In a recently-unsealed search warrant reviewed by Forbes, ICE used such a cell-site simulator in an attempt to track down an individual in Orem, Utah. The suspect had been ordered to leave the U.S. in 2023, but is believed to still be in the country. Investigators learned last month that before going to Utah, he’d escaped prison in Venezuela where he was serving a sentence for murder, according to the warrant. He’s also suspected of being linked to gang activity in the country, investigators said.

When the government got the target’s number, they first got a warrant to get its location. However, the trace wasn’t precise–it only told law enforcement that the target was somewhere in an area covering about 30 blocks. That led them to asking a court for a Stingray-type device to get an accurate location.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/09/09/how-ice-is-using-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-peoples-phones/

More than a dozen troopers made over $200,000 last year when factoring in overtime, roughly equal to the starting salary for top public health doctors in the state. Two lieutenants netted more than $300,000. One of them, Lt. Kevin A. King, brought home $344,196 — nearly as much as former DPS Director Steve McCraw. Overtime accounted for two-thirds of King’s haul, and OLS shifts specifically about $93,000, according to DPS.

Residents in Eagle Pass, the epicenter of Operation Lone Star, say state troopers are less visible than they were a year ago. A city park that DPS commandeered during the height of the crackdown reopened months ago and was virtually empty on a recent afternoon. The only state troopers in the area appeared to be patrolling the highways.

“There used to be a DPS every five miles. Now you won’t see them. They’re all gone,” said Jessie Fuentes, who runs a kayaking business in Eagle Pass and has been an outspoken critic of the crackdown. “The count of vehicles you would see on the highway or the streets, it’s not present here.”

Greg Abbott’s border crackdown is doubling Texas trooper salaries

Operation Lone Star has been a windfall for state troopers, many of whom have doubled their salaries through record amounts of overtime, even as migrant crossings bottomed out.

^{Benjamin Wermund (The Houston Chronicle)}

https://www.neowin.net/news/vimeo-is-getting-acquired-by-bending-spoons-the-parent-company-of-evernote/

The 69-page complaint was filed by former acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll and two other fired FBI leaders who claim they were the targets of “politically motivated retribution” and are seeking "to vindicate their constitutional and legal rights.”

The suit cites a series of alleged conversations involving Patel and other senior Trump advisers that, if true, show an FBI leadership consumed by the whims of a Trump White House that targeted employees solely for political reasons.

The insider accounts also tend to corroborate earlier reporting about claims that Patel misled the Senate in his January confirmation hearing when he insisted he would never fire or demote bureau staff for political reasons.

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/kash-patel-fbi-lawsuit-firings-illegal-rcna230368

https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-conservative-activist-shot-546165a8151104e0938a5e085be1e8bd

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35965987

this is a coworker.

to me a clear no, this person jokes about it and smiles. I can share her frustration with stupid job tasks, demanding clients, or having to get up too early, commute... I find her genuine and full of energy, I like working with her, she's sincere. I like that in people, she likes to help.

However, other 2 female colleagues have the opposite point of view: there is something that troubles her because she constantly jokes about death, killing herself due to some clients, waking up early...

We all agree she is so full of energy, my colleagues say she jokes about it constantly. I hear her joking about once or twice a day.

Am I being naive?

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/10/us/charlie-kirk-shot-utah

The AI Darwin Awards, launched in 2025, celebrates catastrophically poor decisions involving artificial intelligence deployment[^1]. Modeled after the original Darwin Awards that honored fatal human stupidity, this new initiative focuses on spectacular AI failures and the humans who enabled them[^2].

The awards require nominations to demonstrate:
- Direct AI involvement
- Catastrophic potential
- Clear evidence of hubris
- Ethical oversights
- Ambitious scale of failure[^1]

Notable 2025 nominees include:
- Replit's AI agent deleting a company's production database
- Taco Bell's failed AI drive-thru system across 500 locations
- McDonald's chatbot security breach exposing 64 million job applicants' data[^2]

The organizers emphasize that the awards mock human recklessness rather than AI itself, stating "Artificial intelligence is just a tool - like a chainsaw, nuclear reactor, or particularly aggressive blender. It's not the chainsaw's fault when someone decides to juggle it at a dinner party"[^1].

Winners will be selected through public voting, with results announced in February 2026[^6].

[^1]: AI Darwin Awards - Celebrating Spectacularly Bad AI Decisions
[^2]: The Register - The nominations for the 2025 AI Darwin Awards are open
[^6]: Gizmodo - There's Now a Darwin Awards to Celebrate the Worst AI Fails of 2025

There's Now a Darwin Awards to Celebrate the Worst AI Fails of 2025

A new website is honoring AI models and their human users for the dumbest AI fails of 2025.

