OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism)
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To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree?
To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree?
To confront bias, scientists say we must examine the ontological frameworks within large language models – and how our perceptions influence outputs.news.stanford.edu
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Opposition parties say government's supermarket competition plan doesn't go far enough
Opposition parties say government's supermarket competition plan doesn't go far enough
"What we need is action that tackles the greed we are seeing in the duopoly right now."Tnatanahira (RNZ)
New bill allows Defence Force staff to fill in for people on strike
New bill allows Defence Force staff to fill in for people on strike
It would allow the Chief of Defence Force to sign off on having uniformed staff fill in for striking civilians.Russell Palmer (RNZ)
Uncertain Future for ArcelorMittal's Smart Carbon Projects in Belgium
Uncertain Future for ArcelorMittal's Smart Carbon Projects in Belgium
Steel giant ArcelorMittal has been reluctant to invest into Hydrogen-based steelmaking. But its alternatives it calls Smart Carbon are not doing great either.Hanno Böck (industrydecarbonization.com)
China’s Domestic x86 CPU, the Zhaoxin KX-7000, Debuts in an AI PC by MAXHUB, Positioning It as a Viable Alternative to Intel/AMD Options
Archived ver.: web.archive.org/web/2025082810…
Original source, including in-depth tests and other fancy details of the CPU used in the MAXHUB PC itself (written in Mandarin): news.mydrivers.com/1/1070/1070…
CPU-Z Single-Core Benchmark and specs from the original source:
That's an 8-core, ~3GHz Base Speed, 32MB L3 cache CPU for the number-crunchers around here.
On the surface, this CPU seems like it's best suited for general desktop and office use, to see it adopted to a PC build product geared for "AI workloads" is interesting. If I'm not mistaken, AI performance is heavily dependent on the GPU rather than on the CPU, so I think that's fine:
In terms of performance, the MAXHUB's AI+ desktop computer is claimed to play 1080P 30fps and 4K 30fps high-bitrate online videos with decent CPU utilization numbers, showing that the KX-7000 CPU acts decently with media workload. Of course, when compared against competitors like Intel or AMD, Zhaoxin is behind, but the key motive here to create an ecosystem that relies entirely on in-house products, and this has apparently happened here.
And that's a good thing, lol.
China’s Domestic x86 CPU, the Zhaoxin KX-7000, Debuts in an AI PC by MAXHUB, Positioning It as a Viable …
China has its very own domestic x86 CPU as well, developed by the manufacturer Zhaoxin, which has seen integration by MAXHUB.Wccftech
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Zhaoxin unveils first NPU-equipped CPU and 96-core server chip at WAIC 2025
At WAIC 2025 in Shanghai, Zhaoxin introduced the KaiXian KX-7000N client CPU with an integrated NPU for offline AI workloads and the Kaisheng KH-50000 server chip delivering 96 cores, PCIe 5.0 lanes, and 384 MB L3 cache.Nathan Ali (Notebookcheck)
An actual article on it- chipsandcheese.com/p/zhaoxins-…
Spoiler: It's slower than AMD Bulldozer.
Loongson 3A is infinitely faster if you want a China-domestic-market CPU.
Bing/DuckDuckGo/Qwant actively block southparkuncensored.com
Most other search engines show southparkuncensored.com/ after searching for "south park uncensored" or "southparkuncensored", but Bing doesn't, and therefore DuckDuckGo and Qwant neither.
southparkuncensored.com – Qwant Search
Fast, reliable answers and still in trust: Qwant does not store your search data, does not sell your personal data and is hosted in Europe.Qwant
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Nicknames
comiCSS #205: Nicknames
Cartoon with 4 panels in a 2x2 grid titled 'CSS Short Names'. It shows different people (all seem happy but the last one who looks annoyed) saying: - Hello! My name is text-emphasis: sesame, but my friends call me Tess.comicss.art
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Why Tony Blair and Jared Kushner were at the White House to discuss Gaza
Why Tony Blair and Jared Kushner were at the White House to discuss Gaza
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are attending a White House meeting on Wednesday to lay out US and Israeli plans for the fate of post-war Gaza, according to media reports.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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The next internet for news? Publishers gather to discuss protocols over platforms
The next internet for news? Publishers gather to discuss protocols over platforms
Journalists and tech industry workers gathered at Protocols for Publishers to talk about building an internet that works for news.Nieman Lab
The FBI and agencies in the UK, Canada, and others warn that a Chinese hacking campaign targeting US telecoms has expanded to more countries and US companies
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36422828
PDF.
