both Spotify and The Pirate Bay – leading the wayGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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It's not just a pricing issue. It's an ownership issue.
Too many of the things we buy are not ours.
Yesterday I saw the article about VW cars which need a subscription to use the built-in capabilities. The car you bought doesn't belong to you.
Un’estate di tragedie: perché tanti bimbi muoiono in acqua?
Fallout - Stagione 2: svelati poster e periodo di uscita dei nuovi episodi
A pochi mesi dalla fine delle riprese del prossimo capitolo della serie, IGN ha ora pubblicato il primo poster della seconda stagione di Fallout. L’immagine chiave offre un assaggio del ritorno di Lucy, Maximus e del Ghoul mentre attraversano la Zona Contaminata alla ricerca del padre di lei a New Vegas, con il cartello della città e la città stessa visibili sullo sfondo. L’annuncio è stato accompagnato dalla notizia che la seconda stagione uscirà a dicembre.
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Fallout - Stagione 2: svelati poster e periodo di uscita dei nuovi episodi - Cinefilos.it
Svelati il primo poster e il periodo di uscita della seconda stagione di Fallout, la popolare serie di Prime Video.Gianmaria Cataldo (Cinefilos.it)
Reddit blocking web search
I noticed today, having searched about TOR nodes possibly being run by government departments in a browser, I got this message, " Your request has been blocked by network security. Please try to login with your Reddit account. " I didn't login in the app!
Haven't come across that before. Has anyone else seen i?
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Christian Horner fuori da ogni ruolo in Red Bull: ora è ufficiale
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Christian Horner fuori da ogni ruolo in Red Bull: ora è ufficiale - Quotidiano Motori
Christian Horner è stato rimosso da ogni ruolo di Red Bull. Al suo posto entra Stefan Salzer, nuovo direttore ufficiale del team.Mario Roth (Quotidiano Motori)
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Just like trump. He should be in jail so many times over at this point too.
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