Google will merge ChromeOS and Android into a unified platform, according to Sameer Samat, President of Android Ecosystem at Google. "We're going to be combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform, and I am very interested in how people are using their laptops these days and what they're getting done," Samat said during a recent interview.

"This is not about security," said the head of Gaza's fishers' union. "It's economic, social, and psychological warfare, a weapon of slow, deliberate suffocation."

Archived version: archive.is/newest/commondreams…

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In Act of 'Brutal Sadism,' Israel Bans Gazans From Entering Sea Under Pain of Death

"This is not about security," said the head of Gaza's fishers' union. "It's economic, social, and psychological warfare, a weapon of slow, deliberate suffocation."

^{brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)}

In a closed-door session last week, senators advanced legislation that would authorize $925 billion in military spending for the coming fiscal year.

After Passage of GOP Medicaid Cuts, Congress Debates Nearly $1 Trillion Military Budget

^{jake-johnson (Common Dreams)}

The designation, pushed by right-wing think tank ALEC, allows fossil fuel firms to compete for clean energy funding.

Red states, defying reality, are reclassifying gas as a “green” fuel

^{Mother Jones}

We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

Why Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Won’t Release His Elon Musk Emails

^ProPublica

Agents tear-gassed community members, including children, as crowds attempted to protect farmworkers from arrest.

Farmworker Dead and More Than 300 More Detained in California ICE Raid

^{Amy Goodman (Truthout)}

In many states, the push to end the subminimum wage continues.

Trump just made It OK to continue paying disabled workers peanuts

^{Mother Jones}

"He is our greatest champion of faith, of any president, that the United States of America has ever had."

Churches can now endorse candidates and Trump couldn't be happier

^{Mother Jones}

Millions of Americans will lose health care coverage due to the Medicaid cuts in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”

Dr. Oz Tells Americans Who Are Concerned About Medicaid Cuts to Eat Less Cake

Millions of Americans will lose health care coverage due to the Medicaid cuts in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”…

^{Chris Walker (Truthout)}

A week after Elon Musk’s Grok dubbed itself “MechaHitler” and spewed antisemitic stereotypes, the US government has announced a new contract granting the chatbot’s creator, xAI, up to $200 million to modernize the Defense Department.

xAI is one of several leading AI companies to receive the award, alongside Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. But the timing of the announcement is striking given Grok’s recent high-profile spiral, which drew congressional ire and public pushback. The use of technology, and especially AI, in the defense space has long been a controversial topic even within the tech industry, and Musk’s prior involvement in slashing federal government contracts through his work at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) still raises questions about potential conflicts — though his relationship with President Donald Trump has more recently soured, and Trump’s administration has claimed Musk would step back from any potential conflicts while at DOGE.

US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident

The US Defense Department is awarding Elon Musk’s xAI a contract to help “develop agentic AI workflows” following an ill-fated Grok update.

^{Lauren Feiner (The Verge)}

3.26.0d Hotfix 4

• Increased the memory limit of the DirectX12 renderer. This can help cases where assets keep reloading in performance-heavy situations, such as in Blight-ravaged maps.
• Impenetrable Bastion's immunity Buff is now unaffected by things that modify the expiry rate of Buffs, such as Temporal Chains.
• Impenetrable Bastion's immunity Buff now has a global cooldown of 20 seconds.

You will need to restart your client to patch the client-side changes of this hotfix.

Patch Notes - 3.26.0d Hotfix 4 - Forum - Path of Exile

Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.

^{Path of Exile}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33162300

Jeremy Scahill
Jul 14, 2025

Immediately after Trump announced what he called the “final proposal” for a Gaza deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu undermined the negotiating process, repeatedly announcing—in public—his intent to continue the war after securing the release of ten living Israeli captives in a temporary 60-day truce and to forge ahead with his ethnic cleansing campaign to force the surviving Palestinians out of Gaza. “After the pause, we will transfer the population in the Strip southward and impose a siege [on the rest of Gaza],” Netanyahu told far-right cabinet minister Bezalel Smotrich recently, according to Israel’s Channel 12.

Peter Link

2025-07-14 20:53:55

Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies

Jeremy Scahill
Jul 14, 2025

Immediately after Trump announced what he called the “final proposal” for a Gaza deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu undermined the negotiating process, repeatedly announcing—in public—his intent to continue the war after securing the release of ten living Israeli captives in a temporary 60-day truce and to forge ahead with his ethnic cleansing campaign to force the surviving Palestinians out of Gaza. “After the pause, we will transfer the population in the Strip southward and impose a siege [on the rest of Gaza],” Netanyahu told far-right cabinet minister Bezalel Smotrich recently, according to Israel’s Channel 12.

Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies

Trump again claimed a Gaza deal may be imminent as Netanyahu continues his campaign of sabotage.

