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"Thousands of firefighters combat three major fires in Portugal"
#Portugal #Wildfire
htt…

Thousands of firefighters combat three major fires in Portugal
A fire in the municipality of Trancoso has threatened to engulf homes as Portugal struggles to contain a worsening wildfire season.

💔 Survivre Š une dérive sectaire, c’est déjŠ un combat. Se reconstruire et chercher justice, c’est encore plus difficile. Aidons les victimes d’OKC Š faire entendre leur voix au tribunal. ⚖️ 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Putin is now receiving the results from his 19-drone test of NATO response in Poland.
Dutch government is against a 'no fly zone' in western Ukraine, and so is opposition leader @…: "It could get NATO in direct combat with Russian aircraft"

Overgrote meerderheid Tweede Kamer wil geen no-flyzone boven West-Oekraïne
Een overgrote meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer voelt niets voor het instellen van een no-flyzone boven West-Oekraïne als antwoord op de schendingen van het Poolse luchtruim door Russische drones. Daarbij schoten Nederlandse F-35’s meerdere Russische drones uit de lucht. Oekraïne en Polen roepen al langer om een ‘sky shield’ boven westelijk Oekraïne, zodat Kyiv zijn luchtafweer beter kan concentreren…

https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedia-antisemitism/

Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.

"The Conservative party has collectively decided that the threat of Farage is best met by copying him, so the idea that Badenoch could act towards Jenrick the way Heath did to Powell seems impossible. More extraordinary is that the Labour government is also under the misapprehension that the best way to combat Farage is to sound like him, a mistake that will seem incomprehensible in a few years time."
Fascism, Rivers of Blood, and today’s political and media elite

Albania appoints an AI bot named Diella as the minister responsible for managing and awarding all public procurement tenders to combat corruption (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/albania-appoints-ai-bot-minister-tackle-corruption-…

One Navy secretary and his allies in Congress fought to build more littoral combat ships even as they broke down at sea and their weapons systems failed. The Navy wound up with more ships than it wanted, at an estimated lifetime cost that could reach $100 billion or more.
The Navy’s haste to deliver ships took precedence over combat ability. Without functioning weapons systems the vessels are like a “box floating in the ocean,” one former officer said.
Sailors and officers complain…

The Inside Story of How the Navy Spent Billions on the “Little Crappy Ship”
Littoral combat ships were supposed to launch the Navy into the future. Instead they broke down across the globe and many of their weapons never worked. Now the Navy is getting rid of them. One is less than five years old.

Bridging the Gap in Phishing Detection: A Comprehensive Phishing Dataset Collector
Aditya Kulkarni, Shahil Manishbhai Patel, Shivam Pradip Tirmare, Vivek Balachandran, Tamal Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09592

Bridging the Gap in Phishing Detection: A Comprehensive Phishing Dataset Collector
To combat phishing attacks -- aimed at luring web users to divulge their sensitive information -- various phishing detection approaches have been proposed. As attackers focus on devising new tactics to bypass existing detection solutions, researchers have adapted by integrating machine learning and deep learning into phishing detection. Phishing dataset collection is vital to developing effective phishing detection approaches, which highly depend on the diversity of the gathered datasets. The l…

Ukrainian Su-27 pilot Oleksandr Borovyk killed during combat mission in Zaporizhzhia sector of front line: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/11/ukrainian-su-pilot-oleksandr-borovyk.html

⚠️ Les survivant-es d’OKC se battent contre un système judiciaire lent et souvent violent pour les victimes. Aidons-les Š franchir cette épreuve et Š porter leur affaire jusqu’au procès. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

The Deathbringer RPG Will Change Everything — Here’s Why by Roll For Combat
#ttrpg

💔 Les survivants d’OKC ont surmonté des défis incroyables. Ensemble, luttons pour leur droit Š la justice. Rejoignez-nous pour mettre fin Š l'impunité. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Trump has cut funding to combat crime in the District more than any other city in the US;
and DC already has more police per person and spends more on policing than any other major US city.
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/working-to-distract-from-epstein

Working To Distract From Epstein, Rising Prices, His Traitorous Fealty To Putin, Trump Starts Terrorizing Another American City
Stuart Stevens Joins Hopium Live Today at 130pm ET (Note new time) - Join Us!

