New supercomputer clusters are headed to Tennessee.

AMD, Department of Energy announce $1 billion AI supercomputer partnership

AMD, HP, and Oracle are partnering with the DoE on two new supercomputers, Lux and Discovery that will be used for research and AI development.

^{Stevie Bonifield (The Verge)}

It claims that greenhouse gas disclosure laws violate the First Amendment.

Case file: storage.courtlistener.com/reca…

ExxonMobil accuses California of violating its free speech

ExxonMobil filed suit against California, alleging it violated the First Amendment by requiring fuller disclosures about its carbon emissions and financial risks posed by climate change. 

^{Justine Calma (The Verge)}

3.26.0k Patch Notes

• This is the end of the Mercenaries League. Your characters and their progress will be migrated over the next few hours following the patch, or you can use the migration options in the character selection menu. Thanks for playing!
• You can now create Private Leagues for the Keepers League, ahead of the league's launch on October 31. These leagues will not begin until the Keepers League launches.

Patch Notes - 3.26.0k Patch Notes - 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}

I’ve always believed that if you put your heart into something — really try — eventually, it will be seen.

But lately, I’m not so sure.

For months, I’ve been trying to get my websites approved for AdSense. Three sites, three different focuses, one consistent effort: to share my work, my voice, my perspective. And every time, I get rejected. Every time, the same message: “Low-quality content.”

No explanation. No guidance. No human response. Just those cold words, repeated, over and over.

It’s not the money that stings. It’s the feeling of being invisible. Of having your effort, your care, your heart poured into something — only to be told, vaguely, that it doesn’t matter.

And sometimes, you can’t help but wonder if it’s about more than the content. If there’s something about who you are, or what your name sounds like, or the perspective you bring — and yes, my name is Hispanic — that quietly works against you.

I want to believe it’s not true. I want to believe that a system that powers the world’s largest advertising platform treats everyone fairly. But when silence replaces answers, and automation replaces understanding, it’s hard not to feel like something deeper is at play.

I wrote to Google. I asked for clarity, for feedback, for a human to look at my work. I explained how it felt to be repeatedly dismissed without explanation.

No response.

It’s not just a rejection. It’s a dismissal. And when your name or your identity might be part of the invisible reason, it cuts deeper than any automated message could.

And yet, despite all that, I keep going.

I write because I have to. I create because I have to. Not for validation, not for approval, but because this is who I am. My work — my words, my ideas, my perspectives — matter to me. And I hope they matter to others too.

Maybe one day Google will see that. Maybe one day a human reviewer will look at my sites and recognize the care, the effort, and the heart behind them.

But until then, I’ll keep sharing, keep writing, keep creating. Because no rejection, no algorithm, no automated judgment can erase what I put into the world.

And even if it sometimes feels like the system is blind, or worse — biased — I refuse to let that stop me.

Because heart and honesty can’t be rejected. They can only be ignored. And I refuse to be silent.

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2025-10-27 22:04:24

Alien Anthropology: Doing without Agriculture

Those familiar with Biblaridion's Alien Biospheres worldbuilding series will be glad to hear that it's new sequel (sister?) series has just had it's first release 'Doing without Agriculture,' exploring a few of the ways that a fictional alien species, the development of which was covered in the last series, could develop their societies in the abscence of agrarian technology.

Alien Biospheres

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^YouTube

Una vulnerabilità zero-day in Google Chrome, sfruttata nell'operazione ForumTroll all'inizio di quest'anno, ha diffuso malware collegato al fornitore italiano di spyware Memento Labs, nato dopo che IntheCyber Group ha acquisito la famigerata Hacking Team.

L'operazione ForumTroll è stata scoperta da Kaspersky a marzo. La campagna ha preso di mira organizzazioni russe - media, università, centri di ricerca, organizzazioni governative e istituzioni finanziarie - con inviti ben congegnati al forum Primakov Readings che contenevano un link dannoso.

