China’s Salt Typhoon hacking campaign has taken on new urgency with revelations it may have compromised the data of millions of Australians. This demonstrates how cyber operations have evolved beyond merely gathering intelligence.
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The campaign by the Salt Typhoon group was assessed as a targeted espionage effort against US and allied government systems. It involved stealthy intrusions, selective data theft and probing of networks in a handful of countries. At the time, the effect was thought to be limited and largely confined to government targets.
But August 2025 disclosures have shown just how broad the campaign truly has been. The Australian Signals Directorate, working with 20 foreign partners, has publicly attributed the operation to Beijing’s Ministry of State Security and People’s Liberation Army. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation now assesses that Salt Typhoon has struck dozens of countries, sweeping up telecommunications, transport, lodging and civilian data on a massive scale.These operations may have reached virtually every Australian household and millions more across partner nations.
Cyber operations now function as tools for coercion and competition, influencing the balance of power across the Indo-Pacific. They are central to rivalry. Even as governments invest in resilience and attempt to set boundaries, the persistent tension between the United States and China ensures that new vulnerabilities and threats will continue to emerge.
The Indo-Pacific is the epicentre of 21st-century competition. China and the US vie for influence, while South Korea, India, Japan and Southeast Asian countries all face mounting digital vulnerabilities. With the digital economy of Southeast Asian nations expected to surpass US$1 trillion by 2030, growth is driving their prosperity but also compounding risk.
Chinese-sponsored hackers have been targeting critical infrastructure for a long time. Suspected Chinese hackers disrupted India’s port logistics in 2020, and repeated intrusions have targeted Japanese, South Korean and Australian energy grids, telecom systems and government networks. Cyber operations are applied to traditional hotspots—such as the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait—by threatening disruption without any shots being fired.
China’s Salt Typhoon hacking campaign has taken on new urgency with revelations it may have compromised the data of millions of Australians. This demonstrates how cyber operations have evolved beyond merely gathering intelligence. When first ...
Suspected Chinese hackers impersonated the chair of the House China Select Committee in emails to people involved in ongoing U.S.-China trade policy negotiations as part of a spying campaign, a House panel said Monday.
Why it matters: The fraudulent emails were sent to a wide range of individuals, including those at U.S. government agencies, business groups, D.C. law firms and think tanks and at least one foreign government.
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Hackers sent emails purportedly from Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) to key leaders ahead of a meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials in Sweden this summer asking for input on draft legislation.
However, the attached document, which was sent from a nongovernmental email address, was instead laced with spyware that would infect a victim's computer, according the Journal.
The FBI and Capitol Police are both investigating the emails, and the malware in the emails has been traced back to a hacking group tied to Beijing's Ministry of State Security, per WSJ.
Suspected Chinese hackers impersonated the chair of the House China Select Committee in emails to people involved in ongoing U.S.-China trade policy negotiations as part of a spying campaign, a House panel said Monday.
Why it matters: The fraudulent emails were sent to a wide range of individuals, including those at U.S. government agencies, business groups, D.C. law firms and think tanks and at least one foreign government.
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Hackers sent emails purportedly from Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) to key leaders ahead of a meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials in Sweden this summer asking for input on draft legislation.
However, the attached document, which was sent from a nongovernmental email address, was instead laced with spyware that would infect a victim's computer, according the Journal.
The FBI and Capitol Police are both investigating the emails, and the malware in the emails has been traced back to a hacking group tied to Beijing's Ministry of State Security, per WSJ.
A developer repurposed discarded disposable vapes into functioning web servers by utilizing their built-in PUYA microcontrollers1. The project runs on a 24MHz Cortex M0+ chip with 24KiB flash storage and 3KiB RAM, found inside modern rechargeable "disposable" vapes2.
The web server implementation uses uIP for TCP/IP networking and communicates via SLIP protocol through semihosting. After optimizing the data transfer with ring buffers, the server achieves 20ms ping times and 160ms page load speeds2.
The project demonstrates creative e-waste reuse at a time when disposable vapes face increasing restrictions, with recent bans enacted in Rhode Island3 and other jurisdictions. The developer notes the irony of "disposable" devices containing USB-C ports and rechargeable batteries2.
Geneva (AFP) – Cluster munitions have killed or injured more than 1,200 civilians in Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion began, a monitor said Monday, decrying "troubling setbacks" in global efforts to eradicate the weapons.
Since Russia expanded the invasion of its western neighbour in February 2022, Ukraine has registered the highest number of recorded annual cluster munition casualties worldwide, the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) said in its annual report.
Russia has used the widely-banned weapons "extensively" since the first day of the war, it said, adding that Ukraine too had used the weapons, and faces Russian accusations of deploying them inside of Russia.
At least 193 cluster munition casualties were recorded in Ukraine in 2024, out of 314 globally, the report said.
In total, more than 1,200 such casualties have been registered in Ukraine since the start of the war, most of them in 2022.
But the report stressed that the figure was surely a dramatic underestimate, pointing out that last year alone, Ukraine suffered around 40 cluster munition attacks where casualty numbers were not given.
Cluster munitions can be dropped from planes or fired from artillery before exploding in mid-air and scattering bomblets over a wide area.
They pose a lasting threat since many fail to explode on impact, effectively acting as landmines that can explode years later.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine are among the 112 states that are party to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, which prohibits the use, transfer, production and storage of cluster bombs.
