"Israel" is using AI to erase evidence of its crimes
"Israel" is using AI to erase evidence of its crimes, posted on soldiers' social media
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Suspect in Washington DC national guard shooting had ties to CIA, agency confirms
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, worked with agency-backed military units during US war in Afghanistan
The suspected shooter of two national guard members in Washington DC on Wednesday worked with CIA-backed military units during the US war in Afghanistan, the agency has confirmed.
The alleged gunman, identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, came to the US in September 2021 under an Operation Allies Welcome program that gave some Afghans who had worked for the US government entry visas to the US.
Lakanwal’s ties to the Central Intelligence Agency, which worked alongside US special forces in Afghanistan, were confirmed by the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, to media outlets on Wednesday evening.
HPC won't be x86 forever – and it's starting to show
Remember when high-performance computing always seemed to be about x86? Exactly a decade ago, almost nine in ten supercomputers in the TOP500 (a list of the beefiest machines maintained twice yearly by academics) were Intel-based. Today, it's down to 57 percent.Intel might once have ruled the HPC roost but its influence is waning. Today, other processors are making significant inroads.
Supercomputing development has evolved in waves since Cray pioneered vector processors (which were excellent at conducting single operations across large data sets) in the mid-1970s.
Later came reduced instruction set chip (RISC) architectures with chips like the 64-bit DEC Alpha, IBM POWER, Sun/Fujitsu SPARC, SGI MIPS, and HP PA-RISC. Each offered distinct performance characteristics. Their simpler instruction sets made for fast instruction decoding and pipelining, and also served more general-purpose use cases than vector-based systems.
HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show
Feature: Arm and RISC-V would like a wordDanny Bradbury (The Register)
Gaming App + 2 Business Ideas + 1 Network Diagnostic's Tool.
("GullyCricket" here means roadside cricket in Indian Language-"Hindi").
About the gaming app: -
This is a standalone gaming application and is based on a cricket game of 3 player teams, and 1 over match for each innings. This is a two innings match. The User login details are required to validate the user. Please note the Login Username and Login Password are required to access the app. Next, you need to choose either Team A or Team B. For both the bowling team and batting team players are selected randomly from a list of three players from each team. The runs scored by Team A is based on a random number function which chooses the runs scored by Team A for each ball faced. The runs scored by Team B is also based on a random number function which chooses the runs scored by Team B for each ball faced. The 2 Innings match ends with either a win from Team A or Team B (based on the higher runs scored by the two Teams) or the match is a Tie. The results of the game app are displayed in a playing history file.
Please let me know if you are interested in this offer.
I am attaching some documents (GullyCricketApp_New(Final).rar) to help you understand the uniqueness and usefulness of this app.
The Help File "GullyCricketApp_HelpFile.docx" will help you understand how the game works.
Thanks & Happy playing!
An added bonus (+1) with this App: -
A story line file ("Story line 1+(CricketApp).docx") which has a story which can be used to make an animation video using 3D Studio Max.
A story line file ("Story line 2+(CricketApp).docx") which has a story which can be used to make an animation video using 3D Studio Max.
These story Line ideas are actually "Business Ideas" which can be used to create "Animation Movies" using 3DStudio Max or any other Tool.
A new tool recently uploaded named "Network Diagnostic's Tool" which can be used to check the Network Status whether you can connect to your ISP from your client PC/Laptop to access the Internet. The Tool attached is named as "NetworkDiagnosticTool.bat". The Tool is scripted using Windows Batch Programming. The Tool is supported with a Power Point Slide Show named, "NetworkDiagnosticToolHelpFile.ppsx".
How to execute the batch file: "NetworkDiagnosticTool.bat"==>
==>Open cmd (command) prompt from Windows PC/Laptop ==>
==>Type any drive letter (H:) from cmd prompt say (H: or D: or E: except C:) i.e. H-drive or D-drive or E-drive. ==>
==>Create a New Folder named "NetworkDiagnostic'sTool" at H:\ (H-drive, for example). ==>
==>Copy and paste the file "NetworkDiagnosticTool.bat" inside the folder "NetworkDiagnostic'sTool".
