Beijing's first World Humanoid Robot Games opens with street dance, martial arts and music
Humanoid robots hip-hop danced, performed martial arts and played keyboard, guitar and drums at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Thursday evening.
The competition begins Friday with more than 500 humanoid robots in 280 teams from 16 countries, including the U.S., Germany and Japan, competing in sports including soccer, running and boxing. It comes as China has stepped up efforts to develop humanoid robots powered by artificial intelligence.
During the opening ceremony, the robots demonstrated soccer and boxing among other sports, with some cheering and backflipping as if at a real sports day.
Beijing's first World Humanoid Robot Games opens with street dance, martial arts and music
Humanoid robots have showcased their talents at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in BeijingFu Ting (The Independent)
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So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.
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While many of them still provide free food and pay well, they have little compunction cutting jobs, ordering mandatory office attendance and clamping down on employee debate. [...] “Tech could still be best in terms of free lunch and a high salary,” Ms. Grey said, but “the level of fear has gone way up.”Along the way, the companies became less tolerant of employee outspokenness. Bosses reasserted themselves after workers protested issues including sexual harassment in the workplace. With the job market flooded with qualified engineers, it became easier to replace those who criticized.
“This is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts co-workers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics,” Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, said in a blog post last year.
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China’s Prinano Delivers First Homegrown Nanoimprint Lithography Machine, Challenging Canon
[News] China’s Prinano Delivers First Homegrown Nanoimprint Lithography Machine, Challenging Canon
According to Chinese media outlet ICsmart, Chinese company Prinano announced that its first self-developed PL-SR series inkjet step-and-repeat nanoimp...TrendForce
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Text appearing justified
I've tried searching for what the cause of this is but I've had no luck so hopefully it's ok to ask here.
For some reason LibreWolf is displaying pages with a significant amount of spacing between words/text justification.
The screenshot provided shows how the LibreWolf docs page looks in Firefox on the left and LibreWolf on the right. I am currently running LibreWolf version 141.0.3-1 on Kubuntu 25.04
Is there some way to alter LibreWolf so it renders the text more like the Firefox does or is this finger printing related i.e. intentional?
Thanks!
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It seems a mix of fingerprinting resistance and/or missing system fonts. The thread says that it tells the website that you use windows so it tries to use windows fonts, which are not installed and the fallback is weird.
Text displaying strangely on LibreWolf in Kubuntu 24.04 - r/LibreWolf
View on Redlib, an alternative private front-end to Reddit.reddit.nerdvpn.de
Good find, hadn't thought of the OS being the issue given that Firefox was playing ball but that makes sense. Thank you! This give me a push in the right direction to where I found folks talking about problems accessing fonts when Librewolf was installed with dnf on Fedora.
Following the same strain of thought I decided to try installing Librewolf from Flathub; curiously it accesses and displays the fonts correctly therefore solving my issue. My original method of install was via the debian based systems repo.
solo dev here - built a privacy tool for anonymous social media browsing 🛡️
hope this is okay to share here - i'm a solo dev who just launched a privacy tool and thought this community might appreciate it.
built spybroski.com - it's basically a way to view instagram & snapchat stories completely anonymously. no tracking, no data collection, just pure privacy.
honestly started this project because i got tired of social media platforms knowing every single thing we look at. figured there had to be others who care about digital privacy too, especially in a tech-focused community like this.
it's completely free and i don't collect any user data (kinda defeats the point otherwise, right?). been working on it solo for months and finally got it to a place where i'm comfortable sharing.
would love to hear what you all think - any feedback from fellow tech people would be amazing. privacy tools are only as good as the community that uses them.
thanks for letting me share, and sorry if this feels too promotional. just excited to finally put something out there that might actually help people take back a bit of their online privacy.
check it out: spybroski.com/
Free Anonymous Instagram Story Viewer | Private Follower Tracker
View any Instagram story anonymously - no login, no trace. Plus track followers privately via Telegram. Works on all devices, completely undetectable. Start free, then $4.99/month.SpyBroski
Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian [LWN]
Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian
The Arch Linux project is especially well-known in the Linux community for two things: its roll [...]LWN.net
I would much prefer this business model for online services. I pay, they provide a service.
