LLM developed by Chinese researchers helps rescue in Myanmar earthquake by providing language support for frontline rescue operations.
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A large language model developed by researchers from Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) was applied in rescue efforts following the devastating earthquake in Myanmar on March 28. It was recently included inwww.globaltimes.cn
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Inflicting 'serious losses,' Ukraine strikes Russian radar systems, landing craft in Crimea, intelligence claims
"The demilitarization of the temporarily occupied Crimea continues," Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) said in a statement.
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Who needs a constitution when you can just make it disappear?
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Portions of the U.S. Constitution, including sections on habeas corpus and rules against the government issuing titles of nobility, were removed from the text of the U.S. Constitution on Congress' Constitution website in August 2025.Emery Winter (Snopes.com)
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Chinese researchers have developed two advanced DNA editing tools that could lead to breakthroughs in crop breeding and new treatments for cancer and genetic diseases.
The machine that watches everythingMost people haven't even heard of her. And those who have heard it may know it as some little-known technology contractor or data analysis firm.Pravda EN
Eine Brandenburger Bürgermeisterin warnte vor Rechtsextremen. Ministerpräsident Woidke springt ihr bei, aber sieht ein gesamtdeutsches Problem.
Rechtsextremismus in Brandenburg: Woidke steht hinter Spremberger Bürgermeisterin
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Sunday 3-August-2025 GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Center for the Defense of Prisoners confirmed on Sunday that the Israeli occupation continues to detain 24 doctors from the Gaza Strip under extreme…Network in Defense of Humanity-Cuba
Can Ableism Be Considered A Form Of Violence? In this thought-provoking video, we tackle the pressing issue of ableism and its potential classification as a ...YouTube
Good write-up of the #ukonlinesafetyact fallacy by Kate Sim (COSPR):
"The real and perhaps only winners of the Online Safety Act are not children, but tech companies."
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Within hours of Ofcom enforcing the new law last week, Gaza and Ukraine content was being blocked, while pickup artist content and child modelling sites were. That’s entirely by design, writes Kate Sim.Novara Media
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Anticheat must be working that's why they used it since forever
Whose paying for all these staff to monitor a server 24/7 ?
Son of Eugene Sledge Reacts to Powerful "The Pacific" Finale
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Join Dr. Jared Frederick as he chats with Henry Sledge, son of WWII Marine icon Eugene Sledge, for insightful and heartfelt breakdowns of HBO's acclaimed miniseries "The Pacific." This episode explores the homecoming of Sledge and Robert Leckie. Purchase Sledge's book, "The Old Breed: The Complete Story Revealed," here:
Join history professor Jared Frederick on energetic and insightful cinematic journeys as he explores how the past is portrayed in film. Tune in while he separates fact from fiction in "Reel History.YouTube
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Mitarbeiter von SPD-Mann abgewiesen
Von Konrad Litschko
Ein Mitarbeiter des SPD-Abgeordneten Droßmann wird wegen eines Antifa-Shirts der Zugang zum Bundestag vorübergehend verwehrt. Droßmann ist empört.
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the muslim turks did this to the christian serbs for 500 years
I think the USA is prevented by the Constitution from doing this. "Other methods" may be needed.
Apple CEO Tim Cook gave President Donald Trump a “unique” piece of glass from iPhone glass manufacturer Corning that’s set in a 24-karat gold base.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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A year after fame found him in Paris, Stephen Nedoroscik, aka 'Pommel Horse Guy,' is back for more
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Debounce
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Debouncing, in the context of programming, means to discard operations that occur too close together during a specific interval, and consolidate them into a single invocation.MDN Web Docs
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he hosted a delegation of House Republicans who were in Israel on a trip organized by the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC, as members of Congress are flocking to the country amid their Aug…News From Antiwar.com
Recently I've been finding ChatGPT is INCREDIBLY useful as a research assistant for spitballing invention ideas.
Obviously it makes hard to spot yet critical mistakes, but generally it can give you an idea about material behavior, processes currently used in industry, costs of things, etc.
So far I have a queue of about 5 or 6 novel ideas that need to be tried in practice to see if they actually work, but could be very interesting little low cost DIY friendly devices that could replicate processes that are generally very costly.
Also I've eliminated probably 50 bad ideas already because GPT pointed out likely problems with them that I had not thought of...
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Americans get more than half their calories from ultra-processed foods, CDC report says
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looks like Wayne Allen Root is proposing this, among other things, to solve the illegal problem:
" A) Enforce E-Verify, so no illegal alien can work.
B) Require Real ID to ensure non-citizens cannot function in America anymore."
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Does this mean we will be required to have more ID and be more surveilled?
By Wayne Allyn Root and Retired U.S.Assistant Editor (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Economist Michael Hudson describes how the Western powers designed the international financial, legal, and political system in a way that benefits North Amer...YouTube
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OpenFlexure is an open source laboratory-grade microscope used to diagnose malaria and cancer. In this interview Julian Stirling, one of the core developers, tells us how the project evolved from its academic roots to a diverse community of people who use it, build it, sell it, teach it & develop it.
OpenFlexure is manufactured in many places to build local capacity. The next step is medical device certification, a slow but worthwhile process.
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#NGI #NGI0 #openhardware
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Here's what you need to know about ESPN's new steaming service and its deals with the NFL and WWE
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Different tee, same scruff. This is the recent shirt from @DomainTools Volunteer Day - when the entire company is given time off and encouraged to find a place to help in whatever community we’re part of.
