[Video] Huge Israeli bombing on Syrian ministry of Defense in Damascus
Scientists predicted coastal threats 25 years ago. What did they get right and what did they miss?
From agricultural pollution to the spread of invasive species and climate change, there are myriad shifting threats to rocky shores.
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Solid-state batteries charge in a fraction of the time, run cooler, and pack more energy into less space than traditional lithium-ion versions.
Solid-state batteries charge faster, last longer
Solid-state batteries are poised to transform everything from electric cars to consumer electronics, and represent a transformational leap in energy storage.News
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ASML stock tumbles as tariff turmoil spoils 2026 estimate
ASML shares tumble as US tariff turmoil rattles investors
World War Fee: AI boom can't mask trade gloom, says Dutch lithography giantDan Robinson (The Register)
US ambassador Huckabee attends Netanyahu’s criminal trial in show of support
In an unusual move, United States Ambassador Mike Huckabee attended a hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s criminal trial on Wednesday, in a show of support.
“I’m going to go by today and sit through a little of it. It should be very interesting to be a witness to it,” Huckabee said at an event in Tel Aviv prior to his arrival at the court.
Asked by an interviewer to explain the unusual decision, Huckabee referenced the bond between Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, who last month explicitly demanded an end to the trial, describing it as a “witch hunt.”
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Meta has developed an open-source AI tool to design concrete mixes that are stronger, more sustainable, and ready to build with faster—speeding up construction while reducing environmental impact.
- The AI tool leverages Bayesian optimization, powered by Meta’s BoTorch and Ax frameworks, and was developed with Amrize and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I) to accelerate the discovery of high-performance, low carbon concrete.
- Meta successfully deployed a concrete mix that was optimized with the AI tool at a data center construction site. Being open-sourced and freely available, the AI-tool could help increase the adoption and optimization of sustainable concrete mixes in the construction industry at large.
Using AI to make lower-carbon, faster-curing concrete - Engineering at Meta
Meta has developed an open-source AI tool to design concrete mixes that are stronger, more sustainable, and ready to build with faster—speeding up construction while reducing environmental impact. …Rebeca Ayala (Meta)
Israel opposition leader Lapid slams concentration camp plan for being too expensive
“Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu, together with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, want to establish what they call a ‘humanitarian city’ in Gaza, where more than 600,000 people would live — a city almost double the size of Tel Aviv,” the Yesh Atid leader said.
“What will the soldiers do if children want to leave the city? Who will feed them? Who will be responsible for water and electricity? What will happen if there are epidemics and diseases? Who will treat them?”
“Most relevant for Israeli citizens: How much will this cost us?” Lapid pressed, adding that the most conservative estimated cost for the project is about NIS 15 billion (around $4.5 billion), while other estimates, including from the IDF, suggest it could cost upward of NIS 20 billion.
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I would say this is the Israeli equivalent of libertarian criticizing U.S wars due to that
But nah, this is more like the Israeli equivalent of a socdem criticizing Nazi concentration camps, only because it's quite draining to the taxpayers
Tax em baby
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[piefed] blocks propagation quirks to Voyager UI?
Ie.
My voyager blocklist looks empty on my quokk.au piefed account.
But on the pieded web UI i can see I have a long blocklist
Previously were you only blocking via Voyager? If you were maybe it is some kind of sync problem, and now that you blocked via Piefed it forced a sync.
Just a thought
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Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed
Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam.
Newly added rule is:
Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content.
Diff of the new terms github.com/SteamDatabase/Steam…
:/ payment processors strike again (slippery slope etc)
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US ambassador attends Netanyahu trial to show support from Trump
US ambassador Mike Huckabee's appearance at Netanyahu’s corruption trial follows Trump's call for Israel to throw out the case or pardon the Israeli PM.
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How to Get AI Out of Your Google Search Results: Add -AI after your search term.
This story was originally published by The Revelator.
by John R. Platt
Three simple keystrokes will deliver search results that consume less energy and water — and probably contain better information.
A few weeks ago, I wrote an editorial discouraging environmentalists from using generative AI programs like ChatGPT due to their extraordinary energy and water consumption. If you care about the planet, I argued, you shouldn’t use such climate-damaging systems.