==>Type cd NetworkDiagnostic'sTool at cmd(command) prompt.
==>Type "NetworkDiagnosticTool" at the cmd(command) prompt and the Tool starts executing.
These story Line ideas, and the New Tool are an added bonus to this App.
Hope you enjoy.
You can also reach me out here: ==> satyabratasarkar34@gmail.com
Find the Gaming App + 2 Business Ideas + 1 Network Diagnostic's Tool
here: ==> sbsarkar.itch.io/gullycricketa…
Thanks & Happy reading.
SBSARKAR.
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Trump’s FBI Spent Nearly $1 Million on Redacting Epstein Files
Trump’s FBI Spent Nearly $1 Million on Redacting Epstein Files
A new report reveals the FBI’s frantic “special redaction project” when they thought the Epstein files would be released.The New Republic
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If they weren't on X and were reading reality-based information, they would already know the entire world hates Trump's politics, and I certainly don't blame anyone for hating the entire US in general. Too many people here will gladly hate an entire country even when they had no say in choosing their leaders, so it's only fitting to see that attitude thrown back at us.
On the other hand, the exposure that all these Trump-supporting "influencers" are foreign bot accounts is hilarious, and I love that MAGA is finally being shown exactly who they've been listening to.
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Australia projected to miss 2035 emissions reduction target ‘by a country mile’ unless it ramps up climate policies | Climate change minister Chris Bowen acknowledges ‘additional work’ needed
Australia projected to miss 2035 emissions reduction target ‘by a country mile’ unless it ramps up climate policies
Climate change minister Chris Bowen acknowledges ‘additional work’ needed to meet 2035 goalAdam Morton (The Guardian)
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Requiem for Early Blogging
Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary will probably be that I was the founding editor of Gawker.com, the flagship site of Gawker Media, a sprawling blog network that was put out of business by Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan in 2016. Nick Denton and I started Gawker in 2002 and I left in late 2003 to go to New York Magazine, so I missed some of Gawker’s greatest hits and biggest misses, but the early ‘00s were what I now think of as the heyday of blogging. (Talking Points Memo was started in 2000.)Since then, popular blogs have been commercialized; added comment sections and video; migrated to social media platforms; and been subsumed by large media companies. The growth of social media in particular has wiped out a particular kind of blogging that I sometimes miss: a text-based dialogue between bloggers that required more thought and care than dashing off 180 or 240 characters and calling it a day. In order to participate in the dialogue, you had to invest some effort in what media professionals now call “building an audience” and you couldn’t do that simply by shitposting or responding in facile ways to real arguments.
Requiem for Early Blogging
As part of Talking Points Memo's 25th anniversary, I wrote an essay on early blogging, and what I miss about it.Elizabeth Spiers
A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving
Black Friday seems to get longer with every passing year, but even when a day becomes a week (or several) it still signals the holiday shopping season is in full gear with Christmas looming a month in the distance. As the trees go up, decorations adorn every facet of our communities, and Christmas music begins to feel inescapable, many people are wondering what to buy for their friends and loved ones — and it’s not uncommon for some those gifts to end up being some hyped-up tech product.There’s nothing inherently wrong with gifting those you care about a piece of technology, but far too often people aren’t thinking about the broader consequences that come with those gifts — and are then foisted onto people who may be completely oblivious to what they’re signing up for. As givers of gifts, we need to consider what else we’re giving with popular tech products that frequently get passed on this time of year.
As we head into the holiday season, I decided it would be a good time for a guide to help you consider what tech not to give to those you care about. Trying to make people’s lives a bit more convenient and stress-free is great, but sometimes that also means saddling them with more surveillance and potentially even worse as a result. Feel free to share the guide around so others are considering what they’re really giving when they gift certain tech products.
