The Ukrainian defense is slowly collapsing. There aren't enough people on the front line, soldiers warn
iDNES reports that manpower shortages have led to a collapse of the Ukrainian front line. Wide gaps are forming between Ukrainian units, and on certain sections of the front, it has become impossible to maintain a continuous line of defense. As a result, Russian advances are breaking Ukrainian defenses.
Ukrainian commanders told the publication that the numerical superiority of Russian forces is becoming increasingly evident. They admitted that there are not enough soldiers, and drones are unable to fully monitor the battlefield, leaving many areas exposed.
Russian troops, the report continues, are taking advantage of these vulnerabilities, using fast off-road motorcycles to penetrate deep behind Ukrainian positions and bypass defensive lines. Such tactics allow Russian forces to approach Ukrainian artillery positions, often located 10 to 15 kilometers from the front.
According to Ukrainian officers, the situation on the front has reached a critical point, with a real risk of the defense collapsing. They also acknowledged that Russian reconnaissance units are systematically identifying and exploiting weaknesses in Ukraine’s defensive network.
Ukrajinská obrana se zvolna hroutí. Na frontě není dost lidí, varují vojáci
Po masivním ruském útoku na energetickou infrastrukturu zůstala v pátek část Kyjeva bez proudu, nejezdily trolejbusy a tramvaje.iDNES.cz
Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows
Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows
The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighborhood. Known as ‘Site 81,’ the U.S.-built facility houses a hyper-secretive intelligence base.The Grayzone
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Los Angeles County officials to vote on emergency declaration that would give them power to provide assistance for residents they say have suffered financially from ongoing federal immigration raids.
The move would allow the LA County Board of Supervisors to provide rent relief for tenants who have fallen behind as a result of the crackdown on immigrants. A local state of emergency can also funnel state money for legal aid and other services.
Funds for rent would be available to people who apply via an online portal that would be launched within two months, Supervisor Lindsey Horvath’s office said. The motion could also be a first step toward an eviction moratorium, but that would require a separate action by the supervisors.
Landlords worried it could be another financial hit after an extended ban on evictions and rental increases during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is disrespectful to common sense.
The number of people KILLED in the mentioned Gulags is in the millions. The total number of killed by the regime is estimated as ~~20 million people. The number of people imprisoned in the US is just a bit north of a million.
Having a mass murderer on a picture and trying to picture it as "wasn't as bad as the US now" is distasteful. Have self-respect, spend effort and verify the numbers. Think critically about the picture you're thinking to upvote.
P.S. I'm not a US citizen or resident. In terms of freedoms, both the Soviet Union was terrible, and a lot of the events happening in the US right now are terrible.
Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting
The justices did not comment on their order, which they issued without even asking the families of the Sandy Hook victims to respond to Jones’ appeal. An FBI agent who responded to the shooting also sued.
Jones filed for bankruptcy in late 2022, and his lawyers told the justices that the “plaintiffs have no possible hope of collecting” the entire judgment.
He is separately appealing a $49 million judgment in a similar defamation lawsuit in Texas after he failed to turn over documents sought by the parents of another Sandy Hook victim.
In the Connecticut case, the judge issued a rare default ruling against Jones and his company in late 2021 because of what she called Jones’ repeated failure to abide by court rulings and to turn over certain evidence to the Sandy Hook families. The judge convened a jury to determine how much Jones would owe.
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Zelensky deprives Odessa mayor, politician, artist of Ukrainian citizenship — decree
Zelensky deprives Odessa mayor, politician, artist of Ukrainian citizenship — decree
Since Gennady Trukhanov is no longer a Ukrainian citizen, he cannot remain mayor, the a Ukrainian host emphasizedTASS
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Delivery of Tomahawk missiles to Kiev could cause 'triple harm' — senator
Delivery of Tomahawk missiles to Kiev could cause 'triple harm' — senator
Alexey Pushkov said that US President Donald Trump can now either carry out his threat and damage the cause of peace, or choose to go a more rational routeTASS
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Deportation of Russians from Latvia inhuman barbarism, Nazism — Russian Foreign Ministry
Deportation of Russians from Latvia inhuman barbarism, Nazism — Russian Foreign Ministry
Maria Zakharova said that "it is premature to talk about the threat of immediate mass deportation of Russians"TASS
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Exclusive: ICC senior officials accused of 'prejudice' over Karim Khan probe
MEE understands that the woman who made the complaint against Khan met Margareta Kassangana, a vice president of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), the ICC’s oversight body, to discuss the case prior to the decision by the ASP’s leadership bureau to outsource the investigation to the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS).
