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Trump and Musk feud explodes online and turns personal nbcnews.com/politics/white-hou…

Trump-Musk feud explodes online, turns personal with Epstein comments and contract threats

The world's most powerful man and its richest man are lobbing threats and insults on their rival social media platforms, sparked by disagreements over Trump's "big, beautiful bill."
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Jim Gaffigan says cheeseburgers are in "grave danger"
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Jim Gaffigan says cheeseburgers are in "grave danger"

People are putting so many toppings on cheeseburgers, they're becoming harder and harder to hold. Gaffigan asks, "If you can't confidently hold a cheeseburger while you eat it, is it cheeseburger?"
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Gaza Aid Halted As Israel Declares Distribution Routes 'Combat Zones' tn.ai/3328427

Gaza Aid Halted As Israel Declares Distribution Routes 'Combat Zones'

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Gaza’s already-starved population faced yet another blow on Wednesday as Israel declared roads to aid centers “combat zones,” forcing a shutdown of all humanitarian distribution points and further deepening the despair in the besieg…
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Travel in Israel: escape the stress to a secluded and romantic spot in the Lower Galilee haaretz.com/israel-news/travel…

Travel in Israel: escape the stress to a secluded and romantic spot in the Lower Galilee

Ein Sharona, one of the most beautiful springs in the north is so peaceful - the perfect place to escape the burden of war. The same can't be said for the nearby Tarpu Spring
Moshe Gilad (Haaretz)

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Bosnia and Herzegovina eager to adopt Belarus’ best practices in agriculture eng.belta.by/economics/view/bo…

Bosnia and Herzegovina eager to adopt Belarus’ best practices in agriculture

The delegation from Bosnia and Herzegovina visited the 35th international exhibition Belagro 2025 to assess the scale of development of the Belarusian agro-industrial complex.
Belarusian Telegraph Agency

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Sanaa warns of environmental disaster following mass death of dolphins in Socotra en.ypagency.net/358791

Sanaa warns of environmental disaster following mass death of dolphins in Socotra

SANAA, June 05 (YPA) – The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in the Sanaa government has condemned what it called an environmental crime off Socotra’s coast, following the mass death of over 80 dolphins in the Neet region of Qalansiyah.In a state
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The forces of Sana’a reveal the details of a qualitative military operation that targeted the depth of the occupation dailyyemen.net/2025/06/05/the-…

The forces of Sana’a reveal the details of a qualitative military operation that targeted the depth of the occupation

The official spokesman for the Sana’a forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced an important statement at exactly 11:20 pm Sana’a time to announce a qualitative military operation that targeted the depth of the Zionist enemy entity in occupie
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Military aggression not to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program en.mehrnews.com/news/232679/Mi…

Military aggression not to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program

TEHRAN, Jun. 05 (MNA) – Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has strongly dismissed the notion of military aggression’s being capable of “eliminating” Iran’s nuclear energy program, highlighting the invulnerable nature of the country’s nuclear facilities
Marzieh Rahmani (Mehr News Agency)

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Is this a Vlog part II
Just me blabbing about what’s going on in my life at this moment. I talk about my dead dog, Dax, a broken tooth, and a friend in the hospital.
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DianaSez

Knowing their personalities and backgrounds, I have been braced for something to happen between them from the beginning. Per my research on Elon and his bio, Elon was emotionally rejected by his father and bullied for his differences at school. So, I assumed his adult foibles were likely rooted in emotional strongholds. I could see Elon's exuberant support of Trump as risky, but I hoped and prayed for the best. I still do. Both are exceptional.
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Exclusive | White House staffer went on a revenge tour against Elon Musk, fanning flames with Trump — while bragging about Tesla stock drop

WASHINGTON — A top White House aide is catching the blame for helping trigger President Trump’s fiery clash with Elon Musk — after speaking for months about giving the billionaire “payback” and eve…
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Stalker (1979)
162min | Drama, Sci-Fi | April 1979

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko, Natalya Abramova, Faime Jurno, E. Kostin, Raymo Rendi, Sergey Yakovlev, Vladimir Zamanskiy

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Sparse transformers avoid loading and computing activations with feed forward layer weights whose outputs will eventually be zeroed out. It’s a lossless approach as these weights anyway do not contribute in the current token prediction.

This technique results in 2x faster LLM performance using 30% less memory.

