Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity: Australia’s biggest bank regrets messy rush to replace staff with chatbots.
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Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity: Australia’s biggest bank regrets messy rush to replace staff with chatbots.
WIN: CBA backflips on customer service job cuts, admits they got it wrong
In a huge win for union members, CBA has backflipped on cutting 45 customer service roles.www.fsunion.org.au
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Exclusive: Hamas Offered Major Concessions in New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal
Aug 21, 2025
After a series of meetings with a range of Palestinian political leaders, parties and factions, Hamas formally agreed last week to a series of major concessions in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, according to a copy of the framework obtained by Drop Site News. Israel has not responded to the proposed agreement for an initial 60-day ceasefire drafted by Egypt and Qatar. Instead, it moved forward with a mobilization of 60,000 reserve troops in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised will be a massive ground invasion of Gaza City aimed at ethnically-cleansing nearly a million Palestinians from the north of the enclave.“Netanyahu's disregard for the mediators’ proposal, and his failure to respond, confirms that he is the real obstacle to any agreement and that he does not care about the lives of his captives nor is he serious about retrieving them,” Hamas said in a statement Wednesday night. “The Zionist terrorist government insists on continuing its brutal war against innocent civilians by escalating its criminal operations in Gaza City, aiming to destroy it and forcibly displace its people—constituting a full-fledged war crime.”
Exclusive: Hamas Offered Major Concessions in New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal
From its perspective, Hamas has now presented its bottom line and if Israel won’t make a deal on these terms, it never will.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
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Exclusive: Hamas Offered Major Concessions in New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal
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Aug 21, 2025
After a series of meetings with a range of Palestinian political leaders, parties and factions, Hamas formally agreed last week to a series of major concessions in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, according to a copy of the framework obtained by Drop Site News. Israel has not responded to the proposed agreement for an initial 60-day ceasefire drafted by Egypt and Qatar. Instead, it moved forward with a mobilization of 60,000 reserve troops in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised will be a massive ground invasion of Gaza City aimed at ethnically-cleansing nearly a million Palestinians from the north of the enclave.“Netanyahu's disregard for the mediators’ proposal, and his failure to respond, confirms that he is the real obstacle to any agreement and that he does not care about the lives of his captives nor is he serious about retrieving them,” Hamas said in a statement Wednesday night. “The Zionist terrorist government insists on continuing its brutal war against innocent civilians by escalating its criminal operations in Gaza City, aiming to destroy it and forcibly displace its people—constituting a full-fledged war crime.”
Exclusive: Hamas Offered Major Concessions in New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal
Aug 21, 2025After a series of meetings with a range of Palestinian political leaders, parties and factions, Hamas formally agreed last week to a series of major concessions in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, according to a copy of the framework obtained by Drop Site News. Israel has not responded to the proposed agreement for an initial 60-day ceasefire drafted by Egypt and Qatar. Instead, it moved forward with a mobilization of 60,000 reserve troops in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised will be a massive ground invasion of Gaza City aimed at ethnically-cleansing nearly a million Palestinians from the north of the enclave.“Netanyahu's disregard for the mediators’ proposal, and his failure to respond, confirms that he is the real obstacle to any agreement and that he does not care about the lives of his captives nor is he serious about retrieving them,” Hamas said in a statement Wednesday night. “The Zionist terrorist government insists on continuing its brutal war against innocent civilians by escalating its criminal operations in Gaza City, aiming to destroy it and forcibly displace its people—constituting a full-fledged war crime.”
Exclusive: Hamas Offered Major Concessions in New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal
From its perspective, Hamas has now presented its bottom line and if Israel won’t make a deal on these terms, it never will.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
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Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
The move marks a sharp reversal from Meta’s reported pay offers of up to $1bn for top talentJames Titcomb (The Telegraph)
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Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down.
They got their video taken down over a copyright strike, link to post on YT
Here's a mirror on internet archive.
THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET ｜ Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments : Gamers Nexus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
NVIDIA (NVDA) GPUs have become so in-demand for so-called AI workloads that a black market has emerged around them. Where there's prohibition, there's...Internet Archive
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I found the intro hook intriguing, but the reporting starts with a lot of media clips and other run-ups, which eventually made me leave.
It's great they put in so much effort into genuine, on-site reporting, but the already long video report feels even more bloated/filled this way.
I have to wonder if the DMCA was due to the news clips. While they may be fair use for contextualized reporting, I didn't find them particularly valuable, and DMCA issues could have been avoided without them or without using so many of them.
I have to wonder if the DMCA was due to the news clips. While they may be fair use for contextualized reporting, I didn’t find them particularly valuable, and DMCA issues could have been avoided without them or without using so many of them.
