https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/163270-nato-kaliningrad-threat-us-general-donahue-russia-response/

The southern Israeli port of Eilat is set to shut down completely in the coming days, due to massive debts and paralysis caused by Yemen’s pro-Palestine naval blockade on Israel.

The Israeli Ports and Shipping Authority said on 16 July that Eilat Port will suspend all its operations starting on 20 July.

Hebrew media reports described the situation as a “dramatic step” that could undermine Israeli maritime logistics in the Red Sea, and referred to the port as “debt ridden.”

‘Debt-ridden’ Eilat Port faces imminent shutdown due to Yemeni blockade

The port faces up to millions of shekels in tax debts and cannot continue to operate as a result of Yemen’s pro-Palestine operations

^thecradle.co

debian 12.11, organic maps from flatpak.

My local organic maps started to download the whole world. Every single map it could find. I tried stopping it but the only way to achieve that is to turn the application off. On starting it again, it resumes downloading.

Why?

The android based version found on f-droid is easier to use. I wanted to use the desktop based one because I work from home more often than elsewhere.

Article link. Translation:

Potsdam (dpa/bb) - The commitment to Israel's right to exist is a condition for naturalisation in Brandenburg. In addition to the commitment to the liberal-democratic basic order, “the recognition of the right to existence of the State of Israel has been a condition for naturalisation since the beginning of June this year,” said Interior Minister René Wilke in the . This is done in consultation with Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD).

The Minister of the Interior made it clear that it is not about the acceptance of all decisions by the Israeli government: “It is a commitment to the right of the State of Israel to exist, which is being made,” said Wilke. “It is not a commitment that everything any head of government in Israel will ever do and will also be solidarity and agreement.”

https://english.pravda.ru/opinion/163239-moscow_fury/

The US Department of Justice is recommending a one-day jail sentence and supervised release for the former police officer convicted of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot in her bedroom by Louisville, Kentucky, police in March 2020.

Brett Hankison is set to be sentenced on Monday after being found guilty in November 2024 of one count of civil rights abuse for shooting into Taylor’s bedroom window, which was covered by blinds and a blackout curtain, during a narcotics raid on the wrong home.

He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison, which justice department attorneys argued should be drastically reduced.

DoJ seeks single-day sentence for officer who fired into Breonna Taylor’s home

Department of Justice says no prison needed for ex-officer convicted of violating Taylor’s civil rights in fatal 2020 raid

^{Emily Swanson (The Guardian)}

I've been experiencing freezes after ~1h of playing. Those are hard freezes when even switching workspace doesn't work. Restarting the game helps for another hour

I've tried what few options from protondb but haven't noticed much change

Am I the only one?

• GPU: Radeon 5700 xt
• CPU: AMD
• 48 GB RAM
• SSD

https://www.protondb.com/app/1172710

I decided to go with Linux mint for my laptop. After installing it alongside windows 10, it won't boot into either. If I reboot from my USB stick, it says that maybe it's too far away from the start of the drive to be detected. But I believe there is some intel /hp stuff that includes some kind of boot that might also be interfering. Does anyone have a good way forward from here?

Link from boot repair: paste.ubuntu.com/p/GJcsXfRkrj/

Germany's voluntary pirate site blocking regime has undergone a fundamental change, now requiring judicial oversight for all blocking actions. The participants will rely on court orders going forward, instead of their own recommendations. While the change ensures a proper review of blocking requests, it does not necessarily make the blockades more transparent for the public.

Pirate Site Blockades Get Judicial Scrutiny in Germany, But No Transparency? * TorrentFreak

Germany's voluntary pirate site blocking regime has undergone a fundamental change, now requiring judicial oversight for all blocking action.

^{Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)}

Details of members of the SAS are among more than 100 Britons named in the database of 18,700 Afghans, the accidental leak of which by a defence official led to thousands being secretly relocated to the UK.

Defence sources said the highly sensitive document contained names and email addresses belonging to people sponsoring or linked to some individual cases. Personal information about MI6 officers was also included.

The identities of members of the SAS and MI6 are a closely guarded secret, and the possibility that following the leak such information could have ended up in the public domain was a source of significant official concern.

