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

Posted into Business @business-bloomberg

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!

merch.owncast.online/

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.

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

youtube.com/watch?v=k6Dlqw8PVn…

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)

techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/goog…
techmeme.com/250512/p21#a25051…

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."

theintercept.com/2025/05/12/go…

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)}

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)

aohr.org.uk/collapse-of-gazas-…

Sonam Dreyer-Cornut, de retour du camp de la mort à #Gaza : "Je n'ai jamais vu un tel acharnement, une telle destruction"

rts.ch/info/monde/2025/article…

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

Twitch

Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.

^Twitch

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...

news.lavx.hu/article/zero-day-…

#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…

#chave #digital #internet #mundo #online #reddit #web

TugaTech

 As comunidades online são autênticos caldeirões de ideias: moldam discussões, influenciam opiniões, ditam comportamentos coletivos e chegam mesmo a ter impacto

^TugaTech

Entire Gaza population at critical risk of famine

A UN-backed assessment says Gaza’s population of around 2.1 million Palestinians is at “critical risk” of famine and faces “extreme levels of food insecurity” as an Israeli blockade on humanitarian aid continues. The latest report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification says there has been a “major deterioration” since October [...]

fbcnews.com.fj/world/entire-ga…

#Palestine #News #PalestineNews #IsraeliPalestinianConflict

Entire Gaza population at critical risk of famine

^{Fiji Broadcasting Corporation}

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

Posted into Emerging Markets @emerging-markets-bloomberg

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...

news.lavx.hu/article/unpacking…

#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

Posted into Canaltech @canaltech-canaltech

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

Posted into Latest TechCrunch Stories @latest-techcrunch-stories-Techcrunch

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

TugaTech

 A Google chegou a um acordo histórico com o estado do Texas, nos Estados Unidos, concordando em pagar 1,375 mil milhões de dólares para encerrar um processo ju

^TugaTech

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

Posted into MobileSyrup @mobilesyrup-mobilesyrup

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.

r-consortium.org/posts/disease…

#rstats #opensource

iOS 19 will upgrade iPhone’s battery life using Apple Intelligence: report
https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/12/ios-19-will-upgrade-iphones-battery-life-using-apple-intelligence-report/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Stories @all-stories-9to5mac

iOS 19 will upgrade iPhone’s battery life using Apple Intelligence: report - 9to5Mac

Apple Intelligence may be getting its most useful feature yet: iOS 19 will reportedly use AI to boost the iPhone’s battery life.

^{Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)}

💠 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…

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

Trump claims Apple will build ‘a lot of plants’ in US with $500B pledge
https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/12/trump-claims-apple-will-build-a-lot-of-plants-in-us-with-500b-pledge/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Stories @all-stories-9to5mac

Trump claims Apple will build ‘a lot of plants’ in US with $500B pledge - 9to5Mac

Trump spoke to Tim Cook today following word of a China-US tariff agreement, and afterward claimed Apple would be ‘building a lot of plants.’

^{Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)}

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Me when I look at the clock and realize I still have an hour and a half before I can go home

Ma Bialetti no, porcoddio!

L'omino coi baffi piange. 😔