AMD openSIL PoC Still Being Worked On For Phoenix SoCs, Turin Code Published

One topic we haven't heard AMD talk too much about publicly this year has been their openSIL effort that was announced back in 2023 as their eventual replacement to AGESA and being an open-source CPU silicon initialization effort. They still appear to be working toward making openSIL production-ready for next-generation Zen 6 platforms but some of their proo…
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Van Caterpillar tot BNP Paribas: VN-rapporteur hekelt bedrijven die geld verdienen aan Gaza-oorlog

Voor tientallen bedrijven is de oorlog in Gaza een bron van winst. Daardoor kunnen ze medeplichtig zijn aan oorlogsmisdaden, meent Speciaal Rapporteur voor de VN Francesca Albanese.

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#Gaza #VN

Van Caterpillar tot BNP Paribas: VN-rapporteur hekelt bedrijven die geld verdienen aan Gaza-oorlog

^{Ruben Mooijman (De Standaard)}

Hacker do Pix: polícia investiga 29 empresas que teriam recebido dinheiro desviado
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Hacker do Pix: polícia investiga 29 empresas que teriam recebido dinheiro desviado

Banco Central suspendeu algumas empresas enquanto as investigações avançam em busca de novos suspeitos.

^{Felipe Vidal (TecMundo)}

Parrot 6.4, a Linux distro designed for ethical hackers and cybersecurity pros, upgrades core tools and refines system scripts in preparation for the Debian 13-based Parrot 7.
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#linux #security #privacy #opensource

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Molto bene

"Di là dal fiume e tra gli alberi" finalmente nelle sale italiane

Tratto dal romanzo-testamento di Hemingway. La regista Paula Ortiz dirige Liev Schreiber e Matilda De Angelis.

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25 years ago today one of the best entries in the Final Fantasy series was released. At first glance, it's easy to consider Final Fantasy IX as a light and whimsical title, especially in the shadow of FFVII. But anyone who has played the game knows that beyond its colourful characters and gorgeous scenery, it explores themes of existentialism, identity, finding your chosen family, finding love and acceptance as you are, and also finding yourself and what it means to carve your own path and to make the choices that define you, despite your past or what inner or outer darkness you are fighting against.

It's a story that asks some very deep questions about dealing with depression, the meaning of life, and the fear of death and loss, that ultimately rejects nihilism by emphasising how even the realisation that existence is temporary and mortality is inevitable doesn't diminish the importance of connecting, loving, sharing, hoping, experiencing the little moments, and fighting for a better world. It's one the most beautiful and hopepunk games to have come out in the last few decades that remains more relevant than ever, and is well worth discovering even today.

(25th anniversary Illustrations by Yuya Ishihata and Toshiyuki Itahana)

#FinalFantasyIX #FinalFantasy #OTD #OnThisDay #Gaming #VideoGames #Games #RPG #HopePunk

Adnoc’s €12 Billion Covestro Deal Faces Likely In-Depth EU Probe
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Oh oh, Roger Federer infiamma il Royal Box di Wimbledon con un Rolex delle meraviglie
https://www.gqitalia.it/article/roger-federer-orologio-rolex-wimbledon-2025?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Roger Federer infiamma il Royal Box di Wimbledon con un Rolex delle meraviglie

L'ex campione arriva sul campo centrale con un orologio da far girare la testa

^{Paola Montanaro (GQ Italia)}

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This code slashes Baseus’ 10K mAh 22.5W power bank with retractable cable to only $12.50
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'Het was de week van Wilders. Na een blamage op links kreeg de PVV-voorman zijn twee veelbesproken asielwetten erdoor én een amendement waardoor statushouders geen voorrang meer krijgen bij woningtoewijzing. Hoe heeft dit kunnen gebeuren en wat zijn de gevolgen? De kamer van Klok neemt het door.'

#DeVolkskrantElkeDag De kamer van Klok: Wilders heeft deze week iedereen weggespeeld

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What Scottish Independence Could Deliver For The Welfare State

“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.” – Marcus Aurelius

This blog post previously appeared in The National as part of Common Weal’s In Common newsletter.
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Back in the early days of Common Weal, while we were still finding our feet and building our reputation, we had an informal rule when it came to policy-making. We had to be able to show the policy working somewhere else.

This was because we felt that Scotland simply wasn’t ready for some of the radical ideas that we wanted to implement so being able to show it already working was a good way of building confidence in a nation too often told “we cannae dae it” (by which our opponents often mean “we shouldnae dae it” which is a different thing entirely).

