President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare
President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare
The White House’s recently-unveiled “AI Action Plan” wages war on so-called “woke AI”—including large language models (LLMs) that provide information inconsistent with the administration’s views on climate change, gender, and other issues.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk.
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Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. - Open Policy & Advocacy
Across the internet, users rely on browsers and extensions to shape how they experience the web: to protect their privacy, improve accessibility, block harmful or intrusive content, and take control ...Daniel Nazer (Open Policy & Advocacy)
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EXCLUSIVE: Centrist Ruben Gallego Circulating Letter Pushing Trump to Investigate Israeli Settler Violence
Gallego’s leadership of the letter marks another shift in moderate Democrats’ approach to Israel and Palestine. Just last week, while in Iowa, Gallego attracted criticism for an exchange he had with voters. At a public event, Gallego had said, “The people of Gaza are in this situation because Donald Trump is President.”
Members in the crowd pointed out that Biden was president during Israel’s war on Gaza, too. Gallego responded: “Whatever, hey, this is your opinion, dude,” before continuing to discuss Israel’s wrongdoing and Republicans’ complete absence from responding to the devastation, despite being in total control of all three branches of government.
“[A]s the realities of Israel’s forced starvation and mass killing have become impossible to deny, and the constant calls from constituents have become too loud to ignore, AIPAC is losing its sway in the Democratic Party,” the Reject AIPAC coalition said Thursday.
EXCLUSIVE: Centrist Ruben Gallego Circulating Letter Pushing Trump to Investigate Israeli Settler Violence
The effort comes after Gallego and other Democrats have faced criticism for their responses to Israel’s US-backed genocide in Gaza.Prem Thakker (Zeteo)
Video of the person in the crowd calling him out for supporting Israel, which seems to have had some effect because Dems are finally caving a little bit under the pressure
EXCLUSIVE: Centrist Ruben Gallego Circulating Letter Pushing Trump to Investigate Israeli Settler Violence
The letter, led by a centrist Democrat, underscores how much of the party, especially the more moderate wing, is being pushed to evolve their stances as anger among Americans over Israeli settler violence and Israel's genocide in Gaza grows.
Gallego’s leadership of the letter marks another shift in moderate Democrats’ approach to Israel and Palestine. Just last week, while in Iowa, Gallego attracted criticism for an exchange he had with voters. At a public event, Gallego had said, “The people of Gaza are in this situation because Donald Trump is President.”
Members in the crowd pointed out that Biden was president during Israel’s war on Gaza, too. Gallego responded: “Whatever, hey, this is your opinion, dude,” before continuing to discuss Israel’s wrongdoing and Republicans’ complete absence from responding to the devastation, despite being in total control of all three branches of government.
“[A]s the realities of Israel’s forced starvation and mass killing have become impossible to deny, and the constant calls from constituents have become too loud to ignore, AIPAC is losing its sway in the Democratic Party,” the Reject AIPAC coalition said Thursday.
EXCLUSIVE: Centrist Ruben Gallego Circulating Letter Pushing Trump to Investigate Israeli Settler Violence
The effort comes after Gallego and other Democrats have faced criticism for their responses to Israel’s US-backed genocide in Gaza.Prem Thakker (Zeteo)
Video of the person in the crowd calling him out for supporting Israel, which seems to have had some effect because Dems are finally caving a little bit under the pressure
Arizona court sanctions lawyer for AI-generated false citations: Judge revokes attorney's pro hac status and imposes multiple sanctions after majority of legal citations were fabricated by AI.
An Arizona federal court issued extensive sanctions against attorney Maren Bam on August 14, 2025, after finding that her brief contained multiple artificial intelligence-generated citations to non-existent cases. The sanctions include revocation of pro hac vice status, striking the brief, and mandatory notification to state bar authorities.
Arizona court sanctions lawyer for AI-generated false citations
Judge revokes attorney's pro hac status and imposes multiple sanctions after majority of legal citations were fabricated by AI.Luis Rijo (PPC Land)
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ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity
The University of Rhode Island's AI lab estimates that GPT-5 averages just over 18 Wh per query, so putting all of ChatGPT's reported 2.5 billion requests a day through the model could see energy usage as high as 45 GWh.A daily energy use of 45 GWh is enormous. A typical modern nuclear power plant produces between 1 and 1.6 GW of electricity per reactor per hour, so data centers running OpenAI's GPT-5 at 18 Wh per query could require the power equivalent of two to three nuclear power reactors, an amount that could be enough to power a small country.
ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity
But the figures rely on hardware and usage assumptions that may be inaccurate.Anton Shilov (Tom's Hardware)
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Tech hasn't improved that much in the last in the last decade. All that's happened is that more cores have been added. The single-thread speed of a CPU is stagnant.
My home PC consumes more power than my Pentium 3 consumed 25 years ago. All efficiency gains are lost to scaling for more processing power. All improvements in processing power are lost to shitty, bloated code.
We don't have the tech for AI. We're just scaling up to the electrical senand demand of a small country and pretending we have the tech for AI.
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The CIA Trained Fulgencio Batista’s Torturers in Cuba
Fulgencio Batista’s Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities had a blood-spattered record of torture and political killings before the 1959 revolution. Declassified files show how the CIA nurtured the bureau and its repressive techniques.
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How Fort Bragg special operations troops created a drug cartel
A bizarre criminal conspiracy in the ranks of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command at a military base in North Carolina.Matthew Petti (Reason.com)
Israel anxious over Chinese support for Iranian missile program
Israel anxious over Chinese support for Iranian missile program: Report
Hebrew media says western intelligence agencies have recently observed close military cooperation between Iran and Chinathecradle.co
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Moscow assures Sahel states of security support
Moscow assures Sahel states of security support
The defense chiefs of Russia, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have met to discuss ways to boost cooperation and fight terrorismRT International
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A Russian-controlled newspaper masquerading as a independent news source should be banned. Foreign countries should not have direct control over what another country believes.
You just want to spread your idiotic homegrown propaganda unimpeded.
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we should all be able to agree that Russian-backed newspapers are not a good counterbalance
It is the perfect counterbalance. What alternatives do you offer?
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Russia is a country actively occupying parts of ~~two~~ three much smaller countries. Where the president is wanted by the ICC for war crimes. Where the government has frequently and provably lied.
There should be a counterbalance to the approved government narrative, but Russian state-backed newspapers are absolutely the last source that should fill that role.
ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time
ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time
Members of a law enforcement group chat including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies inadvertently added a random person to the group called “Mass Text” where they exposed highly sensitive information about an active search for a convicted attempted murderer seemingly marked for deportation, 404 Media has learned.The texts included an unredacted ICE “Field Operations Worksheet” that includes detailed information about the target they were looking for, and the texts showed ICE pulling data from a DMV and license plate readers (LPRs), according to screenshots of the chat obtained and verified by 404 Media. The person accidentally added to the group chat is not a law enforcement official or associated with the investigation in any way, and said they were added to it weeks ago and initially thought it was a series of spam messages.
The incident is a significant data breach and operational security failure for ICE, which has ramped up arrest efforts across the U.S. as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts. The breach also has startling similarities to so-called Signal Gate, in which a senior administration official added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to a group chat that contained likely classified information. These new ICE messages were MMS, or Multimedia Messaging Service messages, meaning they weren’t end-to-end encrypted, like texts sent over Signal or WhatsApp are.
“Going to need to roll out at 1000,” one of the messages, sent at 09:25 a.m. on Wednesday to the group, called “Mass Text,” reads.
“Copy. We can break it down at 10,” comes the reply.
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Do you want to contact me securely? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.404 Media has verified that one of the members of the chat is an ICE official, and another appears to be from the U.S. Marshals Service.
The person accidentally added to the group chat, which appears to contain six people, said they had no idea why they had received these messages, and shared screenshots of the chat with 404 Media. 404 Media granted the person anonymity to protect them from retaliation.
“At first I thought it was just another series of spam messages like I get all the time from home improvement, car insurance , business loans, etc. Then I saw the rap sheet and license plate numbers and was like WTAF,” the person said in an online chat.
Screenshots of the messages. Redactions by 404 Media.