Era sufficiente caricare il link in qualsiasi browser web basato su Chromium per infettare il sistema informatico. I ricercatori di Kaspersky hanno affermato che la distribuzione del malware è stata effettuata sfruttando CVE-2025-2783, una vulnerabilità zero-day di tipo sandbox escape nel browser Chrome.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/italian-spyware-vendor-linked-to-chrome-zero-day-attacks/

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Sen. Bernie Sanders about his book, "Fight Oligarchy," which argues oligarchic economic and political control has left millions of Americans struggling.

...

FADEL: This book is a pocket-size version of a tour called Fight Oligarchy that you went on in mostly Republican or a lot of Republican leaning districts. And it is a call to action. You call for political revolution. But what does that look like for Americans who are watching more and more violent ICE raids, these flurry of court decisions over what President Trump is doing or not doing, a government shutdown, a deadlock in Washington? That can feel very helpless for Americans who have no control over Washington and politicians here.

SANDERS: I think you hit the nail on the head. I think people are feeling helpless, deeply worried about the future and whether their kids will have an even lower standard of living than they do, and they want to know what we can do. And when I talk about the political revolution, it's - yes, it means, very importantly getting involved in the political process. But it's not just being involved in, quote-unquote, "political activities." We're seeing at the grassroots level, if not at Washington, at the grassroots level, a lot of union organizing. You can stand up and form a union. If you're worried about the quality of education that your kids are getting, get involved now. Work with the teachers. Improve education. We are a nation that, by and large, believes in democracy, believes in justice, understands that climate change is not a hoax but an existential threat to our world. So the message is break out of your comfort zone, do what you didn't do yesterday, and get involved in one way or another.

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In 'Fight Oligarchy,' Sen. Bernie Sanders calls for a political revolution

^NPR

More frequent and intense storms, sea-level rise and extensive rainfall fueled by climate change mean the island nation is likely to be hit especially hard by this week’s storm.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/climate/hurricane-melissa-climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wk8.CTTV.GmxD6KaCW8TG

The justices used the doctrine, a judicially created method of reading statutes, to thwart several major Biden programs.

The major questions doctrine requires Congress to use plain and direct language to authorize sweeping economic actions by the executive branch.Credit...Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

The Supreme Court used the “major questions doctrine” to reject much of the Biden administration’s agenda, including its efforts to address climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic and student debt. The court’s commitment to the doctrine will be tested next week when it hears arguments about President Trump’s tariffs program.

The doctrine requires Congress to use plain and direct language to authorize sweeping economic actions by the executive branch. The 1977 law that Mr. Trump is relying on, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, might seem to fail that test, as it does not feature the word “tariffs” or similar terms like “duties,” “customs,” “taxes” or “imposts.”

Nor is there any question that the tariffs will have vast economic consequences, measured in the trillions of dollars. The sums involved are far larger than the roughly $500 billion at issue in President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s student loan forgiveness program, which Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority, called “staggering by any measure.”

t seems poised to rule in President Trump’s favor on whether he can fire government officials for no reason, a leading originalist scholar has issued a provocative dissent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/politics/trump-tariffs-supreme-courts-major-questions-doctrine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wk8.QE_E.Iaq_Jm3SuCv1

OpenAI says hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users may show signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week.

Archived version: archive.is/20251027183454/wire…

It is likely that it is data that has been stolen from Svenska kraftnät during the hacker attack. But in the worst possible case, the attackers could get in and take over the levers that control the Swedish power grid.

Cybercriminals Target Svenska kraftnät in Data Breach

^{TT (Sweden Herald)}

The State Department seemingly contradicted the findings to appease the Israeli government, he said.

Official Says Biden Admin Shunted His Finding IDF Intentionally Shot Journalist

^{Sharon Zhang (Truthout)}

The incident occurred yesterday.

$100K Mistake: Delta Flight Attendant Accidentally Deploys Airbus A220 Emergency Slide

^{Alexander Mitchell (Simple Flying)}

Dozens of cases of bird flu have been reported across the country, especially in north-eastern regions. The virus isn't particularly dangerous for humans, but could result in higher prices for poultry and eggs.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/dw.com/en/ge…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Germany: 500,000 birds culled as flu spreads

^{Matt Ford (Deutsche Welle)}

A New Hampshire man lived with a pig kidney for a record 271 days before surgeons removed it last week as the organ's function declined.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/apnews.com/a…

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Microsoft has started testing a new feature that prompts Windows 11 users to run a memory scan when logging in after a blue screen of death (BSOD).

