@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-10 15:05:08
Retired Major General Giora Eiland told Israel’s 103FM radio station on Sunday that
rebuilding Gaza would run against Israeli interests.
“Israel has no interest in Gaza being rebuilt,
it is better for us that it be destroyed for generations to come,” Eiland said.
“The greater the despair in Gaza and the greater the destruction,
and the greater the monument to what they did on October 7, years to come,
that is good" he added.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-10-12 13:37:09
So... First, this is a great example of the enemy of your enemy not being your friend:
https://todon.eu/@radical_chic/117427249480571937
I can hope that this will cause Adobe to help her the AI bubble popped sooner and/or that it breaks Adobe's market share, but I'm not going to use these tools, nor will I cheer too loudly if the result is that copyright restrictions actually get applied and stop LLM coding (even though stopping LLM coding is unambiguously good). (This is very much not a "clean room" implementation if Claude's training data includes any Adobe source, which it very well might.
Second, assuming this does not cause courts to suddenly start actually applying copyright law correctly, it represents a terrifying new reality for legacy software companies, given their dependence on software monopolies for a lot of their income. The people who have been building on open source all along have the better business model here, but this becoming the norm is more destructive than helpful to the open source movement, since "just rebuild it" seems easier than actually using or contributing to an existing open-source project.
That said, these tools are certainly full of serious bugs. They would be even if they had been written by humans in this timeframe, although in that case you'd probably have an order of magnitude fewer issues. These bugs will result in things like "if you open this PDF with the tool, your computer gets taken over by a virus". That occasionally happens with Adobe products too, of course, but it will happen more frequently and won't be fixed as fast/well in these tools.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-07 22:36:46
Palantir Technologies,
one of the world’s most influential — and controversial — surveillance tech companies,
🔸enjoyed an effective tax rate of just 1.4% globally last year
🔸while paying no US federal income tax
despite recording substantial profits, an analysis released on Wednesday revealed.
The study, Who Pays for the Surveillance State?, was written by the Center for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR)
in partnership with th…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-09-06 16:00:41
Is the Cowboys Offensive Line Rebuild a Failure? https://insidethestar.com/is-the-cowboys-offensive-line-rebuild-a-failure
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-07-16 08:12:29
‘Last year, the online magazine 972 revealed the existence of a specialised military intelligence unit known as the “legitimisation cell”. Its mandate is narrative management. “Whenever criticism of Israel in the media intensified on a particular issue,” the report said, the cell combed through intercepted calls and fragments of intelligence from Gaza to identify material that could be deployed to defend Israel on the international stage.
“If the global media is talking about Israel ki…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-03 16:58:04
The U.S. military has asked combat experts to think outside the box in a desperate bid for new ideas to end Trump's war against Iran
In an email last week, an officer in the intelligence branch of U.S. Central Command asked a broad group of military analysts for suggestions:
"We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,” the email reportedly read.
Military officials said the effort to crowdsource a solution to the war by email …
@paun@digitalcourage.social2026-09-27 07:25:16
“Imagine if nuclear weapons were developed by private companies.
If stockpiles were located on company grounds and launch codes locked away in a safe in a CEO's office.
It's a disturbing thought.
When a technology has the power to fundamentally change the world, possibly even determine the fate of humanity.
We need to ask who controls it?
Who sets the rules?
Who's accountable?
Today, humankind faces another technological revolution that raises …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-27 15:53:14
Newly obtained documents indicate that the US health secretary,
Robert F Kennedy Jr, lied during two congressional hearings last year,
when he told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation that a 2019 visit to Samoa had “nothing to do with vaccines”.
Letters obtained by the Guardian and the Associated Press contradict that testimony.
In one he wrote to the Samoan prime minister before the trip, Kennedy explicitly said he wanted to study the measles, mumps and ru…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-01 17:12:55
The US military has said it is striking targets in Iran over attempted attacks on shipping as hostilities flare after a month.
US Central Command said in an update on X:
"Today at 12 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran. The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region."
Iran’s state broadcaste…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-29 22:18:08
The Nepalese government has requested
“specific and specialised assistance” from neighbouring countries
to aid search and rescue efforts.
This includes assistance with opening tunnels where people are trapped,
technologies that can help locate people alive in affected areas,
rapid forensic and DNA analysis,
and mortuary facilities for the proper storage of bodies, Nepal’s ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement.
It added: “An 11-member specia…