They have said that Bloomburg footage of trump talking about GPUs was the claim. They probably did play a little too fast and loose with copyrighted footage.
Problem setting battery charging thresholds on ThinkPad
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Running Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 10th gen here.
Ok, so a while back, when I had TLP installed, I tried to set charging thresholds (I think with tlp-gui, does that sound right? Anyway . . .), and while I don't remember exactly what happened, I think there was a problem where the battery applets were stuck at a certain %, neither (apparently) charging nor discharging. I used the emergency reset button on the bottom of my Lenovo, started up again, removed all traces of TLP, and everything went back to normal.
As I wrote previously:
I have notifications set to warn me when a charge goes under 20% or over 90%, so that I either plug in or unplug when I get them, which TTBOMK constitutes “best practices.” Very possibly I’m just getting old and getting lost too deeply in whatever I’m doing, but I feel like I’m constantly getting these notifications, and they’re really starting to get on my nerves!
After consulting with my fellow Lemmings (who I should've listened to more carefully 🙄), I ended up doing this and then found myself stuck with the same problem again, stuck at 89% neither charging or discharging, at least according to my applets.
I tried timeshifting out of it, without success, then I did the emergency reset button on the bottom again, both with and without the laptop on, but again without success!
Since then, I've installed tlp, and am now in the process of recalibrating the battery (sudo tlp recalibrate). Still plugged into the AC, it drained the battery down to zero, and is now in the process of powering up to 100%.
So my question is, why does this keep happening? It seems like every time I try to set charging thresholds, the battery gets confused and I have to somehow try and fix it. For now, I'll have to wait until it gets to 100% and then see how it goes (maybe uninstalling tlp and reinstalling power-profiles-daemon), but in the meantime I'd be much obliged for any thoughts and/or suggestions.
How to Limit Charging Level in Linux (and Prolong Battery Life)
Prolong your laptop's battery life in long run by limiting the charging to 80%.Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)
"Best practices" (?) with laptop battery driving me crazy
Ok, well, to start with, my Lenovo X1 Carbon 10th is known for not having the greatest battery life.Despite this, to preserve battery health, I have notifications set to warn me when a charge goes under 20% or over 90%, so that I either plug in or unplug when I get them, which TTBOMK constitutes "best practices." Very possibly I'm just getting old and getting lost too deeply in whatever I'm doing, but I feel like I'm constantly getting these notifications, and they're really starting to get on my nerves!
I've tried tlp and auto-cpufreq without any noticeable difference in performance, and usually I'm on "Power Saver" in Mint.
Mrs. Erinaceus has a gaming laptop and just keeps it plugged in all the time, battery health be damned. Is that what I should do? Maybe time to get a new battery? Or is there just some way to tell it to stop charging and leave it plugged in?
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95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds
95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds
Over the last three years, companies worldwide have invested between 30 and 40 billion dollars into generative artificial intelligence projects. Yet most of these efforts have brought no real business…Oliver Flynn (The Daily Adda)
AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea'
AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
: They're cheap and grew up with AI … so you're firing them why?Simon Sharwood (The Register)
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Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
In this blog post, we’ll detail how attackers can exploit image scaling on Gemini CLI, Vertex AI Studio, Gemini’s web and API interfaces, Google Assistant, Genspark, and other production AI systems.Kikimora Morozova (The Trail of Bits Blog)
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ASCII Smuggler Tool: Crafting Invisible Text and Decoding Hidden Codes · Embrace The Red
An adversary can hide text in plain sight using the Unicode Tags. Using ASCII Smuggler you can encode and deocde such hidden messagesEmbrace The Red
EU-US deal confirms 15% tariff cap on semiconductors, more
World War Fee: US pulls back from Trump's threatened 100% levy but not everyone pleased at Europe's concessions
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LibreOffice 25.8: Faster, leaner, and finally speaks PDF 2.0
Update boosts Microsoft file imports, adds new spreadsheet functions, and drops older Windows
LibreOffice 25.8: Faster, leaner, and finally speaks PDF 2.0
: Update boosts Microsoft file imports, adds new spreadsheet functions, and drops older WindowsLiam Proven (The Register)
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White House Clashes With Jack White, Whose Song They Used to Promote Deportation
The Trump administration frequently uses popular music in its propaganda videos, including by artists who oppose Trump.
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Facing troop shortage, Israeli army looks to deserters and the diaspora
Israel is looking for new ways to recruit soldiers to fill up to 12,000 vacant positions, Israeli Army Radio announced this week. Struggling after 23 months of war, the longest in Israeli history, the army is looking to the Jewish diaspora abroad, the Orthodox community and even former deserters, who have been offered a one-time amnesty if they sign up.
