Amazon gives up building its own Auckland data centre, as power prices soar
Amazon gives up building its own Auckland data centre, as power prices soar
Opinion: Tech giant Amazon's NZ boss makes one of the clumsiest and most embarrassing attempts in a long time to spin good news out of a fiasco, writes Jonathan MilneJonathan Milne (Newsroom)
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Health minister leaves message for nurses striking outside his office
Health minister leaves message for nurses striking outside his office
More than 36,000 nurses are walking off the job in a pay dispute, and Simeon Brown had a message for them.Felix Walton (RNZ)
India's Offgrid raises $15M to make lithium optional for battery storage | TechCrunch
India's Offgrid raises $15M to make lithium optional for battery storage | TechCrunch
India's Offgrid Energy Labs has developed proprietary zinc battery tech as a safer, more cost-effective alternative to lithium for energy storage.Jagmeet Singh (TechCrunch)
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KEA: ”En Gazao la afero estas tre klara kaj akuta”
Kataluna Esperanto-Asocio en aŭgusto faris oficialan komunikon pri la situacio en Gazao, kun la titolo ”Ĉesigu la genocidon”. Libera Folio petis la prezidanton de KEA klarigi, kial la asocio decidis fari deklaron ĝuste pri Gazao, sed ne ekzemple pri la milito en Ukrainio, kiu rekte tuŝas multajn esperantistojn.
What is the URL for AudioBookBay?
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Seems to be. I like using fmhy.pages.dev to check things like what domain is correct:
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Samsung and Nvidia (NVDA) Warned after New U.S. Crack Down on Chinese Chip Movements - TipRanks.com
Samsung and Nvidia (NVDA) Warned after New U.S. Crack Down on Chinese Chip Movements
Shares in South Korean chip-making giants Samsung Electronics ($SSNLF) and SK Hynix were lower today because of new U.S. restrictions on imports to China. AI Battle...David Craik (Tipranks)
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Q&A on the Trump EPA's Effort to Curtail Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Q&A on the Trump EPA's Effort to Curtail Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions - FactCheck.org
The Environmental Protection Agency is holding public hearings this week on its effort to undo the legal foundation for its regulation of greenhouse gases, the heat-trapping gases that cause climate change.Kate Yandell (FactCheck.org)
Republicans voted against independent redistricting in 2021
Republicans voted against independent redistricting in 2021
CA Gov. Gavin Newsom said Republicans didn’t vote for national independent redistricting. House Republicans voted against a multifaceted 2021 bill that had such a measure. Republicans in at least four states supported state initiatives.@politifact
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Sports Piracy in 3D
Has anyone here checked the 3D live in the usopen.org page?
usopen.org/en_US/scores/
I must say I was impressed. It is not perfect, but if what you to want to watch is just the sport being played, it might very well meet your needs. Add a little sound to it and I could watch a whole tennis match that way.
That made me think how one could convert any sports event to 3D and stream it. I don't know how many cameras IBM uses for that 3D stream, but a handful of volunteers recording the game with their phones and uploading it to a server that would process it could, in theory, generate a 3D version of the match. Maybe even the cameras of the official stream itself could be enough to create this.
The best part of this is that the 3D stream would be untraceable. It can't be watermarked, it's just the movement of the players and the ball, nothing else. And it also would have a ridiculously low bit rate. You could watch a match in 4K using a 100 kbps stream. You could even customize the assets to remove ads and make the players wear the uniform of your choice.
I'm probably dreaming too much, but a man can dream, right?
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Usually at these events there are staff who constantly look around for people who might be recording, and they don’t hesitate to kick you out if you’re caught more than once. So it’s possible if you have a decent number of people who are good about being sneaky and have covert equipment, but not easy.
It makes you wonder what will happen when more people start wearing smart AR glasses that can record everything and barely look any different than regular glasses.
How to use PeerTube for Podcasting
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So .. I've been making a weekly podcast for over 14 years. For all that time I've had complete control over my own content by hosting all the audio, the transcripts, the website and the RSS feeds on an AWS S3 bucket for a couple of dollars per month.
I submitted the RSS feed to several aggregators like iTunes, Spotify, YouTube and others. There's eBooks, I send out weekly email, post on Mastodon and Lemmy (previously on Xitter and Reddit) and it's included in other podcasts, news broadcasts and magazines.
