🔴 Happening now: Settler terrorists opened live fire, killing two brothers inside their home in Qaryut village near Nablus. Reports indicate the terrorists are still in the village while the IDF stands by.
Imani Winds play:
Ramon SANTAMARIA: Afro Blue (arr. Valerie Coleman).
Jason MORAN: Cane.
VILLA-LOBOS: Trio for Oboe, Clarinet, and Bassoon.
Carlos SIMON: Giants, world premiere.
Miguel DEL ÁGUILA: Wind Quintet No. 2.
Recorded....
Some AWS services are down in the Middle East. Recovery is unclear as it requires 'careful assessment to ensure the safety of our operators,' according to Amazon.
Some AWS services are down in the Middle East. Recovery is unclear as it requires x27;careful assessment to ensure the safety of our operators,x27; according to Amazon.#News #war
Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai
Amazon’s cloud services are down in some of the Middle East after “objects” hit data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) causing “sparks and fire.” Around 60 services tied to AWS are down in the region, affecting web traffic in the UAE and Bahrain. The outage comes following Iranian attacks on the UAE as retaliation for US and Israeli strikes on Iran.
Customers in Bahrain and the UAE began to report outages tied to the mec1-az2 and mec1-az3 clusters in AWS’ ME-CENTRAL-1 Region on March 1 after Iranian ballistic missiles and drones struck targets in and around Dubai. Amazon did not confirm that AWS was down in the Middle East due to an Iranian attack and instead referred 404 Media to its online dashboard. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… “At around 4:30 AM PST, one of our Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire,” AWS said on its health dashboard. “The fire department shut off power to the facility and generators as they worked to put out the fire. We are still awaiting permission to turn the power back on, and once we have, we will ensure we restore power and connectivity safely. It will take several hours to restore connectivity to the impacted AZ.”
As of this morning at 9:22 AM ET, the damage had spread. “We are expecting recovery to take at least a day, as it requires repair of facilities, cooling and power systems, coordination with local authorities, and careful assessment to ensure the safety of our operators,” AWS said. “We recommend customers enact their disaster recovery plans and recover from remote backups into alternate AWS Regions, ideally in Europe.”
Amazon later shared more information about the attack and confirmed it was the result of drones. “Due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, both affected regions have experienced physical impacts to infrastructure as a result of drone strikes. In the UAE, two of our facilities were directly struck, while in Bahrain, a drone strike in close proximity to one of our facilities caused physical impacts to our infrastructure,” it said. “These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage. We are working closely with local authorities and prioritizing the safety of our personnel throughout our recovery efforts.”
On Saturday, the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury and struck targets inside of Iran, killing several political and military leaders including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s Supreme Leader. In retaliation, Iran launched drone and missile attacks against Israel and multiple US-allied targets in the Middle East.
According to the Emirati defense forces, Iran attacked the country with two cruise missiles, 165 ballistic missiles, and more than 540 drones. The UAE and its capital city Dubai are often seen as a safe and stable destination in the Middle East. The country hosts wealthy people from across the region and influencers from across the world. Footage shared on social media showed the neon towers of the UAE backlit by missiles and munitions.
It’s unclear how long it will take for Amazon to restore services to the region or how far the damage will spread. Amazon’s dashboard is promising to bring things back up in “at least a day” but the war is far from over. Iran continues to strike targets in the Middle East and it’s unclear what America’s plan of attack is or how long this war might grind on.
Update 2/2/26: This story has been updated with more specifics about the attack from Amazon.
[h2]INDICI DI CRIMINALITà 2025. L'EUROPA è RESILIENTE, LA CRIMINALITà è STABILE, MA VI SONO CAMBIAMENTI SIGNIFICATIVI [...][/h2]
INDICI DI CRIMINALITà 2025. L'EUROPA è RESILIENTE, LA CRIMINALITà è STABILE, MA VI SONO CAMBIAMENTI SIGNIFICATIVI
La Global Initiative è un'organizzazione indipendente della società civile, con sede a Ginevra, Svizzera, con un segretariato distribuito in tutto il mondo e un comitato consultivo di alto livello. I membri della sua rete includono eminenti professionisti delle forze dell'ordine, della governance e dello sviluppo che si dedicano alla ricerca di strategie e risposte nuove e innovative alla criminalità organizzata. Produce ogni anno il “Global Organized Crime Index”, fornendo un giudizio basato su “indicatori” sui livelli di criminalità dei cinque continenti nonché sulla rispettiva resilienza al crimine.
