By Tran Khanh Toan. I remember the women in my village who never saw their husbands or sons return, children born with birth defects...Réseau International
The fragility of the current global financial system presents an opportunity for BRICS to solidify its position as a counterbalancing forceBRICS
The Day Anubis Saved Our Websites from a DDoS Attack
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Anubis, designed to protect your website from unwanted requests from AI crawlers, is way more powerful than you might think.fabulous.systems
AU ELECTION: While denying supplying complete weapons, the Australian government allows exports to Israel of parts and components for weapons and equipment that are being used in the genocide in Gaza, writes Kellie Tranter.Consortium News
Defeating Hamas more important than freeing hostages: Israeli PM-english.news.cn
Deno's Decline
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The one where I nosey through rather telling git commitsdbushell.com
President Trump ousted his national security adviser Mike Waltz on Thursday, and named Secretary of State Marco Rubio as his interim replacement.Rachel Blevins
Greenland – a vast frozen land that captures the imagination of adventurers and world leaders alike. This autonomous Danish territory holds major strategic value – enough for US President Trump to opeRumble
Gaza (Quds News Network)- The number of children receiving treatment for malnutrition in Gaza rose by 80% in April compared to March due to Israel’s ongoing blockade and the closure of border crossingEditing Team (Quds News Network)
Rejecting Trump's call for a 30-day ceasefire, Moscow insists that the US address the war's "root causes."Aaron Maté (Aaron Mate)
Previously, the Israel Defense Forces reported that it had intercepted an unmanned aerial vehicle that was approaching the country’s airspace from the eastTASS
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has reaffirmed his commitment to protecting national sovereignty against narcotrafficking threats, particularly along theteleSURenglish
Richard Medhurst's persecution by both UK and Austrian authorities signifies a major escalation in Israel's and its allies' full throated attack against the press in the West.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
The Yemeni Armed Forces also downed an F-18 fighter jet during an operation that forced the USS Truman to retreat toward the northern Red Sea.Al Mayadeen English (Sanaa announces downing F/A-18, hitting vital Israeli military sites)
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced today, Thursday, that the death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 52,418 and 118,091 wounded since October 7, 2023.www.saba.ye
Llasa: Llama-Based Speech Synthesis
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Justice Luiz Edson Fachin urges Brazil’s Congress to regulate fake news as Supreme Court reviews Article 19 of the Civil Rights Framework.Didi Rankovic (Reclaim the Net)
When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history
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Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.John Pavlus (Quanta Magazine)
The Zionist occupation forces have released Khaled Khdeish, a 51-year-old prisoner from Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the northern West Bank.Free Palestine TV (FPTV’s Substack)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Epic Games is taking a victory lap. After notching a big win against Apple in a years-long legal dispute, Epic announced that its Epic Games Store will allow developers to open webshops, which can …games.slashdot.org
Pars Today- After the incidence of widespread fire in the west of the Occupied Al-Quds, the Zionist regime officials announced the state of emergency.Pars Today
Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going?
