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*According to a transcript obtained by the German outlet, Europe rallied around Volodymyr Zelenskyy and sharply criticized Washington.*

Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands will boycott next year’s Eurovision after Israel was given the all-clear to compete in the 2026 song contest despite calls by several participating broadcasters for its exclusion over the war in Gaza.

*Amnesty International finds immigrants at Florida facility were shackled and left outside in metal cage for up to a day*

One year after the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the court is now weighing whether police violated alleged gunman Luigi Mangione’s Miranda rights.

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

Via SMBC

excited to see what this means for the project, the poor UI/UX of libreoffice is easily its most glaring flaw imo

Two sibling contractors convicted a decade ago for hacking into US State Department have once again been charged, this time for a comically hamfisted attempt to steal and destroy government records just minutes after being fired from their contractor jobs.

*Abortion providers, and even manufacturers, will be liable for penalties over pills mailed into the state*

A CNN investigation based on video footage, satellite imagery and eyewitness accounts found a ‘pattern’ of mishandling bodies

“No, I haven’t sat down to play the games,” said Walton Goggins, who plays pre-war movie star Cooper Howard and his post-war counterpart The Ghoul. “And I won’t. I won’t. I won’t play the games. I’m not interested.”

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The Department of War (DOW) is receiving well-earned praise for reversing the military’s recruitment crisis. In FY2025, all the branches of the military met or exceeded their recruitment goals.

Swiss company Proton is further expanding its productivity suite. In addition to an email service, calendar, VPN, password manager, and drive, Proton Sheets is now available. It is an alternative to Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, an increasingly important advantage as countries take sovereignty more seriously.

An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device. That’s when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn’t consented to. The user, Harishankar, decided to block the telemetry servers’ IP addresses on his network, while keeping the firmware and OTA servers open. While his smart gadget worked for a while, it just refused to turn on soon after. After a lengthy investigation, he discovered that a remote kill command had been issued to his device.

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ICE agents arrested a Chinese father and his 6-year-old son, separating the two and sending the father to Orange County Jail while the whereabouts of the son remain unknown as of Tuesday morning.

An instructor at the University of Oklahoma has been placed on leave after a student complained that she received a failing grade on a paper that cited the Bible to assert that the “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”

It appears Meta’s Horizon Worlds may literally and figuratively not have legs after all.

TLDR:

This is a list of phone manufacturers that lock their bootloaders to prevent people from installing custom operating systems (LineageOS etc) to remove bloatware and spyware/tracking.

Today’s game is Baldurs Gate 3. Me and my some friends finally decided to beat this (Me and One of my friends have never made it past the first act, the other quit at Act 2). I accidentally discovered the game had a photo mode while trying to remember the controls and got this group photo while there. My character is in the Background.

High levels of a toxic “forever chemical” have been found in cereal products across Europe because of its presence in pesticides.

The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking, content moderation or other activities the Trump administration considers “censorship” of Americans’ speech.

The Department of Justice has instructed inspectors to stop evaluating prisons and jails using standards designed to protect transgender, intersex and gender-nonconforming people from sexual violence, according to an internal memo obtained by NPR.

A female police officer who groped two colleagues at a drunken party has been sacked.

Scientists are raising alarms about the potential influence of artificial intelligence on elections, according to a spate of new studies that warn AI can rig polls and manipulate public opinion.

Google just can’t stop being evil. Their latest ploy? Changing article headlines using AI. The results? Exactly as you’d expect.

An ICE supervisor also admitted during the hearing that he has created and signed arrest warrants for individuals shortly after they were arrested without warrants on multiple occasions

Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.

Edit: Me can’t English good

The many hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem updates were merged today for Linux 6.19 that is predominantly around delivering new hardware support.

Bonus video of Swiss-German in the wild included. If you think German sounds harsh, you’ll love the Zuerich dialect. At least it’s all done in sing-song fashion, as is called for.

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The merged EXT4 changes for Linux 6.19 bring some of the most prominent feature changes in recent times for this mature and widely-used Linux file-system.

“Feel the power”

The first day of long-feared federal immigration raids across Greater New Orleans exposes the Big Lie of mass deportation.

China’s biggest tree-planting effort is the Great Green Wall in the country’s arid and semi-arid north. Started in 1978, the Great Green Wall was created to slow the expansion of deserts. Over the last five decades, it has helped grow forest cover from about 10% of China’s area in 1949 to more than 25%

Members of OASIS Open, the global open source and standards organization, have approved the Open Document Format (ODF) for Office Applications V1.4 as an OASIS Standard, the organization’s highest level of ratification. ODF V1.4 improves developer documentation, adds new features, and maintains full backward compatibility.

Microsoft has dropped its diversity and inclusion report

In a puppy pen in the Art Basel Miami Beach, you can watch Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos make a mess—as if we don’t get enough of that in the real world.

Besides convenience, one of the main benefits of self-driving cars is supposed to be safety.

Freya Allan has spent eight years playing Princess Ciri in Netflix’s blockbuster fantasy ‘The Witcher’ – but the end is approaching

8” acrylic on wood.