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Week in images: 04-08 August 2025


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Week in images: 04-08 August 2025

Discover our week through the lens

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Africa 'Must Stop Measuring Its Success Through Lens of Western Metric,' SA Scholar Says en.sputniknews.africa/20250808…

Africa 'Must Stop Measuring Its Success Through Lens of Western Metric,' SA Scholar Says

The African continent is rich in talent, but colonial and post-colonial systems suppressed the recognition and development of its "brilliance," a South African professor said.
Sputnik Africa

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La France doit immédiatement reprendre l’accueil des réfugié·es originaires de Gaza
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"Il y a une semaine, le gouvernement a décidé de suspendre toutes les opérations d’évacuation de Gaza vers la France, après la découverte d’anciennes publications antisémites relayées par une étudiante gazaouie récemment accueillie sur le territoire. Au moins une quarantaine de personnes, dont des


La France doit immédiatement reprendre l’accueil des réfugié·es originaires de Gaza - Utopia 56

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Wow, what a nightmare. A woman called local police about her stalker ex, who was a state trooper. The police department ignored her pleas. So of course, the ex showed up and killed her and her current boyfriend. Now the whole police department has been taken over by the county prosecutor's office and is being investigated.

Listen to women, folks.

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County prosecutor takes over Franklin police after double murder • New Jersey Monitor

The Franklin Township Police Department will be overseen by the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office "until further notice."
Dana DiFilippo (New Jersey Monitor)
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The issue we have is not just that govts want to stand in the way of a free press (same as it ever was) but more critically that we now have a generation who have utterly forgotten how to seperate their own ideological framing from the duty to present the truth to the best of their ability.

Journalism and all the attached or adjacent institutions must be gutted and rebuilt from the ground up. #truth

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"Eine Katastrophe für die Städte"

Der Verkehrsforscher Helmut Holzapfel fordert, die Erhöhung der Pendlerpauschale zu stoppen. Sie sei sozial ungerecht und ein Angriff auf die Verkehrswende.#Pkw,Auto #Arbeit #Straßenverkehr #Soziales #Verkehrswende #Subventionen #Regionalentwicklung,ländlicherRaum
Eine Katastrophe für die Städte

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@Suiseiseki it simply makes no economic sense to pay a human a wage to do what a robot can do for 1/10 of the cost, and the cost of robots is only coming down.

we already have around 30-40% of US residents on some form of government assistance.

the numbers do not comport with your prediction at all

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Not a surprise to those in the field, but always nice to hear mainstream validation: Microsoft is a gift to adversaries.

But I do wish the arm-flailing about a "cyber war" with China would cool. That's not really the national interest there.

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Ex-White House cyber, counter-terrorism guru: Microsoft considers security an annoyance, not a necessity

Comment: Tells The Reg China's ability to p0wn Redmond's wares 'gives me a political aneurysm'
Jessica Lyons (The Register)
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@neurovagrant I certainly didn't mean to do that, and I'm sorry it came across that way.

I think we are seeing this from different angles, but not necessarily holding distinct positions. Yes to impact, yes to gravity, but I want more nuance in the discussion of intention than usually exists in the discourse—notably, not here in this thread, which is about as rich as anything in public fora.

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🚨 Researchers found that single-serve coffee capsules release harmful phthalates and heavy metals into your brew. #CoffeeSafety #Pollution

☕️ Phthalates like Di (2-ethyl-hexyl)-phthalate were detected in all coffee samples, with levels varying significantly. #FoodSafety

⚠️ Heavy metals such as lead and nickel were found in all tested coffees, with some samples exceeding the tolerable daily intake. #HealthRisks

🧪 The study highlights the urgent need for better regulations on food packaging materials to protect consumers. #PublicHealth

💔 With these findings, we must reconsider our coffee choices and the potential risks associated with single-serve products. #ConsumerAwareness

Sipping @ #coffeechain

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Theft of a Nation: How the Deep State Swamp Is Stealing the People’s Power

When “we the people” no longer have a say in how we’re governed—when we have no way to guard against our trust being abused and our rights violated—when we have no way to counter government efforts to silence our voices, manipulate our choices, and erase our rights—what remains is not a constitutional republic.

