A typical data centre now requires significant, concentrated power—sometimes equivalent to the needs of tens of thousands of homes. As the sector expands, these large, site-specific demands can add pressure to local parts of the grid and create challenges for connecting new developments. These pressures make it harder and more costly to bring forward new homes, with implications for London’s wider economic growth and its ability to meet housing targets.

https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/london-assembly-press-releases/data-centres-delay-housing-delivery

https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/london-assembly-press-releases/data-centres-delay-housing-delivery

Ankara's energy minister says both onshore and offshore drilling for hydrocarbon resources will begin following the results of seismic studies

Archived version: archive.is/newest/middleeastey…

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.

Turkey to drill for oil off Somalia coast by 2026

Turkey hopes to begin drilling for hydrocarbon energy resources off the coast of Somalia in 2026, following the results of a seismic study in the area, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar told journalists on Wednesday.

^{Ragip Soylu (Middle East Eye)}

Is there any reason NOT to switch to ProtonVPN from Mullvad?

Use cases: privacy, torrenting without getting a DMCA letter.

OSs: Linux, Mac.

I know there was a reason I didn't pick up Proton years ago when PIA got bought by Kape but I don't remember what it was. I'd read something on /r/VPNTorrents but that place has since been banned so I can't refer to it again.

They are not on Anna's Archive or on MaM. They are available for digital purchase from SpringerPub or Amazon.

Is there a different tracker for textbooks and reference materials?

How likely is it that a request will be fulfilled. Would someone need to buy the book themself and upload it?

As if usual content for children isn't bad enough.

YouTubers Are Making AI Slop for Babies

^{AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)}

Republicans are already spinning the report as a "nothing burger."

Report: Pete Gets a Pass for Signalgate

^{Matt Novak (Gizmodo)}

Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup, has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S. defense department.

Company backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s firm nabs $620M government contract | TechCrunch

^{Dominic-Madori Davis (TechCrunch)}

Found from Bruce Shneier's blog. This model is free, ad-free, privacy respecting, and likely to stay that way. If you or folks you know are heavily using GPT, and likely to be hurt when it starts introducing ads (and otherwise enshittifying) soon, do make sure they know there are alternatives like this.

This particular chat model uses a system prompt chosen by the swiss government, with the intention of providing LLM access as a public utility (like a library). I believe models are intentionally trained on ethical datasets (see the details of Aptertus here), with an effort towards sustainable energy use.

Apertus | Swiss AI

^{Swiss AI}

Is everyone leaving Apple now?

The Guy Behind Liquid Glass Is Leaving Apple for Meta

^{Raymond Wong (Gizmodo)}

Overcrowded orbits are making astronomers’ jobs harder.

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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.

Satellites keep photobombing the Hubble telescope, and it’s getting worse

Astronomers are going to increasingly struggle to take images in space without satellites interfering, researchers warn.

^{Justine Calma (The Verge)}

Yet, there is another bill in the works.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-lobbies-white-house-and-wins-loosened-ai-gpu-export-control-to-china-u-s-lawmakers-reportedly-reject-gain-ai-act

Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.

Archived version: archive.is/20251204012546/gizm…

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Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

^{Ece Yildirim (Gizmodo)}

Open source React executes malicious code with malformed HTML—no authentication needed.

Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln

^{Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)}

Minecraft's convoluted version numbering system is getting a shakeup soon, with Mojang introducing a year-based naming scheme for easier use.

https://www.neowin.net/news/mojang-is-simplifying-the-minecraft-version-numbering-system-on-bedrock-java-and-snapshots/

Lethal strike on alleged drug boat in Caribbean is shrouded in an above-top secret world

Why Hegseth's Alleged War Crime Will Never Be Revealed

^{Ken Klippenstein}

A new database exploring GTA institutions associated with Canadians who served in Israel’s military

GTA To IDF: How Toronto Produces Israeli Soldiers

^{Davide Mastracci (The Maple)}

Financial software provider Marquis Software Solutions is warning that it suffered a data breach that impacted dozens of banks and credit unions across the US.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/marquis-data-breach-impacts-over-74-us-banks-credit-unions/

