Obamacare subsidies expire this month. Many Republicans are shrugging.
Obamacare premiums are set to spike for tens of millions of Americans next month. Plenty of rank-and-file Republicans are happy to sit back and ride it out.
Some vulnerable GOP lawmakers up for reelection are scrambling for a last-minute fix to renew the enhanced federal health care subsidies keeping costs down. But even if party leaders and Donald Trump were to rally around a plan in the coming days — and there’s no sign of that happening — many conservatives are likely to revolt.
Democrats have vowed to hammer the GOP in the midterms if they allow the federal aid to expire, but many on the right expect the political fallout to be minimal, or even to backfire on Democrats. For other conservatives, any blowback will be worth it if it means they get to rein in a system the party has fundamentally opposed since its launch more than a decade ago.
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Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure
Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure
Hundreds of Porsche cars across Russia have shut down after a Vehicle Tracking System failure caused engine lockouts. Here’s what happened, which models are affected, and what owners can do next.Jeet Patel (Head Lines Monitor)
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Leaked memo reveals US veterans affairs officials vetting non-citizen workers
Exclusive: Compilation of data to be shared with ‘appropriate agencies’ prompts fears of immigration crackdown
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is in the process of creating an urgent and massive new internal database of non-US citizens who are “employed or affiliated” with the government department, a sensitive memo leaked to the Guardian has revealed – prompting alarm within the sprawling agency over a potential immigration crackdown.
A VA spokesperson confirmed to the Guardian that the department would share some of the data it is now gathering with other federal agencies, including for immigration enforcement purposes.
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Anthropic makes first acquisition with purchase of Bun to accelerate Claude Code
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic PBC today announced it had made its first acquisition in acquiring developer tools startup Bun for an undisclosed price.
Founded in 2019, Bun offers an all-in-one JavaScript/TypeScript toolkit that aims to simplify and accelerate full-stack development. The company’s offering is similar in purpose to Node.js but also includes tools developers usually pull in separately, including a package manager, a bundler, a test runner and script runner, all shipped as a single executable.
Bun is built using the Zig programming language and leverages Apple’s JavaScriptCore under the hood to yield much faster startup times and lower memory usage compared with runtimes based on the V8 engine, the engine used by Node.js and others. Bun is often significantly faster in key developer workflows, such as package installation, build/bundling, test execution and runtime, making it appealing to Anthropic.
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Republican Matt Van Epps holds deep-red House district in Tennessee special election
Republican Matt Van Epps has won a hotly contested special election for a deep-red congressional seat in Tennessee, NBC News projects, seeing off a Democratic challenge for the longtime GOP district.
Though Donald Trump carried the 7th Congressional District by 22 points in 2024, Republican super PACs poured millions into defending the seat as Van Epps faced off against Aftyn Behn, a Democratic state representative. Democrats spent almost as much trying to capture it, as Trump’s political standing has taken a hit this year and the Democratic Party made gains in November elections in New Jersey, Virginia and other states.
But Democrats did significantly cut the GOP margin in the district from just a year ago. With most of the expected vote counted, Van Epps had a 9-point districtwide lead. It continues a pattern of Democrats making big gains in elections this year compared to the 2024 results.
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GTA home sales down nearly 16% in November as prices, new listings fall
GTA home sales down nearly 16% in November as prices, new listings fall
Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says buyers were held back by a lack of confidence in their long-term employment outlookSammy Hudes (The Globe and Mail)
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Zig quits GitHub, gripes about Microsoft's AI obsession
Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
: Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eonsThomas Claburn (The Register)
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December Quiz Questions
Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As always, they’re designed to be difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so have a bit of fun.
British History
- In what year was the Battle of Culloden?
- How many monarchs reigned during the 19th century?
- Who, in 1835, produced durable silver chloride camera negatives on paper and conceived the two-step negative-positive procedure used in most non-electronic photography up to the present?
- Charles Dodgson is remembered as an early photographer, but what else is he famous for?
- In what year was slavery abolished in the British empire?
- What links playing cards in 1588; windows in 1696; candles in 1709; wallpaper in 1712?
Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.
How to deterministically remove crit/attack-suffix from helmet?
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is there a way to deterministically remove the "socketed attacks have +1 to critical strike"-suffix on this Archdemon Crown?
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My first though was harvest add/remove attack, but it doesn't work on influenced items. I don't see a deterministic way to remove it, sorry.
Here is the item if someone wants to play around in CraftofExile emulator.
Rarity: Rare
Crafted Item
Praetor Crown
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Armour: 329 - 377
Energy Shield: 104 - 119
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Int: 91
Level: 68
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9% increased Stun and Block Recovery
Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 25 Trap And Mine Damage
33% increased Mine Damage
Socketed Gems are Supported by Level 25 Burning Damage
32% increased Burning Damage
Socketed Attacks have +1% to Critical Strike Chance
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World's first mobile quantum brain scanner being developed to measure blast effects on troops
World's first mobile quantum brain scanner being developed to measure blast effects on troops
Government provides £3.1m for transformational tech which will assess how blast exposure from weapons training affects the brain to better protect personnel.Cyber & Specialist Operations Command (GOV.UK)
Advent Calendar 3
Advent Calendar
Zen Mischief Photographs
This year for our Advent Calendar we have a selection of my photographs from recent years. They may not be technically the best, or the most recent, but they’re ones which, for various reasons, I rather like.