People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber threat actors are targeting networks globally, including, but not limited to, telecommunications, government, transportation, lodging, and military infrastructure networks. While these actors focus on large backbone routers of major telecommunications providers, as well as provider edge (PE) and customer edge (CE) routers, they also leverage compromised devices and trusted connections to pivot into other networks. These actors often modify routers to maintain persistent, long-term access to networks.This activity partially overlaps with cyber threat actor reporting by the cybersecurity industry—commonly referred to as Salt Typhoon, OPERATOR PANDA, RedMike, UNC5807, and GhostEmperor, among others. The authoring agencies are not adopting a particular commercial naming convention and hereafter refer to those responsible for the cyber threat activity more generically as “Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors” throughout this advisory. This cluster of cyber threat activity has been observed in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and other areas globally.
The FBI and agencies in the UK, Canada, and others warn that a Chinese hacking campaign targeting US telecoms has expanded to more countries and US companies
PDF.People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber threat actors are targeting networks globally, including, but not limited to, telecommunications, government, transportation, lodging, and military infrastructure networks. While these actors focus on large backbone routers of major telecommunications providers, as well as provider edge (PE) and customer edge (CE) routers, they also leverage compromised devices and trusted connections to pivot into other networks. These actors often modify routers to maintain persistent, long-term access to networks.This activity partially overlaps with cyber threat actor reporting by the cybersecurity industry—commonly referred to as Salt Typhoon, OPERATOR PANDA, RedMike, UNC5807, and GhostEmperor, among others. The authoring agencies are not adopting a particular commercial naming convention and hereafter refer to those responsible for the cyber threat activity more generically as “Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors” throughout this advisory. This cluster of cyber threat activity has been observed in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and other areas globally.
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa25-239a
The FBI and agencies in the UK, Canada, and others warn that a Chinese hacking campaign targeting US telecoms has expanded to more countries and US companies
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36422828
PDF.
People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber threat actors are targeting networks globally, including, but not limited to, telecommunications, government, transportation, lodging, and military infrastructure networks. While these actors focus on large backbone routers of major telecommunications providers, as well as provider edge (PE) and customer edge (CE) routers, they also leverage compromised devices and trusted connections to pivot into other networks. These actors often modify routers to maintain persistent, long-term access to networks.This activity partially overlaps with cyber threat actor reporting by the cybersecurity industry—commonly referred to as Salt Typhoon, OPERATOR PANDA, RedMike, UNC5807, and GhostEmperor, among others. The authoring agencies are not adopting a particular commercial naming convention and hereafter refer to those responsible for the cyber threat activity more generically as “Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors” throughout this advisory. This cluster of cyber threat activity has been observed in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and other areas globally.
The FBI and agencies in the UK, Canada, and others warn that a Chinese hacking campaign targeting US telecoms has expanded to more countries and US companies
PDF.People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber threat actors are targeting networks globally, including, but not limited to, telecommunications, government, transportation, lodging, and military infrastructure networks. While these actors focus on large backbone routers of major telecommunications providers, as well as provider edge (PE) and customer edge (CE) routers, they also leverage compromised devices and trusted connections to pivot into other networks. These actors often modify routers to maintain persistent, long-term access to networks.This activity partially overlaps with cyber threat actor reporting by the cybersecurity industry—commonly referred to as Salt Typhoon, OPERATOR PANDA, RedMike, UNC5807, and GhostEmperor, among others. The authoring agencies are not adopting a particular commercial naming convention and hereafter refer to those responsible for the cyber threat activity more generically as “Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors” throughout this advisory. This cluster of cyber threat activity has been observed in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and other areas globally.
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa25-239a
4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36419565
Lawsuit.