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Theft of a Nation: How the Deep State Swamp Is Stealing the People’s Power - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity

What on earth is happening to this country? How, over the course of 250 years, did we go from prizing self-government to allowing a corrupt, self-serving ruling elite to dominate us with terror campaigns, brute force, and psychological warfare? Don’t…
The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity

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Josh Reid, Red Pill Project advocate against Child Trafficking, on The Charlie Ward Show
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THE INSIDERS CLUB WITH CHARLIE WARD , PAUL BROOKER & JOSH REID

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Nach neuen Gaza-Plänen von Netanjahu: Bundesregierung stoppt Waffenlieferungen nach Israel de.rt.com/international/252750… Die Bundesregierung schränkt die Ausfuhr von Rüstungsgütern nach Israel ein. Deutschland liefert vorerst keine Rüstungsgüter mehr an Israel, die im Gazastreifen eingesetzt werden könnten. Damit reagiert Kanzler Merz auf die militärischen Pläne Israels. #news #press

Nach neuen Gaza-Plänen von Netanjahu: Bundesregierung stoppt Waffenlieferungen nach Israel

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*** ALERTE *** Big Brother débarque en Europe ! – Li P'ti Fouineu !


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*** ALERTE *** Big Brother débarque en Europe !

Bonjour le Monde ! L'Europe, sous l'instigation de la présidence danoise, a relancé le projet de forcer toutes les applications qui cryptent vos échanges pour respecter votre vie privée à prendre une copie de vos messages AVANT chiffrement et de les …
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#Israel #Gaza #terrorist #Palestine

Israel's "finance minister Bezalel Smotrich’s unpalatable parsing of the decision on Friday. “We are erasing the Palestinian state,” he declared, “first in action and then officially”

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Israel’s move to take over Gaza could be a recipe for perpetual war

Decision will place huge financial burden on Israel and could lead to massive increase in Palestinian civilian deaths
Peter Beaumont (The Guardian)

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I promised another shoe would fall... here is part one of the VexTrio origin story. It is just too big for one entry, so a few more will come in the next few weeks... and this is still a small fraction of what we know. The story of malicious adtech has long legs.

We had great reception at BlackHat. One of the most common questions was: why are you giving this talk? Simple. It's a story that needs to be told and one that is too big to carry alone. We are looking for message carriers in the media, champions in the government, partners in the industry.

Organized crime, predominantly Russian speaking, has a strong foothold in the advertising world - and they are ensuring the delivery of everything from dating scams to information stealers. Let's root them out together.

boosts for awareness appreciated.

#dns #threatintel #scam #malware #infosec #cybersecurity #cybercrime #infoblox

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VexTrio Unveiled: Inside the Notorious Scam Enterprise

We expose adtech operators who partner with malware threat actors to commit digital fraud on a global scale through their affiliate advertising networks
Infoblox Threat Intel (Infoblox)

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Kardos died July 18 of complications from Long COVID, his family announced.

As he struggled with Long COVID, he became an advocate for more aggressive medical research & treatment development & for formal recognition of Long COVID as a disability.

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Derrick Kardos Dead: ‘Black Swan,’ ‘Departed’ Graphic Designer Was 53

Mentored by Christine Vachon and Thérèse de Prez, he also worked on ‘Go Fish,’ ‘Kids,’ ‘Summer of Sam,’ ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ and ‘American Gangster.’
Mike Barnes (The Hollywood Reporter)

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Hands off Mohammed Khatib! Stand with Palestine! — Samidoun


Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network stands together with our Europe Coordinator, Mohammed Khatib, and urges the broadest expressions of solidarity and support against the targeting and repression he is facing. We note that this is not only an attempt to target Mohammed as an individual and Samidoun as an organization. It is primarily an attempt to silence the growing, massive voice of the people standing together with Palestine against genocide. It aims specifically to silence the movement to liberate Palestinian prisoners and to uphold the legitimacy and justice of the Palestinian resistance, especially the armed resistance, as part of the international, Arab and Palestinian global intifada.

