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UK grapples with widespread aspirin shortage as medicine added to export ban list


The UK Government recently added aspirin to its export ban list to protect supplies


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Intel Confirms 14A Wafer Capacity Expansion Only Follows Customer Commitments


Intel's concluded its Q4 and full-year 2025 earnings call, revealing interesting things about its foundry operations and node selection. When talking about the upcoming 14A node, Intel confirmed that the node is on track for 2027, with yields that are in good shape. However, the bulk of the 14A external capacity Intel will dedicate depends on customers willing to sign manufacturing contracts first, before Intel spends insane amount of funds required to expand manufacturing capacity. Intel CEO Lib-Bu Tan noted "Engagements with potential external customers on Intel 14A are active. We believe customers will begin to make firm supplier decisions starting in the second half of this year and extending into the first half of 2027. We also have the opportunity to provide strong differentiation in advanced packaging, particularly with EMIB and EMIB-T."


Germany: Nord Stream suspect cannot claim immunity


German judges have nixed an appeal by a Ukrainian national suspected of helping blow up an underwater gas pipeline to be freed from prosecution. Neighboring Poland is refusing to extradite his alleged co-conspirator.


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Intel optimism wanes after disappointing outlook


Since the appointment of CEO Lip-Bu Tan, Intel has had the wind in its sails again. Investments from large companies and the US government, strong quarterly figures, and a restoration of confidence in its chip production contributed to positive sentiment. Now that Intel has set its expectations lower than expected for Q1 2026, doubts have made a comeback. Is that justified?


China rejects UN experts' concerns for alleged forced labour in Xinjiang


China defended its human rights record on Friday after UN experts said alleged forced labour involving Uyghurs and Tibetans in the Xinjiang region and other parts of China might amount to "enslavement".


Archived version: archive.is/newest/straitstimes…


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An alternative decentralized internet for sharing text and media: The Gemini Protocol


cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/24735701

See also:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(…

It is similar to the old gopher: text files, links, and images form a hypertext optimized for reading. Text is formatted like Markdown - but even simpler.

Clients display text, like an eBook, or images / media.

Servers can run on a PC or Raspberry Pi which needs half a Watt of power. No FAANG companies needed. No expert knowledge needed - not more difficult than running a file sharing client.

I think it is the right thing for defense of democracy and sharing your voice in the digital realm.

in reply to lime!

First of all, they were developed around the same time; second, no one said that a protocol should remain unchanged for 35 years. And lastly, the people in "what's wrong with these people" are the people pretending gopher is any good today, and a reasonable alternative to the web, which factually isn't the case as apparently it did remain unchanged for 35 years. And if it didn't remain unchanged but did not add certificates, it would just make things look even worse.



in reply to IndustryStandard

NSFW/NSFL/Spoiler tag for image next time please. As much as I support the right to freedom and self-determination of Palestine and as appalles as I am with the ongoing genocide, I don't want to see nor enjoy seeing dead toddlers in my main feed.

I'm sure unspoilered/untagged posts like this will make others block you or the community entirely.



The time is now: Bye Bye Big Tech





Tech Workers Coalition 101 - Onboarding & Overview event Feb 10th


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/42088556

Register at here for Session A, which will be on Feb 10th at 12pm ET, or register here for Session B, which will be on the same day at 8pm ET 🌀


A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate


Imaging if this technology could cool a data centre.


Best way to update a msi oled monitor with linux? It requires an exe and access to displayport


I have come into possession of an oled monitor due to a friend giving it to me, however updating its firmware has become a nightmare. It doesnt seem possible to update it without windows. Windows PE live discs do not work at all either. I've tried wine and a vm, neither worked.

forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic… This forum mentions the issue as well but there is no resolution. Thoughts?

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in reply to marcie (she/her)

Why the fuck would you even need to update the monitor firmware. It's a screen, that displays things.

spaghettiwestern doesn't like this.

in reply to JamesBoeing737MAX

I am very confused as well.

Must be one of those new fangled ones with "advanced features" that do stuff like game overlay or aim assist or whatever the kids need their monitor to do these days

in reply to marcie (she/her)

What does a monitor need a firmware update for, anyway?





