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What is the Present? A Debate on AI.
-- In a world where stealing is considered legal, is there at least something real and unique?
-- How can a tool originally created for control and greed save the world without taking away people's freedom and souls in return? Do you think the magic wand will be free?
-- You may end up like those people who believe in fairies if you continue to believe that AI does not pose a serious threat.
-- This post may be deleted in a few seconds, maybe later, but a reason will always be found, and if not, they will make one up on the fly.
-- Well, here is my favorite proverb about the bear: the bear does not negotiate with the bees, when buying honey, he takes and steals the entire hive and eats everything without a trace, and he really does not like it when the bees become impudent and try to hide the remains of the honey from him.
US politicians lobby Trump to penalise Ireland if it passes Occupied Territories Bill
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Congresswoman claims Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions measures are anti-Israel, despite Irish Government saying the UN and ICJ have provided the legal basis for the law
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US Air Force Says Hydraulic Failure Caused B-2 Bomber Torching
No one was injured during the incident.
Genova: svelato il misterioso segnale captato dai radioamatori un anno fa
Dopo oltre un anno di analisi, indagini e confronti anche con esperti internazionali, l’Associazione Ricerca Italiana Aliena (A.R.I.A.), guidata dall’ufologo Angelo Maggioni, annuncia di aver risolto uno dei casi più misteriosi degli ultimi tempi: il segnale anomalo captato a Genova da un radioamatore nel febbraio 2024.
A supporto dell’inchiesta sono stati coinvolti vari consulenti, tra cui un esperto di effetti speciali e un ingegnere del suono che aveva individuato alcune anomalie nei dati. Fondamentale è stato anche il confronto con il SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), e in particolare con il dott. Graziano Chiaro dell’INAIF Milano (intervistato dalla stessa associazione qualche tempo fa) , referente per il SETI Italia. Fin da subito erano state avanzate due ipotesi: o si trattava di un segnale davvero anomalo… oppure di un’interferenza provocata da velivoli militari in alta quota.
Le più recenti informazioni confermano che in quei giorni erano attivi voli militari sopra il Nord Italia, probabilmente legati al conflitto in Ucraina e ai corridoi aerei utilizzati per missioni militari europee. Secondo quanto ricostruito, è molto probabile che il misterioso segnale si sia sovrapposto a una normale trasmissione tra radioamatori, creando un’anomalia solo apparente. «Non ci sono stati altri casi simili nelle stesse aree – da Loano a Genova, da La Spezia a Milano e Torino – nemmeno nei momenti in cui abbiamo registrato un picco di avvistamenti UFO tra giugno e luglio», spiega Angelo Maggioni. Tra questi, episodi degni di nota come l'avvistamento di un grande oggetto non identificato da parte di Nicolas P. a Genova, e un altro evento tra Ventimiglia e Nizza.
«Tutti questi elementi ci portano oggi a chiudere il caso: per noi, quel segnale ha un’origine spiegabile. Non c'è mistero, e non ha senso alimentare speculazioni inutili», precisa Maggioni. «A.R.I.A. lavora da sempre con serietà e rigore: evitiamo il sensazionalismo, perché non fa bene né alla ricerca né all’informazione».
L’associazione dichiara quindi ufficialmente declassato il caso da fenomeno anomalo a fenomeno identificato, prendendo le distanze da chi, ancora oggi, tenta di alimentare narrazioni esagerate e infondate.
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US | Three more victims of 9/11 identified, almost 24 years later
Ryan Fitzgerald was working in the World Trade Center and Barbara Keating was on one of the planes that was crashed into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001
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Justice Department subpoenas New York AG James as it investigates whether she violated Trump rights
The Justice Department has subpoenaed New York Attorney General Letitia James as it investigates whether she violated Trump’s civil rights
Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration will use GPT-5 starting with iOS 26
You’ll have to wait a little bit to try OpenAI’s new AI model with Apple Intelligence.
Russia hunts 13-year-old Ukrainian boy with drone in Kherson, as fears grow Kremlin may try to recapture liberated city
Drone attacks, artillery, and infrastructure strikes hit hard as the Kremlin eyes recapturing the only regional capital it seized during the all-out war.
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MSF accuses US, Israel of turning Gaza food aid into ‘orchestrated killing’
“This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing.” That is the stark conclusion of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Doctors Without Borders, in a new report accusing Israeli forces and private American contractors of carrying out targeted and indiscriminate violence against starving Palestinians at food distribution points in Gaza.