Most people responded to the editorial positively, but one follow-up question kept coming up: “How do I get AI completely out of my life?”
That’s a broad question, and it’s a tough one to answer because artificial intelligence has been wrapped into so many aspects of our daily lives, from cell phones, use of Microsoft Word, customer-service inquiries and, of course, search engines.
That last one bothered a lot of you, who complained about Google presenting AI answers to every search, well before any websites that might contain the same (or better) answers.
Now, search results that present AI-generated answers don’t carry quite the same environmental cost as full-fledged generative AI queries — like asking ChatGPT to “write” a full essay — but some research suggests AI search results will use four to five times as much energy as the old non-AI searches we used to enjoy. That’s not nothing, and in the battle against climate change, every watt counts.
Luckily, it turns out there’s an easy way to get AI out of your Google search results. Simply type these three keys after your search term: -AI
(That’s the minus sign immediately followed by the letters AI, with no space between them.)
Here’s an example: I Googled the phrase “why are tigers endangered” and got this result, leading with an AI-generated overview:
I tried it again with “-AI” at the end of the search phrase and got these results, which start with an authoritative source. Google still includes an overview pulled from the pages, but it doesn’t appear to have been generated by AI:
A second example: I searched for information on data centers and noise pollution (another problem of AI) and got this AI-generated search result:
But I added “-AI” to the search and got a reputable source first. Google still included a few lines from that source, but that’s the point: It was sourced in the first place. A lot of AI-generated texts don’t present their sources, so you can’t judge their veracity.
Google is obviously the king of search, but it’s not the only game in town. I tried this on a variety of other search engines and got similar — but imperfect — results.
A normal search on Bing delivered a detailed AI answer from its Copilot AI system.
Using “-AI” on Bing delivered a search result with a space for Copilot, but that space didn’t populate.
A normal search on Yahoo delivered an AI summary.
Using “-AI” on Yahoo still generated an AI answer, although it appeared after an authoritative source. (This earns Yahoo a failing grade, in my book.)
DuckDuckGo presented an AI “assist” on my first search (which, quite interestingly, included a warning about its possible lack of accuracy).
Adding “-AI” to the search on that platform delivered AI-free results. This made DuckDuckGo today’s winner. (It’s worth noting that DuckDuckGo also receives high marks from security specialists because it doesn’t track your search results.)
None of these results are perfect, and these search engines are likely to modify their systems at any time. But as of this writing using “-AI” seems like a simple and efficient way to reduce the carbon footprint of your online searches — which, as a journalist who searches for stuff dozens of times a day, is something I appreciate.
Credit where credit is due: I got this tip about Google from a video posted by ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee. Watch her video below, and her Climate A to Zee series on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQO…
Why The Revelator Banned AI Articles and Art • The Revelator
Artificial intelligence consumes too much energy and water and produces too much pollution for anyone who cares about the planet to use it.John R. Platt (The Revelator)
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Guests greet the newlyweds Volodymyr and Oleksandra by showering them with grain and candy during their traditional Ukrainian wedding on July 15, 2025 in Ternopil, Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images)
Ukraine’s prime minister submits resignation, parliament set to dismiss government on July 16. The parliament is set to dismiss the government on July 16 as Prime Minister Denys Shymhal submitted his resignation.
Mass attack hits cities overnight as Ukrainians brace for 50 more days of Russian terror. In Kharkiv, at least 17 explosions rocked the city in 20 minutes amid a massive Russian drone strike. Explosions, power outages, and mass strikes have been reported in multiple cities.
Trump reportedly asked Zelensky if Ukraine could strike Moscow, White House says he wasn’t ‘encouraging further killing.’ Donald Trump encouraged the strategy so that Russia could “feel the pain” and agree to negotiations, the Financial Times reported, citing its sources.
Zelensky shouldn’t target Moscow, Trump says. Trump responded to questions about his reported remarks by saying Zelensky should not attack the Russian capital. He also said the U.S. was not looking to provide Ukraine with long-range missiles.