^{Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33162300

Jeremy Scahill
Jul 14, 2025

Immediately after Trump announced what he called the “final proposal” for a Gaza deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu undermined the negotiating process, repeatedly announcing—in public—his intent to continue the war after securing the release of ten living Israeli captives in a temporary 60-day truce and to forge ahead with his ethnic cleansing campaign to force the surviving Palestinians out of Gaza. “After the pause, we will transfer the population in the Strip southward and impose a siege [on the rest of Gaza],” Netanyahu told far-right cabinet minister Bezalel Smotrich recently, according to Israel’s Channel 12.

Peter Link

2025-07-14 20:53:55

Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies

Jeremy Scahill
Jul 14, 2025

Immediately after Trump announced what he called the “final proposal” for a Gaza deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu undermined the negotiating process, repeatedly announcing—in public—his intent to continue the war after securing the release of ten living Israeli captives in a temporary 60-day truce and to forge ahead with his ethnic cleansing campaign to force the surviving Palestinians out of Gaza. “After the pause, we will transfer the population in the Strip southward and impose a siege [on the rest of Gaza],” Netanyahu told far-right cabinet minister Bezalel Smotrich recently, according to Israel’s Channel 12.

Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies

Trump again claimed a Gaza deal may be imminent as Netanyahu continues his campaign of sabotage.

^{Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)}

Jeremy Scahill
Jul 14, 2025

Immediately after Trump announced what he called the “final proposal” for a Gaza deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu undermined the negotiating process, repeatedly announcing—in public—his intent to continue the war after securing the release of ten living Israeli captives in a temporary 60-day truce and to forge ahead with his ethnic cleansing campaign to force the surviving Palestinians out of Gaza. “After the pause, we will transfer the population in the Strip southward and impose a siege [on the rest of Gaza],” Netanyahu told far-right cabinet minister Bezalel Smotrich recently, according to Israel’s Channel 12.

Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies

Trump again claimed a Gaza deal may be imminent as Netanyahu continues his campaign of sabotage.

^{Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)}

the x264 av1 file plays only audio on vlc but works with flaws on mpv: on mpv I get audio and video, but every 5 to 6 seconds it's like instead of getting 24 fps I get 22, the user noticing the missing frames.

Is this a hardware issue? software?

debian 12.11, vlc 3.0.21 flatpak, mpv 0.40.0 flatpak

what do I do?

cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/493495

Comments

Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?

Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

• Google Announcement.
• Anthropic Announcement.
  > Today, the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) announced contract awards to leading U.S. frontier AI companies to accelerate Department of Defense (DoD) adoption of advanced AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges. Frontier AI companies lead development of the most advanced AI models and technologies, conduct insightful research into the use of frontier AI, and pioneer efforts to address both the potential benefits and risks of frontier AI technologies.

The awards to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI – each with a $200M ceiling – will enable the Department to leverage the technology and talent of U.S. frontier AI companies to develop agentic AI workflows across a variety of mission areas. Establishing these partnerships will broaden DoD use of and experience in frontier AI capabilities and increase the ability of these companies to understand and address critical national security needs with the most advanced AI capabilities U.S. industry has to offer.

Google Public Sector Awarded $200M DoD CDAO Contract for AI & Cloud Acceleration

Google Public Sector secures $200M DoD CDAO contract, accelerating AI and cloud adoption to enhance U.S. national security and mission readiness with cutting-edge tech.

^{Jim Kelly (Google Cloud)}

The release of this blueprint launches a pilot phase during which a software solution for age verification will be tested and further customised in collaboration with Member States, online platforms and end-users. Denmark, France, Greece, Italy and Spain will be the first to take up the technical solution in view of taking it up in their national digital wallets or publishing a customised national age verification app on the app stores. Market players can also take up the software solution and further develop it.

An official inquiry has been launched after Declassified revealed that an Israeli state-owned weapons firm had funded a group of British MPs.

RUK Advanced Systems Ltd sells weapons including urban combat missiles and “hard kill” torpedoes. But records show it is part of the defence giant Rafael, which is owned by the Israeli government.

Our investigation found the company had paid at least £1,499 to partner with the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Defence Technology, which provides “opportunities to network with MPs”. The money was paid directly to the group’s secretariat.

But parliamentary rules say that APPGs should not “accept the services of a secretariat funded directly or indirectly by a foreign government”.

Probe launched into Westminster group’s Israel funding

Exclusive: Parliamentary standards boss announces investigation after Declassified revealed donation from Israeli state-owned arms firm.

^{Martin Williams (Declassified Media ltd)}

Is he building links or a sheep in wolf's clothing?

Not A Good Sign

Mamdani appoints top DNC and Obama advisor in bid to secure Democratic Party establishment support

Mamdani has appointed Jeffrey Lerner—a former top Obama White House aide and Democratic National Committee political director—as his communications chief.

^{World Socialist Web Site}

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Tesla will hold a shareholder vote on whether Elon Musk’s carmaker should invest in his artificial intelligence startup xAI, the billionaire said Sunday

Tesla to hold shareholder vote on whether to invest in xAI

Tesla will hold a shareholder vote on whether Elon Musk’s carmaker should invest in his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, the billionaire said in a post on X Sunday.

