TikTok wants to make it easier to create bite-sized content.

TikTok can use AI to turn your long video into short ones

TikTok is introducing new AI-powered features making it easier to generate outlines for videos and edit them down once recorded.

^{Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)}

A Lufthansa flight from Chicago to Frankfurt was forced to make an emergency diversion to Boston on Saturday after a passenger allegedly attacked two teenage boys with a metal fork during the meal service.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/lufthansa-group/lufthansa/flight-diverted-to-boston-after-passenger-allegedly-stabs-two-teenagers-mid-air/

2K Games is shutting down two games in roughly the next 48 hours, leaving both games delisted and unplayable.

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/2k-games-shutting-down-two-games-in-48-hours/

"Charlie’s death is like a domestic 9/11," says Treasury Secretary

MAGA’s 9/11 Is an Assassination

^{Ken Klippenstein}

State officials promise large-scale involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”

Needless to say, people don't go by choice, can't leave when they want. Might be a concentration camp instead of a jail, since there's no legal reason to force somebody into it:

As Mr. Shumway describes it, nearly two-thirds of the 1,300 homeless people potentially sent to the site could be there for involuntary treatment. About 400 beds would be set aside for psychiatric treatment. Another 400 beds would provide substance abuse treatment “as an alternative to jail,” he said, with entry and exit “not voluntary.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/politics/utah-trump-homeless-campus.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE8.3lb3.aQQe-VU1M88S

The Maple has recorded cases where pages linked to on the Find IDF Soldiers website have been deleted, modified or made private.

Online Mentions Of Canadians’ IDF Service Are Disappearing

^{Davide Mastracci (The Maple)}

Japanese advertising giant Dentsu has disclosed that its U.S.-based subsidiary Merkle suffered a cybersecurity incident that exposed staff and client data.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/advertising-giant-dentsu-reports-data-breach-at-subsidiary-merkle/

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing Microsoft for allegedly misleading 2.7 million Australians into paying for the Copilot AI assistant in the Microsoft 365 service.

Press release: accc.gov.au/media-release/micr…

Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading millions of Australians over Microsoft 365 subscriptions

The ACCC has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court against Microsoft Australia and its US-based parent company Microsoft Corporation for allegedly misleading approximately 2.

^{Australian Competition and Consumer Commission}

The beleaguered publication is under fire for failing to make clear when its editorial line and its billionaire owner’s interests align.

Washington Post Ed Board Busted for Hiding Bezos Ties

^{Will Neal (The Daily Beast)}

Trump administration videos purporting to show the triumph of recent immigration operations used footage that was months old or recorded thousands of miles away, an analysis found.

Access options:
* gift link — registration required
* archive.today — still loading when I posted, and likely to omit videos

https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/elon-musk-launches-grokipedia-a-new-ai-driven-alternative-to-wikipedia-and-its-wokeness-/

To help you get ready for the launch of Path of Exile: Keepers of the Flame, we've prepared all the Item Filter Information you need in this news post.

New Keywords

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Foulborn

• Values: True/False
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New Items

::: spoiler Spoiler
Item class: Stackable Currency

• Augmentation Implant
• Regal Implant
• Exalted Implant
• Unstable Implant
• Foulborn Orb of Augmentation
• Foulborn Regal Orb
• Foulborn Exalted Orb

Item class: Skill Gems

• Wall of Force
• Conflagration
• Kinetic Rain
• Kinetic Rain of Impact
• Somatic Shell
• Thunderstorm
• Kinetic Fusillade

Item class: Support Gems

• Windburst Support
• Kinetic Instability
• Living Lightning Support

Item class: Map Fragments

• Hivebrain Gland
• Traumatic Fragment
• Reverent Fragment
• Lonely Fragment

Item class: Vault Keys

• Lonely Reliquary Key
• Reverent Reliquary Key
• Traumatic Reliquary Key

Item class: Grafts

• Fleshgraft
• Battering Uulgraft
• Spiking Uulgraft
• Impaling Uulgraft
• Hardening Uulgraft
• Molten Xophgraft
• Erupting Xophgraft
• Flamecaller Xophgraft
• Stoking Xophgraft
• Storming Eshgraft
• Replicating Eshgraft
• Draining Eshgraft
• Jolting Eshgraft
• Squalling Tulgraft
• Freezing Tulgraft
• Summoning Tulgraft
• Aegis Tulgraft

Item class: Wombgifts

• Provisioning Wombgift
• Lavish Wombgift
• Ancient Wombgift
• Growing Wombgift
• Mysterious Wombgift