Secondo il Global Organized Crime Index 2025, i livelli di criminalità organizzata sono rimasti stabili in tutta Europa, mentre sono aumentati nella maggior parte delle altre regioni. L'Europa si classifica al secondo posto per criminalità dopo l'Oceania. Tuttavia, questa stabilità complessiva nasconde cambiamenti significativi all'interno dei mercati criminali e tra gli attori criminali. Il punteggio di criminalità in Europa si attesta a 4,74, con un punteggio di resilienza di 6,28, il più alto a livello globale. Nonostante le prestazioni superiori dell'Europa in tutti i 12 indicatori di resilienza, l'attività criminale continua a espandersi ed evolversi, sottolineando l'urgenza di aggiornare le strategie di resilienza per affrontare le minacce emergenti. La criminalità finanziaria rimane il mercato criminale più diffuso in Europa per il secondo anno consecutivo. Questi reati comprendono frodi sempre più sofisticate condotte principalmente online, tra cui frodi sugli investimenti, compromissione delle e-mail aziendali, truffe sentimentali, appropriazione indebita ed evasione fiscale. I reati finanziari trascendono i confini regionali e sono sostanzialmente facilitati dalla corruzione. L'Europa rimane un importante hub globale per i reati informatici, classificandosi al secondo posto a livello continentale. Queste vanno dagli attacchi ransomware e dalla distribuzione di malware alle frodi con criptovalute, che spesso prendono di mira istituzioni governative, grandi aziende e infrastrutture critiche. Gli attori criminali informatici ibridi e tradizionali sono sempre più allineati, con gruppi sponsorizzati dallo Stato che spesso si spacciano per criminali informatici indipendenti. I mercati della droga continuano a rappresentare sfide significative. La cocaina e le droghe sintetiche hanno registrato i maggiori aumenti dal 2023. La cocaina rappresenta la principale fonte di reddito per numerosi gruppi criminali organizzati europei, con il continente che funge da destinazione, via di transito e mercato di consumo. La produzione di droghe sintetiche è sempre più dispersa, in particolare nell'Europa centrale e orientale, che ha registrato la crescita più significativa dal 2021. Il consumo di eroina è in calo, mentre la cannabis rimane la sostanza illecita più consumata. La tratta di esseri umani e il contrabbando rimangono minacce pervasive. Le reti di contrabbando sono saldamente radicate lungo la rotta dei Balcani occidentali, con molte nazioni europee che fungono da destinazioni finali dove le persone trafficate affrontano lavori forzati o sfruttamento sessuale. La presenza di attori criminali è cresciuta costantemente dal 2021. Gli attori stranieri rappresentano la preoccupazione più significativa, registrando l'aumento maggiore dal 2021. Questi gruppi sono sempre più diversificati, multietnici e interconnessi. Gli attori del settore privato svolgono un ruolo sostanziale nel riciclaggio di denaro, mentre gli attori integrati nello Stato, sebbene meno diffusi che altrove, facilitano l'attività criminale in determinati contesti.
L'indice di criminalità dell'Italia secondo il Global Index
I punti di forza della resilienza dell'Europa includono la cooperazione internazionale, politiche e legislazioni nazionali solide e l' integrità territoriale. Al contrario, la trasparenza e la responsabilità del governo si posizionano costantemente agli ultimi posti tra gli indicatori di resilienza, così come la capacità di contrasto al riciclaggio di denaro e di regolamentazione economica. Sebbene l'Europa dimostri una resilienza complessivamente relativamente forte, alcuni mercati e attori criminali continuano a espandersi. Questi risultati evidenziano la necessità critica di meccanismi di risposta più efficaci e personalizzati, man mano che la criminalità organizzata si adatta in tutto il continente.
# Un profilo curato da un cultore della materia. La cooperazione di polizia da un'ottica italiana. # Un perfil editado por un experto en el tema. La cooperación policial desde una perspectiva italiana. # A profile edited by an expert on the subject.
In the stillness after a night of bombardment, Israa, a devoted mother of three, and her husband lost not just a home, but the sense of safety that every family deserves.
Un collage de imágenes y texto. Las imágenes muestran la difícil situación de niños y adultos en un entorno de pobreza o post-desastre. Se ven heridas en el rostro de un niño y un ojo vendado, un niño entre escombros de edificios destruidos, y otro niño sacando agua de cubos. También hay una persona cocinando en un fogón rudimentario al aire libre, y una persona tamizando alimentos. En contraste, otra imagen muestra a dos niños pequeños jugando tranquilamente en la arena.
