Taiwan | Taipei Airport Police Open Fire While Arresting Unlicensed Ride Share Driver
Police at Taipei Taoyuan Airport attempted to stop an unlicensed ride share driver, leading to a showdown that involved shots being fired.
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Virgin Australia Wants To Let You Bid To Have An Empty Seat Next To You
Virgin Australia's Clever New Perk for Economy Passengers.
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Einstein on Palestine
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US | Cockpit recorders of Delta jets that collided on LaGuardia taxiway are being analyzed
Two Delta Air Lines regional jets collided at the intersection of two taxiways at LaGuardia Airport in New York, injuring a flight attendant, damaging a cockpit and tearing off part of a wing, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.
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Balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes over Lithuania closed Vilnius Airport for hours
Up to 25 small hot-air balloons, some of them confirmed to be carrying smuggled cigarettes, entered Lithuanian airspace late Saturday and forced the shutdown of Vilnius Airport, delaying flights for hours, authorities said.
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Balloons carrying smuggled cigarettes over Lithuania closed Vilnius Airport for hours - Wings Magazine
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Up to 25 small hot-air balloons, some of them confirmed to be carrying smuggled cigarettes, entered Lithuanian airspace lateWings Staff (Wings Magazine)
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Russia’s Aeroflot To Strip 6 Boeing 737s & 2 Boeing 747s For Spare Parts
Sanctions force drastic measures on Russian carrier.
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Van Jones Sparks Fury with ‘Dead Gaza Baby’ Remarks, Later Apologizes [October 5, 2025 | Palestine Chronicle Staff | palestinechronicle.com]
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/36943651
The remarks sparked immediate backlash online, as many accused Jones of turning images of Palestinian children killed in Gaza into a punchline. Critics said the comment reflected a deep insensitivity toward the ongoing genocide and the suffering of civilians trapped in the besieged enclave.NBC News correspondent Hala Gorani wrote that she had personally watched hundreds of hours of video footage from Gaza and confirmed that the images Jones referred to were authentic and not part of any “disinformation campaign.”
Imam Omar Suleiman was among the first to publicly denounce the comments, calling them “disgraceful and vile.” He said Jones’s words revealed a moral blindness toward the humanity of Gaza’s victims and condemned the attempt to trivialize their suffering while shifting blame to so-called “foreign disinformation.”
The controversy over Jones’s words comes amid growing anger online over the behavior of certain Israeli influencers, who have been criticized for mocking Palestinian victims of war on social media.^[[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20251006002306/https://www.palestinechronicle.com/van-jones-sparks-fury-with-dead-gaza-baby-remarks-later-apologizes/]
Van Jones Sparks Fury with ‘Dead Gaza Baby’ Remarks, Later Apologizes [October 5, 2025 | Palestine Chronicle Staff | palestinechronicle.com]
The remarks sparked immediate backlash online, as many accused Jones of turning images of Palestinian children killed in Gaza into a punchline. Critics said the comment reflected a deep insensitivity toward the ongoing genocide and the suffering of civilians trapped in the besieged enclave.NBC News correspondent Hala Gorani wrote that she had personally watched hundreds of hours of video footage from Gaza and confirmed that the images Jones referred to were authentic and not part of any “disinformation campaign.”
Imam Omar Suleiman was among the first to publicly denounce the comments, calling them “disgraceful and vile.” He said Jones’s words revealed a moral blindness toward the humanity of Gaza’s victims and condemned the attempt to trivialize their suffering while shifting blame to so-called “foreign disinformation.”
The controversy over Jones’s words comes amid growing anger online over the behavior of certain Israeli influencers, who have been criticized for mocking Palestinian victims of war on social media.^[[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20251006002306/https://www.palestinechronicle.com/van-jones-sparks-fury-with-dead-gaza-baby-remarks-later-apologizes/]
Van Jones Sparks Fury with 'Dead Gaza Baby' Remarks, Later Apologizes - Palestine Chronicle
Van Jones faced a storm of criticism — led by Imam Omar Suleiman — after making shameful remarks about Gaza’s dead children.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
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Every day is an opportunity! I'm doing well, thanks for asking. Chopping wood and carrying water.