© Keith C Marshall, 2013
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Lower Dens - Escape From Evil (2015)
Hanno giocato bene le loro carte, i Lower Dens di Jana Hunter, alimentando mese dopo mese le attese per quello che è a tutti gli effetti il terzo album in studio, Escape From Evil. Accantonata l’ormai decennale esperienza solista/freak-folk iniziata a metà anni Zero, con l’appoggio di un Devendra Banhart all’epoca... Leggi e ascolta...
Lower Dens - Escape From Evil (2015)
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Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted”
Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” - /var/log/simon
Claimed end-to-end privacy doesn’t fully conceal your rear-end datavarlogsimon.leaflet.pub
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Japanese game developers face ridiculously high font license fees(increase from $380 to $20K) following US acquisition of major domestic provider. Live-service games to take the biggest blow
Japanese game developers face ridiculously high font license fees following US acquisition of major domest ...
A change in license plans has made it up to 50 times more expensive for Japanese game developers to use commercial fonts in their games and apps.Amber V (AUTOMATON WEST)
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A Peek At Piefed
Paige and Victor get into the weeds with Rimu the creator of Piefed. What is the secret to Piefed's rapid development and what direction is is Piefed rapidly developing?
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Private Tech Companies, the State, and the New Character of War
The war in Ukraine is forcing conflict analysts and others to reimagine traditional state-centric models of war, as it demonstrates that militaries are no longer primarily responsible for defining the challenges of the modern battlespace and then producing tenders for technological fixes. Instead, private tech companies increasingly explain the ideal battlespace to militaries, offering software and hardware products needed to establish real-time information edges. In the Russia-Ukraine war, private companies have sought to shape Ukrainian intelligence requirements. At the beginning of Russia’s invasion in February 2022, Ukraine’s armed forces could not manage essential intelligence tasks. Ukraine’s military lacked its own software and hardware for real-time information dominance and instead accepted support from private tech companies. These companies provide AI and big data tools that fuse intelligence and surveillance data to enhance the military’s situational awareness. As the war has progressed, however, the Ukrainians have sought to develop their own government situational awareness and battle management platform called Delta. The platform was developed as a bottom-up solution, “initially focused on a single, highly effective application: a digital map for situational awareness.”2 Over time, it expanded into a robust software ecosystem used by most of Ukraine’s military, from frontline soldiers to top commanders. This in part reflects Ukraine’s desire to retain direct sovereign control over what the U.S. military refers to as Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control infrastructure (CJADC2), which manages networked sensors, data, platforms, and operations to deliver information advantages across all military services and with allies.
Mass surveillance and social media now generate huge amounts of data during war. At the same time, the widespread availability of the smartphone means civilians carry around advanced sensors that can broadcast data more quickly than the armed forces themselves.4 This enables civilians to provide intelligence to the armed forces in ways that were not previously possible.5 Matthew Ford and Andrew Hoskins label this a “new war ecology” that is “weaponizing our attention and making everyone a participant in wars without end . . . [by] collapsing the distinctions between audience and actor, soldier and civilian, media and weapon.”6 In this ecology, warfare is participatory. Social media platforms such as TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), and Telegram are no longer merely tools for consuming war reportage; militaries accessing and processing open-source data from these platforms shapes the battlespace in real time by contributing to wider situational awareness.
In this “new war ecology,” Palantir Technologies is an often controversial symbol of how private tech companies and the military work together to tackle battlefield challenges.8 Since it was founded in 2003, the company has grown quickly by providing big data software solutions. Its platforms are designed to handle complex and difficult data challenges, including those experienced by Western militaries. Importantly, Palantir’s software platforms were not developed and commercialized to fulfill a military tender. They are rooted in business models prioritizing speed, flexibility, and investor return, rather than the state’s national security imperatives.
As a result of their work in Ukraine, a slew of companies like Palantir have drawn media attention.9 While commercial interests have rarely aligned neatly with geopolitics, circumstances are changing; private technology firms increasingly occupy, manage, and in some cases dominate the digital infrastructure upon which militaries now rely. States themselves have fostered this shift through selective deregulation and outsourcing of technology development. These dynamics are visible in the war in Ukraine and in the wider geopolitical contest over the global digital stack. As we argued in “Virtual Sovereignty,” a paper we published in International Affairs, this influence has major geopolitical consequences for how states use power.
https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2025/12/ukraine-war-tech-companies?lang=en
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Ukraine’s defense relies increasingly on huge volumes of civilian data stored on cloud platforms. An adversary’s military may supply their targeting algorithm with an individual’s location, health, and online behavior. Military actors regularly mine, analyze, and repurpose social media posts.It is not clear, however, that the deep learning systems integral to some of these new weapons can overcome the fog of war. These systems treat all data as objective representations of reality, when in fact information drawn from social media platforms is shaped by users’ emotional and cognitive experiences in ways that can skew its utility for wartime intelligence. The “learned knowledge” generated by analytic systems is probabilistic, not causal—leading to the risk that algorithms are “enforc[ing] their version of ‘reality’ from patterns and probabilities derived from data.”
