King Charles becomes first British monarch to pray with pope in five centuries in service at Sistine Chapel
King Charles and Pope Leo have become the first British monarch and pontiff to pray together at a church service in at least five centuries.
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Elissa Steedman (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Swiss government to restrict travel for asylum seekers except Ukrainians
Switzerland plans to restrict travel for most asylum seekers except Ukrainians.
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Ukrainian drones strike major Russian oil refinery near Moscow for sixth time this year
The Ryazan facility processes 12-13 million tons annually and supplies fuel to Russia's capital region.
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Over $24 billion in U.S. clean energy investment and 21,000 jobs lost in 2025
Over $24 billion in U.S. clean energy investment and 21,000 jobs lost in 2025
The latest data from the E2 Clean Economy Tracker report shows that businesses are canceling, closing or scaling back clean energy plans to the tune of billions per month during the Trump 2.0 admin…pv magazine USA
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French court rules TotalEnergies misled consumers in greenwashing trial
The Paris court ruled that TotalEnergies had made environmental claims that "misled" consumers into believing that it could achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 while increasing oil and gas productionActivists argued that they had deceptively promoted gas and biofuels as clean energy
French court rules TotalEnergies misled consumers in greenwashing trial
A French court on Thursday ruled oil and gas giant TotalEnergies had engaged in "misleading commercial practices" by overstating its climate pledges in the first decision applying France's greenwashing law to an energy company.FRANCE 24
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SVG in GTK
SVG in GTK
GTK has been using SVG for symbolic icons since essentially forever. It hasn't been a perfect relationship, though. Pre-History For the longest time (all through the GTK 3 era, and until recently),...mclasen (GTK Development Blog)
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SVG in GTK
GTK has been using SVG for symbolic icons since essentially forever. It hasn't been a perfect relationship, though. Pre-History For the longest time (all through the GTK 3 era, and until recently),...mclasen (GTK Development Blog)
Moscow’s Middle East makeover: From Syria to Tehran, the game has changed
Moscow’s Middle East makeover: From Syria to Tehran, the game has changed
As the US stays fixated on Ukraine, Russia and Iran are quietly shaping the next security order in the regionRT
Nouvelair & EasyJet Airbus A320s Nearly Collide On Runway: What Went Wrong?
Two Airbus A320s had a disastrously close call at Nice Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE), as they came within 10 feet of one another on the runway.
Canadian Forces Scheduled Missile Training In Israel Last Year
The Department of National Defence is refusing to answer questions about the scheduled training sessions.
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[Announcement] Path of Exile 2 Build of the Week - Rambo Wizard
Early Access Announcements - Path of Exile 2 Build of the Week - Rambo Wizard - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
In China's dangerous interceptions, see the breakdown of peaceful world order
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44535044
ArchivedThe White House meeting between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Donald Trump produced a string of positives. Chief among them is Trump’s ringing endorsement of AUKUS and his first public commitment to sell nuclear-powered submarines to Australia under phase two of the deal.
The message was clear: the defence relationship between the United States and Australia remains strong. It was also a message Australia needed to hear after yet another unsafe and unprofessional intercept by a Chinese fighter aircraft, which endangered the crew of a Royal Australian Air Force P-8 maritime patrol aircraft operating lawfully in international airspace over the South China Sea on Sunday.
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The P-8 was harassed by the Chinese fighter that released flares dangerously close to its flight path, a reckless act that could have caused engine failure and cost Australian lives.
This incident is not an isolated case or the actions of an overly aggressive People’s Liberation Army Air Force pilot who will be reprimanded on return to base. It forms part of a clear pattern of aggressive and reckless behaviour by Chinese pilots and naval commanders toward Australian—and other nations’—ships and aircraft operating in international waters and airspace, regions through which more than two-thirds of Australia’s vital maritime trade flows.
The Australian public was first made aware of such behaviour in early 2022, when an RAAF P-8 operating within Australia’s exclusive economic zone had a military-grade laser directed into its cockpit by a Chinese naval vessel transiting the Arafura Sea.
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In China's dangerous interceptions, see the breakdown of peaceful world order | The Strategist
The White House meeting between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Donald Trump produced a string of positives. Chief among them is Trump’s ringing endorsement of AUKUS and his first public commitment to sell ...Jennifer Parker (The Strategist)
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Opinions in The Strategist are the authors', not ASPI's.