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-will-soon-prompt-for-memory-scans-after-bsod-crashes/

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to let fire the director of the U.S. Copyright Office.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-copyrights-firing-congress-54c8b178411fa0f831c55893fb41c6de

Research shows 4K or 8K screens offer no distinguishable benefit over similarly sized 2K screen in average living room

Ultra-HD televisions not noticeably better for typical viewer, scientists say

^{Nicola Davis (The Guardian)}

Frustrated Windows 10 users are jumping ship to macOS.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/microsofts-decision-to-axe-windows-10-is-driving-apple-pc-sales-growth-users-buy-macs-instead-of-ai-pcs-despite-microsofts-push-for-copilot-pcs

A female Israeli soldier guards two teenage Palestinian boys, who have been abducted and stripped to their underwear by the Israeli military in Gaza; she forces the two boys to dance around in their underwear, while she records a video of them and laughs.

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Ukrainian special operations successfully targeted a Russian fuel storage, disrupting logistical support for occupying forces in Luhansk.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/united24medi…

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Ukraine Obliterates Russian Fuel Hub With Precision Drone Strike in Occupied Luhansk, Video

^{Ivan Khomenko (UNITED24 Media)}

The Gaza Tribunal's final statement calls for legal accountability, suspension of Israel from global groups, and activation of a veto-proof UN mechanism for international intervention to stop the genocide.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/commondreams…

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'Jury of Conscience' Finds 'Israel Is Perpetrating Ongoing Genocide' in Gaza

The Gaza Tribunal's final statement calls for legal accountability, suspension of Israel from global groups, and activation of a veto-proof UN mechanism for international intervention to stop the genocide.

^{brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)}

The Association of University Heads in Israel has recorded over 1,000 incidents of academic boycotts over the last two years, three times the total as of a year ago.

Israel's Haaretz daily reported on Monday that the incidents included Israeli researchers who encountered refusals to cooperate with them or invite them to conferences, refusals by overseas researchers to come to the occupied territories, the cessation of student exchange programs, refusals to conduct peer reviews, and delays in the publication of articles.

The report came at a time when a growing number of universities, academic institutions, and scholarly bodies across the world are cutting links with Israeli academia due to the regime’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

It quoted senior Israeli academics as saying that their universities are looking into forging alternative ties with institutions in Eastern Europe and Asia if Israeli-led research is pushed out of Western Europe.

It also echoed fears that Israeli researchers may be forced to leave the occupied lands to avoid harm to their work.

"Research in Israel … is in danger of collapsing," one academic warned.

Professor Ariel Porat, president of Tel Aviv University, said, "We're in the worst situation, from the standpoint of the academic boycott, that we have been in at any time over the last two years.”

Meanwhile, Milette Shamir, Tel Aviv University's deputy president for international affairs, said there was a rise in the number of academic boycotts against Israel even during Gaza ceasefire negotiations, and even after the genocide ended.

"In the United States, there are a lot of faculty members who still refuse to maintain working relations with Israeli researchers,” she added.

"And in Europe, the situation is even worse. There, the boycott is expanding fast. The main victims are younger researchers. This is long-term damage."

The report said that the hidden boycott of Israel is much broader than overt statements or actions against Israeli academics.

It further said Israeli academics criticize the Tel Aviv regime for doing nothing about the academic boycott.

"We've heard from cabinet representatives that they deliberately won't help us, because we're leftists,” an academic said.

Israel unleashed its brutal Gaza onslaught on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian Hamas resistance group carried out the historic Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the usurping entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

Israel accepted a Gaza ceasefire deal after it failed to achieve its declared objectives of eliminating Hamas and freeing all captives, despite killing 68,527 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 170,395 others, according to the health ministry of Gaza.

Over the past two years, nearly 40 overseas universities have announced that they are ending cooperation with Israeli institutions either completely or partially.

Stephanie Adam of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel said Israeli academic institutions are complicit in the regime’s “decades-long regime of military occupation, settler colonial apartheid and now genocide,” adding there is “a moral and legal obligation for universities to end ties with complicit Israeli universities”.

