https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficit-medicaid-immigrant-84c1b09713cd973935788943703697bd

Sanya Mansoor
June 27 2025, 10:05 a.m

"For months, environmental researcher Yaakov Garb has been using satellite data to analyze the design, location, and expansion of these facilities. Garb, a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, found in an analysis published earlier this month on Harvard Dataverse that most of Gaza’s population cannot access these centers in a safe and practical way. Doing so requires crossing the dangerous Netzarim Corridor, entering a buffer zone from which Israel has banned them from entering, or a long walk across a barren rubble field, while carrying a heavy box of food."

Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month

The U.S.-backed system for food aid in Gaza is a “tactical intervention in humanitarian wrapping,” per an Israeli professor.

^{Sanya Mansoor (The Intercept)}

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/29/politics/andrew-cuomo-new-york-mayor-zohran-mamdani

Sanya Mansoor
June 27 2025, 10:05 a.m

"For months, environmental researcher Yaakov Garb has been using satellite data to analyze the design, location, and expansion of these facilities. Garb, a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, found in an analysis published earlier this month on Harvard Dataverse that most of Gaza’s population cannot access these centers in a safe and practical way. Doing so requires crossing the dangerous Netzarim Corridor, entering a buffer zone from which Israel has banned them from entering, or a long walk across a barren rubble field, while carrying a heavy box of food."

Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month

The U.S.-backed system for food aid in Gaza is a “tactical intervention in humanitarian wrapping,” per an Israeli professor.

^{Sanya Mansoor (The Intercept)}

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idk, not exactly news but not gossip either

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Source (Bluesky)

It has sound.

In which we once more delve into the world of user interface design.

Autumn 2023

Three years ago, I wrote a rant about the problems of our current UI paradigm. The complaints I voiced were hardly new or unique, neither was the text what I'd consider my best writing. It was, honestly, mostly a way to blow off steam. It seems I struck a nerve, though, because it's proven to be one of the most popular texts I've published here. For some time, I've thought about writing a follow-up, and a recent resurgence in the text's popularity prompted me to finally do so.

[…]

What were we talking about?

Usability, as defined by Wikipedia, is "the capacity of a system to provide a condition for its users to perform the tasks safely, effectively, and efficiently while enjoying the experience." Its relation to software is further specified: "In software engineering, usability is the degree to which a software can be used by specified consumers to achieve quantified objectives with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a quantified context of use." […]

In short, usability is the ease with which a predetermined task can be accomplished. Consequently, "It looks fresh" isn't usability; it's aesthetics. Likewise, the lack of a specific program feature isn't the same as being able to use it as easily, efficiently and safely as possible. […]

[…]

https://datagubbe.se/usab2/

Sorella di Perfezione di Giuseppe Iannozzi - Aggiornamento importante:

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"**Sorella di Perfezione" di Giuseppe Iannozzi, LFA Publisher - Aggiornamento importante, nuovi punti vendita dove è possibile reperire il mio libro. **

"Sorella di Perfezione" è la mia ultima opera. La poesia è come la magia: sorprende il lettore, lo emoziona, gli fa palpitare il cuore. La poesia è la forma più nobile di letteratura. Con questo non voglio assolutamente dire di essere un profeta. Ho scritto un libro di circa 230 pagine. Ho impiegato ben quattro anni per scrivere le poesie che sono nell'antologia “Sorella di perfezione” (LFA Publisher). Perché dovreste leggere le mie poesie? Una risposta non ce l'ho, e non intendo stupirvi con effetti speciali e paroloni.
"Sorella di Perfezione" accoglie tante poesie, circa duecento. Ogni lirica affronta uno o più temi e tutti di grande attualità: amore, vita, morte, povertà, malattia, guerra, etc. Sostanzialmente parlo degli ultimi e dei penultimi, parlo di persone che dalla vita hanno ottenuto poco o niente. - Giuseppe Iannozzi

Potete leggere e votare il mio articolo su Fai.informazione.