A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving
Maybe your grandma doesn’t need that Alexa smart speakerParis Marx (Disconnect)
When DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts containing topics the CCP considers politically sensitive, the likelihood of it producing code with severe security vulnerabilities increases by up to 50%.
CrowdStrike Researchers Identify Hidden Vulnerabilities in AI-Coded Software
CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations identifies innocuous trigger words that lead DeepSeek to produce more vulnerable code.Stefan Stein (CrowdStrike)
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Make Amazon Pay
An unholy alliance between Big Tech and the far right is taking shape.Together, they fuse the ruthless pursuit of profit with systems of control and violence. It is an assault on democracy and freedom — in the workplace and beyond.
Amazon sits at the heart of this machine.
Make Amazon Pay
We are workers, activists and citizens from across the globe. From Black Friday to Cyber Monday (28 November to 1 December) we rise up united to Make Amazon Pay.makeamazonpay.com
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While Amazon is awful it isn't just them. It is a systematic issue with our economic system. Our society constantly makes efforts to keep the poor poor so that they are forced to work for low pay resulting in a cycle of abuse. Basically every public company will end up in the same situation and we see that with every large company. If a large public company isn't shit the CEO will be fired by the shareholders and replaced with one who makes the company shit.
So yes, avoid Amazon, but also talk to your government representatives. The cycle will always continue until the incentives are changed. To properly exit this shit system we need to change our society and government.
Do you know a better way to make make billionaires pay and think twice before taking their customers for granted? If so, please share...
This is the first time I have found anything other than the grassroots backlash against Disney for punishing Kimmel's speach that I can do today to vote against the billionaire class for capitulating to corrupt politicians. Giving my $20 a month to politicians that don't except corporate donations is not enough.
Make Amazon Pay
Make Amazon Pay
We are workers, activists and citizens from across the globe. From Black Friday to Cyber Monday (28 November to 1 December) we rise up united to Make Amazon Pay.makeamazonpay.com
Scammers using AI to impersonate real lawyers on Fiverr
Scammers using AI to impersonate real lawyers on Fiverr
TBIJ finds dozens of Fiverr profiles advertising cheap legal advice with stolen credentialsEffie Webb (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism)
OpenAI discloses API customer data breach via Mixpanel vendor hack
OpenAI is notifying some ChatGPT API customers that limited identifying information was exposed following a breach at its third-party analytics provider Mixpanel.
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Why the world must wake up to China’s science leadership
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/53861608
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The main challenge for governments will be how to create frameworks and deals to gain equitable access to Chinese technology. Chinese negotiators drive a hard bargain. European and US policymakers will need to have a clear idea of what they want and how they want to get it.
Why the world must wake up to China’s science leadership
The nation’s next generation of scientists and technologists will shape the coming decades.Brown, Kerry
European and US policymakers will need to have a clear idea of what they want and how they want to get it.
Good luck. They are still in denial mode imagining that China is still agrarian country.
Die My Love – Recensione: Un viaggio nella frattura emotiva con Jennifer Lawrence
Dopo il passaggio alla Festa del Cinema di Roma, Die My Love arriva finalmente in sala, distribuito da MUBI, portando con sé un’energia inquieta, lucida e dolorosa. Lynne Ramsay costruisce un film che non osserva la fragilità dall’esterno: la abita, la sente, la amplifica in ogni dettaglio visivo e sonoro.
Il risultato è un’esperienza intensa, fisica, che mette al centro una donna che non riesce più a riconoscere sé stessa nel mondo che la circonda.
Al centro di questo vortice c’è Jennifer Lawrence, qui in una delle prove più potenti, coraggiose e complete della sua carriera. È un’interpretazione che scava, respira, graffia. E che, con ogni probabilità, verrà ricordata tra le candidate principali della stagione dei premi.
