Palestine | Hamas proposes long-term ceasefire if Israel fully withdraws from Gaza
Palestinian movement says ceasefire would hold for 10 years and its military wing would bury its weapons if Israel pulls its troops out and mediators guarantee compliance
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Hamas proposes long-term ceasefire if Israel fully withdraws from Gaza
Hamas has told mediators that it is prepared to freeze all offensive operations against Israel from Gaza for up to a decade, and it is prepared to bury its weapons, if Israeli forces fully withdraw from the enclave, a senior Palestinian official fami…David Hearst (Middle East Eye)
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Green targets not 'demolished' insist MEPs after deal slashing reporting rules
EU lawmakers have insisted that the bloc‘s green targets are not being “demolished” — after agreeing a that deal dramatically strips down the reporting requirements for two of the EU’s flagship sustainable business laws.
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Green targets not 'demolished' insist MEPs after deal slashing reporting rules
EU lawmakers have insisted that the bloc‘s green targets are not being “demolished” — after agreeing a that deal dramatically strips down the reporting requirements for two of the EU’s flagship sustainable business laws.Benjamin Fox (EUobserver)
Arduino Uno Q Review: The board with two brains
Two heads are better than one?
https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/arduino-uno-q-review
Keep calm despite Trump 'provocation', Kallas tells EU
Europe's top diplomat ducked a "word-fight" with the US, but president Donald Trump issued more anti-EU slurs on Tuesday.
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US | Tufts student can resume research after Trump officials revoked her visa, judge rules
Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested in March amid White House’s crackdown on foreign students’ pro-Palestinian advocacy
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew promises to respond to each text and call offering support following ICE arrest
Bruna Ferreira released from ICE custody as she continues to fight against her removal from the country
Citizenship Ceremonies Are Being Disrupted By Trump’s Latest Wave Of Bigoted Cruelty
The president, who drapes himself in the flag so inappropriately you’d think it would be filing HR complaints on a daily basis, is now preventing some the best potential US citizens from becoming US citizens.
Citizenship Ceremonies Are Being Disrupted By Trump’s Latest Wave Of Bigoted Cruelty
The president, who drapes himself in the flag so inappropriately you’d think it would be filing HR complaints on a daily basis, is now preventing some the best potential US citizens from beco…Techdirt
OpenAI, Anthropic and Block join new Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent era
Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI are backing the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation, donating MCP, Goose, and AGENTS.md to standardize AI agents, boost interoperability, and curb proprietary fragmentation.
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Translate the web your way, plus choose the Firefox icon that suits your vibe | The Mozilla Blog
Whenever you open Firefox, we want it to feel like it speaks your language and matches your style. This month, our mobile team is rolling out features inspired by community ideas, user requests and the small everyday moments that make browsing more delightful.
Translate the web your way, plus choose the Firefox icon that suits your vibe
Inspired by community feedback, user requests, and the small everyday moments that make browsing more delightful, we’re bringing those ideas to life with on-device translations for iOS, customizable icons for Android, and a new search option powered …Jenifer Boscacci (The Mozilla Blog)
Privacy‑centric doom scrolling apps for iOS and android
Spain arrests teen who stole 64 million personal data records
The National Police in Spain have arrested a suspected 19-year-old hacker in Barcelona, for allegedly stealing and attempting to sell 64 million records obtained from breaches at nine companies.
Introducing: Devstral 2 and Mistral Vibe CLI. | Mistral AI
Introducing: Devstral 2 and Mistral Vibe CLI.
State-of-the-art, open-source agentic coding models and CLI agent.Mistral AI (mistral.ai)
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We evaluated Devstral 2 against DeepSeek V3.2 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 using human evaluations conducted by an independent annotation provider, with tasks scaffolded through Cline. Devstral 2 shows a clear advantage over DeepSeek V3.2, with a 42.8% win rate versus 28.6% loss rate. However, Claude Sonnet 4.5 remains significantly preferred, indicating a gap with closed-source models persists.