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Sorella di Perfezione di Giuseppe Iannozzi (LFA Publisher). La poesia è come la magia

Sorella di Perfezione è la mia ultima opera. La poesia è come la magia : sorprende il lettore, lo emoziona, gli fa palpitare il cuore. La poesia è la forma più nobile di letteratura. Con questo non voglio assolutamente dire di essere un profeta .

^{Giuseppe Iannozzi (Fai Informazione - Social News)}

Wealthy American conservatives hint they’re ready to cough up again to rescue the scandal-ridden Church from going broke.

Archived version: archive.is/20250629065057/poli…

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.

Pope Leo looks to MAGA megadonors to shore up Church finances

^{Ben Munster (POLITICO)}

President dismisses leaked assessment suggesting strikes only temporarily disrupted Iran’s nuclear development

Archived version: archive.is/20250629173010/theg…

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.

Trump considers forcing journalists to reveal sources who leaked Iran report

^{Marina Dunbar (The Guardian)}

Zoomcar Holdings (Zoomcar) has disclosed that unauthorized accessed its system led to a data breach impacting 8.4 million users.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zoomcar-discloses-security-breach-impacting-84-million-users/

Email accounts of several Washington Post journalists were compromised in a cyberattack believed to have been carried out by a foreign government.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/washington-posts-email-system-hacked-journalists-accounts-compromised/

Email hosting provider Cock.li has confirmed it suffered a data breach after threat actors exploited flaws in its now-retired Roundcube webmail platform to steal over a million user records.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-steals-1-million-cockli-user-records-in-webmail-data-breach/

Work management platform Asana is warning users of its new Model Context Protocol (MCP) feature that a flaw in its implementation potentially led to data exposure from their instances to other users and vice versa.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/asana-warns-mcp-ai-feature-exposed-customer-data-to-other-orgs/

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-meta-leadership-talent-rivalry/

Episource warns of a data breach after hackers stole health information of over 5 million people in the United States in a January cyberattack.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/episource-says-data-breach-impacts-54-million-patients/

U.S. doughnut chain Krispy Kreme confirmed that attackers stole the personal information of over 160,000 individuals in a November 2024 cyberattack.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/krispy-kreme-says-november-data-breach-impacts-over-160-000-people/

A profound relational revolution is underway, not orchestrated by tech developers but driven by users themselves. Many of the 400 million weekly users of ChatGPT are seeking more than just assistance with emails or information on food safety; they are looking for emotional support.

“Therapy and companionship” have emerged as two of the most frequent applications for generative AI globally, according to the Harvard Business Review. This trend marks a significant, unplanned pivot in how people interact with technology.

Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans

Men are turning to AI for mental health support, finding digital confidants where traditional therapy falls short.

^{Luna Awomi (AI Indexes)}

Oxford City Council warns it suffered a data breach where attackers accessed personally identifiable information from legacy systems.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/oxford-city-council-suffers-breach-exposing-two-decades-of-data/

Nucor, North America's largest steel producer and recycler, has confirmed that attackers behind a recent cybersecurity incident have also stolen data from the company's network.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/steel-giant-nucor-confirms-hackers-stole-data-in-recent-breach/

McLaren Health Care is warning 743,000 patients that the health system suffered a data breach caused by a July 2024 attack by the INC ransomware gang.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mclaren-health-care-says-data-breach-impacts-743-000-patients/

Let's Encrypt has announced it will no longer notify users about imminent certificate expirations via email due to high costs, privacy concerns, and unnecessary complexities.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lets-encrypt-ends-certificate-expiry-emails-to-cut-costs-boost-privacy/

In March, police arrested a midwife named Maria, marking the first targeted provider arrest under Texas’s abortion ban.

States That Have Banned Abortion Are Now Criminalizing Midwives

^{Sarah Michal Hamid (Truthout)}

Democrats are hoping to draw out the bill’s passage while highlighting provisions expected to harm US families.