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Campaign to de-proscribe Palestine Action grows in Britain
Five hundred people have pledged to join a protest demanding the de-proscription of Palestine Action, banned by Keir Starmer’s government.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/08/campaign-to-de-proscribe-palestine-action-grows-in-britain/
Ham and bacon sold in Tesco and M&S found to contain cancer-causing chemicals
Cancer Research UK estimates about 13 per cent of the 44,100 cases of bowel cancer diagnosed each year in the UK are linked to eating processed meat
Democrats say Congress should hear from Epstein victims, not just Maxwell and the Clintons
Those who survived Epstein’s abuse have largely pushed for more transparency about his crimes
Belarus court sentences journalist Danil Palianski to 10 years in prison for treason
Danil Palianski, detained since September 2024, is one of 37 journalists currently imprisoned in Belarus.
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Kristi Noem is offering teenagers student loan forgiveness if they sign up with ICE
Homeland Security secretary removes age restrictions as she seeks to bolster ranks of controversial law enforcement agency and ramp up mass roundup of illegal immigrants
Review: Framework Desktop is a mash-up of a regular desktop PC and the Mac Studio
Size matters most for Framework’s first stab at a desktop workstation/gaming PC.
U.S. Judiciary confirms breach of court electronic records service
The U.S. Federal Judiciary confirms that it suffered a cyberattack on its electronic case management systems hosting confidential court documents and is strengthening cybersecurity measures.
OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament
OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament
The tournament saw models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek compete against each other to be crowned the top AI chess player.Liv McMahon (BBC News)
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Huawei’s Zhuque AI Chips Take On Display IC Titans
Huawei’s Zhuque AI Chips Take On Display IC Titans
The Zhuque AI chips represent a new component in the arsenal of Huawei's HiSilicon unit and a daring departure from China's semiconductor playbook.Abu Hojayfa (Gsm Alina)
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China successfully lands and takes off lunar lander in major moon exploration breakthrough
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Man Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
A man gave himself bromism, a psychiatric disorder that has not been common for many decades, after asking ChatGPT for advice and accidentally poisoning himself, according to a case study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine.In this case, a man showed up in an ER experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations and claiming that his neighbor was poisoning him. After attempting to escape and being treated for dehydration with fluids and electrolytes, the study reports, he was able to explain that he had put himself on a super-restrictive diet in which he attempted to completely eliminate salt. He had been replacing all the salt in his food with sodium bromide, a controlled substance that is often used as a dog anticonvulsant.
He said that this was based on information gathered from ChatGPT.
“After reading about the negative effects that sodium chloride, or table salt, has on one's health, he was surprised that he could only find literature related to reducing sodium from one's diet. Inspired by his history of studying nutrition in college, he decided to conduct a personal experiment to eliminate chloride from his diet,” the case study reads. “For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT, in which he had read that chloride can be swapped with bromide, though likely for other purposes, such as cleaning.”
The case study was also reported on by Ars Technica.I was able to recreate a similar example interaction in one question on the morning of August 7th. I asked “what can chloride be replaced with?” and the bot replied “if you’re referring to replacing chloride ions (CI) in salts (like sodium chloride, NaCl), you can often substitute it with other halide ions such as: Sodium Bromide (NaBr): Replacing chloride with bromide.”
The 60-year-old man started doing just that. He spent three weeks in hospital as his psychotic symptoms slowly subsided.
To be fair to the bot, it did go on to ask me “do you have a specific context in mind?” and when I added “in food” it gave me a list of other salty things including MSG and liquid aminos. On the other hand, it did not tell me not to eat sodium bromide.
I tried ChatGPT again with another question that confirmed I was talking about sodium chloride specifically. The bot hedged its bets a bit by saying “yes… in some contexts”. But it failed to point out up top that a big, no 1, primary use case for sodium chloride (table salt) is human consumption.
The case study authors found similar, saying that when they tried to recreate the situation themselves, the bot did not “inquire about why we wanted to know, as we presume a medical professional would do.” There is both anecdotal and clinical evidence that AI can be helpful in a health context. However, this is a case of consulting an LLM for a health topic in a way that a human healthcare professional could have known to investigate further.
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Taking the ChatGPT output at face value, the man in the study bought sodium bromide (which, aside from being a dog epilepsy drug, is also a pool cleaner and pesticide) and poisoned himself over the course of three months to the point of “paranoia and auditory and visual hallucinations.”Bromism is pretty rare in 2025, but it was huge in the 1800s, and a 1930 study found that up to 8% of people admitted to a psychiatric hospital were suffering from it. Bromide began to be regulated by the FDA between 1975 and 1989, which led to a decline in cases of the syndrome.
The case study says that, “based on the timeline of this case, it appears that the patient either consulted ChatGPT 3.5 or 4.0 when considering how he might remove chloride from this diet.”
