World Bank says Saudi Arabia and Qatar have paid off Syria's outstanding debt
The World Bank says that the $15.5 million Syria owed it has been paid off by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, enabling Damascus to take out new loans.
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EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis - Irish Council for Civil Liberties
Landmark court decision against “TCF” consent pop ups on 80% of the internetJohnny Ryan (Irish Council for Civil Liberties)
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The US has 1,001 measles cases and 11 states with active outbreaks
The U.S. surpassed 1,000 measles cases Friday.Associated Press (TULSA)
NEW YORK TIMES: New York Helped Thousands of Migrants With Legal Issues. That’s Ending
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GitHub - tuist/awesome-swift-mcp: ⚡️ Community resources to bridge Swift development with LLM-based tools
⚡️ Community resources to bridge Swift development with LLM-based tools - tuist/awesome-swift-mcpGitHub
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US | Supreme Court Again Halts Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Deportations
"A powerful rebuke to the government's attempt to hurry people away to a Gulag-type prison."
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LIVE: Israel kills 115 people in ‘opening moves’ of Gaza war expansion
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LIVE: Israel kills 115 people in ‘opening moves’ of Gaza war expansion
Israel says it carried out ‘extensive attacks’ as operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ launched to seize more land in the Gaza.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
Anthropic’s lawyers blamed its AI chatbot, Claude, for including erroneous citations in their legal defense against a copyright lawsuit from Universal Music.
I can’t imagine how bad this will get when a generation of college students who never learned the material due to AI use enter the workforce.
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Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation | TechCrunch
A lawyer representing Anthropic used Claude to generate citations in a court filing, then it hallucinated.Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)
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Computer And Video Games 1983 08 : EMAP National Publications Ltd : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Computer And Video Games Magazine. Vol II No 9.Scanned to preserve issues that I did not find online anywhere else. Original PDF contains OCR text layer for...Internet Archive
Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026
Let’s Encrypt will no longer include the “TLS Client Authentication” Extended Key Usage (EKU) in our certificates beginning in 2026. Most users who use Let’s Encrypt to secure websites won’t be affected and won’t need to take any action.letsencrypt.org
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"The US-ISR proposition to control the distribution of supplies in #gaza #palestine, under the guise of humanitarian aid raises grave humanitarian, ethical, security and legal concerns, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
MSF firmly rejects and condemns any plan that further reduces availability of aid and subjugates it to ISR military occupation objectives.
#ihl #warcrimes #emergencyresponse
📑 Full statement Medicins Sans Frontieres MSR 👇🏽
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MSF denounces deliberate humanitarian catastrophe caused by siege on Gaza | MSF
We are witnessing, in real time, the creation of conditions for the eradication of Palestinian lives in Gaza.Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
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A rainy day, but the herbaceous peonies are in bloom☔
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But officials said the bans were a health measure, not a doping-related sanction. ... banned substance Erythropoietin (EPO) in several athletes.
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#doping #cleansport #antidoping #datajournalism
Moody’s finally noticed that US national debt isn’t just a vibes-based issue. The US Debt-to-GDP is on track to hit 134% by 2035.
Federal interest payments are set to hit 30% of revenue by 2035, up from 18% in 2024 and 9% in 2021.
Meanwhile deficit spending is creeping up on WWII levels as a percentage of GDP.
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#usa #economy #ThisIsFine
Linux Swap Table Code Shows The Potential For Huge Performance Gains
Following recent discussions by Linux kernel developers around integrating swap cache and swap maps functionality with the swap allocator, Swap Table was born. With Swap Tables the hope is for lower memory use, higher performance, dynamic swap allocation and growth, greater extensibility, and other improvements over the existing swap code within the Linux kernel.
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Propublica: US looks to revoke visas of Mexican politicians with alleged cartel ties
The Trump administration has begun revoking visas for Mexican politicians it believes to have cartel links, according to a ProPublica report.
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Textual Analysis for Attack Recognition — Textual Analysis Tools
Textual analysis tools — Some tools for analyzing similarity of written text can help, but what are they and how do they work?Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
Entre a pressão imobiliária e a violência: como é viver na última favela do centro de SP
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Ukraine submitting data on forced mobilization of Ukrainians in occupied territories to ICC – PM Shmyhal
Ukraine is documenting all Russian crimes related to the forced mobilization of Ukrainians in temporarily occupied territories (TOT). As of now, several hundred thousand war crimes have been recorded, including cases of forced mobilization.Ukrinform
The Diverging Values of Law Firms: Tech Advancement vs. Back to Office - Smokeball - LexBlog
As legal technology evolves to support work flexibility, why are so many law firms digging in their (arguably antiquated) heels?Publisher (LexBlog)
Woman visits quiet wine shop in Greece and changes owner's life - Dining and Cooking
A Greek business owner was astounded when an unexpected turn of events unfolded at his wine shop. One of the greatest joys of travel is stumbling upon hiddenDining And Cooking (Dining and Cooking)
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As recently as 1985, a Louisiana court ruled that a woman with a black great-great-great-great-grandmother could not identify herself as “white” on her passport.
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‘One-drop rule’ persists — Harvard Gazette
Harvard psychologists have found that the centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.Steve Bradt (The Harvard Gazette)
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