We’ve since dispensed with that rule and we sometimes broke it even then (one of Common Weal’s very first policy papers, “In Place Of Anxiety”, was an advocacy for Universal Basic Income (UBI) long before it became one of the “cool” policies) but this isn’t to say that we can’t learn lessons from elsewhere.

Just this week, I was asked by a researcher which of our neighbour nations I’d like Scotland to copy if I could. My answer was that we shouldn’t copy any one but that I take a lot of inspiration from Germany on local democracy, from Denmark on energy strategy and from Norway for public ownership. Somewhere else we could do with taking inspiration from our neighbours is on social security.

The scenes this week from the UK’s attempts to hammer the poor and disabled and only backing down after shambolic chaos in the Parliament should be a lesson not just in humanity but in policy-making as well. Never fight a battle you haven’t won in advance. Never assume a large on-paper majority means certain absolute power.

With many of our neighbours basing their politics on proportional representation and coalition politics, this kind of legislation would have undergone a lot of negotiation and compromise long before arriving at the voting chamber.

The way that many of our neighbours deal with the issue of social security is markedly different from the UK in several ways. The first is that the systems are a lot more generous in general. Norway, Denmark and Sweden rank in the top three OECD nations for spending on disability protections at above 3% of GDP while the UK is well below the OECD average at less than 2%.

Many more social securities like unemployment protections follow a different model from the UK when they are calculated. In particular, instead of the flat rate paid under the UK’s Universal Credit, many countries follow a model where the protection you receive is based on a percentage of your previous income.

There are consequences to each of these models. A flat rate tends to be more redistributive if it is generous enough (which Universal Credit isn’t) whereas a proportional rate tends to be less disruptive to an individual who is already going through the shock of losing their job while still having bills to pay.

We’ve seen these impacts in the UK too. During the pandemic, the Covid furlough scheme was paid at a proportional rate to people who were employed but was often paid at a flat Universal Credit rate to self-employed people. This exposed a lot of people who were previously on the side of denigrating poor and vulnerable people as lazy slackers to just how meagre and cruel the UK “benefits” system is.

We had an opportunity then to get some serious change off the back of that and maybe we still see echoes of it in this week’s chaos but largely the Powers That Be wanted to make us forget that moment of reflection as quickly as possible.

On the other side and as tempting as it might be to copy a European-style unemployment insurance based on previous income, and as beneficial that would be to people in well-paid but otherwise insecure jobs, we have to remember that many people are not in well-paid jobs and that wage suppression has been rife in the UK for decades. Receiving 60% of your previous income when you were being paid poverty wages won’t protect you from poverty in unemployment.

So maybe rather than Scotland – particularly an independent Scotland – copying existing social security policies from our neighbours, we need to look to them for inspiration in another way and look back at that paper I mentioned at the start of this column.

Last year, the EU think tank the Coppieters Foundation published a paper called “A European Universal Basic Income” which found that a UBI sufficient to eradicate poverty across the entire union could be entirely paid for by relatively modest changes to income tax and the savings found from the reduction of poverty itself.

Its model called for a UBI of €6,857 per year for adults and half that for children under 14. This is the equivalent of £113 per week for adults and £57 per week for children. The paper claimed that the increase in income taxes to pay for this level of UBI would themselves be relatively modest and the “breakeven” point for people who’d pay more income tax than they’d receive in UBI would be at around the 80th percentile.

In other words, eight out of 10 people would be directly better off with the UBI. And, to repeat, while this is still a relatively small sum per person if you have no other income, it would be enough to eradicate poverty across the entire EU and would be cheaper overall – after the health, crime and social inequality costs of poverty are factored in – than the current systems.

When this paper came out I argued that this meant a UBI was now a moral imperative because it was cheaper than the cost of poverty, but there’s clearly a financial imperative too. Whether we’re discussing an independent Scotland seeking to create a better country for all of us or even just a cynical UK trying to save money in the face of a humiliating attempt to crush the poor, here is a solution we should all support. Eradicate poverty, save money, implement a Universal Basic Income.

#politics #ScottishPolitics #SocialSecurity #UBI #UKPolitics

You, boring: sequels are bad

Me, an intellectual:

Ludicrous speed GOOOOOOOO!

#Fediverse #Tech #Stream

#owncast #streaming #videogames #linux #videogames #games #gaming #tst #linuxgaming #gamingonlinux #tech #chatting

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Näin tulva texasissa nousi. 6 metriä muutamassa tunnissa!