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Die My Love – Recensione: Jennifer Lawrence straordinaria nel nuovo film di Lynne Ramsay
La nostra recensione di Die My Love: un viaggio emotivo intenso guidato da una Jennifer Lawrence magistrale, ora al cinema.Alessandro (Atom Heart Magazine)
Suspect in National Guard shooting served alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan, relative says
The suspect came to the U.S. in September 2021, a relative told NBC News. He has been identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, according to four senior law enforcement sources.
The suspect in the Washington, D.C., shooting that critically wounded two National Guard members was an Afghan national who served alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan, officials and a relative say.
The suspect, identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, according to four senior law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation, opened fire at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday a short distance from the White House, striking two National Guard members who were on patrol.
The suspect was also shot in the incident and is hospitalized, authorities said.
What we know about the Washington, D.C., shooting of two National Guard members
Two National Guard members were shot in broad daylight in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday afternoon, just one day before Thanksgiving, in what officials described as a "targeted" attackMarlene Lenthang (NBC News)
Is there any search engine which is able to recognise and not index any website that uses ads?
The shitty/distracting web run on ads, so why not making a search engine which index based on that? You would have an experience similar to what was the internet originally: no corporate shit, no infinite scroll, just independent websites made to share real informations and real knowledge, and would still leave space for subscriptions or donations! And you could still use JS and avoid just using a text browser, making the occasional order from a website or navigating the fediverse!
Not an ADblock, the issue isn't ads, the issue is how the web is TAILORED towards ads, and how that makes shitty web.
Is there any tool which does that? The goal would be blocking/avoid indexing all websites connected somehow to ads, is this even something possible? I know it would block 90% of the web, but if that 10% is freedom, I want that freedom!
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Ads aren't only about the blatant banners on the side. There is also SEO blogspam, aggressive affiliate links and marketing, commercial websites trying desperately to sell you their services, and recently, AI-slop.
The only reliable way to filter all of this would be to use an intelligent LLM (ideally run locally) with your criteria in the prompt, filtering out websites and trying to find the "small and/or clean guys." If you can't beat AI, join them!
Otherwise, I like to use alternative search engines like Yandex, Qwant, Mojeek, Marginalia, and Wiby. If you're willing to pay a bit: Kagi is really cool, check it out. I really like old-school webrings too: they are places where you can find a list of websites curated by other people.
But friend, you gotta learn to research smarter. Learn to use search operators, read about blogs that share search tricks such as this one: searchresearch1.blogspot.com
SearchReSearch
A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging.searchresearch1.blogspot.com
The AI thing is very cool, I think something like that exists, agentic browsers.
But I am scared this would be just the next abstraction, of this chains of abstractions..
Corporations are already using AI to profile you even further, the internet will definitely adapt under this pressure, and I believe that in a few years agentic browsers will just become the new norm.
Search engine at first were more objective, now people have learnt to play the game of SEO to attract views, search engines have started to show targeted results, and stuff like Searx came out, or Yaci, claiming to get back a more objective web.
There always have been ways to filter out or to try being more objective, but I think the evidence have shown that as a social momentum, this stuff doesn't work.
Yeah Yaci (self hosted crawler) is a great project, but it's stagnant, and the prevalence is still a shitty google or bing searche engine, and this is true for other aspects of the web.
Social media? There were more independent social medias while centralized stuff was rampant, now there's the fediverse and decentralization. Which is super super beautiful, but most people are just unaware. The social momentum is not saying that we are going towards a world where every little server will be connected to other little servers and decide in which parts integrate one another, that would be great, and I'd love to see that, but it's simply not where we are currently going as a society.
Now it's the turn of AI, it can be a helpful tool for a while to avoid it all, stuff like agentic browsers can give us some freedom for a while when they will be actually usable and reliable, but in that time the web will have evolved again and pheraps we'll need to take into account new ways to defend ourselves or to look through the bushes.