Academic boycotts against Israel have tripled in one-year span: Report

The Association of University Heads in Israel has reportedly recorded over 1,000 incidents of academic boycotts over the last two years, three times the total as of a year ago.

^PressTV

Venezuela accuses CIA of plotting “false flag” attack amid rising tensions

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Venezuela announces arrest of alleged CIA-linked 'mercenaries'

^{AFP (Gulf News: Latest UAE news, Dubai news, Business, travel news, Dubai Gold rate, prayer time, cinema)}

PM blames Alexander Lukashenko for not stopping ‘hybrid attacks’, which closed Vilnius airport four times last week

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Lithuania says it will shoot down smuggling balloons from Russia’s ally Belarus

^{Jon Henley (The Guardian)}

Mike Brock’s piece on Sequoia Capital last week laid out a pretty damning case study: a well-respected COO complains about a partner’s Islamophobic posts, senior leadership invokes “institutional neutrality” and declines to act, she resigns, he stays because he made them billions on SpaceX. Brock correctly calls this out as a choice, not neutrality—a calculation about whose value to the firm matters more.

The thing that struck me about Brock’s piece is that it highlights how there’s a broader pattern here: institutional cowardice from organizations that spout high-minded ideals as a shield to explain their refusal to make a clear decision, while ignoring that doing so is a very real choice with very real consequences.

That’s worth highlighting, because we keep seeing it play out in nearly identical ways. Whether it’s a venture capital firm or a social media platform, the playbook is the same: invoke “neutrality” or “free speech” as a shield, refuse to take a clear stance on bigoted behavior, and then act shocked when the people being targeted decide they don’t want to stick around.

This is the Nazi bar problem, and it keeps happening because people in positions of power either don’t understand it or don’t want to.

We head off into an excursion about paid blogging platforms ...

Sequoia took the cowardly way out. It made a choice, but it wouldn’t own it, just like Substack refuses to own its pro-Nazi position. It pretends it doesn’t by saying “we’re staying neutral.” But their version of “staying neutral” and “supporting free speech” is really “bigotry and hatred are welcome” and then, what follows naturally is “the targets of bigotry and hatred must leave.”

And it’s the exact same choice Substack made. When [CEO Chris] Best refused to answer Nilay’s questions, he was saying: we value the revenue from writers who publish bigoted content more than we value the writers and readers who don’t want to be associated with that content.

Just as Balbale felt the need to leave Sequoia, a ton of Substack’s top writers left that platform. Joe Posnanski, Casey Newton, Marisa Kabas, Ryan Broderick, Molly White, Ken White, Audrey Watters, Mark DeLong, and many others have left Substack, with many of them pointing out that Substack’s stance on Nazis makes them feel unwelcome (for what it’s worth, many are also noting they make more money on other platforms).

Hmm. More money, fewer Nazis seems a decent tradeoff.

How “Neutrality” And “Free Speech” Become Excuses For Driving Out The People You Claim To Value

Mike Brock’s piece on Sequoia Capital last week laid out a pretty damning case study: a well-respected COO complains about a partner’s Islamophobic posts, senior leadership invokes R…

^Techdirt

Rinse, repeat.

Tesla rehashing old threats to get shareholders to approve Musk’s $1 trillion pay day

Tesla’s board is urging shareholders to approve Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package or risk him leaving the company.

^{Andrew J. Hawkins (The Verge)}

Several international airlines continue to suspend flights to Israel, even after the declaration of a ceasefire, according to reports from Israel’s Channel 12.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251027-foreign-airlines-continue-to-suspend-flights-to-israel-despite-ceasefire/

Staff shortages have increased four times over October 2024 as a federal government shutdown nears its one-month anniversary

FAA staffing shortages slam 50 airports over the weekend as air traffic controllers are set to miss first full paycheck

^{John Bowden (The Independent)}

UN peacekeeping force shoot down Israel drone in rare retaliation, as French foreign ministry slams Israeli operations in Lebanon

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UN peacekeepers shoot down Israeli drone on Lebanese border - Canary

^{Joe Glenton (The Canary)}