Volkswagen is progressing well with job cuts, CEO Blume says | dpa international
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More than 35,000 jobs are to be cut at Volkswagen's core brand, 7,500 at Audi and around 4,000 at Porsche. Other brands and subsidiaries also face cuts.Germany's car industry is grappling with weak sales, growing competition from China and difficulties in the shift to electric mobility, as well as EU climate targets aimed at lowering emissions and US tariffs.
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Supreme Court weighs whether to gut key provision of landmark Voting Rights Act
The conservative majority will consider whether states are barred from considering race when they draw legislative districts aimed at complying with the 1965 law.
The conservative-majority Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider whether to eviscerate a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act in a congressional redistricting case from Louisiana.
The justices, who expanded the scope of the case over the summer, will hear oral arguments on whether states can ever consider race in drawing new districts while seeking to comply with Section 2 of the 1965 law, which was enacted against a backdrop of historic racial discrimination to protect minority voters.
The long-running dispute concerns the congressional map that Louisiana was required to redraw last year after being sued under the Voting Rights Act to ensure that there were two majority-Black districts. The original map only had one such district in a state where a third of the population is Black.
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Der8auer rigs up exotic spray cooling for Ryzen 7 9800X3D, but don't get excited just yet — supercomputer cooling method underperforms due to partial IHS coverage
Only a select few supercomputers utilize the exotic cooling method.
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United States Plans To Ban Chinese Airlines From Using Russian Airspace
The United States plans to ban Chinese airlines from using Russian airspace on all flights to and from the country. Here's why.
How Israel plans to continue the war without its army - As tanks withdraw and the bombing slows, Israel extends its war through Palestinian militias turned against their own.
Israel’s logic here is clear. It has long relied on an old colonial strategy: Divide and rule. A society consumed by internal violence cannot stand united against its occupier. By cynically fostering the rise of militias, Israel achieves two aims: Weakening Palestinian unity and reducing the burden on its own army. It avoids direct costs and international scrutiny, while Gaza continues to bleed from within.The armed gangs now spreading fear in Gaza are not defenders of the homeland but Israel’s collaborators, serving its occupation under a different name. They were empowered during the war to act where Israel could not always act openly. Yet Israel’s history with Palestinians who serve its interests is clear: It uses them, then discards them. Once their purpose is fulfilled, collaborators are cast aside, disarmed or destroyed, left with neither honour nor protection. He who turns his gun on his own people may think himself powerful, but his fate is always the same: Rejection by his people, by history and even by the occupier who once used him.
For Palestinians, the consequences are nothing short of catastrophic...
How Israel plans to continue the war without its army
As tanks withdraw and the bombing slows, Israel extends its war through Palestinian militias turned against their own.Amal Abu Seif (Al Jazeera)
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How Israel plans to continue the war without its army - As tanks withdraw and the bombing slows, Israel extends its war through Palestinian militias turned against their own.
Israel’s logic here is clear. It has long relied on an old colonial strategy: Divide and rule. A society consumed by internal violence cannot stand united against its occupier. By cynically fostering the rise of militias, Israel achieves two aims: Weakening Palestinian unity and reducing the burden on its own army. It avoids direct costs and international scrutiny, while Gaza continues to bleed from within.
The armed gangs now spreading fear in Gaza are not defenders of the homeland but Israel’s collaborators, serving its occupation under a different name. They were empowered during the war to act where Israel could not always act openly. Yet Israel’s history with Palestinians who serve its interests is clear: It uses them, then discards them. Once their purpose is fulfilled, collaborators are cast aside, disarmed or destroyed, left with neither honour nor protection. He who turns his gun on his own people may think himself powerful, but his fate is always the same: Rejection by his people, by history and even by the occupier who once used him.
For Palestinians, the consequences are nothing short of catastrophic...