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Facing troop shortage, Israeli army looks to deserters and the diaspora
Israel is looking for new ways to recruit soldiers to fill up to 12,000 vacant positions, Israeli Army Radio announced this week.Sophian Aubin (FRANCE 24)
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Russia orders state-backed Max messenger app to be pre-installed on new phones
Critics say Max, a WhatsApp rival, could be used to track users, though state media says it is not a spying app
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California resident tests positive for the plague after camping, officials say
South Lake Tahoe resident was probably bitten by infected flea while camping in the area, local health authorities say
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U.S. Navy sailor convicted of espionage after selling secrets to Chinese intelligence officer
The attorney’s office said Jinchao Wei gave the intelligence officer about 60 technical and operating manuals about Navy ships and dozens of photographs.
U.S. Navy sailor convicted of espionage after selling secrets to Chinese intelligence officer
A U.S Navy sailor was convicted Wednesday of espionage after he sold Navy secrets to a Chinese intelligence officer, federal officials said.Minyvonne Burke (NBC News)
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ICE Goes Full Hegseth: Adds Random Person To Group Chat Discussing Ongoing Manhunt
The Trump administration has been described as many things, none of them good. What no one will ever accuse it of being is “competent.” Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants, most of them known only for waving the MAGA flag when not hosting shows on Fox or podcasts celebrating the debut of American fascism.
ICE Goes Full Hegseth: Adds Random Person To Group Chat Discussing Ongoing Manhunt
The Trump administration has been described as many things, none of them good. What no one will ever accuse it of being is “competent.” Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants, mos…Techdirt
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UN rights chief urges protection of ICC officials after new US sanctions
The UN human rights chief on Thursday said the imposition by the US of further sanctions on judges and deputy prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should prompt the international community to take measures to protect them, Anadolu reports.
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Putin's demand to Ukraine: give up Donbas, no NATO and no Western troops, sources say
Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters.
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Classified Israeli military data reveals 83% civilian death rate in Gaza
Five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip are civilians, according to research based on the Israeli military’s own data, Anadolu reports.
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Typical piracy requires you to search sources/indexers yourself, decide on the best search result for what you're trying to download, pass that to your download client, then manually name and sort the downloaded files into media folders once the download completes.
The arr's automate this entre process for several media types (movies, tv, music, etc), combining search results from dozens of indexers to make its decision on what to download.
Now, I open a webpage, search for a movie/show (results from imdb) and select an item I want to watch. ~15min later, that item has been found, downloaded, and sorted into my media folders where Emby/Jellyfin can display it to myself or friends.
Add on to this with Ombi, a requests platform that allows my friends+family to request media and have the arrs automatically grab it. Since setting that up a little over a year ago, it's filled almost 400 requests (not including media I've grabbed/requested myself) without me having to manually manage requests ever.
Ontop of grabbing media on request, the arr's also monitor the sources you've configured, watching for new uploads, and grabbing content that's missing from your library but monitored for, such as: newly aired episodes, media that couldn't be found earlier, or upgrades in quality for existing media (if configured/allowed to upgrade existing media).
Every time a new episode airs for a show I've added, it automatically grabs it for me. (currently 486 series monitored here)
Cybertruck Owners Sue Over Expensive Upgrade
This is the third major lawsuit against Musk that saw major developments this week.
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Trump to sign order directing DOJ to criminally charge flag burning despite being protected speech
Trump pledged to ban flag burning through constitutional amendment, if necessary, in 2024
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Treasury Secretary quashes hopes that Americans will get rebate checks from tariffs
Bessent says debt, not rebate checks, will be administration’s priority for tariff revenue as prices rise for Americans
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Here's a Map of What Trump-GOP Destruction of US Hospitals Looks Like
Protect Our Care's Hospital Crisis Watch tracks hospitals at risk of closure due to Medicaid cuts in GOP budget, highlighting rural areas most vulnerable.
Here's a Map of What Trump-GOP Destruction of US Hospitals Looks Like
"Hospitals count on Medicaid to keep their doors open," said healthcare advocacy group Protect Our Care.brad-reed (Common Dreams)
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US | Court Rules With SpaceX in Case Seeking to Gut NLRB, in Blow to Workers’ Rights
“This disastrous decision cannot stand,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Case file: bloomberglaw.com/public/deskto…
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AMD discontinues B650 chipset to transition to the newer B850 chipset — affordable AM5 motherboards just got a bit pricier
We're seeing the last of budget AMD B650 motherboards.
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Netanyahu’s actions in Gaza ‘amount to genocide,’ says Scottish leader
The first minister of Scotland on Thursday warned of the planned Israeli occupation of Gaza City, saying it “only intensifies” the ongoing genocide in the Palestinian enclave, Anadolu reports.
