More than 100 police officers are under investigation after 30,000 alcohol breath tests were "falsely or erroneously recorded", RNZ can reveal.

"From the audit which covered over 4.6 million breath tests performed between 1 July 2024 and 17 August 2025, the initial analysis suggested there were tests conducted that were simulated without the involvement of a driver.

The audit indicated that some staff had recorded breath screening tests that hadn't occurred.

Johnson said that despite this, Police's obligation to deliver 3.3 million tests for NZTA and Ministry of Transport had been met and was not compromised.

Garlasco e10s2025

Prossima apertura di un vaso di Pandora (deve nascondersi un bel fognone)

Garlasco, la paura dei Sempio in un audio: «Prendi 7mila euro e vai là subito. Non ce la facciamo più». Il padre di Andrea e la chiave dell’assegno - Il video

A Mattino 5, un’intercettazione del 2017 sembra riferirsi a un possibile assegno consegnato a qualcuno. A parlarne è Giuseppe Sempio, mentre è da solo in macchina 

^Open

https://www.pcmag.com/news/keep-android-open-campaign-pushes-back-on-googles-sideloading-restrictions

Ecco spiegato il recente impegno degli americani a smantellare l'Europa

Ogni pagamento che gli europei faranno con l'euro digitale - che potranno effettuare o con una app fornita dalla banca, o con una 'card' simile alla carta di credito - sarà il trasferimento ad altri di un 'credito' presso la Bce: come le banconote. Una differenza sostanziale con le carte di credito e con i bonifici bancari. E anche un elemento 'geopolitico': i due terzi dei pagamenti digitali oggi - su Visa, Mastercard o Paypal per quelli online - passano da operatori americani.

Euro digitale, come funziona il contante del futuro - Notizie - Ansa.it

Il lancio nel 2029, moneta pubblica emessa direttamente dalla Bce (ANSA)

^{Agenzia ANSA}

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-building-a-24-7-shadow-transportation-network-across-texas/

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/28/china-pitches-greater-regional-integration-at-the-asean-summit-at-kuala-lumpur/

cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/9609767

Besides some people here of course.

By the time Trump arrived, corruption had been normalised as realism. Trump merely stripped it of its polite fictions – not only in domestic politics but in foreign policy, where the US has long cloaked its violence in the language of democracy and human rights. Trump’s extrajudicial killings of unidentified individuals via unilateral military strikes in Latin American waters, for example, are not a break with American precedent but its most naked expression, the open performance of practices that past administrations enacted beneath the cloak of deniability and euphemism. Likewise, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brutality and cruelty under Trump are not new. It is instead largely a dramatised, made-for-TV version of what Barack Obama – who earned the title of “deporter in chief” – pioneered over the years in which he built the career of Tom Homan, now Trump’s so-called border czar. Like Trump, Obama was a great admirer of Homan, awarding him a 2015 Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service to honour his passion for rounding up immigrants, separating children from their parents and caging people in detention camps.

The brazenness of Trump’s corruption and cruelty – the nepotism, the grift, the self-dealing, the open auctioning of government contracts and justice – does not shock us because it feels like an honest expression of what we already knew: that American government and institutions serve the wealthy individuals who own them, whether directly or indirectly through their donations and lobbyists or via networks of influence, bribery and extortion. The outrage that might once have followed is replaced by a weary recognition that things have always worked this way.

The first honest American president

Trump’s shameless corruption is not a deviation from American history but its fulfilment.

^{Eric Reinhart (Al Jazeera)}

In a major leap for the global semiconductor industry, a joint Chinese research team has developed a method that can slash defects in lithography – a critical step in chipmaking – by up to 99 per cent.

The researchers achieved unprecedented clarity by using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) to pinpoint, for the first time, the minute sources of common manufacturing flaws.

The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications on September 30, by Professor Peng Hailin from Peking University in collaboration with researchers from Tsinghua University and the University of Hong Kong, were hailed by reviewers as a “fancy tool” that “would benefit peer researchers and industrial users quite a lot”.

“The team has proposed a solution compatible with existing semiconductor production lines,” Peng said in an interview with Beijing-based Science and Technology Daily published on Monday. “It can reduce lithography defects on 12-inch (30cm) wafers by 99 per cent,” he added, indicating substantial cost benefits to the market.

Lithography is one of the most critical steps in chip manufacturing. “It can be understood as ‘printing circuits’ onto semiconductor wafers such as silicon,” Peng said. “Essentially, an ultra-precise ‘projector’ shrinks and transfers pre-designed circuit patterns onto a special film coating the wafer, which is then developed and fixed.”

How China’s ‘fancy tool’ cut chip defects by 99% for near-perfect lithography

Cryo-ET process pinpoints source of manufacturing flaws to achieve unprecedented clarity and a pathway to major industry cost cuts.