Kremlin calls Trump’s tariff warnings ‘quite serious.’ “This statement from the U.S. president is quite serious. Some of what he said appears to be addressed personally to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
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Ukrainian cyberattack ‘paralyzes’ major Russian drone supplier, source claims. “The stolen data includes confidential questionnaires of the company’s employees, and most importantly, full technical documentation on the production of drones, which was handed over to the relevant specialists of the Ukrainian Defense Forces,” a source in Ukraine’s military intelligence told the Kyiv Independent.
Smoke rising near Russian battery plant amid reported Ukrainian drone attack. The facility reportedly manufactures batteries for missile guidance and glider modules, including for the Iskander system and cruise missiles, which Russia has been increasingly using to target Ukrainian cities.
Ukraine passes bill to withdraw from anti-personnel mine ban treaty. The vote passed by 305 deputies, with 40 abstaining, and none voting against.
Russian agent caught ‘red-handed’ planting explosives in Rivne apartment building, Ukraine’s SBU says. According to the SBU, Russian “special services” recruited the 27-year-old Lviv resident who was trying to obtain “easy money” through Telegram channels.
Ukrainian startup says its drones could work on their own by year’s end, thanks to AI. Armed with a fresh round of investment from the West, Ukrainian drone autonomy startup the Fourth Law is showcasing new footage as it aims to become the first to reach the latest holy grail of drone warfare: full autonomy.
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‘How would that even work?’ — experts pour scorn on Trump’s ‘severe’ Russian tariffs plan
“I’m afraid this talk about tariffs will remain just talk,” Andrei Movchan, a Russian-born economist and founder of Movchan’s Group, told the Kyiv Independent. “Like the oil price cap or the fight against the shadow fleet — something may be introduced on paper, but in reality, nothing will actually work.”
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‘Russia doesn’t care’ — Trump’s 50-day Ukraine ceasefire deadline dismissed by Moscow pundits
“Trump issued a theatrical ultimatum to the Kremlin,” former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wrote on July 15 following Trump’s ceasefire deadline and tariffs threat. “The world shuddered, expecting the consequences. Belligerent Europe was disappointed. Russia didn’t care.”
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Trump’s big Russia announcement fails to lift spirits in a fatigued Ukraine
Fifty days is a long time in a country that has seen a dramatic and devastating escalation in Russian aerial attacks in recent weeks, not to mention a Kremlin openly stating it intends to capture as much Ukrainian territory as it can in its ongoing summer offensive.
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Ukraine eyes building its own private military companies
Such a move, supporters say, could serve Ukraine’s domestic and foreign policy goals. Those opposed, however, say that creating militarized formations that often operate in a grey area is a potential security threat for everyone involved.
Photo: Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Anadolu/Getty Images
Human cost of Russia’s war
5 killed, 53 injured in Ukraine as Russia strikes hospitals, residential areas across country. Russian forces killed at least five people and injured at least 53, including four children, across Ukrainian regions over the past day, regional authorities reported on July 15
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,036,290 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022. The number includes 1,230 casualties that Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
International response
Trump says he’s ‘disappointed but not done’ with Putin. U.S. President Donald Trump said he believed a deal with Moscow had been close on four separate occasions.
China pledges deeper support for Russia amid Trump tariff threats. Following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Beijing on July 15, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that mutual trust between the two countries had “deepened” and called on both sides to “strengthen mutual support on multilateral forums.”
’50 days is a very long time’ — EU welcomes new US action on Ukraine, hesitant on timeline, Kallas says. “On one hand, it is very positive that President Trump is taking on a strong stance on Russia… On the other hand, 50 days is a very long time if we see that they are killing innocent civilians,” EU Special Envoy Kaja Kallas said.
Denmark, Sweden back funding US weapons for Ukraine. Denmark and Sweden are open to help deliver U.S. weapons, including Patriot air defense systems, to Ukraine via NATO, countries’ officials said on July 15.
France warns of war in ‘heart of Europe,’ names Russia ‘most direct threat.’ “In the years to come, and by 2030, the main threat to France and Europeans is the risk of open warfare against the heart of Europe,” France’s new National Strategic Review reads.
EU fails to approve new Russia sanctions as Slovakia holds up vote. “The government coalition rejects the imbecile proposal of the European Commission to stop the flow of Russian gas from 2028,” Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said.