Sainsbury's, the UK's second largest supermarket chain, has begun an eight-week trial of facial recognition technology in two of its stores as part of its efforts to address the escalating problem of shoplifting and retail crime.
https://www.computing.co.uk/n…

Sainsbury's begins facial recognition trial to combat shoplifting
Sainsbury's, the UK's second largest supermarket chain, has begun an eight-week trial of facial recognition technology in two of its stores as part of its ...

Symbolic Execution in Practice: A Survey of Applications in Vulnerability, Malware, Firmware, and Protocol Analysis
Joshua Bailey, Charles Nicholas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06643

Symbolic Execution in Practice: A Survey of Applications in Vulnerability, Malware, Firmware, and Protocol Analysis
Symbolic execution is a powerful program analysis technique that allows for the systematic exploration of all program paths. Path explosion, where the number of states to track becomes unwieldy, is one of the biggest challenges hindering symbolic execution's practical application. To combat this, researchers have employed various strategies to enable symbolic execution on complex software systems. This paper introduces a systematic taxonomy of these strategies, categorizing them into two primar…

NATO unleashes new $10 billion "combat wallet" for Ukraine as Putin's increses attacks on civilians - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/02/nato-unleashes-new-10-billion-combat-wallet-for-ukraine-as-putins-increses-attacks-on-civilians/

The US Army awards a $159M contract to a partnership of Anduril and Meta and a $195M contract to Rivet, to produce competing prototypes of a new combat goggle (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Article offert sur la répression en Géorgie
https://www.lemonde.fr/article-offert/3782de62c7c0-6608893/je-promets-de-ne-pas-sombrer-dans-le-desespoir-en-georgie-le-combat…

« L’absurdité et l’ampleur de la répression en Géorgie sont sans précédent. Cela rappelle les purges sous l’URSS »
Cinquante et un Géorgiens arrêtés lors des rassemblements contre le régime sont toujours en prison, et considérés comme des prisonniers politiques. Leur cas témoigne du durcissement sans précédent du gouvernement depuis l’indépendance du pays.

Sources: the US has informed European countries it is stepping back from joint efforts to combat disinformation from countries such as Russia, China, and Iran (Amy Mackinnon/Financial Times)

Kraken Officially Splits into Two Combat Units: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/kraken-officially-splits-into-two.html

Towards Human Engagement with Realistic AI Combat Pilots
Ardian Selmonaj, Giacomo Del Rio, Adrian Schneider, Alessandro Antonucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26002 https://

Towards Human Engagement with Realistic AI Combat Pilots
We present a system that enables real-time interaction between human users and agents trained to control fighter jets in simulated 3D air combat scenarios. The agents are trained in a dedicated environment using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. A communication link is developed to allow seamless deployment of trained agents into VR-Forces, a widely used defense simulation tool for realistic tactical scenarios. This integration allows mixed simulations where human-controlled entities engage w…

What Can I Do Right Now to Defend Democracy and Fight Fascism?
https://www.peoplefor.org/what-can-i-do-right-now-defend-democracy-and-fight-fascism

What Can I Do Right Now to Defend Democracy and Fight Fascism?
Learn about ways you can take action right now to combat the spread of fascism in the United States.

h1: Bootstrapping LLMs to Reason over Longer Horizons via Reinforcement Learning
Sumeet Ramesh Motwani, Alesia Ivanova, Ziyang Cai, Philip Torr, Riashat Islam, Shital Shah, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Charles London
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07312

h1: Bootstrapping LLMs to Reason over Longer Horizons via Reinforcement Learning
Large language models excel at short-horizon reasoning tasks, but performance drops as reasoning horizon lengths increase. Existing approaches to combat this rely on inference-time scaffolding or costly step-level supervision, neither of which scales easily. In this work, we introduce a scalable method to bootstrap long-horizon reasoning capabilities using only existing, abundant short-horizon data. Our approach synthetically composes simple problems into complex, multi-step dependency chains o…

L’affaire #OKCSpatz : une secte bouddhiste, des enfants sacrifiés, un combat pour la justice encore en cours.
💙 Soutien aux survivant·es : https://chardonsbleus.org/dons

US and Mexico team up to tackle sewage flowing across border in Tijuana River #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

US, Mexico Sign Accord To Combat Tijuana River Sewage Flowing Across Border
"The United States and Mexico have signed an agreement outlining specific steps and a new timetable to clean up the longstanding problem of the Tijuana River pouring sewage across the border and polluting California beaches, officials from both countries announced Thursday."