Wishing you the best, always. 🫶
Van Jones Sparks Fury with ‘Dead Gaza Baby’ Remarks, Later Apologizes [October 5, 2025 | Palestine Chronicle Staff | palestinechronicle.com]
The remarks sparked immediate backlash online, as many accused Jones of turning images of Palestinian children killed in Gaza into a punchline. Critics said the comment reflected a deep insensitivity toward the ongoing genocide and the suffering of civilians trapped in the besieged enclave.
NBC News correspondent Hala Gorani wrote that she had personally watched hundreds of hours of video footage from Gaza and confirmed that the images Jones referred to were authentic and not part of any “disinformation campaign.”
Imam Omar Suleiman was among the first to publicly denounce the comments, calling them “disgraceful and vile.” He said Jones’s words revealed a moral blindness toward the humanity of Gaza’s victims and condemned the attempt to trivialize their suffering while shifting blame to so-called “foreign disinformation.”
The controversy over Jones’s words comes amid growing anger online over the behavior of certain Israeli influencers, who have been criticized for mocking Palestinian victims of war on social media.^[[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20251006002306/https://www.palestinechronicle.com/van-jones-sparks-fury-with-dead-gaza-baby-remarks-later-apologizes/]
Van Jones Sparks Fury with 'Dead Gaza Baby' Remarks, Later Apologizes - Palestine Chronicle
Van Jones faced a storm of criticism — led by Imam Omar Suleiman — after making shameful remarks about Gaza’s dead children.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study finds
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But as the paper points out, one reason that the behavior persists is that "developers lack incentives to curb sycophancy since it encourages adoption and engagement."
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Pod man out: Trump's support among influential podcasters is waning
Pod man out: Trump's support among influential podcasters is waning
Some of the internet’s most popular voices with young men — almost all of whom either hosted Trump or spoke highly — have some thoughts on what he’s doing wrong.Alexandra Marquez (NBC News)
Newsom signs bill giving Uber and Lyft drivers in California the right to unionize
Drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft will soon have the right to unionize in California as independent contractors, thanks to a bill signed Friday by Governor Gavin Newsom.
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Smart in-asphalt fabric provides live reports from within roads
While it's certainly important to monitor the condition of paved roads, keeping an eye on the surface will only tell you so much. You also need to know what's going on with the underlying asphalt, which is where an embedded layer of electronic fabric is designed to come in.
Smart in-asphalt fabric provides live reports from within roads
While it's important to monitor the condition of paved roads, keeping an eye on the surface will only tell you so much. You also need to know what's going on with the underlying asphalt, which is where a layer of electronic fabric is made to come in.Ben Coxworth (New Atlas)
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Six out of 10 UK secondary schools hit by cyber-attack or breach in past year
Hackers are more likely to target educational institutions than private businesses, government survey shows
Japanese tech giant deploys laser drones to protect chickens — drones are hoped to prevent the spread of avian flu
Feathered poultry farm visitors are scattered by laser beams.
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Handsets like iPhone Air are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist
With its latest iPhone Air, which is the thinnest iPhone ever made, Apple is trying to solve problems that don't really exist, and that's a problem by itself.
ICE Shot a Man While Trying to Detain Him. He Had No Criminal Record.
ICE Shot a Man While Trying to Detain Him. He Had No Criminal Record.
ICE have tried to justify the fatal shooting.The New Republic
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Starmer hit with major blow as tech firm backs out of digital ID card scheme
Starmer hit with major blow as tech firm backs out of digital ID card scheme
Mosley, grandson of notorious fascist leader Oswald Mosley, said the Labour manifesto for last year's general election did not mention the scheme set out last month and warned it was undemocraticAshley Pemberton (Daily Star)
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UK police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests
Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests
Officers will be able to tell organisers to move demonstrations if protests have caused "repeated disorder".Doug Faulkner (BBC News)
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There is a wide variety of quality with these recommendations / suggestions.
