Say Hello to Creator-Built AI Chatbots on Instagram
Plus: A zippy new race car is powered by hydrogen, the FCC promotes carrier phone unlocking, and Hyundai’s reasonably affordable new EV is very cute—but you can’t buy it in the States. ⌘ Read more

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The US Wants to Integrate the Commercial Space Industry With Its Military to Prevent Cyber Attacks
As more and more infrastructure is deployed in space, the risk of cyber attacks increases. The US military wants to team up with the private sector to protect assets everyone relies on. ⌘ Read more

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Security News This Week: Google Is Piloting Face Recognition for Office Security
Plus: A cloud company says notorious Russian hacker group APT29 attacked it, Chinese hackers use ransomware to hide their espionage campaigns, and a bank popular with startups discloses a cyberattack. ⌘ Read more

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Fast fashion is harming our planet—these four tips can help you build a more sustainable wardrobe
As sunny summer days return in the northern hemisphere, you may be looking to refresh your wardrobe. The allure of a whole “new you” is pervasive, and the foundation of many a successful marketing campaign. ⌘ Read more

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‘Greatest disseminator of disinformation’: CNN gets brutal takedown over debate ‘silence’
Tom Boggioni,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: All day off and on I have been listening to, reading, and watching media. Everybody gets that Biden was a disaster and that criminal Trump, as usual, endlessly lied and didn’t answer any of the questions he was asked. But, except for Heather Digby Parton, what I haven’t seen is what stood out f … ⌘ Read more

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The Supreme Court Upends the Separation of Powers
Matt Ford,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republican

Stephan: American society is being restructured by six corrupt christofascists. Think about that for a minute. There are 337 million Americans and their their lives are being changed by six people who are political agents, not law-based justice agents. And no one is doing anything about it.

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Elena Kagan’s Scathing Chevron Dissent Highlights US Supreme Court’s Disregard for Precedent
Ed Pilkington,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The corruption and politicization of the christofascist cabal on the Supreme Court has reached a point where even the honorable justices that make up the consistent minority have had enough and are speaking out. If criminal Trump is elected I think the American judiciary will be fi … ⌘ Read more

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The First National Data on Birth Control Post-Dobbs Is Here, and the News Is Not Good
NINA MARTIN,  Editor / Reporter  -  Mother Jones

Stephan: More bad news as a result of the Dobbs decision. Take a look at this week’s SR podcast where I go into this in detail. As I said in the previous comment, six people are changing our world, as everyone looks on.

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Top Stories: iOS 18 Beta 2, Apple Vision Pro International Launch, New Beats Speaker, and More
Apple is moving right along on iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and other new operating systems that were unveiled at WWDC earlier this month, releasing the second developer betas of the updates this week with a number of new changes and additions. Public betas will follow sometime next month ahead of a full public release in the fall.

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Planting giant cactus to stave off desertification in Brazil
Giant spiky cacti tower over farmer Alcides Peixinho Nascimento, 70, one of the residents of Brazil’s unique Caatinga biome who is on a mission to plant native vegetation in a bid to halt desertification. ⌘ Read more

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NASA astronauts will stay at the space station longer for more troubleshooting of Boeing capsule
Two NASA astronauts will stay longer at the International Space Station as engineers troubleshoot problems on Boeing’s new space capsule that cropped up on the trip there. ⌘ Read more

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If your immutable Linux desktop uses Flatpak, I’m going to have a bad time
The openSUSE project recently announced the second release candidate (RC2) of its Aeon Desktop, formerly known as MicroOS Desktop GNOME. Aside from the new coat of naming paint, Aeon breaks ground in a few other ways by dabbling with technologies not found in other openSUSE releases. The goal for Aeon is to provide automated system updates using snapshots that can be applied atomically … ⌘ Read more

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rehrar releases Stack Wallet v2.1.1
rehrar1 has released Stack Wallet2 version 2.1.13 with various changes and optimizations.

Changes overview
Added .onion connection support
Added RBF and CPfP for Bitcoin
Added basic Dash functionality
Firo optimizations [..]

The release notes, binaries, and the SHA256 hashes can be found on Github3.

Consult the previous Monero Observer report4 to learn more about the project.

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jeffro256’s Q3 2024 Monero dev work CCS proposal fully funded
jeffro2561’s CCS proposal2 to work full-time on Monero development for 3 months (Q3 2024) is now fully funded:

146 XMR raised in 10 contributions (100%)

To learn more about jeffro256’s work, consult the previous Monero Observer report3.

  1. https://github.com/jeffro256 [↩](#fnref:1)

  2. [https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/jeffro256-full-time-2024Q3.html](https://ccs.getmonero.o … ⌘ Read more

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Microsoft: all content on the web is fair use
When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman: With respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the ’90s has been that it is fair use. Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has been freeware, if you like. That’s been the understanding. ↫ Mustafa Suleyman This is absolute bullshit from the first word to the very last. None of t … ⌘ Read more

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Apple II graphics: more than you wanted to know
The Apple ][ is one of the most iconic vintage computers of all time. But since Wozniak’s monster lasted all the way until 1993 (1995 if you could the IIe card, which I won’t count until I get one), it can be easy to forget that in 1977, it was a video extravaganza. The competitors– even much bigger and established companies like Commodore and Tandy– generally only had text modes, let alone pixel-addressable graphics, and they certainly … ⌘ Read more

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Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand
WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like the New York Times and the Atlantic using Poe’s Assistant bot. One expert calls it “prima facie copyright infringement,” which Quora disputes. ⌘ Read more

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It’s not unusual to port the Linux Vector Packet Processor (VPP) to FreeBSD
The Vector Packet Processor (VPP) is a framework for moving packets around at high rates. Its core concept is handling packets in groups known as “vectors,” which allows for the native use of vector processor instructions for packet classification and processing in different CPU architectures — currently amd64 and arm64. VPP can process packets at incredibly high rates and competes wi … ⌘ Read more

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Earlier this week I found myself on the RIAA’s side in a legal dispute. Now I think Amy Coney Barrett got it right in her SCOTUS dissent. Truly we are in Bizarro World.

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