On 15 April 2024, Nicole De Moor, Belgium’s Secretary for Asylum and Migration, announced in a public statement that she was calling on the Belgian immigration agencies to withdraw the refugee status of Mohammed Khatib. Mohammed, born in Ain el-Helweh refugee camp in Lebanon, has been a refugee his entire life, denied his right to return to his home and homeland in Palestine, from which his family was forcibly displaced in the Zionist conquest of the Nakba in 1947-1948. De Moor’s statement is, in essence, an attempt to once again displace a Palestinian refugee who has already been displaced multiple times due to colonialism, imperialism, war and exploitation.

The Growing Movement for Palestinian Liberation


De Moor labeled Mohammed a “hate preacher,” in the latest example of the utter inversion of reality practiced by European, US and Canadian officials. There is currently a genocide being carried out by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people in Gaza, a genocide that is sparking intense global outrage against the Zionist regime, leading to protests that have taken the streets in Belgium for over six months involving tens and hundreds of thousands of people; direct actions targeting banks and arms manufacturers; a burgeoning student movement for Palestine paralleling that seen on US campuses like Columbia, Rutgers, Yale, the University of Michigan,and elsewhere; and wide-scale mobilization among the Palestinian population in Belgium.

As the global movement in support of Palestine, the Palestinian people, and their Resistance has grown across borders and continents, bringing millions to mobilize in the heart of the imperial core, it has been faced with severe repression from the same states that are arming and funding the Zionist genocide in Gaza. This is not the only attack in Belgium; demonstrations organized by Samidoun in Brussels have been canceled and banned by the police. ZINTV, an independent collective, hosted an event organized by Samidoun on repression in Europe targeting Palestine in October 2023; since that time, they have been threatened by the local government and then, months later, in March 2024, subject to a sudden police raid and investigation into “terrorism financing” as retaliation for hosting this public political event.

Repression Targeting Palestinian Organizing in Europe


In Germany, perhaps the most extreme example, Palestinian organizations, including Samidoun, have been banned. Activists like Zaid Abdulnasser and Musaab Abu Atta have been subjected to political bans – followed shortly thereafter by prominent international figures, including Salman Abu Sitta, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, and Yanis Varoufakis. Demonstrations and conferences have been forcibly shut down and dispersed by German police, who have beaten demonstrators on the streets of cities throughout the country. Hundreds of people have been arrested. Police raids have swept into the homes of Palestinian and Palestine solidarity activists amid government-backed media smear campaigns. Dozens of Palestinians are facing procedures to withdraw their residency, block their citizenship applications and deport them from the country. Organizations, including Jewish organizations, that stand against the genocide, have had their bank accounts shut down. The extreme level of repression in Germany comes at the same time that the German government has upped its arms exports to the Israeli regime 10x since 7 October 2023.

While Germany is likely the most extreme example of repression in Europe, it is not alone. In France, which has already sought to dissolve or ban Palestine solidarity organizations like the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and the Comité Action Palestine, over 628 cases have been opened by prosecutors seeking to investigate or prosecute people for making statements in support of the Palestinian resistance, while officials and extreme right wing politicians and media threaten to dissolve Samidoun Paris Banlieue, CAPJPO EuroPalestine, Urgence Palestine and other mass movements. Demonstrations are now taking place across France, but this was only possible after mass participation pushed back the attempt to ban demonstrations for Palestine across the country in October and November 2023. In Spain, the Netherlands, and other European countries, related attacks on organizers for Palestine are continuing. Of course, some of the most extreme examples are the political prisoners for Palestine in European jails, including Georges Abdallah, jailed for nearly 40 years in France; Amin Abu Rashed, jailed for over 300 days in the Netherlands; and emerging cases in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and other states.

In the Netherlands and Switzerland, particularly, multiple attempts have been made by the Israeli embassy and Zionist organizations to shut down events where Mohammed is speaking. These attempts have failed – largely because Mohammed is already a Belgian resident. The Israeli ambassador to Belgium has repeatedly issued demands to ban Samidoun and silence our events. It is difficult to see these latest attacks as anything other than an attempt to placate the same Zionist regime currently killing over 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza and bombing hospitals, schools, mosques, churches, residential buildings and refugee camps.