For example its still lists calyxos which at the moment is dead and a site like privacytools which is basically an SEO farm.
Generally people should avoid lists that do not provide any sort of criteria / transparency for whats on the list, regardless of the intention.
Yes that's a good disclaimer. I dont own or maintain this list so some tools may be out of date, compromised, or just not the latest and greatest option.
That good practice for any list you find online.
One of my favorites in this collection is the hitchhikers guide. Very in depth with tons of sources.
Comparing a RISC and a CISC with similar hardware organization (1991)
It's wild to read this classic 1991 paper that basically put the numbers behind the RISC vs. CISC flame wars. The authors wanted to figure out which processor architecture was actually better by comparing a RISC champ (MIPS M/2000) against a CISC heavyweight (VAX 8700).To make it a fair fight, they picked these two specifically because their internal hardware pipelines were shockingly similar, even though the VAX was a massive, expensive beast and the MIPS was a sleek custom chip. This way, they could mostly blame the architecture itself for any performance difference, not the manufacturing tech.
The TLDR is that RISC absolutely crushed it. On average, the VAX had to burn through 2.7 times more CPU cycles to get the same work done. The whole RISC strategy was trading fewer, complex instructions for way simpler, fast ones. Even though the MIPS machine needed more instructions to finish a task, its cycles per instruction (CPI) were so much lower that it won by a huge margin.
The paper shows that the more complex a VAX instruction was (higher VAX CPI), the more simple MIPS instructions were needed to replace it, but the trade-off was always a big net win for RISC.
So why was MIPS so much better? The authors point to a few key architectural wins. First, MIPS had way more registers (32 general-purpose + 16 for floating-point) compared to the VAX's 15, which meant it didn't have to access slow memory as often. Second, basic operations like conditional branches were way faster on MIPS (1-2 cycles) than on the VAX (5 cycles), which was a huge deal. The MIPS architecture was also just smarter about keeping the pipeline full by using things like delay slots, which is basically doing useful work in moments that would have otherwise been wasted cycles—something the VAX couldn't do.
The authors admit their study isn't perfect, and they point out that compiler quality could have skewed the results and they only used a handful of programs for testing. But still, looking back, this paper was basically a prophecy for why modern CPUs, even from Intel, have a RISC-style core under the hood. It laid out the fundamental math for why the RISC approach was the future.
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Comparing a RISC and a CISC with similar hardware organization (1991)
It's wild to read this classic 1991 paper that basically put the numbers behind the RISC vs. CISC flame wars. The authors wanted to figure out which processor architecture was actually better by comparing a RISC champ (MIPS M/2000) against a CISC heavyweight (VAX 8700).
To make it a fair fight, they picked these two specifically because their internal hardware pipelines were shockingly similar, even though the VAX was a massive, expensive beast and the MIPS was a sleek custom chip. This way, they could mostly blame the architecture itself for any performance difference, not the manufacturing tech.
The TLDR is that RISC absolutely crushed it. On average, the VAX had to burn through 2.7 times more CPU cycles to get the same work done. The whole RISC strategy was trading fewer, complex instructions for way simpler, fast ones. Even though the MIPS machine needed more instructions to finish a task, its cycles per instruction (CPI) were so much lower that it won by a huge margin.
The paper shows that the more complex a VAX instruction was (higher VAX CPI), the more simple MIPS instructions were needed to replace it, but the trade-off was always a big net win for RISC.
So why was MIPS so much better? The authors point to a few key architectural wins. First, MIPS had way more registers (32 general-purpose + 16 for floating-point) compared to the VAX's 15, which meant it didn't have to access slow memory as often. Second, basic operations like conditional branches were way faster on MIPS (1-2 cycles) than on the VAX (5 cycles), which was a huge deal. The MIPS architecture was also just smarter about keeping the pipeline full by using things like delay slots, which is basically doing useful work in moments that would have otherwise been wasted cycles—something the VAX couldn't do.