French home improvement and gardening retailer Leroy Merlin is notifying customers that their personal info has been compromised in a data breach.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/french-diy-retail-giant-leroy-merlin-discloses-a-data-breach/

Freedom Mobile, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in Canada, has disclosed a data breach after attackers hacked into its customer account management platform and stole the personal information of an undisclosed number of customers.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/freedom-mobile-discloses-data-breach-exposing-customer-data/

Roskomnadzor, Russia's telecommunications watchdog, has blocked access to the Roblox online gaming platform for failing to stop the distribution of what it described as LGBT propaganda and extremist materials.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russia-blocks-roblox-over-distribution-of-lgbt-propaganda/

The University of Phoenix (UoPX) has joined a growing list of U.S. universities breached in a Clop data theft campaign targeting vulnerable Oracle E-Business Suite instances in August 2025.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/university-of-phoenix-discloses-data-breach-after-oracle-hack/

With the Last of the Druids Content Update launching next Friday, you may be wondering what will happen to the current Rise of the Abyssal leagues and your existing characters.

Your fight with the Abyssals is not over yet, as the mechanic will be added to Path of Exile 2's core in The Last of the Druids Content Update. We'll tell you all the details during the livestream on December 4th PST at 11AM.

The Rise of the Abyssals league will end on December 8th at 1PM PST. All your characters and their items will be migrated to the Standard or Hardcore Early Access league. There will not be any wipes, so once migration is complete, you can play your characters in the Standard/Hardcore Early Access league.

When The Last of the Druids releases on December 12th PST, you will be able to start playing in a new League with a fresh economy.

Thanks to everyone for playing in the Rise of the Abyssal! We can't wait to see you experiencing the upcoming Fate of the Vaal league. See you all on the livestream soon!

Female lawmakers in the House GOP conference have had some high-profile splits with leadership in recent weeks. Some are heading for the exits.

This week alone, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., launched a discharge petition to go around Johnson and force a floor vote on a congressional stock trading ban, posting on X that she’s “pissed” that leadership isn’t moving fast enough on the issue while clarifying, “I like Mike.” Johnson prefers to go through regular order, and there has been an initial hearing on the issue.

Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the chair of House Republican Leadership, not only signed on to Luna’s petition but also publicly unloaded on Johnson over an unrelated issue in the national defense bill, suggesting in a series of social media posts that Johnson lied about the matter. The spat has seemingly since been resolved, but the bad blood between the two has long been simmering.

Some House Republican women are in open revolt against Speaker Mike Johnson

Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down a revolt from House Republican women. Meanwhile, several are exiting the House, weighing retirement or quitting Congress early.

^{Melanie Zanona (NBC News)}

For context:

• Two big threadiverse implementors (and probably mbin) currently federate Announce(Delete(Object)) for deletion of content — all synchronized communities follow suit and delete the content as well.
• If that object is the root-level node, and it is deleted, everything below it is also deleted.
• Lemmy and Piefed are investigating the possibility of changing this behaviour so that the action deletes the object itself only, and the reply tree stays.

We're in the middle of discussing how best to communicate this. With Delete(Object) behaviour shifting to deleting the single object only, there are two options to delete the entire tree/thread:

1. Delete(Object) with a new property with_replies or similar
2. Remove(Context), where Context is a new url that refers to the entire tree

Thoughts? We're discussing this tomorrow at ForumWG but it'd be nice to get some eyes on it beforehand.

cc rimu@piefed.social nutomic@lemmy.ml melroy@kbin.melroy.org bentigorlich@gehirneimer.de

A group of renegade House Republicans and Democrats deployed the same procedural trick used to force a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files to wrangle a vote on a measure to ban members of Congress from trading stocks.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) filed her discharge petition to force the vote on her legislation, a proposal that has been supported by an unexpected coterie of members ranging from progressives like liberal darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to archconservatives like Rep. Burchett (R-Tenn.).

Under the rules of the House of Representatives, a member can file a discharge petition on legislation to force a vote on their legislation as a way to get around Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and hold a vote. Once the petition receives enough signatures, they are locked in.