Everything’s an ecosystem, and the more we each do to make things better, however small, the greater emergent phenonema those goods may become.
As always, if you see me and are feelin’ it, come say hi.
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Compiling GCC and Binutils Toolchain for a new OS is fine but the rest programs, oh god, a true psico-somatic headache for sure.
I am learning alot more trying to build a UNIX Operating System from scratch btw, a Micro Kernel with GNU Userland but I know it will be for a long time and alot of patience ofcourse.
Keeping Open Source projects is fun 😀
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AI Ethics is being narrowed on purpose, like privacy was
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A few days ago, OpenAI released an open-source language model for the first time in a very long time. It had been promised for a while, but the deadline kept being pushed for “safety” concerns.Nimish Gåtam (Society, Technology and Culture)
I've seen enough Black Mirror to wonder how likely it would be that they'd start contaminating prole spaces with cancer mist.
Not only do they claim every advancement is a reward to the efforts of science, they make us pay for it.
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#geopolitics #Israel #genocide
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NEW DELHI, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened toen.people.cn
Hiroshima: Into a City of Death | History Traveler Episode 454
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August 6, 1945 is a day that served as a marker in human history. At 8:15 AM, the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the world's first atomic bomb to be used in combat on the city of Hiroshima. There are thousands of stories that could be told of that day but one woman who survived described it best when she said that she emerged from her shelter into "a city of death."
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The Gettysburg Museum of History is like no other civil war museum! Best things to do in Gettysburg: Civil War relics to JFK, Marilyn Monroe, mummy heads.Gettysburg Museum of History
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A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the unexpected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, using the crisp vision of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
ESA's Planetary Defence Office responded promptly to the discovery of the comet, and has been tracking it since the beginning of July.
Now, Hubble's observations from space are allowing astronomers to more accurately estimate the size of the comet’s solid icy nucleus. The upper limit on the diameter of the nucleus is 5.6 km, but it could be as small as 320 m across, researchers report.
Though the Hubble images put tighter constraints on the nucleus size compared to previous ground-based estimates, the solid heart of the comet presently cannot be directly seen, even by Hubble. Further observations, including by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, will help refine our knowledge about the comet, including its chemical makeup.
Hubble also captured a dust plume ejected from the Sun-warmed side of the comet, and the hint of a dust tail streaming away from the nucleus. Hubble’s data show that the comet is losing dust in a similar manner to that from previously seen Sun-bound comets originating within our Solar System.
The big difference is that this interstellar visitor originated in some other stellar systems, elsewhere in our Milky Way galaxy.
3I/ATLAS is traveling through our Solar System at roughly 210 000 km per hour, the highest speed ever recorded for a Solar System visitor. This breathtaking sprint is evidence that the comet has been drifting through interstellar space for many billions of years. The gravitational slingshot effect from innumerable stars and nebulae the comet passed added momentum, ratcheting up its speed. The longer 3I/ATLAS was out in space, the higher its speed grew.
This comet was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on 1 July 2025 at a distance of 675 million km from the Sun. 3I/ATLAS should remain visible to ground-based telescopes until September, after which it will pass too close to the Sun to observe. It is expected to reappear on the other side of the Sun by early December.
Icy wanderers such as 3I/ATLAS offer a rare, tangible connection to the broader galaxy. To actually visit one would connect humankind with the Universe on a far greater scale. To this end, ESA is preparing the Comet Interceptor mission. The spacecraft will be launched in 2029 into a parking orbit, lying in wait for a suitable target – a pristine comet from the distant Oort Cloud that surrounds our Solar System, or, unlikely but highly appealing, an interstellar object.
While it is improbable that we will discover an interstellar object that is reachable for Comet Interceptor, as a first demonstration of a rapid response mission that waits in space for its target, it will be a pathfinder for possible future missions to intercept these mysterious visitors.
The research paper based on Hubble observations will be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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We present high angular resolution observations of the third known interstellar interloper, 3I/ATLAS, from the Hubble Space Telescope. The object is clearly active at 3.arXiv.org
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I do see a move away from any RealSecurity™ and a move towards check-mark compliance potentially even accelerated by all the regulatory compliance requirements - While said requirements COULD have been used to improve security posture they are effectively starving effective measures (and thereby current best practices) further increasing security poverty.
"Compliance-sizing: the act of replacing highly skilled and educated cyber security professionals with auditors.
…Or just overwhelming said professionals with sheer amounts of useless “controls” developed by people with no real understanding of how Threat Actors operate"
@itisiboller I think Martin has mostly nailed it here.
The OP is by someone busy trying to convince themselves of an effective move to functional compliance.
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By September 30, the White House plans to reclassify 50,000 federal workers and assign allies to key roles. This widespread expansion of Trump’s de facto political army will have brutal effects on the crackdown against Palestine in higher education.
Assigning friendlies to key posts is what politicians do @mondoweiss
You need to try harder. Your analysis is skewed to a single politician. Iow, you sound like Democrats desperately trying to dis THE PERFECT REPRESENTATIVE of Merica. You know? Psychopathic creeps.
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in reply to black6 • • •Every single "customer service" person I talk to - even at my "local" small-city newspaper - is an Indian who can't speak English.
I don't even try to be civil anymore. My goals in each "conversation" are to get a refund and inspire the "representative" to quit his/her/their/its job.
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