The authors admit their study isn't perfect, and they point out that compiler quality could have skewed the results and they only used a handful of programs for testing. But still, looking back, this paper was basically a prophecy for why modern CPUs, even from Intel, have a RISC-style core under the hood. It laid out the fundamental math for why the RISC approach was the future.
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I'm guessing you didn't bother actually reading the paper, here are some relevant quotes from it:
This paper compares an example implementation from the RISC and CISC architectural schools (a MIPS M/2000 and a Digital VAX 8700) on nine of the ten SPEC benchmarks.Performance comparisons across different computer architectures cannot usually separate the architectural contribution from various implementation and technology contributions to performance.
We will do this by studying two machines, one from each architectural school, that are strikingly similar in hardware organization, albeit quite different in technology and cost.
There are strong organizational similarities between the VAX 8700 and the MIPS M/2000... Figure 1 shows that the pipelines match up quite closely, with the obvious exception of the VAX instruction decode stage.
...these two machines are very different in technology, size, and cost: the VAX processor is nine boards full of ECL gate arrays; the MIPS processor is one board with two custom CMOS chips.
...this paper shows that the resulting advantage in cycles per program ranges from slightly under a factor of 2 to almost a factor of 4, with a geometric mean of 2.7.
This factor [the RISC factor] ranges from just under 2 to just under 4, with a geometric mean of 2.66.
The RISC approach offers, compared with VAX, many fewer cycles per instruction but somewhat more instructions per program.
The correlation has a simple and natural explanation: given reasonable compilers, higher VAX CPI should correspond to a higher relative instruction count on MIPS.
The MIPS architecture has 32 (32-bit wide) general registers and 16 (64-bit wide) floating-point registers; VAX has 15 (32-bit wide) general registers... This can obviously lead to more memory references on the VAX...
The time for the simplest taken branch (or unconditional jump) on the VAX 8700 is five cycles. On MIPS, which has a delayed branch, it is one cycle if the delay slot is filled, and two otherwise.
The MIPS architecture allows instructions to be inserted in code positions that might otherwise be lost to pipeline delays... This ability is not present in the VAX architecture...
First, we cannot easily disentangle the influence of the compiler from the influence of the architecture. Thus, strictly speaking, our results do not compare the VAX and MIPS architectures per se, but rather the combination of architecture with compiler.
Second, we measured a rather small number of programs. Measurements that attempt to characterize machines broadly should be based on much more data.
...we believe that the fundamental finding will stand up: from the architectural point of view (that is, neglecting cycle time), RISC as exemplified by MIPS offers a significant processor performance advantage over a VAX of comparable hardware organization.
What time and place of history are you obsessed with?
For many its the Roman empire or the Greeks.
Similarly ancient Egypt. Or the British empire.
Maybe the Japanese, Chinese and Norse as the next 3.
I have deliberately not mentioned time periods there.
These are the most commonly beloved. What are your favourites and why?
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Liberals' lead shrinks as Canadian mood plummets to historic lows
Liberals’ lead shrinks as Canadian mood plummets to historic lows
When Donald Trump says something about Canada, it favours the Liberals, and when he's not focused on Canada, it favours the Conservatives, says pollster Nik Nanos.Christopher Guly (The Hill Times)
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Can someone explain why subtitles aren't working?
I watch shows in streaming on links found in the megathread and suddenly subtitles aren't working anymore? How does it work behind the scenes? Is there anything I can do to fix it?
Thanks 🙏
Video on random streaming sites don't have very good quality control. Corrupt videos, missing/wrong audio/subtitles or just having episodes being missing or out of order are common.