How is adding PeerTube adding anything except more cost to me? What is the benefit of this that goes beyond people using their preferred podcast player downloading the audio from my own existing platform?
It adds video. If you don't care about video, and you already have a system that works, it's probably not for you.
If potentially a new person wanted somewhere to host a podcast, they could do that using PeerTube. Along with all the other video services it offers.
Nadler, Pillar of Democratic Party’s Old Guard, Will Retire Next Year
In a recent interview in his downtown Manhattan office, Mr. Nadler, 78, said he hesitated to step aside when he believes that President Trump is threatening the foundations of democracy. But he said he had been persuaded it was time for a changing of the guard.
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A Compact for American Workers to Share This Labor Day
A Compact for American Workers to Share This Labor Day
Most of the long-overdue planks on this Domestic Compact for America are supported by both liberal and conservative families who live, work, and raise their children here.ralph-nader (Common Dreams)
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RFK Jr. Is Repeating Michelle Obama’s Mistakes
RFK Jr. Is Running Michelle Obama’s Playbook
It didn’t work a decade ago, and it won’t work now.Tom Bartlett (The Atlantic)
Leda Battisti – Sole, mare, e vento
“L’AIDS ti batte – è velenosa morte”
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#nowplaying #musica #ironia #satira #FediRadio #UnoRadio
Sole mare e vento by Leda Battisti
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.Songlink/Odesli
il programma usato per condividere post dai client mastodon a WordPress, Non prende i content warning e non prende i link... Altro bug su "enable mastodon apps" plugin WordPress.
Leda Battisti - sole, mare, e vento
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Sole mare e vento by Leda Battisti
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Good, he's not US based.
Dominick Skinner, a Netherlands-based immigration activist, estimates he and a group of volunteers have publicly identified at least 20 ICE officials recorded wearing masks during arrests. He told POLITICO his experts are “able to reveal a face using AI, if they have 35 percent or more of the face visible.”
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"Some Democrats concerned about the masking are pushing for regulations to make it easier to identify law enforcement officials — but they still say they’re uneasy that vigilante campaigns have begun using technology to do it."
Luckily we have Dems clutching their pearls because people have taken action.
House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias
House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias
Wikipedia, one of the world's most-visited websites, allows users to edit most articles, making content moderation an ongoing challenge for the platform.NBC Palm Springs
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House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias
House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias
Wikipedia, one of the world's most-visited websites, allows users to edit most articles, making content moderation an ongoing challenge for the platform.NBC Palm Springs
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House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias
House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias
Wikipedia, one of the world's most-visited websites, allows users to edit most articles, making content moderation an ongoing challenge for the platform.NBC Palm Springs
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This is slop. Not necessarily AI generated, but definitely dumbass-generated.
Literally not one ounce of effort. No digging into vague studies Republicans are talking about. No overview of Wikipedia's current policy. No questions posed to someone who knows about Wikipedia and/or government attempts to control the narrative.
It's not even a good thing that the article only tells you the core facts. Too much goes unsaid. No context might as well be a hallucination from an AI for how much it bridges the gap between what you think and what reality contains.
They are just trying to annoy people and micromanage any left leaning or non partisan organization so they give up and just submit to the nazi's.
Don't do it, nothing good comes from giving the nazi's what they want.
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Tencent open sources translation models Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, which support 33 languages, claiming they beat established models in benchmarks
GitHub - Tencent-Hunyuan/Hunyuan-MT
Contribute to Tencent-Hunyuan/Hunyuan-MT development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Who is dab.yeet.su
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It must be costing them
From their Terms:
DAB Music Player does not host any copyrighted content. Our Service acts as a search and streaming interface that connects to publicly available APIs. We do not store or distribute copyrighted material.
When you open the Webbrowser Developer Tools, Network tab, you can see where it streams from.
When I check on a song, it streams it from a CDN of qobuz (qobuz.com).
[JS] Four phones, three weeks: Everything we saw on teen TikTok.
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Teen self-esteem and social media’s distorted mirror.