Earlier this week it emerged that the Ministry of Defence had obtained a superinjunction preventing the fact of the leak and a £2bn-plus scheme had been created to relocate some Afghans affected by the breach to the UK to protect them from the Taliban.

Spies and SAS personnel among 100-plus Britons included in Afghan data leak

Sources say leak included details of Britons who endorsed Afghan applications to be brought to UK after Taliban takeover

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

Liberty has an off button, for now

Ongoing legal challenges, decisions, and reversals highlight one thing very clearly: lack of direction, lack of a comprehensive solution and simply put, legislative dysfunction.

While important questions about the implementation of the law in France are still being considered, we maintain that French citizens deserve regulation that will prevent children from accessing adult content and that can be effectively enforced. They also deserve that their privacy and sensitive data be protected. Again, we believe the current approach faces significant challenges in achieving these important goals.

Your government is proposing we verify your age every single time you visit our site. The harsh reality: This does not protect minors — it endangers everyone's privacy and puts children in danger by driving traffic to thousands of sites that deliberately circumvent regulations, don't verify the age of performers in content, and actively encourage users to bypass the law. Unlike us, they don't monitor content or prioritize safety—making everyone more vulnerable, not less...

Data breaches happen daily. Forcing you to enter sensitive personal information repeatedly creates an unacceptable security risk we refuse to impose on our users. We refuse to compromise your privacy with measures that, ironically, fail to effectively protect children.

A path forward requires law makers to understand and address with a clear enforcement plan the fact that adult content exists on hundreds of thousands of platforms, not simply the 17 sites designated in the ministerial order.

To the French government and Arcom we ask, how many minors have been protected in the six weeks since this law came into effect? Provide the data on how this reduced access to age-inappropriate content.

Hi everyone,

I’d like to share an idea I refined together with ChatGPT, combining AI’s strengths with human expertise to create something truly impactful.

🌿 Proposal Summary

“ChatGPT Mental Health Plan” – a new subscription tier or add-on offering hybrid mental health support:
1. AI-powered emotional support and journaling tools
2. Guided pattern-recognition for stress, anxiety, and burnout
3. Optional upgrade to connect with licensed counselors or therapists (e.g. 1–2 virtual sessions/month)
4. Collaboration with trained psychology professionals
5. Privacy-first design with full user consent

🧩 Why this matters:

• Mental health is a growing global crisis, especially among teens and young adults
• Traditional therapy often has access barriers (cost, time, stigma)
• ChatGPT already provides comfort, but combining it with real counselors could offer life-changing support

💡 Benefits:

• AI scales emotional support affordably
• Human professionals provide clinical depth when needed
• Potentially life-saving early intervention for those who otherwise wouldn’t seek help

This post was drafted with assistance from ChatGPT — proof that AI-human collaboration can fuel real-world ideas.

I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or suggestions on how to make this proposal even stronger or more feasible.

Thanks for reading!

https://www.boomlive.in/decode/when-a-face-scan-decides-who-eats-and-who-keeps-their-job-29048

We all know that AI is expensive, but a new set of algorithms developed by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Intel Labs, and d-Matrix could significantly reduce the cost of serving up your favorite large language model (LLM) with just a few lines of code.

Presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning this week and detailed in this paper, the algorithms offer a new spin on speculative decoding that they say can boost token generation rates by as much as 2.8x while also eliminating the need for specialized draft models.

Speculative decoding, if you're not familiar, isn't a new concept. It works by using a small "draft" model ("drafter" for short) to predict the outputs of larger, slower, but higher quality "target" models.

If the draft model can successfully predict, say, the next four tokens in the sequence, that's four tokens the bigger model doesn't have to generate, and so we get a speed-up. If it's wrong, the larger model discards the draft tokens and generates new ones itself. That last bit is important as it means the entire process is lossless — there's no trade-off in quality required to get that speed-up.

Boffins detail new algorithms to losslessly boost AI perf by up to 2.8x

: New spin on speculative decoding works with any model - now built into Transformers

^{Tobias Mann (The Register)}