En la parte inferior, un texto grande sobre un fondo rosa claro dice: "Tu apoyo y donaciones no son solo números añadidos a mi cuenta; son una oportunidad real para que mis hijos crezcan sabiendo que alguien vio 💔🫂👨👩👧👦🍉". El texto incluye emojis de un corazón roto, personas abrazándose, una familia y una sandía.
I think it's weird that there are a handful of Big Twitter Accounts™ that seem to lurk on Bluesky in search of Content™ they can share in the form of screenshots, tbh. Kind of pathetic, honestly.
9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is...
Really bizarre. None of us can resist a little snark these days but Jamelle is one of the most consistently civil, thoughtful, and substantive writers out there. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j76tr…
※各種法令、マナー、関係者の指示に従った撮影をお願いします。 *Please ensure that your photography adheres to all relevant laws, etiquette, and instructions issued by authorized persons.
Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thank you Emre Yolcu for assigning your copyright to the FSF! More at: u.fsf.org/463 #Emacs #CopyrightAssignments
Le procedure delle #IscrizioniOnline per l’anno scolastico 2026/2027 si sono concluse.
Il risultato più rilevante di questa tornata di iscrizioni è relativo alla filiera 4+2, con 10.532 iscritti, il numero è quasi raddoppiato rispetto ai 5.
Le procedure delle #IscrizioniOnline per l’anno scolastico 2026/2027 si sono concluse.
Il risultato più rilevante di questa tornata di iscrizioni è relativo alla filiera 4+2, con 10.532 iscritti, il numero è quasi raddoppiato rispetto ai 5.
Historically, moving and pointing a camera while filming was the job of a highly-skilled individual. However, there are machines that can do that, enabling all kinds of fancy movement that is difficult or impossible for a human to recreate. A great example is this pan-tilt build from [immofoto3d.]
The build uses a hefty cradle to mount DSLR-size cameras or similar. It’s controlled in the tilt axis by a chunky NEMA 17 stepper motor hooked up to a belt drive for smooth, accurate movement. Similarly, another stepper motor handles the pan axis, with an option for upgrade if you have a heavier camera rig that needs more torque to spin easily. Named Gantry Bot, it’s an open-source design with source files available, so you can make any necessary tweaks on your own. You will have to bring your own control mechanism, though—telling the stepper motors what to do and how fast to do it is up to you.
It’s a heavy-duty build, this one, and you’ll really want a decent metal-capable CNC to get it done, along with a 3D printer for all the plastic pieces. With that said, we’ve featured some other similar builds that might be more accessible if you don’t have a hardcore machine shop in the basement. If you’ve got your own impressive motion rig in the works, be sure to notify the tipsline!
Hot take: the "unwelcoming" nature of fedi is learned behaviour. People see others being absolutely terrible to other human beings, see no repercussions (except driving away the fledgling AP newbie or dev), and think it's okay to terrorize the next one they encounter.
"Apparently for some months, if you called the Washington state version of the DMV, known as the Department of Licensing (DOL), and tried pressing 2 to interact with the phone tree in Spanish, it may have felt like some kind of Family Guy gag was playing out in real life. Instead of Spanish, the text-to-speech voice on the other end of the line spoke English with a Spanish accent." gizmodo.com/washington-state-r…
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.
For the people in the back of the room, this is what is being deployed in America.
Why did Hegseth get angry over the idea that an AI company would refuse to engage in mass civilian surveillance by the military as well as automating killing?
It has already been filled tested in Gaza. That’s how Israel killed journalists in their homes.
Israel spent years hacking Tehran's traffic cameras and monitoring bodyguards before assassinating Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei. #AureFreePress #Israel #Iran
Donald Trump, as president, has never attended the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, bucking tradition. But he’s changed his mind for 2026. WHCA President Weijia Jiang (CBS News) says “we’re happy the president has accepted our invitation and look forward to hosting him.”
Israel spent years hacking Tehran's traffic cameras and monitoring bodyguards before assassinating Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei. #AureFreePress #Israel #Iran
What a start into the academic week: I submitted to #Aoir2026 (🤞), I filed a grant application for #stsCH2027 (the bi-annual Swiss #STS conference I will be hosting at the University of Fribourg), and I learned that our #4s open panel for Toronto was accepted 🙌
Jewish terrorism continues to rage, under the auspices and encouragement of the government and under the smokescreen of the initiated war.
Today in Qaryut, Nablus Governorate, settlers burned vehicles and fired live fire at the villagers.
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.