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GitHub - NimbleEdge/sparse_transformers: Sparse Inferencing for transformer based LLMs

Sparse Inferencing for transformer based LLMs. Contribute to NimbleEdge/sparse_transformers development by creating an account on GitHub.
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I don’t believe Musk and Trump’s fall out for a minute. It’s just more gossip to change the narrative about the awful things they’re doing to us individually and collectively.

Having said that, the enemy of my enemy is not my friend and I’ll watch the commentary nevertheless.

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I make no predictions; I am not a historian, or a seer. But this little mishigas between The Big Boss and Elon? Kinda feels staged for a purpose…just way too overt. It makes for great theater…and a fun way to divert and deflect. I’m sure the dems are over the moon, but the BFF love will be right back…as will Lil X in the Oval Office.

Stay tuned.

Me? I’m heading out to shoe shop. 👠

Ciao!

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Get ready- 1 bill to bring SOPA (ie a US censorship regime geared at giving the copyright cartels the ability to censor anything they want) back wasn't enough, so they've introduced 2 bills now and they've done a good job at keeping it secret to avoid criticism until the last minute. They are going to try and force its passage by mitigating the ability of the people to know what is in it and push back, so speak up and write your congress critters !!!!!

And don't think the VPN or switching DNS providers is necessarily going to get you around the censorship either cause they've got provisions for that too.

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Unveiled: New U.S. Anti-Piracy Bill 'ACPA' Proposes Alternative Site Blocking Path * TorrentFreak

Republican House Representative Darrell Issa is working on the introduction of the 'American Copyright Protection Act' (ACPA), a new bill that would enable copyright holders to request site blocking orders against foreign pirate sites.
Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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indyradio

Communists did house everyone. The world made fun of the "ugly" cement apartment buildings Khrushchev built.
This article is truthful.
Life inside a Kiev Khrushchyovka: #Soviet architecture in #Ukraine.
Now how do they live?

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Life inside a Kiev Khrushchyovka: Soviet architecture in Ukraine

An insight into one family’s everyday life in a Soviet-era housing block in Kiev.
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indyradio

Who invented homelessness?
Ronald Reagan. Enough said.
The only "homeless" in the US were by choice: they lived in the gutters of West Madison street in Chicago, because cheap booze was handy.
The worst thing #Reagan did was to conflate the #Homelessness he created with the wandering winos.
Many thousands in the US are impoverished and can not afford housing, or cheap booze. Thank the Nazi who flew Fascism from the #WhiteHouse flagpole.

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D-day FDR prayer

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D-Day 80: Remember Them

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Band of Brothers - Start of Operations

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Hymn To The Fallen

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What really happened inside the first house liberated on D-Day

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D-Day 80: Remember Them

The date was June 6, 1944.On June 6, 2024, we commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. May we remember the fallen and honor the legacy of those who changed...
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Proxy Services Feast on Ukraine’s IP Address Exodus


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Ukraine has seen nearly one-fifth of its Internet space come under Russian control or sold to Internet address brokers since February 2022, a new study finds. The analysis indicates large chunks of Ukrainian Internet address space are now in the hands of shadowy proxy and anonymity services that are nested at some of America’s largest Internet service providers (ISPs).

The findings come in a report that examines how the Russian invasion has affected Ukraine’s domestic supply of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) addresses. Researchers at Kentik, a company that measures the performance of Internet networks, found that while a majority of ISPs in Ukraine haven’t changed their infrastructure much since the war began in 2022, others have resorted to selling swathes of their valuable IPv4 address space just to keep the lights on.

For example, Ukraine’s incumbent ISP Ukrtelecom is now routing just 29 percent of the IPv4 address ranges that the company controlled at the start of the war, Kentik found. Although much of that former IP space remains dormant, Ukrtelecom told Kentik’s Doug Madory they were forced to sell many of their address blocks “to secure financial stability and continue delivering essential services.”

“Leasing out a portion of our IPv4 resources allowed us to mitigate some of the extraordinary challenges we have been facing since the full-scale invasion began,” Ukrtelecom told Madory.

Madory found much of the IPv4 space previously allocated to Ukrtelecom is now scattered to more than 100 providers globally, particularly at three large American ISPs — Amazon (AS16509), AT&T (AS7018), and Cogent (AS174).

Another Ukrainian Internet provider — LVS (AS43310) — in 2022 was routing approximately 6,000 IPv4 addresses across the nation. Kentik learned that by November 2022, much of that address space had been parceled out to over a dozen different locations, with the bulk of it being announced at AT&T.