The work around is to try other sites/sources until you find one that works or switch to downloading.
dormimento e marciscenza alla fine della settimana che mi porta un niente ma nulla
Miao miao… tra ieri e oggi, il rotting si è impossessato di me, come non capitava da un pochino. E in modi svariati comunque, proprio da rendere la questione non semplice… Ieri mattina nel lettino ho perso talmente tanto la cognizione del tempo che a un certo punto mi sono accorta che erano le 12… […]
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dormimento e marciscenza alla fine della settimana che mi porta un niente ma nulla
Miao miao… tra ieri e oggi, il rotting si è impossessato di me, come non capitava da un pochino. E in modi svariati comunque, proprio da rendere la questione non semplice… Ieri mattina nel lettino ho perso talmente tanto la cognizione del tempo che a un certo punto mi sono accorta che erano le 12… ops, ma ho dormito con gusto; nonostante, a quanto pare, io mi fossi svegliata tipo 4 volte per soffrire e girarmi. Oggi invece purtroppo alle 11 il mio sonno si è ampiamente esaurito, e sono dovuta quindi uscire dalla mia tomba… che è un peccato, perché è proprio gnam quando dormi 10 ore… anche perché, a quanto pare, pure dormendo 8-9 ore ho le occhiaie e in generale un aspetto da zitella. 👌Dovrei e vorrei scrivere dei robi, da stamattina, ma non mi va tipo, quindi è la fine. Ancora non ho capito come minchia fare quando la mente mi trolla in questo modo, che il marcire senza alcuna meta comunque mi da fastidio… ma quantomeno in questi casi ne approfitto per fare la mia programmazione magicissima, per cui il tempo disponibile a dire il vero non è mai abbastanza, quindi buono. Però uffa, così è volata via un’altra giornata e stanotte certamente non posso dormire fino a cadere in coma, perché domani mi devo svegliare presto, per andare in culandia a sentire cosa hanno da dire quegli sciroccati dei miei professori… 🥱
Sarà complice la temperatura freddissima in tutti questi problemi??? Vabbè, pregate per me se volete fare un tentativo completamente vano di aiutarmi a ridurre il rotting involontario, o, di contro, almeno ad aumentare quello volontario; la cosa importante è stare bene, alla fine dei conti, non importa il come… Certo è, però, che quando più tardi mi recherò un’altra volta nel lettino (…sperando di non fare troppo tardi, visto il motivo suddetto), chiudendo così un’altra volta il cerchio del nulla che mi tortura, desidererò ardentemente che, almeno stanotte, vengano gli alieni a rapirmi per riportarmi sul mio pianeta di origine, o qualcosa del genere… anche perché, come ho detto, qui sulla Terra attualmente non si sta bene, che questo autunno è semplicemente un inverno sotto mentite spoglie e fa troppo freddo per fare qualunque cosa che non sia dormire. ☠️
Però veramente… in questo fine settimana avrei voluto dormire 49 ore di fila, ma purtroppo non si può… Magari il prossimo??? 😳
Staff at Canadian Armed Forces base say contamination made them sick
Staff at Canadian Armed Forces base say contamination made them sick | The Narwhal
CFB Moose Jaw is contaminated with forever chemicals (PFAS). Employees say toxins at the Canadian Armed Forces base caused cancers, neurological disorders and other illnessesLeah Borts-Kuperman (The Narwhal)
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Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image
Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image
Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mysteryDeborah Cole (The Guardian)
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The US-based German historian Jürgen Matthäus has for years painstakingly assembled the puzzle pieces and, with the help of artificial intelligence, is confident he has identified the killer.
The title reads that Jürgen is the Nazi, which is incorrect.
Among them was Jakobus Onnen, a French, English and gym teacher born in 1906 in the German village of Tichelwarf, near the Dutch border.
Jakobus Onnen is the Nazi identified as holding the pistol.
OP, that title is dangerously incorrect... I'm not sure if The Guardian messed up and has since fixed it, but in any case, the article's title currently reads:
Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image
You might want to update your title to match.
Italy | Rome calls on US to reconsider extra tariff on pasta imports
Rome is working closely with the European Commission to press the United States to reconsider an additional anti-dumping tariff on pasta imports which would effectively double their price, the Italian foreign ministry said.
