The change could have enormous consequences for how people find information online, and for the websites that rely on Google to send them traffic. Publishers have already reported declines due to Google’s AI Overviews, which often answer users’ questions directly without requiring them to click through to another site. If AI Mode becomes the default, those effects may only grow.

https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/gemini/google-may-soon-switch-to-ai-mode-for-search-and-youll-just-have-to-deal-with-it

Collage Winter Guard performing “DIS/connected” during the 2023 Ohio Indoor Performance Association State Color Guard Championships at Wapakoneta High School in Wapakoneta, Ohio.

All of these photos are available under a Creative Commons license, free for you to use as long as you give me photography credit.
Collage Winter Guard
2023 OIPA State Color Guard Championships
Photo Credit: Kevin Gamin
You can find all of the edited photos from this and other events on my Flickr site.
Collage Winter Guard
2023 OIPA State Color Guard Championships
Photo Credit: Kevin Gamin
You can find all of my photos on my Smugmug site.
Collage Winter Guard
2023 OIPA State Color Guard Championships
Photo Credit: Kevin Gamin

We recently released the Third Edict Mystery Box! With 56 microtransactions inside (including variations), our artists put a lot of effort into making each one look great. Check out some of the concept art for this box below.

Doryani's Rare Finisher Effects

Fractured Dreamer Back Attachment

Fractured Dreamer Armour Pack

Fractured Dreamer Weapon Skins

Goblin Shaman Armour and Weapons

The Forgemaster's Map Device

Molten Portal Effects

Rhoa Mount Effects

Shifting Portal Effects

I listen to music, read about revolutionary movements, daydream about alternate timelines where the world is a utopia, play video games where I feel like I have power, and in control of stuff (like, for example, idk... fighting monsters and other evil things in open world games), sometimes write poetry (but I never share any of them lol, they just stay in Standard Notes).

Basically: escapism.

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37175444

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- Lobsters.
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Pro

2025-09-09 23:44:07

Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains

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Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains

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^lobste.rs

LIVE: Gaza Sumud Flotilla attacked again in Tunisia | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20…

- Fire broke out on Alma boat: Journalist
- Another attack reported on flotilla in Tunisia
- UN experts express solidarity with Sumud flotilla after attack
- Flotilla says mission to Gaza will continue after suspected drone attack
- Attack on flotilla could constitute war crime: Legal expert

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
#SumudFlotilla

LIVE: Sumud Flotilla for Gaza says main ship attacked by a drone in Tunisia

Flotilla says drone attack caused a fire on board its main ship, but flames were put out quickly and all crew are safe.

^{Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)}

Buongiorno a tutti,

negli ultimi giorni ho riscoperto la voglia di fare dirette streaming. Dopo aver provato Glimesh, ho iniziato a esplorare Owncast e mi chiedo quanto sia complesso configurare un server per trasmettere in modo stabile e tranquillo.

Potreste darmi qualche consiglio pratico su come impostare il servizio? Inoltre, se conoscete alternative interessanti a Owncast, sarei felice di valutarle.

Grazie mille per il vostro aiuto!

Cordiali saluti,

Owncast

Owncast is your self-hosted live streaming solution.

^Owncast

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/45730883

With more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras across the U.S., Flock Safety has become one of cops’ go-to surveillance tools and a $7.5 billion business. Now CEO Garrett Langley has both police tech giant Axon and Chinese drone maker DJI in his sights on the way to his noble (if Sisyphean) goal: Preventing all crime in the U.S.

In a windowless room inside Atlanta’s Dunwoody police department, Lieutenant Tim Fecht hits a button and an insectile DJI drone rises silently from the station rooftop. It already has its coordinates: a local mall where a 911 call has alerted the cops to a male shoplifter. From high above the complex, Fecht zooms in on a man checking his phone, then examines a group of people waiting for a train. They’re all hundreds of yards away, but crystal clear on the room-dominating display inside the department’s crime center, a classroom-sized space with walls covered in monitors flashing real- time crime data—surveillance and license plate reader camera feeds, gunshot detection reports, digital maps showing the location of cop cars across the city. As more 911 calls come in, AI transcribes them on another screen. Fecht can access any of it with a few clicks.

Twenty minutes down the road from Dunwoody, in an office where Flock Safety’s cameras and gunshot detectors are arrayed like museum pieces, 38-year-old CEO and cofoun­der Garrett Langley presides over the $300 million (estimated 2024 sales) company responsible for it all. Since its founding in 2017, Flock, which was valued at $7.5 billion in its most recent funding round, has quietly built a network of more than 80,000 cameras pointed at highways, thoroughfares and parking lots across the U.S. They record not just the license plate numbers of the cars that pass them, but their make and distinctive features—broken windows, dings, bumper stickers. Langley estimates its cameras help solve 1 million crimes a year. Soon they’ll help solve even more. In August, Flock’s cameras will take to the skies mounted on its own “made in Amer­ica” drones. Produced at a factory the company opened earlier this year near its Atlanta offices, they’ll add a new dimension to Flock’s business and aim to challenge Chinese drone giant DJI’s dominance.