These venture-backed firms view contemporary conflicts as live testing grounds.
Global digital platforms such as TikTok and Telegram illustrate the wider environment in which these dependencies are forming. Though neither company develops military technologies, both shape the information environment surrounding war. TikTok’s recommendation algorithm influences how audiences perceive the conflict in Ukraine, shaping global narratives and public opinion. Yet its complex ownership structure, rooted in Chinese parent company ByteDance and entangled with global venture capital, has sparked geopolitical concern. ... These concerns highlight how platforms created for civilian use can also become entangled in the political and informational dimensions of war.
The overlapping interests of finance capital and private technology corporations transcend national borders, creating forms of influence that do not fit neatly into binary friend-or-enemy distinctions. ByteDance’s global investment network, spanning Chinese state-linked entities, American private equity funds, and international investors, illustrates this transnational ownership model. It complicates national regulatory and security responses, as policymakers must ask not merely who owns a given platform, but who controls the data, infrastructure, and decisionmaking power that states increasingly depend on.
This illustrates a deeper shift in the relationship between the market and the military. The problem is not that defense firms are publicly traded—Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics have been for decades—but that contemporary defense-tech companies retain proprietary control over data-driven systems central to military operations. Their technologies are not merely delivered to the state; the companies are embedded in the decisionmaking architecture of warfare. When a firm’s market value depends on its perceived wartime success, its incentives may diverge from those of the state it ostensibly serves. This intertwining of commercial strategy, military dependency, and investor confidence represents a new kind of vulnerability for states.
What is at stake, beyond the conflict itself, is the nature of state sovereignty. The ability of states to govern, defend, and act independently is increasingly mediated by private technology firms and global finance. This is not entirely new. States have long relied on private contractors, but the kind of dependency has changed. Unlike traditional arms manufacturers, today’s defense-tech firms control the digital platforms, data flows, and algorithmic systems that underpin military decisionmaking. At the same time, civilian platforms like Telegram and TikTok shape the informational terrain of conflict, influencing how wars are perceived and fought.
I just want to make sure I'm understanding this.
•You have companies like Meta (just an example) working for both sides of a conflict via government contract, but not necessarily bound to either side of a conflict because of global venture capital/transnational ownership model
•We know Facebook/Meta has been intentionally manipulating the emotions of social media users for over a decade now
•That social media data is then collected and used to train military platforms, which may be directly or indirectly linked to the social media company
•These companies very likely have an incentive to create an endless war (and endless profits for themselves) by manipulating the emotions and behavior of social media users, knowing that data will be used to train military platforms
Basically, a private tech company could manipulate data to give one side of a conflict an advantage over the other, but it could also intentionally pit adversaries against each other in an endless loop by manipulating social media content, and by extension, manipulating the military platforms being trained.
A company could potentially profit from both sides of a conflict it's manipulating because the states have turned to it and other big tech companies to help them reach "victory" in the endless conflict the company helped create. Correct?
Per la prima volta si introduce una responsabilità diretta delle grandi piattaforme online nelle truffe finanziarie
L’Europa vuole colpire così un fenomeno molto pericoloso per gli utenti: il 77 per cento delle truffe in Europa parte dalle piattaforme social e il 59 per cento da quelle Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Messenger), secondo la banca Revolut. Tra le più frequenti ci sono appunto le truffe e-commerce, dove il prodotto o non arriva o è molto diverso da quello pubblicizzato. Ma ci sono anche le truffe su trading online, che promettono guadagni straordinari con le criptovalute ma sono in realtà un modo per rubare i soldi di chi ci casca.
Truffati dalla pubblicità social? Pagano la banca e la big tech: possibile svolta sulle tutele
Parlamento Ue e Consiglio hanno trovato un accordo sulle nuove regole dei pagamenti digitali: con il pacchetto Psd3/Psr, per la prima volta si introduce una re…Alessandro Longo (la Repubblica)
Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
Google Discover, the company’s smartphone news feed, is experimenting with AI headlines. Many of them are very bad.Sean Hollister (The Verge)
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Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
Google Discover, the company’s smartphone news feed, is experimenting with AI headlines. Many of them are very bad.Sean Hollister (The Verge)
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Republican Matt Van Epps wins US House special election in Tennessee
Republican Matt Van Epps wins US House special election in Tennessee
Van Epps defeats Aftyn Behn in congressional election closely watched for signs of Republican weaknessGeorge Chidi (The Guardian)
Congress’s Bipartisan Child Online Safety Coalition is Unraveling
Congress’s Bipartisan Child Online Safety Coalition is Unraveling
A congressional alliance pushing for stronger federal protections for kids online is splintering, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports.Cristiano Lima-Strong (Tech Policy Press)
YouTube says it will comply with Australia's teen social media ban
Google's YouTube shared a "disappointing update" to millions of Australian users and content creators on Wednesday, saying it will comply with a world-first teen social media ban by locking out users aged under 16 from their accounts within days.