No collecting data, targeted ads, etc. Just a yearly payment for a year of service.
It's ridiculous how bad this situation has become without any meaningful regulations.
British Gas owner buys £1.5bn gas terminal in big bet on fossil fuel reliance
The owner of British Gas has placed a £1.5bn bet on the UK’s future reliance on fossil fuel imports after striking a deal to buy Europe’s biggest gas import terminal.
Centrica plans to partner with a US private equity firm to acquire the Isle of Grain terminal in Kent, which can import 15m tonnes of liquefied natural gas a year, even after Britain’s gas demand fell last year to its lowest level since the early 1990s.
The pair will buy the gas terminal from the FTSE 100 energy company National Grid, which in recent years has sold off its interests in Britain’s gas infrastructure in favour of investing in electricity grids.
British Gas owner buys £1.5bn gas terminal in big bet on fossil fuel reliance
Deal for Europe’s biggest facility for LNG imports comes as overall UK gas demand fell sharply last yearJillian Ambrose (The Guardian)
British Gas owner buys £1.5bn gas terminal in big bet on fossil fuel reliance
The owner of British Gas has placed a £1.5bn bet on the UK’s future reliance on fossil fuel imports after striking a deal to buy Europe’s biggest gas import terminal.
Centrica plans to partner with a US private equity firm to acquire the Isle of Grain terminal in Kent, which can import 15m tonnes of liquefied natural gas a year, even after Britain’s gas demand fell last year to its lowest level since the early 1990s.
The pair will buy the gas terminal from the FTSE 100 energy company National Grid, which in recent years has sold off its interests in Britain’s gas infrastructure in favour of investing in electricity grids.
British Gas owner buys £1.5bn gas terminal in big bet on fossil fuel reliance
Deal for Europe’s biggest facility for LNG imports comes as overall UK gas demand fell sharply last yearJillian Ambrose (The Guardian)
Trump rate hopes burned as new inflation data comes in hot
Trump Rate Hopes Burned as New Inflation Data Comes in Hot
The PPI reading "is a most unwelcome surprise," said one investment analyst.Shane Croucher (Newsweek)
FOSS alternatives to Google Docs?
What are some of the best alternatives out there to Google Docs and other cloud based productivity software?
I've heard of CognitoForms as alternative to Google Forms, does anyone have any experience with it?
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I personally use LibreOffice as an alternative to docs and sheets. It took me a second to figure everything out, but it works well enough.
I don't really like their slideshow or drawing programs though. They don't work well
Edit: I took a quick look at Cryptpad and they also seem like a good option
Drug molecule property prediction using quantum edge-encoding technology
Quantum-Embedded Graph Neural Network Architecture for Molecular Property Prediction - PubMed
Accurate prediction of molecular properties is crucial for accelerating the development of new drugs, and quantum machine learning (QML) holds great promise in this domain.PubMed
Confirmed: Russia’s Krasukha Electronic Warfare Systems Spotted in Iran - Defence Security Asia
Confirmed: Russia’s Krasukha Electronic Warfare Systems Spotted in Iran - Defence Security Asia
Confirmed sightings of Russia’s Krasukha electronic warfare systems in Iran mark a major shift in the Middle East’s military balance, threatening Israel’s AWACS, U.S. surveillance aircraft, and Gulf security operations.admin (Defence Security Asia)
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we are not going to tell you how we know, just believe us
The old "Iran is building nuclear weapons" lie is wearing a bit thin, gotta cobble together some other pretext for attacking them.
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Why divided Ukrainians are refusing to fight for Zelensky
Why divided Ukrainians are refusing to fight for Zelensky
Russian gains in the east are undermining morale while casting Kyiv’s manpower problems in stark reliefAdrian Blomfield (The Telegraph)
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Even articles like this, which immediately trigger libs as "obvious Russian propaganda", try to shift the blame..
"People don't want to fight because something something Trump bad".