^{Zhang Tong (South China Morning Post)}

https://www.techspot.com/news/110077-china-finally-approves-tiktok-transfer-deal-seemingly-ending.html

https://www.techradar.com/pro/even-the-most-complex-and-advanced-business-vpn-tools-could-still-leave-you-at-risk-of-attack

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/best-android-vpn/

Iirc, in one of his last public appearances before abandoning Kbin was commenting he had health issues.

Just noticed he has a blog where he occasionally posts, latest post being from September, and in the "about me" section, he also mentions about having to drop Kbin.

Going by his posts and his repositories, he doesn't seem involved with ActivityPub anymore, at least in a public manner. But sharing in case someone worried about the person.

La sera tardi dopo l'ultimo scontro, e persino il giorno dopo, Momoka è ancora arrabbiata per quello che è successo con Sabukaru-chan, e...

stuff.octt.eu.org/2025/10/wris…

Openpilot 0.10.1 introduces the North Nevada Model, featuring major improvements to the World Model architecture. The system now infers 6 degree of freedom ego localization directly from images, removing the need for external localization inputs. This reduces over-constrained data and opens the door for future self-generated imagery.

To support this change, the autoencoder Compressor was upgraded with masked image modeling, switched from CNN to Vision Transformer architecture, and the World Model itself was scaled from 500 million to 1 billion parameters. All models now train on a much larger dataset of 2.5 million segments, up from 437,000, covering more vehicles, countries, and driving scenarios.

The UI has been completely rewritten, moving from Qt/Weston to Python with raylib. This reduces code complexity by about 10,000 lines, cuts boot time by 4 seconds, lowers GPU usage, and simplifies development.

Finally, the Driver Monitoring Model's training infrastructure has been streamlined with dynamic data streaming, though the model’s functionality remains unchanged.

• Blog: blog.comma.ai/0101release/
• GitHub: github.com/commaai/openpilot/r…

openpilot 0.10.1

New driving model, new DM model, and brand new UI.

^{comma.ai (comma.ai blog)}

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/48899185

The Defense Department is stripping away job protections from its civilian employees and directing managers to “act with speed and conviction” to fire employees performing “unsuccessfully.”

A new Sept. 30 memo titled “Separation of Employees with Unacceptable Performance,” which became public Tuesday, also warned that managers will be held accountable if they fail to remove poor performers.

Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata, who signed the memo, suspended the department’s requirement that managers attempt to rehabilitate underperforming employees — clearing the way for supervisors to fire workers whose performance is deemed “unacceptable” more quickly.

“They are trying to cloak it in legalistic language and make it sound legitimate, but the reality is they’re stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar and functional to private sector employment,” Sean Timmons, managing partner at Tully Rinckey PLLC, told Federal News Network.

pelespirit

2025-10-30 20:51:24

DoD strips job protections from civilian employees, directs managers to fire with ‘speed and conviction’

The Defense Department is stripping away job protections from its civilian employees and directing managers to “act with speed and conviction” to fire employees performing “unsuccessfully.”

A new Sept. 30 memo titled “Separation of Employees with Unacceptable Performance,” which became public Tuesday, also warned that managers will be held accountable if they fail to remove poor performers.

Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata, who signed the memo, suspended the department’s requirement that managers attempt to rehabilitate underperforming employees — clearing the way for supervisors to fire workers whose performance is deemed “unacceptable” more quickly.

“They are trying to cloak it in legalistic language and make it sound legitimate, but the reality is they’re stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar and functional to private sector employment,” Sean Timmons, managing partner at Tully Rinckey PLLC, told Federal News Network.

DoD strips job protections from civilian employees, directs managers to fire with ‘speed and conviction’

"They're stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar to private sector employment," Sean Timmons said.

^{Anastasia Obis (Federal News Network)}

The Defense Department is stripping away job protections from its civilian employees and directing managers to “act with speed and conviction” to fire employees performing “unsuccessfully.”

A new Sept. 30 memo titled “Separation of Employees with Unacceptable Performance,” which became public Tuesday, also warned that managers will be held accountable if they fail to remove poor performers.

Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Anthony Tata, who signed the memo, suspended the department’s requirement that managers attempt to rehabilitate underperforming employees — clearing the way for supervisors to fire workers whose performance is deemed “unacceptable” more quickly.

“They are trying to cloak it in legalistic language and make it sound legitimate, but the reality is they’re stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar and functional to private sector employment,” Sean Timmons, managing partner at Tully Rinckey PLLC, told Federal News Network.

DoD strips job protections from civilian employees, directs managers to fire with ‘speed and conviction’

"They're stripping due process significantly and making it easier for arbitrary terminations, similar to private sector employment," Sean Timmons said.

^{Anastasia Obis (Federal News Network)}