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Charlie Kirk's Turning Point promotes Christian 'blackshirts' in UK
The 'yankification' of British politics continues with Turning Point drawing attention to whatever the hell these people are supposed to be
[Opinion] A US general, British PM, Netanyahu, and the paradox of war crimes
In 1945, US General Curtis LeMay offered a rare moment of candor. As his bombers incinerated Japanese cities, he told his crews, “If we lose, we’d all be tried as war criminals.” It was not a confession. It was a calculation. LeMay understood what most prefer to forget: in war, morality is not universal—it’s a privilege of the victor.
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UK | Mosque firebombed in Sussex with people inside, leaving community in shock
Police investigating attack on UK south coast which was caught on camera as attackers attempted to break in
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Mosque firebombed in Sussex with people inside, leaving community in shock
An attack on a mosque in southern England is being treated as arson and a hate crime by police, after men in balaclavas were filmed attempting to enter the premises and sparking a fire while people were inside late on Saturday.Joe Gill (Middle East Eye)
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UK Government Proposes Expanded Police Powers for Protest Control
The British government wants to give the police extended powers to restrict demonstrations
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Israel continues Gaza bombardment as Trump plan negotiators arrive in Cairo
Talks on Monday expected to focus on release of hostages and end to war, after Israel kills 63 people in Gaza in past day
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Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37133543
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Sept 28, 2025
Microsoft has terminated the Israeli army’s access to technology it was using to store vast troves of intelligence on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza, Yuval Abraham reported. The decision followed an exposé last month by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian revealing how Unit 8200, the Israeli army’s elite cyber warfare agency, was housing recordings of millions of intercepted phone calls by Palestinians on Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure.Also:
- Collaborate or leave: Israel’s cruel ultimatum to #humanitarian groups in Gaza
- ‘They intended to kill us’: #MasaferYatta reels from bloody settler assaults
- Israel decries #Hollywood boycott — while silencing its own critical filmmakers
- PODCAST: The only eyes on the ground
Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Sept 28, 2025Microsoft has terminated the Israeli army’s access to technology it was using to store vast troves of intelligence on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza, Yuval Abraham reported. The decision followed an exposé last month by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian revealing how Unit 8200, the Israeli army’s elite cyber warfare agency, was housing recordings of millions of intercepted phone calls by Palestinians on Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure.
Also:
- Collaborate or leave: Israel’s cruel ultimatum to #humanitarian groups in Gaza
- ‘They intended to kill us’: #MasaferYatta reels from bloody settler assaults
- Israel decries #Hollywood boycott — while silencing its own critical filmmakers
- PODCAST: The only eyes on the ground
https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8§ion_id=187559
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Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37133543
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Sept 28, 2025
Microsoft has terminated the Israeli army’s access to technology it was using to store vast troves of intelligence on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza, Yuval Abraham reported. The decision followed an exposé last month by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian revealing how Unit 8200, the Israeli army’s elite cyber warfare agency, was housing recordings of millions of intercepted phone calls by Palestinians on Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure.Also:
- Collaborate or leave: Israel’s cruel ultimatum to #humanitarian groups in Gaza
- ‘They intended to kill us’: #MasaferYatta reels from bloody settler assaults
- Israel decries #Hollywood boycott — while silencing its own critical filmmakers
- PODCAST: The only eyes on the ground
Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Sept 28, 2025Microsoft has terminated the Israeli army’s access to technology it was using to store vast troves of intelligence on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza, Yuval Abraham reported. The decision followed an exposé last month by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian revealing how Unit 8200, the Israeli army’s elite cyber warfare agency, was housing recordings of millions of intercepted phone calls by Palestinians on Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure.
