Lithuania gets new ruling coalition
The government reshuffle was triggered by the resignation of Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas.
Trump claims EU leaders call him ‘president of Europe’
“They call me the president of Europe," the US president said. "Which is an honour. I like Europe. And I like those people. They’re good people. They’re great leaders.”
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ICE to spend $100 million on 1,000 more SUVs to help Trump’s agenda
Exclusive: The immigration enforcement agency will take delivery of 100 modified SUVs every two months, for the next 20 months, according to an draft RFP obtained by The Independent
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Israel’s attack on hospital in Gaza may constitute a war crime on many fronts
Double-tap strike suggests killing of civilians, rescue workers and journalists deliberate and not a mistake
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‘We are painted as targets’: How Israel puts Gaza journalists in the crosshairs
Israel’s army is using a secret unit to shape narratives around Gaza, portraying Palestinian journalists as Hamas operatives to justify strikes. Analysts say the tactic silences reporters and controls the story in one of the deadliest conflicts for journalists.
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Indonesian police and students clash in protest against MPs' allowance
Authorities blocked streets leading to the Parliament building, including several toll roads, causing severe traffic jams in the city.
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France has ‘no lessons to take’ from US on tackling antisemitism, says minister
Comments come after US ambassador accused government of failing to do enough to stem hate crimes against Jews
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Study shows which vehicles pollute the least in every US county
A new tool lets you explore how much a vehicle would emit in every county of the US.
US | Trump moves to ban flag burning despite Supreme Court ruling that Constitution allows it
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order requiring the Justice Department to investigate instances of flag burning.
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As Trump Threatens News Outlets, Experts More Concerned About Capitulation of Corporate Owners
US President Donald Trump threatens to pull broadcasting licenses from networks like NBC and ABC. Experts warn of dangers to press freedom.
As Trump Threatens News Outlets, Experts More Concerned About Capitulation of Corporate Owners
"The commercial news media, which helped elevate Trump to power, have proven repeatedly that they are ill-equipped to withstand such pressures," warned one scholar.brad-reed (Common Dreams)
Trump Administration Wants to Banish Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda
The Trump administration aims to expel Abrego Garcia as its global gulag expands to Uganda, which has a long record of human rights abuses.
Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026
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Starting in 2026 and in select countries first, Android apps must be registered to a verified developer in order to be installed.Android Developers Blog
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Woody Allen rebuts Ukrainian condemnation over Moscow film festival appearance
The director said he did not ‘feel cutting off artistic conversations is ever a good way to help’ after Ukraine calls the film-maker’s participation a ‘disgrace’
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Germany's Klingbeil visits Ukraine, vows security guarantees
German Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil said: "As long as this war continues, we will stand by Ukraine's side." He also said that Berlin planned to spend €9 billion ($10.5 billion) supporting Kyiv in 2025 and 2026.
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UK | Three killed as helicopter crashes during flying lesson on Isle of Wight
A fourth person has been airlifted to hospital and is in a serious condition
Worries about European road safety after EU-US trade agreement
EU recognition of US car safety standards could have dangerous consequences for the safety of drivers, pedestrians and cyclists, NGOs warn.
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Filing: Intel warns the US taking a 10% stake could trigger “adverse reactions”, including in international sales, which made up 76% of revenue last fiscal year
- The Company’s non-US business may be adversely impacted by the US Government being a significant stockholder. Sales outside the US accounted for 76% of the Company’s revenue for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2024. Having the US Government as a significant stockholder of the Company could subject the Company to additional regulations, obligations or restrictions, such as foreign subsidy laws or otherwise, in other countries.
- The Company may experience other adverse consequences resulting from the announcement or completion of the transactions. Given the scarcity of recent US precedents for transactions such as those contemplated by the Purchase Agreement and of the US Government becoming a significant stockholder of a company like the Company, it is difficult to foresee all the potential consequences. Among other things, there could be adverse reactions, immediately or over time, from investors, employees, customers, suppliers, other business or commercial partners, foreign governments or competitors. There may also be litigation related to the transaction or otherwise and increased public or political scrutiny with respect to the Company.