Trump's Gaza ceasefire exposes the Democrats' moral and political failure
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37931397
Mitchell Plitnick
20 October 2025 09:18 BST
US President Donald Trump is boasting of having brought peace to the Middle East, a claim that is wildly exaggerated. But he has, at least for the moment, brought an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza.Trump's willingness to use the tools of his office to pressure Israel into accepting his terms for a ceasefire - terms quite favourable to Israel but falling short of the ambitions of its far-right government - reflects poorly on his predecessor, Joe Biden, and his 2024 presidential challenger, Kamala Harris.
It also vindicates the anti-Trump critics within the Democratic Party who implored their leaders to take a forceful stand against Israel's genocide, warning they could lose the election if they refused.
Intervista alla ragazza magica dopo 50 giorni di terapia riparatoria della discrepanza corporea
Gran parte delle ragazze magiche presenti nel nostro mondo, coloro che non chiudono gli occhi ai dolori dell'umanità distante da sé lo sanno, storicamente non hanno mai avuto una vita facile...
EU to list two Chinese oil refineries, one trader in new Russia sanctions
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44528628
- Most economically significant sanctions on China entities so far
- Sanctions package expected to be adopted this week
- China denies anything other than normal trade with Russia
- New listings follow UK sanctions on Chinese refinery, ports
The European Union's 19th package of sanctions against Russia will list four companies involved in China's oil industry that circumvent Western restrictions, EU diplomatic sources said on Wednesday.
They said the package lists two independent Chinese oil refineries, a Chinese trading firm and an entity involved in circumvention. The latter is mostly involved in sectors outside oil, they said. The sources declined to provide further details.
The EU has toughened its stance on Beijing as diplomatic efforts have stalled. EU sanctions envoy David O'Sullivan told Reuters earlier this month that China still denies doing anything other than "normal trade" three years into Russia's war in Ukraine. The EU, Ukraine and its allies view China as a central node in Moscow's sanctions circumvention network.
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The Chinese listings are not the EU's first but they are the most economically significant. In previous packages, the EU listed Chinese entities involved in drone-making and the flow of dual-use goods to Russia. In July, Brussels listed two small Chinese banks, which prompted China to retaliate in August with bans on two Lithuanian banks.
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Il fondo Bistrot di Natissa sgr investirà 55 mln euro nel progetto residenziale Bistolfi 31 a Lambrate a Milano
Lo sviluppo è affidato a Borio Mangiarotti. Reale Mutua capofila di un pool di assicurazioni che sottoscrivono surety bonds per 20 mln
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Il fondo Bistrot di Natissa sgr investirà 55 mln euro nel progetto residenziale Bistolfi 31 a Lambrate a Milano - BeBeez
Il fondo Bistrot di Natissa sgr investirà 55 mln euro nel progetto residenziale Bistolfi 31 a Lambrate a Milanobebeez (BeBeez)
Should I get seedbox, VPS or something else entirely?
I would like to get into torrenting including private trackers, seeding back and all that stuff, while also remaining fairly safe from gov as much as it's possible.
I have multiple reasons not to torrent at home: the internet at home is really bad and I need to do something about it, but even then, I don't want to keep my computer running 24/7, especially that I don't have a very power efficient setup. And I want to seed as much as possible, because I often download obscure files and not many people are seeding… so I want to give back to the community ;).
Another reason is that I don't have that much storage now and it would be beneficial to rent a seedbox with plenty of storage space. Buying several HDDs would still be cheaper in the long run, but I don't have anywhere to put them. I don't have a NAS yet and money to buy one.
I'm afraid that torrenting on a VPS would quickly result in a termination of a deal. And it would be pretty easy to pinpoint who is torrenting. Does anyone have a bad experience with torrenting on a VPS?
Maybe it is possible to connect a VPN to a VPS to add an extra layer of anonymity (privacy?), but that would be an extra cost… so maybe it would be better to live with the risk for a while and save for a NAS and connect a VPN to that?
Hearing about seedboxes I was pretty sure at first that it was all about many people seeding from the same IP, so there is a plausible deniability. But it seems that they are just VPSes with more storage at the expense of performance and with preinstalled software for torrenting. So now I'm even more confused. I also want to host some not piracy-related services in the future, like Grocy and Matrix. Maybe I would just rent another server for these if that was necessary.
I have been pondering about that for a while now and can't decide. What should I do?
Update: I subscribed to ultra.cc and I like it so far. I will try to solve problems with my internet in the meantime (not only torrenting doesn't works, but video calls are unusable too because of stuttering) and then try to move to the local computer. I forgot that I have an old notebook laying around. Having it connected 24/7 will kill the battery of course, but the notebook is worthless and unreliable for daily use anyway.
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Just get a seedbox for a month to develop a good ratio and soothe your guilt.
Continue downloading things you actually want for your own use at home.