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Näin Texasin historiallisen tuhoisat syöksytulvat muodostuivat – kuolonuhreja jo yli 80

Viikonlopun syöksytulvissa on kuollut ainakin 82 ihmistä. Joen pinta nousi nopeasti yli kuusi metriä, koska voimakas ukkosrintama jäi pyörimään paikoilleen.

^{Roni Kuronen (Yle Uutiset)}

The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.

(Published April)
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#News #Climate #NOAA #Research #Science #Data #Weather #Trump

Trump’s NOAA Budget Cuts Could Gut Critical Climate Modeling

Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

^ProPublica

Eilean Donan is a stunning castle in the Scottish highlands, surrounded by majestic scenery. A Scottish icon and certainly one of the most popular visitor attractions in the Highlands.
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#FediGiftShop #ScottishArtist #MastoArt #CreativeToots
#Landscape #EileanDonanCastle #Scotland #OriginalArt #Drawing #PenAndInk #ColourPencil #MixedMedia #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop

Prior Authorization Coming to Traditional Medicare Starting in January 2026. Traditional #Medicare, also known as Original Medicare, has historically required little in the way of pre-authorization for beneficiaries seeking services

Six states — New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, and Washington — will begin using the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model to perform prior authorization evaluations, #CMS announced in a Federal Register notice #USPol public-inspection.federalregis…

17 services to be subject to prior authorization.at first are:

Electrical nerve stimulators
Sacral nerve stimulation for urinary incontinence
Phrenic nerve stimulator
Deep brain stimulation for essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease
Vagus nerve stimulation
Induced lesions of nerve tracts
Epidural steroid injections for pain management
excluding facet joint injections
Percutaneous vertebral augmentation (PVA) for vertebral compression fracture
Cervical fusion
Arthroscopic lavage and arthroscopic debridement for the osteoarthritic knee
Hypoglossal nerve stimulation for obstructive sleep apnea
Incontinence control devices
Diagnosis and treatment of impotence
Percutaneous image-guided lumbar decompression for spinal stenosis
Skin and Tissue Substitutes
Application of bioengineered skin substitutes to lower extremity chronic non-healing wounds
Wound Application of cellular and/or tissue based products (CTPs), lower extremities

Per the Federal Register notice, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate Blackwell (844) 711-2664, Option 8 or email at
WISeR@cms.hhs.gov.

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If you turned off all your notifications, what would be different?

#Apps #Platforms #Technology

BREAKING: NYT Scoops Weekly World News on Amazing Batboy Discovery!

#NYT #NewYorkTimes #AllTheShitThatsFitToPrint #USPol

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2025-07-07 13:46:27

#Facebook is always hungry for all of your data.

The ecosystem maintained by #Meta will always try to scoop as much data as possible about you.

And they also love to spy on you while you’re not even using their services.

The “Meta pixel” has so far been adopted by ~20% of most visited websites.

It’s an invisible element rendered on all those webpages whose purpose is to spy on you. It’s thanks to these pixels that Meta probably has details about your tax returns and medical records.

But that isn’t enough for the espionage company better known as Meta.

After rolling out the tracking pixels about 10 years ago, many browsers and extensions have learned how to block them.

If you use Firefox in Strict mode, and/or the Facebook Container extension, and/or Privacy Badger or uBlock Origin, then chances are that your browser is blocking Meta’s creepy eyes.

Probably there aren’t a lot of people out there who take these measures, as they usually involve some degree of tech-savvyness. But the fact that there are still some people on planet earth that are trying to block their creepy eyes, some people whose tax returns, health records or sexual habits aren’t known to them, makes Meta uneasy. After all, it’s a company explicitly designed to know EVERYTHING about EVERYONE!

So what have they done?

Well, they basically opened a local backdoor on all Android phones that have some of their apps installed.

Usually a mobile app with INTERNET permissions can bind to any non-privileged TCP port on the local interface.

And that’s exactly what their mobile apps are doing.

They open a localhost socket, and then whenever you open your mobile browser on a website that has one of their trackers the JavaScript code tries to connect to that port to push scraped data from your browsing history to their apps.

They basically abuse the localhost sandbox, usually used by developers and less subject to the scrutiny of tracker-blocking software, to funnel private data scooped up from your usage of other websites, unencrypted, to their own apps, which in turn pushes it to their servers.

