When North Korea honored fallen Korean War heroes at a Victory Day ceremony last week.

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N. Korea secretly buries Ukraine war dead alongside Korean war heroes - Daily NK English

^{Lee Sang-yong (Daily NK English)}

The government of Nicaragua recognizes the temporarily occupied territories of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions as part of Russia.

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Nicaragua recognizes Russian control over occupied Ukrainian territories in letter to Putin

^RBC-Ukraine

Prime minister says 'historic investments' have been made into border security as Trump raises fentanyl again

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The decision comes amid growing uncertainty in U.S.-India trade ties. Trump’s abrupt announcement of a 25% tariff on Indian goods—set to take effect August 7—has caught Indian officials off guard.

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Amid Trump’s tariff shock, India informs US it won’t purchase F 35 fighter jets - BusinessToday

^{Business Today Desk (Business Today)}

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump will impose a 39% tariff on imports from Switzerland, one of the steepest levies globally which threaten to leave the country’s key exports reeling.

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Switzerland Slammed With 39% Tariff Rate in US Trade Blitz

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The killing of Lt Moaz al-Kasasbeh by the Islamic State group was shown in a grim video circulated online in 2015.

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Swedish jihadist jailed for life over IS murder of Jordanian pilot in Syria

^{Tom McArthur (BBC News)}

The group is using an "adversary-in-the-middle" technique to deploy its custom "ApolloShadow" malware for intelligence collection. This campaign, active since at least 2024, poses a high risk to diplomatic entities and sensitive organizations in Moscow, particularly those relying on local internet providers.

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Russian cyberspies hit embassies in Moscow, Microsoft reports

^{Olena Goncharova (The Kyiv Independent)}

“He’s entering very dangerous territory!” the U.S. president warned on social media.

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Trump threatens Russia’s ‘failed former president’ Medvedev

^{Ketrin Jochecová (POLITICO)}

A two-year-old child was found dead in the rubble after Thursday's sweeping Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv, Ukraine's prime minister said on Friday, taking the death toll to 28, with over 150 wounded.

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The award covering the next decade is one of the largest DoD contracts ever, cementing the tech firm’s role in warfighting for years to come.

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London's Heathrow Airport on Friday unveiled a £49-billion ($65 billion) expansion plan, including the costs of building a long-awaited third runway, approved by the UK government after years of legal wrangling.

Heathrow unveils £49 bn expansion plan for third runway

^{France 24 (FRANCE 24)}

cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/31306913

Alphabet’s Google on Thursday failed to persuade a U.S. appeals panel to overturn a jury verdict and federal court order requiring the technology company to revamp its app store Play.

Case file: fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/…

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-loses-us-appeal-over-app-store-reforms-epic-games-case-2025-07-31/

https://mississippitoday.org/2025/07/28/attorneys-baffled-by-federal-court-order-with-factual-errors/

I gruppi Diggita (diggita.com/communities) sono nati con una missione precisa:

🔬 Divulgazione scientifica
💻 Cultura informatica
📰 Giornalismo indipendente

❌ Cosa non siamo:
- Vetrine personali
- Piattaforme promozionali
- Spazi per autopromozione

👉 Vi chiediamo di evitare:
- "Compra il mio libro"
- "Scarica il mio ebook"
- "Iscriviti al mio canale"
- "Vieni al mio evento/concerto"

Perché?
Vogliamo preservare la natura comunitaria e informativa di Diggita (diggita.com/), contrastando le dinamiche autoreferenziali che stanno invadendo altri spazi digitali (come certe derive su Mastodon).

Diggita è uno spazio collettivo, non un palcoscenico personale.
Grazie per contribuire a mantenerlo un luogo di contenuti utili e accessibili per tutti 🙂

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New vehicle testing by the nation’s peak motoring body has again shown consumers cannot rely on the fuel consumption and emissions information provided at point of sale, with 25 of the latest 30 cars tested consuming more fuel than advertised.

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Popular cars using up to 33% more fuel than advertised - Australian Automobile Association

^{Steve Rotherham (Australian Automobile Association)}

Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to immigration facilities further blurs the line between military and law enforcement.

National Guard Ordered to Do ICE Paperwork at Immigration Facilities in 20 States

^{Nick Turse (The Intercept)}

Seems like a total fluff piece for China, released exclusively in China, with a glowing interview in CCP mouthpiece Global Times being pretty much the only book review I can find. And what’s more, it’s getting blurb endorsements from Ctrip co-founder James Liang.

Has this book been reviewed elsewhere? And what’s happened to Kevin Kelly here?

China could be a global model by 2049: Wired founding executive editor

Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of the US magazine Wired, introduces the concept of

^{www.globaltimes.cn}

Samsung has decided to proceed with the Bootloader blocking also in Europe, a move that has caused a lot of discussion. Behind this choice is a European regulation that will come into force in August 2025 and which risks changing smartphone usage in Europe forever. This is why other manufacturers may soon follow suit.

From 1 August 2025, new provisions will come into force RED Directive (Radio Equipment Directive), which redefines the compliance requirements for all radio devices sold in Europe. This is a significant change, not so much for the amount of regulations introduced, but for the effect they will have on the entire Android ecosystem. The issue revolves around three articles that impose specific protections: against network interference, personal data compromise, and digital fraud. These are, in themselves, sacrosanct rules.

