Xbox Game Pass Leak Reveals Price Hike, Forced Ads, and Bad News for PC Players
Xbox Game Pass Leak Reveals Price Hike, Forced Ads, and Bad News for PC Players
A new leak claims that Xbox Game Pass will get a major price increase, as well as drop Day 1 Games for PC users.Brent Koepp (VICE)
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FBI dramatically splits from Zionist pressure group the ADL
Israel and its allies are losing allies all over the place, including in the FBI which has severed all ties with the ADL
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Forklift driver who won £1m on rushed to hospital after ‘three months of partying’
After his scratchcard win Adam Lopez said he lost all structure to his life and started partying, but his health soon took a hit
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UK ministers aim to speed up homebuying by four weeks
Proposed government overhaul of house purchase process looks at shifting some costs from buyers to sellers
Saab Suggests Subscription Model for Weapon Systems
The Swedish defense group Saab proposes a subscription model for weapon systems, says CEO Micael Johansson to the magazine Børsen
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Trump boasts US strikes have wiped out drug boats off Venezuela
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that US military strikes on small boats near Venezuela have been so effective that “there are no boats” left in the area, as Washington faces growing criticism over the legality of using lethal force in international waters. The operations, which the White House says are aimed at stopping drug shipments to the United States, have reportedly killed at least 21 people so far.
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Trump boasts US strikes have wiped out drug boats off Venezuela
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that US military strikes on small boats near Venezuela have been so effective that “there are no boats” left in the area, as Washington faces growing criticism over the legality of using lethal force in internati…FRANCE 24
Living in the Remnants of Gaza City
“While the world’s eyes turn toward Trump’s proposal, we here live through what feels like the erasure of Gaza itself.”
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Leeches Didn't Always Suck Blood — Ancient Fossils Reveal They Swallowed Prey Whole
Leeches Didn't Always Suck Blood — Ancient Fossils Reveal They Swallowed Prey Whole
Learn about a 480-million-year-old leech fossil that revealed that ancient leeches didn’t have the biological components necessary to suck blood.Stephanie Edwards (Discover Magazine)
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One in four UK people fear a loved one drinks too much, survey finds
Poll of 2,000 people appears to underline experts’ concerns of growing ‘epidemic’ of addiction to alcohol or drugs
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UK class action against tech giant Qualcomm set to begin
Which? has brought the claim on behalf of around 29 million UK Apple and Samsung smartphone users.
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Germany Deploys Laser System to Protect Munich Airport Amid Ongoing Drone Incidents
German police have implemented a laser detection system at Munich Airport to address drone incidents disrupting air traffic and ensure passenger safety.
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Australia | Gunman opens fire on Sydney street, harming 20 but 1 seriously injured
The police said “anywhere between 50 and 100 shots” were fired.
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Gunman opens fire on Sydney street, harming 20 but 1 seriously injured
The police said “anywhere between 50 and 100 shots” were fired. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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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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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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