To be clear, this isn’t something new. Yandex has been doing it since 2017. And by now you probably shouldn’t trust any large-scale apps that come out of the US, Russia or China because they are all funded by State-sponsored programs whose aim is collective espionage and data collection.

If you want to protect yourself:

1. Never use Chrome for browsing. Only use Firefox or one of its forks. And, since Firefox is the only mobile browser that supports extensions, don’t forget to install Facebook Container (which limits all activities related to known Meta domains in their own sandbox), Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin on it. And I would also recommend NoScript - better to explicitly whitelist all JavaScript content that you want to run on your devices than risking your data leaking to unintended actors. The way Meta exploits these loopholes in the browser to violate people’s privacy shows that it’s no longer tolerable to have browsers that don’t actively provide users ways to block trackers. Google acknowledged Meta’s abuse, allegedly provided a patch to close the localhost loophole, but still doesn’t provide privacy-focused features in their browser because they have a strong conflict of interests - because they also profit from violating people’s privacy. Ditching their products has now become a civic duty.
2. Uninstall the Facebook and Instagram apps. Use the website instead. Webpages run in the browser’s sandbox and can’t just arbitrarily access the storage or start TCP services. I know that Facebook and Instagram in a browser suck, and that’s deliberate - it’s all part of Meta’s plan to force people to use their apps instead. But maybe it’s a good way to limit your usage of this crap.
3. Avoid using WhatsApp through their app directly too if you can (sure, individual messages are E2E encrypted, but there’s plenty of juicy metadata that they can still scoop up from your app usage). I personally use Matrix with a WhatsApp bridge, so I can interact with my conversations directly from my Element app instead of using WhatsApp directly on the phone.
4. Use Meta’s services as little as possible. If there’s some data point that they can harvest and sell about you, then rest assure that they will do. Moving to privacy-aware decentralized solutions like the Fediverse is now a civic duty. The more people move over their content, the more Meta’s services lose their value, the less people will be inclined to use them even if they hate them just because “everyone else is there”.

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Tax Filing Websites Have Been Sending Users’ Financial Information to Facebook – The Markup

The Markup found services including TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block sending sensitive data

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Bei Luftangriffen im Gazastreifen wurden eine Suppenküche und eine Schule zerstört, die wir gemeinsam mit medico international finanziert haben. Unsere Partner verlieren damit lebenswichtige Infrastruktur. Wir verurteilen die Angriffe aufs Schärfste und fordern von der Bundesregierung, Druck auf Israel auszuüben, um den Schutz für Hilfsprojekte und Zivilist*innen sicherzustellen.
Mehr dazu: tdh.de/hilfsprojekt-in-gaza-ze…

#Gaza #Nothilfe #Kinderrechte

Zerstörung von Hilfsprojekten im Gazastreifen

Bei Luftangriffen im Gazastreifen wurden eine Suppenküche und eine Schule zerstört, die durch Terre des Hommes mitfinanziert wurden.

^www.tdh.de

Ukraine: "Viele werden überlegen, das Land zu verlassen"

Wellenartige Angriffe Russlands mit Hunderten Drohnen: Der ukrainische Militäranalyst Mykola Beleskow sieht darin eine gezielte Strategie der Zerstörung und Zermürbung. Er befürchtet: Ohne Militärhilfe werden wieder mehr Menschen fliehen.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/u…

#Interview #Ukraine #Russland

Ukraine: "Viele werden überlegen, das Land zu verlassen"

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Breve sosta nel teatro di Dioniso

Qui, nel primo teatro fra i sedili di pietra danza ancora Mnemosine fra di noi. L'hai vista tessere acqua fra le dita e poi risalire il cielo, circondata da fiori

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Talent and inspiration helps but . . .

#photography #xiomaro #quotes

Historical technology tree timeline of discoveries. This is an interactive timeline so you can search or filter by what you are interested in.

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#history #technology #science #timeline

🇨🇦 The #Healthcare of #Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) has investments in at least 38 companies that are contributing to and/or benefiting from Israel’s illegal occupation and genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. According to HOOPP’s most recent SEC filing, in 2025 these investments total $5,424,797,951 USD.

justpeaceadvocates.ca/hoopp/

#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen
#SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli

"EU renewable energy up 3.4% in 2024 as coal hits record low"

#EU #EuropeanUnion #Renewables #Energy

pv-magazine.com/2025/07/03/eu-…

Valori assoluti e relativi

@matematica
Non è che se c'è stato un sorpasso allora va tutto bene.

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