The only other two countries where cluster munition attacks were registered last year -- Myanmar and Syria -- have not joined the convention either.
The United States, also not a party to the treaty, sparked outcry with its 2023 decision to transfer cluster munitions to Kyiv.
It has since transferred the weapons to Ukraine in at least seven separate shipments, CMC said.
Submunitions with Korean language markings have meanwhile been found in Ukrainian-controlled territory this year, but the report said it remained unclear if they had been used by the North Korean forces fighting alongside Russians in the war, or if they had simply been acquired from North Korea by Russia for Russian use.
At a global level, CMC also warned of "troubling setbacks" threatening efforts to establish new international norms stigmatising the use of cluster munitions.
Lithuania in March this year became the first ever country to withdraw from the treaty, six months after it announced it was leaving, citing regional security concerns.
Following that move, Lithuania, along with Poland, Latvia, Estonia and Finland, also said they would quit a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines amid concerns over "Russia's aggression".
Tamar Gabelnick, head of the Cluster Munition Coalition, decried Lithuania's departure, warning that it "undermines the norm created by the convention, with catastrophic implications for the rule of international law protecting civilians".
"We have already seen the impact this decision has had on the Mine Ban Treaty, and states should be extremely wary of a wider domino effect."
The Cuban community, which voted massively for the president in the November elections, is confronting a longstanding tradition of supporting conservative policies
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency in charge of processing immigration applications, goes around asking coworkers and neighbors whether someone is eligible for U.S. citizenship or not, in the style of the Cuban Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR).
The American government attacks the LGBTQ+ community… just like the Cuban government did in the 1960s.
Donald Trump has flirted with staying longer in the White House, in the same way in which Fidel Castro — having tasted so much power during his lifetime — decided to lead Cuba for nearly half a century. The former has already devoted efforts toward attacking opposing ideologies and freedom of expression, concepts that the latter completely nullified.
The Polish foreign ministry has revealed that Google has rejected complaints over a series of YouTube videos in Polish published by the Israeli embassy that Poland says are spreading “disinformation” about the situation in Gaza by casting doubt on reports of starvation there.
In late July and early August, the embassy posted six videos claiming that [Israel is providing large amounts of humanitarian aid](Israel is providing large amounts of humanitarian aid) to the people of Gaza, that uncritically shared by international media, and that it is the UN which is blocking aid trucks from entering.
“Google responded that the promoted materials were consistent with its policies and values”,
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Today's AI browsers and devtools, from Perplexity Comet to Firecrawl to Browserless, look human in site logs— showing up as Chrome while loading pages, ads, and solving CAPTCHAs.
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decrease in human visits
Human traffic trended downward as AI traffic volume continued to increase. This quarter, human visits decreased 9.4% across all sites on TollBit.
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increase in AI's share of website visits
AI visits rise as human visits fall. At the start of Q1, 1 out of every 200 visitors was AI. Now it is 1 in every 50, reflecting a 4x increase in the relative volume of AI visitors.
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increase in bots ignoring robots.txt
AI bots are continuing to ignore robots.txt directives this year. In Q2, 13.3% of AI bot visits bypassed robots.txt directives.
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increase in AI bot visits blocked
AI bot redirects to the TollBit Bot/Agent Paywall, have increased 360% from Q1 to Q2 2025 as websites have increasingly taken active measures to charge AI traffic.
People who care informally for sick or disabled friends and relatives often become invisible in their own lives. Focusing on the needs of those they care for,
People who care informally for sick or disabled friends and relatives often become invisible in their own lives. Focusing on the needs of those they care for,
People who care informally for sick or disabled friends and relatives often become invisible in their own lives. Focusing on the needs of those they care for,
People who care informally for sick or disabled friends and relatives often become invisible in their own lives. Focusing on the needs of those they care for,
I am looking for a small solar panel setup, ideally to be connected to the grid and reduce electricity bill. I have heard of the Ecoflow system but I would like to know if there are alternatives out there.
If anyone has experience and can recommend any products, please comment 😀
Entdecken Sie EcoFlow: Tragbare Powerstationen, Balkonkraftwerke und effiziente Energiespeicher für nachhaltige Energie zu Hause, auf dem Balkon und im Freien.
Good because: 1) Can click images with both cameras 2) Daily notifications 3) Privacy focussed 3) If you want any new feature in the app, just email the devs and they will build and ship it in 15days or less 4) FREE, No Ads even 5) Can write long Journal entries
Boring bcoz: 1) Cant chat with friends 2) cant create gifs (videos) 3) cant see friends pics. Which is a deal breaker for me
So i have currently started using DD-DigitalDiary and clicking pics with DD-DigitalDiary everytime i get a BeReal notification. Also i have kept BeReal in order to chat with girls & stuff. And see their pics since thats the only way you can see and catch up with their daily life's I mostly post black bereals. Downloaded all my 2yr old BeReal pics and put it in my HardDisk (i suggest you guys to do the same btw)
Have any of you guys switched from BeReal to DD-DigitalDiary or any other such application? Is there any other better alternatives (than DD-DigitalDiary)? NOTE: I use Android but for the community link ios, mac, linux alternatives as well if a better is available
I know many of u wont even know about DD-DigitalDiary coz it only has like 500 downloads or something, so here goes the link. DD-DigitalDiary
On a dry late August afternoon, we stood outside Silivri — the high-security prison west of Istanbul, where Ekrem İmamoğlu, the elected leader of Europe’s largest city, has been detained for months.