Combat medic from the US: saving the lives of servicemen in Ukraine since 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/combat-medic-from-the-us.html

Sources: the US informs European countries that it is stepping back from joint efforts to combat disinformation from Russia, China, Iran, and other countries (Amy Mackinnon/Financial Times)

Zelensky gives Trump golf putter from Ukrainian soldier who lost leg in combat (Caitlin Doornbos/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/us-news/zelensky-gives-trump-golf-putter-from-ukrainian-soldier-who-lost-leg-in-combat/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p147#a250819p147

⚠️ Les survivant-es d’OKC se battent contre un système judiciaire lent et souvent violent pour les victimes. Aidons-les Š franchir cette épreuve et Š porter leur affaire jusqu’au procès. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Murder Goose 😝

Fact2Fiction: Targeted Poisoning Attack to Agentic Fact-checking System
Haorui He, Yupeng Li, Bin Benjamin Zhu, Dacheng Wen, Reynold Cheng, Francis C. M. Lau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06059

Fact2Fiction: Targeted Poisoning Attack to Agentic Fact-checking System
State-of-the-art fact-checking systems combat misinformation at scale by employing autonomous LLM-based agents to decompose complex claims into smaller sub-claims, verify each sub-claim individually, and aggregate the partial results to produce verdicts with justifications (explanatory rationales for the verdicts). The security of these systems is crucial, as compromised fact-checkers, which tend to be easily underexplored, can amplify misinformation. This work introduces Fact2Fiction, the firs…

Units in Singapore's military have been called in to help combat a cyberattack against critical infrastructure by UNC3886, which has ties to China.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250719-singapore-military-helps-battle-cyberattac…

Singapore military helps battle cyberattack: minister
Units in Singapore's military have been called in to help combat a cyberattack against critical infrastructure, the country's defence minister said Saturday -- a hack attempt attributed to an espionage group experts have linked to China.

Test-Time Defense Against Adversarial Attacks via Stochastic Resonance of Latent Ensembles
Dong Lao, Yuxiang Zhang, Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie, Yangchao Wu, Alex Wong, Stefano Soatto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03224

Test-Time Defense Against Adversarial Attacks via Stochastic Resonance of Latent Ensembles
We propose a test-time defense mechanism against adversarial attacks: imperceptible image perturbations that significantly alter the predictions of a model. Unlike existing methods that rely on feature filtering or smoothing, which can lead to information loss, we propose to "combat noise with noise" by leveraging stochastic resonance to enhance robustness while minimizing information loss. Our approach introduces small translational perturbations to the input image, aligns the transformed feat…

Came across this opinion piece today, and I suspect it may be too late to save America. The author states that in 200 days Democrats need to take back power in order to combat Trump. But Trump is already doing what he wants without any intervention by the House or Senate, and the Supreme Court is allowing it. IMO, it's 50/50 that Midterm Elections happen at all, or they will be heavily manipulated by Trump's thugs so that they're meaningless. He's telling Americans what his plans are when he shows off his MAGA 2028 hats.
You know what nations feel like living next to Russia feel like? We are very likely to find out.
#YouHadaGoodRunAmerica
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/16/us-americans-republic-midterm-elections-democrats

Characterizing noisy quantum computation with imperfectly addressed errors
Riddhi S. Gupta, Salini Karuvade, Kerstin Beer, Laura J. Henderson, Sally Shrapnel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03261

Characterizing noisy quantum computation with imperfectly addressed errors
Quantum protocols on hardware are subject to noise that prohibits performance. Protocols for addressing errors, such as error correction or error mitigation, may fail to combat errors in quantum computation if noise violates critical assumptions required for these protocols to be effective. However, tools for characterizing such failures in realistic operating conditions are limited. For example, while brute force simulations may be used to characterize the impact of such failures on a handful …

