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Wenn ich in der Lage der Abgeordneten der CxU wäre. würde ich mir die Frage stellen, ob der Eklat um die Wahl der #Verfassungsrichter und die Desavouierung der von der SPD vorgeschlagenen Kandidaten die gesamte Koalition bedroht und sich damit zur Staatskrise ausweiten könnte, weil eine andere Regierungsbildung außerhalb der AfD unmöglich würde.

Is there a reasonable choice for a fork of the #Syncthing #Android fork?
https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthin

"Trump is furious with the WSJ owner, Rupert Murdoch, and threatening to “sue his ass off”. Oh please don’t, Mr President! His ass is 94 years old and incredibly wrinkled. Also, half of Britain’s political class still lives up it"
One shouldn't read Marina Hyde. It's a bad habit. But she is sometimes witty.

Amazon deforestation spikes as Brazil blames criminal fires #Brazil

Amazon deforestation spikes as Brazil blames criminal fires
A new and alarming pattern of destruction is emerging in the rainforest, challenging Brazilian authorities ahead of COP30.

The WGA says The Late Show's cancellation is a "bribe" as Paramount seeks merger approval and calls for NY State AG Letitia James to launch an investigation (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/wga-slams-paramount-the-late-s…

WGA Slams Paramount Over ‘The Late Show’ Cancelation, Fears Move Is A “Bribe” & Calls NY State AG To Investigate
The guild fears move is a “bribe” and calls NY State AG to investigate

"Labour could easily counter some of the wild extremism. Ministers might point out that “English patriot” Robinson is an Irish passport-holder (up until last summer, anyway) who hunkers down in Spain and has a list of criminal convictions long enough for a tattoo sleeve. Starmer might observe how much of the UK would simply fall apart without migrants and their children.... He might even point out – imagine! – that migrants are human too...."
Aditya Chakrabortty

Why there are fears of Munich 1938 in Washington 2025
Putin is focusing on a deal that would grant him Ukraine’s key defensive lines, just as Hitler secured Czechoslovakia’s fortifications in 1938.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-tru

Why there are fears of Munich 1938 in Washington 2025
Putin is focusing on a deal that would grant him Ukraine’s key defensive lines, just as Hitler secured Czechoslovakia’s fortifications in 1938.

IDFace: Face Template Protection for Efficient and Secure Identification
Sunpill Kim, Seunghun Paik, Chanwoo Hwang, Dongsoo Kim, Junbum Shin, Jae Hong Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12050

IDFace: Face Template Protection for Efficient and Secure Identification
As face recognition systems (FRS) become more widely used, user privacy becomes more important. A key privacy issue in FRS is protecting the user's face template, as the characteristics of the user's face image can be recovered from the template. Although recent advances in cryptographic tools such as homomorphic encryption (HE) have provided opportunities for securing the FRS, HE cannot be used directly with FRS in an efficient plug-and-play manner. In particular, although HE is functionally c…

Read all about Chatcontrol and why we should resist it. This sentence is extremely scary.... "Specifically, this AI will have to be built by WhatsApp/Meta so they can monitor us on behalf of the EU" 😱
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/chatcontrol-in-brief/

Chatcontrol 2025 edition in Brief - Bert Hubert's writings
In short, led by Denmark, many EU member states are arguing for forcing WhatsApp/Signal/etc to inspect all our photos and links, using AI. If the AI is in any “doubt” if this might be child pornography, your photo, location, phone number & other details get reported to Europol and a local police force. What happens next is not specified, but your holiday in Cyprus might end up with you having to explain your photos over at the local police station.