It's a never ending hide and seek unless something really big changes. Linux, free software, open source is all great, but we are continuously pushed towarbalance mainstream in some way or another. And most people live the mainstream, not in the alternative, despite the alternative being objectively better. It is just unsupported by our culture.
It's an abstraction built on another abstraction built on another abstraction.. And the web is just the most clear example of that, I mean the very languages in which the web is built are an example itself: JS (which already is high level)>React>Next. You see? Abstraction on abstraction.
But when will we stop to play games and just stay in the present? Focusing on the core of things?
Do we strive to get to a sort of technological ecstatic point in which all will actually be clear? A sort of technological philosopher stone? And the way to do that is through collection of loads and loads of human data?
My perspective on this is quite pessimistic, because it's a form of cruel optimism to say that one can solve this problem individually. To change this would require a coordination of consumers, programmers and people revolving around all things of the internet to fix it, unless we assume that AI is somehow sentient and can be better at solving our problems than we do, which I do not exclude: faster and better at looking and processing novelty than we are.
But that will mean that us, as humans, will just be obsolete.
I always come to the conclusion that the web maybe it's not worth getting used as it is right now, and maybe to feel good we should stop trying to relate to machines and instead just living our own biological needs.. Focusing on beings which we can understand better..
Living in the present.. And stop running, whether it means running away, or towards. Rejecting culture and just staying in our own spaces, cultivating simplicity and balance.
Sorry for the philosophycal rant lmao, I guess this was just more than a technical problem for me lmao, but thanks for your answer!
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Genova-Milano, dal 14 dicembre molti più treni: l’ultimo alle 22
Intesa tra le regioni Piemonte, Liguria e Lombardia: 14 treni aggiuntivi con fermate in cinque stazioni del nodo milanese: Centrale, Lambrate, Rogoredo, Forlan…a cura della redazione Genova (la Repubblica)
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Introducing the INDX! Fast and affordable 8-material printing exclusively on the CORE One - Original Prusa 3D Printers
Introducing the INDX! Fast and affordable 8-material printing exclusively on the CORE One - Original Prusa 3D Printers
I teased it a few weeks ago, and now, I’m incredibly excited to finally put the Bondtech INDX system in the proper spotlight it deserves! INDX is a revolutionary way of looking at toolchanger systems. It’s not an evolution of a filament-switching...Josef Průša (Original Prusa3D Printers)
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HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use
HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use
Product development, internal operations among teams expected to be hit hardest.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
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A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team
A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team
We lost the capitalism game and they're trying to get a second wind through a broken vibe-coded SaaS platform.Cendyne (cendyne.dev)
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Senior garda warns of 'alarming' scale of child grooming in games
Senior garda warns of 'alarming' scale of child grooming in games
Amid growing concerns over child safety on Roblox, one of the most popular gaming platforms among primary school pupils, Prime Time set up test accounts and spent roughly 12 hours playing on the platform.Kate McDonald (RTÉ)
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A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team
I considered it a possibility. Now it's set in stone. Instead of fully shutting down in the coming year due to tumbling revenue, leadership decided "What if we use someone else's platform?" It just so happens, the platform they chose is vibe coded.
A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team
We lost the capitalism game and they're trying to get a second wind through a broken vibe-coded SaaS platform.Cendyne (cendyne.dev)
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Why have so many people stopped posting on social media?
Time spent on social media platforms peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline, especially among teens and twentysomethings
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Implementing postingRestrictedToMods
Hey pfefferle@mastodon.social nutomic@lemmy.ml, I'm looking to integrate support for postingRestrictedToMods
I see some discussion here:
It's a little specific, but even so, I'm happy to add it, since it solves some issues with cross-community content creation permission.
Is there a JSON-LD context I can add, since I am assuming that postingRestrictedToMods is not standard?
Support "postingRestrictedToMods" for Groups
Is the feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I am the developer of the WordPress ActivityPub plugin and had some discussions with the Friendi.ca community that WordPresses use of G...pfefferle (GitHub)
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