How to Combat Reactive and Dynamic Jamming Attacks with Reinforcement Learning
Yalin E. Sagduyu, Tugba Erpek, Kemal Davaslioglu, Sastry Kompella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02265

How to Combat Reactive and Dynamic Jamming Attacks with Reinforcement Learning
This paper studies the problem of mitigating reactive jamming, where a jammer adopts a dynamic policy of selecting channels and sensing thresholds to detect and jam ongoing transmissions. The transmitter-receiver pair learns to avoid jamming and optimize throughput over time (without prior knowledge of channel conditions or jamming strategies) by using reinforcement learning (RL) to adapt transmit power, modulation, and channel selection. Q-learning is employed for discrete jamming-event states…

⚖️ 6 parties civiles se battent pour la justice dans l’affaire OKC-Spatz. iElles n’ont pas les moyens de payer leurs avocats. Chardons Bleus est lŠ pour les soutenir. Aidons-les Š poursuivre leur combat ! votre don peut faire la différence 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/dons

Israel must be stopped by any means necessary. Politically and/or militarily. Now.
"Israel declares Gaza’s largest city a combat zone and halts humanitarian pauses."
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-war

PSA: Fake verification replies are starting again. Don't fall for them. Best thing you can do is report them as SPAM to your instance and forward to any optional instances with "Fake Mastodon Verification Scam" written in the notes/comments section for the report. Make sure everyone you interact with knows this is going on. Permanent solutions to combat this scam are being implemented to tackle it by the software developers.

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
SERVALAN: The ancient weapons of combat. Use your choice with honour. [Deeta takes both guns and checks them over.] They've already been checked. Don't you trust us? I assure you they're exactly the same.
DEETA: No two guns are ever exactly the same.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/…

The BBC and UK's other public sector broadcasters call for new regulations to force platforms such as YouTube to give them a fairer deal and more prominence (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep…

Elon Musk's Boring Company proposes $760M tunnel project to combat flooding in Houston, sparking debate over effectiveness and feasibility. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

A Texas congressman is quietly helping Elon Musk pitch a $760M plan to build tunnels under Houston to ease flooding
Experts in Houston have been studying the idea of building massive tunnels to divert floodwaters. Musk’s company wants a piece of the project.

US steps back from joint efforts to combat misinformation, FT reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/09/us-steps-back-from-joint.html

🚧 L’accès Š la justice est un combat. Encore plus pour des survivant-es de dérives sectaires. Aidons-les Š surmonter cet obstacle et Š voir leur dossier avancer. Chaque don compte ! 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Safeguarding Patient Trust in the Age of AI: Tackling Health Misinformation with Explainable AI
Sueun Hong, Shuojie Fu, Ovidiu Serban, Brianna Bao, James Kinross, Francesa Toni, Guy Martin, Uddhav Vaghela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04052

Safeguarding Patient Trust in the Age of AI: Tackling Health Misinformation with Explainable AI
AI-generated health misinformation poses unprecedented threats to patient safety and healthcare system trust globally. This white paper presents an explainable AI framework developed through the EPSRC INDICATE project to combat medical misinformation while enhancing evidence-based healthcare delivery. Our systematic review of 17 studies reveals the urgent need for transparent AI systems in healthcare. The proposed solution demonstrates 95% recall in clinical evidence retrieval and integrates no…

It does have use cases (we use it for prototyping spatial experiences at work) but for mainstream use that is spot on. The tech doesn't work good enough to combat all the negative aspects that come with its usage.
https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/114890146242778709

LLMs are by definition stick in the past. MCP and other tool use to call the latest version of Go tooling can combat this, e.g. suggesting a refactor to take advantage of new Go features. #GophersUnite

Ian Sinclair on the SAFER report from Climate Majority.
"Could ‘strategic adaptation’ combat climate breakdown and the surging hard right?" | Morning Star https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/could-strategic-adap…

Effective resource allocation to combat invasions of the spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) and similar pests
Daniel Str\"ombom, Julianna Hoitt, Jinrong Hu, Swati Pandey, Elizabeth Batchelar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01117