L'Unica - Genova Le foto inedite del palazzo Ex INPS appena venduto a Genova


In esclusiva per L’Unica, una carrellata di fotografie inedite degli appartamenti del palazzo fantasma ex INPS di corso Italia 30, venduto all’asta per 15 milioni e 870 mila euro dopo essere stato per due decenni praticamente disabitato.

lunica.email/foto-inedite-pala…



In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels



in reply to Beep

Wikipedia's TOS bans this kind of activity, and it's pretty effective at detecting it. This has been going on elsewhere for over a decade, and I know of at least one reputation-laundering firm that has gone bust because of Wikipedia reverting everything they tried to plant.
in reply to phutatorius

I don't know about how they're good at detecting it.

Look up at the story of David Woodward spamming his own bio on all Wikipedia languages.



Principles and Execution of Beyond Visual Range Air Combat




Anyone familiar with LoRa Meshtastic stuff?


Been looking into some different hardware options, but don't quite know what the usability is like between different standalone devices versus using an app via bluetooth, etc. Some basic description of user experience might be useful.

Seems like some potentially useful tech to get experience with asap.

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Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.


For context, in my password manager I had tried formatting some of my entrees so that it would contain the usual username and password, but instead of creating whole new entrees for the security questions for the same account, I just added additional fields in the same entree in order to keep things a little more tidy.

I was not expecting that doing so would result in later being shaken down by Proton to pay even more money just to access the same few bytes of fucking text I had trusted them with. This is sleazy as fuck and I am dropping these idiots entirely.

in reply to AnimalsDream

Pretty sure the warning signs were apparent when the CEO submitted to Trump. it just his "personal beliefs" and not representative of the company. Right.
in reply to skozzii

Yeah, I tried to be charitable and assume they were just ignorant of how bad Trump is. I should have known better.



The TikTok deal is done - TikTok is now under new ownership in the US




Daily bunny no.3192 is tampering with the past


Bunnies are at the location of the time portal in "City At the Edge of Forever" (the Star Trek episode.) It is a donut-shaped glowing rock, with ruined columns strewn around it. One bunny has just run through the portal, head-first, as two other bunnies try to stop them.

Source: Bluesky



How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton


  • In your Gmail app, go to Settings.
  • Select your Gmail address.
  • Clear the Smart features checkbox.
  • Go to Google Workspace smart features.
  • Clear the checkboxes for: Smart features in Google Workspace, Smart features in other Google products
  • If you have more Gmail accounts, repeat these steps for each one.
  • Turning off Gemini in Gmail also disables basic, long-standing features like spellchecking, which predate AI assistants. This design choice discourages opting out and shows how valuable your AI-processed data is for Google.

This has finally gotten me to take steps to deGoogle my email, Fastmail trial underway.






Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview


So what exactly did Ghori reveal on Relentless? Well, he seemed to tip off the possibility that xAI has been skirting regulations and getting dubious permits when building data centers—specifically, its prized Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee. “The lease for the land itself was actually technically temporary. It was the fastest way to get the permitting through and actually start building things,” he said. “I assume that it’ll be permanent at some point, but it’s a very short-term lease at the moment, technically, for all the data centers. It’s the fastest way to get things done.”

When asked how xAI has gone about getting those temporary leases, Ghori explained that they worked with local and state governments to get permits that allow companies to “modify this ground temporarily,” and said they are typically for things like carnivals.

Colossus was not without controversy already. The data center, which xAI brags only took 122 days to build, was powered by at least 35 methane gas turbines that the company reportedly didn’t have the permits to operate. Even the Donald Trump-staffed Environmental Protection Agency declared the turbines to be illegal. Those turbines, which were operating without permission, contributed to the significant amount of air pollution experienced by surrounding communities.

In addition to the indication of other potential legal end-arounds committed by xAI, Ghori also revealed some of the company’s internal operations, including relying significantly on AI agents to complete work. “Right now, we’re doing a big rebuild of our core production APIs. It’s being done by one person with like 20 agents,” he said. “And they’re very good, and they’re capable of doing it, and it’s working well,” though he later stated that the reliance on agents can lead to confusion. “Multiple times I’ve gotten a ping saying, ‘Hey, this guy on the org chart reports to you. Is he not in today or something?’ And it’s an AI. It’s a virtual employee.”