A DHS official not affiliated with the group chat told 404 Media, “This breach strikes me as indicative of the current carelessness of officers. They're concerned about pumping up arrest numbers, not about operating with the level of care and rigor we should expect from law enforcement officials.” 404 Media granted the source anonymity as they weren’t permitted to speak to the press.
404 Media only obtained text messages from the group sent on Wednesday and only learned of the issue at that time. They start early in the morning with one of the participants, which 404 Media has identified as an ICE official, sending a screenshot of the ICE field operations worksheet. This document names the target, lays out their criminal history, and includes personal information such as their Social Security Number, country of citizenship, and driver’s license number.
The target is a person who was previously convicted of attempted murder according to the document, and a search of the ICE Online Detainee Locator System returned no results.
Nearly an hour later, another member of the group replies with a series of license plates. The name registered to that number matches that of a U.S. Marshals Criminal Investigator, according to a freely available phone lookup tool and LinkedIn searches.
Screenshots of the messages. Redactions by 404 Media.
“Running those plates,” the ICE officer then replies. “In the mean time he has two vehicles,” the ICE officer adds, before uploading two photos of car registration data which appear to come from a DMV; one of the photos shows a PDF filename which includes “DMV.” ICE is able to access DMV data in many circumstances. The respective DMV for the state this investigation took place in acknowledged a request for comment but did not provide a response in time for publication.
Immediately after, the ICE official wrote “no LPR hits since March.” LPR cameras are made by various companies and are stationed all across the United States. These cameras typically scan any vehicles driving by them, recording the vehicle’s license plate, model, and color, and makes a timestamped record of where that car, and by extension person, was. For example, more than 9,000 ICE agents had access to an LPR database run by Vigilant Solutions, according to records the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) obtained in 2019. 404 Media also revealed that local police were tapping into Flock cameras on behalf of ICE and for immigration enforcement, sometimes in violation of the law.
“It’s possible it’s still a connected address. Could be family. The last name matches the female co-reg on one of his vehicles,” the ICE official writes, appearing to refer to some of the data he’s pulled up.
“Copy,” another participant replies.
“Ok I’ll call you,” another says.
By the time the chat members say they’re going to “roll out at 1000,” appearing to mean they will move at 10am, the ICE official says “I’ll have someone sit and try and get a pattern of life/pid.” Pattern of life is a general term law enforcement and intelligence agencies sometimes use to describe where someone may live, go to work, or spend their time.
The source who was accidentally added to the group chat said they haven’t received any more messages since then.
Neither DHS or the U.S. Marshals Service responded to requests for comment.
Recently ICE officials have raided incorrect addresses; potentially violated court orders banning the agency from racial profiling people at Home Depots; detained U.S. citizens (including for days without water); and deported U.S. citizen children, one of which had cancer, with their families to Honduras, all while aggressively rounding up undocumented people many of whom have no criminal record and denying due process to some. Around half the people in ICE detention, nearly 30,000 people, do not have criminal records, according to the Deportation Data Project.
Previously senior administration officials gave ICE a quota of 3,000 arrests a day. The administration has since claimed that no such quota exists.
With its new budget injection and overarching mass deportation goal, ICE is about to go on a social media ad recruiting blitz, 404 Media previously reported. On Tuesday DHS said it had received more than 100,000 applications for roles at ICE. At the end of July, the agency said it had issued more than 1,000 tentative job offers since July 4.
Trump border czar Tom Homan wants ICE to dramatically hike illegal migrant arrest quota after 'big beautiful bill' cash infusion
Trump signed the nearly 900-page bill into law on July 4, opening the door for ICE to hire 10,000 new officers and double its capacity to detain illegal immigrants.Jennie Taer (New York Post)
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Ukrainian soldiers in Kherson, Ukraine, on Aug. 8, 2025. (Fermin Torrano / Anadolu via Getty Images)
Trump says Putin ready to make a peace deal with Ukraine. “I believe now he’s convinced that he’s going to make a deal. He’s going to make a deal. I think he’s going to,” U.S. President Donald Trump said.
Putin to present Trump with ‘historical materials‘ framing Ukraine as artificial state, Kyiv claims. The package includes geographical maps intended to justify Russia’s territorial claims and ongoing military aggression, Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation claimed.
