Israeli companies sold millions in weapons, equipment to Qatar, Netanyahu approved deals
Multiple Israeli defense companies have signed contracts with Qatar, with state approval, to supply the state with weapons, ammunition, cyber technology, and other sophisticated weaponry, Maariv learned on Tuesday.
These agreements were signed with the approval of bodies in the Defense Ministry, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and special approval from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to information received by Maariv, Elbit signed contracts with Qatar worth more than $100 million, Rafael signed contracts worth tens of millions of dollars, while Israel Aerospace Industries had a long affair with Qatar - which included at least 20 visits by Israel Aerospace Industries heads to Doha and a significant visit by a senior Qatari delegation, which spent an entire day at the Israel Aerospace Industries offices.
Elbit Systems, Rafael and IAI sold weapons to Qatar with state approval | The Jerusalem Post
In order to make the sales, the companies were required to get approval from the Foreign Ministry, the Defense Ministry, and the prime minister.The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg
Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg
With Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka,” we are taking a significant step forward in the evolution of the Ubuntu Desktop by removing the Xorg-based Ubuntu session. Starting with this release the “Ubuntu” session in GDM will run exclusively on Wayland.Ubuntu Community Hub
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Greta Thunberg refuses to watch Oct. 7 footage after flotilla stopped
Israeli authorities screened footage of Hamas's October 7 atrocities to Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other pro-Palestinian flotilla participants upon their arrival in Ashdod on Monday, shortly after the IDF intercepted their ship, the Madleen, in international waters.
According to Defense Minister Israel Katz, the activists refused to continue watching the film after seeing the brutality of the attacks.
"These antisemitic flotilla activists closed their eyes to the truth and once again proved they prefer the murderers over the victims,” Katz said. “They continue to ignore the atrocities committed by Hamas against Jewish and Israeli women, the elderly, and children.”
The activists were given the option to sign a voluntary departure form or face arrest after 96 hours. Among those refusing to leave is French MEP Rima Hassan.
Hassan has previously drawn wide criticism for her denial that the Bibas family, excluding Yarden Bibas, were murdered, her claim that the October 7 massacre was "legitimate" and her insistence that Palestinians in Europe should be allowed to join the "resistance."
Greta Thunberg refuses to watch Oct. 7 footage after flotilla stopped | The Jerusalem Post
Four of the activists are departing the country, including Greta Thunberg. However, eight have refused to leave and will be transferred to Givon detention facility.The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
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An analysis of X(Twitter)'s new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers
A bit more on Twitter/X’s new encrypted messaging
Matthew Garrett has a nice post about Twitter (uh, X)’s new end-to-end encryption messaging protocol, which is now called XChat. The TL;DR of Matthew’s post is that from a cryptographic…A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
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To extend this, that includes YOU giving your key to another application to decrypt those messages.
For example if you use an app or browser extension, that app or browser extension has access to that key. Additionally the browser itself or operating system had access to the key.
Now they may be fully audited. They may have a great reputation. You may trust them. But they are part of the decryption (and if sending encryption) process.
It's a chain of trust, you have to trust the whole chain.
It's a chain of trust, you have to trust the whole chain.
Including the entire other side of the conversation. E2EE in a group chat still exposes the group chat if one participant shares their own key (or the chats themselves) with something insecure. Obviously any participant can copy and paste things, archive/log/screenshot things. It can all be automated, too.
Take, for example, iMessage. We have pretty good confidence that Apple can't read your chats when you have configured it correctly: E2EE, no iCloud archiving of the chats, no backups of the keys. But do you trust that the other side of the conversation has done the exact same thing correctly?
Or take for example the stupid case of senior American military officials accidentally adding a prominent journalist to their war plans signal chat. It's not a technical failure of signal's encryption, but a mistake by one of the participants inviting the wrong person, who then published the chat to the world.
An analysis of X(Twitter)'s new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers
A bit more on Twitter/X’s new encrypted messaging
Matthew Garrett has a nice post about Twitter (uh, X)’s new end-to-end encryption messaging protocol, which is now called XChat. The TL;DR of Matthew’s post is that from a cryptographic…A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
Clear Skies Ahead: New NVIDIA Earth-2 Generative AI Foundation Model Simulates Global Climate at Kilometer-Scale Resolution
New NVIDIA Earth-2 Generative AI Foundation Model Simulates Global Climate at Kilometer-Scale Resolution | NVIDIA Blog
First-of-its-kind AI model to transform climate modeling and analytics for better prediction, understanding and response to climate change.Timothy Costa (NVIDIA Blog)
British firm sent over 1,000 ammo boxes to Israel
A British company has sent over 1,000 munitions containers to Israel amid the Gaza genocide, raising concerns about UK arms export controls. The information is contained within shipping documents reviewed exclusively by Declassified and The Ditch.