Local newsrooms are building AI chatbots fast and cheap
Local newsrooms are building AI chatbots fast and cheap
A new report tracked four small newsrooms as they launched custom chatbots built in just one month.Nieman Lab
New age-gating laws aimed at making the internet safer actually threaten free speech
New age-gating laws aimed at making the internet safer actually threaten free speech
Laws aimed at restricting children’s access to harmful content online may also undermine privacy and restrict free speech.The Conversation
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The rise of humanlike chatbots detracts from developing AI for the human good
The rise of humanlike chatbots detracts from developing AI for the human good
Attributing human characteristics to artificial intelligence is more harmful than beneficial.The Conversation
I think the point is not that it is really going to happen at that pace, but to show that it very well might happen within our lifetime.
And also the authors have adjusted the earliest possible point of a possible hard to stop runaway scenario to 2028 afaik.
Kind of like the atomic doomsday clock, which has been oscillating between a quarter to twelve and a minute before twelve during the last decades, depending on active nukes and current politics.
Helps to illustrate an abstract but nonetheless real risk with maximum possible impact (annihilation of mankind - not fond of the idea...)
Even if it looks like AI has been hitting some walls for now (which I am glad about) and is overhyped, this might not stay this way.
So although AGI seems unlikely at the moment, taking the possibility into account and perhaps slowing down and making sure we are not recklessly risking triggering our own destruction is still a good idea, which is exactly the authors' point.
Kind of like scanning the sky with telescopes and doing DART-style asteroid research missions is still a good idea, even though the probability for an extinction level meteorite event is low.
Their whole predication is based on exponential growth moving forward which is just impossible. The growth of new models already stagnated and all the new improvements are just optimizations and better interface layers. They are basically hard capped at what they can do and more powerful hardware can't solve that.
Something ground breaking might happen that changes the whole landscape in the future, but it won't be exponential growth.
Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store
Google will ask all Android developers to verify their identity starting next year.
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UK police arrest Ken Loach screenwriter Paul Laverty for anti-genocide t-shirt
The star of I, Daniel Blake was arrested over a t-shirt that read, 'Genocide in Palestine, time to take action'
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UK police arrest Ken Loach screenwriter Paul Laverty for anti-genocide t-shirt
Police in Scotland have arrested I, Daniel Blake actor and veteran screenwriter Paul Laverty for a t-shirt, which read, "Genocide in Palestine, time to take action".MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Samsung introduces Galaxy Tab S10 Lite with a 10.9-inch screen and three color options
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 family is getting a new member: the Galaxy Tab S10 Lite, which the company says is "made for everyday use and budgets."
Elon Musk's xAI sues Apple and OpenAI, alleging anticompetitive collusion
According to Musk, Apple and OpenAI are colluding to stifle competition from other AI companies.
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Al Jazeera’s Salama among six Gaza journalists killed by Israel in attacks
Nasser Hospital attack also killed Reuters’ Hussam al-Masri, as well as journalists Mariam Abu Daqqa & Moaz Abu Taha.
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Al Jazeera’s Salama among four Gaza journalists killed in Israeli attack
The attack also killed Reuters photojournalist Hussam al-Masri, as well as journalists Mariam Abu Daqqa & Moaz Abu Taha.Al Jazeera
Lil Nas X charged with attacking police officers as he walked naked on Los Angeles street
Lil Nas X has been charged with four felonies, including three counts of battery on a police officer
FEMA staff warn Trump officials’ actions risk a Katrina-level disaster
More than 180 employees said the agency’s abilities were being impacted by climate science censorship and ‘interference’ from Homeland Security
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US Citizen Detained by ICE During Raid on CA Farm Is Suing Trump Administration
“They didn’t need an excuse for anything they did. They just did it,” George Retes says of ICE agents who arrested him.
[Video] Hot air balloon lands in residential street
A large balloon lands in a residential street lined with cars and telegraph poles and wires.
US fighters intercept Russian aircraft off Alaska for 3rd time in a week
Fighters from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) on Sunday intercepted a Russian aircraft in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone.