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Reflecting on how our compensation model is goingoxide.computer
NEW YORK, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Uncertainty continues to hang over the latest round of financial resuen.people.cn
The Israeli occupation army said on Wednesday evening that two of its soldiers were injured, one seriously, in a roadside bomb attack near the West Bank town of Beita, close to Nablus.The Palestinian Information Center
Show HN: Roons – Mechanical Computer Kit
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After October 7, governments across the West are moving to criminalize criticism of Israel — placing free speech under growing global threat.Kit Klarenberg (MintPress News)
Earlier this week, a pre-dawn airstrike on a detention center in Sa’ada, northern Yemen killed nearly seventy African migrants.Shuaib Almosawa (Drop Site News)
Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
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Study shows how a dopamine circuit between two brain regions enables mice to extinguish fear after a peril has passed.picower.mit.edu
In this episode I try to unravel the complex and ever evolving situation on the ground with all the regional and Syrian players vying for power and survivalvanessa beeley (Vanessa Beeley)
Pepe Escobar- Welcome to “Ruler of the World” does Wonderland – to the sound of that hypnotic ‘Kashmir’ riff.thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
Russia can expect nothing in return from the EU if Putin concedes to allow their troops and aircraft to deploy in and patrol over Western Ukraine.Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)
Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un
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: 300+ US companies, 70+ individuals hit by the fraudstersJessica Lyons (The Register)
In my reports for UK Column yesterday, I delve into the murky world of PMCs now deployed in Syria under the Al Qaeda Junta control. Britain has been instrumental in the overthrow of the former Syri…The Wall Will Fall
By Ben Norton - Apr 28, 2025 The US military is preparing for war on China. It has missile systems in the Philippines aimed at major Chinese cities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the USA is turning “Japan into a war-fighting headquarters”.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
ISRAEL: Israel marks second Independence Day since October 7 attack; Police arrest three suspected of setting mass fires ■ SYRIA: IDF targets extremists planning attack on Druze community, PM and Katz say; Clashes between Druze and Syrian authorities…Haaretz
Ukraine has agreed to “give up” territory to Russia, US President Donald Trump’s top negotiator saidRT
New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
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The path to Vision Zero requires reducing severe crashes and improving the safety of those most at risk. Our latest research paper shows that the Waymo Driver is making significant strides in both areas.Waymo
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Trust Me, I'm Local: Chrome Extensions, MCP, and the Sandbox Escape
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Let’s talk about MCPs. You’ve probably heard of them, and maybe you’ve read the security risks associated with them. Sure, they sound worrying, but when you put them into a real-world context, they…Yuval Ronen (ExtensionTotal)
The superiority of China over the US is now blatant, and China’s breakthrough in nuclear-power technology is only yet another example of that.Eric ZUESSE (Oriental Review)
Several Palestinians, including children, were killed and wounded as Israeli forces carried out more massacres in Gaza.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Of all the points of the American president's peace initiative, only two depended on Ukraine. These were compliance with the ceasefire and signing an agreement with the Americans on subsoil resources.Кузмицкий (Военное обозрение)
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Palestinians' expectations from the Arab world have shifted. They no longer seek a call to arms or a comprehensive embargo on Israel, but rather the cessation of any actions that support the adversary against the two million besieged people in Gaza.admin (Politics For The People)
Havana, April 30 (ACN) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel congratulated Canada’s Liberal Party and its leader Mark Carney for their victory at Monday’s Federal Elections.www.cubanews.acn.cu
As Russia prepares to commemorate Victory Day on May 9th, tensions mount as European leaders, led by EU officials like Kaja Kallas, pressure others toФил Батлер (New Eastern Outlook)
Iran says Palestine has a non-negotiable right to self-determination and formation of an independent state.PressTV
Trump's cuts are a blow to NGOs like ADWAR, which provides aid and job training to Palestinian women across the West Bank and Gaza.Amos Brison (+972 Magazine)
The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A Palestinian Columbia University student walked out of immigration detention in Vermont on Wednesday after a US federal judge ordered his release.Tasnim News Agency
US President Donald Trump understands that Russia has certain ‘legitimate requirements’ regarding a peace deal with Ukraine, Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy told RIA Novosti.Sputnik International
Massive celebrations were held in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) on April 30 marking the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Vietnamese people’s war of resistance against US aggression, the liberation of the south and national reunification.Friends of Socialist China
Claude can now connect to your world
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Today we're announcing Integrations, a new way to connect your apps and tools to Claude. We're also expanding Claude's Research capabilities with an advanced mode that searches the web, your Google Workspace, and now your Integrations too.www.anthropic.com