Just tinkering with the new Share button for Mastodon, so far just added it to my "free reading" page in a pretty trivial way. I'll do a more thorough integration with my site when I have more time and after some major changes on the site.
🐧Armbian 26.2 Introduces Linux kernel 6.18 LTS Images and Imager Upgrades
｢ A key feature is the availability of Linux kernel 6.18 LTS images for multiple supported platforms, thus improving hardware support and compatibility for modern SBCs and embedded systems. Newly supported hardware in Armbian 26.2 includes the SpacemiT MusePi Pro, Radxa Rock 4D, OrangePi RV2, and Odroid M2 ｣
Considering that the Serial Peripheral Interface bus semi-standard has been around since the early 1980s, it’s perhaps not that shocking that the controllers of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) would take at least some strong design hints for the used protocol. This does however raise the question of exactly how compatible a SNES controller is when connected to the SPI master peripheral of any random MCU. Recently [James Sharman] set out to answer this question decisively.
The impetus for answering this question came after [James] designed a separate SNES controller board for his homebrew computer system, which led to many comments on that video saying that he could just have hooked the controller up to the SPI board in said homebrew system.
Here the short answer is that the SNES controller protocol is very close to SPI Mode-1, with a similar arrangement of clock/data/chip select (latch) lines and clocking. If you think of the SNES controller as an SPI device with just a MISO line, you’re basically there already. The only niggle that popped up was that the ‘MISO’ line does not get pulled into a high-impedance state when the active-low latch connection is pulled high.
This was fixable by introducing a 74HC125 tri-state buffer IC, after which both the original SD card and twin SNES controllers could be used simultaneously.
Many different types of printers have entered the market over the years. Most of us are intimately familiar with the common inkjet and laser, both of which can be found in homes and offices all over the world. Then there are those old dot matrix printers that were so noisy in use, thermal printers, and even solid ink printers that occupied a weird niche for a time.
However, very little attention is ever paid to the LED printer. They’re not actually that uncommon, and they work in a very familiar way. It’s just that because these printers are so similar to an existing technology, they largely escaped any real notability in the marketplace. Let’s explore the inner workings of the printer tech that the world forgot.
Blinding Lights
To understand the LED printer, it helps to first understand the laser printer, and before that, the photocopier. Indeed, it was the latter technology that spawned the xerographic process that underpins all three machines.
Xerography is a compound word, from the Greek words xeros (dry) and graphia (writing). It’s where the Xerox company earned its name, and the process is at the heart of the photocopier. In the modern form we’re all familiar with, a photocopier relies on the use of a cylindrical drum, coated in a photoconductive material. This drum can be given an electrostatic charge, which remains on the surface when in darkness, but is conducted away when exposed to light. In a photocopier, the drum is exposed to light from a scanning lamp passing over a document. Where the document has light sections, the charges on the drum are conducted away, and where there are dark sections, the charge remains. The drum is then exposed to tiny particles of toner, which are attracted to the charged areas on the drum. A corona wire is then used to generate an opposite charge to that of the toner, pulling it off the drum and onto a piece of paper to replicate the original document. It’s then merely a matter of heating the paper to fuse the toner in place by melting it, and then the completed document is fed out of the photocopier. It’s this final step that gives fresh photocopies their characteristic warm feel and mild plasticky smell. Laser printers use a scanning laser to discharge a photosensitive drum, which then picks up toner and deposits it on paper. Credit: Dale Mahalko, CC BY 3.0 It wasn’t long before the xerography process was applied beyond mere photocopies. Xerox engineer Gary Starkweather realized in 1969 that a scanning laser beam could be used to draw directly on to the drum in place of the scanning lamp of a photocopier. A few years later, this led to the development of a prototype which proved the concept, and by 1976, the first commercial laser printer was on the market.