The decision in late 2024 to publicly refer the case to the OIOS was unprecedented and prompted concerns that Khan has been denied both due process and his right to privacy while the allegations are investigated.
This comes as MEE can also reveal details of complaints raised with the ASP in which another member of its leadership bureau is accused of “reckless” and “prejudicial” conduct, after a recording emerged of her making prurient remarks about Khan’s accuser in which she appeared to presume his guilt.
Exclusive: ICC senior officials accused of 'prejudice' over Karim Khan probe
The International Criminal Court is facing fresh scrutiny about its handling of a sexual misconduct complaint against Karim Khan, with Middle East Eye able to reveal that the chief prosecutor’s accuser was in contact with a senior official on the cou…Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
Exclusive: ICC senior officials accused of 'prejudice' over Karim Khan probe
MEE understands that the woman who made the complaint against Khan met Margareta Kassangana, a vice president of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), the ICC’s oversight body, to discuss the case prior to the decision by the ASP’s leadership bureau to outsource the investigation to the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS).
The decision in late 2024 to publicly refer the case to the OIOS was unprecedented and prompted concerns that Khan has been denied both due process and his right to privacy while the allegations are investigated.
This comes as MEE can also reveal details of complaints raised with the ASP in which another member of its leadership bureau is accused of “reckless” and “prejudicial” conduct, after a recording emerged of her making prurient remarks about Khan’s accuser in which she appeared to presume his guilt.
Exclusive: ICC senior officials accused of 'prejudice' over Karim Khan probe
The International Criminal Court is facing fresh scrutiny about its handling of a sexual misconduct complaint against Karim Khan, with Middle East Eye able to reveal that the chief prosecutor’s accuser was in contact with a senior official on the cou…Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
Trump is blowing the US lead in AI
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
This guy?
Trump announces a $500 billion AI infrastructure investment in the US
TBH this sinophobic bullshit should be removed. Imagine being so brainwashed by "AI" grifters that you promote imperialism on an ML instance.
Nobody is promoting imperialism here. It's possible to analyze what you see critically. Try actually engaging with what's being said in the video instead of making personal attacks. What the video says is that the whole US strategy is fundamentally unsound and reeks of desperation. They think they can play 4D chess by letting Nvidia sell weaker chips to China, hoping it will make Chinese companies addicted to their tech. They completely ignore the will and the capability of China to achieve self-sufficiency.
The plan is already backfiring. Every time they try to block a chip, it just accelerates domestic chip production in China. Huawei and other Chinese companies are making huge strides, and with the government pumping billions into the sector and mandating the use of domestic chips, American attempt to create dependency is failing. Their own experts are admitting that Chinese chips are going from unusable to workable, and once that threshold is crossed, their market in China is finished.
The biggest flaw is their own greed. Trump caved and reversed the ban because Nvidia wanted profits and the US treasury wanted a cut of the sales. So much for their national security concerns. They're literally funding their own competitor by selling us the tools China needs to stay in the race while their own industry catches up. They're giving China a bridge to a future without them, and they're too short-sighted to see it. Now they're even talking about letting the superior Blackwell chips be sold, which would be a catastrophic miscalculation for them. Their strategy for containment is only ensuring that China overtakes them faster.
Meanwhile, the US has no choice but to stay in the AI race from a strategic standpoint. The potential payoff is too significant to ignore. If this technology delivers, even partially, the nation that masters its application in areas like logistics and automation will command a massive, lasting economic advantage. China’s push into AI alone forces the US to follow.
The central problem is that staying in the race is inherently self-destructive for the US. The US power grid is already strained, with reserve margins at just 15%. The AI industry’s massive, growing energy demand will necessarily diminish emergency buffer, threatening grid stability and making widespread blackouts a real possibility.
Furthermore, you cannot quickly build new power generation. The process takes years and has become prohibitively expensive in part due to the trade war with China. This collision of soaring demand and constrained supply will send electricity prices parabolic for everyone.
There’s a good chance that the AI race will cripple the broader economy in America. Traditionally, the US has relied on cheap energy to sustain its manufacturing base. Now, it risks adopting Europe’s model, where prohibitively high energy costs make running a factory unprofitable. The US is essentially being forced to sacrifice its physical industrial base to power the AI bubble, all because the strategic cost of losing the race is unthinkable.