The Attack on Mohammed Khatib is an Attack on All of Us


The attack on Mohammed Khatib and the threat against his refugee status are part and parcel of this repression. It is meant as a threat to every other Palestinian and every other recognized refugee in Belgium that if they speak out – especially if they speak out loudly and clearly on Palestinian liberation and resistance – they will be targeted with the loss of their residency and their livelihood. The minister does not even attempt to allege that Mohammed and Samidoun have done anything other than organize demonstrations, protests, mass mobilizations and political education events for Palestine in Belgium – thus, the “threat level 3 out of 4” identified by unspecified “security agencies” is related to the “threat” posed of the growing movement for Palestinian liberation in Belgium. All of this is made even more outrageous by the note by Belgian public broadcaster VRT in an interview with Mohammed Khatib that “the security services mainly estimate that the organization [Samidoun] can damage Belgian international relations with Israel.”

Repression Targeting the Prisoners and the Resistance


The attack on Mohammed and on Samidoun is specifically intended to silence support for Palestinian prisoners. There are currently over 9,500 Palestinian prisoners inside the Israeli occupation jails. Thousands of additional Palestinians from Gaza have been kidnapped by the Zionist regime, especially health care workers and civilians in areas targeted for invasions by the Israeli occupation army. These Palestinian prisoners are being subjected to severe torture, starvation and abuse by the Israeli prison system. At the same time, the Palestinian prisoners are leaders of the Palestinian cause, targeted for their role in resisting occupation, from organizing students and workers to leading the armed struggle. The liberation of the Palestinian prisoners is precious to the Palestinian people and a whole and to their resistance. The Israeli regime wants to isolate them from their people and from our international movement – and this is the key reason why they attack Samidoun and label us “terrorists.” We are committed to amplifying ever more loudly and broadly the demand to liberate all Palestinian prisoners.

Further, it is also an attack on the Palestinian Resistance. Increasingly, people everywhere in the world have made it clear that they recognize the illegitimacy and racism of Zionism, the need for a free Palestine from the river to the sea, and the legitimacy of the Palestinian resistance, particularly the armed struggle. Despite all of the attempts to smear and criminalize Palestinian resistance organizations, including listing them as “terrorist organizations” in the United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada, the people of the world – and even the imperial core – recognize that it is the Palestinian resistance (and their allied resistance forces in Yemen, Lebanon and throughout the region) who are defending humanity from genocide. Not only is the Palestinian right to resist by all means enshrined in international law, it is a fundamental and natural right of any people subjected to occupation and colonization. These attacks are, once again, not only aimed at Mohammed and at Samidoun but are an attempt to criminalize and repress the burgeoning support for the resistance in all of its forms, especially the armed resistance, in Palestine.

Anti-Palestinian Racism, Imperialism and the Right to Remain and Return


We also must emphasize that this attack comes as part and parcel of the ongoing structural racism against migrants in Belgium, particularly against Black, African, Arab and other migrants of colour. Right-wing politicians like Theo Francken engage in electoral campaigns that primarily traffic in Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, while he holds up photos of Mohammed in the Belgian parliament and declares that the streets of Brussels demonstrating for Palestine “resemble Beirut or Gaza,” in what he considers a sign of “danger” and an insult to its residents. Palestinian children have been stripped of their Belgian nationality, while policing energies and violence are repeatedly targeted at communities of colour.

Of course, migration to Belgium is itself driven by colonialism and imperialism making life difficult to impossible around the world and imposing a form of forced migration upon the people of the global south while pursuing ever more wars, regime change, intervention and economic exploitation of the peoples of the south, their wealth and their resources. For Palestinians denied their right to return home for the past 76 years, they have lived through forced migration through forced migration, while being confronted with regimes of ongoing persecution, marginalization and exclusion, fighting simultaneously for the right to remain and the right to return to their homes and lands in Palestine. The struggle to defend Mohammed is a struggle against racism and repression in all of their forms.

Stand with Mohammed. Stand with Samidoun. Stand with Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian resistance, and the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.