4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law
4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law
The notorious troll sites filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court as part of a fight over the UK's Online Safety Act.Court Watch
Campaign to lift Palestine Action ban seeking ways to stop mass arrests of protesters
Campaign to lift Palestine Action ban seeking ways to stop mass arrests of protesters
The campaign group calling for the UK government to lift its ban on direct action group Palestine Action said it is pursuing methods of protest that would make mass arrests of peaceful demonstrators near impossible.Katherine Hearst (Middle East Eye)
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Bluesky blocks Mississippi users over age verification law
Bluesky blocks Mississippi users over new age verification law
Bluesky has blocked access in Mississippi, citing privacy and free speech concerns over a new law requiring all social media users to undergo age verification with fines of up to $10,000 per violation.Matthew Keys (TheDesk.net)
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Also, a detail but:
pcmag.com/news/supreme-court-l…
It's considered likely to be unconstitutional.
The ruling now allows Mississippi to enforce its social media law while case continues in the lower court. In the ruling, Kavanaugh also cited several district court rulings opposing similar age-verification laws, concluding that "the Mississippi law is likely unconstitutional."
US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care after far-right campaign
The US state department announced on Saturday that it would stop issuing visas to children from Gaza in desperate need of medical care after an online pressure campaign from Laura Loomer, a far-right influencer close to Donald Trump who has described herself as “a proud Islamophobe”."All visitor visas for individuals from Gaza are being stopped while we conduct a full and thorough review of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas in recent days,” the state department said in a message posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, from which Loomer was banned before it was purchased by Elon Musk.
In a pair of posts on the social network on Friday, Loomer had shared video of badly injured Palestinian children and their family members arriving in Houston and San Francisco this month, along with false claims that their shouts of joy were “jihadi chants” and that they were “doing the HAMAS terror whistle”.
Loomer also falsely claimed that she had “exclusively obtained” the two video clips she shared. One was copied from a medical aid charity’s public Instagram account and the other was from the Houston Chronicle’s YouTube channel.
US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care after far-right campaign
Program providing key aid halted after complaints from Laura Loomer, the far-right influencer close to TrumpRobert Mackey (The Guardian)
The crisis is “expasperating”: Long COVID compounds economic hardship in Argentina
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/51686142
Argentina has no dedicated Long COVID clinics, no disability insurance, and no government recognition, leaving patients to diagnose themselves and search for informal care.Only a couple of Long COVID studies are being conducted in Argentina. One includes over 100 patients and involves analysis of MRI brain scans.
Patients live not only with Long COVID but also the stressful situation of living in a country with high inflation and poverty, while they create their support chat groups to share knowledge, treatments, and information.
The crisis is “expasperating”: Long COVID compounds economic hardship in Argentina - The Sick Times
Argentina is facing an invisible Long COVID crisis, marked by a lack of clinics, minimal media attention, no disability insurance to help people with the disease cope with their inability to work, and only a couple of Long COVID studies — all amid a …Delfina Marchese (The Sick Times)
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Have you tried to fight through the endurance issue? That's my plan. I'm scared shitless of the downward spiral so I hope to get my ass out.
Wife and I took a walk last night, and that's the least I usually do. She couldn't tonight even though she's recovering better than I.
I did that. Do not recommend. I ended up bedridden, because every time I pushed it I would get worse.
I recommend resting and letting your body get better.
Thanks! I have "emphysema light" (doctor's words) and if I sit on my ass too long, well, it's not good. I have to constantly move, and move hard, or I go downhill. Hence the question.
I've improved much since I wrote the question. We're hitting the river tomorrow, see how it goes. Manhandling my 10' boat, battery, trolling motor and other gear is going to be a challenge.
Glad to hear your getting better.
Do read this though.
PEM affects a good third of people with LC. And knowing the signs so you know not to push through it is very important because pushing through it can lead to well. Being like me, bedridden since two years.
I do. I caught it in March 2020, yo-yoed in health for a while, and had some surgeries and a treatable cancer which my doctors suspect were related to Long COVID. I’m pretty well marinated in the info, and am happy to share whatever you want to know.
This page from Yale is a great general orientation, though there’s a lot more LC sufferers would want you to know. This “What to Do When I Have Covid” guide from Clean Air Club will be useful.
The best place I know of on Lemmy for a discussion is !chronicillness@lemmy.world. Mastodon has an active and expansive community of people affected by Long COVID.
Condolences on your illness! I hope you’ll have better luck.