Yeah, Trump bad is obviously the reason. What else could it be? Definitely not the beating and kidnapping people off the streets daily like it's a totally normal thing (which actually is also mentioned in the article). Why don't people want to fight for such a wonderful regime? If not for Trump, everybody would gladly die for the pieces of shit in the government, like it was before Trump was elected. Ah wait no, people actually hated the kidnappers long before Trump, it's just now the west has finally started seeing this shit after it's no more a taboo. Ah well..
it’s just now the west has finally started seeing this shit after it’s no more a taboo.
it makes me wonder if the west will ever come to learn of the ukraine's nazi-supremecist led pogroms that made the russians intervene in the first place.
i know that that answer is no since westerners, americans in particular, are heavily propagandized; but some part of me wants to hold out hope since it's clear that social media has changed the propanda game as evidenced by isreal and social media.
then again, the anti-ice protests aren't even on lemmy; so probably not.
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it makes me wonder if the west will ever come to learn of the ukraine’s nazi-supremecist led pogroms that made the russians intervene in the first place.
No chance. Remember Thích Quảng Đức, whose selfimmolation photo is one of the most famous and most reproduced photos of XX century and who became the symbol of desperate protest? Most of westerners and westoids seem to think he was protesting against China instead of US-backed South Vietnam regime.
Check out nix-book, a personal project attempting to make NixOS more accessible.
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/35676715
nix-bookI also made a NixOS Blog with an RSS FEED
I've been working on these for a while now, they are a work in progress and evolve daily. I tried to frame it from a point of no assumptions on prior experience. Constructive feedback welcome, I want to continue making this a better resource. Thanks!
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Tracker shows several seeders, but torrent shows zero seeders?
Edit: I had to enable port forwarding. I didn't realize it was required.
Note: for some reason strikethrough isn't working (otherwise, I'd apply it to the original question. Also, not sure if I should delete this post now that it is working, or leave it up in case other people have the same issue.
Does anyone know why qbittorrent would be showing 0 seeders if a tracker shows that there are several?
I am using Proton VPN and qbittorrent. The torrent file is from teamos [dot] xyz.
ProtonVPN settings:
- Split tunneling enabled > Include mode > added app: qbittorrent
- Connected to the Netherlands (Wireguard UDP)
qbitttorrent settings:
- Network Interface set to ProtonVPN
Thank you
Pretty sure that is just a discrepancy between when a site has last checked client announcements from the tracker and when what the tracker currently shows.
As of 2025, TPB for example links to 3.2 million torrents. Assuming client announcements were set to an average 1hr interval, that would require TPB to make 76.8 million checks every day for announcement updates.
So, I could see sites not maintaining accurate seeder/leecher data.
Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
What could possibly go wrong?!
Also, it’s really cool how everything is going straight to hell. /s
Meta appoints notorious anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Meta has appointed right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-DEI conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck to advise them on preventing political bias in AI.Sophie Perry (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
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Iran values maintaining regional stability, natl. interests
Iran values maintaining regional stability, natl. interests
TEHRAN, Aug. 14 (MNA) – Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says that while Iran supports peace and stability among neighboring countries, it pays special attention to preserving regional geopolitical stability and its national interests.Mehr News Agency
16 wounded in Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia
16 wounded in Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia
TEHRAN, Aug. 14 (MNA) – Ukrainian drones struck two Russian cities on Thursday in attacks that injured at least 16 people, local authorities said, a day before a US-Russia summit on the war in Ukraine.Mehr News Agency
Kiev tries to kill as many civilians as it can right before talks
Kiev tries to kill as many civilians as it can right before talks
Zelensky’s power is contingent on the war continuing, so he’s trying his best to derail or sour any negotiation that could lead to peaceRT
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Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Meta appoints notorious anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Meta has appointed right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-DEI conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck to advise them on preventing political bias in AI.Sophie Perry (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
Russian Forces Liberate Shcherbinovka, Iskra in DPR - MoD
Russian Forces Liberate Shcherbinovka, Iskra in DPR - MoD
Russian forces took control of the settlements of Shcherbinovka and Iskra in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.Sputnik International
The Three-Body Problem Trilogy by Cixin Liu
My opinion:
- Interesting concept of a Dark Forest & cosmic sociology axioms.
- Unpleasant characters: Ye Wenjie (narcissistic and psychopathic), Cheng Xin (a kind billionaire lol).
- Disappointing ending—the last few chapters feel weak.
Bonus: Absolutely fascinating interpretation of the first book by @yogthos@lemmy.ml.