Orban urges EU action over Ukraine’s conscription practices. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called upon the EU to take action against Ukraine’s conscription practices in an interview with Origo published on July 15, amid an ongoing dispute with Kyiv over the death of a Ukrainian conscript of Hungarian ethnicity.
Euroclear opposes expanding investment risk for frozen Russian funds amid Ukraine aid push, FT reports. The chief executive of Euroclear told the FT that the EU’s proposal would amount to “expropriation” — forced seizure — because if Russia demands the assets back in the future, they would not be available.
In other news
Kyiv court releases Ukraine’s top anti-corruption activist on recognizance as his lawyer dismisses the charges. Vitaliy Shabunin, head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center’s (AntAC) executive board and current member of the country’s Armed Forces, was charged on July 11 with evading military service and fraud — an accusation he and his team reject.
US-Ukraine minerals fund looks for manager as critical resources deal advances. The U.S. government’s development finance agency has started looking for a company to manage a joint U.S.-Ukraine investment fund, Ukraine’s Economy Ministry said in a July 15 press release.
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Analogue’s 4K N64 has been delayed again, but only by a month
A small change.
Analogue’s 4K N64 has been delayed again, but only by a month
Retro game company Analogue has announced that it’s 4K version of the Nintendo 64 has been delayed until August.Andrew Webster (The Verge)
Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget useless
Without rare, proprietary tech, these earbuds are useless.
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
https://www.wired.com/story/the-fbis-jeffrey-epstein-prison-video-had-nearly-3-minutes-cut-out/
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Because it's mutually assured destruction and they will protect each other no matter what. It's above "politics". That's the same reason Democrats defended Clinton and didn't release the same files to attack Trump. And they can't just release some "random" names when everyone knows it involves "elites".
Which is funny when Trump says Democrats cooked up the files and included themselves in them.
U.S. earmarks $1B for 'offensive cyber operations' despite broader efforts to slash cybersecurity spending
The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" specifically looks to bolster the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
The White House Has a Plan for All That Foreign Food Aid That DOGE Cut: Burn It
Is burning nearly a $1 million of food that you already bought a good example of "government efficiency"?
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Xbox tests letting you stream your own games on PC
More ways to play Xbox.
Xbox tests letting you stream your own games on PC
Xbox is testing the ability to stream your own games on its PC app. The feature is rolling out to Xbox Insiders with Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions, allowing users to play games without installing them.Emma Roth (The Verge)
Seagate’s massive, 30TB, $600 hard drives are now available for anyone to buy
Seagate’s heat-assisted drive tech has been percolating for more than 20 years.
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Ex-US soldier who Googled 'can hacking be treason' pleads guilty to extortion
File this one under what not to search if you've committed a crime
Ex-US soldier who Googled 'can hacking be treason' pleads guilty to extortion
: File this one under what not to search if you've committed a crimeJessica Lyons (The Register)
Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop
Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots
Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop
: Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by botsThomas Claburn (The Register)
Tesla’s Cybertruck Is a Bust
The truck that was supposed to revolutionize everything is flopping fast.
Now Microsoft’s Copilot Vision AI can scan everything on your screen
The tool is opt in.
Now Microsoft’s Copilot Vision AI can scan everything on your screen
Microsoft is rolling out an update to Copilot Vision for Windows Insiders that lets the AI tool see everything that’s on your screen.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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AMD cleared to join Nvidia and resume selling some underpowered AI chips to China
Waiting for license approval but plans to resume shipments of the MI308 accelerator soon-ish
AMD cleared to join Nvidia and resume selling some underpowered AI chips to China
: Waiting for license approval but plans to resume shipments of the MI308 accelerator soon-ishIain Thomson (The Register)
VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out
Exclusive: Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today
AWS renews Free Tier with credit up to $200
Amazon Web Services has updated its AWS Free Tier program, allowing new customers to receive up to $200 in AWS credit that can be spent on various AWS services.
AWS renews Free Tier with credit up to $200 - Techzine Global
The updated AWS Free Tier is now available in all AWS regions, except for the AWS GovCloud regions in the US and China.Mels Dees (Techzine)
Chinese authorities are using a new tool to hack seized phones and extract data
Researchers warned that Chinese residents, and visitors to China, should be aware of the tool's existence and the risks it poses.
My friends visiting Japan from the states literally did not bring phones and wiped their social media so they could get back into America.