Behind us, Turkish civil society leaders held aloft banners; beside us were colleagues from his municipal team; and around us were a quiet but resolute crowd of supporters, including six other local leaders from large cities across Europe.
It wasn’t the visit we had planned, but it was powerful all the same.
In that moment, what struck us most wasn’t just the absence of the man we had traveled to see — and to whom national authorities had denied us access. It was the presence of his values echoing from every voice that spoke.
Hope, we realized, isn’t incarcerated by prison walls. And everything we witnessed only deepened our resolve to stand by our fellow city leaders and defend local democracy.
What we heard in Istanbul wasn’t despair but moral strength. İmamoğlu’s colleagues told us of how he remains engaged even behind bars, how he still asks about city projects and encourages his team to stay the course, insisting that the work of building a more inclusive, sustainable Istanbul continues.
::: spoiler Trying to keep a public torrent alive is hard work, but someone has to do it. ::: Back when I had VDSL and even ADSL, I'd try to hit 1.1 ratio because if everyone did that the risk of information being lost would be close to 0%. Nowadays with gigabit internet, all that prevents me from seeding is hard drive space, and 8 TB doesn't fill up quickly with how few good movies and series there are these days. I guess that's one way to stop piracy, just make fewer and worse series/movies.
"Good" is in the eye of the beholder. Have you considered that the quality hasn't changed much, but instead you've become more discerning as you age? I certainly have far less tolerance for the stupid shit I used to think was funny long ago.
Unfortunately BitTorrent clients are kinda messy and don't make it easy to maintain a long term seeding library. I've moved to qbittorrent which is a bit better than Deluge on that regard, but it's still not great.
Yeah, they are messy. I tried BiglyBT a few years back, and while I love a lot of features, I think that was overkill for sure. qBittorrent is the golden standard at the moment for sure.
That's one (of many) reason I'm glad I switched to linux, Back in windows xp days Microsoft tried limiting the amount of "half-open connections" for its users "security". But even today, some routers just aren't powerful enough to handle too many connections, and often times the cheap routers that ISP's provide are limited on purpose either by custom firmware or just by hardware limitations.
That was fun back in the day when movie studios blamed piracy for their movie performing badly, so someone checked and their movie was barely present or downloaded on the high seas.
Yeah. Normal people have about 100tb of total space. My 96tb (64tb usable) of space is completely average and not at all an indicator of something being wrong or abnormal.
Meta's legal defense was that they limited seeding to a minimal value as a precaution when they pirated terabytes of books. Of course, I don't expect the same ruling would be granted to an individual... Shit is fucked.
Has the law in any jurisdiction determined that sharing some small fraction of bits is equivalent to sharing an entire series of bits? And how do they determine that? Like I’m sending 1s and 0s right now. Is that a violation?
But there must be some kind of burden of proof, right? If I leech 0.001% of a file, have I really pirated that file? If yes, then how small does the amount go? If no, then how large does it go? Or if they have to prove intent, well then that can go to trial…
One of the few latin expression I memorized, because that's how the Catholic Church calls it since that's their recommended "contraception" method, all of which I find hilarious.
It's a shame Usenet has become fully paid. It's what ultimately pushed me into torrents. And the fact that small communities don't have all the content out there for you to download via Usenet.
Personally I enjoy seeing the numbers go up. Looking at the current top ten by ratio according to my torrent client most of them are obscure things that I'm probably the only one seeding — but the number one spot, at a ratio of 565, goes to "Shrek (2001) [1080p]".
I used to seed in the old days, but I feel it has become more complicated now.
The primary issue (before eg.: CGNAT or port-opening issues) is it's become more and more often the case that I post-process what I download before use (rename / reencode music albums, reencode movies) so it makes little sense to keep the old files only for seeding. In theory a "seedbox" (those are the trendy thing this decade, right?) would help solve this, but I'm still rather new and have not found any FOSS, PII-free offerings in the market.
Exactly the situation I'm facing. Despite torrents being a popular choice, it just doesn't provide an easy way to manage your seeds.
Of course I have found some potential solutions. Seedbox is one of them. There's also the *arr suite, which is a more local solution that utilises hard links - but im not sure if it'll be effective if you want to reencode.
I used to seed everything religiously. Then I joined some private trackers, and suddenly I felt like I needed to conserve all that upload bandwidth for torrents on private trackers. Humans kinda suck. I still seed plenty, tho:
Unfortunately my VPN provider doesn't support Port Forwarding (they're great in everything else, but suck on this) so if I just start seeding from scratch no peers will ever manage to connect to my machine. The only way I can contribute back to the community is when a Download session ends and starts seeding (basically all those peers that my machine checked during the download stage get recorded in the VPN's Router NAT as associated with my machine so if they try to connect to my machine later, for example to download a block, they get through), so my torrents are just left to seed after downloading (if I stop it and start seeding later, it might not work anymore depending on how long has passed).
Fortunatelly I have a fast internet connection and torrenting is done in a server machine, so I just leave it setup to a 2:1 seeding ratio for as long as it takes to get there and pretty much all torrents I download reach that seeding ratio (it pretty much only fails to reach that on really obscure torrents with very small swarms).
I've been sailing the high seas for over 3 decades and long ago saw the importance of doing my bit to keep the whole ecosystem alive.
So I might not be seeding everything I have (and as it's been 3 decades, I do have some stuff which is now very obscure), but everything I get from the community I seed 2x as much so that others can get it too.