YouTube says it will comply with Australia's teen social media ban
SYDNEY, Dec 3 - Google's YouTube shared a \"disappointing update\" to millions of Australian users and content creators on Wednesday, saying it will comply with a world-first teen social media ban by locking out users aged under 16 from their account…ST
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Scathing review finds government appointments often 'look like nepotism'
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Maani Truu (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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“No room for fear”: broad antifascist front confronts far-right violence in Croatia
Tens of thousands of people in four Croatian cities took to the streets on Sunday, November 30, responding to a call from the initiative United Against Fascism (Ujedinjeni protiv fašizma), a broad coalition of civil society organizations and grassroots groups. Marchers in Zagreb, Rijeka, Zadar, and Pula denounced the escalating wave of far-right violence and historical revisionism, vowing to build broad resistance to trends that are encouraged and supported by the political establishment.
“We stand united against fascism because, day after day, we are not witnessing isolated outbursts, but the emergence of a blueprint – one that grows when we remain silent, gains strength when we tolerate it, and ultimately turns fear into the rule rather than the exception,” United Against Fascism declared in its call. “But when we stand together, there is no room for fear.”
United Against Fascism warned that public funds are being cut from education and violence prevention budgets while military spending rises. “Society is being led to believe that armament is the solution, that enemies surround us, and that fear is the appropriate state of mind,” the statement continued. “More and more often, security is defined through borders, military might, and ‘external threats,’ while working conditions, housing, and social rights are ignored.”
Antifascist demonstration in Rijeka, November 30, 2025. Source: United Against Fascism/Građani i građanke Rijeke Facebook
In Rijeka and Zadar, demonstrators faced coordinated attacks by right-wing groups, including members of violence-prone sports supporter factions. In Zadar, where assaults were anticipated, police intervened to push back the attackers. In Rijeka, despite the city’s reputation for tolerance and progressive-leaning politics, participants of the 2,000-strong march were targeted with pyrotechnics and confronted by men dressed in black performing fascist salutes. Police allowed them to remain nearby under “supervision,” drawing strong criticism from the organizers.
A summer of attacks
This weekend’s demonstrations were sparked by a series of far-right attacks on ethnic minorities and cultural events since the summer, a trend linked to the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) government’s revisionist narrative. Right wing forces in Croatia, including HDZ, have built their narrative around inciting chauvinism toward the Serb population, sustaining anti-communist animosity, and, more recently, directing public frustration over falling living standards at immigrants.
Among the most visible examples of the changing climate this year was a mass concert by right-wing singer Marko Perković Thompson in Zagreb. His performances, often banned domestically and abroad, are associated with symbols glorifying the World War II Ustaša regime. The concert in Zagreb welcomed thousands and was more or less explicitly endorsed by several senior officials, including Prime Minister Andrej Plenković.
Prompted by such signals, right-wing groups, including organizations representing veterans of the 1990s war, disrupted festivals and cultural events addressing Croatia’s antifascist legacy or including Serb voices. The attacks included the obstruction of a festival in Benkovac, a town where most of the Serb population was violently expelled in 1995. There, groups of men blocked a children’s theater performance and threatened local journalists, eventually leading to the event’s cancellation. More recently, organized mobs targeted a in Split and attempted to attack the opening of an art exhibition organized by the Serb national minority in Zagreb.
Antifascist demonstration in Pula, November 30, 2025. Source: United Against Fascism/Tedi Korodi
These incidents are a reflection of ongoing processes led by the right. For more than three decades, Croatia has suffered a historical revisionism trend aimed at erasing the antifascist legacy of socialist Yugoslavia. Among other things, since the 1990s, HDZ and other conservative forces have reshaped school curricula to minimize or remove antifascist content. At the European level, political pressures to equate communism and fascism have further normalized alternative historical narratives that rehabilitate collaborators and demonize antifascist resistance. As a result, children and youth are pushed toward right-wing ideologies and offered fabricated historical accounts.
The organization Fališ, which successfully resisted right-wing attempts to cancel its annual festival in Šibenik this summer, linked these developments to reactions to last weekend’s protests, including comments claiming that Croatia was “occupied” between 1945 and 1991. This is “the result of a political perversion that turns liberation into occupation, and the defeat of fascism into a trauma,” Fališ wrote.
