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On Jan. 29, the “Vremya Pokazhet” talk show on Russia’s Kremlin-controlled Channel One (Perviy Kanal) presented “proof” of what the program’s host said was criticism directed against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by the French press. The covers of two French newspapers — Libération and Le Parisien, both showing the date Jan. 27 — were presented on screen to corroborate his allegations. However, it later emerged that the front pages displayed on Russian television were fabrications created and spread by the “Matryoshka” bot network, according to analysis conducted by the Bot Blocker project.

Distro developers began discussing ways to reduce the size of firmware updates last year. Now, in Ubuntu 26.04, it’s introducing meta-packaging to spread Linux firmware across 17 smaller packages in the resolute archives. This resolves a bug filed in 2022.

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Honestly, I would fall into this trap.

That takes balls, doesn’t it?

I always assumed it came from Shakespeare, or something along those lines. That it actually came from putrid legalese was like finding out that my online girlfriend was an AI chatbot all along.

The country’s online regulator aims to curb social media fuelling ‘marriage phobia’ and ‘fertility anxiety’ over the lunar new year.

In a particularly creative expression of anti-MAGA sentiment, a man who goes by the username “biz_dave” says he successfully trained crows to attack MAGA hats. As detailed in a series of posts on Threads, the self-proclaimed “big nerd” and “very part-time artist” stuck some tasty treats, including “peanuts, chicken scraps, mealworms, and dog kibble,” underneath a MAGA hat.

At least 12 Women’s Institute (WI) groups are closing or considering closure after the organisation barred transgender women from membership.

Wasatch County’s Republican Party chair is facing felony child abuse charges for allegedly “waterboarding” a 16-year-old relative.

It outranks German and French. Almost all of it is bot-generated.

About one in five residents in Lithuania lives in poverty, the State Data Agency (VDA) reported, with the most affected groups including people struggling to enter the labour market, pensioners and those with disabilities.

This Valentine’s Day there is a lot of red on the screen for the X.Org Server with the code delta as a result of renaming of their main Git development branch and in the process selectively dropping questionable patches to the prior “master” codebase.

KaOS Linux 2026.02 was released today as the February 2026 ISO snapshot for this independent GNU/Linux distribution, which uses Arch Linux’s pacman package manager, and the first release to ship with the Niri Wayland compositor.

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DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don’t come from judges.

Ukrainian president pushes back on US calls for concessions.

Source: https://www.litterboxcomics.com/whats-this/

Backstory here: https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/

https://xcancel.com/iElijahManley/status/2022461309997236652#m

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has said it has released all of the files required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but lawmakers have argued the release is insufficient.

A story about an AI generated article contained fabricated, AI generated quotes.

Ben Gvir was wearing a hangman’s noose badge on his shirt at the time, aiming to show Palestinians have no control at all

On Sunday morning, Border czar Tom Homan said elected officials in Minnesota “ought to be saying thank you” to the Trump administration for making the state safer.

As the "Are We the Baddies?" meme suggests. If you’re a country’s military, in a democracy, that wants to carry out mass civilian surveillance and use killer robots, maybe you’re the one with the problem. Anthropic can be as principled as they like, there are plenty who’ll be happy to help - Peter Thiel’s Palantir is eager and enthusiastic about implementing this agenda.

At least it wasn’t a classified document leak, I guess?

Since 2023, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation has paid Palantir nearly $4 million to improve its ability to track down payment for the services provided at its hospitals and medical clinics. Palantir, a data analysis firm that’s now a Wall Street giant thanks to its lucrative work with the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence community, deploys its software to make more efficient the billing of Medicaid and other public benefits. That includes automated scanning of patient health notes to “Increase charges captured from missed opportunities,” contract materials reviewed by The Intercept show.

Borges alleges that a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, copied the government’s master Social Security database into a cloud system that lacked normal oversight.

https://mastodon.online/@Geri/116076206873295788

A Chinese naval flotilla came within 10 kilometres of Australia’s exclusive economic zone last year, and top defence officials warn further deployments are likely as Beijing flexes its military power.

The Descent and the Wound For the first time since existence began, Ki did not act through the Nai. He descended. From his own essence, he forged a weapon- a trident, three-pronged and absolute. Each blade carried a law: • Annihilation • Judgment • Balance Ki struck Serima. The seas convulsed. The serpent screamed as divine force tore through her scales. But the Seas rose in fury. Waves became weapons. Currents became chains. They sought to crush Ki beneath infinite pressure. Bound and sinking, Ki did not strike Serima again. Instead, he drove the trident downward. It pierced the ocean floor. The seabed fractured. Stone surged upward. Mountains erupted from the depths, lifting Ki toward the surface. Thus, land was born- not as a blessing, but as a division. Serima was not slain. She was wounded and bound, entombed in the deep, sleeping, waiting. From that moment, existence carried a fault.

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Over the past 30 years, astronomers have cataloged about 4,000 Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs), including a smattering of dwarf worlds, icy comets, and leftover planet parts. But that number is expected to increase tenfold in the coming years as observations from more advanced telescopes pour in.

Unfortunately Photon uses a CSS framework instead of meaningful CSS class names, so this is a hack that simply shrinks every image in every top comment’s thread, so YMMV.

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David Stern, a confidant of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was in email contact with the paedophile financier during the taxpayer-funded visit.

The Rock Pool Project in Plymouth says the non-native sea hare looks “alien-like”.