Effective resource allocation to combat invasions of the spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) and similar pests
The spotted lanternfly is rapidly establishing itself as a major insect pest with global implications. Despite significant management efforts, its spread continues in invaded regions, and refined management strategies are required. A recent study introduced a model that generalized the results of empirical control efficacy studies by incorporating population dynamics and incomplete delivery. In particular, a generalized population growth formula was derived, providing the minimum proportion of …

👾 These police officers in Denmark are tackling crime by playing online games with kids
https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/07/03/these-police-officers-in-denmark-are-tackling-crime-by-playing-online-games-with-kid…

Can playing video games help police combat online crimes?
The team was set up in 2022 to tackle the rise in online crime in Denmark. The Politiets Online Patrulje now boasts over 787,000 followers across platforms.

How does course recommendation impact student outcomes? Examining directed self-placement with regression discontinuity analysis
Jason Godfrey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03350 h…

How does course recommendation impact student outcomes? Examining directed self-placement with regression discontinuity analysis
For many students, placement into developmental education becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Placing college students into developmental education significantly negatively impacts student attainment, student probability of passing, and college credits earned. To combat these negative effects, many universities are investigating alternative placement mechanisms. Could directed self-placement be an effective alternative mechanism? Do students who self-place suffer the same negative impacts from …

I'm at best a combat C programmer so this latest zmap fix may be perfectly reasonable.
https://github.com/zmap/zmap/pull/944
Is it common, and is it a best practice to not free memory allocated in some use cases? That may be two separation questions.
I have always freed memory allo…

Auf der Suche nach Plan B https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10140

Starting up a run of Dreamscaper on Switch to try it tonight, grabbed it for super cheap ($4.99 for 10 more days) in the eshop, it's like you're this gal and it's an isometric Diablo-esque looking thing, the combat, but it's also very dream based, you do things in the waking world and I believe you battle when you sleep. So it'll be interesting to see how it goes.

Dreamscaper for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Buy Dreamscaper and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

Wouldn't it be great if #AI reached the point of giving us good hints on how to combat the #ClimateCrisis, such as "stop wasting energy and resources on toys such as LLMs"? Except then we'd actually start doubting it.
#LLM

WhatsApp adds a new "safety overview" that appears in new group chats, including info on the group and when it was created, to help protect users from scams (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/718881/whatsapp-group-chat-scams-safety-ov…

WhatsApp will show a ‘safety overview’ before you join unknown group chats
WhatsApp is trying to combat group messaging scams by launching a new “safety overview” that appears before you can accept group chat invites from someone you might not know.

What's a new skill you picked up recently to combat #brainrot ?
"brain rot
(n.) the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration."
…

Diversity Boosts AI-Generated Text Detection
Advik Raj Basani, Pin-Yu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18880 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18880

#Drumpf administration budget cuts undo decades of progress on #humantrafficking and sexual slavery, forced labor and child sexual exploitation.
In addition the #AnnualReport from US on sex

⚖️ 6 parties civiles se battent pour la justice dans l’affaire OKC-Spatz. iElles n’ont pas les moyens de payer leurs avocats. Chardons Bleus est lŠ pour les soutenir. Aidons-les Š poursuivre leur combat ! votre don peut faire la différence 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/dons

Cagnotte Juridique | Association Chardons Bleus
Depuis 2015, nous luttons pour la justice contre les dérives sectaires de l’Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC)

I kind of like this game, enough to wave my zombies-suck stance, mainly because it's an SF title and they really did their best with the visuals. The simplified combat system is a plus if you enjoy the occasional B-movie guilty pleasure. The traversal stutters are a fact of life with Unreal Engine 4, sadly.
The Callisto Protocol - FSR 4 - Linux - RX 7800 XT

Denmark plans to abolish a 25% sales tax on books, one of the highest globally, in an effort to combat a "reading crisis"; the measure will cost $50M per year (Gabriela Pomeroy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crm48mvl33ro

Denmark scraps book tax to combat "reading crisis"
The government hopes abolishing the sales tax will encourage more people to buy books.