Langley offers a prediction: In less than 10 years, Flock’s cameras, airborne and fixed, will eradicate almost all crime in the U.S. (He acknowledges that programs to boost youth employment and cut recidivism will help.) It sounds like a pipe dream from another AI-can-solve- everything tech bro, but Langley, in the face of a wave of opposition from privacy advocates and Flock’s archrival, the $2.1 billion (2024 revenue) police tech giant Axon Enterprise, is a true believer. He’s convinced that America can and should be a place where everyone feels safe. And once it’s draped in a vast net of U.S.-made Flock surveillance tech, it will be.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/09/03/ai-startup-flock-thinks-it-can-eliminate-all-crime-in-america/

The Wikisource reader app is now available for reading Wikisource books through mobile devices. Android users may get the app through the Google Play app store. For a book to be accessible through the app, it must comply with the data model at Wikidata:WikiProject Books, and have a Wikidata item which uses the Wikidata property Wikisource index page URL (P1957) to link a Wikisource book which the editorial community has certified as passing the proofreading and validation process.

Author @rek2@lemmy.ml

Hello fellow hackers and cyberpunk enthusiasts,

After 12 months of writing and research, I'm excited (and honestly a bit nervous) to share my first tech-thriller novella "Connection Timeout: The PingStarved Chronicles" with this community. This is my first time publishing fiction, so I'm both shy and thrilled to finally put it out there.

Set in 2030 Barcelona, it follows Andrés "PingStarved" Reyes, a 56-year-old hacker who must choose between protecting his estranged son and surrendering a revolutionary mesh networking protocol that could liberate global communications from corporate control.

What makes this different from typical cyberpunk:
* Features real mesh networking protocols (Meshtastic, Reticulum)
* Based on actual security research and exploitation techniques
* Grounded in technologies currently in development
* Authentic hacker culture representation - written by someone who lives it
* NO DRM - All formats are DRM-free because information wants to be free

This has been a labor of love, combining my passion for privacy tech and resistance against surveillance capitalism into a narrative that I hope resonates with our community. As someone who's been hacking for years but never written fiction before, I poured everything I know and believe about our culture into these pages.

Details:
- 29,429 words (86 pages, 2-3 hour read)
- Available in PDF and EPUB formats
- Price: $4.99 USD / €4.99 EUR
- DRM-FREE on all platforms

Available at:
- Gumroad (DRM-FREE): rek2.gumroad.com/l/connection-…
- Amazon Kindle US: amazon.com/dp/B0FPZ18STC
- Amazon Kindle Spain: amazon.es/dp/B0FPZ18STC
- Also available on Amazon in UK, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, Australia, and many other countries

If you enjoyed Neuromancer, Little Brother, or Mr. Robot, this explores similar themes of surveillance capitalism, digital liberty, and technological resistance - but grounded in the real tech we're building today.

Any feedback from the community would mean the world to me. Thanks for reading!

P.S. - For those who prefer open platforms, the Gumroad version comes with both PDF and EPUB, completely DRM-free. Support indie publishing and digital freedom!

The California Privacy Protection Agency, alongside the Attorneys General of California, Colorado, and Connecticut, today announced an investigative sweep involving potential noncompliance with the Global Privacy Control, or GPC, an easy-to-use browser setting or extension that automatically signals to businesses a consumer's request to stop selling or sharing their personal information to third parties. As part of the sweep announced today, the coalition is contacting businesses that may not be processing consumer requests to opt out of the sale of their personal information submitted via the GPC as required by law and requesting that those businesses comply.

California Privacy Protection Agency Announces Joint Investigative Privacy Sweep: CA, CO, and CT Investigate Businesses Refusing to Honor Consumers' Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Their Personal Information

California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)

^cppa.ca.gov

These are the ones that seem to be the best currently. Does anyone have anything else? (Using the Downloader app)

Streamfire - 2396773
Sportsfire - 4585605
OnStream - 597576
SmartTube (YT w/o ads) - 28544
Anime- anilab.to

Non avrei mai minimamente immaginato di dover pormi, e porre, questo quesito, né stasera né mai, ma ecco qui l’universo… Perché mai, in questa fabbrica che è stata mostrata in un servizio del TG2 di stasera (come immagini di repertorio, non specifiche), davanti ad un banco da lavoro o quel che è, c’è appeso un […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…

minioctt

2025-09-09 19:40:19

Doraemon avvistato casualmente in fabbrica (in un servizio del TG2)

