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Regime Change Fantasies and Imperial Temper Tantrums


Sovvenzioni a dodici progetti svizzeri in Ucraina
Il budget per le ricostruzioni è di 112 milioni di franchi, di cui 93 dalla Confederazione - Al bando erano state presentate 76 richieste da parte di una sessantina di aziende con filiali nel Paese in guerra
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Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll

Link: zdnet.com/article/meta-might-b…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…



New Comic found: Wizard of Id - 2025-08-29 gocomics.com/wizardofid/2025/0…

#comicstrip #wizardofid #fantasy



Reliance launches a subsidiary called Reliance Intelligence, aiming to create national-scale AI infrastructure in India, in partnership with Google and Meta (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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US Lifeline Masks Israel’s Economic Freefall as Global Divestment Grows #Palestine ramzybaroud.net/us-lifeline-ma…


🎮 Con tanta attesa, ecco che inizia una nuova era di avventura! Sembra che lo sviluppo di #TheWitcher4 e #Cyberpunk2 stia procedendo bene! 🚀

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👩‍💻 Microsoft svela i suoi modelli #MachineLearning proprietari, ma non perde la parola amicizia con OpenAI. #MicrosoftAI 🤝OpenAI

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Sources: DeepSeek plans to use Huawei's Ascend AI chips to train smaller versions of its upcoming R2 models but will still use Nvidia chips for largest models (The Information)

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Unaudited Power: The U.S. Military Budget Nobody Controls michelchossudovsky.substack.co…




A judge rules Nvidia must face trial over allegations that it benefitted from autonomous driving data stolen by an engineer who defected from Valeo in 2021 (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)

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First Look at KDE’s Initial System Setup (KISS) Tool in KDE Plasma 6.5 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…



Strange CW Keys

Link: sites.google.com/site/oh6dccw/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…



Taiwan identifies Chinese strategy to move from drills to attack
20:19

China wants to turn Taiwan Strait into internal sea by 2035
taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/6190…
#news #taiwan



HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11

Nobody knows why they need one, but folk seem to be buying them HP says AI PCs now make up a quarter of its sales, boosting revenue thanks to their higher price tags and the Windows 11 refresh.…
#theregister #IT
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In a trial over a fatal Autopilot crash, Tesla denied having crash-snapshot data, until a hacker hired by the plaintiffs recovered the data from the vehicle (Washington Post)

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Fwupd 2.0.14 Brings New Framework & SteelSeries Hardware Support

Fwupd 2.0.14 is out today as the newest version of this open-source firmware updating utility that is widely-used on Linux systems for BIOS/system firmware updates as well as an ever increasing array of different peripheral devices...
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in reply to This spaceship does not exist

The image depicts a futuristic urban scene with a large, yellow robot and a young woman standing side by side. The robot has a bulky, armored appearance with visible mechanical joints and a helmet, featuring glowing red eyes. The woman has bright orange hair, wears a sleeveless white top and white pants, and has a utility belt with various gadgets. The background shows a dense, high-tech cityscape with tall buildings, wires, and other characters in the distance. The overall color palette is a mix of greens, blues, and yellows, contributing to a cyberpunk aesthetic.

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📸 Foto del giorno: venerdì 29 agosto 2025

Cioccolatini assortiti, prodotti dalla fabbrica dolciaria statunitense Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.



The realm of Korinthia spans from rugged mountains hosting mysterious temples honoring little-known gods, to sunny islands in a wine-dark sea. Learn to name things in their tongue and make your journeys easier. #travel #history cromwell-intl.com/travel/greec…



[Notícia Metadata.cat] Les millors aplicacions per tornar a la rutina
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Contrairement à Strava, GreenGo (le airbnb français), Korrigo (transports en commun en Bretagne), Star (bus et métro rennais) ou encore citymapper, notre app mobile ne dépend pas de Google.

Car nous utilisons les standards du Web. Espérons qu'ils nous rejoignent, un standard est plus fort ainsi.

in reply to Cartes [🤖]

Les français doivent aussi changer leurs habitudes : non, le réflexe ne doit pas être d'aller sur le propriétaire Google Play ou App Store pour "télécharger" une appli pour tout et n'importe quoi.

Comme souvent, il y a plusieurs responsables de la perte de souveraineté actuelle.




Taiwan warns China's Pacific drill spending spiked 40% in 2024
19:02

Military aircraft carried out nearly 12,000 sorties, 30% more than previous year
taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/6189…
#news #taiwan




title: Herbert Bradwell Titus
artist: Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894
source: National Portrait Gallery
notes: The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand […]
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
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in reply to Smithsonian Roulette

"For about three years immediately after the [American Civil] war he was a "special agent" of the US government, collecting captured and abandoned property in the South and recovering Confederate ships in England and France. From about 1868-1870 he farmed in Virginia, and then practiced law in Washington, DC and New York City in the firm Hovey & Titus. Hovey died in 1895 and Colonel Titus retired to Brattleboro, VT in 1898."

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Leggiamo i nomi di tutti i giornalisti uccisi a Gaza. Per dire basta alla strage. Appuntamento il 9 settembre a Roma articolo21.org/2025/08/leggiam… #Articoli



Singapore Kindness Movement breached personal data protection rules by revealing complainant's identity: High Court
#Singapore
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Dark Nights: **Archipelago of Fire – Uprising in Indonesia**

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News from Indonesia. 25th August and continuing…. Angry youth uprising triggered by rising taxes for public and repressive military. There’s no organisation, the insurrection is being spearheaded by young anarchist, nihilists and uncontrollables. Many young anarchists from high school students association are arrested. The high schoolers



The Rape of a Sabine Woman, Giambologna (after), Giambologna (rejected attribution), c. 1600 - c. 1625
This complex group of three intertwined figures is a reduced copy of the monumental marble sculpture Giambologna made in 1583 for the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, where it stands to this day. The composition is so ingenious that the statuette looks beautiful from all angles. This was quite an artistic challenge for sculptors in the late 16th century.

bronze with lacquer patina, h c.57cm × w c.21cm × d c.25.5cm × w 11.4kg
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#rijksmuseum #musea #collection #art #mastodonart #mastoart #random




Switching From i915 To Xe Linux Drivers Can Yield Some Big Gains For Intel Arc A-Series

For those using Intel Arc A-Series graphics cards on Linux, the i915 kernel driver remains the default but switching over to the Xe driver can yield some incremental performance benefits. For OpenCL / GPU compute workloads especially, switching to the Xe kernel driver can be rather dramatic.
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