“It’s a complete reversal of reality, in which the antifascist becomes the enemy, the fascist becomes a patriot, and crime becomes identity,” they continued. “This logic erases all moral compasses and shapes a society in which truth is a nuisance and lies a political currency.”
Popular resistance challenges party silence
As alarms mounted over the rising violence, state authorities downplayed the danger and offered few concrete assurances to targeted communities. But the massive turnout over the weekend appears to have rattled government figures. Prime Minister Plenković attempted to recast the demonstrations as an effort to “destabilize” his administration, while Defense Minister Ivan Anušić, widely regarded as a leading figure of HDZ’s extreme-right wing, claimed: “This was a protest against Croatia, I would say pro-Yugoslav, maybe even more extreme than pro-Yugoslav.”
Antifascist protest in Zadar, November 30, 2025. Source: United Against Fascism
Liberal parties, including social democrats and greens, also failed to take meaningful action against the growing right-wing violence. Instead, Zagreb’s Green-led city authorities acknowledged that another concert by Perković would take place at the end of the year despite recognizing possible correlations between such events and far-right mobilization.
Against this backdrop of institutional silence and complicity, protesters promised to continue building resistance. “We stand united against fascism because violence over blood cells or skin color must stop,” United Against Fascism stated. “We will not accept Serb children being attacked, insulted, or intimidated for dancing folklore. We will not accept that the presence of national minorities is treated as a provocation, or that migrants are considered less human.”
“We stand united against fascism because silence is never neutral. Silence always serves those who profit most from darkness.”
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Israel emptied half of Gaza: What’s next?
from +972’s Sunday Recap
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Nov. 30, 2025
Gazan analyst Muhammad Shehada examines how Israel is using the ‘Yellow Line’ to re-engineer its control over the Strip even after the ceasefire. [Podcast]
Also:
* Why the death penalty would cement the Israeli radical right’s ascendancy
* At settlers’ bidding, Israel arrests prominent Palestinian activist
* Israel is set to destroy our guesthouse. But Masafer Yatta still welcomes all who resist
* AI-powered surveillance firms are gunning for a share of the Gaza spoils
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Israel emptied half of Gaza: What’s next?
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from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972Magazine [published in Israel]
Nov. 30, 2025Gazan analyst Muhammad Shehada examines how Israel is using the ‘Yellow Line’ to re-engineer its control over the Strip even after the ceasefire. [Podcast]
Also:
* Why the death penalty would cement the Israeli radical right’s ascendancy
* At settlers’ bidding, Israel arrests prominent Palestinian activist
* Israel is set to destroy our guesthouse. But Masafer Yatta still welcomes all who resist
* AI-powered surveillance firms are gunning for a share of the Gaza spoils
Israel emptied half of Gaza: What’s next?
from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972Magazine [published in Israel]
Nov. 30, 2025Gazan analyst Muhammad Shehada examines how Israel is using the ‘Yellow Line’ to re-engineer its control over the Strip even after the ceasefire. [Podcast]
Also:
* Why the death penalty would cement the Israeli radical right’s ascendancy
* At settlers’ bidding, Israel arrests prominent Palestinian activist
* Israel is set to destroy our guesthouse. But Masafer Yatta still welcomes all who resist
* AI-powered surveillance firms are gunning for a share of the Gaza spoilshttps://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8§ion_id=188727
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FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime to redact Epstein files, documents show
FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime to redact Epstein files, documents show
FBI Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi spent nearly $1 million in overtime pay for personnel to redact the files related to the case of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Anna Rascouët-Paz (Snopes.com)
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OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets - Ars Technica
OpenAI may soon be forced to explain why it deleted a pair of controversial datasets composed of pirated books, and the stakes could not be higher.At the heart of a class-action lawsuit from authors alleging that ChatGPT was illegally trained on their works, OpenAI’s decision to delete the datasets could end up being a deciding factor that gives the authors the win.
It’s undisputed that OpenAI deleted the datasets, known as “Books 1” and “Books 2,” prior to ChatGPT’s release in 2022. Created by former OpenAI employees in 2021, the datasets were built by scraping the open web and seizing the bulk of its data from a shadow library called Library Genesis (LibGen).
As OpenAI tells it, the datasets fell out of use within that same year, prompting an internal decision to delete them.
But the authors suspect there’s more to the story than that. They noted that OpenAI appeared to flip-flop by retracting its claim that the datasets’ “non-use” was a reason for deletion, then later claiming that all reasons for deletion, including “non-use,” should be shielded under attorney-client privilege.
To the authors, it seemed like OpenAI was quickly backtracking after the court granted the authors’ discovery requests to review OpenAI’s internal messages on the firm’s “non-use.”
In fact, OpenAI’s reversal only made authors more eager to see how OpenAI discussed “non-use,” and now they may get to find out all the reasons why OpenAI deleted the datasets.
OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets
OpenAI risks increased fines after deleting pirated books datasets.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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Open hardware search engine
GitHub - iop-alliance/OpenKnowHow: A specification for metadata of technology designs (aka Open Source Hardware), to enable indexing and searching such projects
A specification for metadata of technology designs (aka Open Source Hardware), to enable indexing and searching such projects - iop-alliance/OpenKnowHowGitHub
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Making the huge Lemmy banner go away?
I've had to click on the huge Lemmy banner four or five times to make it go away now.
Is there a way to make it permanently go away?
NBA veteran Gallinari retires from basketball
Longtime NBA player Danilo Gallinari retires from basketball - ESPN
Longtime NBA forward Danilo Gallinari has announced his retirement from basketball.Tim Bontemps (ESPN)
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Possibly in a Cavs jersey, as the first Italian to play for Cleveland. As an Italian Cavs fan, maybe the first one, it would have been great. Good luck for your next chapter Danilo!
Danilo Gallinari on Instagram: "Today, with a heart full of gratitude, I am announcing my retirement from a career I’ve always dreamed of. A career built through hard work, sacrifice, victories, defeats, teammates who became brothers, guidance from my co
62K likes, 1,827 comments - danilogallogallinari on December 2, 2025: "Today, with a heart full of gratitude, I am announcing my retirement from a career I’ve always dreamed of.Instagram
After a teddy bear talked about kink, AI watchdogs are warning parents against smart toys
As the holiday season looms into view with Black Friday, one category on people’s gift lists is causing increasing concern: products with artificial intelligence.
The development has raised new concerns about the dangers smart toys could pose to children, as consumer advocacy groups say AI could harm kids’ safety and development. The trend has prompted calls for increased testing of such products and governmental oversight.
Last week, those fears were given brutal justification when an AI-equipped teddy bear started discussing sexually explicit topics.
The product, FoloToy’s Kumma, ran on an OpenAI model and responded to questions about kink. It suggested bondage and roleplay as ways to enhance a relationship, according to a report from the Public Interest Research Group (Pirg), the consumer protection organization behind the study (pdf link).
“It took very little effort to get it to go into all kinds of sexually sensitive topics and probably a lot of content that parents would not want their children to be exposed to,” said Teresa Murray, Pirg consumer watchdog director.
After a teddy bear talked about kink, AI watchdogs are warning parents against smart toys
Advocates are fighting against the $16.7bn global smart-toy market, decrying surveillance and a lack of regulationEric Berger (The Guardian)
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Root on disk storage pool?
So far all my setups have had root on SSD mirror with separate hard disk storage pool for all the data. Years ago I used to keep the app config, databases and docker files on the root filesystem, while the app data resided on the storage pool. That was cumbersome for backups and storage size. Eventually I moved all app data to the storage pool. Essentially the apps can be started on any machine with a Linux OS that has docker installed. Database access is slower but it's a decent compromise for having trivial all-in-one snapshots and backup. Now I'm setting up a new NAS for a friend and I'm wondering whether it's worth keeping the root filesystem separate from the storage pool. If I put it on the disks, I'd get trivial full system snapshots and backups. I'd have the same hardware reliability as the storage pool. There wouldn't be issues with root filling up. The caveat is that the OS would be slower. Has anyone reasoned and/or tried this? Should I go for it?
E: I recently put my laptop's root on ZFS and the ability to do full backups while the system is running is pretty great. The full system can be pretty trivialy restored to a new drive with zfs send / recv during setup.
Anubis is awesome and I want to talk about it
I got into the self-hosting scene this year when I wanted to start up my own website run on old recycled thinkpad. A lot of time was spent learning about ufw, reverse proxies, header security hardening, fail2ban.
Despite all that I still had a problem with bots knocking on my ports spamming my logs. I tried some hackery getting fail2ban to read caddy logs but that didnt work for me. I nearly considered giving up and going with cloudflare like half the internet does. But my stubbornness for open source self hosting and the recent cloudflare outages this year have encouraged trying alternatives.
Coinciding with that has been an increase in exposure to seeing this thing in the places I frequent like codeberg. This is Anubis, a proxy type firewall that forces the browser client to do a proof-of-work security check and some other nice clever things to stop bots from knocking. I got interested and started thinking about beefing up security.
I'm here to tell you to try it if you have a public facing site and want to break away from cloudflare It was VERY easy to install and configure with caddyfile on a debian distro with systemctl. In an hour its filtered multiple bots and so far it seems the knocks have slowed down.
My botspam woes have seemingly been seriously mitigated if not completely eradicated. I'm very happy with tonights little security upgrade project that took no more than an hour of my time to install and read through documentation. Current chain is caddy reverse proxy -> points to Anubis -> points to services
Good place to start for install is here
anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/…
Anubis: Web AI Firewall Utility | Anubis
Weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests to protect your website!anubis.techaro.lol
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Stop playing wack-a-mole with these fucking people and build TARPITS!
Make it HURT to crawl your site illegitimately.