Item class: Rings

• Cryonic Ring
• Enthalpic Ring
• Synaptic Ring
• Organic Ring
• Fugitive Ring
• Formless Ring

Item class: Wands

• Somatic Wand
• Blasting Wand
• Kinetic Wand

Item class: Divination Cards

• The Last Laugh
• The Lake
• One Last Score
• Bound by Flame
• Outfoxed
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Renamed Items

::: spoiler Spoiler
- "Captured Soul of Captain Tanner Lightfoot" renamed to "Captured Soul of Merveil, the Returned"
- "Captured Soul of Legius Garhall" renamed to "Captured Soul of Enticer of Rot"
- "Captured Soul of Armala, the Widow" renamed to "Captured Soul of Hybrid Widow"
- "Captured Soul of Woad, Mockery of Man" renamed to "Captured Soul of Fire and Fury"
- "Captured Soul of Fragment of Winter" renamed to "Captured Soul of The Winged Death"
- "Captured Soul of Khor, Sister of Shadows" renamed to "Captured Soul of Ormud, Fiend of the Flood"
- "Captured Soul of Sumter the Twisted" renamed to "Captured Soul of Mephod, the Earth Scorcher"
- "Captured Soul of Varhesh, Shimmering Aberration" renamed to "Captured Soul of Oriath's Vigil"
- "Captured Soul of Tahsin, Warmaker" renamed to "Captured Soul of Sumter the Twisted"
- "Captured Soul of Stalker of the Endless Dunes" renamed to "Captured Soul of Preethi, Eye-Pecker"
- "Captured Soul of Arachnoxia" renamed to "Captured Soul of Gorulis, Will-Thief"
- "Maven's Invitation: The Hidden" renamed to "Maven's Invitation: The Remembered"
- "Runegraft of Recompense" renamed to "Runegraft of Refraction"
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Removed Items

::: spoiler Spoiler

• Bestiary Orb
• Carved Wand
• Engraved Wand
• Imbued Wand
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Map Tiers

::: spoiler Spoiler
Tier 1

• Bone Crypt
• Shipyard
• Thicket
• Academy

Tier 2

• Dunes
• Volcano
• Toxic Sewer
• Waterways
• Flooded Mine
• Tropical Island
• Core
• Residence

Tier 3

• Overgrown Shrine
• Strand
• Excavation
• Palace
• Coves
• Castle Ruins
• Summit
• Canyon

Tier 4

• Cemetery
• Moon Temple
• Vaal Pyramid
• Jungle Valley
• Mesa
• Precinct
• Factory
• Silo

Tier 5

• Atoll
• Courtyard
• Lava Chamber
• Colosseum
• Bramble Valley
• Iceberg
• Ghetto
• Crimson Temple

Tier 6

• Shore
• Promenade
• Arsenal
• Lookout
• Spider Forest
• Waste Pool
• Sepulchre

Tier 7

• Cursed Crypt
• Tower
• Infested Valley
• Grave Trough
• City Square
• Primordial Blocks
• Estuary

Tier 8

• Alleyways
• Grotto
• Channel
• Port
• Arachnid Nest
• Pit
• Bazaar

Tier 9

• Mausoleum
• Dark Forest
• Arid Lake
• Glacier
• Villa
• Lava Lake

Tier 10

• Underground Sea
• Primordial Pool
• Mineral Pools
• Cells
• Frozen Cabins
• Crater

Tier 11

• Arcade
• Ashen Wood
• Belfry
• Ramparts
• Acid Caverns
• Desert

Tier 12

• Museum
• Necropolis
• Mud Geyser
• Park
• Crimson Township
• Marshes

Tier 13

• Defiled Cathedral
• Lighthouse
• Desert Spring
• Burial Chambers
• Chateau

Tier 14

• Temple
• Maze
• Racecourse
• Orchard
• Arachnid Tomb

Tier 15

• Underground River
• Sulphur Vents
• Plateau
• Arena
• Phantasmagoria

Tier 16

• Ivory Temple
• Beach
• Forking River
• Wasteland

Tier 17

• Sanctuary
• Citadel
• Fortress
• Abomination
• Ziggurat
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Keep an eye on the news for the 20/20 Skill Gem information post that we're aiming to have ready for tomorrow (Thursday NZT).

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/climate/ocean-warming-effect-hurricane-melissa

https://thehill.com/business/5578312-toyota-trump-claim-10-billion-investment/

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5577872-nyc-mayoral-candidate-mabdani-election/

cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/4784069…

Keep Android Open

In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google.