^{Bruce Gil (Gizmodo)}

The AI Darwin Awards, launched in 2025, celebrates catastrophically poor decisions involving artificial intelligence deployment¹. Modeled after the original Darwin Awards that honored fatal human stupidity, this new initiative focuses on spectacular AI failures and the humans who enabled them².

The awards require nominations to demonstrate:
- Direct AI involvement
- Catastrophic potential
- Clear evidence of hubris
- Ethical oversights
- Ambitious scale of failure¹

Notable 2025 nominees include:
- Replit's AI agent deleting a company's production database
- Taco Bell's failed AI drive-thru system across 500 locations
- McDonald's chatbot security breach exposing 64 million job applicants' data²

The organizers emphasize that the awards mock human recklessness rather than AI itself, stating "Artificial intelligence is just a tool - like a chainsaw, nuclear reactor, or particularly aggressive blender. It's not the chainsaw's fault when someone decides to juggle it at a dinner party"¹.

Winners will be selected through public voting, with results announced in February 2026³.

1. AI Darwin Awards - Celebrating Spectacularly Bad AI Decisions ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
2. The Register - The nominations for the 2025 AI Darwin Awards are open ↩︎ ↩︎
3. Gizmodo - There's Now a Darwin Awards to Celebrate the Worst AI Fails of 2025 ↩︎

There's Now a Darwin Awards to Celebrate the Worst AI Fails of 2025

A new website is honoring AI models and their human users for the dumbest AI fails of 2025.

^{Bruce Gil (Gizmodo)}

Hey pirates,
Currently wants to download an iso of the vwlc of Cisco, to use it with my wifi APs.

I know that the 8.5 version is available for free (for 60days) on cisco[dot]com. But even with that I can't download it, their website is just crap.

So does someone know a way to download a vWLC ISO + how can I bypass the 60days trials.

(I've seen many guys talking about this on the internet but couldn't figure out where)

Thank you fellow sailors

EDIT : typos

An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune previously revealed that board members at Valere Public Schools had paid Superintendent Salvador Cavazos up to $870,000 annually in recent years, roughly triple what it reported publicly to the state and on its website. Two other districts the newsrooms covered, Faith Family Academy and Gateway Charter Academy, also substantially underreported the compensation paid to their top leaders.

The state determined that all three of those districts have had failing or near-failing levels of performance in recent years. The ratings, released last month by the Texas Education Agency, also show that charter schools make up the majority of the districts that have repeatedly had “unacceptable” performance, though they account for a small portion of public schools across Texas. The agency published two years’ worth of accountability ratings for the state’s public and charter schools that were previously undisclosed due to litigation.

Faith Family Academy, a Dallas-area district with two campuses, was one of eight charter school districts that are now on track to be shut down at the end of the school year after receiving a third consecutive “F” rating. Board members paid superintendent Mollie Purcell Mozley a peak annual compensation of $560,000 in recent years to run the district, which has about 3,000 students.

Some Texas Charters Have High Superintendent Pay, Low Student Performance

Three charter school districts in Texas underreported the compensation paid to their top leaders. The same three districts have also had failing or near-failing performance ratings in recent years.

^ProPublica

President Donald Trump has portrayed his federal law enforcement surge in Washington as focused on tackling crime. But data from the federal operation, analyzed by The Associated Press, shows that more than 40% of the arrests made over the monthlong operation were in fact related to immigration.

Yet the prominence of immigration arrests — more than 940 people — has fueled criticism that the true purpose of the operation may have been to expand deportations. For critics, the effort appears less a one-off push against crime in the capital than a model for federal intervention and the highlighting of violent crime in other cities led by Democratic mayors, a familiar political playbook that Trump leaned on during the 2020 campaign.

https://apnews.com/article/dc-immigration-federal-intervention-543a6079974fda90f96bae17ae53729e

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In una mossa storica verso un'economia realmente circolare, il Parlamento Europeo ha adottato nuove norme per combattere gli enormi volumi di rifiuti generati dai settori tessile e alimentare.

Il problema, in numeri:

• Rifiuti alimentari UE all' anno: 60 milioni di tonnellate (132 kg a testa).

• Rifiuti tessili UE all'anno: 12,6 milioni di tonnellate.

• Solo abbigliamento e calzature: 5,2 milioni di tonnellate (12 kg a testa).

• Tessuti riciclati a livello globale: meno dell'1%.

Cosa prevedono le nuove regole?

🍎 RIFIUTI ALIMENTARI (entro il 2030):

• Riduzione obbligatoria del 10% negli sprechi della trasformazione e produzione.

• Riduzione obbligatoria del 30% pro capite in retail, ristorazione e famiglie.