Chicago Jury Acquits Immigrant Accused in Bovino Murder-for-Hire Trial


Prosecutors said a Chicago carpenter had offered a bounty for killing Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official. Defense lawyers said he was just sharing a social media post.

Gregory Bovino, a senior tactical commander for the Border Patrol, has been the swaggering public face of President Trump’s chaotic round of immigration raids across the country. In the wake of an immigration sweep in Chicago last fall that ignited protests all over the city, federal officials accused a local Latino man of offering a bounty on Mr. Bovino’s life.

At the time, Mr. Bovino cited the case as evidence that the situation in American cities was out of control — “something out of a third world country,” he told Fox News. “It’s a war zone out there.”

But on Thursday, a Chicago jury acquitted the man accused of making the threats, the latest setback for the Justice Department, which has faltered in a number of attempts to prosecute cases related to Mr. Trump’s immigration policy.

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in reply to silence7

Even if one were to completely set aside all environmental considerations, this is not going to benefit the US in terms of economic development, productivity or competitive advantage in the long term.

It's like betting on steam at exactly the wrong time.

in reply to xxce2AAb

If it weren't obvious yet... The entire Republican party are treasonous criminals beholden to either foreign enemies/oligarchs &/or billionaires, with Russia at the top. The main difference appears to be that the corrupt who make up the Dem majority are beholden to American billionaires and corporations first.

But as they say, a few bad apples spoil the bunch. The absolute corruption was always a certainty once domestic-first corruption was normalised.

in reply to silence7

Literally middle of an energy crisis, and they're cancelling the cheapest and quickest to finish projects available...


Are American tax dollars a fraud?


Recently heard someone trying to tell me that the government doesnt need a penny of our taxes, they just print the money they need and all tax is a complete scam. He is 100% in belief of this.

I hate taxes too (when they go towards wars), but is this actually true? He mostly gets his ideas from Facebook and x. So yeah.

in reply to bridgeenjoyer

Your friend is mostly correct but the printed money is for the billionaires not for peasants.


“Se Anche tu hai Perso la Voglia di Giocare ai Videogiochi…”


Con gran fortuna, così da rompere questo terrificante silenzio di 3 settimane che si è per qualche ragione formato sul fritto misto (…ops, scusate se sono così terribile…) è uscito fuori questo video del davidone vics, che può sicuramente fungere da buon spunto di riflessione… Filmino che, a differenza di molti suoi altri che invece […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2026/…


“Se Anche tu hai Perso la Voglia di Giocare ai Videogiochi…”


youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3at300IO…

Con gran fortuna, così da rompere questo terrificante silenzio di 3 settimane che si è per qualche ragione formato sul fritto misto (…ops, scusate se sono così terribile…) è uscito fuori questo video del davidone vics, che può sicuramente fungere da buon spunto di riflessione… Filmino che, a differenza di molti suoi altri che invece fanno ridere, fa infatti riflettere, sullo strambo fenomeno che ci accade, e che mi accade, per cui in certi periodi, la voglia di giocare ai videogiochi — altrimenti mezzi di intrattenimento e non di consumaggio, bensì di sfruttaggio del tempo, così benedetti e magici — semplicemente svanisce, nel vuoto, risucchiata, poof… 😐

Di questo inspiegabile fenomeno di sparizione — che a me ha recentemente ricolpito, e dalla fine del dicembre passato ad ancora adesso me la porto avanti, tant’è che è letteralmente da quasi un mese che non videogioco assolutamente a niente, inclusi giochini sul telefono, sorprendentemente — ne ho parlato qualche volta a livello personale, ultimamente, con notine sparse su Squaloctti, perché me ne sono accorta molto a ‘sto giro… chissà se perché stavolta questo “burnout” ha inspiegabilmente seguito un periodo di gaming intenso, facendomi passare in maniera quasi netta da tanto gaming a letteralmente zero gaming, o se perché in generale con le notine sto ultimamente facendo molta introspezione… ma, comunque sia: è assolutamente reale. 🤯