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US fighters intercept Russian aircraft off Alaska for 3rd time in a week
F-16 jets were among those dispatched to meet the Russian aircraft.David Brennan (ABC News)
FTC warns tech giants not to bow to foreign pressure on encryption
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning major U.S. tech companies against yielding to foreign government demands that weaken data security, compromise encryption, or impose censorship on their platforms.
There’s an exhibition of retro / classic home computing machines this week (Aug 21-28 2025) at Kingston University, so I had to drop in.
It was fun to see some old favourites again, and it was nice to see some youngsters engaging with the games I used to play. Turrican, Hunchback, Mario, Puzzle Bobble, Lemmings!
The Townhouse building at Kingston University has been open for several years already and I drive, walk or bus past it regularly, but never had a reason to pop in until now! It has the university library on the upper floors, and a cafe and event space on the ground floor. For the duration of this week, the Archive of Retro Computing has taken over the event space with this display.
It is nicely put together, with some machines set aside for coding, some for gaming; information about each system displayed alongside; some meta-history on topics like the British computing scene (Acorn vs Sinclair), Commodore and Amstrad, and the US elements. The back section is dedicated to vintage home gaming systems, from the 1977 Binatone Pong game, through Atari / Nintendo / Sega, up to the Super Nintendo and Jaguar.
There are also some super “deep cuts” in the collection, including the Tatung Einstein, which I don’t remember ever seeing or hearing about before…
From my personal history, the Binatone Pong game on display is I think slightly older than the simple dial paddle controllers than we had hooked up to the TV at home when I was young. No sign of the metal-clad Commodore PET that I remember tinkering with at primary school, but a range of other Commodore machines are on show, including the classic Commodore 64 (I have one of these, from a former Twitter coworker!), and several other models I’m less familar with.
My first home computer, the Acorn Electron, is right there, running Arcadians, a Space Invaders clone I must have spent hours on back in the day. My own Electron ended as a hand-modded machine featuring switchable headphone or regular speaker output. I’m still quite proud of that relatively low-tech little hardware hack from back then.
Next along in my own line would have been the Amstrad CPC (with 3″ disk drive) that my uncle had, and pointed me towards on most visits to his house. I have memories of Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner on that one. The little info card here tells the story of how Alan Sugar did a deal on the disk drives such that Hitachi ended up having to keep making them, at a loss, even though the 3″ disk format was otherwise dead in the water.
My school had a very well-equipped computer room with (I think) about 30 BBC Master and Micro computers, so I was very much an Acorn boy and learned BBC BASIC as my first proper coding language (along with a tiny bit of 6502 assembler). Later on, the computer room was upgraded with Acorn Archimedes, and my brother had an A3000 in his bedroom… I had an Acorn Risc PC with a StrongARM processor, way faster than the x86 PCs available at the time! The BBC Master and A3000 are present and correct in the exhibition (there’s a BBC Micro as well, alongside the Electron).
We also had a Super Nintendo, which is one of the last of the home gaming consoles in the exhibition (I overheard someone say that the Playstation, our next games console as a family, was where gaming all went wrong and 3D and got boring… I can sometimes understand of that point of view!).
As an aside, I had a quick go on Wolfenstein 3D on the Jaguar in the corner there, and the controller for the Jaguar was bonkers! Chunky and not very friendly to use. The graphics seemed decent, with some kind of interpolation at distance? I don’t remember ever actually playing on a Jaguar when they were current…
Pretty much all of the machines had some kind of modification, both to output graphics to the LCD monitors in use, and/or to replace disk drives with some form of USB-floppy emulation, often with a Pi or something else doing the interfacing.
A fun trip down memory lane!
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The Unlikely Revival of Nuclear Batteries: Startups plan to put them in robots, sensors, and medical implants
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Nuclear Batteries: Energy Storage for Decades
Nuclear batteries that last decades are being developed to power drones, sensors, remote devices and medical implants. Energy storage at its extreme.James Blanchard (IEEE Spectrum)
The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through The Years
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From Haaretz: Israel Committed a War Crime That Was Broadcast Live to the World
Israel committed a war crime that was broadcast live to the world
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