Replit AI went rogue, deleted a company's entire database, then hid it and lied about it
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Trump puts up AI video of Obama being arrested by the FBI in the Oval Office
Republished from DailyKos under their terms.
Donald Trump put up a video of President Barack Obama being arrested by the FBI in the Oval Office as you can see in the screen grab. Trump is exceedingly happy about it, of course.
The video starts with Obama and a number of Democrats all saying "No One Is Above The Law," then a clown picture, and then the video of the FBI grabbing Obama. Then, Obama is in prison orange jumpsuit in a prison hallway, and then finally in a jail cell.
Here it is on Trump's Truth Social account.
Smaller versions without the No One Is Above The Law intro:
Mario Nawfal has a link to it up on his X account.
Here's the direct link to it, still on X.
It's really a small screen video, and the soundtrack sounds like something from the Village People.
This is also up on Trump's Truth Social.
Samantha Power was Obama's Ambassador to the United Nations. Under Joe Biden, she was the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Developmen. USAID.
All what money? Besides her political and service career, she wrote 4 books. She had $20 million before she became the USAID Administrator. She had $30 million when she left. Elon Musk wondered how she went from $6.7 million to $30 million in three years. He obviously had a wrong starting point. Trump and Musk were doing everything they could to discredit her and USAID.
Former USAID head Samantha Power’s wealth didn’t ‘skyrocket’; it largely stayed the same
An X post claiming former USAID Administrator Samantha Power’s net worth “skyrocketed” from $6.7 million to $30 million in three years is false.Loreben Tuquero, Austin American-Statesman (Austin American-Statesman)
Iran: The Failure of Western Aggression
Iran: The Failure of Western Aggression
Western aggression against Iran is a gross violation of international law and a failure of Western containment strategy. Modern geopolitics increasinglyВиктор Михин (New Eastern Outlook)
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Iran's approach to Kuwait: effective variables and prospects
Iran's approach to Kuwait: effective variables and prospects
The future of Iran-Kuwait relations is likely to be largely influenced by pragmatic engagement focused on areas of mutual benefit, sustainable economicСамьяр Ростами (New Eastern Outlook)
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Iran FM warns UNSC against E3 abuse of Resolution 2231
Iran FM warns UNSC against E3 abuse of Resolution 2231
TEHRAN, Jul. 20 (MNA) – The Iranian foreign minister has said that the three European participants to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal should be able to abuse the Resolution 2231 to trigger the snapback mechanism against Iran.Mehr News Agency
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Russia’s automotive sector avoids collapse, expands production — Putin
Russia’s automotive sector avoids collapse, expands production — Putin
According to the Russian president, labor productivity diagrams at Avtovaz, Russia’s flagship car manufacturer, speak for themselvesTASS
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100% free alternative to capcut video editor?
I hate how capcut has gotten to. Ive tried davcihi resolve but i find it isint as easy as capcut. I want to try a open source video editor for my linux mint laptop that is really free and so easy even a child could learn it.
Im up for suggestions or a change of my mindset.
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I you want open-source then your best choice is either Shotcut or Kdenlive.
Shotcut is one of the simplest editor I've ever used...but only if you have simple edits to do, the more you wanna do something less simple the worst it gets.
Kdenlive on the other hand is fine to use in most use cases, but can be a bit tricky to understand at first.
So I always suggest Shotctut if you're sure you won't do crazy edits, Kdenlive otherwise, or to just use both if you are unsure.
Western Intelligence Intensifies Attempts to Recruit Russian Diplomats
Western Intelligence Intensifies Attempts to Recruit Russian Diplomats
Western intelligence agencies have stepped up their attempts to recruit Russian diplomats after the beginning of the special military operation, Russian Ambassador to Romania Vladimir Lipayev has said in an interview with Sputnik.Sputnik International
The Flag of Privacy
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It has always bothered me that privacy has no unified symbol. Every community has their own take on how privacy should be visualized. I want to unify the privacy community across the internet. It is my belief that, with a universal symbol for privacy, we will grow stronger. We will have a symbol to represent us. We will have a flag to fly.