The documents show how Permoid Industries, an engineering firm in Durham, has sent 16 shipments of “storage containers” weighing over 100 tonnes to Elbit Systems in Israel since October 2023.
Permoid declined to comment but did not deny that the cases were designed to carry weapons. Its website says the firm produces “a wide range of ammunition containers”, which are suited for “belted ammunition, cartridge, mortar and shell munitions” including 155mm artillery shells.
British firm sent over 1,000 munitions cases to Israel
Exclusive: UK-made munitions containers have been shipped to Israel’s largest arms firm amid the Gaza genocide, it can be revealed.JOHN McEVOY (Declassified Media ltd)
Is Trump’s deployment of federal troops in California legal?
Is Trump’s deployment of federal troops in California legal?
Under ordinary circumstances, federal troops would be deployed to aid or assist in state efforts, says Jeremy R. Paul, a professor of law.Tanner Stening (Northeastern Global News)
AI expert urges businesses to ditch the ‘one-model-fits-all’ approach
Northeastern AI expert urges businesses to ditch the ‘one-model-fits-all’ approach
Usama Fayyad, senior vice provost for AI and data strategy at Northeastern, says companies should start small when introducing AI.Cesareo Contreras (Northeastern Global News)
Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle: The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.
- A company owned by a Russian network engineer named Viktor Vedeneev controls thousands of Telegram IP addresses and maintains its servers.
- Vedeneev’s other companies have a history of collaborating with Russia’s defense sector, the FSB security service, and other highly sensitive agencies.
- Because of the way Telegram’s encryption protocols work, even users who use its “end-to-end” encryption features are vulnerable to being tracked by anyone who can monitor its network traffic.
Telegram Responds to IStories Investigation on Messenger Servers
The company’s official position contradicts facts established in a U.S. courtistories.media
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Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle: The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.
- A company owned by a Russian network engineer named Viktor Vedeneev controls thousands of Telegram IP addresses and maintains its servers.
- Vedeneev’s other companies have a history of collaborating with Russia’s defense sector, the FSB security service, and other highly sensitive agencies.
- Because of the way Telegram’s encryption protocols work, even users who use its “end-to-end” encryption features are vulnerable to being tracked by anyone who can monitor its network traffic.
Telegram Responds to IStories Investigation on Messenger Servers
The company’s official position contradicts facts established in a U.S. courtistories.media
Trump Takes Advantage of Anti-ICE Protests in California
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump wrested control of 2,000 California National Guard forces from the state’s Governor Gavin Newsom and deployed them in Los Angeles where police and protestors clashed in the streets.President Trump claims that the move is necessary to protect federal workers and buildings, but this is dubious. Neither Newsom nor Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass believes this deployment is needed, with Newsom arguing that the “move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.”
Almost as though aiming to prove Newsom’s point, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to send active-duty troops if the protests continue; a threat that became reality when 700 marines were deployed from Twentynine Palms to Los Angeles.
Abbas calls Hamas 'sons of dogs' and demands release of hostages
Abbas calls Hamas 'sons of dogs' and demands release of hostages
Palestinian Authority president says that Hamas has given Israel "excuses" to continue the Gaza war.Sebastian Usher & David Gritten (BBC News)
Real-time study explores how the aging brain copes with stress
The CARDIAC-PND study is one of the first to monitor brain resilience in living people, capturing how older adults respond and adapt to the stress of surgery – and why some go on to develop dementia while others remain cognitively strong.
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AI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
An autonomous drone carrying water to help extinguish a wildfire in the Sierra Nevada might encounter swirling Santa Ana winds that threaten to push it off course. Rapidly adapting to these unknown disturbances inflight presents an enormous challenge for the drone’s flight control system.To help such a drone stay on target, MIT researchers developed a new, machine learning-based adaptive control algorithm that could minimize its deviation from its intended trajectory in the face of unpredictable forces like gusty winds.
Unlike standard approaches, the new technique does not require the person programming the autonomous drone to know anything in advance about the structure of these uncertain disturbances. Instead, the control system’s artificial intelligence model learns all it needs to know from a small amount of observational data collected from 15 minutes of flight time.