How Israel plans to continue the war without its army
As tanks withdraw and the bombing slows, Israel extends its war through Palestinian militias turned against their own.Amal Abu Seif (Al Jazeera)
Microsoft veteran explains Windows quirk that made videos play in Paint
Microsoft veteran explains Windows quirk that made videos play in Paint
: Raymond Chen says the OS used green-screen overlays to fake video playback – with curious side effectsRichard Speed (The Register)
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This is how hardware accelerated TV tuners worked back in the day, and probably also MPEG cards during their brief flash in the pan when they were necessary to play MPEG encoded video before processors were powerful enough to do it in software (and/or had various extensions added to them to assist, like MMX and SSE, etc., etc.).
I had an ATI TV Wonder card back in those dark days, and its mask color was hot magenta: RGB(255,0,255). Any pixels in your framebuffer of that color would be overwritten with TV output, although the player that came with the card already seemed to broadly know approximately where its output should be located so you couldn't relocate the video on your screen by doing this. If you full screened the player and then minimized it, though, you could color in any pixels on your display with e.g. Paint and they'd magically become little slices of broadcast television.
X Plans New Profile Features to Show Location and Username History
As part of this experiment, X will now show the country an account is based in, such as the US, UK, or India.
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House Republicans to release toxics law changes soon
House Republicans to release toxics law changes soon - E&E News by POLITICO
The GOP wants changes to the Toxic Substances Control Act. Democrats are still developing their position.Ellie Borst (E&E News by POLITICO)
Ukraine | Zelensky revokes citizenship of Odesa mayor accused of holding Russian passport
President moves to take direct control of strategic Black Sea port city deeply shaped by Russian cultural influence
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Tele2 Fined 12 Million Kronor for EU Data Protection Breach
Tele2 shall pay twelve million kronor in penalty fees for having transferred personal data to the USA and thus breached the EU's data protection regulation, writes the Administrative Court of Appeal.
Outsourcing firm Capita fined £14m after millions had data stolen
The outsourcing giant accepted liability, after the data watchdog said they failed to protect client data.
Pfizer CEO says US pharma industry needs to collaborate with China
Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla said on Tuesday that the U.S. pharmaceutical industry needs to collaborate with China’s, where speedy processes have vaulted it to 30% of global drug development over the past decade."Chinese biotech firms accounted for nearly 1/3 of all large pharma drug licensing deals last year, a major shift in where innovation is sourced," Bourla said
Sure. Outsourcing all of your pharmaceutical development to other countries:
- means you are screwed in the event of a war (economic or physical)
- means you have no control over quality of said pharmaceuticals
- means that expertise is no longer available in your own country and you are again beholden to others because those countries can charge whatever they want or refuse to sell it to you at all (see battery tech, microchip tech, solar tech for other examples).
You want to go over there and learn how to adapt their tech? Great. (We did that with the Japanese auto industry in the 1980s and we imported rocket expertise after WWII.) But things like drugs, food staples, and construction materials should be made at home. There’s a reason we subsidize farming.
Personally I think the feds should be manufacturing generic drugs to ensure availability and quality, and to provide some competition to bring prices down.
FSF Announces The LibrePhone Project
The Free Software Foundation today announced the LibrePhone project with a goal of creating a fully free software OS for mobile devices and to reverse-engineer obstacles where necessary.
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Calif. governor vetoes autoworkers-backed bill to boost clean energy jobs
Calif. governor vetoes autoworkers-backed bill to boost clean energy jobs - E&E News by POLITICO
The United Auto Workers sponsored the measure to create a state position focused on industrial and clean energy policy.Noah Baustin (E&E News by POLITICO)
Adata chairman says AI datacenters are gobbling up hard drives, SSDs, and DRAM alike — insatiable upstream demand could soon lead to consumer shortages
Adata chairman says AI datacenters are gobbling up hard drives, SSDs, and DRAM alike — insatiable upstream demand could soon lead to consumer shortages
The GPU shortage during COVID could soon look like child's play.Bruno Ferreira (Tom's Hardware)
Syria’s interim leader Ahmad al-Sharaa meets with Putin in Moscow
Syria’s interim leader, who led a swift rebel offensive last year that ousted former Syrian President Bashar Assad despite years of Moscow’s support, made his first visit to Russia and held talks with President Vladimir Putin.
