Leaked — US-led Gaza scheme to confine Palestinians in a ‘planned community’, complete with biometric tracking and political 're-education'

Archived version: archive.is/newest/thecanary.co…

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Gaza: US plan would herd Palestinians into ‘re-education’ zone

^{Joe Glenton (The Canary)}

A Republican-led House committee voted on Wednesday to advance contempt of Congress resolutions against former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, escalating a high-profile investigation into the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and setting the stage for potential votes by the full House next month.

House panel advances contempt charges against Clintons over Epstein probe

A Republican-led House committee voted on Wednesday to advance contempt of Congress resolutions against former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, escalating a high-profile investigation into the late financier Jeffr…

^{FRANCE 24}

Researchers say event described as ‘major tipping point’ for clean energy in era of destabilised politics

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Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels for EU power generation in 2025, report finds

^{Ajit Niranjan (The Guardian)}

Ruling presents Democrats with opportunity to pick up another US House seat in November elections

New York must redraw congressional map before midterms, judge rules

^{Sam Levine (The Guardian)}

Beijing treats its 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown as taboo and allows no public remembrance.

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Hong Kong begins national security trial of Tiananmen vigil group

Beijing treats its 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown as taboo and allows no public remembrance. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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TSSA transport union leader moves to de-recognise GMB for doing its job — representing staff.

Transport union boss de-recognises GMB for representing workers

TSSA transport union leader moves to de-recognise GMB for doing its job — representing staff. The absurdly anti-union transport union

^{Skwawkbox (The Canary)}

Just wanted to share a lesson I learned the hard way, in case it helps someone else who is just getting into projectors.

I recently upgraded to a pretty decent 4K laser projector and for the first week, I was just using a smooth, matte-white wall as my screen. To be honest, I was underwhelmed. The image was dull and looked washed out unless the room was pitch black, which is totally impractical for watching sports or casual viewing.

I was close to thinking I'd wasted my money on the projector. After some digging on various forums, I realized my bottleneck wasn't the projector—it was the surface.

I decided to properly invest in an ALR (Ambient Light Rejecting) screen. I ended up getting a VIVIDSTORM screen, and the difference is not subtle, it is night and day.

The contrast has skyrocketed, and colors actually pop now, even with some indirect daylight in the room. It finally looks like the high-end, cinematic image I was expecting to get.

TL;DR: Don't cheap out on your screen! A great screen with a good projector beats a great projector on a mediocre surface every single time. It's the component that brings the whole experience together.

Fearing primaries for abetting Trump’s crackdown, top Democrats are turning away from a deal they crafted to avoid another government shutdown.

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Even Democrats Who Crafted ICE Funding Compromise Are Questioning It

^{Matt Sledge (The Intercept)}

Denmark plans to grant the United States sovereignty over small pockets of land in Greenland under a draft agreement, sources told The New York Times.

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Source: US may gain sovereignty over small areas in Greenland

^{TT News Agency (Sweden Herald)}

RNIB research uncovers high anxiety around rail travel with some having fallen into gaps or been trapped in doors

Four in five blind people struggle with gap at UK train stations, survey finds

^{Rachel Hall (The Guardian)}

MPs called for the ‘urgent’ rebuilding of the health visitor workforce amid the findings

Urgent call for action as England found to be among worst in Europe for child health

^{Ella Pickover (The Independent)}

Candles will be lit in windows and on doorsteps around the country.

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Australia holds day of mourning for Bondi Beach shooting victims

Candles will be lit in windows and on doorsteps around the country. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Should this wearable materialize, it could be released as early as 2027, according to a report on the device.

Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearable | TechCrunch

^{Lucas Ropek (TechCrunch)}

A new family of Android click-fraud trojans leverages TensorFlow machine learning models to automatically detect and interact with specific advertisement elements.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-android-malware-uses-ai-to-click-on-hidden-browser-ads/

https://www.startribune.com/preschooler-and-three-other-students-detained-by-ice-school-district-leader-says/601568045

Trump's decision to green-light the sale of Nvidia H200 GPUs to China isn't sitting well with some of his Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives. These GOP politicians have proposed a bill that would give Congress final say over the export of AI chips to China and other countries of concern.

