How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1127057/agi-conspiracy-theory-artifcial-general-intelligence/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth reminiscent of more explicitly outlandish and fantastical schemes.Will Douglas Heaven (MIT Technology Review)
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"Marianne und Johan werden zeigen, warum dieser Pilz und seine Kräfte der Schlüssel für die derzeitige prekäre Situation der Menschheit sein können. Es geht nicht darum, high zu werden oder "Trips" zu haben. Dieser Pilz verbindet uns alle mit dem ältesten Netzwerk auf dem Planeten - dem natürlichen Internet, das es schon seit Millionen von Jahren gibt."
Zaia, Corte dei Conti interviene nello spazio che le è proprio - Notizie - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2025/10/30/zaia-corte-dei-conti-interviene-nello-spazio-che-le-e-proprio_7f8f1153-1181-48b9-8315-fb919c5dde39.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Zaia, Corte dei Conti interviene nello spazio che le è proprio - Notizie - Ansa.it
Il nodo del Ponte sullo Stretto "va affrontato da un punto di vista tecnico-legale, è già capitato e non sarà neanche l'ultima volta che la Corte dei Conti o qualche altra estensione dello Stato interviene nello spazio che gli è riconosciuto. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
All Eyes on Sudan
Sudan is facing the world’s largest humanitarian and displacement crisis and yet, the world looks away.
More than 12 million people have been displaced since war broke out in April 2023 between the army of Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the RSF militia led by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo. Over 150,000 people have been killed.
Now, the city of #Al-Fasher has fallen to the #RSF. Civilians are being targeted, hospitals looted, and entire neighbourhoods destroyed. Half of those displaced are children.
But Sudan’s collapse is not an isolated tragedy; it's the result of decades of colonial destabilisation, exploitation, and the continous influence of other states such as #Egypt, #Russia, #China, The United Arab Emirates and #SaudiArabia. The latter directly receiving weaponry from European states such as #UK, #France and #Germany, as well as the #USA.
The same system that is selling weapons in already war-torn areas, is then sending more weapons to build a border regime to prevent people fleeing from this violence.
We need to stop this madness of endless militarisation. Politics for people, not for profit, and human rights for all.
All eyes on Sudan.
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Tutti ricordano ogni particolare del proprio passato (ogni), così precisamente e minuziosamente (ogni) da sfociare nell’idiozia (mare, ogni), ma tutto ciò lo ricordano senza sé (casa, ogni) così da…multiperso
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YouTube Q3 Ad Sales Up 15% to $10.2B, Alphabet First Quarter Over $100B in Revenue
YouTube continues to flex its muscles as an advertising powerhouse, again delivering double-digit sales growth in Q3 2025, as parent Alphabet recorded its first quarter with more than $100 billion in revenue.Todd Spangler (Variety)
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Residential building collapses after Russian strike in Ukraine
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/10/30/residential-building-collapses-after-russian-strike-in-ukraine?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Residential building collapses after Russian strike in Ukraine
A residential building floor collapsed as rescue workers were searching through the rubble, following overnight RussianAl Jazeera
Underpaid? The highest and lowest ranking sectors for employee pay satisfaction in Europe
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/10/30/underpaid-the-highest-and-lowest-ranking-sectors-for-employee-pay-satisfaction-in-europe?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Underpaid? The highest and lowest ranking sectors for employee pay satisfaction in Europe
Is the Netherlands an employee haven? Are construction workers better off than most others? What's the uncomfortable truth about worker pay in Finland? A new survey reveals where workers are happiest with their pay.Alessio Dell'Anna (Euronews.com)
Global Microsoft Outage Hits Hard
A DNS glitch in Microsoft Azure caused major outages worldwide grounding airports, freezing banks, and stalling sites like Outlook and Teams. Fixed in hours, but it exposed how fragile our cloud world really is.
#MicrosoftOutage #AzureDown #TechNews #CloudComputing #Microsoft365 #InternetCrash #GlobalOutage #CyberResilience #DNSError #TechUpdate #TECHi
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Microsoft Outage 2025: Global Websites and Services Restored After Major Azure Cloud Failure - TECHi
A major Microsoft outage disrupted global websites and services, including Heathrow Airport, NatWest, and Starbucks. Microsoft confirmed a DNS configuration error as the cause, with Azure and Microsoft 365 now back online.Hafsa Rizwan (TECHi)
Blue Energy Plans Data Center Plant Powered by Gas, Then Nuclear
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-30/blue-energy-plans-data-center-plant-powered-by-gas-then-nuclear?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Takeaways from Trump's meeting with Chinese leader Xi
https://apnews.com/article/trump-xi-trade-tiktok-tariffs-semiconductors-7934c7772af030ba246ba200adf7bf8b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Huit comités chargés d’organiser les funérailles royales de SM Sirikit
Ukraine meldet Hunderte Angriffe - Wärmekraftwerke beschädigt
Ukrainischen Angaben zufolge hat Russland mehrere Regionen des Landes mit Hunderten Drohnen sowie zahlreichen Raketen angegriffen. Aus Saporischschja wurden Tote und Verletzte gemeldet. Landesweit wurden mehrere Wärmekraftwerke beschädigt.
