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Got spring crocuses if you want ’em: #Photography

Ukraine update: Definition of a "gray zone" is very different in today's military. Unsurprisingly, Russia uses ignorance as a tool in it's blundering genocide of Ukraine.
Giorgio is a hero reporting from the trenches of democracy in Ukraine.
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The Ongoing Ukrainian Offensive Explained from the Field
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TIL about a real thing called the Shai-Hulud Compromise; and all i can say is
These F'in People
https://www.wiz.io/blog/shai-hulud-2-0-ongoing-supply-chain-attack

its christmas morning and my lil bro just put me on to this random yt channel that does nothing but numa numa parodies in different languages by blasting this dutch one about camping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OamwA0sQM_4

Condoning everyday fascism for those less fortunate is how you eventually get fascism for all. And this isn’t just about the US. This is a warning for Europe and beyond. Here in Europe, most of our governments have been merrily supporting the US and Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza (and the ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism, and apartheid) as well as previous imperialist invasions of far off lands for oil, happily sharing in the spoils of the suffering. (Not a surprise, really. After al…

In recent months, DDR4 and DDR5 RAM and SSD prices surged dramatically due to an ongoing AI chip shortage and panic buying; some RAM kits now cost 3x as much (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere
Some RAM kits are over three times as expensive as they were three months ago.

Photos of a
Border Patrol agent
💥squirting pepper spray in the face of a man who was being pinned down by fellow officers
searingly captured why the ongoing immigration operation has been met with furious resistance
on the streets of Minneapolis.
Images of the episode drew millions of views online,
made the front page of The Minnesota Star Tribune and
elicited blistering condemnation from local officials

Pepper-Sprayed While Pinned Down: A Searing Scene Provokes Outrage
Images of a man getting pepper-sprayed at close range while being held down by Border Patrol agents fueled more tension in Minneapolis.

Q&A with David Liu, CEO of PlusAI, which is slated to go public next month, on the ongoing commercial trial of its autonomous truck driving software, and more (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/plusai-ceo-david-liu-on-…

PlusAI CEO David Liu, on the precipice of going public, talks autonomous trucking
With his company set to hit the public markets in February, Liu envisions a future where most vehicles, commercial or not, are driving themselves.

Kash Patel’s days as FBI director may be numbered. 
MS NOW reported Tuesday that Trump is considering firing the embattled director as his errors pile up.
Three anonymous sources told MS NOW that Patel had drawn Trump’s ire for his presumptuous social media posts during ongoing cases,
using a government jet for a date night with his 27-year-old girlfriend,
and assigning a SWAT team for her security detail. 
Andrew Bailey, the FBI co–deputy director, is reportedly …

Trump Secretly Considering Firing Kash Patel as Blunders Pile Up
Donald Trump seems to have had enough of Kash Patel and his negative headlines. Here’s who could replace him as FBI director.

Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in sales by mid-2021, enters withdrawal-only mode and plans to shut down on Feb. 23, 2026 (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/

One of the oldest NFT trading platform which facilitated over $300 million in sales at its peak shuts down
The platform, which once facilitated over $300 million in sales, had shifted its focus to building onchain creative projects in 2024, but will now close.