Thank you for being honest about performance
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Australia’s world-first social media ban begins as millions of children and teens lose access to accounts
Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins
Accounts held by users under 16 must be removed on apps that include TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and Threads under banJosh Taylor (The Guardian)
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Australia’s world-first social media ban begins as millions of children and teens lose access to accounts
Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins
Accounts held by users under 16 must be removed on apps that include TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and Threads under banJosh Taylor (The Guardian)
Brewed up some tree beer
On Friday I brewed up some tree beer using Leyland Cypress boughs in the strike and sparge water as well as in the mash vessel. OG was ~1.050 and I split the boil to brew up a saison and a pale ale with galaxy and sultana (denali) hops. The saison is fermenting with a wild yeast culture I captured from my neighbor's raw honey and the pale ale has Framgarden kveik. They're both fermenting at 87°F/30.5°C
The Leyland Cypress gives the beer a pleasant evergreen/christmas tree flavor that's a bit citrusy and not too overwhelming. I've brewed with this tree a number of times and thoroughly researched it so I'm fully confident that it is not toxic. I don't measure the amount of tree I put in the beer, basically just put branches into the kettle until it's annoying to try to add another one.
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. These plants are similar looking, but different species completely.
Pine & Needles 75cl
We seek the edges of hop madness. Christmas trees, trucks of fruit and hops we throw into our brews. And it tastes great.Uiltje Brewing Company
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
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We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Create and upload your own with maximum privacy?
I cannot find information anywhere. Sorry, English is my second language.
I possess a DVD and want to upload this as a torrent so others can download it.
I burn the media to my Linux PC using a media ripper. I use Handbrake to convert the media and small the file size.
I can create a torrent. But how do I insure none of my computer's personal information and identifiers are saved on that file? I dont want me to be found out if someone opens the file and somehow can see I'm the one who created it.
In other hand, how do the pirates create and upload media into torrents while protecting themself from being found out?
Edit: Corrected to Linux PC
I think you worried about metadata mostly. Can maybe infer gpu/os/software from encode pattern, but probably not problem for you.
For image metadata usually called exif data, exiftool on linux work well for me. For video, ffmpeg has ffprobe tool to extract metadata using some option. Ffmpeg also have some option to clear metadata (but not all), complicated a bit to set up right.
If not available for windows, search for alternative. Or graphical wrapper if not like commandline.
First verify you have good method to see metadata, then try what method remove what.
If really paranoid, dump windows (has lot of spyware), use tool like gnu strings to see printable string in binary file might be metadata.
For torrent:
1. See if already exist by someone (public index search, dht search engine)
- Throw out handbrake, always upload original quality. Reencode fine if from raw source material, but no dvd/bluray has raw quality. Or if really want to offer small file, upload both.
- Create torrent with dht/pex enable to allow dht search engine and other peer to find.
- Use no-log vpn or i2p to seed.
More info probably in megathread or wiki.
Edit: 5. over vpn or i2p make account on public index and upload torrent as new post. Or share torrent with friend. Or on other forum.
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Family Demands Return of Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh’s Body
Gaza Herald – A growing campaign is pressing for the return of the body of Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, the renowned Gaza orthopedic surgeon who died under Israeli occupation custody after months of enforced disappearance. His family says the occupation has withheld his body since April 2024, mirroring a broader pattern of thousands of Palestinians who vanished during the ongoing genocide, many remaining outside any official record.
Al-Bursh, head of orthopedics at Al-Shifa and one of Gaza’s most prominent surgeons, was arrested from Al-Awda Hospital and held incommunicado until former detainees revealed he suffered brutal conditions before his death. His family is pushing a public campaign, moving from digital outreach to on-the-ground actions, urging rights groups to pressure the occupation to release his body for a dignified burial.
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Joint Force is free software, as it is released under the GNU Affero General Public License.
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Israel named 'worst enemy of journalists' by Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has described the Israeli army as “the worst enemy of journalists” in its annual report published on Thursday, with nearly half of all reporter killings worldwide recorded in Gaza.
The French-based organisation said that of the 67 media professionals killed over the past year, 43 percent were killed by Israel, making the Palestinian territories the most dangerous place in the world for journalists.