IP addresses routed over time by Ukrainian provider LVS (AS43310) shows a large chunk of it being routed by AT&T (AS7018). Image: Kentik.

Ditto for the Ukrainian ISP TVCOM, which currently routes nearly 15,000 fewer IPv4 addresses than it did at the start of the war. Madory said most of those addresses have been scattered to 37 other networks outside of Eastern Europe, including Amazon, AT&T, and Microsoft.

The Ukrainian ISP Trinity (AS43554) went offline in early March 2022 during the bloody siege of Mariupol, but its address space eventually began showing up in more than 50 different networks worldwide. Madory found more than 1,000 of Trinity’s IPv4 addresses suddenly appeared on AT&T’s network.

Why are all these former Ukrainian IP addresses being routed by U.S.-based networks like AT&T? According to spur.us, a company that tracks VPN and proxy services, nearly all of the address ranges identified by Kentik now map to commercial proxy services that allow customers to anonymously route their Internet traffic through someone else’s computer.

From a website’s perspective, the traffic from a proxy network user appears to originate from the rented IP address, not from the proxy service customer. These services can be used for several business purposes, such as price comparisons, sales intelligence, web crawlers and content-scraping bots. However, proxy services also are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source.

IPv4 address ranges are always in high demand, which means they are also quite valuable. There are now multiple companies that will pay ISPs to lease out their unwanted or unused IPv4 address space. Madory said these IPv4 brokers will pay between $100-$500 per month to lease a block of 256 IPv4 addresses, and very often the entities most willing to pay those rental rates are proxy and VPN providers.

A cursory review of all Internet address blocks currently routed through AT&T — as seen in public records maintained by the Internet backbone provider Hurricane Electric — shows a preponderance of country flags other than the United States, including networks originating in Hungary, Lithuania, Moldova, Mauritius, Palestine, Seychelles, Slovenia, and Ukraine.

AT&T’s IPv4 address space seems to be routing a great deal of proxy traffic, including a large number of IP address ranges that were until recently routed by ISPs in Ukraine.

Asked about the apparent high incidence of proxy services routing foreign address blocks through AT&T, the telecommunications giant said it recently changed its policy about originating routes for network blocks that are not owned and managed by AT&T. That new policy, spelled out in a February 2025 update to AT&T’s terms of service, gives those customers until Sept. 1, 2025 to originate their own IP space from their own autonomous system number (ASN), a unique number assigned to each ISP (AT&T’s is AS7018).

“To ensure our customers receive the best quality of service, we changed our terms for dedicated internet in February 2025,” an AT&T spokesperson said in an emailed reply. “We no longer permit static routes with IP addresses that we have not provided. We have been in the process of identifying and notifying affected customers that they have 90 days to transition to Border Gateway Protocol routing using their own autonomous system number.”

Ironically, the co-mingling of Ukrainian IP address space with proxy providers has resulted in many of these addresses being used in cyberattacks against Ukraine and other enemies of Russia. Earlier this month, the European Union sanctioned Stark Industries Solutions Inc., an ISP that surfaced two weeks before the Russian invasion and quickly became the source of large-scale DDoS attacks and spear-phishing attempts by Russian state-sponsored hacking groups. A deep dive into Stark’s considerable address space showed some of it was sourced from Ukrainian ISPs, and most of it was connected to Russia-based proxy and anonymity services.

According to Spur, the proxy service IPRoyal is the current beneficiary of IP address blocks from several Ukrainian ISPs profiled in Kentik’s report. Customers can chose proxies by specifying the city and country they would to proxy their traffic through. Image: Trend Micro.

Spur’s Chief Technology Officer **Riley Kilmer **said AT&T’s policy change will likely force many proxy services to migrate to other U.S. providers that have less stringent policies.

“AT&T is the first one of the big ISPs that seems to be actually doing something about this,” Kilmer said. “We track several services that explicitly sell AT&T IP addresses, and it will be very interesting to see what happens to those services come September.”

Still, Kilmer said, there are several other large U.S. ISPs that continue to make it easy for proxy services to bring their own IP addresses and host them in ranges that give the appearance of residential customers. For example, Kentik’s report identified former Ukrainian IP ranges showing up as proxy services routed by Cogent **Communications **(AS174), a tier-one Internet backbone provider based in Washington, D.C.

