Famine grips Gaza's largest city and is likely to spread, authority on food crises says
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The world’s leading authority on food crises said Friday the Gaza Strip’s largest city is gripped by famine, and that it is likely to spread across the territory without a ceasefire and an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, said famine is occurring in Gaza City, home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and that it could spread south to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of next month.
The IPC determination comes after months of warnings by aid groups that Israel’s restrictions of food and other aid into Gaza, and its military offensive, were causing high levels of starvation among Palestinian civilians, particularly children.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-famine-hunger-israel-ceasefire-a5f88e20db2a5c4f754117de9bdada69
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Canada absent in multi-nation call to protect Gaza journalists, allow foreign media
Canada absent in multi-nation call to protect Gaza journalists, allow foreign media
OTTAWA — Canada has taken the rare step of not signing onto a multi-country statement that demands Israel stop banning foreign journalists from entering Gaza and that local journalists be protected in the Palestinian territories.Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press (BarrieToday.com)
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Aid workers accuse NGOs of 'whitewashing' Israel's Gaza war – DW – 08/22/2025
Aid workers accuse NGOs of 'whitewashing' Israel's Gaza war
Several international NGOs have limited their language and advocacy on the topic of Gaza, a DW investigation has found. They fear that Israel might otherwise refuse them permits to operate in the Palestinian territories.Naomi Conrad (Deutsche Welle)
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FBI raids home of former Trump national security advisor John Bolton
FBI raids home, office of John Bolton, former Trump national security advisor
FBI Director Kash Patel tweeted “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission" as agents searched the home of ex-Trump advisor John Bolton in Maryland.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
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And hopefully send all his assets into receivership
Colombia: truck bomb, helicopter downing kill at least 17
Due to the new customs regulations under the Executive Order "Suspending Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment for all Countries," which will take effect on August 29, 2025, there will be temporary restrictions on postal goods shipping to the U.S.
Judge says Alina Habba, Trump's top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, not lawfully appointed
Judge says Alina Habba, Trump's top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, not lawfully appointed
Alina Habba, who has served as the acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, is a former lawyer for President Donald Trump.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
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French streamer's death not due to trauma, autopsy finds
French streamer's death 'not due to trauma', autopsy finds
The online personality known as Jean Pormanove was found dead in his home in Nice on Monday.Liv McMahon (BBC News)
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Yeah they didn't beat him to death, great. KICK can revert back to it's usual self.
His last video was a marathon one where the others induced him into a severe lack of sleep while making him absorb all manners of substances.
His last message to his mother (because the two torturers randomly opened his message app to read out his private conversations to the public) told her he was sick of this video, wanted to stop it, but the two others held him captive.
Fuck the media for bowing to the pressure of big tech who want this story out of people's mind before it sets a precedence. I'm not saying kick puts pressure, I'm saying the FANGS are doing it.
Sri Lanka's former president Ranil Wickremesinghe arrested
Ranil Wickremesinghe: Sri Lanka's former president arrested
Ranil Wickremesinghe has been arrested in connection with the alleged misuse of funds, officials said.Flora Drury (BBC News)
India top court shelves plan to lock up Delhi's street dogs
India's Supreme Court says Delhi stray dogs will not be sent to shelters
The Supreme Court says only dogs with rabies or aggressive behaviour should be kept in shelters.Cherylann Mollan (BBC News)
Crypto scam fugitive arrested after littering in Seoul
South Korea: Littering leads to arrest of cryptocurrency scam fugitive
The man behaved suspiciously after being apprehended for throwing a cigarette butt, police say.Koh Ewe (BBC News)
Police said they only intended to arrest the man for throwing a cigarette butt, but they got suspicious when he begged them to let him go "just this once" and tried to escape.
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Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
IDF database suggests 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
Classified intelligence reveals Israel killed 8,900 militants by May, indicating an almost unparalleled proportion of civilian slaughter.Ben Reiff (+972 Magazine)
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Thailand former PM cleared of royal insult charge but Shinawatra dynasty’s fate still hangs in balance
Thailand former PM cleared of royal insult charge but Shinawatra dynasty’s fate still hangs in balance
Lese-majesty case against Thaksin Shinawatra is dismissed, but his daughter Paetongtarn will hear next week if she will be removed as prime minsterRebecca Ratcliffe (The Guardian)
Russia orders state-backed Max messenger app to be pre-installed on new phones
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 appGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
I work with lots of people with higher than average education level, mostly 30-50yo apolitical liberals.