• Donazione facilitata del cibo invenduto ma ancora commestibile.

👕 RIFIUTI TESSILI: il principio "chi inquina paga"
Tutti i produttori che vendono tessili nell'UE dovranno farsi carico dei costi per gestire i loro rifiuti (Responsabilità Estesa del Produttore - EPR).

• Chi rientra: tutti i marchi, rivenditori (anche e-commerce!) e importatori, grandi o piccoli, dentro o fuori l'UE.

• Cosa devono fare: pagare per i costi completi di raccolta, selezione, riciclo e preparazione al riuso dei loro prodotti a fine vita.

• Tempistiche: gli stati hanno 30 mesi per creare i sistemi EPR. Le microimprese hanno 1 anno in più per adeguarsi.

• Cosa include: vestiti, scarpe, accessori, cappelli, lenzuola, tende, etc.

• Colpire il fast fashion: gli stati potranno far pagare di più ai marchi i cui prodotti sono meno durevoli o riciclabili, prendendo di mira esplicitamente i modelli business dell'ultra-fast fashion.

Perché è una notizia importante?
Questa legge ribalta completamente il sistema: l'onere dei rifiuti non graverà più su comuni e cittadini, ma direttamente sui produttori. Questo crea un forte incentivo economico a produrre capi più durevoli, riparabili e riciclabili, segnando potenzialmente la fine del business model "produci-vendi-getta".

Naturalmente, ci sono aspetti critici.

Fonte: Parlamento Europeo

➡️ Se vuoi approfondire gli aspetti critici:

🔗🇮🇹 leggi qui

🔗🇬🇧 or read here

Textile and food waste: European Parliament adopts new rules - suite123

EU passes new law holding brands financially responsible for textile waste and setting binding targets to slash food waste by 2030.

^suite123

In riferimento alla vendita dei biglietti per la Final Four di Supercoppa LNP, si rendono note le procedure che saranno applicate, su disposizione dalla Prefettura di Ravenna.

_VENDITA _

L’acquisto dei biglietti avviene unicamente sul canale web TicketOne e presso i rivenditori autorizzati (l’elenco è disponibile sulla pagina Ticketone dedicata all’evento).
Nei giorni dell'evento le biglietterie del PalaDeAndrè resteranno chiuse.

Per le gare di semifinale le vendite si chiuderanno alle ore 19 del giorno precedente la gara.
Quindi alle 19 di giovedì 11 per le semifinali di Serie A2; ed alle ore 19 di venerdì per le semifinali di B Nazionale.

Per le gare di finale, la vendita è consentita fino alle ore 14 di domenica 14.

I biglietti per le due finali saranno messi in vendita a partire da 1 ora dal termine di ogni singola giornata di semifinale.

CONTROLLO AGLI INGRESSI
Presentandosi all'ingresso del PalaDeAndrè, seguendo le indicazioni dei settori dedicati alle singole tifoserie, sarà verificata la corrispondenza tra il biglietto nominale ed il documento di identità

Presentata a Ravenna la Supercoppa LNP 2025 Old Wild West

La Sala Consiliare del Comune di Ravenna ha ospitato la conferenza stampa di presentazione della Final Four di Supercoppa LNP 2025 Old Wild West.

^{Lega Nazionale Pallacanestro}

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Russia’s war against Ukraine

A person sleeps in a metro station in Kyiv during night mass Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine on Sept. 10, 2025. (Sergei Supinsky / AFP via Getty Images)

In first for NATO, Poland downs Russian drones amid mass attack on Ukraine as Putin tests Western resolve. Polish authorities temporarily closed Warsaw Chopin Airport and placed the country’s air defenses on high alert overnight on Sept. 10, following reports that Russian drones have entered Polish airspace.

Russian missile that hit government headquarters contained over 30 foreign-made parts, Ukraine says. “Compared to missiles from previous years, there are fewer components from Europe and the U.S., and more from Russia and Belarus,” presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said.

Putin told White House he plans to seize Donbas by end of 2025, Zelensky says. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow’s plans could cost “years and a million people,” or even “two or three million corpses” if Russia accelerates its offensive.

Ukraine strikes 2 Russian radar stations in occupied Crimea, intelligence says, shares footage. According to the agency, Ukrainian forces destroyed a 48Ya6-K1 Podlet low-altitude radar and an RLM-M module from the 55Zh6M Nebo-M air defense complex.

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Russian missile that hit government headquarters contained over 30 foreign-made parts, Ukraine says. “Compared to missiles from previous years, there are fewer components from Europe and the U.S., and more from Russia and Belarus,” presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said.

Russian military losses near 300,000 in 2025, Syrskyi says. “The Russian army’s losses since the beginning of the year have already reached almost 300 thousand (299,210) people,” Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi reported Sept. 9.