TAKE ACTION:


  1. The most important thing to do is to continue and escalate mobilizations, direct actions, encampments and all forms of organizing to bring an end to the genocide in Gaza and liberation for Palestine. Within that context, take a stand against repression and speak about this and other cases in your area.
  2. Sign on to the campaign in support of Mohammed. Click here or use the form below to add your support!
  3. Issue a statement of solidarity. Organizations like Charleroi Pour La Palestine, LABO, UPJB, Bruxelles Pantheres, ABP, have done so already. Issue your own statement and make it clear that Nicole de Moor does not speak for the people.
  4. Invite Mohammed to speak. Whether this is a local event in Belgium or elsewhere in Europe or a virtual event, Mohammed can speak about his case and the broader struggle for liberation. Email us at supportmohammed@samidoun.net to plan an event.
  5. Speak about the Palestinian prisoners and about the Resistance. Highlight the cases of Palestinian prisoners and their ongoing struggle for freedom and liberation. Emphasize the demands of the Palestinian people and their resistance for the liberation of Palestinian prisoners in a real prisoner exchange. Emphasize the legitimacy of the Palestinian resistance in your demonstrations and actions.
  6. Demand to delist Palestinian, Lebanese resistance organizations from “terrorist lists” in the United States, European Union, Canada, Britain and other countries. These organizations represent the will and commitment of the Palestinian people to liberate their land from an illegitimate Zionist occupation. These listings are used not only to justify the ongoing Zionist genocide and imperialist funding and support but also to target Palestinian and solidarity activists and organizations.

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Palestine : un cri étouffé jusque dans le monde associatif et médiatique bruxellois - ZIN TV

Ana­ly­ser les enjeux fon­da­teurs qui sous-tendent la situa­tion actuelle en Pales­tine est une entre­prise d’intérêt géné­ral.
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"They could have created a framework that combined increased legal immigration with firm border enforcement and a realistic path to legalization for the undocumented...They could have made the case that the U.S. has both the right and the obligation to manage its borders but that we can do so without cruelty or chaos. They could have made immigration part of a larger labor market vision: regulated, humane and consistent with the interests of working people."
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Where is the Opposition's Policy? - Truthdig

Just when Trump's immigration nightmare needs to be opposed, the anti-party strikes again, without a plan.
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Solidarity with Mohammed Khatib!
samidoun.net/2025/08/solidarit…

On Wednesday 6 August 2025, Mohammed Khatib, coordinator for Samidoun in Europe, was notified of the revocation of his refugee status by the Belgian asylum authorities. This is the latest development in a comprehensive attack upon the Palestinian population in Belgium and upon the growing movement in solidarity with Palestine, following on the heels of the right-wing government’s announcement that it is seeking to ban organizations engaging in advocacy it wishes to silence, including Samidoun.

Mohammed Khatib is targeted because he is Palestinian. He is targeted because he supports the resistance on the path to the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea, because he advocates for liberation of all Palestinian prisoners, and because he honours the lives and legacy of the martyrs of the Palestinian liberation struggle.

...As the cases of Congo, Algeria or Vietnam illustrate, the attempt to repress the voice of the oppressed will not succeed. Liberation is on the horizon, and neither the Palestinian people nor the solidarity movement will give up, no matter how egregious the repression.


Solidarity with Mohammed Khatib! 

On Wednesday 6 August 2025, Mohammed Khatib, coordinator for Samidoun in Europe, was notified of the revocation of his refugee status by the Belgian asylum authorities. This is the latest developme…
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Kampf gegen Erotik-Portale: Jetzt sind die User dran
https://www.watson.de/leben/digital/168177734-erotikseiten-verbot-deutschland-will-zahlungen-stoppen?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Erotikseiten-Verbot: Deutschland will Zahlungen stoppen

Erotikportale sollen in Deutschland bald kein Geld mehr sehen – nicht mal von Erwachsenen.
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GH15 prayer for August 8, 2025
Help Us Write History in Washington, D.C.
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Sayyed Al-Houthi: Arab inaction is a key partner in the ongoing aggression against Gaza en.ypagency.net/365466