Democrats Force Reading of GOP’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” After Key Senate Vote

^{Jessica Corbett (Truthout)}

How do you relocate an entire 8,270-ton, 43,380-sq-ft (4,030 sq m), 100-year-old Shikumen brick building complex so you can build a multi-level subterranean shopping center, parking lot and subway connections under it? With robots, of course.

China temporarily relocates an entire city block, buildings and all

How do you relocate an entire city block with 100-year-old brick buildings on it so you can build a multi-level subterranean shopping center, parking lot and subway connections underneath? With robots, of course.

^{Joe Salas (New Atlas)}

An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators.

Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI | TechCrunch

^{Anthony Ha (TechCrunch)}

The Trump administration has, for the first time ever, built a searchable national citizenship data system.

The company’s rollout of its new driverless cars has gotten off to a wobbly start – and rival Waymo remains well ahead

‘Lidar is lame’: why Elon Musk’s vision for a self-driving Tesla taxi faltered

^{Nick Robins-Early (The Guardian)}

Yo, check out this great game.

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Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo would feel right at home on your GBA

Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo, from developer Pocket Trap, is a top-down adventure game that feels like it could have been a GBA classic.

^{Jay Peters (The Verge)}

In its finished state, the software is supposed to work like this:

• Users start NapsterML, which act as a peer in the network
• Once they have found other peers, they connect to a master node, which coordinates the training
• All peers then train a model with their uploaded songs
• Then they generate songs from their local models
• Each user can now listen to and generate their own AI songs

Would love to hear some feedback from you guys 😀

Anthem Demo - Napster plus Distributed Machine Learning

Output from the video: https://github.com/bluebbberry/NapsterML/tree/develop/example_output/generated_songs Repo: https://github.com/bluebbberry/NapsterML/tree/develop The app works like this: User...

^MakerTube

Glastonbury (United Kingdom) (AFP) – A British punk-rap group faced growing criticism on Sunday for making anti-Israel remarks at the Glastonbury music festival that have sparked a police inquiry.

Bob Vylan led crowds in chants of "Death, death to the IDF", a reference to the acronym for the Israeli military, during their set on Saturday.

British police officers are also examining comments by the Irish rap trio Kneecap, whose members have likewise been highly critical of Israel and its military campaign against the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

One of Kneecap's members wore a T-shirt dedicated to the Palestine Action Group, which is about to be banned under UK terror laws.

The UK government has "strongly condemned" Bob Vylan's chants, which festival organisers said had "very much crossed a line".

"We are urgently reminding everyone involved in the production of the festival that there is no place at Glastonbury for antisemitism, hate speech or incitement to violence," the festival said in a statement.

Avon and Somerset police said Saturday that video evidence would be assessed by officers "to determine whether any offences may have been committed that would require a criminal investigation".

The chants about Israel's military, condemned by the Israeli embassy in London, were led by Bob Vylan's frontman Bobby Vylan.

They were broadcast live on the BBC, which airs coverage of Britain's most popular music festival.

"I thought it's appalling, to be honest," Wes Streeting, the Labour's government's health secretary, said of the chants, adding that "all life is sacred".

"I think the BBC and Glastonbury have got questions to answer about how we saw such a spectacle on our screens," he told Sky News.

The Israel embassy said in a statement late Saturday that "it was "deeply disturbed by the inflammatory and hateful rhetoric expressed on stage at the Glastonbury Festival".

But Streeting also took aim at the embassy, telling it to "get your own house in order".

"I think there's a serious point there by the Israeli embassy. I wish they'd take the violence of their own citizens towards Palestinians more seriously," he said, citing Israeli settler violence in the West Bank.

A spokesperson for the BBC said Vylan's comments were "deeply offensive" and the broadcaster had "no plans" to make the performance available on its on-demand service.

Festival-goer Joe McCabe, 31, told AFP that while he did not necessarily agree with Vylan's statement, "I certainly think the message of questioning what's going on there (in Gaza) is right."

UK PM condemns 'death to the IDF' chants at Glastonbury Festival

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday added his voice to those condemning a British punk-rap group for anti-Israel remarks at the Glastonbury music festival, an incident that has already sparked a police inquiry.

^RFI