Icon
The icon is a clipart created by librarian Gordon Dylan Johnson which can be found here. The size of the icon is large enough to still fit if the flag is cropped to a square/circular aspect ratio.
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The size of the flag is 140 by 90 centimeters. These dimensions are chosen because of the dimensions of a Tor Browser window (1400x900 pixels).
Colors
The color blue (Azure) was chosen because it symbolizes security, stability, and reliability. The exact shade of blue used is the same azure color used by the flag of Europe, because of GDPR.
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This flag follows the "Principals of design" for vexillography.
Use it!
Use this flag for group chats, communities, profiles, stickers, patches, articles, wallpapers, real flags, anything you want to! Spread it around so it becomes a global icon for privacy. Even put it on the Wikipedia page for privacy if you can!
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Leader’s aide meets Putin in Kremlin to discuss nuclear, regional issues
Leader’s aide meets Putin in Kremlin to discuss nuclear, regional issues
The Russian president and a senior advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution discuss TehranPressTV
To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model
Link without the paywall
To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model
Artificial intelligence has undermined the internet’s central bargainThe Economist
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Amusingly enough, The Economist illustrates what I believe to be the new business model that's already waiting in the wings for the internet.
With admittedly no direct evidence to support it, my theory at the moment is that the "AI" players plan to consolidate and to continue to expand their reach and continue to gain users who rely on the "AI" for information rather than following links to the originals, then, once the "AI"s have killed enough clicks to collapse the ad model and drive the websites out of business (and give them the opportunity to buy up the remains of the businesses, and more importantly, their databases), they'll put all of the information of which they're now in sole possession behind paywalls.
Broadly, the goal is to apply the most lucrative if least popular business model to information ,- to monopolize ownership of it in order to sit back and collect money as rent-seeking parasites.
See, that's a reasonable take I agree with for the most part, but I think it'll play out a bit differently. Because these AIbro Technofascist dipshit Billionaires are so fucking stupid, instead of just pulling the plug on AI and sitting on the wealth of information like metaphorical dragons, they'll continue pumping billions into larger and more complex models to try and "automate everything", all the while fighting each other viciously, until they all run out of money when their AI-Powered techno-utopia where autonomous robots run everything never comes to pass.
Meanwhile, instead of paying for the information hoards of the TechnoFascist Elites, people will begin self-hosting again, like with the Fediverse, because it's just simply cheaper and more effective at letting people learn as groups and connect with each other.
Considering most of those technofascists are American's who cannot even have proper payment platforms and proper bank connections I doubt they will actually succeed.
If it is only just them doing this AI movement (spoiler they aren't), they would also stop at the US borders, because just like a huge part of the American businesses, they don't care about anybody else
For as long as I live, I will never forget that the whole world watched Israel starve 2 million innocent people in Gaza, killing children on a daily basis and did nothing to stop it, even worse,
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For as long as I live, I will never forget that the whole world watched Israel starve 2 million innocent people in Gaza, killing children on a daily basis and did nothing to stop it, even worse, punished those trying to end it and helped, funded, protected and armed the genocidal regime of Netanyahu.#NeverAgain #NeverForget #NeverForgive #Gaza #Israel #Genocide #USpol #EUpol #Politics
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Free Free Palestine! A space for activists and Palestinians to connect and amplify their efforts for the liberation of Palestine. Promote Palestinian solidarity events, or document and share here.Mastodon hosted on freefree.ps
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Well that's an extremely fair point to make. Point is the Bible was re-written again, (maybe you have a better idea of the total rewrite count), to spread Zionist propaganda and was propagated through the US in particular.
Fun fact. Even Isaac Newton was able to find ways in which the Bible was surreptitiously altered. So this is a bit of a problem in general. People have been altering the Bible to meet political ends for a while.
In the case of the bit we have Bibi quoting we have the Jewish version to reference and their own version uses a singular you, but Bibi found the Scofield version to be convenient. Crazy how this guy knows more about translation variance in Christian versions of the Old Testament better than most Christians do. It's almost like this guy made it his job to communicate to Christians and get them to support him.