Long COVID (Post-COVID Conditions, PCC)
Long COVID refers to new or recurring symptoms that occur four or more weeks after an infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.Yale Medicine
Oliver Thomas withdraws controversial facial recognition ordinance in New Orleans — for now
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/44609842
Oliver Thomas withdraws controversial facial recognition ordinance in New Orleans — for now
BY SARAH RAVITS 31 mins agoNew Orleans City Council member and mayoral candidate Oliver Thomas Aug. 21 quietly withdrew, at least for now, a controversial ordinance granting police the authority to use facial recognition technology to spy on people in public.
The decision has drawn cautious optimism from civil rights groups, though Thomas could bring the ordinance up again as soon as Sept. 11.
If passed, the ordinance would authorize the use of facial recognition technology for real-time surveillance by the New Orleans Police Department or a third-party operator. New Orleans would be the first U.S. city to implement this type of program.
Thomas, who co-sponsored the ordinance with Eugene Green, told Gambit he withdrew it from yesterday’s meeting to allow NOPD “to make edits” on the measure.
**But opponents of the ordinance said there are no changes that would resolve their concerns over civil rights and privacy concerns. **
“There are no edits or modifications that could make this proposal safe. It needs to be taken off the table entirely, forever,” said Rachel Taber, an organizer with Union Migrante, a group that supports immigrants’ rights.
Green and Thomas have argued the ordinance would help NOPD stop crime more efficiently and aid in other investigations, particularly focused on violence, sexual assault and illegal drugs.
But opponents of the bill have sounded the alarm over potential civil rights violations, pointing out that a real-time surveillance system of this caliber could easily be used by law enforcement or third parties to target and monitor marginalized communities including immigrants and people of color — regardless of criminal activity.
It could also track LGBTQ activity and monitor people seeking reproductive health care.
While the ordinance does specifically prohibit the NOPD from targeting immigrants, women seeking reproductive health care and LGBTQ people, those restrictions would almost certainly be trumped by state law requiring NOPD to comply with agencies like the Louisiana State Police and federal law enforcement — which, among other things, are currently targeting immigrants for kidnappings and detention.
Taber also pointed to the already-robust private surveillance all over the city that NOPD and other law enforcement agencies can access, if needed.
“If a crime occurs, as is, they can subpoena evidence from nearby cameras,” she said. “No one needs 24/7 access to all faces and license plates all the time, everywhere, without cause.”
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Il Cammino delle Identità in Valtellina : a San Giacomo di Teglio, il Panificio Bresesti
Tutte le volte che i nostri itinerari vagabondi ci hanno portato in Valtellina, non è mai mancata una visita gustosa al Panificio Bresesti di San Giacomo di Teglio.
“Dalla bottega alimentare di nonno Silvio – reduce della campagna di Russia e decorato con la croce al valore – i Bresesti hanno imparato il valore delle tradizioni e l’amore per la cucina tipica della Valtellina. Da oltre quarant’anni il Panificio
Bresesti, aperto da Bruno – figlio di Silvio – lavora con passione, amore e produce, con fatica e dedizione, pane e prodotti tipici del territorio valtellinese, rispettandone le antiche tradizioni.”
Forse sarà per questa storia, che i giornalisti di Borghi d’Europa si sono ricordati del Panificio Bresesti, quando hanno ricominciato il Cammino delle Identità, il
Percorso di informazione che dal 2014 valorizza e fa conoscere le eccellenze della Valtellina nel progetto L’Europa delle scienze e della cultura, Patrocinato dalla
IAI -Iniziativa adriatico ionica,Forum Intergovernativo.
Il 6 e il 7 settembre una delegazione visiterà a Teglio la Mostra a Palazzo BESTA ( Il senso del vino), per poi incontrare alcune aziende della filiera agroalimentare,
I vini di Giorgio Gianatti, i prodotti del Panificio Bresesti; i salumi del Salumificio Testini.
“Un negozio moderno basato su tradizioni antiche. Da noi il pane si produce e si sforna proprio come veniva prodotto e sfornato nelle vecchie contrade telline, mantenendo gusto e croccantezza.
Utilizzando solo materie prime naturali, senza aggiunta di conservanti e additivi chimici, siamo in grado di proporre prodotti genuini e saporiti, che porteranno sulle vostre tavole il vero gusto valtellinese del mangiare bene e in maniera sana.