In today's hyper-connected world, your digital footprint isn't just a nice-to-have—it's your business lifeline. Whether you're a startup founder with a game-changing idea or an established business looking to expand your reach, the question isn't whether you need a strong online presence, but how quickly you can build one that truly represents your brand. The Story Behind Every Great Website At TECHWEBBIZ, we've witnessed countless digital transformations, and here's what we've learned: every successful online presence starts with a story. Not just any story, but your story—the one that makes visitors stop scrolling and start caring. Think about the last website that genuinely impressed you. Chances are, it wasn't just the sleek design or the fancy animations that caught your attention. It was how the content spoke directly to you, how every element felt intentional, and how the entire experience made you feel understood. The Content-Website Connection: A Perfect Partnership Here's something many businesses get wrong: they treat content and web design as separate entities. In reality, they're dance partners, and when they move in harmony, magic happens. Great content without great design is like having a brilliant conversation in a noisy, chaotic room—your message gets lost. Great design without great content is like having a beautiful empty storefront—people might look, but they won't stay or buy. The sweet spot? When compelling storytelling meets intuitive design. When your words flow seamlessly with your visuals. When every page feels like a natural continuation of your brand's conversation with the world. What Makes Content "Killer"? We use the term "killer content" often, but what does it actually mean? It's content that:
Solves real problems before your audience even realizes they have them Speaks human instead of hiding behind industry jargon Tells stories that resonate on an emotional level Provides value whether someone buys from you or not Reflects your authentic voice in every single word
The best content doesn't just inform—it transforms. It turns visitors into followers, followers into customers, and customers into advocates who can't stop talking about their experience with your brand. Websites That Wow: Beyond the Surface A website that truly wows goes deeper than stunning visuals. It's about creating an experience that feels effortless for your visitors while being incredibly strategic behind the scenes. Consider these elements that separate good websites from great ones: User Journey Mapping: Every click should feel natural and purposeful. We design pathways that guide visitors exactly where they need to go, when they need to go there. Mobile-First Thinking: With mobile traffic dominating the web, your site needs to be exceptional on every screen size. Not just functional—exceptional. Speed and Performance: In a world where attention spans are measured in seconds, every millisecond of load time matters. Fast websites don't just rank better; they convert better. Accessibility: Great design is inclusive design. When your website works for everyone, it works better for everyone. The Digital Dreams We Love Bringing to Life Every project we take on starts with a dream. Sometimes it's a entrepreneur's vision of disrupting an entire industry. Other times it's a local business owner who wants to reach customers beyond their neighborhood. What excites us most is the moment when strategy meets creativity, when technical expertise meets storytelling prowess, and when your vision starts taking shape in the digital world. We've helped fashion brands tell their sustainability stories, tech startups explain complex solutions in simple terms, restaurants make mouths water through screens, and service providers build trust before the first handshake. Your Digital Transformation Starts With a Conversation Here's what we've learned after creating countless websites and crafting thousands of pieces of content: the best digital presences aren't built on templates or trends. They're built on understanding. Understanding your audience's pain points. Understanding your unique value proposition. Understanding how to bridge the gap between where your business is now and where it wants to be. Ready to Make It Happen? Your digital dreams don't have to stay dreams. Whether you're starting from scratch or ready to take your existing online presence to the next level, the journey begins with a single step: deciding you're ready for change. The digital landscape is constantly evolving, but one thing remains constant: authentic brands with compelling stories and exceptional user experiences will always rise above the noise. At TECHWEBBIZ, we're not just creating websites and content—we're building bridges between your vision and your audience's needs. We're crafting digital experiences that don't just look good in portfolios but actually move the needle for your business. Because at the end of the day, that's what matters most: not just having a presence online, but having a presence that makes a difference.
Nell’alberata vastità dell’oblast di Irkutsk, situato a nord-ovest del bacino idrico del lago Baikal, molte sono le notevoli località capaci di passare inosservate.
It is not only about closing branches, or sacking workers, or making efficiency improvements through the use of clever algorithms, such as artificial intelligence. This is about one of the pillars of the community, our banks – which provide jobs and safeguard our savings, and help small businesses start and succeed – abandoning their traditional role of serving the community to become profit machines.
I'm posting this mainly to remind everyone member owned banks exist - P&N/BCU - VicBank - Great Southern Bank - Police Bank - Bank Australia - People First Bank and quite a few others
I have nothing but praise for the customer service of P&N. Services and rates are comparable if not better than the big banks.
Corporate banks have boars elected by investors and are motivated to skim as much of your money as possible. Member elected boards are elected by you and are motivated to provide a good service.
Australia’s school funding system is unfair and inefficient, entrenching inequality. The article calls for a new model where all schools are publicly funded without fees.
Australia now has one of the most socially segregated school systems. More than 80% of students from disadvantaged families attend public schools, compared with just 12% in Catholic schools and 8% in independent schools.
Thirty years later, the negative consequences of this model are clear. It is seriously undermining our public school system, dividing communities and costing far more than it needs to. It entrenches inequality, yet survives because every reform attempt meets fierce resistance.
Yet there was little difference in educational outcomes such as VCE results and NAPLAN scores. Admittedly, these are not the only desirable outcomes — Carey may offer more extra-curricular activities — but questions arise about the relative efficiency of the two schools, as well as whether parents are truly getting value for money.
