The Eurovision Song Contest is back. Here's how and who to watch
https://apnews.com/article/eurovision-how-to-watch-guide-27895fca2545096c4489de24718b6440?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Entertainment @entertainment-AssociatedPress

"The EU countries have invested more in Taiwan than the U.S. and Japan combined", says Lutz Güllner, Head of the European Economic and Trade Office in Taiwan, in this compact podcast interview.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…

#7 Lutz Güllner, Representing the European Union in Taiwan

Podcast Episode · Taiwan Footprints · 12/30/2024 · 12m

^{Apple Podcasts}

Breon Peace, Ex-Brooklyn US Attorney, Rejoins Cleary Gottlieb
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-12/breon-peace-ex-brooklyn-us-attorney-rejoins-cleary-gottlieb?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Bloomberg Asia @bloomberg-asia-bloomberg

Video. Venice protest calls for release of aid worker held in Venezuela
https://www.euronews.com/video/2025/05/12/venice-protest-calls-for-release-of-aid-worker-held-in-venezuela?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World News @world-news-euronews

Video. Venice protest calls for release of aid worker held in Venezuela

Video. A flotilla of 50 boats sailed Venice's Grand Canal demanding the release of Alberto Trentini, an Italian aid worker detained in Venezuela since November 2024.

^Euronews.com

First group of white South Africans arrive in US after being granted refugee status
https://www.euronews.com/2025/05/12/first-group-of-white-south-africans-arrive-in-us-after-being-granted-refugee-status?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World News @world-news-euronews

First group of white South Africans arrive in US after being granted refugee status

Refugee groups have criticised the Trump administration for prioritising Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority, over people in greater need.

^{Rory Sullivan (Euronews.com)}

Assicurazione contro le allucinazioni dell’IA? Ora puoi proteggerti dai suoi errori

📌 Link all'articolo : redhotcyber.com/post/assicuraz…

#redhotcyber #hacking #cti #ai #online #it #cybercrime #cybersecurity #technology #news #cyberthreatintelligence #innovation #privacy #engineering #intelligence #intelligenzaartificiale #informationsecurity #ethicalhacking #dataprotection #cybersecurityawareness #cybersecuritytraining #cybersecuritynews #infosecurity

Assicurazione contro le allucinazioni dell’IA? Ora puoi proteggerti dai suoi errori

Una startup copre le perdite causate da IA malfunzionanti: nasce la prima assicurazione contro gli errori e le allucinazioni dell'intelligenza artificiale.

^{Redazione RHC (Red Hot Cyber)}

🚀 Benvenuto Fleet! L'Intelligenza Artificiale che sta per rivoluzionare il device management aziendale approda in Italia. #Fleet #InnovazioneIA

🔗 tomshw.it/business/fleet-sbarc…

Fleet arriva in Italia con l'IA che rivoluzionerà il device management aziendale

Fleet arriva in Italia: innovazione rivoluzionaria nel device management con leasing IT e servizi all'avanguardia già affermati in tutta Europa.

^{Andrea Riviera (Tom's Hardware)}

Can Scientists Harness the Magic of Mushrooms to Clean Up Polluted Landscapes?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/can-scientists-harness-the-magic-of-mushrooms-to-clean-up-polluted-landscapes-180986561/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Science @science-Smithsonianmag

Can Scientists Harness the Magic of Mushrooms to Clean Up Polluted Landscapes?