Da Mou a Borriello, da McEnroe a Piquet... Quanti Fonzie nella storia dello sport
https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/30-10-2025/da-mou-a-ceccon-quanti-fonzie-nella-storia-dello-sport_preview.shtml?reason=unauthenticated&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Da Mou a Borriello, da McEnroe a Piquet... Quanti Fonzie nella storia dello sport
Henry Winkler, interprete del mitico personaggio di Happy Days, compie 80 anni. Egocentrico, belloccio, spaccone (però simpatico), il suo Fonzarelli è diventato un mito. E ha lasciato decine di "eredi". Eccone una carrellataFurio Zara (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
Tanzania police fire shots, tear gas at protesters after chaotic election
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/30/tanzania-police-fire-shots-tear-gas-at-protesters-after-chaotic-election?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Tanzania police fire shots, tear gas at protesters after chaotic election
Hundreds of people take to streets of Dar-es-Salaam after two main opposition figures barred from presidential poll.Fiona Kelliher (Al Jazeera)
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I submitted an abstract to #IPEC2026 #ECCEAsia on lowering the transistor switching losses in a standard TO247 package.
We have already maxed out silicon performance and we almost maxed out SiC on a semiconductor level. But we still can influence their performance by changing how we package and drive them.
We propose to add a a bit of positive feedback to the gate so that the transistor switches faster. Jet fighters use similar trick to be more manoeuvrable.
LIVE Juve, è il giorno di Spalletti: l'ex ct è arrivato alla Continassa
https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/Juventus/30-10-2025/juve-spalletti-al-primo-giorno-alla-continassa.shtml?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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LIVE Juve, è il giorno di Spalletti: l'ex ct è arrivato alla Continassa
Per l'ex ct un contratto di 8 mesi con rinnovo biennale in caso di Champions. Si attende la firmaGiovanni Albanese (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
"Librarians who are implementing AI report more optimism"
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tldr; this report is a pile of crap.
infoDOCKET (@infodocket@newsie.social)
Attached: 1 image Clarivate Releases Pulse of the Library 2025 Report https://www.infodocket.com/2025/10/30/clarivate-releases-pulse-of-the-library-2025-report-2/ #libraries #AI #GPTNewsie
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67% of libraries report that their library collections have been ransacked by multinational corporations that can print as much money as they want to pay off anyone who lawyers up to disagree.
Taiwan issue not mentioned in meeting with Xi: Trump
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United States President Donald Trump said Thursday that Taiwan was not discussed in his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) in South Korea, the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders since 2019.
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I started my first open-source project 17 years ago — and it still gets contributions from time to time. It’s a small library, easy to overlook, but people continue to use it, and that still feels amazing.
Today, I’m releasing a new version with a couple of third-party contributions 🎉
It’s the first update in 7 years! I even had to migrate it to pyproject.toml because I barely remember how setuptools packaging used to work 😅
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I Litfiba con Pelù, Renzulli, Aiazzi e Maroccolo in tour per i 40 anni di ‘17 re’ | Rolling Stone Italia
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I Litfiba con Pelù, Renzulli, Aiazzi e Maroccolo in tour per i 40 anni di ‘17 re’
Ecco le date previste nell’estate 2026Rolling Stone It (Rolling Stone Italia)
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In cerca dei migliori libri thriller del 2025 da leggere, e dei più interessanti gialli e noir italiani e internazionali usciti negli ultimi mesi? Nel nostro nostro speciale, un'ampia selezione di novità, che include anche thriller storici, horror e cozy crime. Spazio a scrittrici e scrittori seriali molto amati, italiani e internazionali (e a nomi
Libri thriller 2025: 125 romanzi da non perdere
In cerca dei migliori libri thriller del 2025 da leggere, e dei più interessanti gialli e noir italiani e internazionali usciti negli ultimi mesi? Nel nostro nostro speciale, un'ampia selezione di novità, che include anche thriller storici, horror e …Redazione Il Libraio (Il Libraio)
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I just spent ~20 minutes trying to find information on how to do something in a Golang library on my client computer, before I decided it was worth pulling up @kagihq on my personal computer to look it up instead.
Immediately found the answer I needed to get me moving.
We don’t need “vibe coding”, we need search engines that actually work.
This is an excellent thread.
Whenever I see news headlines about another cafe owner complaining that "nobody wants to work", I'm mentally rewriting it with "nobody wants to be exploited for unlivable wages by some sleazy bugger".
The idea that everybody should be "productive", or even be "grateful" for whatever shitty employment is offered to them is a construct designed to maximise the supply of cheap labour. Or as I like to remind people, no corporation will ever demonstrate the same loyalty to you that they demand from you.
