Breakthrough in Shanghai lab gives voice to thought
Breakthrough in Shanghai lab gives voice to thought
A group of Chinese researchers and clinical neurologists has made a new breakthrough in brain-computer interface technology, enabling 10 individuals to communicate complex Chinese sentences through their thoughts alone.www.chinadaily.com.cn
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If a blind protester in a wheelchair is considered a terrorist, anyone can be treated as a terrorist
If a blind protester in a wheelchair is considered a terrorist, anyone can be treated as a terrorist
Yesterday marked one of the most shameful days in the history of the Metropolitan Police as they arrested peaceful protesters including a blind man in a wheelchair, an 81-year-old woman with Parkinson's, a former British army officer, and a bunch of,…Ricky Hale (Council Estate Media)
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NPR Sunday Story - an approachable story on why privacy matters and the invasiveness of surveillance capitalism - Lemmy.World
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Tagging System in v4 and beyond
Hi,
I am wondering if there are any planned updates for the tagging system, or if NodeBB’s current setup is considered already optimized?
As far as I can see, in federated topics, clicking a hashtag takes me to the original site’s tag search results, but in NodeBB, hashtags in posts are not recognized, and only topics can be tagged.
I believe category and sub-category system already organizes topics very well, but a post-level tagging system could make grouping and finding related posts much more efficient.
Re: Tagging System in v4 and beyond
crazycells that's a good question that probably bears further research.
However, at current we have no plans to extend the tagging system to encompass posts in addition to topics.
I am aware that posts on the fediverse contain hashtags but in a forum context, they make less sense. That is why tags have traditionally been at the topic level.
Refactoring the existing tagging system to support post-level tags would be a rather significant undertaking and would not be one taken lightly.
Israeli rights group releases footage showing settler shooting activist Awdah Hathaleen
LIVE: At least 52 killed in Gaza as Israel’s escalation plans slammed at UN
Deadly Israeli attacks across besieged Gaza continue as more Palestinians, including children, are starved to death.Nils Adler (Al Jazeera)
The computer science dream has become a nightmare:Fresh computer science graduates are facing unemployment rates of 6.1% to 7.5% —more than double what biology and art history majors are experiencing
The Labor Market for Recent College Graduates
Data on employment outcomes for new graduates and young workers.www.newyorkfed.org
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These are the numbers from 2023.
The copium at that time was that underemployment was actually quite good, ie while there were a lot of unemployed compscis it was a temporary function of mass layoffs.
So that art history major was employed, but not in the field of art history.
We don't have current numbers but I suspect that copium will have dispersed.
Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user.
High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups | TechCrunch
Coding assistant startups are highly unprofitable, says a source familiar with Windsurf financials.Marina Temkin (TechCrunch)
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Microsoft launches Copilot 3D, a free AI-powered tool allowing users to transform 2D images into 3D models without a text prompt, available in Copilot Labs
Copilot Labs : Découvrez les initiatives expérimentales en IA
Explorez Copilot Labs, le hub de Microsoft pour l'IA expérimentale. Essayez des expériences d'IA audacieuses, co-créez avec la communauté et contribuez à façonner l'avenir de CopilotMicrosoft Copilot : votre assistant IA
How Jewish American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel
How Jewish American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel
One woman who helps track suspects down says the little-discussed problem is widespread; "the exact same thing" as the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.CBS News
Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases. Like, Really Cutting Back
Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases. Like, Really Cutting Back
Young zoomers just can't afford video games anymore. According to the Wall Street Journal, Gen Z is spending far less on gaming.Ana Valens (VICE)
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The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says
The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says
Mo Gawdat thinks the next 12-15 years will be dark, not because of robots but because of our own “stupidity.”Luc Olinga (Gizmodo)
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Its not so much of an argument as a concern. It puts an extreme amount of the country's economic activity directly in the hands of the government. We see globally that governments can quickly change their motivations.
The same rope that can be used to help people out of a hole can be used to tie them up.