Four phones, three weeks: Teen self-esteem and social media’s distorted mirror
Teenagers say they feel 'bombarded' by body image content on social media - and that it can lead to a darker side of the algorithm.Kate Newton (RNZ)
Trump’s bill is a ‘death warrant’ say parents of sick rural kids whose treatment is tied up in Medicaid red tape
Trump’s bill is a ‘death warrant’ say parents of sick rural kids whose treatment is tied up in Medicaid red tape
‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ is projected to cut nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid spending over the next decade. Parents with sick kids and doctors tell Rhian Lubin the cuts are ‘final nail in the coffin’Rhian Lubin (The Independent)
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[PDF] Over 16,000 compromised servers uncovered using Secure Shell key probing method
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36708596
Main.
Attackers regularly use SSH (Secure SHell) to compromise systems, e.g., via brute-force attacks, establishing persistence by deploying SSH public keys. This ranges from IoT botnets like Mirai, over loader and dropper systems, to the back-ends of malicious operations. Identifying compromised systems at the Internet scale would be a major break-through for combatting malicious activity by enabling targeted clean-up efforts.In this paper, we present a method to identify compromised SSH servers at scale. For this, we use SSH's behavior to only send a challenge during public key authentication, to check if the key is present on the system. Our technique neither allows us to access compromised systems (unlike, e.g., testing known attacker passwords), nor does it require access for auditing.
With our methodology used at an Internet-wide scan, we identify more than 21,700 unique systems (1,649 ASes, 144 countries) where attackers installed at least one of 52 verified malicious keys provided by a threat intelligence company, including critical Internet infrastructure. Furthermore, we find new context on the activities of malicious campaigns like, e.g., the 'fritzfrog' IoT botnet, malicious actors like 'teamtnt', and even the presence of state-actor associated keys within sensitive ASes. Comparing to honeypot data, we find these to under-/over-represent attackers' activity, even underestimating some APTs' activities. Finally, we collaborate with a national CSIRT and the Shadowserver Foundation to notify and remediate compromised systems. We run our measurements continuously and automatically share notifications.
[PDF] Over 16,000 compromised servers uncovered using Secure Shell key probing method
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36708596
Main.
Attackers regularly use SSH (Secure SHell) to compromise systems, e.g., via brute-force attacks, establishing persistence by deploying SSH public keys. This ranges from IoT botnets like Mirai, over loader and dropper systems, to the back-ends of malicious operations. Identifying compromised systems at the Internet scale would be a major break-through for combatting malicious activity by enabling targeted clean-up efforts.In this paper, we present a method to identify compromised SSH servers at scale. For this, we use SSH's behavior to only send a challenge during public key authentication, to check if the key is present on the system. Our technique neither allows us to access compromised systems (unlike, e.g., testing known attacker passwords), nor does it require access for auditing.
With our methodology used at an Internet-wide scan, we identify more than 21,700 unique systems (1,649 ASes, 144 countries) where attackers installed at least one of 52 verified malicious keys provided by a threat intelligence company, including critical Internet infrastructure. Furthermore, we find new context on the activities of malicious campaigns like, e.g., the 'fritzfrog' IoT botnet, malicious actors like 'teamtnt', and even the presence of state-actor associated keys within sensitive ASes. Comparing to honeypot data, we find these to under-/over-represent attackers' activity, even underestimating some APTs' activities. Finally, we collaborate with a national CSIRT and the Shadowserver Foundation to notify and remediate compromised systems. We run our measurements continuously and automatically share notifications.
Microsoft-backed hollow-core fiber boffins show speed boost
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A critical component of optical communications is the availability of a suitable waveguide technology for the transport of electromagnetic waves with low loss over a broad spectral range. In the past four decades, despite extensive research, the attenuation and spectral bandwidth of silica-based optical fibres have remained relatively unchanged, with state-of-the-art fibres offering values of 0.14 dB km^−1^ and 26 THz below 0.2 dB km^−1^, respectively. Here we report a microstructured optical waveguide with unprecedented transmission bandwidth and attenuation, with a measured loss of 0.091 dB km^−1^ at 1,550 nm that remains below 0.2 dB km^−1^ over a window of 66 THz. Instead of a traditional solid glass core, this innovative optical fibre features a core of air surrounded by a meticulously engineered glass microstructure to guide light. This approach not only reduces attenuation and other signal degradation phenomena, but it also increases transmission speeds by 45%. Furthermore, the approach theoretically supports further loss reductions and operation at wavelengths where broader bandwidth amplifiers exist, potentially heralding a new era in long-distance communications as well as remote delivery of laser beams.