Never heard anyone refering to Max like they do inviting someone to a TG/VK/Whatsup/Viber/Teams chat. No work chats there as far as I know, none in the context of schools/neighborhood communication group talks. Most people do use other replacement products like RuTube/VK VIds/Yandex video search, Yandex products are very popular amongst them, and like one eight of them uses VPNs to access YT but doesn't boast about it.
There were and are a wave of paid influencers and ads promoting it, but I've always heard about it second-hand, so compared to the likes of VK, Ya and others that do even billboard advertisement at my place, it's not that well promoted, and I only encounter it in local news articles. I'm yet to see any business advertise their Max channel like they did with Insta, VK and TG. It kinda suggests there are no money to make there.
I have an obviously skewed sample, but I don't see anyone signing in for a chat platform when no one is there. I suppose, besides pre-installs, they'd softly push it onto a public sector to gain base (september is a good month since schools and colleges start their year cycle there)(I'm sure I've heard some employers did promote it), then they'd seemingly lock some government functions behind it, then, probably, it'd start to roll and people themselves become their ad agents and reasons to join. If it'd start to roll.
I suspect it's more profits and profiling for VK, Max parent company, it's owner's dad being a top henchman who's likely gifted him that monopoly, but it is still too dangerous to have it at your device. Many people I described aren't pessimistic about the government's line like I am, but I do feel the buzz of generalized lack of trust to things suggested by the gvmnt. I assume, they won't join it unless it's needed or beneficial, and right now it's not.
AMA if you care, but I won't disclose anything leading to me.
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Some friends of my friend do install that shit for they don't care. They don't see many people or services there, so it's pretty stagnant, but they are on the edge of switching because they are afraid theit TG/WS chats would get blocked.
Russia orders state-backed Max messenger app to be pre-installed on new phones
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 appGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Russia is so late to this game, China didn't even need to force their app (WeChat) on everyone, people just download it themselves out of their own free will (well its mostly social peer pressure, but like its not illegal to refuse installing it), even the Chinese Diaspora overseas are using it.
The CCP literally has control of a microphone inside my house (family members using it), and they willingly installed it on their western phones, like its literally the main reason why they have a smartphone.
And funny enough, my brother said something bad about CCP in the living room (he's the anti-CCP one in my family) while parents are on their phones with Wechat on it. And also they said they (either my mother or father) were planning on visit mainland China like soon with my older brother for some personal matters, and um... yea best of luck lol, hope they don't mind his position of Taiwan.
Also the return trip is gonna be even more crazy. Because that's the US Customs and um.. if y'all have been watching US News... 👀 (And my father is not a US Citizen 👀). But nobody IRL is worried and its just bussiness as usual, they're acting like this is trump v1.0, "not a big dead"... yea... good luck, don't blame me for warning y'all.
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Yeah - you know why?
Because it's been confirmed that messengers like whatsapp, meta are sending data to foreign spying agencies. Cooperating with them.
You know what else? Ukraine already mandates dia app for same shit.
and when telegram founder could be held hostage in France for months - it's hard to trust that platform is it?
Kim Jong-un hails North Korean troops fighting against Ukraine at ceremony for returned soldiers
Kim Jong-un hails North Korean troops fighting against Ukraine at ceremony for returned soldiers
Soldiers who had returned from Russia were honoured with a concert and relatives of troops killed in action were among those to attend a banquetJustin McCurry (The Guardian)
Russia rules out European troops in Ukraine as Trump makes veiled threats
Russia rules out European troops in Ukraine as Trump makes veiled threats
Moscow backs away from accepting western security guarantees for Ukraine as US president appears to vent frustration in Truth Social postPjotr Sauer (The Guardian)
The Guardian has obtained a classified IDF database claiming five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000Emma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
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An Open Letter to Kickstarter Creators: Why We, Kickstarter United, Are Fighting for a Four-Day 32-Hour Workweek
An Open Letter to Kickstarter Creators: Why We, Kickstarter United, Are Fighting for a Four-Day 32-Hour Workweek
Dear Kickstarter Creators & Allies, We’re writing to you as Kickstarter United—the union of designers, support specialists, product managers, engineers, and more who power this platform and are honored to support the bold, imaginative work you bring…actionnetwork.org
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I see where they're coming from but seems a bit weird to embark your customers so they back your very specific demand to your employer.