According to RSF, the Israeli army is the primary perpetrator of journalist deaths, ahead of cartels and organised crime groups (24 percent) and the Russian army (four percent).
Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100
Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100
The Pebble Index 01 isn’t quite a smart ring, but it can do some smart things.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat
TLDR:
Reification is when capitalism makes social relationships look like natural laws. It starts with Marx's commodity fetishism, where the value of a product seems like a property of the thing itself, hiding the labor behind it.
Lukács expanded this. He showed how this logic spreads to everything. Under reification, the system we built starts to rule us. We become objects to economic forces. Our lives get reduced to numbers like wages and prices. Capitalism starts to feel like the weather, an unchangeable fact of life instead of something people made.
This messes with our heads. It makes us passive. We see society as a bunch of disconnected facts we can't change, which stops us from seeing our own power as a class. Alienation is about feeling disconnected. Reification is about that disconnected world hardening into a fake reality that controls us.
The point is we forget we built this. Overcoming it means achieving class consciousness, seeing through the illusion that capitalism is permanent, and realizing we can change it.
Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat by Georg Lukacs
From Lukacs’ History and Class Consciousness, including his explanation of his concept of reification of social relationswww.marxists.org
iFixIt announce FixBot: Your AI Repair Helper
Prefacing with: Yes yes yes, we know, you hate AI. You are truly unique and that joke about removing all previous instructions is just as funny today as it was two years ago.
Moving on.
I... honestly thought this was a joke while watching the youtube video. That said, I think this is simultaneously an excellent use of the fuzzy search/human language capabilities of LLMs AND has absolutely no good use case? And I am very wary of the input training data.
For the first part? There is a lot of value in being able to communicate what is broken without actually being an expert. That is honestly a big personal use of chatgpt et al for me. List symptoms as I understand it and then get that translated into domain expert language so I can know what terms to search.
But... I question the audience for that. How many people who can only say "sound don't work" are going to be comfortable jamming spudgers into seams and working on technically live electronics because the battery is ten layers deep? The youtube video uses an example of not being able to find the oil filter after taking the plate off and.. I would very much suggest paying to get that replaced if you are in a situation like that since you can cause a LOT of long term issues with your car if you screw that up.
Which has always been the dirty secret of Right To Repair. The vast majority of what those activists are asking for... aren't for the end user. It is for the repair shops. End users are not going to be swapping out their mac heat sinks or whatever because that requires special tools and a lot of expertise. But repair shops have done that for decades. And, in theory, that will be cheaper for the end user. In practice... there are a lot of reasons to know how to change your own oil filter, if you catch my drift.
And this is VERY much targeted at that end user.
And the last part is the training data. I've used a LOT of the ifixit guides over the years. Some are good. Some are... better than nothing. There are a lot of cases where I would have loved to get more detail on an intermediate step. But... where is that detail coming from?
So... yeah.
Meet FixBot Your AI Repair Helper
Get hands-free guidance, visual analysis, and instant access to the world's repair knowledge.www.ifixit.com
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Digital House Arrest – How the EU Wants to Disempower Families
Digital House Arrest – How the EU Wants to Disempower Families
Of all people, it is center-right parties in Brussels that are supporting plans for the mass screening of private messages. The proposal cuts deep into civil liberties.Patrick Breyer
Marques Brownlee's 📱 awards
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Best big 📱 – Xiaomi 17 pro maxBest small 📱 – Galaxy z flip7
Best cam – Oppo find x9 pro
Most value – Cmf phone 2 pro
Best 🔋 life – Oneplus 15
Best design – iPhone air
Best foldable – Galaxy z fold7
Most improved – iPhone 17
2025 bust – iPhone 16e
📱 of 2025 – iPhone 17
In my area the Galaxy a56 was cheaper than the Cmf phone 2 pro at times. Online sale. For me the A56 gives the most value. The A56 olive has been prettyyyyyy.
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There's no rules across instances, votes are whatever you want them to be. Either yes this is good/right/ilikeit/peopleshouldseeit or no it's wrong/spam/misinformation/wrongcomm/idontlikeit/idontlikeyou/ithurtmyfeelings.