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The quest for long-distance communication has driven human creativity for centuries, from the use of fire beacons at night in the Old and Middle Ages, to the mechanical optical telegraphs of the Napoleonic era, up to the groundbreaking electric telegraphs of the 1850s. The transmission of the first Morse-coded message across the Atlantic via a sub-sea telegraph cable in 1858 was a monumental achievement that shrank geographical divides and revolutionized communication. The realization in the early twentieth century that modulated radio waves could be reflected by the ionosphere further enhanced communication capabilities, thus enabling long-distance communications even in the absence of a direct connection and of a line of sight. However, the inherent noisiness, unreliability and limited bandwidth of radio wave communication prompted the development of higher-quality cables that could transmit multiple voice calls simultaneously. Heaviside’s coaxial cable, with suitably developed conductive and insulating materials, became the technology that underpinned long-distance transmissions for decades. The transition from coaxial cables to optical fibres marked another notable milestone in communication technology. The pioneering work of Kao and Hockham in the 1960s identified the potential of using purified glass for transmitting modulated optical signals (hence information) to kilometre-scale distances, leading to the development of low-loss optical fibres by Corning in the 1970s. This innovation ushered in the era of digital optical communications, which for the last half a century has formed the backbone of global telecommunication networks and enabled the internet revolution. Is a further step ahead possible?All these breakthroughs were driven by the primary objective to transmit more information, as either more simultaneous messages and voice calls in the analogue electrical era or more bits per second in the digital age. A second, non-negligible goal has always been the reduction of the attenuation (or ‘loss’) of the transmission medium, to increase the distance that a signal could reach before needing regeneration or amplification. Shannon’s mathematical theory of information linked the two goals: lower attenuation required less amplification; the resulting improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio enabled the system to increase its maximum throughput of information.
Upshifting the frequency of the modulated signal carrier from tens of MHz used in the long-distance electrical coaxial cables to hundreds of THz used in optical communications enabled an increase in information throughput of more than a million times. Simultaneously, optical fibres also presented an ultralow level of attenuation of around 0.15 dB km^−1^, which remained approximately constant over a bandwidth of ~10 THz where optical amplification from erbium-doped fibre amplifiers was available. This was a substantial improvement over coaxial cables, where attenuation was frequency dependent (as √f) and reached much higher values than optical fibres at the top frequencies (for example, ~4.5 dB km^−1^ at 30 MHz in the transatlantic TAT-6 cable).
Despite unrelented progress in the field of optical communications since 1970, the minimum attenuation of silica glass fibres has remained approximately unchanged for more than four decades: from 0.154 dB km^−1^ in 1985 to 0.1396 dB km^−1^ in 2024. The seemingly insurmountable attenuation limit of ~0.14 dB km^−1^ for information-carrying waveguides has so far hindered further breakthroughs in communication systems. It has also forced technology to converge to this relatively narrow frequency range of only 5% of the carrier frequency (10 THz at around 192 THz).
Having failed in many decades to identify and synthetize a more transparent glass than silica, a potential route to further lower the propagation loss of a long-distance communication waveguide is to avoid the scattering and absorptions introduced by the glass and which cause loss of signal power in telecoms fibres. This can be achieved by transmitting electromagnetic radiation in a hollow region rather than through a solid glass core. Theoretical foundations, early loss estimates and first experiments for cylindrical, metal, hollow waveguides pre-dated the development of ultra-pure glass fibres. Experimental works from Bell Labs in the mid-twentieth century with dielectric-coated metallic hollow pipes (WT4) reached losses as low as 0.5 dB km^−1^ at frequencies of 70 GHz and impressive capacities of 476,000 voice channels15. The technology was however discarded in the mid-1970s for installation complexities and techno-economic reasons.
New research in the late 1990s and 2000s investigated the potential for achieving ultralow loss at visible/near-infrared frequencies by transmitting light through hair-thin flexible hollow core fibres (HCFs). These glass-based waveguides could transmit light in an air core, thanks to a periodic ‘holey’ cladding around it that created an out-of-plane photonic bandgap. While such research produced an outstanding new tool for scientific investigations, it failed to attain fibres with attenuation below 1 dB km^−1^ and with adequate modal purity for long-distance communication. It is only with the advent of a second generation of HCFs, guiding light through antiresonances and inhibited coupling effects in sub-wavelength-thick, core-surrounding membranes, and with the introduction of nested tube designs, that the prospect of achieving sub-0.14 dB km^−1^ losses became viable. Over the last 6 years, through improved designs and engineering, loss in these nested or double nested antiresonant nodeless hollow core fibres (NANFs/DNANFs) has decreased by an order of magnitude, reaching near parity with the fundamental attenuation of silica glass telecoms fibres at 1,550 nm, and lower values at both shorter and longer wavelengths.