On multiple occasions, demonstrators sitting on the ground attempting to block ICE vehicles from carrying detainees into the Broadview facility
have been repelled by heavily armed ICE agents
using physical force, chemical munitions and rubber bullets,
evoking combat scenes

LA-based MarqVision, which uses AI to monitor marketplaces for counterfeits, raised a $48M Series B led by Peak XV Partners, bringing its total funding to ~$90M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/harvard-law-to-ai-marqvisi…

Harvard Law to AI: MarqVision lands $48M to combat brand abuse | TechCrunch
This LA-based startup raised $48M to tackle brand abuse

Over 23,000 civilians, 113 children trapped in active combat zones in Donetsk Oblast, official says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/over-civilians-children-trapped-in.html

Why Critical Role Went With D&D For Season 4 by Roll For Combat
#ttrpg

Six voix pour la vérité : une nouvelle étape dans le combat contre OKC: #Justice

Six voix pour la vérité : une nouvelle étape dans le combat contre OKC - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Je suis en vacances pour la première fois depuis… 2018. Assis à une terrasse, un poulet BBQ encore fumant, une burrata, un plateau de charcuterie locale, …

ID.me, a digital ID service used by US agencies like the IRS, raised a $340M Series E led by Ribbit at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $580M (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/idme-tops-…

Aledade's groundbreaking climate program aims to put CO2 back underground, offering a promising solution to combat carbon emissions and climate change. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

How Aledade Established A Multi-Million Dollar Climate Program | Charm Industrial
How one employee helped create a multi-million dollar carbon credit program.

Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Fighter Jet Being Shot Down During Air Combat In Thailand-Cambodia Conflict: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/fact-check-video-does-not.html

Six voix pour la vérité : une nouvelle étape dans le combat contre OKC: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/08/03/six-voix-pour-la-vrit.html

Six voix pour la vérité : une nouvelle étape dans le combat contre OKC - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Je suis en vacances pour la première fois depuis… 2018. Assis à une terrasse, un poulet BBQ encore fumant, une burrata, un plateau de charcuterie locale, …

Entscheidung erneut verschoben https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10095

Good Morning #Canada
With another #HeatWave hitting most of Canada this week, my goto combat plan is - Eat #IceCream. Most Canadians obviously have the same strategy as we collectively ate over $840m of tasty frozen concoctions last year. Chocolate is the most popular flavor, but I'm more of a butterscotch guy. I think a #MercerMemories video could get you motivated to get out and restock your freezer.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MMMGood
https://youtu.be/wwrHYN37yf0?si=vFdKrcCzyInsHQAo

🌟 Chardons Bleus relève un défi immense. Offrir aux victimes d’OKC la chance d’aller jusqu’au procès. Sans financement, leur voix restera inaudible. Soutenons-les dès maintenant. 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Russian 'elite' air assault brigade fakes combat wounds for payouts and medals: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/21/russian-elite-air-assault-brigade.html

Meta expands its facial recognition tools to combat Facebook accounts impersonating public figures in Europe and South Korea, and plans an Instagram expansion (Andre Revilla/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/meta-is-

Meta is bringing new facial recognition tools to the UK, EU and South Korea
Meta is rolling out more uses for facial recognition on its platforms in the EU, UK and South Korea.

As streaming services hike prices, consumer frustration grows, and streamers look to increase content stickiness and more to combat "serial churners" (Kevin Williams/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/disney-hulu-netflix-streaming-services…

It's not just Disney: As streaming services hike prices, it's a battle over who blinks first
Disney+/Hulu hiked prices this week, the most recent of many streaming service increases. Churn is a concern, but entertainment giants haven't blinked yet.

Stand Up to Racism warned that members and former members of the nazi terror group Combat 18 and the neonazi party Homeland have been organising or attending many of the protests.
‘This is a dangerous moment’ | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dangerous-momen…

Greece's new plan tackles water scarcity with innovation and sustainability. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Greece unveils national plan to tackle worsening water scarcity
The Greek government presented its plan for the threat of water scarcity

The UK unveils plans for a digital ID, which will be required to work in the country, to combat illegal immigration; the ID will be stored on people's phones (Kate Whannel/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn832y43ql5o

New digital ID will be mandatory to work in the UK
PM says the scheme will make it harder to work illegally but opposition parties argue it won't stop small boat crossings.