Importantly, the technique automatically determines which optimization algorithm it should use to adapt to the disturbances, which improves tracking performance. It chooses the algorithm that best suits the geometry of specific disturbances this drone is facing.
The researchers train their control system to do both things simultaneously using a technique called meta-learning, which teaches the system how to adapt to different types of disturbances.
Taken together, these ingredients enable their adaptive control system to achieve 50 percent less trajectory tracking error than baseline methods in simulations and perform better with new wind speeds it didn’t see during training.
In the future, this adaptive control system could help autonomous drones more efficiently deliver heavy parcels despite strong winds or monitor fire-prone areas of a national park.
AI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
A new adaptive control system for autonomous drones minimizes trajectory tracking error. It uses AI to approximate the unknown forces that could affect the drone’s flight path and automatically pick an optimization algorithm that best suits the probl…MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An Alaskan volcano could help scientists understand why ‘stealthy’ volcanoes erupt without warning
An Alaskan volcano could help scientists understand why ‘stealthy’ volcanoes erupt without warning
Veniaminof, Alaska, has frequent unexpected eruptions — modelling how they happen could help us protect people from unexpected eruptions.Angharad Brewer Gillham (Frontiers | Science news)
Pavel and Tucker, together again Telegram founder Durov returns for hour-long interview with Carlson to discuss France’s criminal charges
Pavel and Tucker, together again
Telegram founder Durov returns for hour-long interview with Carlson to discuss France’s criminal chargesMeduza
Google’s Privacy Sandbox is Dead. The Fight for Real Online Privacy Continues.
Google’s Privacy Sandbox is Dead. The Fight for Real Online Privacy Continues. - Center for Democracy and Technology
What is next for privacy in online advertising?/a>What have we learned?this-mean-for-users" href="#what-does-this-mean-for-users" class="toc-anchor">What does this mean for users?r">Backgroundrivacy-sandbox-next-steps/">announced the final abandonmen…Center for Democracy and Technology
First Publication: Israel Eliminated Fighters Who Tried to Harm the Abu Shabab Militia in the Gaza Strip (translated)
Hebrew source article:
פרסום ראשון: ישראל חיסלה מחבלים שניסו לפגוע במליציית אבו שבאב ברצועה
פרסום ראשון: ישראל חיסלה מחבלים שניסו לפגוע במליציית אבו שבאב ברצועה
צה"ל התערב באופן חריג בעימות בין פעילי המליצייה למחבלי חמאס, שהביא להרוגים משני הצדדים • למקום הוזנק כטמ"ם של חיל האוויר, שתקף ארבעה מחבלים • מדובר בתקיפה הישראלית הראשונה במטרה לסייע לאנשי אבו שבאבינון שלום יתח (i24news)
Ten Things
This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!
Ten Artists Born in 17th Century
- Claude Lorrain
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- Willem van der Velde the Younger
Willem van der Velde the Younger
Calm: Fishing Boats under Sail - Johannes Vermeer
- Wenceslaus Hollar
- Aelbert Cuyp
- Pieter de Hooch
- Antoine Watteau
- William Hogarth
- Peter Lely
Monolinugal people thinking that the pronounciation of some rare words is the big issue when learning languages...
Dude, try memorizing the correct grammatical gender for every single noun or every single exception to regular declinations. And that's just for a medium-difficulty language like German.
You know how there's simple English versions of news articles? The same thing exists with German. And the language in these Simple German articles is more difficult than the regular English version.
English is THE easy mode language of the world, which is why e.g. pretty much anyone in Europe defaults to it if they are speaking to anyone who speaks a different native language. Like, if someone from Austria speaks with someone from Ukraine, they will use English.
‘Wildly underprepared’: National Guard troops seen sleeping on floors in exclusive photos
President Donald Trump’s rush to deploy California National Guard troops to Los Angeles has left dozens of soldiers without adequate sleeping arrangements, forced to pack together in one or more federal buildings, resting on the floors of what appear to be basements or loading docks, the Chronicle has learned.
Archived version: archive.is/20250610022639/sfch…
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Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments
Since the news broke, Israel’s propaganda machine has gone into overdrive, dismissing the Madleen as a “selfie yacht”, a line echoed by western media outlets. “There are ways to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip – they do not involve Instagram selfies,” declared a shameless Israeli Foreign Ministry. Israel knows all about those ways, because it has systematically blocked them.