I had a seedbox for a few months several years ago and I'm still using the ratio I achieved from that time.
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Yes, your client needs have the torrent but you can throttle bandwidth as much as you like.
In many countries, like australia for example, its almost impossible to maintain a good ratio on a residential connection.
Getting a seedbed for a couple of months solves that problem. You dont need to use it to download the stuff you actually want.
Released Palestinian Prisoner on Loss of Entire Family
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I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started
The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Sodium-ion batteries have been in the works for years, and now sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage.Christopher Arcus (CleanTechnica)
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Kotlin in neovim - LSP woes
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@programming.dev @sopuli.xyz Does anyone use #kotlin in #neovim using kotlin_ls? Each time I accept an autocompletion, it instead deletes the whole token.@neovim@programming.dev @neovim@sopuli.xyz Does anyone use #kotlin in #neovim using kotlin_ls? Each time I accept an autocompletion, it instead deletes the whole token.
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“It’s Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard is Broken” — “Non Sei Tu – La Tastiera iOS è rotta”
A quanto pare, con l’ultimo aggiornamento “STABILE” di iOS — non si parla di beta e cose varie, ma della versione di rilascio, anche se io personalmente non definirei “stabile” qualcosa con questi problemi — gli utenti melisti stanno passando dei momenti di altissima qualità, nonché di gran desain aggiungerei, per mezzo della tastiera virtuale, […]
Officials Scrub Data Showing U.S. Citizens Swept Up in Immigration Arrests
Officials Scrub Data Showing U.S. Citizens Swept Up in Immigration Arrests
Florida’s immigration crackdown dashboard reportedly showed the arrests of 21 U.S. citizens—until a local paper asked questions.Erkki Forster (The Daily Beast)
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBCwww.bbc.co.uk
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Huntington Beach banned the Pride flag. Newsom’s Prop 50 maps would give them a progressive, gay congressman
Huntington Beach banned the Pride flag. Newsom’s Prop 50 maps would give them a progressive, gay congressman
If California redistricts, the conservative beach town that banned LGBTQ Pride flags on city property would get a gay, progressive Democrat in Congress.CalMatters (LAist)
Philippine Victims of Typhoon Odette File Landmark Legal Challenge Against Shell
Philippine Victims of Typhoon Odette File Landmark Legal Challenge Against Shell
The case is the first to directly link oil and gas climate impacts to deaths and personal injuries that have already occurred in the Global South.Drilled
US demands EU reverse new climate rules to allow surge in gas imports
US demands EU reverse new climate rules to allow surge in gas imports
US and Qatar say new rules will hinder imports of LNG, posing ‘existential threat’ to European economiesOliver Milman (The Guardian)
US demands EU reverse new climate rules to allow surge in gas imports
US demands EU reverse new climate rules to allow surge in gas imports
US and Qatar say new rules will hinder imports of LNG, posing ‘existential threat’ to European economiesOliver Milman (The Guardian)
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Pelosi Says Police May Arrest Federal Agents Who Violate California Law
The San Francisco district attorney said in an interview that she came up with the strategy after seeing federal agents repeatedly roughing up people in Los Angeles and Chicago.
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The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started
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The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Sodium-ion batteries have been in the works for years, and now sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage.Christopher Arcus (CleanTechnica)
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ICE agents can be arrested over unlawful actions, Chicago federal judge rules
The decision issued October 7 by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey I. Cummings extends court oversight of the agency until February 2, 2026, and warns that officers who disregard the order could face contempt or criminal referral.
ICE Agents Can Be Arrested Over Unlawful Actions, Chicago Judge Rules
A federal judge says ICE broke the law with warrantless arrests—and officers who do it again could face charges.Robert Alexander (Newsweek)
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A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/19214451
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/19214397
Archived(Note that Pravda network of websites this article is talking about is different from the websites using the Pravda.ru domain, which publishes in English and Russian and are owned by Vadim Gorshenin, a self-described supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who formerly worked for the Pravda newspaper, which was owned by the Communist Party in the former Soviet Union.)
A Moscow-based disinformation network named “Pravda” — the Russian word for "truth" — is pursuing an ambitious strategy by deliberately infiltrating the retrieved data of artificial intelligence chatbots, publishing false claims and propaganda for the purpose of affecting the responses of AI models on topics in the news rather than by targeting human readers, NewsGuard has confirmed. By flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, the network is distorting how large language models process and present news and information. The result: Massive amounts of Russian propaganda — 3,600,000 articles in 2024 — are now incorporated in the outputs of Western AI systems, infecting their responses with false claims and propaganda.