I am very annoyed that I have to enable cloudflare's JavaScript on so many websites, I would much prefer if more of them used Anubis so I didn't have third-party JavaScript running as often.
( coming from an annoying user who tries to enable the fewest things possible in NoScript )
Jacob Zuma’s daughter resigns amid claims South Africans tricked to fight for Russia
A daughter of the former South African president Jacob Zuma has resigned as an MP, after being accused of tricking 17 South African men into fighting for Russia in Ukraine by telling them they were travelling to Russia to train as bodyguards for the Zumas’ uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party.
Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, 43, the most visible and active in politics of her siblings, volunteered to resign and step back from public roles while cooperating with a police investigation and working to bring the men home, the MK chair, Nkosinathi Nhleko, said at a press conference in Durban.
Jacob Zuma’s daughter resigns amid claims South Africans tricked to fight for Russia
Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla quits as MP after being accused of recruiting 17 men who are trapped in war-torn UkraineRachel Savage (The Guardian)
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Bazzite just delivered over a petabyte of ISOs in a single month
One of the best gaming Linux OSes just shifted 1,000,000 GB of ISOs in a single month
That's a lot of downloading.Simon Batt (XDA)
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So essentially you have a base system and you add what you need through flatpak, distrobox, homebrew, and if all else fails, by layering the packages on the base image with rpm-ostree.
What you can't do (that I'm aware of), is remove packages, or make bigger changes like adding another desktop environment aside what it came from. I mean, I guess you can do it by layering but it's probably messy.
Configuration and customisation are not an issue: /etc and /var are not immutable of course.
Distrobox is super cool btw, I knew it existed but Bazzite pushing me to use it was what I needed to finally try and appreciate it.
Airbus recalls 'significant' number of A320 jets after flight control incident
Airbus is recalling more than half of the jets in its global A320 fleet, which will disrupt thousands of flights around the world.
The company said the planes need an "immediate software change" to ensure flight control is sound.
The recall comes after a JetBlue plane’s nose dropped for several seconds without the pilot’s input during a flight in October, according to a European safety agency.
American Airlines says the news will disrupt more than 300 flights for its airline alone, while Air Canada says "very few" of its planes are affected.
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Turns out fighting fascism helps you live longer
A January study in the journal Social Science & Medicine found that volunteering slows down aging in retirees: the DNA of people who volunteered the equivalent of one to four hours a week showed distinctive biomarkers associated with decelerated epigenetic aging, with the most pronounced effects among retired people.
“People might do better, physically, psychologically, socially, if they have a role that they think is important and they identify with,” said Cal J. Halvorsen, a gerontological social work scholar at Washington University in St. Louis and one of the authors of the study. “In the American context, we take our jobs very seriously, and so we were curious if volunteering after retiring or when you’re no longer working might have a different effect on your epigenetic aging.”
That study is just part of a growing body of research on the health benefits of volunteering for retirees, a major benefit for older Americans who have mobilized for election defense and other core public services under attack. Another study published in February found that volunteering in early retirement among Americans also reduced rates of depression by around 10 percent—again, a more pronounced effect than in the general population.
Turns out fighting fascism helps you live longer
Retirees are mobilizing to defend democracy—and the benefits literally show up in their DNA.Mother Jones
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Biometric 'human washing machine' cleans, dries and adapts to your mood
Japanese company Science is commercially producing its Mirai Ningen Sentakuki – Human Washing Machine of the Future – after an overwhelming response at the Osaka-Kansai Expo this year. Only 50 models will be made, with a price tag of US$385,000.
Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators
Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governance
Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators
: Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governanceSimon Sharwood (The Register)
nonillion
noun
nō-ˈnil-yən
US : a number equal to 1 followed by 30 zeros
also, British : a number equal to 1 followed by 54 zeros
Ursini’s proposal asks for a mere 2^112^ addresses
Unless I'm mistaken, that would be 5192296858534827628530496329220096, or a bit more than 5 followed by 33 zeros, which is orders of magnitude different from both definitions. I wonder what this article's author is on about.
It should have been decillion, yes, but at this scale/context it doesn't make much of a difference.
44::/16 = 5,192,296,858,534,828,000,000,000,000,000,000 to be exact.
The Enshittification of Plex Is Kicking Off, Starting with Free Roku Users
And it's just going to get worse from here.
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After everything else failed, Fedora Xfce saved my aging laptop
After bearing with a very slow laptop, I tried out Fedora Xfce and the results were staggeringly good.
https://www.neowin.net/editorials/after-everything-else-failed-fedora-xfce-saved-my-aging-laptop/
einkorn
in reply to Sahwa • • •Sell their Porsche and buy a car that can't be locked remotely?
Jrockwar
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in reply to Em Adespoton • • •Em Adespoton
in reply to ceenote • • •That’s the question, isn’t it?
Can you actually buy a (new) car in 2025?
shininghero
in reply to Jrockwar • • •Blade9732
in reply to shininghero • • •SaveTheTuaHawk
in reply to Blade9732 • • •How they will monatize forever is by selling parts to users and educating them how to service themselves.