This registration will involve:

• Paying a fee to Google
  
  • Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions
  • Providing government identification
  • Uploading evidence of an app’s private signing key
  • Listing all current and future application identifiers

  
  

Sign the open letter. And get active to help oppose the enactment of the policy in other ways listed on the website. Are there any more ways to oppose this?

One would be forgiven for wondering how the hell this is a political story.

(Bloomberg) -- Copper hit a record high in London, with the prospect of an imminent easing in US-China tensions providing a fresh catalyst to a scorching rally built on mine-supply setbacks and tariff-driven trade dislocations.

So, it's tariffs exacerbating physical fundamentals. Good thing we haven't had much use for copper since the Late Bronze Age.

Also, it's hilarious to me that Bloomberg's site is paywalled, but Yahoo reposts in nearly real time. Perhaps this is the first useful thing Yahoo has done since ... um ... damn, I thought I had something.

Che Warren Waynes volesse registrare un disco da cantautore non è una novità per chi segue con attenzione il musicista di Asheville. In fondo il suo esordio solista, Live At Bonnaroo del 2004, era un disco acustico che andava in questa direzione, per cui molti pensavano che Man In Motion sarebbe stato il tanto atteso album in studio da songwriter… Leggi e ascolta...

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2025-10-29 08:35:49

Warren Haynes feat. Railroad Earth - Ashes & Dust (2015)

Che Warren Waynes volesse registrare un disco da cantautore non è una novità per chi segue con attenzione il musicista di Asheville. In fondo il suo esordio solista, Live At Bonnaroo del 2004, era un disco acustico che andava in questa direzione, per cui molti pensavano che Man In Motion sarebbe stato il tanto atteso album in studio da songwriter…ma sappiamo che le cose sono andate diversamente. Warren ha spiegato che canzoni di questo genere, non adatte agli Allman Brothers o ai Gov't Mule, si sono accumulate nel corso degli anni... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/09…

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Ascolta il disco: album.link/s/2Ept5AOP3rZorKVAD…

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Warren Haynes feat. Railroad Earth - Ashes & Dust (2015)

di Paolo Baiotti Che Warren Waynes volesse registrare un disco da cantautore non è una novità per chi segue con attenzione il musicista...

^{Silvano Bottaro (Blogger)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/51970309

Rivian’s CEO praised the Xiaomi EV’s design after a teardown.

RJ Scaringe said he’d buy the SU7 himself if he lived in China.

He called it a well-integrated, nicely executed technology platform.

Rivian Tore Apart A Xiaomi EV And Discovered What America Can’t Match

The American carmaker purchased an SU7 and tore it down to discover its secrets

^{Brad Anderson (Carscoops)}

• A person from Europe’s richest 0.1% emits 53x more carbon than a person from the bottom 50%.
• Since 1990, Europe’s richest 0.1% have increased their share of total emissions by 14%, while the bottom half have cut their share by 27%.
• To stay within the 1.5°C limit, the richest 0.1% of Europeans would need to cut their per capita emissions by 99% by 2030.

Europe’s wealthiest are driving the bloc’s emissions while ordinary Europeans make the steepest cuts, according to new Oxfam research published ahead of COP30. This research also comes amidst the EU watering down its own climate ambition.

The report: Climate Plunder: How a powerful few Europeans are locking the world into a climate disaster

Managing customers, enquiries and sales teams can be challenging for growing companies, which is why many local entrepreneurs prefer using Site CRM for small business Surat. Small organisations often struggle because leads come from multiple sources like calls, WhatsApp, social media, walk-ins and online ads and without proper tracking, many enquiries get lost. Site CRM addresses the problem and keep all the leads in one dashboard, so no customer is ever overlooked and each follow-up occurs on time. Rather than relying on notebooks, Excel spreadsheets or random chats, Surat business owners can track their entire sales pipeline via a single streamlined platform.
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In plain language, selecting Site CRM for small business Surat introduces order, transparency and professionalism into day-to-day sales. With the likes of mobile tracking, auto reminders, calls logging and real-time reports, Site CRM enables small businesses to grow faster with less effort and no confusion.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is apparently tired, despite doing little this month during the government shutdown.

Johnson said at a press conference Tuesday that people have been telling him, “You look so tired on TV.”

“I am so tired, because we’re not sleeping a lot. We’re working overtime,” Johnson said, adding that House committees are still conferencing to put together legislation to be ready to go as soon as the House is back in session.

Thought and prayer, Mike. One of each.

Mike Johnson Complains He’s Tired (the House Isn’t Even Working)

The House of Representatives hasn’t been in session for over a month, but that isn’t stopping Speaker Mike Johnson from whining about all his hard work.

^{The New Republic}