Researchers and grassroots activists are working with fungi to restore damaged environments

^{Lauren Oster (Smithsonian Magazine)}

#Gaza #HindRajab #RememberTheUNsoundtrack

"British town exhibits replica of car in which Hind Rajab was killed in Gaza" [ ± 1-3 min]
by NewArab

youtube.com/shorts/oAtBbhP1eoY

Quote by NA:
"May 6, 2025
A replica of the car in which 6-year-old Hind Rajab and her family were found after being hit with 335 bullets by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza City has been created in Bradford, UK, to honour Hind’s memory on what would have been her 7th birthday and to raise awareness of her tragic killing.
Hind was killed in Gaza in January 2024. After her family’s car was bombed by Israeli forces, she was trapped and called for help. Despite hours on the phone with rescuers and coordination for an ambulance, she and two paramedics were killed. Her body was found 12 days later.
Hind Rajab has become a symbol of the thousands of Palestinian children killed during Israel’s brutal war on Gaza. According to UN agencies, more than 17,400 children have been killed, an estimated 25,000 injured, and at least 25,000 hospitalised due to malnutrition."

#NeverAgain #StopTheGenocide
#JusticeForHindRajab #JusticeForRifaatRadwan
#JailForNetanyahu #JailForGallant #SmotrichRaus

In the last minutes before dawn, seven emergency response vehicles travel through Al-Hashashin, north of Rafah in Gaza.

They’ve been called out to recover and treat casualties from Israeli fire overnight. The convoy stops and pulls over, its personnel get out to begin their work: “It looks like an accident”, one man says, as they reach the site of Israel’s overnight attack.

Within minutes, without warning, they are under fire.

newarab.com/opinion/i-am-docto…

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

"After our government refused to allow injured Palestinian children into the UK for treatment, you probably thought it was not possible to be more ashamed of this country, but you would be wrong"
Ricky Hale

The UK government set to argue in court the F-35 program is more important than preventing genocide.

#Israel #Gaza #Arms #UKPolitics #Genocide

councilestatemedia.uk/p/uk-gov…

UK government set to argue the F-35 program is more important than preventing genocide

It is going to argue that complying with the law is optional

^{Ricky Hale (Council Estate Media)}

Silence to song: Paralyzed man, voiceless for 10 years, sings to daughter with AI

In what seems to be a curious case, AI has managed to help Daniel Lalara...
#engineering #technology
interestingengineering.com/inn…

AI Set to Overhaul Business Reporting: The End of Spreadsheets

As organizations increasingly embrace artificial intelligence, the reliance on traditional spreadsheets for business reporting and forecasting is rapidly diminishing. By 2027, AI is predicted to take ...

news.lavx.hu/article/ai-set-to…

#news #tech #AIinBusiness #PredictiveAnalytics #ProfessionalServices

Meta is set to launch the Meta Ray-Ban Glasses Gen 3, with a potential game-changing feature: facial recognition. While it could revolutionize how users interact with others by providing real-time data, the feature has sparked privacy concerns, especially regarding unauthorized data collection.

#Meta #RayBanGen3 #SmartGlasses #FacialRecognition #PrivacyConcerns #WearableTech #TECHi

Read Full Article Here :- techi.com/meta-smart-glasses-p…

The Gaza Strip is at critical risk of famine if Israel doesn’t lift its blockade and stop its military campaign, food security experts said in a stark warning on Monday.

Outright famine is the mostly likely scenario unless conditions change, according to findings by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a leading international authority on the severity of hunger crises.

arabnews.com/node/2600405/midd…

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Food security experts warn Gaza is at critical risk of famine if Israel doesn’t end its blockade

TEL AVIV: The Gaza Strip is at critical risk of famine if Israel doesn’t lift its blockade and stop its military campaign, food security experts said in a stark warning on Monday.

^{AP (Arabnews)}

Smaragdlibelle, Plattbauch oder Quelljungfer? Woran erkennt man eigentlich Groß- und Kleinlibellen, wie unterscheidet man Männchen von Weibchen und welche Art fliegt da überhaupt?

Ein interdisziplinäres Forschungsteam mit #TUBraunschweig und @unihannover hat eine kostenlose #App zur Bestimmung einheimischer #Libellen entwickelt.

👉 lnk.tu-bs.de/QPgLd7

In this video I take a brief look at the Click Yen fountain pen.

I then fill it with Diamine Cardinal ink and do a brief writing sample.