Anchorage security ramps up before Trump-Putin talks on Ukraine’s future, Bloomberg reports. Security arrangements follow strict reciprocity protocols, with each side matching the other’s personnel and resources — from motorcade composition to the number of translators and secure waiting rooms.
Russia unveils delegation for Putin-Trump Alaska meeting, expects no agreement signed. The Russian delegation will include Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, and Russian Direct Investment Fund head Kirill Dmitriev.
Russia may be preparing to test nuclear-powered missile ahead of Trump talks, Reuters reports. Planet Labs imagery showed stacks of shipping containers, cranes, and a helicopter at the launch site, as well as two radar-equipped aircraft parked at Rogachevo military airfield since mid-July, Reuters reported.
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84 Ukrainians return from Russian captivity in latest prisoner swap — some held since 2014. Ukraine has secured the return of 84 soldiers and civilians from Russian captivity in a fresh prisoner swap with Moscow, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Aug. 14.
Drone reportedly hits apartment building in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don, officials say 13 injured. Residents heard the sound of an incoming drone before an explosion, Telegram channels reported. The blast occurred in the city center near Voroshilovsky Avenue, according to the independent Russian Telegram channel Astra.
Ukrainian drone strike sets fire to Russia’s Volgograd oil refinery, Kyiv confirms.
The facility processes over 15 million metric tons of oil every year, amounting to 5.6% of Russia’s refining capacity, the Ukrainian military said.
Russian Su-30SM fighter jet likely down near Snake Island, Ukrainian Navy says.
The twin-engine, two-seat aircraft – designed for both air superiority and ground attack – crashed for unknown reasons, the Ukrainian Navy said.
Zelensky meets Starmer in UK day before Trump-Putin summit. President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the latter’s residence in Downing Street on Aug. 14, Sky News reported, citing Starmer’s office.
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Ukraine war latest: Trump says Putin ready to make a peace deal with Ukraine
The talks in Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, will be the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders since Trump returned to office and Putin’s first visit to the U.S. in a decade.
Photo: Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images
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Trump doesn’t have enough leverage to stop Russia, Ukrainian soldiers say ahead of Alaska talks
The U.S. and Russian leaders are set to meet in Alaska on Aug. 15, with Trump saying the talks could involve some “swapping” of territories between Ukraine and Russia.
Photo: Roman Pilipey / AFP via Getty Images
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Can Trump offer Ukraine’s minerals to Putin? Not without unraveling the global legal order, experts warn
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering offering Moscow access to Ukraine’s natural minerals in the Russian-occupied territories, a move Ukrainians say would be illegal and damaging to Washington’s reputation.
Photo: Pierre Crom / Getty Images
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Ukrainian soldiers on fighting to reclaim their homes from Russia
For Ukrainian soldiers born and raised on lands occupied by Russia, the fight for their home is deeply personal.
So much so that some say their decision to serve was driven by a desire for revenge as by a sense of civic duty and justice.
Photo: Oleg Pereverzev/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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Human cost of Russia’s war
July saw highest civilian casualties in Ukraine since 2022, UN says ahead of Trump-Putin summit. “Only the first three months after the Russian Federation launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine saw more killed and injured than in this past month,” said Danielle Bell, head of the U.N. human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine.
Russian attacks kill at least 8, injure 18 across Ukraine over past day. Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 45 Shahed-type drones, other UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), and two S-300/400 missiles overnight from several directions.
Alaska talks
From ‘war criminal’ to US guest — Trump invites Putin out of isolation
After Moscow launched its full-scale invasion, Putin limited travel largely to close allies and regional partners, Iran, China, and North Korea, avoiding Western capitals entirely.
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Trump may entertain Russia’s ‘land swap’ plan, but Ukraine won’t
Various media outlets reported that Moscow had proposed Ukraine’s handover of the remaining part of its eastern Donetsk Oblast in exchange for a ceasefire.
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International response
US sanctions Russian crypto exchange over cybercrime — day before Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. The U.S. Treasury Department has re-designated the Russian-linked cryptocurrency exchange Garantex Europe OU, accusing it of directly enabling ransomware gangs and other cybercriminals by processing over $100 million in illicit transactions since 2019.