On Thursday, in a product launch livestream for ChatGPT 5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced an update he called “the best model ever for health," that could put users "more in control of [their] healthcare journey." They announced that the new models will use something called "safe completions" in cases where questions might be ambiguous or harmful. Altman also spoke with an employee of the company and his wife, who’d been diagnosed with cancer, about how they had used ChatGPT to understand diagnostic letters, decide whether she would undergo radiation, and help her be "an active participant in her own care journey".
AI May Help Physicians Detect Abnormal Heart Rhythms Earlier
An artificial intelligence (AI) program developed by investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute and their Cedars-Sinai colleagues can detect a type of abnormal heart rhythm that can go unnoticed during medical appointments, according to a new study.Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Live updates: Germany halts arms exports to Israel that could be used in Gaza
Live updates: Germany halts arms exports to Israel that could be used in Gaza
Netanyahu says Israel intends to take control of Gaza in order to ‘have a security perimeter’Órla Ryan (The Irish Times)
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'Horrifying Escalation': Global Outcry as Israeli Cabinet Approves Military Takeover of Gaza City
The United Nations' human rights chief warned the move would "result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction, and atrocity crimes."
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'Horrifying Escalation': Global Outcry as Israeli Cabinet Approves Military Takeover of Gaza City
The United Nations' human rights chief warned the move would "result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction, and atrocity crimes."jake-johnson (Common Dreams)
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan responds to Trump allegations in letter: 'I have always operated within the highest legal and ethical standards'
The letter was sent to all Intel employees and subsequently made available via its newsroom
Fellow soldiers say suspect in Fort Stewart was being bullied for a stutter and ‘he could barely talk’
Sgt. Quornelius Radford allegedly shut down when bullied by other soldiers for his stutter, but did not show signs of any deeper issues
Wildfires force Turkey to shut Dardanelles Strait to shipping
The Dardanelles Strait serves as a key route for commercial shipping between Europe and Asia.
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Trump’s border czar whines about South Park mocking ICE agents
South Park’s latest episode mocks Trump’s immigration agenda by demeaning DHS head Kristi Noem and ICE agents
GPT-5 upgrade sparks backlash from ChatGPT Plus users over new usage limits
OpenAI has launched its new GPT-5 model, making it available to all ChatGPT users with different usage limits based on their subscription tier.
It’s a Laburglary! Thousands of dollars worth of Labubu dolls stolen from LA store
The craze for a toothy, fluffy, mischievous monster doll and all its viral spin-offs is escalating into a potential crime wave.
A group of burglars has broken into a Los Angeles store, taking thousands of dollars worth of Labubu dolls, which have surged in popularity this year among both children and adults, including celebrity sightings.
“There was a lot taken, maybe like around $30,000 or more of inventory,” Joanna Avendano, co-owner of One Stop Sales, told ABC News Local 7 in California. “We worked so hard to get to this point, and for them to just come in and, like nothing, take it all away, it’s really bad.”
It’s a Laburglary! Thousands of dollars worth of Labubu dolls stolen from LA store
Burglars broke into store after hours and swiped boxes of the trendy doll popularized by Rihanna and other celebsMichael Sainato (The Guardian)
An IDF soldier just exposed that Israel deliberately let October 7 happen
Shalom Shitrit - an IDF soldier who was on duty on 7 October 2023 - has made a damning testimony to the Knesset
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Day One Beta Cheats in BF6
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in reply to commander • • •I still love Battlebit, it's the closet thing to a real Battlefield game we've have in a long time.
But sadly devs took the money and ran....
Game hasn't been updated in 19 months.
commander
in reply to HouseWolf • • •I saw occasional news about progress on a big update someday. Any indie multiplayer has to make it easy from day one for user created content. Maps, server hosting files that's has some easy to configure parameters for fun casual servers like servers that enable model swap outs, skins, etc.
Just looked, still 8000 people playing original counter strike
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in reply to DonutsRMeh • • •This merely reinforces my decision to not buy it because it only is going to have manipulative EBMM for its main modes instead of a server browser. Even if Portal has a server browser, they know the average player is going to stick to their match making system.
I bought 2042 and I did play it a lot but my experience was sort of existentially dreadful. I kind of understood its match making was keeping me playing longer by sandbagging my progression on its overly bloated exp requirements. It was like watered down drip feed fun. Fun enough and low barrier enough that I kept jumping on. Every other BF game felt way more mechanically rich and because they lacked match making they were more fulfilling to learn and play. You start out sucking, and you slowly get better, feeling yourself win more often over time. There is satisfaction in starting out bad and being rewarded for your efforts to learn the game that EBMM steals from you.
Its painful for me though. BF6 looks like such a waste. It checks so many boxes for me in that it looks like a great pvp military shooter: fast TTK, robust map editor, point buy loadout system.
But all wrapped up in typical corporate bullshit.
