US | Mint Mobile launches 5G home internet service — 415 Mbps MINTernet plans start as low as $30 per month for unlimited data
MINTernet is the latest in the growing field of home 5G internet services
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Young Republicans' 'I Love Hitler' Group Chat Leak Sparks Outrage & Resignations in New York
Young Republicans’ ‘I Love Hitler’ Group Chat Leak Sparks Outrage & Resignations in New York
A Young Republicans group chat leak with open Nazism and racism has caused major backlash for many of its members.Sid Natividad (The Nerd Stash)
Venezuela: Communards Gather to Make ‘Communal Feminism’ a Priority - Venezuelanalysis
Venezuela: Communards Gather to Make ‘Communal Feminism’ a Priority - Venezuelanalysis
Grassroots organizer Manuela Sánchez Avilan emphasized the need to collectivize care work in communal spaces.ricardo (Venezuelanalysis)
Nebraska resident sues after mayor’s Facebook page deleted her comment
Local resident is asking a judge to declare the mayor violated her First Amendment rights and have a jury determine compensation for damages
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Top French court upholds ban threatening Marine Le Pen’s 2027 candidacy
France’s highest court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by far-right leader Marine Le Pen, dealing a major setback to her efforts to overturn a sentence that could bar her from running in the 2027 presidential election. Le Pen was handed a four-year prison sentence, including two years to serve, a €100,000 fine and a five-year ban from public office over a party funds misuse case.
Damaging report shows how Starmer chose Israel over British democratic rights
Blistering new report demonstrates how Starmer has repeatedly put support of Israel - and their genocide - over British democracy
These 49 Canadians Have Served In Israel’s Military Since Oct. 7
The Maple has identified 49 Canadians who have served in the Israeli military since Oct. 7, 2023.
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Mumbai Police Detain TISS Students Who Attended Gathering In Honour of G.N. Saibaba
Mumbai Police Detain TISS Students Who Attended Gathering In Honour of G.N. Saibaba - The Wire
Students say they simply gathered on campus yesterday and held up posters of Saibaba, who died last year after a decade of wrongful incarceration.Sukanya Shantha (The Wire)
Clothing giant MANGO discloses data breach exposing customer info
Spanish fashion retailer MANGO is sending notices of a data breach to its customers, warning that its marketing vendor suffered a compromise exposing personal data.
F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code
U.S. cybersecurity company F5 disclosed that nation-state hackers breached its systems and stole undisclosed BIG-IP security vulnerabilities and source code.
Inside Novo Nordisk's 'Club 5,000' as Danish staff cuts gain pace
Restructuring to cut 9,000 jobs globally, 5,000 in Denmark
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Israel resumes killing Palestinians in first phase of Trump’s “peace plan”
This violence is part of the broader strategy of Israeli settlement expansion and de-facto annexation of Palestinian land, with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid reporting that at least 3,400 Palestinians have been displaced by settler violence and access restrictions throughout the Gaza genocide and the subsequent ceasefire.
Israel resumes killing Palestinians in first phase of Trump’s “peace plan”
Seven Palestinians were shot and killed by the Israeli military in Gaza since the phase one of the so-called “peace plan” brokered by the Trump administration was implemented.World Socialist Web Site
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German carmaker Audi still in reverse – but more slowly
Audi's largest market, China, weighed particularly heavily on the figures, with a decline of 9% to 434,435 cars in the first nine months.Audi also lost 5.1% of its sales in North America, delivering only 155,644 cars there from January to September.
In Europe, sales fell by 4.2% to 340,601 cars
Volkswagen is progressing well with job cuts, CEO Blume says | dpa international
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/51033170
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.
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