Trump prefers talks over new Russia sanctions but has ‘many measures’ ready, White House says. “What comes after that meeting is up to President Trump,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News. “He wants to sit down and look the Russian president in the eyes and see what progress can be made.”
India shifts oil purchases away from Russia before Trump-Putin Alaska meeting, Bloomberg reports. This week, state companies Indian Oil Corp. and Bharat Petroleum Corp. secured supplies from the United States, Brazil, and Middle Eastern producers for September-October delivery, Bloomberg reported.
Japan says Russian military obtained banned machine tools via Chinese firms.
Japanese authorities found that over 300 precision machine tools made by Tsugami Corp., sold to seven Chinese firms, had gone missing and were later used by Russia to produce weapons components.
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Poland detains Ukrainian teen accused of vandalizing monuments on Russia’s behalf. According to Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak, the teenager vandalized monuments of victims of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and defaced buildings with anti-Polish slogans on behalf of foreign powers.
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The Online Safety Act is a minefield for the next generation of voters
The Online Safety Act is a minefield for the next generation of voters
Caught between a lowered voting age, the ban of Palestine Action and the Online Safety Act, the political landscape has changed radically for 16-year-olds over the course of one summer.The Face
ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity
ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity
But the figures rely on hardware and usage assumptions that may be inaccurate.Anton Shilov (Tom's Hardware)
To be fair, you need to spend a machine that's a bit beefier than a mini PC to run full DeepSeek, but yeah it's very much consumer grade hardware we're talking about.
How the Russia-Ukraine Conflict could end?
How the Russia-Ukraine Conflict could end?
Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine is in its fourth year and nothing could define it better than a number of strategic successes for Russia,Саймон Вествуд (New Eastern Outlook)
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Zelensky’s exclusion from Alaska summit proof of his illegitimacy – Moscow
Zelensky’s exclusion from Alaska summit proof of his illegitimacy – Moscow
Russia believes the Ukrainian leader lacks authority to sign any peace deal, adding that any agreement must be ironclad legallyRT
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Ukraine’s Soviet Arsenal Nearly Depleted, Kiev ‘Almost Entirely’ Reliant on Western Aid
Ukraine’s Soviet Arsenal Nearly Depleted, Kiev ‘Almost Entirely’ Reliant on Western Aid
Ukraine’s military has reached a critical turning point, transitioning from relying on its legacy Soviet and Russian artillery and rocket supplies to becoming almost entirely dependent on Western aid, the latest quarterly report of the Operation Atla…Sputnik International
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Russia Deals Crushing Blow To Kiev Ahead Of Trump-Putin Summit
Russia Deals Crushing Blow To Kyiv Ahead Of Trump-Putin Summit
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S. Korea’s brain drain worsens as top scientists flee abroad
S. Korea’s brain drain worsens as top scientists flee abroad
S. Koreas brain drain worsens as top scientists flee abroad Weak infrastructure and stagnant funding drive the brightest minds to foreign universities, threatening the countrys scientific edgeThe Chosun Daily
Republicans who backed Trump’s anti-environment bill have accepted over $105m from big oil
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes billions of dollars in giveaways to fossil fuel companies and their executives
US | Babysitter who provided young girls to her boyfriend for sexual assault sentenced to 100 years in prison
Brittney Lyon provided her boyfriend Samuel Cabrera girls as young as three to drug, bind and abuse in exchange for going on dates, prosecutors say
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Fracne | Emmanuel Macron decries ‘antisemitic hatred’ after memorial tree cut down
French president vows to punish those who felled tree planted in memory of Jewish man tortured to death in 2006
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120,000 Ukrainians in US at risk of deportation as Biden-era program lapses, WSJ reports
The issue concerns refugees who have lived in the country since Aug. 16, 2023, under the Uniting for Ukraine program, devised by the Biden administration to allow Ukrainians to stay in the country on humanitarian parole.
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Air Canada, flight attendants enter final day before strike deadline
It's the final day before a potential work stoppage could ground all Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge flights.
Air Canada, flight attendants enter final day before strike deadline - Wings Magazine
It's the final day before a potential work stoppage could ground all Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge flights.Wings Staff (Wings Magazine)
The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk.