I mean, sure, unionize, fight to make your job better or at least prevent it from getting shittier. But what kind of weight do people who use Kickstarter have in company policy? The only power they have is just to stop using it, and the employees obviously don't want that. They even had to mention "pretty please don't boycott Kickstarter" right here in the end.
Il fantasma rievocato dai cannoni della caravella che vegliava sull'Unione di Kalmar - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Il fantasma rievocato dai cannoni della caravella che vegliava sull'Unione di Kalmar - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Nell’ideale gerarchia dei responsabili delle migliori scoperte archeologiche dello scorso secolo, al primo posto vengono sempre messi i cercatori.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
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Block Elon Musk’s bid to supply UK home energy, Ed Davey urges
Elon Musk’s company, Tesla, should have its application to supply energy to UK homes blocked on national security grounds, Ed Davey has told ministers.The Liberal Democrat leader argued that giving the electric car manufacturer a foothold in the British energy market would be “a gravely concerning move considering Elon Musk’s repeated interference in UK politics”.
Tesla has a clean energy arm and applied in July for a licence to supply power to British homes.
If the licence is granted by the regulator, Ofgem, the US company could be competing with big UK domestic energy suppliers such as British Gas and Octopus as soon as next year.
Block Elon Musk’s bid to supply UK home energy, Ed Davey urges
Exclusive: Lib Dem leader says giving Tesla a foothold in Britain’s energy market could be national security riskEleni Courea (The Guardian)
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Back in the Roman republic, rich guys would provide public roads, aqueducts, games, etc. this was to get the plebs to see you as their benefactor, not the state. It wasn’t charity, it was name recognition, it was knowing the lower classes were kissing your ass and would protect you.
Don’t let things end up that way, tell this rich fuck to pay his taxes instead and to fuck off into a volcano already
US to take part in Russia’s answer to Eurovision
US to take part in Russia’s answer to Eurovision
Singer B. Howard will join acts from Belarus, Cuba and Venezuela at event in Moscow.Ketrin Jochecová (POLITICO)
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The Therac-25 Incident
The Therac-25 Incident
A few months ago, someone noted in the comments that they hadn't heard about the Therac-25 incident. I was surprised, and went off to do an informal survey of developers I know, only to discover that only about half of them knew what it was without s…The Daily WTF
I Even Gave My Life To Jesus In Their Parking Lot
Cracker Barrel Is Making A Major Change & Customers Are Freaking Out: 'This Ain't It'
Cracker Barrel debuts a new logo and rebrand under “All The More.” Fans dislike the change as menus and restaurants across the chain get updated.Allison Arnold (Delish)
China cut itself off from the global internet on Wednesday
Great Firewall took out all traffic to port 443 at a time Beijing didn't have an obvious need to keep its netizens in the dark
China cut itself off from much of the global internet for just over an hour on Wednesday.
Activist group Great Firewall Report spotted the outage, which it said disrupted all traffic to TCP port 443 – the standard port used for carrying HTTPS traffic.
“Between approximately 00:34 and 01:48 (Beijing Time, UTC+8) on August 20, 2025, the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exhibited anomalous behavior by unconditionally injecting forged TCP RST+ACK packets to disrupt all connections on TCP port 443,” the group wrote in a Wednesday post.
China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday
: Great Firewall took out all traffic to port 443 at a time Beijing didn't have an obvious need to keep its netizens in the darkSimon Sharwood (The Register)
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India, Russia agree to boost trade ties after foreign ministers meet in Moscow
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/46878219
Jaishankar said that relations between the two countries had been among the steadiest of major nations in the world since World War Two, referring to a close friendship going back to the days of the Soviet Union.The two countries reaffirmed their ambition to expand bilateral trade, including by increasing India's exports to Russia, Jaishankar said, according to a statement from India's foreign ministry.