Kilmer said Cogent has become an attractive home base for proxy services because it is relatively easy to get Cogent to route an address block.

“In fairness, they transit a lot of traffic,” Kilmer said of Cogent. “But there’s a reason a lot of this proxy stuff shows up as Cogent: Because it’s super easy to get something routed there.”

Cogent declined a request to comment on Kentik’s findings.
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From tokens to thoughts: How LLMs and humans trade compression for meaning

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17117
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From Tokens to Thoughts: How LLMs and Humans Trade Compression for Meaning

Humans organize knowledge into compact categories through semantic compression by mapping diverse instances to abstract representations while preserving meaning (e.g., robin and blue jay are both birds; most birds can fly).
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This will be my next Linux laptop: Tuxedo Stellaris 15 Slim Review

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00:57 Aesthetics and build quality
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It's matte black, made entirely out of aluminium, and it houses a 15.3 inches display. In terms of dimensions, we're talking 34cm of width, 2.2 cm in height at its highest point, and 24.5 cm in depth, for a total weight of 2.1kilos.

As usual, the branding is very light on Tuxedo computers, you have the usual Tuxedo logo laser etched on the lid, although you can have whatever logo engraved here.

As per the build quality, the laptop is the usual fare for aluminium: it feels really good when resting your palms on it, it feels solid, it doesn't bend, it has very little flex, apart from the middle of the keyboard, it's a really solidly built computer.

So, this thing packs either an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS, or an Intel core i7 14650HX. I have the AMD model here, so that's what I'll be testing. Do note that the Intel model can also have an i9 14900HX.

So, in Geekbench 6, that AMD CPU reached 2614 in single core, and 12686 in multi core.

This is coupled with an Nvidia GPU, not matter if you decide to go the Intel or AMD route, you get an Nvidia RTX 4060, or a 4070 if you prefer that.

For Shadow of the tomb raider, at the maximum settings, the game reached 94 FPS n average. Lowering details down to medium, it reached 106 FPS.
And finally, for Horizon, on Ultra settings, then game reached 53 FPS on average, and on medium details , it went up to 71 FPS.

As per battery life, this Stellaris Slim 15 has a 99Wh battery, meaning it's rated for up to 13h of battery life. In my testing, on hybrid mode, meaning the integrated GPu was used mostly, I could get up to a tiny bit under 7H30 of looped video playback on youtube, at mid brightness, over wifi.

This laptop offers on the left side: one USB A 3.2 Gen 1 port, and one USB C 3.2 Gen 1, plus an audio jack.
On the right side, you get an SD card slot, and 2 USB A 3.2 gen 1 ports.
And on the back, you have a minidisplay port 1.4, which is hardwired to the dedicated Nvidia GPU, and supports GSync, you have a USB C 3.2 gen 2 port, hardwired to the integrated GPU, it also supports charging the laptop.
There's also an HDMI 2.1 port, that connects to the Nvidia GPU and also supports G Sync, plus a 2.5 gig ethernet port and the usual barrel charger.

As per the display, it's a 16:10, 15.3 inches display, at a resolution of 2560 by 1600. It supports 240Hz or 60hz, and it's an LED display.
It supports adaptive sync, it has a brightness of 500 nits, and a contrast ratio of 1000 to 1, and it supports 100% of SRGB.

The bezel around the display are minimal, and you have the usual webcams, a full HD 1080p one, that an record at 30FPS. It's not too potato quality, but it's also not great.

The speakers, though, aren't bad, they have some amount of bass, they do not peak or vibrate the chassis of the Stellaris Slim 15, and they sound pretty crisp to me, they're really solid.

And to conclude, we have the keyboard. Most of the keyboard is full sized, with small function keys, but functional normal keys even though this here is a german layout that I just can't get used to. The numpad is cramped and compressed, and it makes it hard to use for me.

As per the touchpad, it's glass, it's extremely smooth, and while it's still a diveboard mechanism, so you need to press at the bottom half of the thing to click, it's really, really good. Gestures on Wayland and Plasma feel awesome, the click feels solid, the sound of the click is good as well, it's a great touchpad for any laptop.

The base AMD model with 16 gigs of RAM, the RTX 4060 and 500 gigs of PCIe 3 SSD comes at a bit less than 1700 euros, including the usual 20% european VAT, so it's like 1400 euros without taxes. You also get Wifi 6 and bluetooth 5.3 with that.

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