In this work, we showcase the latest advancements in hollow core DNANF technology and present the first optical waveguide that surpasses conventional optical fibres in both loss and bandwidth simultaneously. With a measured loss of under 0.1 dB km^−1^ across an 18 THz bandwidth, this breakthrough result paves the way for a potential revolution in optical communications, enabling unprecedented data transmission capacities, more energy-efficient optical networks and longer unamplified spans.
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Broadband optical fibre with an attenuation lower than 0.1 decibel per kilometre - Nature Photonics
Microstructured air-core optical fibre provides unprecedented low-loss transmission of light signals over a broad wavelength window.Nature
[PDF] Over 16,000 compromised servers uncovered using Secure Shell key probing method
Main.
Attackers regularly use SSH (Secure SHell) to compromise systems, e.g., via brute-force attacks, establishing persistence by deploying SSH public keys. This ranges from IoT botnets like Mirai, over loader and dropper systems, to the back-ends of malicious operations. Identifying compromised systems at the Internet scale would be a major break-through for combatting malicious activity by enabling targeted clean-up efforts.In this paper, we present a method to identify compromised SSH servers at scale. For this, we use SSH's behavior to only send a challenge during public key authentication, to check if the key is present on the system. Our technique neither allows us to access compromised systems (unlike, e.g., testing known attacker passwords), nor does it require access for auditing.
With our methodology used at an Internet-wide scan, we identify more than 21,700 unique systems (1,649 ASes, 144 countries) where attackers installed at least one of 52 verified malicious keys provided by a threat intelligence company, including critical Internet infrastructure. Furthermore, we find new context on the activities of malicious campaigns like, e.g., the 'fritzfrog' IoT botnet, malicious actors like 'teamtnt', and even the presence of state-actor associated keys within sensitive ASes. Comparing to honeypot data, we find these to under-/over-represent attackers' activity, even underestimating some APTs' activities. Finally, we collaborate with a national CSIRT and the Shadowserver Foundation to notify and remediate compromised systems. We run our measurements continuously and automatically share notifications.
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'Fueling sexism': AI 'bikini interview' videos flood internet
'Fueling sexism': AI 'bikini interview' videos flood internet
The videos are strikingly lifelike, but they're fakes generated by AI tools increasingly used to flood social media with sexist 'slop'.RNZ News (RNZ)
Bear Blog is now source-available
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How measures to protect the environment and reduce the rich–poor divide interact
How measures to protect the environment and reduce the rich–poor divide interact
01.09.2025 – Governments around the world are grappling with the challenges of environmental degradation and economic inequality.Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
But the Miccosukee don’t oppose the detention center just because it’s “a showcase of cruelty.” For decades, the tribe has been at the center of several legal disputes that have set precedents for how U.S. courts interpret tribal sovereignty, environmental law, and the taxation of Native Americans. In 1982, for example, the tribe sued the state of Florida for illegal land grabs, resulting in the Florida Indian Land Claims Settlement Act, a law that extinguished land claims in exchange for thousands of acres held in trust. In 2004, they challenged Miami’s pumping of sewage into the Everglades, a case that highlighted the Miccosukee’s role in defending the ecosystem and influenced the national debate on water transfers.
Water has been the focus of many of their conservation efforts. The fragile ecosystem has been altered since the last century by urbanization and agriculture, particularly by the diversion of water from its natural course from Lake Okeechobee, north of the peninsula, to Florida Bay, a process that can take months or years.
In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention center built on their ancestral landsAbel Fernández (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
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"Go to" link for comments stops working when a post has a lot of comments?
For posts that receive a lot comments, e.g. 50~100+
When I turn on notifications for a post, I receive the notifications for new comments but the "Go to" link just takes me to the top of the post, not to the specific comment. (Same problem in both Zen/Firefox browser on computer and Firefox/PWA on Android.)
E.g. piefed.social/notification/115…
Is this just me?
Ah.
I fixed this for one type of reply but missed out a different one. It's fixed for all future notifications, now.
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