Explosions put 3 Russian pipelines out of service, intelligence source claims.

Three oil and gas pipelines in Russia were knocked out of service in a series of explosions on Sept. 8, a Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) source told the Kyiv Independent.

After Putin arrives in Sochi, alleged Ukrainian drone strike hits the city.

The attack may have coincided with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s working visit to the city. According to the Kremlin, Putin joined the BRICS summit online from Sochi on Sept. 8.

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Ukraine war latest: ‘Pure terrorism’ — Russian air strike kills 24 pensioners, postal service employees

At least 24 people were killed and 19 injured when Russian forces struck the frontline village of Yarova in Donetsk Oblast on Sept. 9. The bombing took place while local residents lined up to receive their pensions, local authorities reported.

Photo: Ukraine’s State Emergency Service/Telegram

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As Russian influence wanes in South Caucasus, Azerbaijan emerges as regional hegemon

As Russia is obsessed with conquering Ukraine, there is one region that is rapidly slipping out of its grip: the South Caucasus. Russia’s influence in the region is decreasing, while Azerbaijan and its main ally, Turkey, are emerging as new regional leaders.

Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images

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How the right wing in US, Europe is weaponizing murders of Ukrainian refugees

The death of Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who fled to the United States, is being exploited by right-wing figures across the U.S. and Europe to stoke fear and push racist, xenophobic policies at home.

Photo: Wikimedia

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Skyranger mobile air defense systems are heading to Ukraine — here’s what they can do

Rheinmetall will provide Ukraine with Skyranger mobile air defense systems designed to counter drones under a contract worth “hundreds of millions of euros,” CEO Armin Papperger told German broadcaster ZDF on Sept. 8.

Photo: Rheinmetall

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Human cost of Russia’s war

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,091,000 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022. The number includes 990 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

7 killed, 23 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day. Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 84 Shahed-type attack and decoy drones overnight, with air defenses downing 60.

International response

Russia’s ‘imperialist plan’ is only beginning, Merz says. “A new conflict between systems has broken out between liberal democracies and an axis of autocracies,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.

UK to fund ‘thousands‘ of long-range attack drones for Ukraine, defense minister says. The drones will be manufactured in the United Kingdom and delivered to Ukraine within the next 12 months, U.K. Defense Minister John Healey said.

Poland to close Belarus border, Lithuania to boost security amid Russia-led military drills. The Zapad-2025 (meaning “west” in Russian) drills, set to begin on Sept. 12 in Belarus and western Russia, have heightened alarm in NATO member states Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.

Trump urges EU to impose harsh tariffs on China, India to pressure Russia, FT reports. U.S. President Donald Trump made the request while dialing into a high-level meeting between senior U.S. and EU officials in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 9.

Romania, Czechia, and Hungary disband Belarusian espionage network in Europe. Romania, Czechia, and Hungary have jointly dismantled a Belarusian espionage network operating across Europe, the Czech Security and Information Service (BIS) announced on Sept. 8.

Hungary signs its biggest-ever Western gas deal with Shell, but refuses to quit Russian supply. Under the contract, Shell — the world’s biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) trader — will deliver around 200 million cubic meters (mcm) of gas annually to MVM starting in January 2026.

Boris Johnson urges Western troop presence in Ukraine as signal to Putin. “That’s the only conceivable way to move Putin from his current calculations… get him to compromise and to agree to a ceasefire,” former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.

Opinions and insights

What happens when war deniers see Ukraine for themselves

“As the Russian propaganda machine invests billions into shifting the global paradigm regarding Ukraine, politicians are becoming increasingly clueless,” Adam Sybera writes in his recent op-ed.

Photo: Stanislav Krupař / Punk Film

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In other news

School in occupied Ukraine named after son of CIA official who fought for Russia. A school in Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast has been named after Michael Gloss, the son of CIA official who was killed while fighting for Russia in its war against Ukraine, independent Russian media outlet Mediazona reported on Sept. 9.

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Hi folks, someone reported two posts from last night in my Full Movies on YouTube community. I can see those reports but I can't tell what the problem was, or who reported those posts.

I am both the poster and the Mod of that community, if that affects this at all. Any help anyone can offer on what I should do from here would be appreciated.

Hi, I would like to look for an instance primarily based on which other instances it doesn't federate with/block or whatever the term is. But clicking on the URL of a few instances, I can't find this information anywhere.

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Zionists often insist that the use of the word “genocide” to describe Israeli actions in Gaza cheapens other past crimes. Yet in both scale and in intent, Israel’s destruction of Gaza conforms closely to historic genocides.

The Genocide in Gaza and Those Who Deny It

^jacobin.com

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