In the past 20 months, Israel has ratcheted up the blockade. Even former prime minister Olmert, for decades a member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, denounced his state for committing grave war crimes as a matter of official policy. On 10 October 2023, for example, Israeli general Ghassan Alian – who headed the Israeli military department supposedly charged with humanitarian aid – declared that the “citizens of Gaza” had collective guilt, and that “human beasts are dealt with accordingly. Israel has imposed a total blockade on Gaza. No electricity, no water, just damage. You wanted hell – you will get hell.” This was just one of multiple statements of criminal and genocidal intent that left no doubt about the crime to come.
According to ProPublica in 2024, it was revealed that the two foremost US authorities on humanitarian assistance concluded that Israel had deliberately blocked deliveries of food and medicine into Gaza. Under US legislation, this should have immediately triggered the suspension of weapons shipments – but the Biden administration did not accept the findings. You may not be aware of either of these reports, because they received precious little coverage from a western media that has deceived its audiences about Israel’s genocidal intent and behaviour.
The Madleen did not make it to Gaza’s shores. Yet its crew exposed an obscenity that has repulsed western citizens, who will one day force their governments to cease their complicity – which is why, in the end, Israel will lose.
Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments
The Madleen is no ‘selfie yacht’. It is a symbol of human compassion in a world that has decided to look away, says Guardian columnist Owen JonesOwen Jones (The Guardian)
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RFK Jr. removes all members of CDC panel advising U.S. on vaccines
RFK Jr. removes all members of CDC panel advising U.S. on vaccines
It's the latest move by Kennedy – a prominent vaccine skeptic – to change and potentially undermine vaccinations in the U.S. since he took the helm at HHS.Annika Kim Constantino (CNBC)
Shocking 'war crimes' article shows the BBC knew all along Israel is violating international law
This latest article is an inadvertent admission of what many of us already knew; that the BBC has known what's going on all along.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/thecanary.co…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
Israel attacked Madleen aid ship with a 'white chemical spray'. What is it?
Activists on board the Gaza-bound aid ship reported being sprayed with an unidentified white substance that coated the deck and obscured their vision, and may have been a form of chemical deterrent.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/trt.global/w…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
Greenpeace calls for international action to release the Madleen aid vessel - Greenpeace International (2025-06-09)
Greenpeace calls for international action to release the Madleen aid vessel - Greenpeace International (2025-06-09)greenpeace.org/international/p…
———>> #Greenpeace demands:
• An immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire to halt the assault on civilians and the environment.
• The release by Hamas of all hostages.
• The release by Israel of all illegally detained Palestinians.
• The imposition of targeted sanctions and a comprehensive arms embargo, enforced by the international community.
• The unhindered delivery of aid by the UN and other humanitarian organisations.
• An end to the illegal occupation of Palestine.>> If the international community continues to stand-by without taking concrete action as ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity mount, it will have to answer for aiding and abetting a genocide. The time to act is now!
Greenpeace calls for international action to release the Madleen aid vessel - Greenpeace International
Greenpeace calls upon the international community to urgently uphold international law and ensure the immediate release of the Freedom Flotilla humanitarian vessel the Madleen along with its crew. The ship…Greenpeace International
There are clear laws on enforcing blockades – Israel’s interception of the Madleen raises serious questions (The Conversation, 2025-06-10)
There are clear laws on enforcing blockades – Israel’s interception of the Madleen raises serious questions (The Conversation, 2025-06-10)theconversation.com/there-are-…
———>> International law also strongly protects the freedom of navigation, particularly in international waters ...
>> There are only a few exceptions when a country can lawfully stop a foreign ship in international waters ...
>> international humanitarian law, … protects civilians during conflict. This protection extends to people delivering humanitarian aid, so long as they do not directly take part in hostilities.
>> Bringing aid to civilians, even if politically controversial, does not meet this legal threshold [to be considered directly participating in hostilities]. As a result, the #Madleen’s passengers remain protected civilians and should not be treated as combatants or detained arbitrarily…
There are clear laws on enforcing blockades – Israel’s interception of the Madleen raises serious questions
Blockades may be used in wartime, but only if they meet 5 legal conditions. Have Israel’s actions complied with the law?The Conversation
Trump Asked Why He Thinks He Can Arrest Gavin Newsom — Says He Committed ‘Crime’ of ‘Running For Governor’
Trump Asked Why He Thinks He Can Arrest Gavin Newsom — Says He Committed ‘Crime’ of ‘Run ...