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[Opinion] Italian MEP: My experience on the Global Sumud Flotilla
Some have told me “You knew the risks" — as if justice were a game of odds, as if international law were optional, and those who defend it deserve what happens to them. That logic says that might is right, and that fear should rule our conscience, writes Italian MEP Benedetta Scuderi.
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Italian MEP: My experience on the Global Sumud Flotilla
Some have told me “You knew the risks" — as if justice were a game of odds, as if international law were optional, and those who defend it deserve what happens to them.EUobserver
Sam Altman prepares ChatGPT for its AI-rotica debut
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If I genuinely believed I was 18 months away from superintelligence that could solve cancer, I would probably not be pivoting to horny chatbots, but that's just me (a person with priorities)
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Samsung joins Nvidia's NVLink Fusion program to produce custom AI chips — additional Spectrum-X platform to be deployed by Meta and Oracle for data center use
NVLink’s reach goes beyond TSMC, deepening Nvidia’s control over AI system design.
https://www.tomshardware.com/samsung-joins-nvidia-nvlink-fusion
Leak: Feds Think Protests Hide Terrorism
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are warning police across the country that protests against ICE or Trump administration policies are cover for terrorism to occur, according to a restricted circulation intelligence Bulletin leaked to me.
The Bulletin is the latest sign that Trump’s NSPM-7 national security directive ordering federal agencies to root out domestic terrorism will ramp up surveillance and monitoring of protests and free speech.
Republican Party leaders are joining the panic over so-called domestic terrorism, with two top officials this week likening the upcoming “No Kings” anti-Trump protests to terrorism.
“They have a ‘Hate America’ rally that’s scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said last Friday. “It’s the pro-Hamas wing and Antifa people,” he said. Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer, House Republicans’ third-highest ranking leader, also called that the upcoming No Kings protest a “‘Hate America’ rally,” attributing it to the “terrorist wing” of the Democratic Party.
Leak: Feds Think Protests Hide Terrorism
“No Kings” protest eyed amid NSPM-7 domestic terror panicKen Klippenstein
Does anyone actually believe this shit?
Protip the terrorists are the ones with assault rifles threatening to shoot ambulance drivers trying to drive protesters to the hospital.
BlackRock, Nvidia-backed group strikes $40 billion AI data center deal
Oct 15 (Reuters) - An investor group, including BlackRock and Nvidia (NVDA.O), will buy Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie Asset Management (MQG.AX) in a deal worth $40 billion, the companies said on Wednesday, as AI infrastructure expansion powers on.The deal underscores an intensifying race to expand the costly, supply-constrained infrastructure required to develop artificial intelligence technology, as companies rush to build sophisticated AI models.
Michael Hudson: From Neoliberalism to Neofeudalism
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UK | Citizen's Arrest Network hold Anglian Water to account, because no one else will
No one else is holding criminal water companies to account, so one group carried out a citizens arrest on Anglian Water CEO
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US | The government shutdown is strangling aviation
Staffing levels were already low before the shutdown.
The government shutdown is strangling aviation
The government shutdown has had a huge impact on air travel. Delays are soaring, and some airports have been forced to operate without air traffic control.Darryl Campbell (The Verge)
Israel's bombing killed soldier captured by Hamas, family says
Palestinian group returns body of Tamir Nimrodi, a soldier captured alive on 7 October
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Israel's bombing killed soldier captured by Hamas, family says
The family of an Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas has said he was killed by Israeli air strikes during the genocidal war on Gaza.Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)
European Commission fines Gucci, Chloé and Loewe $183 million for price interference
The European Commission has fined Gucci, Chloé, and Loewe over 157 million euros for anti-competitive pricing practices
[Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59]
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I feel like it’s also probable that he didn’t do the exhaustive due diligence here because he was trying to get many videos out very quickly to coincide with the launch of the good store socks.
I could see being annoyed that this might be why an issue like this slipped through, but it’s a fund raiser for charity. So, uhh, y’know, let this slide.
US charges Cambodian executive in massive crypto scam and seizes more than $14 billion in bitcoin
In an indictment unsealed Tuesday, Brooklyn federal prosecutors charged Prince Holding Group chairman Chen Zhi with wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy. Chen, a native of China who is also known as “Vincent,” remained at large as of Tuesday...