Sayyed Al-Houthi: Arab inaction is a key partner in the ongoing aggression against Gaza

SANAA, Aug. 07 (YPA) - Sayyed Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi accused some Arab and Islamic regimes of colluding with the Israeli enemy in the systematic starvation of more than two million people in the Gaza Strip.He noted that this is taking place
basheer (Yemen Press Agency)

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New: a brand of vape detectors is in schools and public housing. A young hacker took it apart, found it contained microphones. They then demonstrated how to turn it into an audio bug. Brings up concerns of surveillance in peoples' own homes 404media.co/it-looks-like-a-sc…

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It Looks Like a School Vape Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Become an Audio Bug


This article was produced with support from WIRED.

A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia was on his laptop at his Portland-area high school, seeing what computer systems he could connect to via the Wifi—“using the school network as a lab,” as he puts it—when he spotted a handful of mysterious devices with the identifier “IPVideo Corporation.”

After a closer look and some googling, Garcia figured out that a company by that name was a subsidiary of Motorola, and the devices he’d found in his school seemed to be something called the Halo 3C, a “smart” smoke and vape detection gadget. “They look just like smoke detectors, but they have a whole bunch of features like sensors and stuff,” Garcia says.

As he read more, he was intrigued to learn that the Halo 3C goes beyond detecting smoke and vaping—including a distinct feature for discerning THC vaping in particular. It also has a microphone for listening out for “aggression,” gunshots, and keywords such as someone calling for help, a feature that to Vasquez-Garcia immediately raised concerns of more intrusive surveillance.

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It Looks Like a School Vape Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Become an Audio Bug

The Halo 3C is a vape detector installed in schools and public housing. A young hacker found it contains microphones and that it can be turned into an audio bug, raising privacy concerns.
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It's not just Bibi the Butcher. Israel's policy of mass murder didn't just suddenly begin on 7 October 2023 when Palestinian resistance fighters briefly escaped their Gaza prison. The total annihilation of Palestinians and historic Palestine was always the Zionist goal. #Israel #GHF #Famine #Netanyahu #warcriminal #zionazis #Palestine #Gaza #OccupiedWestBank #genocide #jewishterrorists #crimesgainsthumanity #USA #Trump #unfit apan.org.au/factsheet-genocide…

Factsheet: Genocide in Gaza - Australia Palestine Advocacy Network - APAN

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Fun fact: Windows puts a circular symbolic link in every user's profile directory, so if you're using Windows standard "robust file copy" utility (which is better than xcopy which, I assume, improves on "copy" and, among other things, dies if you have a path longer than 266 characters with a cryptic memory-out error) it will recursively materialise the link forever, filling up any storage you're copying to.

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„Warum tragen Journalisten sehenden Auges zum Abbau der Demokratie bei? Vermutlich, weil sie glauben, dass sie sich auch in undemokratischen Zeiten mindestens zurecht finden und vielleicht sogar den Arsch an die Heizung kriegen werden.“

@renemartens im @altpapier über die Angst vor Haltung.

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Kolumne: Das Altpapier am 6. August 2025 – Todesfalle Fairness

Mit unscharfen, beschönigenden und verschleiernden Schlagzeilen über das Wirken von Demokratiefeinden gefährden Journalisten die Demokratie - und damit eigentlich ja auch die Basis ihrer Arbeit. Warum bloß?
René Martens (MDR)
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The US, creator and chief proliferator of nuclear weapons, uses them to dominate globally while opposing disarmament, spending trillions on modernization instead. Despite the UN Treaty banning nukes, the US fuels imperialist wars and nuclear escalation to sustain capitalist profits through militarism. Lasting security demands global solidarity and the defeat of US imperialism, not selective disarmament.

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#geopolitics #usa #imperialism


How U.S. imperialism blackmails the world with nuclear weapons, from Hiroshima to today

Since the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, US imperialism has driven nuclear proliferation worldwide. Current nuclear flashpoints, such as Iran, show how the US continues to use nuclear blackmail to reinforce its dominance.
Rhonda Ramiro (Mondoweiss)
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