Totally normal country but in evil asian countries look out
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So again, you are okay with China doing it, but not okay with US doing it? That's a bit hypocritical, no? I for one say fuck both for doing this.
There are many goods things about China, their total invasion of privacy is not one of them.
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So that's your bar for tolerable invasion of privacy?
Also, that German wasn't sent to the concentration camp, but was threated with up to 5 years in the US jail if he did not provide the password to his phone. And then US lied about everything from claiming it was about the meme to claiming he was trying to emigrate instead of just visiting.
Turbulence at Air Serbia, the latest airline under cyber siege
Exclusive: Attack enters day 11 and still no public disclosure of what insider claims to be 'deep breach' of Active Directory
A first-party data reality check | The Mozilla Blog
Part I in Anonym’s Rewiring the Rules Series
A first-party data reality check
What marketers need now are better ways to activate their data without crossing lines that compromise either performance or control.Rebecca Smith (The Mozilla Blog)
Lucio Russo: un argine all’irrazionalismo
Il 12 luglio è mancato Lucio Russo, figura singolare di scienziato e umanista, proprio perché nel suo percorso culturale i due termini erano indissolubilmente intrecciati. Nato a Venezia nel 1944, laureato in fisica a Napoli e professore ordinario di calcolo delle probabilità a Roma Tor Vergata, ci ha lasciato contributi e riflessioni che vanno molto al di là di un circoscritto settore scientifico. I suoi studi di storia della scienza mostrano una coerenza del tutto particolare anche con gli interventi pubblici sulla politica dell’istruzione.
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How to Get AI Out of Your Google Search Results: Add -AI after your search term.
This story was originally published by The Revelator.
by John R. Platt
Three simple keystrokes will deliver search results that consume less energy and water — and probably contain better information.
A few weeks ago, I wrote an editorial discouraging environmentalists from using generative AI programs like ChatGPT due to their extraordinary energy and water consumption. If you care about the planet, I argued, you shouldn’t use such climate-damaging systems.
Most people responded to the editorial positively, but one follow-up question kept coming up: “How do I get AI completely out of my life?”
That’s a broad question, and it’s a tough one to answer because artificial intelligence has been wrapped into so many aspects of our daily lives, from cell phones, use of Microsoft Word, customer-service inquiries and, of course, search engines.
That last one bothered a lot of you, who complained about Google presenting AI answers to every search, well before any websites that might contain the same (or better) answers.
Now, search results that present AI-generated answers don’t carry quite the same environmental cost as full-fledged generative AI queries — like asking ChatGPT to “write” a full essay — but some research suggests AI search results will use four to five times as much energy as the old non-AI searches we used to enjoy. That’s not nothing, and in the battle against climate change, every watt counts.
Luckily, it turns out there’s an easy way to get AI out of your Google search results. Simply type these three keys after your search term: -AI
(That’s the minus sign immediately followed by the letters AI, with no space between them.)
Here’s an example: I Googled the phrase “why are tigers endangered” and got this result, leading with an AI-generated overview:
I tried it again with “-AI” at the end of the search phrase and got these results, which start with an authoritative source. Google still includes an overview pulled from the pages, but it doesn’t appear to have been generated by AI:
A second example: I searched for information on data centers and noise pollution (another problem of AI) and got this AI-generated search result:
But I added “-AI” to the search and got a reputable source first. Google still included a few lines from that source, but that’s the point: It was sourced in the first place. A lot of AI-generated texts don’t present their sources, so you can’t judge their veracity.
Google is obviously the king of search, but it’s not the only game in town. I tried this on a variety of other search engines and got similar — but imperfect — results.
A normal search on Bing delivered a detailed AI answer from its Copilot AI system.
Using “-AI” on Bing delivered a search result with a space for Copilot, but that space didn’t populate.
A normal search on Yahoo delivered an AI summary.
Using “-AI” on Yahoo still generated an AI answer, although it appeared after an authoritative source. (This earns Yahoo a failing grade, in my book.)
DuckDuckGo presented an AI “assist” on my first search (which, quite interestingly, included a warning about its possible lack of accuracy).