Davide qui nel video in realtà individua delle possibili cause per lui che non si allineano perfettamente a me, ma sono valide… e, in ogni caso, al di là delle differenze personali, la questione sembra essere abbastanza diffusa, e questo la rende ironicamente ancora più un mistero: Perché mai il fottuto gaming, che dovrebbe essere l’assoluto piacere (…vabbè, un passatempo divertente, ora manco a far finta che sia chissà che attività mistica), in certi momenti semplicemente non va? Al di là del semplice non avere tempo perché si lavora, o perché si ha voglia di spendere il tempo in attività diverse, come per me può essere programmare, perché mai in certi momenti c’è la voglia di fare qualcosa, si pensa al gaming come opzione… e però poi si arriva alla conclusione che, per il gaming, la voglia non c’è? 😨

La spiegazione che posso trovare per me, tanto banale quanto efficace, è quella delle iperfissazioni autistiche… magari per qualche settimana mi infogno pesantemente nel gaming, e poi no perché mi infogno di più in qualcos’altro, per poi tornare al gaming dopo altro tempo, e boh… e, nel mio caso, questo sarebbe coerente con altre mie attività, come appunto la programmazione, o anche la lettura (…è da tipo 2 mesi che non leggo, a proposito… e se questo mese neanche ho giocato… allora che cazzo sto facendo nelle mie giornate???)… però è evidente che c’è dell’altro sotto, altrimenti sicuramente questo non sarebbe un problema anche per gli allistici. Vix invece, dalla sua, mette il peso sulla confusione e sullo stress che causa lo stare appresso a tanti giochi insieme, a seguire il mercato, e al peso del backlog… tutti colpevoli plausibili, ma, anche qui, il quadro sembra incompleto. 🦷

La risposta a questo ennesimo mistero della natura umana, purtroppo, non la si avrà né con questo video, né con questo articolino, e probabilmente neanche i nostri posteri arriveranno ad una risposta… però, qualche consiglio per evitare questa cosa che io chiamo burnout, per quanto ridere faccia visto il contesto, ma a questo punto non lo so, dal signorotto ci arriva, e io condivido. Sicuramente, infatti, una trappola in cui si cade, a maggior ragione se si è creatori di contenuti o se si dà grande peso all’etichetta di gamer nella propria identità, è quella di dover seguire ogni cosa, di provare tutti i giochi, e di finirli, e di farlo velocemente… anche se magari si prova noia, anche se si vorrebbe andare più lentamente… e beh, la risposta a questo dilemma nel dilemma è semplice: è una trappola mentale che porta solo a giocare di meno nonostante i propri desideri, quindi va riconosciuta ed evitata… ed è una cosa che io già faccio, per dire… eppure il mistero rimane. Però dai: se non altro, almeno, con questa storia abbiamo capito che noi gamer seccati, marciscenti, non siamo soli. 😩

#burnout #davidevix #gaming #videogiochi




Greenland: A "Northern Front" of Inter-Imperialist Rivalry


cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/2200…

By Nikos Mottas

The developments surrounding Greenland should not be treated as a diplomatic anomaly or as the product of individual political choices.

They are a concentrated expression of the contemporary phase of imperialism, in which the sharpening competition among capitalist powers drags strategic regions and smaller peoples into conflicts not of their own making.

The pressure exerted by the United States on Greenland and on Denmark — through political coercion, economic threats, and intensified military planning — is not a deviation from a supposedly “rules-based order” (aka “International Law”) but a manifestation of its real content. When strategic interests are at stake, imperialist diplomacy rapidly sheds legalistic language and reverts to open power relations. The Arctic, long considered marginal, is being transformed into a central field of competition as melting ice opens new transport routes and access to critical resources.

Greenland’s importance is therefore not social or humanitarian. It is geopolitical and economic. It is treated as a platform: for military infrastructure, surveillance systems, missile defence, control of Arctic sea lanes, and future exploitation of raw materials. In this framework, the needs and will of the population are secondary. What matters is position within the broader architecture of imperialist planning.

The ideological cover for these developments is the familiar invocation of “security threats,” usually linked to the activities of other major imperialist centers, namelyRussia and China. Such narratives are not neutral assessments of danger. They function as political tools that legitimise militarisation and strategic expansion. The Arctic is not being militarised because it is unsafe; it is presented as unsafe because it is being militarised.

At the core of the Greenland issue lies a mechanism analysed with particular precision by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. In Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, he emphasised that once the world is fully divided among the major powers, imperialist conflict no longer concerns the seizure of “empty” spaces, but the struggle for redivision: “The characteristic feature of the period under review is the final partition of the globe — final, not in the sense that a re-partition is impossible; on the contrary, re-partitions are possible and inevitable — but in the sense that the colonial policy of the capitalist countries has completed the seizure of the unoccupied territories of our planet.”