On the other hand, energy prices in China are already far lower than in the US, and they're only dropping due to massive and accelerating deployment of renewables. China is in a far better position to build things like data centres needed for AI than the US is. Hence, it's actually advantageous for China to drag the US into a sort of an arms race where the US has a significant disadvantage. Americans dumping 500 billion into AI infrastructure is an illustration of Chinese strategy working.
AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over
China is “set up to hit grand slams,” longtime Chinese energy expert David Fishman told Fortune. “The U.S., at best, can get on base.”Eva Roytburg (Fortune)
Meth disguised as Canadian beer kills 21-year-old in New Zealand
Canadian ‘beer’ kills 21-year-old in New Zealand
On March 2, 2023, Aiden Sagala did what many people do after a long, hot day at work. He cracked open a cold one. Little did he know, that swig of beer would kill him. Aiden didn’t realize that the can was full of liquid methamphetamine, not beer.Avery Haines (CTVNews)
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Un cibo che costa poco e fa molto bene
Le Regine del Mare in Scatola: Perché le Sardine Sono il Tuo Prossimo Superfood Economico e Sostenibile
Oggi parliamo di un alimento spesso sottovalutato, solitamente associato ad un pasto frugale di un tempo che fu, dove la miseria regnava sov...Giuliano (Blogger)
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German State Replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with Open-Source Email
German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email
Digital sovereignty isn't a phrase you often hear in the US, but it's a big deal in Europe. Here's why.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
America Needs a Mass Movement—Now | Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.
America Needs a Mass Movement—Now
Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.David Brooks (The Atlantic)
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Google to spend $15 billion on AI data centre in biggest India investment
BENGALURU, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Google said on Tuesday it would invest $15 billion over five years to set up an artificial intelligence data centre in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh, its biggest ever investment in the world's most populous nation.The U.S. tech giant's plan comes amid a tense diplomatic standoff between New Delhi and Washington over tariffs and a stalled trade deal, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged a boycott of foreign goods.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/google-invest-10-billion-data-centre-south-india-2025-10-14/
Voting Rights Act faces pivotal test at US Supreme Court
Summary
- Case is latest US fight over racial issues in voting maps
- Louisiana map increased Black-majority US House districts
- Republicans could benefit if Voting Rights Act is undercut
The two words Democrats are avoiding in praising the Israel-Hamas deal
The two words Democrats are avoiding in praising the Israel-Hamas deal
Democrats are heaping praise on the peace deal struck between Israel and Hamas. But they're not mentioning one key aspect of the deal.Kevin Frey (MSNBC)
[Barcelona - Catalonia - Spain] 🍉 General Strike for Palestine: Unitary demonstration - 6pm Sants station
cross-post from: lemmy.ml/post/37526838
This Wednesday, October 15, 2025, there is a general strike in Catalonia, and in the Spanish state, against the Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people, in solidarity with our fellow Palestinian workers, for the defense of human rights, so that the Palestinian people can decide their political future, for the suspension of the trade agreement between the European Union and the genocidal state of Israel...Participate!!!!!
To find out more:
- Palestinian Community in Catalonia (has not updated the website yet, search on social networks).
- Enough Complicity with Israel (has not updated the website yet, search on social networks).
- Your union (the two major unions, CCOO and UGT have called a 2-hour strike, but you can join the strike of any other union that has called a 24-hour strike).Good Strike!!!! #FreePalestine
Note: Auto-translated from Catalan.
Home - Comunitat Palestina de Catalunya
✌️Palestina.Cat La Comunitat Palestina de Catalunya som l’associació dels palestins i les palestines residents a Catalunya i alhora, un espai de trobada amb la resta de la ciutadania catalana.Comunitat Paletina de Catalunya
Thanks @SolenedeM@piaille.fr !
But that expression, along with the worse "Arriba España", are expressions that have used extensively by the Spanish fascism. They are usually seen as cringe by Spanish leftism (except by nazbols, and other chauvinist than in purity, are not leftists).
XDDDD.
BTW, we're jealous of French strikes here. The only ones I remember that were up to par were those of the Catalan independence struggle.
Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire - Al Jazeera's Gaza liveblog for 14 Oct 2025
LIVE: Released Palestinians in Gaza allege hunger, abuse in Israeli jails
Deal comes as families in Israel and Palestine reunite with loved ones freed from captivity in Gaza and Israeli jails.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
Senior prosecutor removed as Lindsey Halligan reshapes key US attorney’s office | CNN Politics
Maggie Cleary — the senior Justice Department prosecutor who briefly led the powerful US attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia last month before Trump ally Lindsey Halligan took over — has been removed from the office, according to two people familiar with the matter.It’s unclear if Cleary is still employed by the Justice Department, potentially now in a different role, the sources said. She couldn’t be reached immediately on Monday, and a Justice Department spokesman declined to comment.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/13/politics/federal-prosecutor-maggie-cleary-removed
Chinese freighter halves EU delivery time on maiden Arctic voyage to UK
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50963139
The Istanbul Bridge's maiden voyage, originally expected to take 18 days, was delayed by two days due to a storm off the coast of Norway but the ship still reached Europe earlier than the 40 to 50 days it takes freighters going through the Suez Canal or around the Cape of Good Hope.The new Northern Sea Route, running entirely through Arctic waters and within Russia's exclusive economic zone, can now be navigated by ships due to global warming.
Yeah, as the Clean Arctic Alliance recently said in response to China’s new containership route through the Arctic:
An increase in shipping in the Arctic will lead to
- an increase in shipping’s global climate impact due to black carbon emissions – which have a disproportionately higher impact when emitted in the Arctic,
- an increase in disturbance to wildlife and to communities dependent on marine resources due to increased ship pollution including underwater noise in a comparatively quiet ocean, and
- an increase in the risk of damaging oil spills.
As one report said, as the Arctic ice vanishes, maritime traffic boom fuels the climate crisis.
As Arctic ice vanishes, maritime traffic boom fuels the climate crisis
The Arctic is warming four times faster than any other place on the planet. As sea ice melts, new shipping routes between continents are opening up, and the yearly window for navigating through these freezing waters is expanding.Lara BULLENS (FRANCE 24)
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Gotta catch ’em all: Man under Customs probe for not declaring over $30k of Pokemon cards at airport
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50962591
The Singapore Customs is investigating a case where a man entering Singapore did not declare that he was in possession of assorted Pokemon trading cards worth more than $30,000 in total.
Gotta catch ’em all: Man under Customs probe for not declaring over $30k of Pokemon cards at airport
The value of the items exceed the GST import relief granted to travellers. Read more at straitstimes.com.Daniel Lai (ST)
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Container freight traffic between Russia, China along NSR to exceed 400,000 tons in 2025
Container freight traffic between Russia, China along NSR to exceed 400,000 tons in 2025
Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev noted that a new record in container shipping cargo volumes will be setTASS
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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
Satellites beam data down to the Earth all around us, all the time. So you might expect that those space-based radio communications would be encrypted to prevent any snoop with a satellite dish from accessing the torrent of secret information constantly raining from the sky. You would, to a surprising and troubling degree, be wrong.Roughly half of geostationary satellite signals, many carrying sensitive consumer, corporate, and government communications, have been left entirely vulnerable to eavesdropping, a team of researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland revealed today in a study that will likely resonate across the cybersecurity industry, telecom firms, and inside military and intelligence agencies worldwide.
Madagascar president hangs on to power as thousands protest
Madagascar president hangs on to power as thousands protest
President Andry Rajoelina ratcheted up tensions in Madagascar Tuesday by dissolving the National Assembly to block a vote to force him out of office as thousands gathered for new protests calling for his resignation.RFI
News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before deadline for signing
The Washington Post joined the New York Times, Newsmax and CNN in refusing to sign the restrictive new policy.
Media across the ideological spectrum said they will not sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy by Tuesday’s afternoon deadline. The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Associated Press and CNN said they wouldn’t sign, as did Newsmax and the Washington Times.
News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before deadline for signing
The Washington Post joined the New York Times, Newsmax and CNN in refusing to sign the restrictive new policy.
Media across the ideological spectrum said they will not sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy by Tuesday’s afternoon deadline. The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Associated Press and CNN said they wouldn’t sign, as did Newsmax and the Washington Times.
Stellantis overhauls Jeep Grand Wagoneer lineup under brand turnaround plan
Stellantis overhauls Jeep Grand Wagoneer lineup under brand turnaround plan
Jeep is overhauling its top-end Grand Wagoneer lineup for the 2026 model-year under a yearslong turnaround plan.Michael Wayland (CNBC)
Google to spend $15 billion on AI data centre in biggest India investment
BENGALURU, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Google said on Tuesday it would invest $15 billion over five years to set up an artificial intelligence data centre in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh, its biggest ever investment in the world's most populous nation.