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Tesla is slow in reporting crashes and the feds have launched an investigation to find out why
Federal auto safety regulators have opened an investigation into why Tesla has repeatedly broken rules requiring it to tell them quickly about crashes involving its self-driving technology that may soon be deployed in millions of its cars on U.S. roads.
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Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars
Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars
A man holds an orange and white device in his hand, about the size of his palm, with an antenna sticking out. He enters some commands with the built-in buttons, then walks over to a nearby car. At first, its doors are locked, and the man tugs on one of them unsuccessfully. He then pushes a button on the gadget in his hand, and the door now unlocks.The tech used here is the popular Flipper Zero, an ethical hacker’s swiss army knife, capable of all sorts of things such as WiFi attacks or emulating NFC tags. Now, 404 Media has found an underground trade where much shadier hackers sell extra software and patches for the Flipper Zero to unlock all manner of cars, including models popular in the U.S. The hackers say the tool can be used against Ford, Audi, Volkswagen, Subaru, Hyundai, Kia, and several other brands, including sometimes dozens of specific vehicle models, with no easy fix from car manufacturers.
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Do you know anything else about people using the Flipper Zero to break into cars? 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.These tools are primarily sold for a fee, keeping their distribution somewhat limited to those willing to pay. But, there is the looming threat that this software may soon reach a wider audience of thieves. Straight Arrow News (SAN) previously covered the same tech in July, and the outlet said it successfully tested the tool on a vehicle. Now people are cracking the software, meaning it can be used for free. Discord servers with hundreds of members are seeing more people join, with current members trolling the newbies with fake patches and download links. If the tech gets out, it threatens to supercharge car thefts across the country, especially those part of the social media phenomenon known as Kia Boys in which young men, often in Milwaukee, steal and joyride Kia and Hyundai cars specifically because of the vehicles’ notoriously poor security. Apply that brazeness to all of the other car models the Flipper Zero patches can target, and members of the car hacking community expect thieves to start using the easy to source gadget.
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“Kia Boys will be Flipper Boys by 2026,” one person in the reverse engineering community said.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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VS Code Chat Checkpoints: A Safety Net for AI Coding
Ever let GitHub Copilot get a little too creative and make a mess of your project? We've all been there. A single misguided prompt can lead to chaos across multiple files, leaving you with a cleanup job you didn't ask for.
The latest VS Code update (v1.103) is here to save the day with a new feature called VS Code chat checkpoints. Think of it as a powerful "undo" button for your entire AI conversation. You can now instantly roll back your whole workspace to a previous state, making it safe to experiment with even the most ambitious AI-driven edits. This update also brings support for OpenAI's new GPT-5 model, making Copilot smarter than ever.
VS Code Chat Checkpoints: A Safety Net for AI Coding
VS Code's 1.103 update introduces VS Code Chat Checkpoints, a feature to roll back misguided AI prompts. Learn how this safety net, plus GPT-5 support, is changing development. Explore the new features now!Owais Makkabi (Tygo Cover)
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UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action
Exclusive: Baroness Chakrabarti said the latest arrest demonstrates the dangers of the ongoing proscription of Palestine Action, which is being challenged in the courts
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Netanyahu says Israel will attack Gaza City regardless of ceasefire deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel will attack Gaza City regardless of whether it reaches a ceasefire with Hamas that sees the release of Israeli captives.
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Elon Musk's X may finally settle $500M severance lawsuit
Elon Musk's X is settling a severance lawsuit with former Twitter employees.
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US: DHS reviews security funding to Muslim organisations, places of worship
President Donald Trump's administration has already cut $8m across dozens of similar projects
US: DHS reviews security funding to Muslim organisations, places of worship
The US's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is reviewing security grants to Muslim organisations and places of worship that have been accused by a pro-Israel think tank of having ties to "radical" groups.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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One of China's Largest Tech Companies Just Copied Apple's Biggest Flop
No, seriously, it stole part of the name and everything.
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It remains to be seen exactly what future ai has in terms of eliminating white collar office jobs.
I would be very surprised if LLM's achieved anything approaching AGI in my lifetime (if ever). I would be surprised if LLM's alone got to a point where they could replace white collar office jobs in at least the next decade (but concede it is not impossible at some point). I wouldn't want to bet what might happen beyond a decade either way. I think large parts of many office jobs can be made redundant by ai agents working in conjunction with LLM's now or in the near future. But getting those agents accurate enough is not easy, and still require quite a lot of human intervention.
Any AI toaster/coffee machine/bed you might see available to buy today is just nonsense, presumably the result of companies hyping ai in order to try and return some sort of short term income from the massive capital expenditure.
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