Countries that perform better on international tests — such as Canada, the UK, Ireland and New Zealand — offer choice within a publicly funded system. Schools may have distinct features, but they cannot charge fees. This keeps performance gaps smaller and prevents segregation by class.
Australia could adopt a similar model. Both levels of government would develop a common formula, based on a revised SRS[Schooling Resource Standard], to fully fund all schools – government and non-government. Schools could retain their ethos but would not be allowed to charge fees. Most private schools already receive close to or above 80% of the SRS, so the additional cost would be less than many assume.
Such reform would not abolish choice; it would simply make choice affordable and equitable. As in the UK and Canada, only a small minority of schools would remain outside the system.
In 2021, an audience member asked Kirk at what point conservatives had the green light to use guns on their political opponents, and while Kirk took care to at first “denounce” the question, he went into a longer answer that suggested he didn’t really disagree that much with its premise. Kirk’s sole objection to the idea, he explained, was that it was strategically foolish because it would create a pretext for a Democratic crackdown on the Right. He went on to suggest that the line for when it would be okay to take up arms and hurt people would be “when we exhaust every single one of our state[’s] ability to push back against what’s happening” — in other words, if his movement didn’t succeed through the normal political process. Two years later, he reiterated this, warning listeners that “you have a government that hates you, you have a traitor as the president,” so they should “buy weapons” and carry them around all the time in public in case they have to fight back.
The murder of Charlie Kirk was a moral travesty. We can recognize that without ignoring that he repeatedly fanned the flames of political violence himself.
My mullvad sub is about to expire, so I'm deciding whether to just pre-pay for another year or switch to something else. I typically just use it for blanket protection when using my computer or phone, but have been thinking I might like to set up a torrent box proxied through a VPN, too. (I have kids, so I may not have time for this for a while, tbh.)
My general understanding is that people like mullvad and also like ProtonVPN. Any general suggestions/thoughts?
Recent news revealed that Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has been investing heavily in military tech companies, which adds another ethical layer to a platform already criticized for how little it pays musicians !
Spotify only pays artists about $3–5 per 1,000 streams, using a pro-rata model that directs most money toward major stars... By contrast, Qobuz (≈$18–20 per 1,000 streams) and Tidal (≈$12–13) pay far more fairly!
However Tidal is far from ethical. Most of its revenue is controlled by private investors and founders and small artists still earn very little...
More fair-minded platforms like Bandcamp, Resonate, Ampled, or SoundCloud’s fan-powered royalties prioritize musicians over investors.
With these more ethical alternatives available, why do we keep using Spotify?
Stasera scopro un’altra storia incredibile, grazie alla solita piattaforma attraverso la quale Google esercita il proprio monopolio sul settore dei video online, e ancora una volta non capisco come mai non ne fossi al corrente prima! Spoiler, ma il tutto si condensa in… una bambina di 11 anni che, nella sempre ridente e senza problemi […]
Nevada-tan; o, propriamente, Natsumi Tsuji. Oh, il Giappone è pazzo, a parte gli scherzi, ma questo è troppo pure per loro… e infatti all’epoca, nel 2004, questo omicidio pare sia diventato subito un caso mediatico (mondiale, dicono, e quindi a maggior ragione non capisco perché lo scopro solo 21 anni dopo), oltre che un meme sullo stesso Internet che in parte ha portato al verificarsi del fenomeno, perché… Chi ha curiosità guardi il video, anche perché è pieno di tutti quei dettagli macabri intriganti che io non ho il tempo e lo spazio di ripetere qui, ma praticamente questa dolcissima bimba ha iniziato a infognarsi con la cultura horror giapponese del suo tempo, dopo che la madre la mise in punizione (di non uscire di casa se non per andare a scuola) perché a suo dire pensava troppo allo sport e poco allo studio, e quindi lei ha scoperto Internet per svagarsi… e ops. 🧨
Appassionandosi soprattutto a film del genere — che, anche questi, non ho mai sentito — tra cui un certo The Monday Night Mystery Theater, dove la gente che muore lì dentro viene uccisa con dei taglierini (e ancora non ho idea di che cazzo abbiano i giapponesi per i taglierini, onestamente… cioè, io condivido, ma non capisco da dove nasca questa fissazione), evidentemente ne prende grande ispirazione, perché è proprio così che ha deciso di ammazzare la compagna… L’ha portata in un’aula isolata, fingendo di avere un regalo per scusarsi, l’ha fatta bendare, e le ha tagliato la gola e i polsi!!! 💉
Una cosa bella è che nei momenti migliori del video ho riso… e oddio, non è poi troppo assurda per i miei standard, considerato che rido pure quando sono io a fare gli omicidi con il taglierino o il cacciavite giocando a Yandere Simulator, ma in effetti questa qui è molto me-coded, e mi rendo conto che io alla sua età non diventai un caso di cronaca solo perché, pur incazzandomi tale e quale a lei se non pure peggio sul momento, le cose mi passavano relativamente subito, e non avevo modo di accumulare abbastanza rancore per pianificare omicidi (ma le tendenze omicide le avevo, pur senza guardare horror o girare in parti di Internet strambe…) 😀
Però, oh, una nota di merito le deve essere data, e dovrebbe tecnicamente essere di conseguenza data anche a me della sua età, perché una delle cose che faceva sull’Internet fu di tenere un sito, a 11 anni… sul quale in realtà non si riesce a capire molto, perché il video dice che era un blog, ma cercando pare fosse un sito più generico, che in sé però non si trova più, probabilmente perché fu stato rimosso ai tempi del caso dalla piattaforma di hosting. Lì scriveva un po’ delle sue passioni, e un po’ della sua vita più in generale tra cui la scuola… un po’ come me, ma io inizialmente avevo solo le passioni, con me il postaggio totalizzante è arrivato più tardi. 👌
E ora, questa del sito sarebbe certamente una questione secondaria interessante da esplorare… Però, brava brava, anche perché immagino che creare i bloghetti nel 2004 non fosse facile quanto lo è stato per me nel 2015… anche se, pare che lei fosse particolarmente intelligente, seppur con (…o grazie a?) dei disturbi mentali, quindi vabbè, le sarà venuto relativamente naturale e richiedente poco impegno lo smanettare sul computer. (E menomale che io alla sua età facevo solo i siti, e non i piani… ma forse fu anche perché si sapeva che io avevo dei problemi, a differenza di lei, quindi la minaccia genitoriale del riformatorio era spesso dietro l’angolo.) ✨
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio was greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, shortly after he arrived in Israel to discuss diplomacy in the region and the war in Gaza.