Also:
- Collaborate or leave: Israel’s cruel ultimatum to #humanitarian groups in Gaza
- ‘They intended to kill us’: #MasaferYatta reels from bloody settler assaults
- Israel decries #Hollywood boycott — while silencing its own critical filmmakers
- PODCAST: The only eyes on the ground
https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8§ion_id=187559
Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37133543
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Sept 28, 2025
Microsoft has terminated the Israeli army’s access to technology it was using to store vast troves of intelligence on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza, Yuval Abraham reported. The decision followed an exposé last month by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian revealing how Unit 8200, the Israeli army’s elite cyber warfare agency, was housing recordings of millions of intercepted phone calls by Palestinians on Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure.Also:
- Collaborate or leave: Israel’s cruel ultimatum to #humanitarian groups in Gaza
- ‘They intended to kill us’: #MasaferYatta reels from bloody settler assaults
- Israel decries #Hollywood boycott — while silencing its own critical filmmakers
- PODCAST: The only eyes on the ground
Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Sept 28, 2025Microsoft has terminated the Israeli army’s access to technology it was using to store vast troves of intelligence on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza, Yuval Abraham reported. The decision followed an exposé last month by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian revealing how Unit 8200, the Israeli army’s elite cyber warfare agency, was housing recordings of millions of intercepted phone calls by Palestinians on Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure.
Also:
- Collaborate or leave: Israel’s cruel ultimatum to #humanitarian groups in Gaza
- ‘They intended to kill us’: #MasaferYatta reels from bloody settler assaults
- Israel decries #Hollywood boycott — while silencing its own critical filmmakers
- PODCAST: The only eyes on the ground
https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8§ion_id=187559
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More info:
- aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/26/w…
- amnesty.org/en/latest/news/202…
There is a lot in the two article linked above with sources that go even deeper. Nonetheless, data stored on azure was used to target and kill Palestinians while forcing NGO's to force over their data.
Why has Microsoft cut Israel off from some of its services?
Move follows news investigation in August revealing Israel was using Microsoft’s services to spy on Palestinians.Shola Lawal (Al Jazeera)
The company has reiterated several times that it had no way of knowing how the Israeli army was deploying Microsoft technology due to these privacy policies.
it's wild to see the same excuses that coca cola; general motors; ford; etc. being used in world war 2 being used again for the gaza genocide.
and it'll likely work again just as well.
Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Sept 28, 2025
Microsoft has terminated the Israeli army’s access to technology it was using to store vast troves of intelligence on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza, Yuval Abraham reported. The decision followed an exposé last month by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian revealing how Unit 8200, the Israeli army’s elite cyber warfare agency, was housing recordings of millions of intercepted phone calls by Palestinians on Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure.
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https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8§ion_id=187559
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The unit is composed primarily of 18–21 year olds. As a result of the youth of the soldiers in the unit, and the shortness of their service period, the unit relies on selecting recruits with the ability for rapid adaptation and speedy learning.Afterschool programs for 16–18 year olds, teaching computer coding and hacking skills, also serve as feeder programs for the unit.Former Unit 8200 soldiers have, after completing their military service, gone on to founding and occupying top positions in many international IT companies and in Silicon Valley.
Coca-Cola rebrands products in Germany amid US image crisis
Coca-Cola rebrands products in Germany amid US image crisis
As the global reputation of US brands slips, some US firms are turning to unusual marketing strategies. Coca-Cola, for instance, is now promoting itself as a "German product."Dirk Kaufmann (Deutsche Welle)
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That is something different from processed and packaged, which you talked about in your first comment.
Of course not, most ingredients however will be EU produced/processed and then processed into the final drinks in Germany.
But aside from pure agricultural product, almost no product would be "product of Germany" if using no imports would be the requirement to use that lable.
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Then you didn't read my comment carefully, because my point is that ONLY a product that is ENTIRELY produced in a single country should be marketed as such.
All the rest is pure marketing lies.
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In 1948, the American Friends of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (AFFFI) (which represented the Stern Gang/LEHI) sought Einstein’s help in raising funds for their Jewish fighters. AFFFI Executive Director Shepard Rifkin explained in the letter below that when Stern Gang commander Benjamin Gepner asked him to reach out to Albert Einstein for the purposes of gaining propaganda and fundraising assistance, he responded: “Are you crazy? He is completely against violence!” Still, Rifkin wrote a letter to Albert Einstein asking for his help raising funds in America for arms.
Albert Einstein Letter | Promised Land Museum
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in reply to fossilesque • • •Stern Gang: Support our terrorist organization?
Based Einstein: Go fuck yourselves.
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