Nearly three-quarters of solar and wind projects are being built in China
China is rapidly scaling up its solar and wind energy infrastructure, accounting for nearly three-quarters of all utility-scale projects currently under construction worldwide, according to a new report from the Global Energy Monitor (GEM). With 510 gigawatts (GW) already under construction and a total pipeline of over 1.3 terawatts (TW), China is consolidating its position as a dominant force in the global energy transition.
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A team of construction workers in China operating excavators remotely
A team of construction workers in China operating excavators remotely
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You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how
Google recently disabled uBlock Origin and other extensions for Chrome users with no apparent option to restore them. The good news is that you can still make uBlock Origin work. Here is how.
Disaster Looms As President Trump Plans To Defund Satellite Crash Avoidance Service
The U.S. Space Force and the entire private space industry are telling Congress this is a recipe for disaster.
Study shows AI coding assistants actually slow down experienced developers
Developers took 19% longer to finish tasks using AI tools
Study shows AI coding assistants actually slow down experienced developers
The research, conducted by the non-profit Model Evaluation & Threat Research (METR), set out to measure the real-world impact of advanced AI tools on software development. Over...Skye Jacobs (TechSpot)
Tesla Makes a Desperate Move in Canada as Sales Collapse
Caught between a collapse in sales and punishing tariffs, the automaker is making a dramatic pivot, creating a bizarre pricing situation and leaving recent buyers with a serious case of regret.
Your Next EV Won't Be Obsolete: How Rivian Is Designing for the Next Decade
The Rivian you buy today won't be the Rivian you interact with five years from now.
Police use facial recognition to identify women twerking on police car
Police used a facial recognition software to identify women seen twerking on a police car.
US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP
Brothers-in-law use construction knowledge to compete against Comcast in Michigan.
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Chinese satellites appear to dock in orbit for historic refuelling mission
Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 ‘appeared visually merged in optical sensor data’, space tracking firm says, a feat US seeks to match by 2026.
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Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view many types of content
Reddit hires company to verify user age with selfie or photo of government ID.
'Horrific': Israeli Military Kills Seven Children in Latest Attack on Water Distribution Site
Gaza's Government Media Office said Israeli forces have killed more than 700 people at water distribution sites since October 2023.
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'Horrific': Israeli Military Kills Seven Children in Latest Attack on Water Distribution Site
Gaza's Government Media Office said Israeli forces have killed more than 700 people at water distribution sites since October 2023.jake-johnson (Common Dreams)
From New York to Ohio, Americans Support Economic Populism
Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in New York City drove home the political promise of economic populism. A bold progressive economic agenda can win working-class voters in the Midwest too.
Well-known VPN service shuts down, killing lifetime members' subscriptions
BulletVPN has announced its abrupt closure, but users of the VPN service can get a free subscription with an alternative provider.
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Family Demands US Probe Into Israeli Settlers' 'Lynching' of American Citizen
Israeli settlers brutally beat 20-year-old Palestinian-American Sayfollah Musallet to death in the West Bank, while U.S. officials remain silent. His family demands justice for the senseless killing. Why do Americans continue to be murdered by Israelis with no consequences? #JusticeForSayf
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Family Demands US Probe Into Israeli Settlers' 'Lynching' of American Citizen
The family of Sayfollah Musallet called his killing by Israeli settlers "an unimaginable nightmare and an injustice that no family should ever have to face."julia-conley (Common Dreams)
Kamal Adwan Hospital Chief ‘Starved, Tortured, Isolated’ in Israeli Jail
Kamal Adwan Hospital chief ‘starved, tortured, isolated’ in Israeli jail
Dr Hussam Abu Safia’s condition has worsened since he was abducted and jailed by Israel in December last yearthecradle.co
Google Plans To Combine ChromeOS and Android Into Single Platform
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.
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."
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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)
After Passage of GOP Medicaid Cuts, Congress Debates Nearly $1 Trillion Military Budget
In a closed-door session last week, senators advanced legislation that would authorize $925 billion in military spending for the coming fiscal year.
Red states, defying reality, are reclassifying gas as a “green” fuel
The designation, pushed by right-wing think tank ALEC, allows fossil fuel firms to compete for clean energy funding.
Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public
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.”
Farmworker Dead and More Than 300 More Detained in California ICE Raid
Agents tear-gassed community members, including children, as crowds attempted to protect farmworkers from arrest.
Trump just made It OK to continue paying disabled workers peanuts
In many states, the push to end the subminimum wage continues.
Churches can now endorse candidates and Trump couldn't be happier
"He is our greatest champion of faith, of any president, that the United States of America has ever had."
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.”
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)
US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident
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)
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[Patch Notes] 3.26.0d Hotfix 4
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
Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies
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Jul 14, 2025Immediately 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
Jeremy Scahill
Jul 14, 2025Immediately 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)
Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies
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Jeremy Scahill
Jul 14, 2025Immediately 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
Jeremy Scahill
Jul 14, 2025Immediately 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)
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)
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Always telling when they refuse to point to the leadership they are ostensibly dealing with in between rounds of mass extermination.
Netanyahu has made it a national policy of targeting all former members of the Palestinian government, both in Gaza and the West Bank. His IDF kills militants and diplomats alike. They find family members and murder them, too. They gun down whole neighborhoods on the suspicion a Hamas insurgent might be inside. They fill their prisons with suspects and torture Gazans to death, extracting a few confessions out along the way. Then they kick off wars with neighboring Lebanon and Syria, they bomb their ostensible allies in Jordan and Egypt, and they even send bombers deep into Iran.
Hell, they are shooting their own Oct 7th hostages. Who is left to sign a "surrender" agreement on these terms? Anyone waving a white flag is bombed into the pavement.
Might as well ask for Anne Frank's surrender as anyone in Gaza.
Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI
Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI
The announcement comes just days after Grok generated antisemitic responses and praised Hitler, which were later deleted.Patrick Maguire (CBS News)
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x264 AV1 file, vlc and mpv on debian 12.11, problems to play it, what to do?
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?
Check using e.g. top for your CPU (nvidia-smi or amd-smi for your GPU) or System Monitor on KDE if any of your resource is being maxed out. If so then most likely you found the culprit.
Regarding what the actual codec is being used you can use ffprobe but anyway what matters if resource bottleneck and thus if you can have hardware acceleration for it.
It's probably worth investigating so that you don't keep on getting video files too big for your computer to handle. I imagine it's something very high resolution with very recent compression. If so, look for something less demanding, e.g. x265 720p and if that's still leading to performance hiccups the older x264 720p or even 480p.
It's rare that the media player itself, e.g. VLC or mpv, actually is the bottleneck.
Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?
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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 outGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Jack Dorsey has built an app for Iphone to track your vitamin D, released under Public Domain.
GitHub - jackjackbits/sunday: track your D
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The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows
- 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 European Commission says that France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and Greece will test a blueprint for an age verification app meant to protect children online
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.
Commission makes available an age-verification blueprint
To help online platforms implement a user-friendly and privacy-preserving age verification method, the Commission is developing a harmonised approach in close collaboration with the Member States.Shaping Europe’s digital future
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