Netanyahu touted the enduring alliance between their two countries, even as Israel’s strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar this past week prompted concern among some in the Trump administration.
Farmiga is a farming simulator for the Commodore Amiga. Yes, you read that right. Somebody made Stardew Valley for your A500.
It started out in AMOS, which made for a clunky, memory-hungry, not exactly smooth experience. Then the dev—Paweł “tukinem” Tukatsch—rewrote the whole thing so it would actually run on real hardware without crying for 1.5 MB of RAM. Now it works on OCS, ECS, or AGA with Kickstart 1.2. Around 500k plus a bit of extra RAM gets you farming. A full MB if you want music.
The alpha is on itch.io as a bootable ADF. You can plant veggies, harvest crops, slap down fences, pay taxes, and wander into a shop. If that’s too boring, you can just make moonshine.
There are mini-games. The “cow” one shows up again here, though right now you have to trigger them yourself with F1–F3. Event triggers are still cooking.
It runs entirely on mouse. Menus, credits, save slots—it’s all point-and-click. Feels more polished than you’d expect from something still branded “tech demo.”
Polish was the first language, but English and German are already built in. The music comes from Marcin “Eightbm” Białobrzewski, who handles sound on a lot of Tukinem’s projects.
Older builds were rough. This one feels like if Maxis had secretly made SimFarm for the Amiga in the early ’90s. And yeah, wild-boar shooting and milk delivery were in earlier previews, so expect them to return.
It’s weird and charming. It’s farming on a machine never meant to farm. Boot the ADF—less than a megabyte—and watch crops grow on your A500.
Farmiga. Farm + Amiga. Simple and dumb. Which is exactly why it works.
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Siamo abituati a pensarla con la classica buccia d'arancia a levare il sonno alle donne, ma di contro, la riteniamo,per il gentil sesso sopratutto, innocua. Ma siamo così sicuri che la cellulite sia innocua e sia solo un disagio estetico? Leggete l'articolo e ne scoprirete delle belle!
The question raised by the Target boycott is: Can Black people expect corporate America to ever do the right thing? by Erin Aubry KaplanSeptember 12, 2025 This article was produced by the nonprofit publication Capital & Main.
The falling cost of renewable energy, though, means that many countries, particularly poorer ones, have a strong incentive to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels.
According to Ember’s report, the falling costs of energy produced by Chinese-made wind and solar installations have allowed countries like Mexico, Bangladesh and Malaysia to race past the United States in recent years in terms of using renewably produced electricity (rather than fossil fuels) in everyday activities like heating and cooling buildings or powering vehicles.
Across Africa, solar panel imports from China rose 60 percent in the last 12 months, and 20 African countries imported a record amount over that period, Ember said in a separate study recently.
American companies, who do not make solar panels or wind turbines at anywhere near the scale of Chinese ones, are at a major disadvantage. Chinese companies now supply 80 percent of solar panels and 60 percent of wind turbines worldwide, Ember said.
China has pushed for dominance in renewable energy partly for economic reasons and also to protect its national security by limiting its reliance on oil imports. But the implications for the planet’s health could scarcely be greater. Scientific consensus has long been that a sharp decline in fossil fuel use is the surest way to lessen the pace of climate change.
Da piccoli la prima cosa che facciamo per muoverci è gattonare e poi correre, perchè? Non ne ho idea, ma è una attività che i muscoli sanno fare fin da subito, perchè lo sanno fare. E la cosa interessante è che se non viene stimolata si va a perdere. Quindi se verso i 30 anni si vuole ricominciare a corre bisogna reimparare a correre. Attività semplice ma bisogna anche saper correre bene. Non dico forte ma solo bene per evitare infortuni e star bene con se stessi! Buone corse ci sentiamo a fine mese!
The Trump administration has already added nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies for oil, gas, and coal in 2025, a report released Tuesday finds, sending an additional $4 billion out the door each year for fossil fuels over the next decade. That new amount, created with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act this summer, adds to $30.8 billion a year in preexisting subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. The report finds that the amount of public money the U.S. will now spend on domestic fossil fuels stands at at least $34.8 billion a year.
The increase amounts to “the largest single-year increase in subsidies we’ve seen in many years — at least since 2017,” says Collin Rees, the U.S. program manager for Oil Change International, an anti-fossil fuels advocacy organization and author of the report.