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French report links Nestlé bottled waters to record microplastic contamination
French report links Nestlé bottled waters to record microplastic contamination
French investigators have uncovered microplastic contamination in two of Nestlé’s top mineral water brands, sparking a renewed legal battle and fresh calls for tougher environmental regulation.RFI
Should I Change VPN So I can use Split Tunneling and Kill Switch Simultaneously?
Ultimately, I only want to use Proton VPN for torrenting and seeding, while not using Proton VPN for browsing the internet, using Steam and Discord (essentially everything else).
I'm currently using Proton VPN for torrenting, but sadly it doesn't support using a kill switch if I'm already using split tunneling. I read that NordVPN can use both simultaneously, but I'm not sure if this is actually true. Should I switch VPN so that I can use split tunneling and a kill switch together?
Essentially, I only want to use the VPN for torrenting, and it would be nice to be able to use a kill switch for the torrent if it loses connection.
Thank you.
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Turn the Proton killswitch off and use split tunneling, then bind your torrent client to the VPN. This is more reliable than a built-in killswitch.
Or if you're on Linux, spin up one of Binhex's bittorrent+vpn containers. Since you're using Proton, the containers from Binhex will automagically make sure your torrent client is using the random open port Proton picks each time you connect.
Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria
Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria
With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers designed novel antibiotics that can combat a drug-resistant form of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface
Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface
In a new video, Microsoft CVP and Windows boss Pavan Davuluri has teased that the future of Windows will consist of a truly ambient and multi-modal experience made possible by AI that will redefine our usage of computers.Zac Bowden (Windows Central)
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Meta’s flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home.
When Thongbue Wongbandue began packing to visit a friend in New York City one morning in March, his wife Linda became alarmed.
“But you don’t know anyone in the city anymore,” she told him. Bue, as his friends called him, hadn’t lived in the city in decades. And at 76, his family says, he was in a diminished state: He’d suffered a stroke nearly a decade ago and had recently gotten lost walking in his neighborhood in Piscataway, New Jersey.
Bue brushed off his wife’s questions about who he was visiting. “My thought was that he was being scammed to go into the city and be robbed,” Linda said.
She had been right to worry: Her husband never returned home alive. But Bue wasn’t the victim of a robber. He had been lured to a rendezvous with a young, beautiful woman he had met online. Or so he thought.
In fact, the woman wasn’t real. She was a generative artificial intelligence chatbot named “Big sis Billie,” a variant of an earlier AI persona created by the giant social-media company Meta Platforms in collaboration with celebrity influencer Kendall Jenner. During a series of romantic chats on Facebook Messenger, the virtual woman had repeatedly reassured Bue she was real and had invited him to her apartment, even providing an address.
“Should I open the door in a hug or a kiss, Bu?!” she asked, the chat transcript shows.
Rushing in the dark with a roller-bag suitcase to catch a train to meet her, Bue fell near a parking lot on a Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, injuring his head and neck. After three days on life support and surrounded by his family, he was pronounced dead on March 28.
Meta declined to comment on Bue’s death or address questions about why it allows chatbots to tell users they are real people or initiate romantic conversations. The company did, however, say that Big sis Billie “is not Kendall Jenner and does not purport to be Kendall Jenner.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-death/
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Should I Exclude or Include for Split Tunneling for Proton VPN?
Ultimately, I only want to use Proton VPN for torrenting and seeding, while not using Proton VPN for browsing the internet, using Steam and Discord (essentially everything else).
For Split tunneling in Proton VPN, should I use Exclude Mode to exclude Chrome, Steam, Discord, etc., or should I just use Include Mode to include qbittorrent?
If I use Exclude Mode, will I need to add (exclude) my IP address, so that I'm using my IP address for everything other than torrenting/seeding? Also, if I am using Include Mode, I don't know if I need to manually add the IP from whatever country's IP I connected to.
Thank you.
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First Look Revealed of Sean Bean and Connie Nielsen in MGM+ Series ‘Robin Hood’
First Look Revealed of Sean Bean and Connie Nielsen in 'Robin Hood'
MGM+ has shared the first-look image from the upcoming drama series 'Robin Hood,' debuting later this year.Leo Barraclough (Variety)
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