Pane di segale, dolci, pizzoccheri, prodotti da forno tipici. Panificio Bresesti offre solo prodotti di qualità, nel rispetto della tradizione.”
Da sempre sosteniamo la necessità di una vera e propria ‘carta del pane’, per abbinare in modo corretto i cibi e i vini.
Luca e Simone Bresesti hanno portato idee e hanno saputo valorizzare ulteriormente un prodotto – il pane di segale valtellinese – che già oggi viene consumato per la sua
capacità di regolarizzare l’intestino e migliorare la circolazione.
Il viaggio del gusto di Borghi d’Europa parte dagli inizi di settembre e si svilupperà fino a dicembre 2026, realizzando una intensa campagna d’informazione grazie al Percorso Internazionale I Mulini del gusto e le Vie del Pane.
La rete Borghi d’Europa ha deciso infatti di un creare un percorso dedicato a questi temi, tra le grandi iniziative di informazione del progetto.
Il circuito organizza e promuove dei percorsi per mettere a confronto idee, progetti, capaci di seguire il filo logico della valorizzazione rispettosa degli equilibri sociali culturali e ambientali dei territori di riferimento.
Sono previsti incontri e stages di informazione nei territori,per raccontare a giornalisti e comunicatori le storie dei borghi e delle loro culture.
Ogni ‘tappa’ tocca i luoghi, le storie, i protagonisti della filiera agroalimentare.
Il progetto era stato presentato nell’aprile del 2019 presso la sede del Parlamento Europeo di Milano.
La degustazione di settembre valorizzerà l’abbinamento del Fiocco della Valtellina e della Slinzega con il pane della famiglia Bresesti e i vini di Giorgio Gianatti.
When Genocide Denial Is the Norm
Genocide scholar Martin Shaw argues that ending Israel’s genocide in Gaza and isolating Israel on the international stage must become the cause of every country that claims to represent human values.
While I agree; we've moved past that point unless the US stops Israel; and they will not.
The world needs to unite in arms to invade Israel. We do not have time for even a major BDS movement. Children are starving every night. Without direct action all the world is doing is watching and wagging its fingers.
And at this point I can't tell which "scholar" or politician is only doing that to be able to say they did in the future. They are coming to the correct side just late enough to wag their fingers.
La cultura della paura nell'era digitale
La cultura della paura nell’era digitale
Dai mostri sotto il letto ai mostri dell’algoritmo: viviamo in uno stato di ansia permanenteE la nave va
Airdropped Aid Is Crushing Starving People in Gaza
Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
August 22 2025, 6:30 a.m.
Help for Gaza is now supposed to fall from the sky. Planes from Israel, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates drop parachuted bundles of food and supplies meant to save lives when all other options are lost. They then crash into streets, rooftops, and tents, turning hope into panic.Every airdrop shows the cost of survival here, where daily life is threatened not by just hunger or lack of medicine, but also the very help meant to reach starving people.
This is the new reality of aid delivery in Gaza. As Israel’s siege approaches the two-year mark, on-the-ground access to food and other crucial supplies is mostly controlled by the Israel-backed and U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose aid sites have become shooting grounds where the Israeli army kills hungry civilians. On July 27, Israel announced the start of airdrops for humanitarian aid, promising “safe corridors” and relief from the crushing blockade.
The aid has itself become a weapon in the literal sense: At least 124 people have been struck by falling aid packages since October 2023, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, and 23 of them killed. The Intercept spoke to more than 10 people who were injured by or witnessed injuries from falling aid packages for this story.
Airdropped Aid Is Crushing Starving People in Gaza
Human rights groups have stressed that it’s safer to provide aid by land. Israel is killing Palestinians by dropping it from the sky.Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi (The Intercept)
Airdropped Aid Is Crushing Starving People in Gaza
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Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
August 22 2025, 6:30 a.m.
Help for Gaza is now supposed to fall from the sky. Planes from Israel, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates drop parachuted bundles of food and supplies meant to save lives when all other options are lost. They then crash into streets, rooftops, and tents, turning hope into panic.Every airdrop shows the cost of survival here, where daily life is threatened not by just hunger or lack of medicine, but also the very help meant to reach starving people.