According to Chen’s indictment, Prince Holding Group built at least 10 compounds in Cambodia where workers — often migrants held against their will — were forced to contact thousands of victims through social media or online messaging platforms, build rapport and entice them to transfer cryptocurrency with hopes of big investment returns.
The compounds functioned as forced labor camps, with dormitories surrounded by high walls and barbed wire fences, and automated call centers with hundreds of mobile phones lined up on racks controlling tens of thousands of fake social media profiles, prosecutors said. One compound was associated with Prince Holding Group’s Jinbei Casino Hotel. Another was known as “Golden Fortune.”
In 2023, the United Nations estimated around 100,000 people were being forced to carry out online scams in Cambodia, as well as at least 120,000 in Myanmar and tens of thousands in Thailand, Laos and the Philippines.
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Senators Warn Saudi Arabia’s Acquisition of EA Will Be Used for ‘Foreign Influence’
“The proposed transaction poses a number of significant foreign influence and national security risks, beginning with the PIF’s reputation as a strategic arm of the Saudi government,” the Senators wrote in their letter. “As Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the PIF has made dozens of strategic investments in sports (including a bid for the U.S. PGA Tour), video games (including a $3.3 billion investment in Activision Blizzard), and other cultural institutions that ‘are more than just about financial returns; they are about influence.’ Leveraging long term shifts in public opinion, through the PIF’s investments, ‘Saudi Arabia is seeking to normalize its global image, expand its cultural reach, and gain leverage in spaces that shape how billions of people connect and interact.’ Saudi Arabia’s desire to buy influence through the acquisition of EA is apparent on the face of the transaction—the investors propose to pay more than $10 billion above EA’s trading value for a company whose stock has ‘stagnated for half a decade’ in an unpredictably volatile industry.”
Senators Warn Saudi Arabia’s Acquisition of EA Will Be Used for ‘Foreign Influence’
Democratic U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Elizabeth Warren sent letters to the Department of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson, raising concerns about the $55 billion acquisition of the giant American video game company in part by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF).Specifically, the Senators worry that EA, which just released Battlefield 6 last week and also publishes The Sims, Madden, and EA Sports FC, “would cease exercising editorial and operational independence under the control of Saudi Arabia’s private majority ownership.”
“The proposed transaction poses a number of significant foreign influence and national security risks, beginning with the PIF’s reputation as a strategic arm of the Saudi government,” the Senators wrote in their letter. “As Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the PIF has made dozens of strategic investments in sports (including a bid for the U.S. PGA Tour), video games (including a $3.3 billion investment in Activision Blizzard), and other cultural institutionsthat ‘are more than just about financial returns; they are about influence.’ Leveraging long term shifts in public opinion, through the PIF’s investments, ‘Saudi Arabia is seeking to normalize its global image, expand its cultural reach, and gain leverage in spaces that shape how billions of people connect and interact.’ Saudi Arabia’s desire to buy influence through the acquisition of EA is apparent on the face of the transaction—the investors propose to pay more than $10 billion above EA’s trading value for a company whose stock has ‘stagnated for half a decade’ in an unpredictably volatile industry.”
As the Senators' letter notes, Saudi Arabia has made several notable investments in the video game industry in recent years. In addition to its investment in Activision Blizzard and Nintendo, the PIF recently acquired Evo, the biggest video game fighting tournament in the world (one of its many investments in esports), was reportedly a “mystery partner” in a failed $2 billion deal with video game publisher Embracer, and recently acquired Pokémon Go via its subsidiary, Scopely.
“The deal’s potential to expand and strengthen Saudi foreign influence in the United States is compounded by the national security risks raised by the Saudi government’s access to and unchecked influence over the sensitive personal information collected from EA’s millions of users, its development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and the company’s product design and direction,” the Senators wrote.