The perpetrators and organisers of the Pahalgam terror attack must be held accountable, said India's EAM Subrahmanyam Jaishankar following a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.Sputnik India
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“The sons and daughters of the popular classes of Palestine, the workers, the farmers in the villages, the refugees of the camps, have always been the leaders and the driving force of our Palestini…Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Israeli violation of a ceasefire agreement with Lebanon has sparked widespread condemnations across the region.IRNA English
In the final weeks of his time as UK Prime Minister in 2007, Tony Blair made an oddly casual but revealing remark about the climate crisis. “Don’t worry about the climate — technology will fix it.”…OffGuardian
The US economy shrank by 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025. This is the first slump in three years – since the unstable summer of 2022, when the U.S. was hit by an inflationary crisis.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
Starting July 1, Academic Publishers Can't Paywall NIH-Funded Research
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Speeding access to research results will support NIH's goal of maximum transparency.National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival
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Redis is open source again
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Colonel who invented "eight burned babies" hoax committed extensive war crimes in Gaza as part of effort to expel Palestinian population.The Electronic Intifada
We identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job at Kraken
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Cybersecurity isn’t just a priority for Kraken, it’s part of our origin story and embedded into our DNA.KrakenFX (Kraken Blog)
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Vanguard 50-year anniversary CEO letter
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Our CEO reflects on Vanguard’s first 50 years and outlines how we will continue to take a stand for investors.corporate.vanguard.com
TEHRAN, May 01 (MNA) – A pro-Palestine Iranian-French journalist, who was briefly arrested recently by French police for his activism, says he is determined to continue advocating for Palestinian rights, despite the harsh experience he endured.Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (Mehr News Agency)
A task even more important than energy security is imperative: the recovery of our national independence, our freedom as a people. Join us on Telegram, Twitter,…Strategic Culture Foundation
A federal judge in Vermont ordered Mohsen Mahdawi be released from detention and compared the administration’s crackdown on dissent to the Red Scare. Upon his release, Mahdawi declared, “To President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you.”Michael Arria (Mondoweiss)
Голос Кореи,Voice of Korea,Voz de Corea,صوت كوريا ,Stimme Koreas,공화국,vokwww.vok.rep.kp
Both the army and the RSF have been accused of committing war crimes in a conflict that has displaced millionsthecradle.co
The Lebanese military has dismantled “over 90%” of Hezbollah’s infrastructure in the south of the country since a ceasefire brokered...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
How to vibe code for free: Running Qwen3 on your Mac, using MLX
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SANAA, April 30 (YPA) – Yemen’s Armed Forces to announce an important statement on a number of military operations this evening at 09:30 PM ( Sanaa Time), the military spokesman, brigadier general Yahya Sarie wrote on his Telegram channel .@E.Y.Mعماد (Yemen Press Agency)
Called them “propagandists” and “communists trying to discredit the U.S.” [This article continues CAM’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.—Editors] Dr.Jeremy Kuzmarov (CovertAction Magazine)
CEO of Iran's National Pension Fund launched a multi-day trip to Fars Province, southern Iran, to visit a series of livestock companies across the province.iranpress.com
The Brief Origins of May Day
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Alahednews - Fastnews - ’Israeli’ media: Five settlements were evacuated and the highway between occupied al-Quds and ’Tel Aviv’ was closed due to intensifying fire...english.alahednews.news
The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers
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RSAC: FBI and others list how to spot NK infiltrators, but AI will make it harderIain Thomson (The Register)
Kyiv is ready for peace talks in any format and a ceasefire lasting at least 30 days, said Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha in a statement on thePavel Morozov (Pravda English)
2025.5.1. http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/22123 Holding respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, a great man with few parallels in history, in high esteem as the great teacher and benevolent father, the working people in the DPRK enjoy their proud life, exe…Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
Judge Rules Apple Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral
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Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rebuked the phone giant, opened the app store, and made a criminal contempt referral to an Apple executive for lying under oath. Plus, a bad antitrust bill goes down.Matt Stoller (BIG by Matt Stoller)
The Korean Friendship Association of the UK (KFA UK ) held its 26th Film night on the 28th of April at 1900 hours BST with the participation of members of KFA UK and also guests from KFA Canada , KFA Germany , the People’s Korea Initiative of Poland …Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