This is the new reality of aid delivery in Gaza. As Israel’s siege approaches the two-year mark, on-the-ground access to food and other crucial supplies is mostly controlled by the Israel-backed and U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose aid sites have become shooting grounds where the Israeli army kills hungry civilians. On July 27, Israel announced the start of airdrops for humanitarian aid, promising “safe corridors” and relief from the crushing blockade.
The aid has itself become a weapon in the literal sense: At least 124 people have been struck by falling aid packages since October 2023, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, and 23 of them killed. The Intercept spoke to more than 10 people who were injured by or witnessed injuries from falling aid packages for this story.
Airdropped Aid Is Crushing Starving People in Gaza
Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
August 22 2025, 6:30 a.m.Help for Gaza is now supposed to fall from the sky. Planes from Israel, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates drop parachuted bundles of food and supplies meant to save lives when all other options are lost. They then crash into streets, rooftops, and tents, turning hope into panic.Every airdrop shows the cost of survival here, where daily life is threatened not by just hunger or lack of medicine, but also the very help meant to reach starving people.
This is the new reality of aid delivery in Gaza. As Israel’s siege approaches the two-year mark, on-the-ground access to food and other crucial supplies is mostly controlled by the Israel-backed and U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose aid sites have become shooting grounds where the Israeli army kills hungry civilians. On July 27, Israel announced the start of airdrops for humanitarian aid, promising “safe corridors” and relief from the crushing blockade.
The aid has itself become a weapon in the literal sense: At least 124 people have been struck by falling aid packages since October 2023, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, and 23 of them killed. The Intercept spoke to more than 10 people who were injured by or witnessed injuries from falling aid packages for this story.
Airdropped Aid Is Crushing Starving People in Gaza
Human rights groups have stressed that it’s safer to provide aid by land. Israel is killing Palestinians by dropping it from the sky.Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi (The Intercept)
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Reuters journalists accuse Reuters of pro-Israel bias
When Israel assassinated Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif earlier this month, the Reuters news agency ran a report titled: “Israel kills Al Jazeera journalist it says was Hamas leader”. They chose that headline despite the fact al-Sharif used to work for them – he was part of a Reuters team that won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize.
Instances like this caused a backlash online, but also sparked concern among some staff at the influential global newswire, which was founded in London in 1851 and now has a daily audience of more than a billion. Multiple Reuters employees have spoken to Declassified about what they see as pro-Israel bias among the company’s editors and management. All requested anonymity to avoid reprisals. In the email, they also said,“
I’ve attached a report…and an open letter some colleagues and I sent to management in the hopes that Reuters will uphold basic journalistic principles, but I now recognize that senior leadership is unlikely to change, much less stop actively stifling critiques.”
Reuters journalists accuse newswire of pro-Israel bias
Insiders at the world’s largest news agency reveal their battles with management over covering Palestine.ARCHIT MEHTA (Declassified Media ltd)
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They did, but somehow their leadership decided that everything must change to the exact opposite of what it was.
It reminds me of Orwell's 1984.
Canada absent in multi-nation call to protect Gaza journalists, allow foreign media
Canada absent in multi-nation call to protect Gaza journalists, allow foreign media
OTTAWA — Canada has taken the rare step of not signing onto a multi-country statement that demands Israel stop banning foreign journalists from entering Gaza and that local journalists be protected in the Palestinian territories.Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press (BarrieToday.com)
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Aid workers accuse NGOs of 'whitewashing' Israel's Gaza war – DW – 08/22/2025
Aid workers accuse NGOs of 'whitewashing' Israel's Gaza war
Several international NGOs have limited their language and advocacy on the topic of Gaza, a DW investigation has found. They fear that Israel might otherwise refuse them permits to operate in the Palestinian territories.Naomi Conrad (Deutsche Welle)
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Due to the new customs regulations under the Executive Order "Suspending Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment for all Countries," which will take effect on August 29, 2025, there will be temporary restrictions on postal goods shipping to the U.S.
Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
IDF database suggests 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
Classified intelligence reveals Israel killed 8,900 militants by May, indicating an almost unparalleled proportion of civilian slaughter.Ben Reiff (+972 Magazine)
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Il fantasma rievocato dai cannoni della caravella che vegliava sull'Unione di Kalmar - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Il fantasma rievocato dai cannoni della caravella che vegliava sull'Unione di Kalmar - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Nell’ideale gerarchia dei responsabili delle migliori scoperte archeologiche dello scorso secolo, al primo posto vengono sempre messi i cercatori.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
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Block Elon Musk’s bid to supply UK home energy, Ed Davey urges
Elon Musk’s company, Tesla, should have its application to supply energy to UK homes blocked on national security grounds, Ed Davey has told ministers.The Liberal Democrat leader argued that giving the electric car manufacturer a foothold in the British energy market would be “a gravely concerning move considering Elon Musk’s repeated interference in UK politics”.
Tesla has a clean energy arm and applied in July for a licence to supply power to British homes.
If the licence is granted by the regulator, Ofgem, the US company could be competing with big UK domestic energy suppliers such as British Gas and Octopus as soon as next year.
Block Elon Musk’s bid to supply UK home energy, Ed Davey urges
Exclusive: Lib Dem leader says giving Tesla a foothold in Britain’s energy market could be national security riskEleni Courea (The Guardian)
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Back in the Roman republic, rich guys would provide public roads, aqueducts, games, etc. this was to get the plebs to see you as their benefactor, not the state. It wasn’t charity, it was name recognition, it was knowing the lower classes were kissing your ass and would protect you.
Don’t let things end up that way, tell this rich fuck to pay his taxes instead and to fuck off into a volcano already
US to take part in Russia’s answer to Eurovision
US to take part in Russia’s answer to Eurovision
Singer B. Howard will join acts from Belarus, Cuba and Venezuela at event in Moscow.Ketrin Jochecová (POLITICO)
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The Therac-25 Incident
The Therac-25 Incident
A few months ago, someone noted in the comments that they hadn't heard about the Therac-25 incident. I was surprised, and went off to do an informal survey of developers I know, only to discover that only about half of them knew what it was without s…The Daily WTF
India, Russia agree to boost trade ties after foreign ministers meet in Moscow
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/46878219
Jaishankar said that relations between the two countries had been among the steadiest of major nations in the world since World War Two, referring to a close friendship going back to the days of the Soviet Union.The two countries reaffirmed their ambition to expand bilateral trade, including by increasing India's exports to Russia, Jaishankar said, according to a statement from India's foreign ministry.
“I don’t want to get rid of a bunch of people right now. I don’t want to get rid of engineers,” Robbins said. “I just want our engineers we have today to innovate faster and be more productive and that gives us a competitive advantage.”
Go fuck yourself. 8% growth and billions of dollars in profit isn't enough for these inhuman CEOs. They deserve the Thompson treatment.
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I honestly thought that your quote was some sort of satire. Yeah duh, people being more productive gives a competitive advantage.
Now how to make them innovate faster and be more productive. 4-day week and being a nice place to work in might be a start.
This is a trend that is showing less than zero signs of decelerating.
I desperately need insight/advice on how to reconcile these tragedies with any hope of a worthwhile career. How am I to believe in hopes of things like job security when articles like this are beyond normal?
I sincerely wish to know how we expect to advise our children to pursue seriously needed careers or ambitions of any value when the new rule of our era is to reward career-seekers with endless layoffs to maintain a dwindling, starving work force so as to keep running the profit maximizing machine of the ruling few.
Do we need a crawler to load content from other lemmy instances? How are we supposed to federate without one?
I'm trying to start my own lemmy instance, and reading through the documentation at join-lemmy.org/docs/administra… it looks like we need to manually search for just about everything that can be found on other lemmy instances.
It works. I'm able to search for communities/comments/posts and then my instance will load only that community/comment chain/post and only after I've searched it. No updates.
Is this what we're supposed to be doing? Seems pretty tedious to have someone that's supposed to go to other instances and then search for all of their content on my instance in order to federate with it.
I have a feeling there is an easier way, but I'm legitimately not seeing it.
Right now, it looks like the only way users on my instance will get to see content from other instances is if I manually search for just about everything they'll get to see.
I can write a crawler to automate all of this, but I'd rather not unless it's completely necessary.
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That's how federation is supposed to work. If one user searches content, you get it once. If a user of your instance subscribes to a community, you get updates for that community.
The point is to reduce load on your instance by not federating content that nobody on your instance needs.
