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

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Hacker do Pix: polícia investiga 29 empresas que teriam recebido dinheiro desviado
https://www.tecmundo.com.br/seguranca/405562-hacker-do-pix-policia-investiga-29-empresas-que-teriam-recebido-dinheiro-desviado.htm?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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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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"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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#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #centralbank / #inflation / #economy

„The Bank of Israel left short-term interest rates unchanged on Monday (Jul 7) after inflation eased in May, although economic uncertainty lingers due to the 21-month-old conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza.“

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Bank of Israel holds interest rates as inflation nears target

[JERUSALEM] The Bank of Israel left short-term interest rates unchanged on Monday (Jul 7) after inflation eased in May, although economic uncertainty lingers due to the 21-month-old conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza…

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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
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-07/adnoc-s-12-billion-covestro-deal-faces-likely-in-depth-eu-probe?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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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

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Snap this already affordable Apple Find My carabiner on all sorts of things for less, now $24 (Save 20%)
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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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This code slashes Baseus’ 10K mAh 22.5W power bank with retractable cable to only $12.50

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Nineteen EU countries call for 'simplification' of EU Deforestation Law
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/07/07/nineteen-eu-countries-call-for-simplification-of-eu-deforestation-law?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Nineteen EU countries call for 'simplification' of EU Deforestation Law

Nineteen member states called for the 'simplification' and postponement of the implementation of the EU deforestation law, amid criticism from civil society over the move.

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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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How solar power helped European grids pass ‘the stress test’ during the recent heatwave
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/07/07/how-solar-power-helped-european-grids-pass-the-stress-test-during-the-recent-heatwave?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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How solar power helped European grids pass ‘the stress test’ during the recent heatwave

Storing solar energy could be the biggest opportunity to strengthen grids, researchers say, as prices soared in Germany, France and Poland.

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Russia’s Crude Production Stayed Below OPEC+ Target in June
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-07/russia-s-crude-production-stayed-below-opec-target-in-june?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Common bacteria found in the stomach has no symptoms but could cause 12 million cancers, study warns
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Common bacteria found in the stomach has no symptoms but could cause 12 million cancers, study warns

Researchers said programmes to quickly screen and treat people for a common bacteria could reduce the number of expected stomach cancer cases by up to 75 per cent.

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Lime withdraws from Brussels as Belgian capital puts brakes on e-bikes and scooters
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/07/07/lime-withdraws-from-brussels-as-belgian-capital-puts-brakes-on-e-bikes-and-scooters?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Lime withdraws from Brussels as Belgian capital puts brakes on e-bikes and scooters

The decision to introduce restrictions on the e-bike and scooter services in the Belgian capital had already been made in 2023, however Lime and Voi both contested the decision.

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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

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Ganesh Jayaraman explores the data adoption paradox: why we resist new systems & how to drive lasting change. Essential reading for orgs building resilient data systems amid volatility.

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Nuova governance per la divisione logistica di Ludoil - Notizie - Ansa.it
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Nuova governance per la divisione logistica di Ludoil - Notizie - Ansa.it

La divisione logistica del Gruppo Ludoil - composta dalla capofila Sodeco srl, da Petroli Investimenti sap, Gala Logistica srl e Meridionale Petroli srl - annuncia in una nota l'avvio di un nuovo assetto di governance mediante l'istituzione di un con…

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