The U.S. has been subsidizing fossil fuel production for more than a century. Many of the tax subsidies logged in the report — including a tax break passed in 1913 that allows companies to write off large amounts of expenses related to drilling new oil wells — have been on the books for decades.
Fossil fuel subsidies have proven notoriously difficult to undo, even with a determined administration. After campaigning on ending tax breaks for Big Oil, President Joe Biden’s 2021 budget pledged to raise $35 billion over 19 years by eliminating certain fossil fuel subsidies; one of his first executive orders tasked agencies with getting rid of those subsidies. (“I don’t think the federal government should give handouts to Big Oil,” he at a press conference announcing the order.)
But the phaseouts of these subsidies were nixed during climate legislation negotiations with then-senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who was the key swing vote in the Senate at the time and a recipient of fossil fuel money with lengthy ties to the coal industry. Meanwhile, the Inflation Reduction Act — the resulting compromise between Manchin and Democratic leadership, which was passed in August of 2022 — gave additional boosts to the fossil fuel industry in the form of subsidies for oil-and-gas-friendly technologies, like carbon capture and storage and certain types of hydrogen made with natural gas.
“What happens is you have these policies in place, and then you have a constituency that strongly advocates and lobbies for them, it becomes harder and harder to unwind them, which I think is the situation that we’re in today,” says Matthew Kotchen, a professor of economics at Yale University, who was not involved in the new analysis.
That cycle is continuing in the new administration. Fossil fuel companies spent millions of dollars getting Trump elected last year; one report from the advocacy group Climate Power puts the total number at $445 million. Those companies are seeing benefits as the administration pursues an aggressive deregulatory agenda, hobbles renewable energy projects, and downplays the importance of climate change. The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the president has taken to calling oil CEOs following their appearances on TV.
“It’s no secret that Trump and the Republicans are on the side of the fossil fuel industry and very much vice versa,” says Rees. “The fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars getting Republicans and Trump elected. They then presented their wish lists. Nearly everything on those wish lists was fulfilled, and in fact, they got a bunch of additional goodies that weren’t even in those wish lists.”
The new research builds on past work from Oil Change International, which last did the math on national fossil fuel subsidies in 2017, finding then that $20 billion was going out the door to the industry each year. To compile the new report, Rees and his colleagues combed through a variety of federal governmental sources on the amount of money going to the oil, gas, and coal industries each year.
The question of what, exactly, constitutes a federal subsidy is the topic of some debate. Environmental groups tend to have a broader scope in tallying up public money spent on fossil fuels, including federal money not distributed directly to oil companies. Conservative groups, meanwhile, take a much narrower approach. (For its report, Oil Change International used the definitions of subsidies set by the World Trade Organization in calculating domestic funding to fossil fuels.)
Due to a lack of transparency across the federal government, the calculations in this report are “likely to be an undercount,” Rees says. “There’s probably some things that we missed — some corners of the budget that are funding fossil fuels in different ways.”
The $4 billion in new yearly subsidies comes largely in the form of allocations contained in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed this summer. One of the biggest new subsidies — an expansion of the tax credit for carbon capture and storage — is, ironically, related to provisions from the Inflation Reduction Act, which President Trump campaigned on reversing. (The One Big Beautiful Bill Act did, however, crack down harshly on tax credits for wind and solar, carrying out part of Trump’s campaign promise.)
Carbon capture and storage is the process of capturing CO2 emissions and injecting them deep underground. The oil and gas industry has for decades injected CO2 underground to help recover difficult reserves that don’t respond well to traditional drilling methods. Environmentalists have long argued that the logic of replicating an oil and gas technique as a climate solution is seriously flawed — especially considering that a company could reap a climate tax credit from injecting CO2 that will then be used to create more fossil fuels.
In the original Inflation Reduction Act, which significantly expanded the existing carbon capture tax credit, there was a price differential baked into the tax credits: Producers got more money per ton of CO2 they sequestered underground without any oil production involved, and less for CO2 used specifically to produce more oil and gas. But the One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated this differential, allowing producers to collect on the full credit even if they are using CO2 to produce more fossil fuels. The total expansion of tax credits for carbon capture in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the analysis found, could send out more than $1.4 billion of public money to oil and gas companies each year.
The types of federal subsidies addressed in this report are just one kind of boost the government gives dirty industries. The analysis does not address state and local tax breaks for fossil fuel companies, nor does it add up international financing from publicly funded U.S. entities to overseas fossil fuel companies and projects. (Just before he left office, President Biden backed a limit on funding for dirty investments made by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, a part of the executive branch that facilitates the export of U.S. goods and services. President Trump promptly encouraged the Bank in April to resume funding for coal projects abroad.)
The fossil fuel industry also benefits financially from not having to address the negative side effects of their products: Coal companies don’t have to deal with the health impacts from people breathing polluted air, for example, while oil and gas companies don’t need to think about damages from extreme weather juiced up by climate change caused by their product. Kotchen, the Yale economist, calculated in a 2021 paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that a small handful of U.S. oil, gas, coal, and diesel giants, by not having to pay for the damage they cause, get $62 billion in what he calls “implicit subsidies” per year.
I asked him if, given the major environmental rollbacks overseen by the Trump administration, he’d expect that figure to increase if he redid his analysis in 2025. “The environmental externalities are higher, and production has gone up,” he says. “I think [the number] would be a lot higher.”