Down votes could easily be for the source, Marques has done some questionable stuff, or the format since it's just a summary, or the community someone doesn't feel like it belongs in this community.
Some dislike Marques.
My most negative stuff re him has been his seemingly overpriced Atoms. $ 189.
But his 📱 awards are still 👍.
He picked the iPhone 17 as his 📱 of 2025. Some will disagree.
He picked the iPhone air as his Best design. Some will disagree.
EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results
EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results
It is examining whether the tech giant did not offer "appropriate compensation" to web publishers.Liv McMahon (BBC News)
Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
On a recent immigration raid, a Border Patrol agent wore a pair of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, with the privacy light clearly on signaling he was recording the encounter, which agents are not permitted to do, according to photos and videos of the incident shared with 404 Media.Previously when 404 Media covered Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officials’ use of Meta’s Ray-Bans, it wasn’t clear if the officials were using them to record raids because the recording lights were not on in any of the photos seen by 404 Media. In the new material from Charlotte, North Carolina, during the recent wave of immigration enforcement, the recording light is visibly illuminated.
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Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
On a recent immigration raid, a Border Patrol agent wore a pair of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, with the privacy light clearly on signaling he was recording the encounter, which agents are not permitted to do, according to photos and videos of the incident shared with 404 Media.Previously when 404 Media covered Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials’ use of Meta’s Ray-Bans, it wasn’t clear if the officials were using them to record raids because the recording lights were not on in any of the photos seen by 404 Media. In the new material from Charlotte, North Carolina, during the recent wave of immigration enforcement, the recording light is visibly illuminated.
That is significant because CBP says it does not allow employees to use personal recording devices. CBP told 404 Media it does not have an arrangement with Meta, indicating this official was wearing personally-sourced glasses.
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New videos and photos shared with 404 Media show a Border Patrol agent wearing Meta Ray-Bans glasses with the recording light clearly on. This is despite a DHS ban on officers recording with personal devices.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
I hate to ask... But would that even feel good for the sponge? Would that even feel like anything? From what we can see, there's nothing in there. The starfish's fingers aren't stimulating anything; they're just waggling in the air inside the sponge.
Beyond simply the stretching of the hole, I can't see the sponge really getting anything out of this act. And the most I can see it doing for the starfish is providing a convenient carry handle with which he can bring his friend with him wherever he goes - which is neat but the sponge also walks so it feels unnecessary.
Unless either or both parties involved get off on the more cerebral aspects here?
I am not an expert on digital stimulation of sponges, though, so I am totally open to being wrong here!
Interesting, you might be right. If that's the case, though - and I don't have any sort of formal education in fingering so this is a layman's perspective - it looks like the starfish is misplacing his fingers.
Surely the starfish would find it more effective to use the more nimble and dexterous tips of its fingers to touch those sensitive nerves around the rim, rather than the middle of its digits which are much harder to apply directed pressure with? It's also harder to control how much pressure one applies through the middle of the digit as opposed to the fingertip, although I recognise my frame of reference is human fingers and not starfish fingers.
How do you check if food is healthy?
Hey everyone 👋
I’m working solo on a small side project called BiteWise — it helps people understand what’s really in the food they eat 🍎
You can check it out here: bitewiser.carrd.co/
I’d love your feedback! Here’s a quick 2-minute questionnaire if you want to help shape it:
👉 tally.so/r/dWqa6z
Not selling anything yet — just testing if this solves a real problem 🙏
Do Renewables Really Raise Electricity Prices? What The Data Shows
Do Renewables Really Raise Electricity Prices? What The Data Shows | ACE
Residential electricity prices have increased 6.2 percent over the past year, prompting a debate about the role of renewable energy adoption in driving upBrissa Acevedo (ACE)
U.S. Senator Wants $300 Billion Military ‘Make Up’ Payment From Canada
U.S. Senator Wants $300 Billion Military ‘Make Up’ Payment From Canada
Thom Tillis also suggested that Canadians should not criticize the lack of a universal public healthcare system in the U.S.Alex Cosh (The Maple)
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