Introduced by Rep. Brian Mast (R‑FL) in December, the "AI Overwatch Act" would give the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which Mast chairs, and the Senate Banking Committee at least 30 days to review and, if necessary, block the export of sensitive AI chips to adversary nations.

On Wednesday, the Foreign Affairs Committee voted overwhelmingly to advance the measure to the House of Representatives with a favorable recommendation.

"When the United States considers selling a C-130 or a fighter jet, or an engine that goes on one of those airframes, or ordnance that goes on the wing of a jet, or the avionics that go in a cockpit, or anything that has military use, it goes through a process known as the foreign military sales process," Mast said during a Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on Wednesday.

House GOP wants final say on AI chip exports after Trump gives Nvidia a China hall pass

: Bill still needs to pass the House and Senate before the president can sign or veto it

^{Tobias Mann (The Register)}

The annual assessment, which has been prepared since 2020, purports to offer a holistic assessment to threats to the Western Hemisphere. These assessments have consistently focused on what you imagine: southern border security, the drug trade, immigration, and critical infrastructure protection in the United States.

But this year’s assessment, marked “For Official Use Only” and not yet released to the public, identifies violent extremism on the part of American citizens as the priority and greatest threat.

One phrase in particular stands out to me as new: potential terrorism based upon “class-based or economic grievances.” (The term has not appeared in any previous assessment.)

Leaked Doc: Homeland Security's Domestic Terror Obsession

Forget Greenland; the American public are the real target

^{Ken Klippenstein}

https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d

SK Telecom Co., South Korea's largest mobile carrier, has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a record 135 billion-won (US$91 million) fine handed down by the state data protection regulator over a massive data leak last year that affected its entire 23 million user base, industry sources said Monday.

Forget Greenland; the American public are the real target

Leaked Doc: Homeland Security's Domestic Terror Obsession

^{Ken Klippenstein}

Employees detailed to the Social Security Administration shared sensitive data through a nonsecure server, the Justice Department disclosed.

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Advanced Family Surgery Center (AFSC) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee is part of Covenant HeaLth.

In the broadest sense, this is news, but there's too much opinion in this to throw it there.

Do you still want to cling to this pretense, Trump supporters? Do you still want to pretend ICE efforts are targeting “the worst of the worst?” Are you just going to sit there and mumble some incomprehensible stuff about “respecting the laws?”

Go ahead. Do it, you cowards. This is exactly what you voted for, even if it now makes you a bit queasy. Just sit there and soak in it. You are who you support, even if you never thought it would go this far.

“Worst of the worst,” Trump’s parrot repeat on blast. “This one time we caught a guy who did actual crimes,” say spokespeople defending whatever the latest hideous violation of the social contract (if not actual constitutional rights) a federal agent has performed. “Targeted investigation/stop” say the enablers, even when it’s just officers turning white nationalism into Official Government Policy. “Brown people need to be gone” is the end game. Full stop.

Evil ICE Fucks Ate Lunch At A Mexican Restaurant Just So They Could Come Back And Detain The People Who Fed Them

Do you still want to cling to this pretense, Trump supporters? Do you still want to pretend ICE efforts are targeting “the worst of the worst?” Are you just going to sit there and mumbl…

^Techdirt

Since i do appreciate (rap) songs even if i don't understand them, I need some recommendations from YOU for non-english rap songs or artists.