Join me to see what I think about this pen during my first few minutes of using it.

youtu.be/oEk2D5dJz7g

#fountainPenReview #fountainpens #fountainpen #penreview #unboxing #firstimpression #firstimpressions #writing #Click #Clickindia #Clickpen #Clickfountainpen #Diamine #Diamineinkvent #inkvent

We interviewed Apple's Susan Prescott and two Swift Student Challenge winners about their projects and the evolving nature of the student program.

Also: tvOS and watchOS wishes!

appstories.net/episodes/435

youtube.com/watch?v=VocW4c2HIm…

Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen said Monday that US President Donald Trump’s plan to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip "remains on the table.”

Speaking to the Israeli public broadcaster KAN, Cohen said the so-called “voluntary migration” plan proposed by Trump is being followed up.”

“Efforts to implement the plan are ongoing on the ground," Cohen said, without providing further details.

aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israe…

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

RT @simonw
Made some notes on how Cursor works under the hood based on their security documentation - it turns out an organization's list of subprocessors offers a loose form of "view source" for their infrastructure!

simonwillison.net/2025/May/11/…

Look, how cute chinese DICTATORHIP can be seen in the "news". It's like propaganda masterclass for #journalism dummies ... #media

RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6uybb…

A Silicon Valley weather startup will soon begin replacing NOAA weather balloons with AI-powered alternatives, a cost-cutting measure brought on by severe budget cuts carried out by the Trump administration.

semafor.com/article/05/11/2025…

Cuts at NOAA lead to new weather balloon technology at the agency

A Silicon Valley weather startup will soon begin replacing weather balloons with AI-powered alternatives.

^{Reed Albergotti (www.semafor.com)}

What a difference five years makes.

Or you can't believe a word he says.

#politics #UK #Labour #immigration

NOS no topo da inovação: Investimento de 96,6 M€ coloca empresa na liderança em Portugal
🔗 tugatech.com.pt/t66510-nos-no-…

#5G #digital #patentes #portugal

TugaTech

 A NOS consolidou a sua posição como a empresa líder em investimento em Inovação e Desenvolvimento (I&D) em Portugal durante o ano de 2023. De acordo com os dad

^TugaTech

Wir trauern um Margot Friedländer. 🕯️
Sie hat als Holocaust-Überlebende an das erinnert, was war, und an das, was nie wieder sein darf. Ihre Worte waren eindringlich, ihr Mut unerschütterlich.
Jetzt liegt es an uns, ihr Vermächtnis weiterzutragen.
„Versucht, Menschen zu sein.“ – dieser Appell von ihr ist heute so wichtig wie nie.
Wir dürfen nicht vergessen.
Wir müssen erinnern, sprechen, widersprechen.
Und wir müssen handeln – gegen Hass, Ausgrenzung und das Vergessen.

Ruhe in Frieden, Margot.

Interesting signs/notices/labels for #fotovorschlag

May not interesting, but it made me laugh - because I am mentally still a teenager 😂
It's an antique/bit of everything shop - at least from the windows that's what it looks like! It has always been closed when I've passed it! 😂✨

#photography #amateurphotography #sign #street #scotland #village #fun #travel #holidays #uk

Maranouchi 2023 - Tokyo - Japan

This was taken in June 2023, it's a follow up to the shot I posted a few weeks ago from 2014. The rate of building and development in Tokyo never ceases to amaze me and a quick comparison shows a number of complete building being replaced!!!
#maranouchi #Tokyo #Japan #TravelPhotography #StreetPhotography #CityVibes #CityScenes #UrbanAdventure #TravelDiaries #Wanderlust #JapanVibes #CinematicStreets #Pixelfed #PixelfedPhotography #PhotographyLovers #PhotoOfTheDay #StreetLife #ExploreJapan #JapanTrip #NeonLights #WarmGlows #TokyoNights #StreetColors #photography #sunset #sunsetoverthecity

A reasonable perspective. It will be ignored by all the people inflamed by unreasoning hatred.

freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngul…

70% of US Gen Xers have said going broke terrifies them more than death, per Newsweek

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

Thinking about doing a #PoC of #E2E #encryption – sorry #Cat2Cat encryption. Leave a like there if there is interest for such a completely useless but secure messenger.
This project should show that #cats can carry messages in the #Neuland aka #internet.

#computer_security #privacy #ePrivacy #opensource

Wo Licht auf Vergänglichkeit trifft - Die Kapelle auf dem Alten Friedhof in Gießen / Germany

Aufgenommen im Frühling 2025

#AlterFriedhof #Gießen #mittelhessen #hessen #fotografie #photography #Vergänglichkeit #cemeteryphotography #lightandshadow #architecturephotography #silentbeauty #schwarzweissfotografie
#tranquility #deutschland

"When the Trump administration shut down Voice of America in March, it silenced one of the few sources of accurate information in countries without a free press," James P. Rubin writes.

"What’s worse is that American defenses against foreign disinformation are being eliminated as well." wapo.st/4iPWIKY

"Neurons in brains use timing and synchronization in the way that they compute. This property seems essential for the flexibility and adaptability of biological intelligence. Modern AI systems discard this fundamental property in favor of efficiency and simplicity. We found a way of bridging the gap between the existing powerful implementations and scalability of modern AI, and the biological plausibility paradigm where neuron timing matters. The results have been surprising and encouraging.
(...)
We introduce the Continuous Thought Machine (CTM), a novel neural network architecture designed to explicitly incorporate neural timing as a foundational element. Our contributions are as follows:

- We introduce a decoupled internal dimension, a novel approach to modeling the temporal evolution of neural activity. We view this dimension as that over which thought can unfold in an artificial neural system, hence the choice of nomenclature.

- We provide a mid-level abstraction for neurons, which we call neuron-level models (NLMs), where every neuron has its own internal weights that process a history of incoming signals (i.e., pre-activations) to activate (as opposed to a static ReLU, for example).

- We use neural synchronization directly as the latent representation with which the CTM observes (e.g., through an attention query) and predicts (e.g., via a projection to logits). This biologically-inspired design choice puts forward neural activity as the crucial element for any manifestation of intelligence the CTM might demonstrate."

pub.sakana.ai/ctm/

#AI #NeuralNetworks #CTM #ContinuousThoughtMachine

Continuous Thought Machines

Introducing Continuous Thought Machines: a new kind of neural network model that unfolds and uses neural dynamics as a powerful representation for thought.

^{Continuous Thought Machines}

Il ministero degli esteri polacco ha annunciato la chiusura di un consolato russo, dopo aver accusato i servizi speciali di Mosca di essere responsabili dell’incendio di un centro commerciale nel 2024.

La Polonia chiude il consolato...

La Polonia chiude il consolato russo a Cracovia a causa di un atto di sabotaggio

Il 12 maggio il ministero degli esteri polacco ha annunciato la chiusura di un consolato russo dopo che Varsavia aveva accusato i servizi speciali di Mosca di essere responsabili dell’incendio di un centro commerciale nel 2024. Leggi

^{Redazione (Internazionale)}

Yesterday I led a #solarpunk #ttrpg #gameDesign workshop - alxd.org/build-a-better-world-… as a part of itch.io/jam/build-a-better-wor… #gamejam !

It's available on YouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=6yuozcuXju… and PeerTube - tube.tchncs.de/w/apk1VqSPFA5ym…

We discussed how to represent hope, communities, technology-as-infrastructure and its cultural effects in game mechanics, building stories which give players agency in the face of the overwhelming disasters.

#games #rpg #futurism #climateChange #climate

Build a Better World TTRPG Jam Solarpunk Workshop

Game jam banner art by Roque Romero Continuing research into the topic of game design from my previous overview post I was a positively surprised to find a Build a Better World TTRPG Jam: “We live in capitalism,” said Le Guin, “Its power seems inesca…

^{alxd - solarpunk hacker}