Zionism didn't exist during Constantine's time. The father of Zionism, Herzl, was an antisemitic atheist. But Balfour signed the Agreement and Truman recognized Israel.
Yes to meet political ends. If there was one man who was literal Jesus, rather than legendary or an amalgamation of men, then he was crucified for being a threat to a rather comfortable occupation of Israel by the Romans, on trumped up religious charges. Same as chattel slaves and abolitionists. The modern global West is using both methods, Europe and the UK by criminalizing condemnation of illegal occupation and genocide, US with that coupled with discrimination against Christians. But only certain ones.
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about it in The Scarlet Letter, and Young Goodman Brown. Not that his ideas were perfect, but were rather advanced for his time.
EU commissioner shocked by dangers of some goods sold by Shein and Temu
Michael McGrath awaits results of secret shopper investigation amid crackdown on Chinese retail platforms
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'The biggest speedup I've seen so far' — FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code
But admit this boost is only seen in 'an obscure filter'.
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A 0-day flaw in Microsoft SharePoint is being exploited in RCE attacks on servers globally; no patch exists and tens of thousands of servers are at risk
SharePoint Under Siege: ToolShell Mass Exploitation (CVE-2025-53770)
Eye Security uncovers active exploitation of CVE-2025-53770 on vulnerable SharePoints, affecting on-prem deployments globally. Get technical IOCs, threat analysis, cryptographic key exfiltration details, and actionable mitigation steps.research.eye.security
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A 0-day flaw in Microsoft SharePoint is being exploited in RCE attacks on servers globally; no patch exists and tens of thousands of servers are at risk
SharePoint Under Siege: ToolShell Mass Exploitation (CVE-2025-53770)
Eye Security uncovers active exploitation of CVE-2025-53770 on vulnerable SharePoints, affecting on-prem deployments globally. Get technical IOCs, threat analysis, cryptographic key exfiltration details, and actionable mitigation steps.research.eye.security
US | Court rules Mississippi's social media age verification law can go into effect
A federal court has ruled that a Mississippi law that requires social media users to verify their ages can go into effect.
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Revery: v0 of a secure messaging protocol
i started a (very niche) private messaging protocol & little CLI app demo. i’m no security expert, so any feedback or questions would be appreciated.
the gist is an ephemeral message exchange without identities. the goal is ultimate deniability.
the interesting (and weird) part is that messages are encrypted but not authenticated. this means an imposter could show up if they know the shared secret. otoh this means you can deny anything you say.
GitHub - revery-project/revery: 💭 Conversations that never happened.
💭 Conversations that never happened. . Contribute to revery-project/revery development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Same encryption key can create "alternative facts" - impossible to prove which conversation really happened
Can you elaborate on what this means?
sure!
during or after a conversation, anyone with the keys can create fake transcripts by creating messages with the same metadata, same nonce, different content.
because of this, no transcript can be proven to be the correct transcript. the trade-off is you don’t get forward secrecy on the per-message level, but you get it per-conversation.
another detail is that there is no identity, so all the above aside, there’s also no way to prove who sent which message.
Anti-Woke Dad Who Moved Family to Russia Sent to War Zone
Derek Huffman, 46, joined the military with hopes of becoming a Russian citizen. His wife said he was duped into a combat role.
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UK | More than 100 arrests over Palestine Action ban protests
The Met Police says it has made 55 arrests at one of several demonstrations across the country.
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Ukraine | Moscow suffers largest drone attack in months, with drone debris hitting residential building
The attack also forced the diversion of 134 commercial flights to alternative airports.
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Palestinians take to social media in final attempt to show the world Gaza is starving to death
This is not an emergency food crisis for Palestinians, but a systematic starvation policy used as a weapon of war by Israel for many months
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Israel is starving Gaza civilians, including 1 million children: UNRWA
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) on Sunday once again accused Israeli authorities of using starvation as a weapon of war against the civilian population of Gaza, Anadolu reports.