Adding “-AI” to the search on that platform delivered AI-free results. This made DuckDuckGo today’s winner. (It’s worth noting that DuckDuckGo also receives high marks from security specialists because it doesn’t track your search results.)
None of these results are perfect, and these search engines are likely to modify their systems at any time. But as of this writing using “-AI” seems like a simple and efficient way to reduce the carbon footprint of your online searches — which, as a journalist who searches for stuff dozens of times a day, is something I appreciate.
Credit where credit is due: I got this tip about Google from a video posted by ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee. Watch her video below, and her Climate A to Zee series on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQO…
Why The Revelator Banned AI Articles and Art • The Revelator
Artificial intelligence consumes too much energy and water and produces too much pollution for anyone who cares about the planet to use it.John R. Platt (The Revelator)
Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of a Russian drone manufacturer
Ukrainian hackers breached Gaskar Group, a major Russian military drone manufacturer, on July 15, 2025, destroying over 47 terabytes of technical data and crippling the company's operations12.
The cyberattack was carried out by Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) working with volunteer groups "BO Team" and the "Ukrainian Cyber Alliance"2. The hackers destroyed all data on the company's servers, including 10 terabytes of backup files, and disabled the company's internet services, production software, and accounting systems2.
The stolen data included confidential employee records and complete technical documentation on drone production, which was transferred to Ukraine's Defense Forces2. Documents revealed close cooperation between Gaskar Group and China in drone manufacturing2.
This attack continues Ukraine's pattern of targeting Russian military infrastructure through cyberwarfare. In August 2024, Ukrainian hackers conducted a mass cyberattack that affected 33 servers and 283 computers at Russian industrial facilities3. In April 2024, they destroyed a data center used by over 10,000 Russian military-related companies4.
- TechCrunch - Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed servers of Russian drone maker ↩︎
- Ukrinform - Ukrainian hackers paralyze operations of major Russian drone manufacturer ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
- Kyiv Independent - Ukrainian hackers launch large-scale cyberattack on Russian Internet providers, military-related companies ↩︎
- Kyiv Independent - Sources: Ukrainian hackers destroy data center used by Russian military industry ↩︎
Sources: Ukrainian hackers destroy data center used by Russian military industry
Ukrainian hackers, possibly connected to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), destroyed a data center used by the Russian military, oil, gas, and telecommunications industries, sources in the SBU told the Kyiv Independent on April 8.Martin Fornusek (The Kyiv Independent)
Six arrested at protest of Palantir, tech company building deportation software for Trump admin
Six arrested at protest of Palantir, tech company building deportation software for Trump admin
Six of demonstrators were arrested at protest against the company’s work for Ice to help deport people from the USJohana Bhuiyan (The Guardian)
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Yeah, so that slogan needs to go and be replaced by something more serious than that.
I've heard that song too many times without anyone going.
People need to know that "a beautiful sight to behold"
had people with props going for photo ops,
made chain links for photo ops,
created barricades and attacked the police,
build statues of foreign nations for photo ops,
flew to foreign countries to recieve prizes for photo ops,
patrolled neighbourhoods to beat up counterprotesters there,
invaded government buildings,
set trains on fire,
set people on fire,
attempted to derail trains and set off bombs.
All in the name of "freedom" for an extradition law that was instigated to
put an active murderer behind bars (that guy is now walking free).
And with demands that said that nothing they did or will do is illegal
and that instead the police should be investigated for malpractice
and be send to jail if any wrongdoing was found.
What it did not have and other protests don't are signs that say
"If you're X and you do not protest, then you're with them"
and shop lootings,
with the latter, the US Republican media constantly harps on.
If that's a "beautiful sight to behold" according to most US politicians,
then any US citizen should demand the right to have the same rights
as the Hong Kong protesters demanded.
- Full withdrawal of ICE and the Alien Enemies Act
- A commission of inquiry into alleged ICE brutality
- Retracting the classification of protesters as anything but protesters
- Amnesty for all arrested protesters no matter the action done
- Abolishment of the first past the post system
But you could ask for more than that, because ICE raids
and building concentration camps do not equate with
an extradition law that would have affected
maybe 6 people in a decade.
I remember the George Floyd protests had a little bit of that,
when people marched through gated communities,
and attacked police and counterprotesters,
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