The U.S. tech giant's plan comes amid a tense diplomatic standoff between New Delhi and Washington over tariffs and a stalled trade deal, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged a boycott of foreign goods.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/google-invest-10-billion-data-centre-south-india-2025-10-14/
Fuck Alphabet and the rest of these vultures.
Valve launches the Steam Next Fest right on Windows 10 EOL because they hate me, specifically.
Like, why Valve? I was so close to clearing out all the games I was partway through, now I need to add some demos to my backlog (not many, this Next Fest is kinda weak).
~~Probably could've made it but I haven't picked a distro. I'm planning on turning my desktop into a dedicated gaming computer and not daily driver, because of the malware risk. I wanted something not finicky, something devs would test on as a known quantity, and preferably something Arch-based like SteamOS.~~
- ~~Garuda (Arch-based)~~
- ~~Bazzite (Known quantity, immutable, Fedora-based, I don't trust it for some reason)~~
- ~~Nobara (Proton-adjacent distro, Fedora-based)~~
- ~~CachyOS (Super fast, Arch-based, presumably finicky?)~~
- ~~Windows 7 (Based, unsupported by steam, insecure)~~
~~BTW I have an AMD CPU and GPU. Figured I should've mentioned that.~~
PopOS is a distro famous for it's Nvidia support. I'm on AMD so that's not a concern for me. Also System76 develops PopOS and they're squarely American so I'm hesitant to partake with them.
EDIT: Though it installs with full disk encryption by default, and I appreciate that even if I would probably disable it on what will be my dedicated gaming desktop.
From your list I ran the following:
- Bazzite: worked AMAZINGLY (to the point of me double-checking whether I'm getting any updates 😆) until some image screwed up the boot process (some versions I could boot into, some were crapping out right after GRUB). Can recommend if you have a relatively normal hardware configuration (so, as long as your machine is not a Clevo-reseller laptop with NVIDIA GPU and Intel CPU, you should be fine).
- Addendum: some binaries might not be available for you OOTB due to Bazzite's root filesystem being immutable. Read their docs on how to run packages / binaries that do require root access (or learn basics of self-hosting, I guess..?).
- Nobara: FUBAR'd it myself through... Well, being an idiot (had SOME regrets about that 😅); ran into some small issues with GPG keys, but otherwise used it w/o any major problems (see above) for... I think a year with some change? Can wholeheartedly recommend it, as long as you're somewhat familiar with what RPM packages are and how to work around issues with their signatures (usually - a trivial matter); updates are not as smooth as on Bazzite.
- CachyOS: my current daily driver. Barring some extremely minor issues in some games (usually solvable through Proton options- and versions fiddling), as was the case with Nobara - can wholeheartedly recommend it (this time, without caveats; despite the memery around Arch, it feels stable; the updates by default are a bit more annoying than on Bazzite though, similar in nature to Nobara: you get a notification "X packages have updates").
I'm currently using Nobara. I shifted from Bazzite to Nobara because I also use my PC for work and package installation was a pain if it was outside flatpaks.
Nobara is only an issue if you are using very old Nvidia GPUs. It's been working fine for me.
as long as you’re somewhat familiar with what RPM packages
Agree. It's very similar if you know apt
how to work around issues with their signatures (usually - a trivial matter)
Haven't faced this so far.
China says it will ‘fight to end’ after US said it was trying to hurt world economy
Commerce ministry says US is ‘threatening to intimidate’ with plans for new Trump tariffs on exports
China has hit back at accusations from the US that it is trying to hurt the world economy, as the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies appeared to re-escalate, amped up by aggressive rhetoric on both sides.
China’s commerce ministry said on Tuesday that the US was “threatening to intimidate” with the prospect of new tariffs on Chinese exports, “which is not the right way to get along with China”. Its spokesperson said that China would “fight to the end” in trade talks.
The comments came shortly after the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said China wanted to “to pull everybody else down with them” by damaging the world economy.
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Is this really a FAFO moment for Trump? Is it beginning to dawn on him what he has started?
None of these problems existed before Trump became president!
Trump claimed trade wars are easy to win, but joke's on him, because trade wars have no winners, and more likely than not USA will be the biggest loser in Trump's moronic trade wars.
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China’s commerce ministry said on Tuesday that the US was “threatening to intimidate” with the prospect of new tariffs on Chinese exports, “which is not the right way to get along with China”.
That’s literally the only way this administration knows how to approach everything
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