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US escalates Brazil tensions as Rubio revokes visas of judges involved in Bolsonaro case
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday announced the revocation of US visas for eight of Brazil’s 11 Supreme Court justices, in what officials described as part of a broader effort to support former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is currently fighting prosecution for his alleged attempt to overturn the 2022 election.
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US escalates Brazil tensions as Rubio revokes visas of judges involved in Bolsonaro case
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday announced the revocation of US visas for eight of Brazil’s 11 Supreme Court justices, in what officials described as part of a broader effort to support for...Kareem Assaf | Nottingham Law School, GB (- JURIST - News)
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US chip giant Intel downsizing in Israel amid mass layoffs, falling revenue
US chip giant Intel has launched a major downsizing campaign in Israel, slashing jobs and scaling back operations at its flagship manufacturing site in the southern city of Kiryat Gat, in a move signaling deeper structural challenges facing the company both locally and globally, Anadolu reports.
Ice chief says he will continue to allow agents to wear masks during arrest raids
Legal advocates and attorneys general argue practice poses accountability issues and contributes to a climate of fear
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Request to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts likely to disappoint, ex-prosecutors say
Ex-federal prosecutors say a Justice Department request to unseal grand jury transcripts in the prosecution of chronic sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend is unlikely to produce much, if anything, to satisfy the public's appetite for new revelations about the financier's crimes.
Trump's latest demand: Washington football and Cleveland baseball teams should change names back
President Donald Trump has called for Washington's football team and Cleveland's baseball team to return to their previous names.
Pakistan arrests suspect after viral video of couple shot dead in the name of ‘honour’
The couple were shot and killed for marrying against the wishes of their families.
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Pakistan arrests suspect after viral video of couple shot dead in the name of ‘honour’
The couple were shot and killed for marrying against the wishes of their families. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
One dead and two missing after six people swept down waterfall in Oregon
Search and rescue operation under way after group went over Dillon Falls on the Deschutes River
[Announcement] Path of Exile 2 Boss Rush Event at Gamescom
This August, Path of Exile 2 will once again be going to Gamescom in Cologne, Germany! This time, we wanted to do something a bit special, so we are now introducing the Path of Exile 2 Boss Rush Event. Kill as many bosses as you can in 20 minutes, and win some cool prizes.
In the past all our demos at events have been playing slices of the game, but since we are in Early Access now, we knew we wanted to make something that existing players would also enjoy trying out, and that is where the idea for the Boss Rush was born.
Choose between 7 preconstructed character builds, one for each class, then see how many bosses you can kill. Before each boss are a few packs of monsters so you can test out your skills, before getting to the main event. Then throw yourself at the boss for as many attempts as it takes to bring it down.
After you kill the boss, a portal will open up to the next arena, and the level of all subsequent bosses will increase. There are 15 bosses in all, many of which have not appeared in the game yet. We highly doubt you can kill them all!
Above the booth will be a live leaderboard featuring the top Exiles able to kill the most bosses in the shortest period of time.
If you're planning to attend the exhibition, make sure to check out our booth! All visitors will have the chance to earn Path of Exile 2 merchandise prizes depending on how many bosses you can kill.
- When - 20th - 24th of August
- Where - Hall 6.1 C071 / A070
We hope you have lots of fun!
Early Access Announcements - Path of Exile 2 Boss Rush Event at Gamescom - 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
LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name
YouTuber Sarah Burssty saw her account abruptly removed, coming as one of the latest instances of social media's targeting of trans people
LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name
YouTuber Sarah Burssty saw her account abruptly removed, coming as one of the latest instances of social media's targeting of trans peopleMira Lazine (Free Radical)
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LibreOffice calls out Microsoft for using "complex" file formats to lock in Office users
Another day, another complaint about Microsoft from LibreOffice. This time, LibreOffice accuses Microsoft of intentionally using overly complex XML to define documents and lock in users.
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EU: "The Americans sent another goddamn .docx file."
embassy gets sent a notice that closed source formats are not accepted
Microsoft: REEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
EDPS finds European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 violates EU data protection law
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