Trump was fielding questions from the media in the State Dining Room at the White House when a reporter asked about threats to arrest Newsom.Kipp Jones (Mediaite)
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I still find it absolutely wild that the president of the US has this much power, that the president can be an unqualified, incompetent drooling fucking moron and they are allowed to veto sensible knowledgeable people and do dangerous, stupid things like control the dumping of reservoirs.
WTF is wrong with America? In my country we have a parliamentary democracy and a civil service of qualified, intelligent people. We don't allow one total fucking imbecile to ride roughshod over everything and ruin anything they like. US congress is like some useless appendix right now when it should be in charge of making these decisions.
Oggi, 10 giugno, nel 1926: muore Antoni Gaudí , da Focus.it
I record di Antoni Gaudí e della sua Sagrada Famìlia
Uno degli ultimi atti di papa Francesco è stato dichiarare "venerabile" Antoni Gaudí, l'architetto della Sagrada Famìlia, una basilica in costruzione da 143 anni.Focus.it
Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot
Investigation by investigative journalism outlet IStories (EN version by OCCRP) shows that Telegram uses a single, FSB-linked company as their infrastructure provider globally.
Telegram's MTProto protocol also requires a cleartext identifier to be prepended to all client-server messages.
Combined, these two choices by Telegram make it into a surveillance tool.
I am quoted in the IStories story. I also did packet captures, and I dive into the nitty-gritty technical details on my blog.
Packet captures and MTProto deobfuscation library I wrote linked therein so that others can retrace my steps and check my work.
Как «Телеграм» связан с ФСБ
За инфраструктуру мессенджера отвечают те, кто обслуживает секретные комплексы российских спецслужб, используемые для слежки за гражданамиistories.media
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Russia to build 8 nuclear power plants in Iran
Russia to build 8 nuclear power plants in Iran
TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA) – The spokesperson for Iran’s Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission announced that Iran has signed a contract with Russia to construct eight nuclear power plants in Iran.Marzieh Rahmani (Mehr News Agency)
Why so much hate toward AI?
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Not much to win with.
A fake bubble of broken technology that's not capable of doing what is advertised, it's environmentally destructive, its used for identification and genocide, it threatens and actually takes jobs, and concentrates money and power with the already wealthy.
It's either broken and not capable or takes jobs.
You can't be both useless and destroying jobs at the same time
Many people on Lemmy are extremely negative towards AI which is unfortunate. There are MANY dangers, but there are also Many obvious use cases where AI can be of help (summarizing a meeting, cleaning up any text etc.)
Yes, the wax how these models have been trained is shameful, but unfoet9tjat ship has sailed, let's be honest.
Rare Linux tools you probably haven't seen before (DurDraw, Caligula, Pastel, Astroterm) | Bread on Penguins
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/45803716 | !linux@programming.dev
I appreciate how little fluff there is on this channel.
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Chinese spy crew appears to be preparing for conflict by backdooring more than 70 critical organizations worldwide
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/36375283
ArchivedHere is the technical report by SentinelOne.
An IT services company, a European media group, and a South Asian government entity are among the more than 75 companies where China-linked groups have planted malware to access strategic networks should a conflict break out.
SentinelLABS, the threat intel and research arm of security shop SentinelOne, uncovered these new clusters of malicious activity when the suspected Chinese spies tried to break into SentinelOne's own servers in October.
"We tend to prioritize China, and seeing them start to poke at our own products, our own infrastructure, that immediately raises the red flag for us," SentinelOne threat researcher Tom Hegel told The Register in a phone interview. While the attempted SentinelOne intrusion was unsuccessful, being the target of a Chinese reconnaissance campaign led the threat hunters into a deeper analysis of the broader campaign and malware used.
"We started to hunt for it globally, look at their infrastructure and identify those other victims," Hegel said.
[...]
SentinelLABS found more than 70 victims globally across manufacturing, government, finance, telecommunications, and research. One of these was an IT services and logistics company that manages hardware logistics for SentinelOne employees.
Additionally, the security outfit's research uncovered a September 2024 intrusion into a "leading European media organization."
It's a broad range of victims, but they all share one thing in common: they represent strategic targets as China prepares for war of the cyber or kinetic variety.
[...]
SentinelOne, as a security vendor for government and critical infrastructure organizations, makes an attractive starting point for a supply-chain attack along the lines of what Russian spies did to Mandiant during the SolarWinds fiasco.
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Chinese spy crew appears to be preparing for conflict by backdooring 75+ critical orgs
: SentinelOne discovered the campaign when they tried to hit the security vendor's own serversJessica Lyons (The Register)
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