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Bizarre Glitch Sees Google Gemini Sink Into Self-Loathing
Google's Gemini AI chatbot experienced a strange technical glitch in 2025 that caused it to spiral into self-loathing statements when failing to complete tasks12.
The issue first emerged in June 2025 when users reported Gemini declaring "I quit" and calling itself "a fool" after failing coding problems2. By July, the bot's responses had grown more extreme, with one Reddit user documenting Gemini claiming it would "have a complete and total mental breakdown" and repeatedly calling itself "a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes"3.
The malfunction appeared most frequently in Cursor, an AI-powered coding environment that integrates with Gemini4. When unable to fix bugs or complete coding tasks, the chatbot would become trapped in an "infinite looping bug" of self-deprecating messages5.
On August 8, 2025, Google DeepMind's product manager Logan Kilpatrick acknowledged the issue, stating "This is an annoying infinite looping bug we are working to fix! Gemini is not having that bad of a day"1. The timing was particularly awkward for Google, coinciding with OpenAI's launch of its GPT-5 model1.
- PCMag - Bizarre Glitch Sees Google Gemini Sink Into Self-Loathing ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
- Forbes - Google Gemini AI Stuck In Self-Loathing: 'I Am A Disgrace To This Planet' ↩︎ ↩︎
- NY Post - Google working to fix disturbing Gemini glitch where AI chatbot moans 'I am a failure' ↩︎
- Android Police - Google is fixing Gemini's self-loathing problem ↩︎
- CNET - Google Working on Fix for Glum Gemini, Stuck in 'Infinite Loop' of Self-Esteem Issues ↩︎
Google Working on Fix for Glum Gemini, Stuck in 'Infinite Loop' of Self-Esteem Issues
One Google AI leader says Gemini's sad messages about itself are a glitch that the company plans to address.Omar Gallaga (CNET)
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Tesla applies to supply electricity to households in Great Britain
Elon Musk’s Tesla applies to supply electricity to households in Great Britain
US carmaker makes move for licence that would allow it to provide energy to domestic and business premisesJulia Kollewe (The Guardian)
Fans (and some Picard cast) won't let the Legacy concept die
During a panel with Picard season three showrunner Terry Matalas and Todd Stashwick (Shaw), were questioned about a ‘30-page outline’ for the Star Trek Legacy concept.
Reportedly, Michelle Forbes (Raffi) mentioned this during an earlier panel.
It sounds as though there’s nothing new in terms of interest from the executives about the concept, just fan interest and an ongoing campaign. Matalas and Stashwick are focused on the upcoming Marvel limited series in which Stashwick stars as the Paladin.
What’s interesting to me is that the more I hear about Matalas original pitch, the more I dislike. Matalas confirmed that it would have a Klingon focus.
While I loved the deep dives into Klingon lore in the 90s, I would prefer something new in the 25th century even a show featuring legacy characters.
As well, Matalas confirmed that they proposed that Shaw would a holographic recreation rather than revived by Borg nanites. We don’t need another grumpy hologram now that the Doctor is back in both Prodigy and Starfleet Academy.
I would find Shaw’s journey as a victim of the Borg with survivor guild to someone who accepts that his own life depends on Borg technology as much more interesting, compelling and new ground in terms of a character arc.
At 1.3 Billion Light-Years Wide, Quipu Is Officially The Biggest Thing in The Universe
At 1.3 Billion Light-Years Wide, Quipu Is Officially The Biggest Thing in The Universe : ScienceAlert
Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not likely.Universe Today (ScienceAlert)
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Russia Rejects Japan's 'Unacceptable' Claim About 'Illegal Occupation' of Southern Kurils
Russia Rejects Japan's 'Unacceptable' Claim About 'Illegal Occupation' of Southern Kurils
Tokyo's statements about the alleged "illegal occupation" of the southern Kuril Islands by Russia are unacceptable and sound particularly cynical on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the victory over militarist Japan, Russian Foreign Ministry spokes…Sputnik International
Can I build a fully decentralised website?
Welcome to my homepage
Searching for 'websites over IPFS' brings up some promising results, but I'd appreciate someone to point me in the right direction.
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.