^{Clare Duffy (CNN)}

https://piped.chrisco.me/videos/watch/c9a7d7fc-ace8-497e-87f2-1d51d4fdf0bb

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

STORIE AL PASSO
Silentwalk poetico-performativa in cuffia lungo l’Anello di Davide
A cura di Gabriele Anzaldi, Simone Baroni, Rita Di Leo, Giorgia Favoti
Musiche e suoni di Gabriele Anzaldi
Produzione: Fondazione Federico Cornoni
In collaborazione con il Comune di Bore

All’interno del festival Canile Drammatico, promosso dalla Fondazione Federico Cornoni ETS con il contributo di Regione Emilia-Romagna, Comune di Parma, Fondazione Cariparma, Confesercenti Parma, e il patrocinio di Comune di Bore e Università di Parma.

Il festival, dedicato al teatro contemporaneo per un pubblico giovane, approda a Bore con un progetto nato da una ricerca sul territorio e dai racconti degli abitanti, diventati base drammaturgica dell’evento.
“Storie al passo” è una camminata performativa lungo l’Anello di Davide, tra i faggeti del monte Carameto, a cura del Comitato Artistico della Fondazione, nata per ricordare Federico, giovane attore parmigiano. Una narrazione che intreccia memoria collettiva, Resistenza, antichi mestieri ed emigrazione.

Domenica 20 luglio alle ore 15.30, presso la Sala Multimediale dell’ex Colonia Leoni (via Roma 83), si terrà la presentazione del libro “Donne resistenti” di Fausto Ferrari, con testimonianze di partigiane delle montagne tra Piacenza e Parma.

Entrambi i giorni, dalle 10 alle 18, sempre all’Ex Colonia Leoni, sarà proiettato in loop il backstage del progetto, con le voci di alcuni abitanti coinvolti: Giuseppe e Valentino Campana, Iole Chiesa, Lorenzo Conti, Marisa Cornoni, Paolo Dondi, Fausto e Gaetano Ferrari, Michele Lalli.

L’iniziativa rientra nel progetto FaTiCa a margine, che collega diversi festival per avvicinare le comunità marginali al teatro.

INFO E PRENOTAZIONI
Partenza: Strada Comunale (loc. Orsi), ore 10 e 17 – Puntualità richiesta
Percorso: 3 km, dislivello 225 mt – Durata 1h30 circa
Abbigliamento comodo – Cuffie fornite
Prenotazioni: 348-8229334 – organizzazione@fondazionefedericocornoni.it
www.fondazionefedericocornoni.it – FB @Canile drammatico – IG @caniledrammatico_festival

STORIE AL PASSO camminata poetico-performativa in cuffia lungo l’Anello di Davide a Bore (Parma), sabato 19 e domenica 20 luglio - ViaggieMiraggi

Bore (Parma) Sabato 19 e domenica 20 luglio 2025 ore 10 e 17 STORIE AL PASSO Silentwalk camminata poetico-performativa in cuffia lungo l’Anello di Davide a cura di Gabriele Anzaldi, Simone Baroni, Rita Di Leo, Giorgia Favoti musiche e suoni...

^{Redazione (ViaggieMiraggi)}

Current Fediverse Implementation

From my understanding, the prominent fediverse implementations implement fanout via writing to other instances.

In other words, if user A on instance A makes post A, instance A will write or sync post A in all instances that have followers for user A. So user B on instance B will read post A from instance B.

Why this is Done

From my understanding, to prevent a case where post A is viral and everyone wants to read it, and instance A's database gets overwhelmed with reads. It also serves to replicate content

My Question: Why not rely on static files instead of database reads / writes to propagate content?

Instead of the above, if someone follows user A, they can get user A's posts via a static file that contains all of User A's posts. Do the same for everyone you follow.

Reading this file will be a lot less resource intensive than a database read, and with a CDN would be even better.

Cons

• posts are less "Real time". Why? Because when post A is made, the static file must be updated (though fediverse does this already), and user B or instance B must fetch it. User B / instance B do not have the post pushed to them, so the post arrives with a delay depending on how frequently they fetch. But frequent fetches are okay, and easier to handle heavy loads than database reads.
• if using a CDN for the static files, there's another delay based on the TTL and invalidation. This should still be small, up to a couple minutes at most.

Pros

• hosting a fediverse server is more accessible and cheaper, and it could scale better.
• Federation woes of posts not federating to other instances can potentially be resolved, as the fanout architecture is less complex (no longer necessary to write to a dozens or hundreds of instances for a single post).
• Clients can have greater freedom in implementing how they create news feeds. You don't have to rely on your instance to do it. Instances primarily make content available, and clients can handle creating news feeds, content sorting and filtering (optional), etc.

What are your thoughts on this?