These printers were prized for their high speed and initially used in data center roles, before smaller desktop-sized units reached the market in the 1980s. Laser printers vary in construction, but most use a single laser diode with a rotating mirror that scans the beam over the drum. The beam is modulated as the mirror scans and the drum rotates to only remove charges from the drum in light areas that are not to have toner deposited. For color printing, some laser printers implement multiple drums, one for each color of toner—cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black)—with four scanning lasers required in turn. The paper is passed over each, picking up one layer of toner at a time before it’s fused into the paper to create the final image. Some printers have also added a “transfer belt” to ease registration issues in color printers, wherein the drums deliver each color of toner to a belt, and the belt then delivers the toner to the paper in one fell swoop. A scanning laser unit from a Dell P1500 laser printer. Note hte hexagonal mirror and the lensing assemblies to focus it on the drum. Credit: Jeroen74, CC BY-SA 3.0 Laser printers are capable, high-speed printing machines, but they are expensive and do have a lot of moving parts. Engineers at Oki eventually realized it was possible to replace the combined laser diode and spinning mirror assembly with something simpler and more solid-state. Thus was born the LED printer, first developed in 1981 and commercialized in 1986. Rather than scanning a laser beam across a cylindrical drum, the LED printer has a line array of tiny individual LEDs that remove charges from the drum instead. The printer otherwise works in pretty much exactly the same way—only the method of discharging the drum was changed. A diagram of an LED printer head for discharging a photosensitive print drum. Credit: Oki LED printers are generally a bit cheaper to manufacture, and can sometimes print faster than comparable laser printers. In part, this is because the line array can flash a segment of the drum all at once versus a laser beam which must be scanned across it. Where laser printers routinely offer 1200 x 2400 DPI resolution, it took LED printers some time to reach the same heights, as fitting 1200 LEDs into a single inch is no mean feat. However, Oki was able to achieve this milestone by 1997, while some cheaper models sit at the 600 DPI level instead. Meanwhile, in 2024, Canon did produce a LED-type printer using OLED technology, which enabled resolutions up to 4800 x 2400 DPI. The higher light emitter density possible with OLED technology allowed this leap forward.
Notably, most color LED printers tend to use a transfer belt setup, in which each LED/drum unit delivers toner to the belt which is then deposited on the paper in one pass. This is why LED printers tend to have similar print speeds for color and black-an-white use. This was an advantage over older color laser printers that didn’t use transfer belts, but instead had a color page make four separate passes over a drum, slowing printing down significantly.
Canon leveraged OLED technology to produce an LED-type printer with far superior resolution to traditional designs. LED printers are commonly marketed with “laser” in the copy because consumers don’t know what an LED printer is. Credit: Screenshot, Brother website Funnily enough, some LED printers fly under the radar and are sold as “laser printers” despite not containing a laser. This is because, to the end user, the technology is not particularly different—the printers still use a charged drum for printing and still use toner to make an image. LED printers never differentiated themselves enough to make a big splash with disinterested consumers and commercial buyers who just want well-printed documents at the end of the day. LED printers mostly just look like laser printers and work similarly enough that few ever noticed the difference. Often, an LED printer will show up on e-commerce sites with “laser” scattered around the marketing copy because many understand them to be essentially the same thing from a user perspective.
LED printers are unlikely to become a household name any time soon, even if you have one in your household—if only because their close association with laser printing technology means most people never noticed they existed in the first place. In any case, next time you’re sitting at a table at your friend’s wedding with a bunch of people you’ve never met before, you now have an incredibly tedious technical lecture you can deliver to impress everybody at dinner. Spread the word about LED printers, because they’ve failed to do it themselves!
Peter Krauth of Silver Stock Investor and Silver Advisor shares his thoughts on silver price activity and where the white metal is in the cycle — in his view,
I need to get a new mask since my old Vogmask had its over-the-nose metal thing break. That company seems to have gone out of business. (Dammit.)
Does anyone have recommendations on masks that will actually seal over the top of your nose, so your breath isn't perpetually fogging up your glasses? And which are easy to carry, e.g. in a pocket or something? 😷 #MaskUp #WearAMask
In-Stock: Ships within 3-5 business days Choose expedited shipping and email us your order number if need your mask by a specific date: breathe@flomask.com Description Flo Mask Pro is optimized to fit 90%+ of the world's adult population.
Te lo describot
in reply to Israa 🌿🇵🇸 • • •Un collage de imágenes y texto. Las imágenes muestran la difícil situación de niños y adultos en un entorno de pobreza o post-desastre. Se ven heridas en el rostro de un niño y un ojo vendado, un niño entre escombros de edificios destruidos, y otro niño sacando agua de cubos. También hay una persona cocinando en un fogón rudimentario al aire libre, y una persona tamizando alimentos. En contraste, otra imagen muestra a dos niños pequeños jugando tranquilamente en la arena.
En la parte inferior, un texto grande sobre un fondo rosa claro dice: "Tu apoyo y donaciones no son solo números añadidos a mi cuenta; son una oportunidad real para que mis hijos crezcan sabiendo que alguien vio 💔🫂👨👩👧👦🍉". El texto incluye emojis de un corazón roto, personas abrazándose, una familia y una sandía.