But even this frames everything in terms of paid employment. Which is the first error. We all wish to have purpose and meaning in our lives, and for some that means getting a job but for others it can mean something far more rewarding.
Il "dessert del pacificatore": il menu della Corea del Sud per celebrare Trump
https://www.repubblica.it/il-gusto/2025/10/30/news/dessert_del_pacificatore_menu_trump_corea_del_sud-424947713/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Il "dessert del pacificatore": il menu della Corea del Sud per celebrare Trump
Da “In ricordo del successo di New York” al “Piatto della sincerità”: ecco il pranzo tributo al presidente Usala Repubblica
Andreas Kaufer alla guida dell’Eso
Sarà Andreas Kaufer il prossimo direttore generale dell’Eso, lo European Southern Observatory. Lo ha nominato il Consiglio dell’organizzazione, e succederà all’attuale direttore generale, Xavier Barcons. «Mi impegno a favorire l'altissima qualità della ricerca mantenendo l'Eso all'avanguardia della tecnologia, portando a termine l'Elt e proteggendo i siti unici in Cile
Il successo del Linux Day 2025 di Pavia
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Segnalato dal LUG di #Pavia e pubblicato sulla comunità Lemmy @GNU/Linux Italia
Il successo del Linux Day 2025 di Pavia dimostra che la città di Pavia merita l'evento, dopo anni di oblio.
L'articolo Il successo del Linux Day 2025 di Pavia
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Feuilles en suspension
#nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography #flowers #fleurs #botanica #botanique #photography #photooftheday #nikon #nikonz8 #Québec #montreal
🇺🇦🇪🇺 Committed partners, building a shared future.
The newly updated EU-Ukraine trade agreement will open markets, protect key EU sectors, and bring Ukraine closer to the Single Market.
🔵 Easier EU market access for Ukrainian businesses
🟡 Lower tariffs for EU producers
🔵 Protection for sensitive EU agri-food sectors and robust safeguards
🟡 Ukraine alignment with EU standards
🔵 Help Ukraine reconnect globally
Europe is stronger when we stand together.
Upgraded EU-Ukraine trade agreement enters into force
As of today, the EU and Ukraine will benefit from an enhanced, stable, fair and permanent trade framework, with the entry into force of the EU-Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA).European Commission - European Commission
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'#Agentic #robots are coming!', zou zomaar de titel kunnen zijn van dit nieuwsitem dat sidekick Bert Hagendoorn ter tafel bracht. "Google DeepMind zet nu namelijk in op robots die van elkaar kunnen leren..."
Wow, ontstaat er dan een soort gedeeld geheugen?
"Precies. Wat de ene leert, kan de andere op doorgaan. Denk aan #plannen, #redeneren en #handelen. Samen kunnen ze daardoor complexe taken fiksen."
Dat is wel next level... Hoe werkt dat?
"Zeker. Je hebt 'de #denker', die plant de taken: wat eerst en wat daarna, en die zoekt misschien op het web nog extra informatie op. En je hebt 'de #doener', die overziet de omgeving en die gaat dan alles bedenken qua oppakken en verplaatsen en vermijden ook als het gaat om bijvoorbeeld taken in en om het huis. En de kennis, die reist dus mee."
En hebben deze robots nog leuke koosnaampjes van Google meegekregen?
"Nou, ze heten #Gemini #Robotics 1.5 en 1.5 ER"
Dat klinkt dan weer niet zo innovatief... (Meer weten? Zie link in comments)
Wil je ook ander opmerkelijk (#internationaal) #nieuws op het gebied van creativity, marketing & digital? Check dan elke twee weken De Boardroom of kijk/luister afleveringen terug.
Stream via je favoriete platform, zie links in de comments.
Gasten: Letty Faas-van Oosterhout, Commercieel Directeur Benelux Sonos, Inc. en Fred Moolhuijsen MSc, Eigenaar PitchResult.
Presentatie: Ronald ter Voert.
#talkshow #creativity #marketing #digital Adobe mindsync Hypersolid YouLynq.me Agency Engines Audiohuis Adformatie
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The Continuing Struggle of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines
Republic Act (RA) 8371 or the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997 was enacted to help redress and address historical injustices long suffered by indigenous peoples, and to ensure the respect, protection and fulfilment of their rights.--- (HERALD EXPRESS | News in Cordillera and Northern Luzon)
Norcia riabbraccia la sua basilica nove anni dopo il terremoto: “Ora guardiamo al futuro”
https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/10/30/news/norcia_terremoto_ricostruzione_basilica_san_benedetto-424947856/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Norcia riabbraccia la sua basilica nove anni dopo il terremoto: “Ora guardiamo al futuro”
Si è conclusa la complessa ricostruzione della chiesa madre dei benedettini, distrutta dal sisma del 2016. Oggi la presentazione dei lavori di restauro, domani…Corrado Zunino (la Repubblica)
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