⚖️ 6 parties civiles se battent pour la justice dans l’affaire OKC-Spatz. iElles n’ont pas les moyens de payer leurs avocats. Chardons Bleus est lŠ pour les soutenir. Aidons-les Š poursuivre leur combat ! votre don peut faire la différence 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/dons

Cagnotte Juridique | Association Chardons Bleus
Depuis 2015, nous luttons pour la justice contre les dérives sectaires de l’Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC)

UN chief puts faith in market forces to combat climate change, urging governments to accelerate renewables transition and avoid new fossil fuel investments. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

UN chief tells AP that market forces could be what ends fossil fuels
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says money, not just science, makes the case for curbing climate change. Guterres in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press highlights the falling costs of renewable energy like solar and wind. Guterres warns that investments in fossil fuels could become financial losses. He stresses the urgency of reducing emissions to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a goal set by the Paris Agreement. While some scientists believe that ta…

US-German software firm Auterion says it plans to ship 33K of its AI drone "strike kits" to Ukraine by the end of 2025 to help combat mass Russian drone attacks (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fe708758-619e-47a8-ae7a-18adcede267a

💙 Les victimes de dérives sectaires ont déjŠ fait un travail énorme en portant plainte et en devenant parties civiles. Aidons-les Š surmonter cette épreuve jusqu’Š la justice. ⚖️ 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Ukrainian pilot dies in MiG-29 crash: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/ukrainian-pilot-dies-in-mig.html

Belize aims to implement carbon markets and climate change regulations to combat environmental challenges. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

The UK partners with Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber Eats to curb illegal food delivery work, share more data, and combat a secondary market in rider accounts (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e9f1a313-be9d-448d-9d3a-1e763eea46ff

🚧 L’accès Š la justice est un combat. Encore plus pour des survivant-es de dérives sectaires. Aidons-les Š surmonter cet obstacle et Š voir leur dossier avancer. Chaque don compte ! 💙 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Dallas-based iCounter, which uses AI to combat cyber risks, launches out of stealth from Apollo Information Systems with a $30M Series A led by SYN Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/07/16/icou…

Exclusive: iCounter raises $30M Series A
SYN Ventures leads the round.

💔 Survivre Š une dérive sectaire, c’est déjŠ un combat. Se reconstruire et chercher justice, c’est encore plus difficile. Aidons les victimes d’OKC Š faire entendre leur voix au tribunal. ⚖️ 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Moldova to join NATO-backed drills in Georgia amid Russian threats: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/moldova-to-join-natobacked-drills.html

💔 Survivre Š une dérive sectaire, c’est déjŠ un combat. Se reconstruire et chercher justice, c’est encore plus difficile. Aidons les victimes d’OKC Š faire entendre leur voix au tribunal. ⚖️ 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Google plans to start using StopNCII's hashes to proactively identify nonconsensual images in search results and remove them (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/780852/google-stopncii-nonconsensual-intimate-imagery-has…

Google will use hashes to find and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery from Search
Google is partnering with StopNCII to combat nonconsensual images, but the company still lags behind much of the industry.

US unveils 'reliable and cost-effective' drone to rival Iranian-designed Shaheds: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/us-unveils-reliable-and-costeffective.html

Sources: the White House is preparing an EO requiring AI companies with federal contracts to be neutral and unbiased, to combat what officials see as "woke AI" (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/white-house…

Leaked documents claim 'catastrophic' losses in Russia's 41st Combined Arms Army while fighting in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/leaked-documents-claim-catastrophic-losses.html

Intel's former CEO backs President Trump's proposed sovereign wealth fund to secure US leadership in quantum, AI, and chips and combat China's tech advances (Pat Gelsinger/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.…

Companies, including Google and Cisco, have reinstated in-person interviews for some roles to combat AI-driven cheating, with some using deepfake detection tech (Ray A. Smith/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ai-j

Researchers say they used generative AI algorithms to design novel antibiotics targeting drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and MRSA (Anne Trafton/MIT News)
https://news.mit.edu/2025/using-generative-ai-researchers-design-compoun…

Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria
With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers designed novel antibiotics that can combat a drug-resistant form of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

💔 Les survivants d’OKC ont surmonté des défis incroyables. Ensemble, luttons pour leur droit Š la justice. Rejoignez-nous pour mettre fin Š l'impunité. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique