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Montana Governor Gianforte signed SB 297 on May 8, amending the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA). Much has changed in the state privacy law landscape since the MCDPA was enacted in 2023, and SB 297 incorporates elements of further reaching state laws into the MCDPA
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House Bill Proposes $30,000 SALT Cap as Draft Enters Crucial Week
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-05-12/bill-proposes-30k-salt-cap-as-draft-enters-crucial-week-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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For as long as the project has existed, people have asked for a way to pick up stickers, a t-shirt, or other Owncast branded item as a way to support the project. We never had the infrastructure in place to pull that off.
Today, say hello to the Owncast Merch Store!
A portion of every purchase goes to support the project.
To celebrate, we have a limited 5 year anniversary shirt. It's cool.
Speaking of cool, there's some Owncat stuff there. Owncat is cool.
Owncast Merch Store
Show your support for Owncast. A portion of every purchase funds its opensource development.Owncast Merch Store
At least 126 Indians have joined the Russian army to fight in the war in Ukraine, according to the Indian government. At least 12 have been killed and 16 are still missing. Many of the affected Indians, most from poor families, were reportedly lured with promises of lucrative jobs and roles as helpers, cooks and housekeepers in Russia. However, upon arrival, they were sent directly to war zones.
#India #Russia #Ukraine #war
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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
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Google's Gemma models passed 150M downloads and 70K+ variants on Hugging Face, after launching in Feb. 2024; Meta's Llama models passed 1.2B downloads in April (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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Google's Gemma AI models surpass 150M downloads | TechCrunch
Google's openly available Gemma collection of AI models has reached a milestone: over 150 million downloads.Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
"Not only would Google be unable to fully monitor or prevent Israel from using its software to harm Palestinians, but the report also notes that the contract could obligate Google to stonewall criminal investigations by other nations into Israel’s use of its technology. And it would require close collaboration with the Israeli security establishment — including joint drills and intelligence sharing — that was unprecedented in Google’s deals with other nations."
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Google Worried It Couldn’t Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal
Internal Google documents show that the tech giant feared it wouldn’t be able to monitor how Israel might use its technology to harm Palestinians.Sam Biddle (The Intercept)
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Chuck Schumer: “Dit is niet alleen omkoping, het is premium buitenlandse invloed met extra beenruimte"
Rumoer in VS over cadeau van Qatar: Boeing voor president Trump nos.nl/l/2566918
#uspol #trump #corruption
Rumoer in VS over cadeau van Qatar: Boeing voor president Trump
Het zou gaan om een van de duurste cadeaus die een Amerikaanse regering ooit heeft aangenomen.NOS Nieuws
Gaza’s healthcare system is facing total collapse amid the ongoing genocide launched by ISR since October 2023, under a suffocating siege and relentless airstrikes that have targeted civilians, infrastructure, and medical facilities.
The Ministry of Health in #gaza has warned: hospitals are now incapable of delivering the most basic care due to a severe shortage of medical equipment and supplies.
📑 Report by Arab Org for Human Rights in the UK (prime source)
Sonam Dreyer-Cornut, de retour du camp de la mort à #Gaza : "Je n'ai jamais vu un tel acharnement, une telle destruction"
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Sonam Dreyer-Cornut, de retour de Gaza: "Je n'ai jamais vu un tel acharnement, une telle destruction"
L'infirmière valaisanne Sonam Dreyer-Cornut, qui vient de passer neuf semaines à Gaza, a accepté de documenter les difficultés de son travail au quotidien pour l'émission Mise au point, un carnet de bord poignant et rare.Radio Télévision Suisse
Questa sera alle 22.30, in live su Q-Gin TV, parleremo di IA e del caso Everyeye, se è giusto o meno utilizzarla.
Il grande capo mastica bene il tema e io vestirò i panni del "profano" (più o meno).
Lascio il link, quindi non mancate: twitch.tv/qgintv/home
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(december 2000)
#kamafotos #YashicaMicrotecZoom90 #35mm #photography
Malta – Valletta – Grand Harbour
Malta – Valletta – Grand Harbour – © CharlotteKAMA Systems Amsterdam - kamafotos
Zero-Day Vulnerability in Output Messenger: A New Frontier for Cyber Espionage
A recently discovered zero-day vulnerability in Output Messenger has been exploited by a Türkiye-backed cyberespionage group, marking a significant shift in their operational tactics. This security fl...
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#news #tech #CyberEspionage #ZeroDay #OutputMessenger
Detetar trolls pelo comportamento e não pelas palavras: a nova abordagem que pode mudar a internet
🔗 tugatech.com.pt/t66532-detetar…
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OSINT on Facebook: Find Emails, Phone Numbers, and More
Unlock Facebook OSINT to ethically extract intelligence from profiles and Marketplace. Get phone numbers, emails and more with advanced SOCMINT techniques.OSINT Industries Team (OSINT Industries)
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OSINT on Facebook: Find Emails, Phone Numbers, and More
Unlock Facebook OSINT to ethically extract intelligence from profiles and Marketplace. Get phone numbers, emails and more with advanced SOCMINT techniques.OSINT Industries Team (OSINT Industries)
Anker’s fast, two-headed USB-C cable is 31 percent off
We’re seeing discounts on a handy USB-C cable that lets you charge two devices at once, QD-OLED gaming monitors, PC games, and more.Cameron Faulkner (The Verge)
Argentina Debt Upgraded by Fitch in Fresh Boost for Milei
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-12/argentina-debt-upgraded-by-fitch-in-fresh-boost-for-milei?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Unpacking Multiplexing: The Hidden Power in Software Development and Databases
Multiplexing is not just a term from electronics; it’s a fundamental concept that underpins various software development practices and database architectures. By understanding multiplexing, developers...
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#news #tech #QueryOptimization #DatabaseDesign #Multiplexing
Pesquisa sugere que chimpanzés têm ritmo e música pode ser anterior a humanos
https://canaltech.com.br/meio-ambiente/pesquisa-sugere-que-chimpanzes-tem-ritmo-e-musica-pode-ser-anterior-a-humanos/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Even a16z VCs say no one really knows what an AI agent is
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/even-a16z-vcs-say-no-one-really-knows-what-an-ai-agent-is/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Even a16z VCs say no one really knows what an AI agent is | TechCrunch
No one really knows what an AI agent is. Three VCs from Andreessen Horowitz explain what the buzzword really means, and how they expect them to work with, or instead of, human workers.Julie Bort (TechCrunch)
In the #Fediverse there are now
564 media accounts federated by @Flipboard.
476 were active today.
Some accounts, that were active today are
@PopularWood
@USAToday
@GlobalNews
@LonelyPlanet
@FinancialPost
Find the whole list on:
➡️ fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview…
Built by @mho
#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon
Google paga 1,375 mil milhões de dólares ao Texas por recolha ilegal de dados biométricos
🔗 tugatech.com.pt/t66531-google-…
#chrome #facebook #google #instagram #judicial #Meta #Privacidade
NEW: #Trump is set to accept a $400 million ultra-luxury Boeing 747-8 jet from the royal family of Qatar, with the gift expected to be announced next week during his first foreign trip of his second term, ABC News reports.
A few weeks ago, the Trump family business signed a deal to build a luxury golf resort in #Qatar.
A foreign #monarchy (that funds and hosts terrorists) giving the U.S. president a $400M jet while cutting deals with his business? Textbook #corruption
U.S. and China agree to slash most tariffs for 90 days
https://mobilesyrup.com/2025/05/12/us-china-slash-most-tariffs-90-days/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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U.S. and China agree to pause most tariffs for 90 days
It's unclear what impact, if any, this might have on Canada.Bradly Shankar (MobileSyrup)
Iko Musa, founder of the Unijos R Users Group at the University of Jos (UNIJOS), Nigeria, spoke with the R Consortium about how the group built an inclusive and cross-disciplinary R community in northern Nigeria.
He highlighted their efforts to improve accessibility through online sessions, providing internet support for undergraduates, and hosting practical events like a recent Meetup on outbreak mapping in R.
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Top UK Special Forces general oversaw blocking of Afghan 'war-crime' witnesses to Britain
Gen Sir Gwyn Jenkins oversaw a process where Afghan special forces were prevented from settling in the UK.Hannah O'Grady, Joel Gunter and Rory Tinman (BBC News)
[TRAILER] "Il Baracchino" - Nicolò Cuccì, Salvo Di Paola
Lo spettacolo deve continuare. Il Baracchino va in scena dal 3 giugno su Prime Video
Il Baracchino era un tempio della comicità. Ora cade a pezzi, e il proprietario disilluso Maurizio (Lillo Petrolo) è pronto a mollare. Ma l'idealista aspirante art-director Claudia (Pilar Fogliati) ha un piano: rilanciare il locale con una serata Open Mic e un cast di comici improbabili. Ci sono il piccione tabagista Luca (Luca Ravenna), il genio boomer Leonardo Da Vinci (Edoardo Ferrario), l'alieno undercover John Lumano (Daniele Tinti), il Tristo Mietitore Marco Morte (Stefano Rapone), la ciambella dal retrogusto amaro Noemi (Michela Giraud) e il triceratopo eco-ansioso Tricerita (Yoko Yamada). Insieme al tuttofare Gerri (Salvo Di Paola), all'ex comico sornione Larry Tucano (Pietro Sermonti) e alla ciambella dal cuore tenero Donato (Frank Matano), Claudia tenta l'impresa impossibile: riportare il Baracchino ai suoi giorni migliori.
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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.youtube.com
💠 Haze 1.6.0 has been released!
This is a big release:
🤖 Blurring for all versions of Android
🎨 Foreground (content) blurring
📐 Blurred edge treatment
🔗: github.com/chrisbanes/haze/rel…
Release 1.6.0 · chrisbanes/haze
🤖 Support for all versions of Android Haze now supports blurring for all versions of Android, using RenderScript underneath. The new platforms documentation has all of the details. ...GitHub
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@scienza
Apple si prepara a una rivoluzione: pieghevoli, occhiali smart e Siri potenziata dall'IA
Apple prepara una rivoluzione per il 2027: iPhone pieghevole, occhiali smart e Siri potenziata dall'IA in arrivo.Umberto Stentella (Lega Nerd)
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Attention Beige Party-goers!
Polls are fixed! I've been getting reports since mid March about an issue with polls not recording all votes. After digging around in the database a bit I found that polls with more than four options would only record local votes. I submitted this as a bug in GitHub, but of course it turned out to be a result of me having no idea what I'm doing.
Around the same time this started happening, I moved the sidekiq processes off to their own server. On the web server I had increased the max poll options to allow more than four poll options, but I hadn't done it for the sidekiq server. The result being that we could create polls with more than four options through the UI, but sidekiq was only set to accept four options. Since sidekiq handles communication between instances, that meant that the local votes got recorded but remote votes got dropped.
I made the fix on the sidekiq server and created a new poll this morning with more than four options, and it is now correctly recording both local and remote votes.
You can read a more detailed explanation of what was going on here:
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
Thanks to those who kept bringing this issue to my attention. At first it was a hard bug to pin down, but once I was able to actually see it happening in the database I could at least ask enough dumb questions to point the finger right back at me.
As always, thank you for bearing with me, and Beige-bless 
Polls with more than four options only report votes from the local instance · Issue #34662 · mastodon/mastodon
Steps to reproduce the problem Increase the max number of poll options by modifying MAX_OPTIONS in app/validators/poll_options_validator.rb Post a poll with more than 4 options Wait for users from ...GitHub
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Ma Bialetti no, porcoddio!
L'omino coi baffi piange. 😔
Semiconductor Simulator Lets Your Play IC Designer
For circuit simulation, we have always been enthralled with the Falstad simulator which is a simple, Spice-like simulator that runs in the browser. [Brandon] has a simulator, too, but it simulates semiconductor devices. With help from [Paul Falstad], that simulator also runs in the browser.
This simulator takes a little thinking and lets you build devices as you might on an IC die. The key is to use the dropdown that initially says “Interact” to select a tool. Then, the drop-down below lets you select what you are drawing, which can be a voltage source, metal, or various materials you find in semiconductor devices, like n-type or a dielectric.
It is a bit tricky, but if you check out the examples first (like this diode), it gets easier. The main page has many examples. You can even build up entire subsystems like a ring oscillator or a DRAM cell.
Designing at this level has its own quirks. For example, in the real world, you think of resistors as something you can use with great precision, and capacitors are often “sloppy.” On an IC substrate, resistors are often the sloppy component. While capacitor values might not be exact, it is very easy to get an extremely precise ratio of two capacitors because the plate size is tightly controlled. This leads to a different mindset than you are used to when designing with discrete components.
Of course, this is just a simulation, so everything can be perfect. If, for some reason, you don’t know about the Falstad simulator, check it out now.
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Sources: Apple is planning an AI-powered battery management mode for iOS 19 that analyzes how a person uses their phone and makes adjustments to conserve energy (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Sources: Apple is planning an AI-powered battery management mode for iOS 19 that analyzes how a person uses their phone and makes adjustments to conserve energy
By Mark Gurman / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
Google to pay Texas nearly $1.4 billion over alleged data privacy violations
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Another lawsuit settlement has struck Google. This time, the company is now liable for one of the largest payouts from a state-level consumer data protection legislation in the United States.
Google has agreed to pay Texas more than $1.37 billion to resolve two lawsuits involving its use of location data, biometrics and its Incognito search engine.The payout far outstrips any other state settlements against the tech giant to date on claims involving data privacy.
Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Google in 2022, alleging the company illegally tracked and collected users’ private data, including their location, their voiceprints and faces and their searches in Incognito mode. The latter has been the subject of other lawsuits claiming the special search engine does not deliver the privacy it promises.
“In Texas, Big Tech is not above the law,” Paxton said in a statement, which accused Google of “secretly” tracking Texans’ data.
“This $1.375 billion settlement is a major win for Texans’ privacy and tells companies that they will pay for abusing our trust.”
A Google spokesperson noted that the settlement reached on Friday does not mandate new product changes and said the company has already made policy fixes which address the issues at the heart of the lawsuit.
The settlement also includes no admission of wrongdoing by Google, the spokesperson said.
Does this fix anything? Not really. Since Google has already changed much of its privacy policies since the original 2022 lawsuit, this settlement seems reactive at best.
Google to pay Texas nearly $1.4 billion over alleged data privacy violations
The payout far outstrips any other state settlements against the tech giant over data privacy.Suzanne Smalley (The Record)
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Schumann with Colli, Prokofiev and Schönberg from Florence - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Federico Colli, and the Orchestra della Toscana conducted by Diego Ceretta play: SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54. PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 1 in D major, op. 25 'Classical'. SCHÖNBERG: Kammersymphonie No. 2 in B flat minor, op. 38. Rec...www.worldconcerthall.com
Not sure what this means: “50% of people can die if infected” Can doesn’t mean will, so the statement is kind of vague.
From: @WGAvanDijk
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Bird flu (H5N1 avian flu) is now evolved so much it can infect mammals. Including humans. At the moment, it does not jump from human to human. Not yet. Gavi (well-respected organisation) warns that that jump will soon-ish happen.Mastodon
Landbouw, geen roofbouw!
Het huidige landbouwsysteem: 1. stoot te veel broeikas- en andere schadelijke gassen uit (CO₂ én stikstof én methaan), 2. vervuilt het water, 3. doodt steeds meer natuur en verstoort ecosystemen, 4.DeGoedeZaak
Apparently at least one US Attorney is willing to admit in federal court that he does not know where the clitoris is.
I'm integrating MCP (Model-Context-Protocol) with a real production-grade SaaS, built on Blazor and C# dotnet.
The tech landscape is ever-evolving, and I want to stay sharp for MSBuild next week—no surprises allowed! This is a hands-on journey with real SaaS software.
Catch me today from 3-4 pm PST, and likely every day this week. I will try to also stream on #owncast, but not sure if it is ready to share, we will see.
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MCP + dotnet an hands-on exploration journey in a real production-grade SaaS
Hey everyone! I’m super excited to take you along on my journey integrating MCP (Model-Context-Protocol) with VocalCat, which is all about Blazor and C# dotn...YouTube
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Moviments
📍València, País Valencià.
📷 Minolta XD7
🎞 Ilford XP2 400 asa.
#photography #fotografia #35mm #analògic #analog #film #València #blackandwhite #blancinegre #noieretblanc #biancoenero #bnw #people #classicmono #filmphotography#35mmfilm
#believeinfilm #filmisnotdead
Sometimes the colors and textures are just a sensual pleasure. I want to take a bath in these.
Always better quality at Flickr:
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#photograph #photography #fujiGFX #250mm #gf250mm #colors #colours #textures
smiling goat.
#FotoMontag #photography #darktable
Kidical Mass in Berlin | Changing Cities
Es ist wieder soweit: Die Kidical Mass Fahrraddemos rollen durch Berlin! Von Freitag, den 16. bis Sonntag, den 18. Mai 2025.Mara Hasenjürgen (Changing Cities)
T2 SDE: The Next Generation of Customizable Linux Build Systems
T2 SDE is revolutionizing the way developers create Linux distributions with its highly customizable and portable build system. From embedded platforms to full desktop systems, T2 offers unprecedented...
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#news #tech #OpenSource #T2SDE #LinuxBuildSystem
Ich mag den Humor dieses Freiburger Spielzeugladens 😀
Trump’s cryptocurrency scheme: Buy his digital coin, win dinner with him — or even a White House tour. Critics call it a pay-to-play scheme, while insiders may profit. The SEC? Silent. Democracy for sale?
nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/poli… #press
#deancastlecountrypark #jacobite #williamboyd #photography #fotografia #fotografie #canon
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CSDDD: Merz fordert Abschaffung von EU-Lieferkettengesetz
(dpa) Der neue Bundeskanzler will Bürokratie für Unternehmen abbauen und unterstützt entsprechende Vorhaben auf EU-Ebene. Bei seinem Antrittsbesuch stellt Friedrich Merz eine konkrete Forderung.LOGISTIK HEUTE
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