But the crux comes with the interpretation prevailingEach device must ensure full compliance not only with the hardware, but also with the software that controls the radio modules. This is where the bootloader comes in. Unlocking it essentially allows you to replace the original operating system with an alternative one, such as LineageOS or GrapheneOS.

But these systems, if they modify the radio drivers even minimally, invalidate the CE certification. An uncertified device can no longer be legally marketed or used, at least according to the most stringent reading of the law.

This scenario has therefore led Samsung to protect its devices. Not on a whim, but to avoid any software modifications falling under your legal liability. If a user installs a ROM that interferes with radio frequencies or compromises communications security, the manufacturer (and in some cases the importer) may be held directly liable.

RED does not explicitly talk about unlocking the Bootloader or custom ROM, but it opens one regulatory space in which the margins for maneuver are they narrow. And in doing so, it provides a solid argument for those who have been trying for years to close the loop between hardware, software, and services. After all, customizing the operating system also means breaking away from proprietary services and, therefore, from the model that ties the user to the brand.

Samsung is just the first to move, but it's hard to imagine it will be the only one. Starting in August 2025, it's very likely that other manufacturers will follow suit, at least for the European market.

Goodbye Bootloader Unlock in Europe: What's Happening?

The landscape is changing for those who have turned modding into a form of digital control. Bootloader unlocking in Europe is at risk of disappearing.

^{Gianluca Cobucci (XiaomiToday.it)}

The New Orleans City Council is considering Ordinance 35,137 that would authorize the continued use of the live facial recognition system implemented by Project NOLA. Project NOLA, a non-profit organization, runs a centralized surveillance system that has equipped New Orleans with more than 200 facial recognition cameras at various establishments and residential locations. The program, run by a former officer, was until recently, sending law enforcement live, real time alerts of people identified by facial recognition from predetermined lists. The use of Project NOLA’s live facial recognition system by the New Orleans police was a clear violation of a preexisting 2022 city council ordinance that limited the use of facial recognition technology to searches involving specific cases with violent crime. The 2022 ordinance did not allow for the use of live facial recognition or the mass deployment of the technology. Despite the police’s clear violation of the ordinance, the New Orleans City Council is considering a new ordinance to sanction the mass deployment of live facial recognition.

The possibility that New Orleans will officially implement mass surveillance via facial recognition would be an about-face that would see New Orleans go from a 2020 ordinance that rightly banned facial recognition because of the heightened risk of false positives for Black people to embracing a dystopian future of a dragnet facial recognition surveillance that treats everyone as a suspect. This opens the door to a level of intrusion that we’ve only seen in authoritarian governments. The intrusion will not stop at our faces, Project NOLA can not only track faces, but also clothing, cars, and bikes. The kind of surveillance presents a real threat to our privacy, civil liberties, and undermines our democratic values.

https://epic.org/project-dystopia-how-a-little-known-non-profit-has-new-orleans-considering-mass-real-time-facial-recognition-surveillance/

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I look everywhere and I see people losing their social skills and with the rise of walled internet, that means that all forms of internet freedom/privacy will be lost.

Many people would suggest using VPN. The problem is that VPN companies need countries that respect privacy + not require ID to access internet, in order for them to work.

Is this the end?

Efforts to introduce pirate site blocking to the United States continue with the introduction of the "Block BEARD" bill in the Senate. The bipartisan proposal, backed by Senators Tillis, Coons, Blackburn, and Schiff, aims to create a new legal mechanism to combat foreign piracy websites. Block BEARD is similar to the previously introduced House bill "FADPA", but doesn't directly mention DNS resolvers.

U.S. Senators Introduce New Pirate Site Blocking Bill: Block BEARD * TorrentFreak

^{Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)}

In a Thursday speech, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Paul S. Atkins announced “Project Crypto,” an initiative to modernize the country’s securities rules and regulations to move financial markets on-chain.

“Under my leadership, the SEC will not stand idly by and watch innovations develop overseas while our capital markets remain stagnant,” he said at an America First Policy Institute event in Washington D.C. His plan includes measures to reshore crypto businesses that have left the country and to ensure that “archaic rules and regulations do not smother innovation and entrepreneurship in America.”

https://qz.com/sec-deregulate-cryptocurrencies-project-crypto

The Block BEARD bill broadly applies to service providers as defined in section 512(k)(1)(A) of the DMCA. This is a broad definition that applies to residential ISPs, but also to search engines, social media platforms, and DNS resolvers.

Service providers with fewer than 50,000 subscribers are explicitly excluded

U.S. Senators Introduce New Pirate Site Blocking Bill: Block BEARD * TorrentFreak

Efforts to introduce pirate site blocking to the United States continue with the introduction of the "Block BEARD" bill in the Senate.

^{Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)}

PDF Report.

• 25% of TikTok's top search results contain synthetic AI imagery vs. significantly less on Instagram
• Over 80% of AI content comes from Agentic AI Accounts on TikTok, 15% on Instagram
• Only half of TikTok's AI content receives proper labeling; 23% on Instagram
• Over 80% of AI content is photorealistic, increasing deceptive potential
• Some AI labels have limited visibility and are non-existent for Instagram desktop users

In recent simulations, leading AI systems blackmailed their human users—or even let them die—to avoid being shut down or replaced.

https://mississippitoday.org/2025/07/28/attorneys-baffled-by-federal-court-order-with-factual-errors/