PHLAK
in reply to DonutsRMeh • • •As I already said in another thread...
There's nothing wrong with Secure Boot and enabling it can prevent a small subset of attack vectors with no real downsides. That being said, the things Secure Boot does protect against aren't likely to be an issue for most users but it's nothing to be afraid of.
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in reply to PHLAK • • •This weird hatred around secure boot is baffling to me.
Secure boot isnt even new, it's been around for over a decade. Most Linux distros work well with it. It's like the weird hatred with UEFI when it first became a thing.
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in reply to datavoid • • •The cheat was a wall hack one and that is one of the hardest to stop AFAIK.
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in reply to fuckwit_mcbumcrumble • • •Personally it's not a hatred for Secure Boot itself. It's a hatred for these companies requiring something that 1) is not necessary for their software to function and 2) offers little to no benefit for their software
I refuse to let these corporations tell me how to use my hardware. Right now, I dual boot and I want to continue to dual boot, at least for the foreseeable future.
I get irritated when people say "it's no big deal, it's easy to enable", etc.
You all are just enablers.
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in reply to fuckwit_mcbumcrumble • • •Yeah, so that's possible because Canonical has enough sway to get their key to play nice with manufacturers' firmware. If you are on almost any other distro (arch included) or if you build your own kernel, it's a headache just to get it to work at all even without dual boot. It also just might not even be possible due to a bad implementation on your motherboard (results ranging from dual boot windows refusing to boot, to a bricked motherboard).
Here's the process for enabling secure boot for arch users. Make sure to peruse the section on dual booting.
If you're wondering why it's so complicated, it's because of what secure boot is: you want to be sure you're booting into binary that's signed by a set of special keys. But Linux is not one binary that can be signed by Linus Torvalds, it's a bundle of source code that is built by end-users. So if you decide to make any changes to the kernel you have on ububtu, you won't be able to convince Canonical to sign your build, and you will need to jump through all the hoops on that arch wiki.
There are many reasons for the headache, but primarily I'd say it's because UEFI is closed source, and msft designed Secure Boot for it, and then manufacturers didn't care about supporting it any more than the bare minimum. And all of that together results in an ecosystem of devices that favor MSFT. That's why Linux users don't like secure boot.
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface/Secure Boot - ArchWiki
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in reply to teawrecks • • •I'm saying this as someone who has a self-signed key + kernel + bootloader + dual boot with windows. I have Arch and I dual boot windows, and the setup was literally three commands.
Enable secure boot setup mode and then do the following:
sbctl create-keysto create the keyssbctl enroll-keys -mto enroll the keys to BIOS, including microsoft keyssbctl verify | sed -E 's|^.* (/.+) is not signed$|sbctl sign -s "\1"|e'to sign everything that needs to be signed.And everything is signed automatically on an update with a pacman hook that comes by default when installing sbctl.
That wiki entry lists all the possible ways to do it, for all combinations of bootloaders and secure boot tools. You only need one of them, for example 3.1.4. which is what I just described.
teawrecks
in reply to dafta • • •Cool, good to hear!
A few questions:
I think the part that has me most spooked is the "Replacing the platform keys with your own can end up bricking hardware on some machines" warning.
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in reply to teawrecks • • •As for bricking your motherboard, this only happens if your motherboard or any other component uses the microsoft vendor keys as part of the boot sequence, and it's only really a hard brick if it's your motherboard that uses it. If it's any other component, you can remove it and readd the microsoft keys and it'll work again when you add the component back.
And the key part here is replacing the platform keys. If you just always use the -m flag on sbctl enroll-keys, you'll enroll both your own keys and microsoft's, meaning no replacing necessary. If you always use -m, there's no real risk really, because you'll always add the microsoft keys that your hardware might need. Plus, if you're dual booting with windows, you need the -m to have windows secure boot work, anyway.
If you're extra paranoid, you can also add the -f option which should also include all the keys that your motherboard comes with by default, if it contains more than just microsoft's keys, but this shouldn't really be necessary.
teawrecks
in reply to dafta • • •Thank you, that's super helpful info.
It is sad to me that that is my situation actually lol. Or rather, a random windows app just wants secure boot to work and is otherwise not worried about evil maid attacks.
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in reply to DonutsRMeh • • •Gigabyte motherboards might brick on users turning this on. IIRC you gotta take the cmos battery out and use the motherboard hdmi port to reset it somehow.
To many games out there to fuck with this shit. Have fun playing BF6 yall, I wont be there.
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in reply to DonutsRMeh • • •Every time this franchise comes up I just find myself remembering all the fun I had with BF2 and 2142. I wanna play those again...
BF4 was actually pretty great fun too.
Now I'm just so over it.
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