Afterward, seven legislative days must pass. Then Johnson must designate a time and place for the vote.

House Republicans join with AOC and use Epstein files playbook to force a vote on stock trading ban: ‘Hell’s frozen over’

‘I think America wants us to pass this,’ Tennessee Republican Tim Burchett tells The Independent

^{Eric Garcia (The Independent)}

The bombshell report by The New York Post alleged that sources within the FBI had called Patel “in over his head” and his deputy, Dan Bongino, “something of a clown.”

FBI Director Kash Patel completely tore into a bombshell report cited in an op-ed published by the New York Post earlier this week, detailing various issues at the bureau under his leadership, calling him “in over his head” and his deputy, Dan Bongino, “something of a clown.”

The 115-page report compiled by multiple anonymous internal sources described the FBI under Patel as a “rudderless ship” and “all f–ked up,” slamming his professionalism, claiming he is “spending too much time on social media and public relations.”

Patel slammed the overall report on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” Tuesday, saying, “These anonymous sources were individuals from the Comey-Wray era that weaponized the Department of Justice and cratered the public trust in the FBI to something that was at levels that has never been seen.”

Kash Patel Hits Back At Humiliating Report That He Demanded An FBI Raid Jacket

^{Pocharapon Neammanee (HuffPost)}

The extrajudicial murders carried out by the Trump administration in the Caribbean build on a dangerous power grab forged by Dick Cheney and expanded under Barack Obama.

Cheney and Obama Enabled Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings

^jacobin.com

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/56559025

Japan's patent office has rejected a Nintendo application related to its Palworld lawsuit, citing a lack of originality. The decision raises questions about the validity of several Nintendo patents describing creature capture systems that are central to the company's complaint against Palworld.

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In late October 2025, the Japan Patent Office rejected Nintendo's patent application no. 2024-031879, which is related to the family of creature-capture patents that Palworld is accused of infringing. A JPO patent examiner found that the application lacks originality to be deemed an invention, citing prior art such as Monster Hunter 4, ARK: Survival Evolved, gacha browser game Kantai Collection, Pocketpair's own Craftopia, and even Pokemon GO. All of those were released prior to the December 2021 priority date from the rejected application.

Nintendo has 60 days from the date of its rejection notice to amend its application or appeal the decision, giving it until late December 2025 to do so. Since the application isn't cited in the Palworld patent lawsuit directly, its rejection won't have a direct impact on the ongoing case. However, as explained by Games Fray's analyst Florian Mueller, the newly rejected application is a "key building block" in Nintendo's strategy to capture a wide range of creature-capture system implementations. It is the child of patent JP7493117 and the parent of JP7545191, both of which are cited in Nintendo's complaint.

tl:dr;

The Nintendo v PalWorld lawsuit is still on going, but Nintendo has been told it's attempt to patent the concept of a capturable and summonable creature is invalid, in Japan.

As part of their ongoing lawsuit, Nintendo is claiming PalWorld has violated those... now invalid patents, so Nintendo's overall case against PalWorld is now significantly more weak.

Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit

Amid the Palworld lawsuit, Japan's Patent Office strikes down a related creature-capture patent for Nintendo, dealing a potential blow to the case.

^{Dominik Bošnjak (Game Rant)}

Images and videos taken in 2020, a year after he died in jail, show the late sex offender’s home

House Democrats released photos and videos from Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean island on Wednesday, offering a rare glimpse into a secretive place where Epstein is alleged to have trafficked young girls.

The new images and videos show Epstein’s home, including bedrooms, a telephone, what appears to be an office or library, and a chalkboard on which the words “fin”, “intellectual”, “deception” and “power” are written. Several photos show a room with a dentist chair and masks hanging on the wall. The New York Times reported that Epstein’s last girlfriend was a dentist who shared an office with one of his shell companies. The videos appear to be a walk-through of the property.

House Democrats release new images of Epstein’s private Caribbean island

^{Sam Levine (The Guardian)}

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-lobbies-white-house-and-wins-loosened-ai-gpu-export-control-to-china-u-s-lawmakers-reportedly-reject-gain-ai-act