This insight is decisive for understanding why pressure intensifies even among allies, why bargaining turns into coercion, and why Greenland becomes a focal point. It is not an ownerless territory entering history, but a claimed space whose strategic value grows under new conditions, provoking efforts to revise existing balances.

For this reason, the confrontation cannot be reduced to unilateral US actions or to frictions within NATO. It must be understood within the framework of inter-imperialist rivalry. The United States, the European Union, Russia, and China all pursue their own interests in the Arctic, shaped by the needs of monopolies, energy strategies, transport corridors, and military doctrines. Their antagonisms do not represent different “civilisations” or alternative paths of development; they are competing expressions of the same capitalist system.

This reality exposes the falseness of multipolar illusions. The emergence of multiple centres of power does not restrain imperialism; it sharpens its contradictions. Competition becomes more intense, alliances more fragile, and pressure on smaller territories more direct. Greenland is not threatened because imperialism is weakening, but because it is being reorganised through harsher rivalry over already divided space.

The reaction of European states confirms this. Denmark’s insistence on sovereignty, supported by the European Union, reflects the defence of a specific imperialist role within the transatlantic framework, not a principled defence of peoples’ rights. Institutions such as NATO do not transcend these contradictions; they manage them temporarily. As Lenin pointed out in his analysis of imperialist alliances:

“Peaceful alliances prepare the ground for wars and in their turn grow out of wars; the one conditions the other, producing alternating forms of peaceful and non-peaceful struggle on one and the same basis of imperialist connections and relations.”

Alliances, therefore, do not abolish rivalry. They regulate it until conditions change and conflicts sharpen again. Smaller peoples are not protected by such arrangements; they are integrated into them as variables within strategic calculations.

Greenland’s formal autonomy highlights another fundamental contradiction of imperialism. Legal self-government coexists with decisive external control over military presence, economic orientation, and long-term development. This gap between political form and material reality is not accidental. Under capitalism, sovereignty is often hollowed out while being formally preserved, allowing domination to operate behind institutional façades.

Climate change further intensifies these processes. The environmental destruction produced by capitalist development becomes a driver of new rivalries. Melting ice is treated not as a warning but as an opportunity: new routes, resources, and investment possibilities are incorporated into imperialist planning, while ecological and social costs are shifted onto peoples and future generations.

The Greenland standoff therefore offers lessons that extend far beyond the Arctic. It demonstrates how the language of “security” conceals class interests; how alliances among capitalist states are inherently unstable; how smaller peoples are subordinated to strategic competition; and how no imperialist centre can offer a path toward peace or genuine self-determination. The choice presented to peoples — alignment with one bloc or another — is a false one.

For communists, the task is not to interpret such developments through geopolitical sympathies, but to expose their system logic. Greenland shows with particular clarity that inter-imperialist competition is not an exception but the normal mode of operation of imperialism today. As long as capitalism prevails, strategic territories will be contested, militarisation will advance, and peoples’ interests will be subordinated to the needs of capital.

This understanding does not lead to calls for a “fairer” balance of power or a reformed alliance system. It leads to a sharper conclusion: the struggle against imperialist confrontations is inseparable from the struggle against the system that generates them. Only by breaking with the logic of capitalist competition can peoples secure real sovereignty, peace, and social development.

* Nikos Mottas is the Editor-in-Chief of In Defense of Communism.


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in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn

...in generation of electricity. Most energy usage in the EU isn't electric and non-electric energy usage is almost exclusively fossil fuels.
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in reply to Ice

Electricity is replacing fossil cars with electric ones and heating (heat pumps). As it has replaced the use of candles.
in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn

Yes, although very slowly.

A mere 15% of new EU sold cars are BEVs, the average age of the fleet is 12 years, and electric heavy vehicles are still almost non-existent.

Meanwhile, central & southern Europe are still running on Fossil Gas despite heatpumps being around for ~50 years by now. The key issue is that the price of electricity has been far too high, and getting even higher in recent years.

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in reply to Ice

Even so, baby steps are still steps. Just because not everything has been replaced doesn't mean it won't get replaced in the (far) future.