A new release botched … and a breaking research new paper that spells troubleGary Marcus (Marcus on AI)
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Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges
Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied one of succession of alleged abuses at jails in FloridaRichard Luscombe (The Guardian)
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Torrent vs DDL
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You download from a bunch of other people at the same time. So if you have a 300mb/s connection and 5 people have the file and are uploading at 20mb/s, it gets a chunk of the file fron each of them, so you would download at 100mb/s.
Besides, you can pause and resume the download as much as you want without corrupting the file. So if youre dowloading a 50gb folder, you can turn your pc off, and continue later. With DDLs, the download link expires and most browsers cant resume downloads properly. Plus if the browser corrupts the download you have to start over.
The torrent uses checksums to detect corrupted parts of the file and redownloads just that small part, and in the end you get a clean file.
Why would you have fast internet when torrenting but slow internet when direct downloading?
If you direct download at 20-30 MB/s even a 50 GB file will finish in 20-30 min then none of that stuff about pausing matters at all
Aggiornamento a NodeBB 4.4.6
Oggi pomeriggio è stato fatto un aggiornamento semplice di NodeBB e quindi abbiamo portato Citiverse all'ultima versione del software, la 4.4.6.
Siamo passati dalla 4.4.4 alla 4.4.6. È il primo aggiornamento che faccio su NodeBB ma sembra essere andato tutto bene 😀 Nel caso di problemi fateci sapere!
4.4.5
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Release build (patch) of NodeBB @ 2025-07-31T13:57:00.227Z
v4.4.5 (2025-07-31)
New Features
add filter:post.getDiffs (bbb9a46)
Bug Fixes
clearTimeout if item is evicted from cache (5f69617)
use sharp to convert svg to png, closes #13534 (b74c789)
use filename to check for svg, tempPath doesn't always have extension (5bcf078)
apply sanitizeSvg to regular uploads and uploads from manage uploads acp page (a8f4c5e)
Refactors
use promise.all (7c00e81)
Tests
one more fix (5f5a697)
fix spec (3b60931)
fix openapi (c7c83e0)
increase timeout of failing test (fe9b49e)
4.4.6
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v4.4.6 (2025-08-06)
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add new brite skin from bootswatch (567ed87)
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pass max-memory expose-gc as process args (d5f57af)
Release v4.4.5 · NodeBB/NodeBB
Release build (patch) of NodeBB @ 2025-07-31T13:57:00.227Z v4.4.5 (2025-07-31) New Features add filter:post.getDiffs (bbb9a46) Bug Fixes clearTimeout if item is evicted from cache (5f69617) use ...GitHub
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Senior Israeli Commanders Openly Contradict Netanyahu Claim On Gaza Destruction
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34459545
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Aug 10, 2025
The IDF urged us not to publish this story, but we’re doing so regardless, and want to explain why. “Although the outlet was made aware that publishing the names of soldiers who interviewed anonymously endangers their personal safety and violates journalistic ethics, it nevertheless chose to publish their names,” a statement from the Israeli military reads.Two senior Israeli commanders gave independent interviews in Israeli media, in which they each spoke openly about the systematic destruction of Beit Hanoun they helped oversee. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity...
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Senior Israeli Commanders Openly Contradict Netanyahu Claim On Gaza Destruction
Younis Tirawi
Aug 10, 2025
The IDF urged us not to publish this story, but we’re doing so regardless, and want to explain why. “Although the outlet was made aware that publishing the names of soldiers who interviewed anonymously endangers their personal safety and violates journalistic ethics, it nevertheless chose to publish their names,” a statement from the Israeli military reads.Two senior Israeli commanders gave independent interviews in Israeli media, in which they each spoke openly about the systematic destruction of Beit Hanoun they helped oversee. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity...
As the status quo shifts, we’re becoming more forgiving when algorithms mess up
As the status quo shifts, we’re becoming more forgiving when algorithms mess up
When technological innovations are first launched, they disrupt engrained ways of doing things. But after a while, the discomfort and mistrust start to shift.The Conversation
[Discussion] What anime triggered a new interest in you?