US Deploys Warships to Venezuelan Coast, Raising Fears of Another 'Regime Change' War
US Deploys Warships to Venezuelan Coast, Raising Fears of Another 'Regime Change' War
"These aggressive policies seek to extend US dominance in Latin America, no matter the human cost," CodePink said.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
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Chemical pollution a threat comparable to climate change, scientists warn
Chemical pollution a threat comparable to climate change, scientists warn
More than 100 million ‘novel entity’ chemicals are in circulation, with health impact not widely recognisedDamien Gayle (The Guardian)
Maybe I‘m being too suspicious here, and should take off my tinfoil hat, but this plastic panic feels a bit like the next distraction by oil companies to stop any movement on the energy transition. Especially these types of articles where it’s said that both are equally bad, or plastic pollution is the next climate crisis.
The climate crisis will render most of the earth uninhabitable within a 100 years if businesses as usual continues. But the plastic pollution crisis is thus far mostly hypothetical, yes it’s everywhere, yes it’s probably not the healthiest substance to have in your body, but most articles fail to mention any proven effects even remotely close to the health effects of, for example, smoking.
Again maybe I‘m completely wrong here, or it’s the classic stupidity of journalists misinterpreting and exaggerating earnest science.
this plastic panic feels a bit like the next distraction by oil companies
Probably not the oil companies. Almost all plastics are petroleum products. They don't want people to worry about plastics at all.
More than 100 million ‘novel entity’ chemicals are in circulation, with health impact not widely recognised
You know else isn't widely recognized? The uncountable number of novel entities that are a result of interactions between any those 100 million entities. Any of those chemical pollutants could be, and almost certainly are, out there reacting with each other generating new chemicals that we know nothing about and could be having any number of effects on the biology of any organism they come in contact with. Our atmosphere and bodies of water are a witches brew of nobody knows what and we aren't doing anything about it other than pouring more chemicals into it.
Samsung schedules Galaxy event 5 days before Apple's
Samsung announced on Monday evening that it will host a livestreamed Galaxy Unpacked event on September 4, strategically positioning itself just five days ahead of Apple's highly anticipated iPhone 17 event on September 9.
The virtual event, scheduled for 5:30 a.m. ET (2:30 a.m. PT), will stream live on Samsung.com and the company's YouTube channel, according to an official Samsung announcement. The timing appears deliberate, as Samsung seeks to capture attention before Apple's traditional fall product launch window
[Invitation] Samsung Galaxy Event: Introducing the Galaxy AI Experience to Our Latest Innovations
A new gateway to the latest Galaxy AI experiences is about to open. Join us on September 4 to discover a more seamless mobile experience across a widernews.samsung.com
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I’d consider switching to a Samsung phone if it didn’t contain a bunch of bloat. Don’t have ads in the operating system, don’t block side loading, don’t be loaded with telemetry. Don’t have software features in the phone that you need to subscribe for, don’t have in app purchases for the default apps that come with the phone.
If they get to this point, then they are on par with iPhone. Google seems to be closer, but they are behind in performance.
I’m happy to get a $700ish iPhone that I will use for 4-5 years.
If a phone has preinstalled apps that can be removed, I’m pretty much not even remotely interested.
I have a Samsung S23 and literally none of the issues you describe. I swapped the launcher out but other than that it's stock. I don't use any of the Samsung services so yes, there is some bloat there, but it takes up minimal storage so it's not a big deal.
I have sideloading, don't have any subscriptions, have amazing Work/Private sandboxing, and I have DeX which is so damn good. I came from Pixels and I honestly thing a lot of the tweaks Samsung makes to Android are real fixes to things Google ignores. It's not perfect, of course, but I'm not seeing much better from Apple or Google right now.
From the androids I’ve used, cheap/old ones, on the main screen when you swipe all the way to the left, it always loads Google news.