It's based on a flawed understanding of how communities work, specifically that reddit-style forums only work well when you have huge communities that everyone sibscribes to. So, most instances end up with most content anyway.
Also, keep in mind, all conent that has been federated to your instance is on your srver and thus legally your responsibility. If there's illegal content on there, you are liable if you don't delete it.
Australia Post halts transit shipping to US as global carriers face 'chaos'
cross-posted from: quokk.au/post/207865
Australia Post has temporarily suspended transit shipping to the US ahead of new tariffs due to come into effect next week.Global postal carriers have described a "chaotic" environment as some European services halt US shipments altogether.
From August 29, low-value parcels imported into the US will attract tariffs or flat fees.
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Emilia Terzon (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Lebanon begins disarming Palestinian groups in refugee camps
Lebanon has launched a plan to disarm Palestinian groups in its refugee camps, beginning with the handover of weapons from Burj al-Barajneh camp in Beirut.
The prime minister’s office announced on Thursday that the weapons transfer to the Lebanese army marks the start of a wider disarmament campaign. More handovers are expected in the coming weeks across Burj al-Barajneh and other camps nationwide.
A Fatah official told the Reuters news agency the arms handed over so far were only illegal weapons that had entered the camp within the previous day. Television footage showed military vehicles inside the camp, though Reuters could not verify what type of weapons were being surrendered.
The initiative follows Lebanon’s commitment under a US-backed truce between Israel and Hezbollah in November, which restricted weapons to six state security forces. Since the November 27, 2024, ceasefire agreement, Israel has continued attacking Lebanon, often on a weekly basis.
The government has tasked the army with producing a strategy by the end of the year to consolidate all arms under state authority.
According to the prime minister’s office, the decision to disarm Palestinian factions was reached in a May meeting between Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Lebanon begins disarming Palestinian groups in refugee camps
PM’s office says the weapons transfer to the Lebanese army marks the start of a wider disarmament campaign.Al Jazeera
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Sounds like Lebanon doesn't want the war to spread to their land?
Disarming refugees is a pretty standard procedure. You don't see armed refugees anywhere else, so why would it be okay for palestinians in Lebanon?
If anything, having a militia with base in a refugee camp is just going to invite Israel to bomb a shitload of refugees.
I mean come on, fuck Israel and all that, but complaining about refugees having illegal weapons taken away is fucking stupid, and just makes regular people turn away from your course.
Zionists are already spreading the holocaust by violating the ceasefire daily in Lebanon.
Whether refugees are armed or not, Zionists will still murder them with impunity. This is happening in occupied Gaza, in the occupied West Bank and in newly Lebensraum-ed parts of southern Syria.
So why remove their legitimate means of resistance?
Nonviolence is the privilege of the powerful.
Whitewashing Zionist savagery doesn’t work.
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Thailand offers free domestic flights for 200,000 foreign arrivals
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Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs?
As always, I use the term "AI" loosely. I'm referring to these scary LLMs coming for our jobs.
It's important to state that I find LLMs to be helpful in very specific use cases, but overall, this is clearly a bubble, and the promises of advance have not appeared despite hundreds of billion of VC thrown at the industry.
So as not to go full-on polemic, we'll skip the knock-on effects in terms of power-grid and water stresses.
No, what I want to talk about is the idea of software in its current form needing to be as competent as the user.
Simply put: How many of your coworkers have been right 100% of the time over the course of your career? If N>0, say "Hi" to Jesus for me.
I started working in high school, as most of us do, and a 60% success rate was considered fine. At the professional level, I've seen even lower with tenure, given how much things turn to internal politics past a certain level.
So what these companies are offering is not parity with senior staff (Ph.D.-level, my ass), but rather the new blood who hasn't had that one fuckup that doesn't leave their mind for weeks.
That crucible is important.
These tools are meant to replace inexperience with incompetence, and the beancounters at some clients are likely satisfied those words look similar enough to pass muster.
We are, after all, at this point, the "good enough" country. LLM marketing is on brand.
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in reply to hanno • • •I reckon that in europe as a whole, we have enough steel and need to shift to recycling it more efficiently (including dismantling some reinforced concrete structures, ol pipes etc), although that's not the case in Africa, India with with growing population.