The acquisition, which is the largest leveraged buyout transaction in history, includes two other investment firms: Silver Lake and Affinity Partners, the latter of which was formed by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. The Senators letter says that Kushner’s involvement “raises troubling questions about whether Mr. Kushner is involved in the transaction solely to ensure the federal government’s approval of the transaction.”
These investments in the video game industry are just one part of Saudi Arabia’s broader “Vision 2030” to diversify its economy as the world transitions away from the fossil fuels that enriched the Saudi royal family. The PIF has made massive investments in aerospace and defense industries, technology, sports, and other forms of entertainment. For example, Blumenthal and other Senators have expressed similar concerns about the PIF’s investment in the professional golf organization PGA Tour.
The Senators don’t specify what this “foreign influence” might look like in practice, but recent events can give us an idea. The comedy world, for example, has been embroiled in controversy for the last few weeks over the Saudi hosted and funded Riyadh Comedy Festival, which included many of the biggest stand-up comedians in the world. Those who participated in the festival, despite the Saudi government's policies and 2018 assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, defended it as an opportunity for cultural exchange and freedom of expression in a country where it has not been historically tolerated. However, some comedians who declined to join the festival revealed that participants had to agree to certain “content restrictions,” which forbade them from criticizing Saudi Arabia, the royal family, or religion.
Human Rights Watch Refuses Aziz Ansari Riyadh Comedy Festival Donation
Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.Ethan Shanfeld (Variety)
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Pete Hegseth clearing out military lawyers as 'part of a grander plan': former official
Pete Hegseth clearing out military lawyers as 'part of a grander plan': former official
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is clearing the ranks of the military's lawyers to "get them out of the way" of possibly illegal moves, according to current and former defense officials.Hegseth fired Lt. Gen.Travis Gettys (Raw Story)
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Sam Altman prepares ChatGPT for its AI-rotica debut
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Some like it bot! ChatGPT promises AI-rotica is coming for verified adults
: Maybe this will bring in some actual profit?Brandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
If I genuinely believed I was 18 months away from superintelligence that could solve cancer, I would probably not be pivoting to horny chatbots, but that's just me (a person with priorities)
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‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones
‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans ...
Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.David Gilmour (Mediaite)
Pokémon, mega leak fino al 2030: Gen 10 “Winds and Waves”, Legends: Galar e un MMO multi-regione “Seed”
Un maxi leak delinea la roadmap Pokémon: Gen 10 ‘Winds & Waves’ nel 2026, Legends: Galar, MMO multi-regione ‘Seed’ e Gen 11 nel 2030.
Cosa è ufficiale e cosa no, leggilo qui: Pokémon, mega leak fino al 2030: Gen 10 “Winds and Waves”, Legends: Galar e un MMO multi-regione “Seed”
Pokémon, mega leak 2026–2030: Gen 10 ‘Winds & Waves’, Legends: Galar e MMO ‘Seed
Un maxi leak delinea la roadmap Pokémon: Gen 10 ‘Winds & Waves’ nel 2026, Legends: Galar, MMO multi-regione ‘Seed’ e Gen 11 nel 2030. Cosa è ufficiale e cosa no.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
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Trump’s Tariff Fight With China Means Trouble for a Vast Wilderness in Brazil
Brazilian farmers are lobbying to roll back deforestation restrictions in order to sell more soybeans to the huge Chinese market.
What happened is kind of like what happened to the cotton market in the Civil War — back then the South decided to threaten to withhold cotton destined for British mills in order to force the British to intervene on their side. Instead, the mill owners set up a cotton industry in Egypt, and stopped needing to buy from the US anymore. This meant that the high profits from cotton never returned. In the same way, Chinese pig farmers have switched their sourcing of soy, and no longer buy from the US
Trump’s Tariffs Should Force a Reckoning With America’s Soy Industry
The industry became the world’s second-largest not because of human demand for soy, but to feed China’s pigs.The New Republic
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in reply to technocrit • • •IDF will let them thin ranks. Then go again with the tunnel bullshit and start killing again. This was just the first wave. The job won't be done until they have forced out or killed everyone in the region. It's a modern day US/Native American purge.
Until humanity can get over petty differences. We'll see this for 100s of more years.
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