US President Donald Trump has urged the Export-Import Bank of the United States to slash red tape and boost financing for the country’s coal industry, signalling a dramatic departure in White House energy policy.
Proton, l'azienda che gestisce il servizio di posta elettronica Proton Mail, si descrive come un "rifugio neutrale e sicuro per i tuoi dati personali, impegnato a difendere la tua libertà".
Ma il mese scorso, Proton ha disattivato gli account di posta elettronica di giornalisti che denunciavano violazioni della sicurezza di vari sistemi informatici del governo sudcoreano, a seguito di una denuncia da parte di un'agenzia di sicurezza informatica non meglio specificata. Dopo una protesta pubblica e diverse settimane, gli account dei giornalisti sono stati finalmente ripristinati, ma i giornalisti e i redattori coinvolti vogliono ancora sapere come e perché Proton abbia deciso di chiudere gli account.
Proton, l'azienda che gestisce il servizio di posta elettronica Proton Mail, si descrive come un "rifugio neutrale e sicuro per i tuoi dati personali, impegnato a difendere la tua libertà".
Ma il mese scorso, Proton ha disattivato gli account di posta elettronica di giornalisti che denunciavano violazioni della sicurezza di vari sistemi informatici del governo sudcoreano, a seguito di una denuncia da parte di un'agenzia di sicurezza informatica non meglio specificata. Dopo una protesta pubblica e diverse settimane, gli account dei giornalisti sono stati finalmente ripristinati, ma i giornalisti e i redattori coinvolti vogliono ancora sapere come e perché Proton abbia deciso di chiudere gli account.
Storia, come sempre, complessa e non di facile comprensione soprattutto senza sapere esattamente come stanno le cose. Certo è che Proton dovrebbe essere più trasparente su cose come questa:
> Proton did not publicly specify which CERT had alerted them, and didn’t answer The Intercept’s request for the name of the specific CERT which had sent the alert. KrCERT also did not reply to The Intercept’s question about whether they were the CERT that had sent the alert to Proton.
Artists, designers, futurists, environmentalists, and dreamers are invited to make submissions for a Digital Art Exhibition for the forthcoming ‘Southeast Asian Solarpunk Art Project’ on 4 October 2025.
The call is organised by EnergyLab Asia, a non-profit driving Cambodia’s energy transition, in collaboration with Micro Galleries (a global art collective), Sambor Village hotel in Kampong Thom and Seapunk Studios (a network of creatives around Southeast Asia).
The open call invites artists, designers, and creatives from across Southeast Asia to submit digital artwork for an exhibition to be held at F3 – Friends Futures Factory in Phnom Penh on 4 October as part of Clean Energy Week.
The project seeks to inspire a hopeful, sustainable future through art, countering climate pessimism and empowering local communities.
The proposals should be for digital artworks that envision a sustainable, hopeful future rooted in local culture and community resilience. Solarpunk is a literary and artistic movement, close to the hopepunk movement, that envisions and works toward actualising a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. The ‘solar’ represents renewable energy and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism, while the ‘punk’ refers to do-it-yourself and the countercultural, post-capitalist, and sometimes decolonial aspects of creating such a future.
Artists retain full copyright, and printing costs for the exhibition will be covered by the organisers. Works may be toured or shown online in the future, powered by Microgalleries. Eligibility
Artists of any medium and career level, primarily from Southeast Asia can apply.
Their resources may be limited but that's good they offer accommodation. I assume you're referring to the residency. This is just an open call for artists to submit art.
I found a way where you can encode words using English words, in binary, without using any computer programs. (Its very rudimentary)
Bit One: If first letter is between a-m = 0; n-z =1 Bit Two: If the length of the word is even its 0, if odd 1 Bit Three: If the word ends with a-m =0; n-z =1
Exclude all article words like "the" "or" "and", etc...
the extra (s) for plural is counted for the odd and even, but doesn't count as the final letter of the word (otherwise it would trend towards the (1) bit as every 3 bits apart)
Example of a sentence of hidden info:
::: spoiler Wall of Text Warning. Its a full worksheet and calculations of how to form the steganograph/ciphertext. The kitten explores the icecream shop, many undetermined flavor of tasteful extra-ordinary strawberrys
characters in [] are excluded
[the] kitten explore [s]k = 0 even = 0 n = 1 e = 0 even = 0 (remember, "s" counts for parity (even/odd) but not as the final letter of the word) e = 0 Result = 001000
[the] icecream shop i = 0 even = 0 m = 0 s = 1 even = 0 p = 1 Result = 000101
many undetermined m = 0 even = 0 y = 1 u = 1 even = 0 d = 0 Result: 001100
flavor [of] tasteful f = 0 even = 0 r = 1 t = 1 even = 0 l = 0 Result = 001100
extra[-]ordinary strawberry [s]e = 0 even = 0 (the hypen counts as a letter) y = 1 s = 1 odd = 1 y = 1 Result= 001111
(I hope I encoded this correctly, I always fuck up with ciphers)
Also, you can use other ciphers on top of this steganograph to scramble it even more, like FourSquare Cipher. Or OneTimePad if its less "piracy" and more "revolutionary" (I mean don't use a caesar cipher if you are doing a rebellion lmao)
And write it as a free-verse poem to hide the awkward language.
What's the government gonna do? Ban Literature? (Inb4 Fahrenheit 451 lol) :::
The article is interesting, but they really went hard with the title just to only talk about it for like two sentences. I was hoping for more since it seems like a pretty fun topic.
Kami
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