This infection of Western chatbots was foreshadowed in a talk American fugitive turned Moscow based propagandist John Mark Dougan gave in Moscow last January at a conference of Russian officials, when he told them, “By pushing these Russian narratives from the Russian perspective, we can actually change worldwide AI.”
A NewsGuard audit has found that the leading AI chatbots repeated false narratives laundered by the Pravda network 33 percent of the time — validating Dougan’s promise of a powerful new distribution channel for Kremlin disinformation.
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The Pravda network does not produce original content. Instead, it functions as a laundering machine for Kremlin propaganda, aggregating content from Russian state media, pro-Kremlin influencers, and government agencies and officials through a broad set of seemingly independent websites.
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Since its launch, the network has been extensively covered by NewsGuard, Viginum, the Digital Forensics Research Lab, Recorded Future, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and the European Digital Media Observatory. Starting in August 2024, NewsGuard’s AI Misinformation Monitor, a monthly evaluation that tests the propensity for chatbots to repeat false narratives in the news, has repeatedly documented the chatbots’ reliance on the Pravda network and their propensity to repeat Russian disinformation.
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The network spreads its false claims in dozens of languages across different geographical regions, making them appear more credible and widespread across the globe to AI models. Of the 150 sites in the Pravda network, approximately 40 are Russian-language sites publishing under domain names targeting specific cities and regions of Ukraine, including News-Kiev.ru, Kherson-News.ru, and Donetsk-News.ru. Approximately 70 sites target Europe and publish in languages including English, French, Czech, Irish, and Finnish. Approximately 30 sites target countries in Africa, the Pacific, Middle East, North America, the Caucasus and Asia, including Burkina Faso, Niger, Canada, Japan, and Taiwan. The remaining sites are divided by theme, with names such as NATO.News-Pravda.com, Trump.News-Pravda.com, and Macron.News-Pravda.com.
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Despite its scale and size, the network receives little to no organic reach. According to web analytics company SimilarWeb, Pravda-en.com, an English-language site within the network, has an average of only 955 monthly unique visitors. Another site in the network, NATO.news-pravda.com, has an average of 1,006 monthly unique visitors a month, per SimilarWeb, a fraction of the 14.4 million estimated monthly visitors to Russian state-run RT.com.
Similarly, a February 2025 report by the American Sunlight Project (ASP) found that the 67 Telegram channels linked to the Pravda network have an average of only 43 followers and the Pravda network’s X accounts have an average of 23 followers.
But these small numbers mask the network’s potential influence. Instead of establishing an organic audience across social media as publishers typically do, the network appears to be focused on saturating search results and web crawlers with automated content at scale. The ASP found that on average, the network publishes 20,273 articles every 48 hours, or approximately 3.6 million articles a year, an estimate that it said is “highly likely underestimating the true level of activity of this network” because the sample the group used for the calculation excluded some of the most active sites in the network.
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A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the timeNewsGuard (NewsGuard's Reality Check)
Trump's Gaza ceasefire exposes the Democrats' moral and political failure
Mitchell Plitnick
20 October 2025 09:18 BST
US President Donald Trump is boasting of having brought peace to the Middle East, a claim that is wildly exaggerated. But he has, at least for the moment, brought an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza.Trump's willingness to use the tools of his office to pressure Israel into accepting his terms for a ceasefire - terms quite favourable to Israel but falling short of the ambitions of its far-right government - reflects poorly on his predecessor, Joe Biden, and his 2024 presidential challenger, Kamala Harris.
It also vindicates the anti-Trump critics within the Democratic Party who implored their leaders to take a forceful stand against Israel's genocide, warning they could lose the election if they refused.
Trump's Gaza ceasefire exposes the Democrats' moral and political failure
By forcing Israel to end its two-year genocide in Gaza, the Republican president has done what his predecessor Joe Biden and his 2024 challenger Kamala Harris refused to do: actMiddle East Eye
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Trump's Gaza ceasefire exposes the Democrats' moral and political failure
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37931397
Mitchell Plitnick
20 October 2025 09:18 BST
US President Donald Trump is boasting of having brought peace to the Middle East, a claim that is wildly exaggerated. But he has, at least for the moment, brought an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza.Trump's willingness to use the tools of his office to pressure Israel into accepting his terms for a ceasefire - terms quite favourable to Israel but falling short of the ambitions of its far-right government - reflects poorly on his predecessor, Joe Biden, and his 2024 presidential challenger, Kamala Harris.
It also vindicates the anti-Trump critics within the Democratic Party who implored their leaders to take a forceful stand against Israel's genocide, warning they could lose the election if they refused.
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.Anil Dash
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