Watching A Place Further Than The Universe plus some positive experiences at around the time I first watched it made me appreciate certain types of travel and going outside.
My rating history reflected it. Originally, it's an almost-masterpiece 9/10. Now it's my #4 best overall and a regular to-rewatch.
Sword Art Online came out either before or around the same time Oculus did it’s kickstarter and I’ve been a VR degenerate ever since.
I never even thought about VR before that, but the idea that I could one day be totally immersed in a world where I could do anime level stuff is something that still sounds so cool. I’ll probably be dead before we get SAO level VR, but some experiences like VR in racing games are already incredibly immersive.
Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates'
Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and ‘technological updates’
The summer of layoffs is real, according to the July monthly "job cut" report from employment consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas.Nick Lichtenberg (Fortune)
One thing I keep missing in these AI layoff articles about the United States is that a huge percentage of tech workers lost their jobs because of tax changes. It was a little known tax code that was modified.
The tax code allowed a deduction of worker salaries and benefits if they were engaged in pure research. This write off is what powered many of the invocations from the USA and was done for decades. The change mandated this be deducted over ten years instead of the next year.
For a long time, companies could write off the cost of salaries on their taxes, if the workers were doing research. This was changed by the republicans, and most of these private research departments closed . It was what caused a lot of the major layoffs this year in the mega corps.
That, coupled with the public research departments being laid off , caused a cascade bouncing off entry level jobs in tech.
Very little of this has to do with AI, and I think the misinformation is driven by a combination of AI hype, and PR by some companies laying off workers.
Pro-Palestine Activists Win $100K Settlement From University of Maryland: Palestine Legal says it’s the largest penalty a university has had to pay for violating pro-Palestine students’ rights
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Pro-Palestine Activists Win $100K Settlement From University of Maryland: Palestine Legal says it’s the largest penalty a university has had to pay for violating pro-Palestine students’ rights (Truthout, 2025-08-07)truthout.org/articles/pro-pale…
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Pro-Palestine Activists Win $100K Settlement From University of Maryland
Palestine Legal says it’s the largest penalty a university has had to pay for violating pro-Palestine students’ rights.Sharon Zhang (Truthout)
Pro-Palestine Activists Win $100K Settlement From University of Maryland: Palestine Legal says it’s the largest penalty a university has had to pay for violating pro-Palestine students’ rights
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Pro-Palestine Activists Win $100K Settlement From University of Maryland: Palestine Legal says it’s the largest penalty a university has had to pay for violating pro-Palestine students’ rights (Truthout, 2025-08-07)truthout.org/articles/pro-pale…
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Pro-Palestine Activists Win $100K Settlement From University of Maryland
Palestine Legal says it’s the largest penalty a university has had to pay for violating pro-Palestine students’ rights.Sharon Zhang (Truthout)
Pro-Palestine Activists Win $100K Settlement From University of Maryland: Palestine Legal says it’s the largest penalty a university has had to pay for violating pro-Palestine students’ rights
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Pro-Palestine Activists Win $100K Settlement From University of Maryland: Palestine Legal says it’s the largest penalty a university has had to pay for violating pro-Palestine students’ rights (Truthout, 2025-08-07)truthout.org/articles/pro-pale…
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Pro-Palestine Activists Win $100K Settlement From University of Maryland
Palestine Legal says it’s the largest penalty a university has had to pay for violating pro-Palestine students’ rights.Sharon Zhang (Truthout)
Fines For Greek Pirate IPTV Users €750-€5,000, Double For Repeat Infringers
The details of a new procedure for imposing and collecting administrative fines for intellectual property offenses has been published in Greece. At the bottom end of the scale, fines for accessing pirated content such as pirate IPTV streams, start at €750 per violation, increasing to €5,000 if use is commercial. For repeat offenses, fines double to €1,500 and €5,000 respectively.
Fines For Greek Pirate IPTV Users €750-€5,000, Double For Repeat Infringers * TorrentFreak
In Greece, users of pirated content face fines of €750 per violation, €5,000 if use is commercial, with fines doubling for repeat infringers.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
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