Non avrei mai minimamente immaginato di dover pormi, e porre, questo quesito, né stasera né mai, ma ecco qui l’universo… Perché mai, in questa fabbrica che è stata mostrata in un servizio del TG2 di stasera (come immagini di repertorio, non specifiche), davanti ad un banco da lavoro o quel che è, c’è appeso un foglio di carta con sopra un’illustrazione del fottutissimo Doraemon??? 🤯🤯🤯

Ho intravisto questa cosa mentre ero a tavola a cenare, e può essere che poco ci mancava che sputassi, perché fa così tanto ridere per qualche motivo che non capisco… forse perché è apparentemente fuori contesto, o forse perché mai mi immaginerei di trovare degli operai a lavorare attorno ad un quadretto di #Doraemon; comunque sia, è sicuramente poetico. E oh, onestamente bravo/a a chi ha fatto il servizio, perché si vede prima da vicino, e poi una seconda volta più da lontano… è inquadrato complessivamente, proprio assurdo. 🙏

Ma ora, a parte chiedermi chi più in tutto il paese stasera avrà notato questo dettaglio certamente da pochi (probabilmente dentro lo stessa redazione del telegiornale nessuno si sarà fatto domande; probabilmente nessuno avrà neanche riconosciuto la figura), mi chiedo, per l’appunto, come mai… Sarà un’ispirazione per l’azienda o per i suoi lavoratori? Magari la roba che producono è assimilabile a dei ciusky? E chi lo sa. Forse sarebbe utile riuscire a risalire alla specifica azienda, magari sfruttando le altre immagini del servizio, sperando non siano tutte totalmente scollegate… ma io in questo non sono capace, e quindi, per una buona volta, mi limito solo a segnalare questo incredibile bellissimo. 👌

#Doraemon #fabbrica #Rai #Telegiornale #TG2 #TV

https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-cop-city-rico-charges-61-9d0928ca44c5ddc931cd640a8805664a

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35917417

[This is great news!]

Peter Link

2025-09-09 19:22:31

Georgia judge to toss landmark racketeering charges against 'Cop City' protesters

[This is great news!]

https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-cop-city-rico-charges-61-9d0928ca44c5ddc931cd640a8805664a

Whitney Webb reported on the links between Epstein, Israeli tech company Carbyne, and the American intelligence apparatus

Not long after Epstein’s arrest, and his relationships and finances came under scrutiny, it was revealed that the Israeli company Carbyne911 had received substantial funding from Jeffrey Epstein as well as Epstein’s close associate and former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist and prominent Trump backer Peter Thiel.

Another funder of Carbyne, Peter Thiel, has his own company that, like Carbyne, is set to profit from the Trump administration’s proposed hi-tech solutions to mass shootings. Indeed, after the recent shooting in El Paso, Texas, President Trump — who received political donations from and has been advised by Thiel following his election — asked tech companies to “detect mass shooters before they strike,” a service already perfected by Thiel’s company Palantir, which has developed “pre-crime software” already in use throughout the country. Palantir is also a contractor for the U.S. intelligence community and also has a branch based in Israel.

Palantir owner linked to Jeffrey Epstein as NHS questions arise

A trove of leaked emails have shone further light on Palantir founder Peter Thiel's connections to Jeffrey Epstein

^{Willem Moore (The Canary)}

The U.S. Justice Department is in talks with Homeland Security Investigations about transferring the sensitive voter roll data it has collected from states for use in criminal and immigration-related investigations, according to government documents seen by Reuters.

The voter registration data was gathered over the last several months by the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, which has sent requests for voter registration-related information to at least 24 states. Of those, the division requested a complete list of all registered voters from at least 22 states, according to a tracker maintained by the Brennan Center for Justice and letters reviewed by Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-justice-dept-considers-handing-over-voter-roll-data-criminal-probes-documents-2025-09-09/

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Here at Huntress, we love exposing adversary tradecraft, and we also love when threat actors make blunders. So imagine our delight when a threat actor installed Huntress onto their operating machine—after finding us via one of our advertising campaigns and starting a trial— giving us a sprawling inside look at how they’re using AI to build workflows, searching for tools like Evilginx, and more.

How an Attacker’s Blunder Gave Us a Rare Look Inside Their Day-to-Day Operations

An attacker installed Huntress onto their operating machine, giving us a detailed look at how they’re using AI to build workflows, searching for tools like Evilginx, and researching targets like software development companies.

^{Jamie Levy (huntress.com)}