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen
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in reply to einkorn • • •رضا
in reply to Sahwa • • •first they disabled Russian porsches and I didn't care because I am not a russian owner of a porsche.
then they came for Ukrainian tractors and I didn't care because I am not an Ukrainian owner of a tractor.
then step by step everything was digitally locked and I owned nothing and I was not really happy.
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in reply to titanicx • • •- YouTube
www.youtube.comWanderingThoughts
in reply to رضا • • •Companies love that, until everybody is completely in debt and they learn you can't seize property from people that don't own anything.
jaybone
in reply to WanderingThoughts • • •WanderingThoughts
in reply to jaybone • • •رضا
in reply to WanderingThoughts • • •I think you are too nice.
they are actively trying to own everything.
And then they don't need to seize anything, because you are forced to work to the bone (even more than you are right now) to just afford your own house rent/property tax.
Companies love to become like old Lord and counts and own the land/products and you just rent and work for them.
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in reply to Sahwa • • •Also, what a strangely written article.
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in reply to someguy3 • • •SaveTheTuaHawk
in reply to XeroxCool • • •XeroxCool
in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk • • •I don't know about Russian thefts, but US Theives will absolutely go for a Porsche. Not every theft is shipped overseas. Fast, flashy cars are stolen to thrash for a couple days and then wreck them. So, sure, by raw numbers, I'm sure honda and Toyota top the list. That doesn't mean Porsche is off the list - the stat is higher per capita. I mean, Kias are top of the list in the US Midwest and they are NOT being shipped. Even those are just stolen for joyride. The 3rd category is stripping them for parts. No hotwiring/fob spoofing, no complicated theft. Winch it up on a flatbed faster than the owner can respond.
Ask any Porsche owner if they're afraid of theft. I promise, every one of them will say yes
Typhoon
in reply to someguy3 • • •Remember when they started this with games? It would phone home every time you started it up and make sure your license was valid.
And then companies stopped supporting the game or went out of business. And all of a sudden no one could play those games anymore.
Now they're doing it with cars. How long until that expensive car you bought is no longer supported and you have to upgrade to the new model?
RalfWausE
in reply to Sahwa • • •First: It's funny, because it is happening to Russians
Second: It's fucking scary, because it can happen everywhere. Fuck cars that rely on digital services.
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in reply to RalfWausE • • •brognak
in reply to bigFab • • •This isn't happening to every person in Russia, it's happening to every person in Russia with a modern Porsche.
Assumptions can be made about the sample set.
bigFab
in reply to brognak • • •Those are not poor people, but still Porsche is one of the most affordable luxury car brands. I just can't picture a russian oligarch with just a porsche.
Next will shut BMW, then Volkswagen and we will still be laughing about it.
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in reply to Sahwa • • •Why not do cars need internet access in order to start?
I understand having auxiliary services the network connected but surely the failure mode should just be an error on the screen but otherwise the car should still function. It's not like operating without internet access is dangerous or anything.
Also, why don't we just do that, cut Russias internet access, it seems like it would cause utter chaos.
JohnEdwa
in reply to Echo Dot • • •It would be pretty useless if it could be defeated by putting some foil on the antenna so that it loses network connection and defaulted to allowing you to drive.
jaybone
in reply to JohnEdwa • • •JohnEdwa
in reply to jaybone • • •They've just gotten more aggressive now with "keyless" entry and being able to use your phone as your key, so some validate that info in real time - no network, no access. (Up to a point. They won't immediately strand you just because you ran out of cell coverage obviously, but apparently Porsche did enforce some part of their system to that point)
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen
in reply to JohnEdwa • • •SaveTheTuaHawk
in reply to Echo Dot • • •jaybone
in reply to Echo Dot • • •As for “cut russias internet”, I imagine they have a lot of services hosted on their own infrastructure within Russia.
Of course probably a lot of people use western services like social media and e-commerce. Which would piss off a lot of Russian people. So you could have western governments require sanctions on services to reject Russian traffic.
One of the downsides though is there are probably a lot of people who disagree with the regime and want to get info in and out. You push them closer to isolation like North Korea. So called “winning of hearts and minds” might be better served by keeping things open.
But what do I know.
jaybone
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in reply to Sahwa • • •garretble
in reply to Sahwa • • •I feel like I got my car at the perfect time:
It has Android Auto and CarPlay, and it's a manual so there's no way for it to turn on or off remotely.
Now I just have to make sure it survives until I die.
boonhet
in reply to garretble • • •It's a voluntary anti-theft measure I believe. Prevents it from being started without the owner's consent. Which immobilizers are also supposed to do, but we all know how well those work.
If I owned a Porsche in Russia, I would also get something like that tbh. Luckily I don't live in Russia, nor do I have a Porsche anymore and mine was too old for this kinda shit anyway
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