Can that be disabled on your Samsung? I’m asking, not as a criticism, but genuinely. I really think dexmode is really cool. I think I could do all my work with just a Samsung and dex mode.
No, and if it does it would be an unnoticeable amount. I've run custom launchers since the Nexus days. If I ever load the stock launcher it's slow to start so that indicates it hasn't been sitting in RAM.
There's so many extra things you can do with custom launchers that I would have a hard time going back. One thing I like about Nova that I haven't seen anywhere else, is folders within icons. So I can make a folder called "Messengers" and put all my different messaging apps in it. I then put Signal as the first in the folder (because I use it most) and in the folder setting select "launch first app" as the tap action and "open folder" as swipe up action. The folder then just becomes a Signal icon and works like a regular Signal icon, but if I swipe up on it, all my different messaging apps come up. Its great and I have these hidden folders for everything. My camera app is actually my gallery, picture editors, etc. My Phone app is also my contacts, meeting app, you get the picture. Keeps my home screen nice and tidy but I still have everything categorized and easy to reach.
IDF database suggests 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
IDF database suggests 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
Classified intelligence reveals Israel killed 8,900 militants by May, indicating an almost unparalleled proportion of civilian slaughter.Ben Reiff (+972 Magazine)
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Well above the modern average of 50%
Also above the levels of the second intifada.
It's similar to the chechen wars with Russia.
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Public broadcaster DR said Danish government and security sources that it didn’t name, as well as unidentified sources in Greenland and the U.S., believe that at least three American nationals with connections to Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in the territory.
“I don’t want to get rid of a bunch of people right now. I don’t want to get rid of engineers,” Robbins said. “I just want our engineers we have today to innovate faster and be more productive and that gives us a competitive advantage.”
Go fuck yourself. 8% growth and billions of dollars in profit isn't enough for these inhuman CEOs. They deserve the Thompson treatment.
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I honestly thought that your quote was some sort of satire. Yeah duh, people being more productive gives a competitive advantage.
Now how to make them innovate faster and be more productive. 4-day week and being a nice place to work in might be a start.
This is a trend that is showing less than zero signs of decelerating.
I desperately need insight/advice on how to reconcile these tragedies with any hope of a worthwhile career. How am I to believe in hopes of things like job security when articles like this are beyond normal?
I sincerely wish to know how we expect to advise our children to pursue seriously needed careers or ambitions of any value when the new rule of our era is to reward career-seekers with endless layoffs to maintain a dwindling, starving work force so as to keep running the profit maximizing machine of the ruling few.
Do we need a crawler to load content from other lemmy instances? How are we supposed to federate without one?
I'm trying to start my own lemmy instance, and reading through the documentation at join-lemmy.org/docs/administra… it looks like we need to manually search for just about everything that can be found on other lemmy instances.
It works. I'm able to search for communities/comments/posts and then my instance will load only that community/comment chain/post and only after I've searched it. No updates.
Is this what we're supposed to be doing? Seems pretty tedious to have someone that's supposed to go to other instances and then search for all of their content on my instance in order to federate with it.
I have a feeling there is an easier way, but I'm legitimately not seeing it.
Right now, it looks like the only way users on my instance will get to see content from other instances is if I manually search for just about everything they'll get to see.
I can write a crawler to automate all of this, but I'd rather not unless it's completely necessary.
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That's how federation is supposed to work. If one user searches content, you get it once. If a user of your instance subscribes to a community, you get updates for that community.
The point is to reduce load on your instance by not federating content that nobody on your instance needs.
It's based on a flawed understanding of how communities work, specifically that reddit-style forums only work well when you have huge communities that everyone sibscribes to. So, most instances end up with most content anyway.
Also, keep in mind, all conent that has been federated to your instance is on your srver and thus legally your responsibility. If there's illegal content on there, you are liable if you don't delete it.
Australia Post halts transit shipping to US as global carriers face 'chaos'
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Australia Post has temporarily suspended transit shipping to the US ahead of new tariffs due to come into effect next week.Global postal carriers have described a "chaotic" environment as some European services halt US shipments altogether.
From August 29, low-value parcels imported into the US will attract tariffs or flat fees.
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Emilia Terzon (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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