(I can't really distinguish genres, so I'm trusting your judgment whether your recommendation fits)

(I'm also not a fan of german rap but you can recommended that regardless)

Sir Ben Wallace said he was surprised that MPs on the defence committee were not informed about the Afghan data breach

Secret gagging order should not have been used to cover up Afghan data breach, says former defence secretary Sir Ben Wallace

^{Holly Bancroft (The Independent)}

PcComponentes, a major technology retailer in Spain, has denied claims of a data breach on its systems impacting 16 million customers, but confirmed it suffered a credential stuffing attack.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/online-retailer-pccomponentes-says-data-breach-claims-are-fake/

Spotify and several major record label have taken legal action against the unknown operators of Anna's Archive.

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Unsealed: Spotify Lawsuit Triggered Anna's Archive Domain Name Suspensions * TorrentFreak

^{Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)}

https://www.techspot.com/news/110243-android-wont-kill-sideloading-after-all-but-new.html

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/49398493

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In the blink of an eye, the latest Iranian uprising has folded. For a few feverish days in January the talk was of imminent regime change, of not-so-supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei packing his bags. Then came the shoot-to-kill orders, the 16,000 or more body bags and the silence of the graveyard. Donald Trump’s cavalry did not ride to the rescue.

And the winner of this bloody, uneven contest? China’s digital repression model, duly adopted by Iran’s hardcore Revolutionary Guards, which ensured that the January protests were snuffed out even more quickly than the 2022 hijab demonstrations and the November 2019 rebellion against petrol price hikes. This time the uprising was nationwide, spread across 207 cities and towns according to the National Council of Resistance, drawing in all classes against apparently enfeebled leaders who had recently been handed a humiliating defeat with the bombing of Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities.

[...]

To the delight of the so-called Illiberal International (star members: China, Russia, North Korea), the regime has been saved by what could be dubbed the Dragon-Mullah axis. In 2021 Beijing and Tehran signed up to a 25-year tech and security deal designed to refine Iran’s ability to control its rising Gen Z population. That meant the mass transfer of surveillance technology — smart Chinese-made CCTV cameras have now been installed across cities and towns — and cybersecurity tools.

[...]

That is the kind of intelligence being fed into the Iranian machine. It probably works better in China, where huge amounts of stored personal data feed into a complex system of behavioural modification. The Iranian regime does not have that kind of number-crunching capacity. But the regular exchanges between the Iranian police chief Ahmad-Reza Radan and the Chinese minister for public security Wang Xiaohong show how anxious Tehran has been to soak up information from the brand leader. Their last meeting was in December, just weeks before the Iran protests kicked off.

[...]

A large part of this collaboration is about understanding the networks of protest, how they communicate, who is leading whom to what target. That has been part of the curriculum on the Advanced Police Officers Training Programme at China’s People’s Public Security University; Iranian practitioners, usually Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers, take part in role-play exercises. When they return home, they get promoted quickly and presumably lobby hard for the kind of Chinese technology needed to carry out the mission. Not just facial recognition cameras but also AI systems that flag up ethnic and demographic groupings. Some of the Chinese techniques — filtering supposedly suspicious internet content — were applied by Tehran long before the two countries signed a security pact.

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The command of police state-enabling tech is at the heart of Xi Jinping’s Global Security Initiative, set up in 2022. It offers to help governments to combat crime — what’s not to like? — but also to stay in power by tracking subversive critics. Xi has even summoned a global security forum which he would like to be the Illiberal International’s answer to the West-affirming Munich Security Conference. The Chinese offer: values-free security diplomacy. Imagine the deals that could be struck there.

[...]

Technical ingenuity, of course, does not remove the causes of unrest. Only good governance can tackle the misery of drought, only sound economics can restore investor confidence, only statesmanship can bring Iran to the rational conclusion that building nuclear weapons condemns the region to permanent insecurity. In the absence of these qualities, the floundering theocratic regime has to depend on the repressive toolkit offered by China. The Iranians deserve better.

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/the-big-winner-in-iran-chinese-repression-n6vfvl25m

The Greens justice spokesperson, David Shoebridge, said rushed amendments – agreed between Labor and the Coalition in the wake of the Bondi terror attacks – represent an unprecedented expansion of political power to ban organisations and criminalise speech based on vague standards.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, rejected the claims on Wednesday, insisting the laws were needed to protect Australians, including members of the Jewish community.

Shoebridge said legitimate criticism of Israel or the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may be offences, if they cause psychological harm and prompt warnings to the government from intelligence agencies.

Criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu may be an offence under Australia’s new hate speech laws, Greens warn

Anthony Albanese and Tony Burke say the laws are needed to protect Australians – particularly the Jewish community

^{Tom McIlroy (The Guardian)}

cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/7394643

cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/2104…

The US-backed Kurdish militia has accused Washington’s military coalition of ignoring SDF calls for assistance amid a Syrian army assault on the north

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on 19 January that Damascus has continued to attack its positions across northern Syria despite the US-backed ceasefire reached a day earlier, warning that attacks are targeting the vicinity of SDF-run prisons holding tens of thousands of jailed ISIS militants.

“Since the early hours of this morning, Al-Shaddadi Prison, which holds thousands of detainees from the terrorist organization ISIS, has been subjected to repeated attacks carried out by factions affiliated with Damascus. Fighters of the SDF confronted these attacks and succeeded in repelling them several times, resulting in the martyrdom of dozens of our fighters and the injury of others, in an effort to prevent a serious security catastrophe,” it said.

“Al-Shaddadi Prison is located approximately two kilometers from the US International Coalition base in the area. The US base did not intervene, despite repeated calls for intervention … Al-Shaddadi Prison has currently fallen outside the control of our forces,” it added.

“Despite the declared ceasefire agreement and the official statements issued in this regard, factions affiliated with the Damascus government continue their attacks on our forces in Ain Issa, Al-Shaddadi, and Raqqa,” the Kurdish group said earlier.

The group had also warned that the vicinity of Al-Aqtan Prison in Raqqa is also witnessing “fierce clashes” between SDF fighters and forces affiliated with the Syrian state.

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2026-01-20 02:41:58

Syrian forces overrun ISIS prison as SDF condemns US inaction

cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/2104…

The US-backed Kurdish militia has accused Washington’s military coalition of ignoring SDF calls for assistance amid a Syrian army assault on the north

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on 19 January that Damascus has continued to attack its positions across northern Syria despite the US-backed ceasefire reached a day earlier, warning that attacks are targeting the vicinity of SDF-run prisons holding tens of thousands of jailed ISIS militants.

“Since the early hours of this morning, Al-Shaddadi Prison, which holds thousands of detainees from the terrorist organization ISIS, has been subjected to repeated attacks carried out by factions affiliated with Damascus. Fighters of the SDF confronted these attacks and succeeded in repelling them several times, resulting in the martyrdom of dozens of our fighters and the injury of others, in an effort to prevent a serious security catastrophe,” it said.

“Al-Shaddadi Prison is located approximately two kilometers from the US International Coalition base in the area. The US base did not intervene, despite repeated calls for intervention … Al-Shaddadi Prison has currently fallen outside the control of our forces,” it added.

“Despite the declared ceasefire agreement and the official statements issued in this regard, factions affiliated with the Damascus government continue their attacks on our forces in Ain Issa, Al-Shaddadi, and Raqqa,” the Kurdish group said earlier.

The group had also warned that the vicinity of Al-Aqtan Prison in Raqqa is also witnessing “fierce clashes” between SDF fighters and forces affiliated with the Syrian state.

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Syrian forces overrun ISIS prison as SDF condemns US inaction

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The Iranian government announced the official death toll from nationwide protests, state media reported Wednesday.

The Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs, a government body responsible for overseeing those killed in conflicts since the 1979 revolution, said 3,117 people were killed, with 2,427 security personnel and civilians.

The figures are based on information received from the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization, a forensic body affiliated with the country’s judiciary, it said in a statement.

The foundation said the deaths took place in “terrorist incidents” in recent days that were “reminiscent of the brutal and savage crimes of ISIS (Daesh).”