Across the internet, users rely on browsers and extensions to shape how they experience the web: to protect their privacy, improve accessibility, block harmful or intrusive content, and take control over what they see. But a recent ruling from Germany’s Federal Supreme Court risks turning one of these essential tools, the ad blocker, into a copyright liability — and in doing so, threatens the broader principle of user choice online.
Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. - Open Policy & Advocacy
Across the internet, users rely on browsers and extensions to shape how they experience the web: to protect their privacy, improve accessibility, block harmful or intrusive content, and take control ...Daniel Nazer (Open Policy & Advocacy)
US | DC sues Trump over ‘hostile takeover’ of city’s police
Washington, D.C.’s attorney general calls administration’s actions ‘gravest threat’ to district’s self-governance
Far-right Israeli minister taunts jailed Palestinian leader in prison visit
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir released a video on Friday showing him taunting Israel’s most prominent Palestinian detainee, Marwan Barghouti, a senior Fatah figure, in his jail cell. The Palestinian Authority's foreign ministry denounced the confrontation as "an unprecedented provocation".
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France condemns Israeli demolition of West Bank school under construction
France on Friday condemned the Israel’s destruction of a school under construction in northern occupied West Bank, calling for accountability, Anadolu reports.
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Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble
Is the bubble about to burst?
Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has admitted to thinking AI is in a bubble. During an interview with reporters, Altman said investors are “overexcited” about AI.Emma Roth (The Verge)
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Help us fight Chat Control – our privacy and security are under threat again
We started Filen with a simple promise: privacy that actually holds up in the real world. That promise matters to journalists, founders, doctors, teachers, parents, and to anyone who cares about keeping personal life personal.Filen (Filen Hub)
Rumor: There Is A Performance Gap Between Switch 2 Game Cards Vs. Internal Storage
Nintendo's patents apparently reveal that Switch 2 Game Cards have lower performance compared to games running internally.
The State Of Louisiana Is Suing Roblox
Louisiana attorney general Liz Murril is suing Roblox, accusing it for being 'a breeding ground for sex predators'.
Plex warns users to patch security vulnerability immediately
Plex has notified some of its users on Thursday to urgently update their media servers due to a recently patched security vulnerability.
Chinese military lab creates mosquito-sized microdrone for covert operations
China's military researchers have unveiled a mosquito-sized surveillance drone in June 2025, developed at the National University of Defence Technology (NUDT) in Hunan province1. The bionic microdrone measures about 2 cm long, weighs 0.3 grams, and features two leaf-like wings that can flap 500 times per second, along with three hair-thin legs2.
The device is designed for covert military operations and battlefield reconnaissance, with sensors and circuits packed into its tiny frame3. "Miniature bionic robots like this one are especially suited to information reconnaissance and special missions on the battlefield," said NUDT student Liang Hexiang while demonstrating the drone on state television4.
Security experts warn about potential risks. "If China is able to produce mosquito-sized drones, it would likely be interested in using them for various intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance tasks, especially in places that larger drones struggle to access," said Georgetown research fellow Sam Bresnick5.
The drone's small size makes it nearly invisible to conventional radar systems, though experts note its diminutive scale could limit operational range and endurance6.
- SCMP - Chinese military lab creates mosquito-sized microdrone for covert operations ↩︎
- Euronews - China unveils tiny spy drone that looks like a mosquito ↩︎
- SCMP - Chinese military lab creates mosquito-sized microdrone for covert operations ↩︎
- NY Post - China unveils eerie mosquito-sized drone designed for stealth military operations ↩︎
- CSET - China unveils mosquito-sized drone ↩︎
- NY Post - China unveils eerie mosquito-sized drone designed for stealth military operations ↩︎
China unveils mosquito-sized drone | Center for Security and Emerging Technology
CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insights in an article published by The Telegraph. The article discusses China’s unveiling of a mosquito-sized drone developed by scientists in Hunan province, highlighting its potential for intelligence gatherin…Jason Ly (CSET)
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China did NOT create a mosquito sized drone. They DID however create this awesome starship!
Seriously, how long are we going do the bi-monthly "China invents world changing technology" headline? These aren't even good lies.
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