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  • The teenage hitmen recruited to kill across Europe

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  • According to Operational Taskforce (OTF) GRIMM, the Europol group set up to tackle the problem, the teenage hitmen are recruited on social media, and are given their instructions in a "gamified" way, imitating how computer games work.

    Andy Kraag, the head of Europol's European Serious and Organised Crime Centre, calls it the "calculated outsourcing of murder" to vulnerable young people.

    OTF GRIMM currently involves 11 countries affected by the VaaS phenomenon - Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

    ...

    OTF GRIMM has had some successes in the 15 months since it was set up. Police have made more than 280 arrests including a few key suspects.

    One of the most important arrests was that of Ahmed, who is thought to be Agent 47.

    He was detained in the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah in Iraq, and is currently subject to an extradition request to Sweden.

    The Swedish deputy national police commissioner Stefan Hector said they were "constantly expanding our co-operation with other countries" and showing organised criminals "they cannot feel safe anywhere in the world".

    In May, Mohamed "Moewgli" Mohdhi, a former rapper described by Swedish police as a "central actor" in Foxtrot, was arrested in Tunisia.

    But Majid himself remains out of reach in Iran.

  • ASML shares plunge following reports of Chinese breakthrough in chip manufacturing. China has begun producing advanced chip manufacturing equipment, the very same that made ASML a major player

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  • Some of it translated

    If China manages to produce the DUV machines itself, it could cost ASML billions of euros in the long run. In the last quarter, 14 % of the machines ASML sold went to China. The Veldhoven‑based manufacturer expects to earn 20 % of its revenue from China this year. If the revenue forecast, recently revised up from €43 billion to €45 billion for this year, materialises, that would correspond to roughly €9 billion.

    Further testing

    For now ASML does not seem to have to worry. Chinese technology is not yet as advanced and reliable as that of the Dutch company. Before mass production can start in China, the machines still need to be tested. This year China is reportedly starting production of five machines; a year later that number is expected to rise to twenty.

    Although ASML appears to retain its lead for the moment, investors were spooked on Monday. The ASML share ended 8.5 % lower, the lowest level since early June. Dutch rivals Besi and ASM also fell sharply, losing almost 10 % and more than 7 % of their value respectively.

  • Appeals Court Lifts Block on USPS Mail-In Ballot Plan in Win for Trump

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  • The complications is that there are at least four major threads of this going on in different districts and judges. Two in front of Talwani in Massachusetts, this one in DC district, plus another in DC District in front of Nichols.

    Tracking all of it is going to be difficult amongst the noise.

  • Volume

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  • Subtitles!

  • Volume

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  • Maybe we should have more anti audio people? Go back to silent movies and show?

  • Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing

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  • Have to agree

  • How a Single Rogue BGP Announcement Took Telegram Offline Across Three Continents

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  • The “misconfigured local block gone global” theory goes like this: Reliance was trying to comply with India’s Section 69A blocking order for Telegram. To implement the block domestically, they configured a null route for Telegram’s IP prefixes – traffic from Indian users heading to 91.108.56.0/22 gets redirected to a dead end. Normal ISP blocking procedure.

    But somewhere in that configuration, instead of just inserting a null route in their internal routing tables, they accidentally originated a BGP announcement for the prefix – telling the world, via FLAG, that they were the legitimate destination for Telegram’s traffic. The internal block leaked into the global routing table.

    This is technically plausible. BGP misconfigurations do happen. The internet has seen accidental route leaks before. Pakistan Telecom knocked YouTube offline globally in 2008 with exactly this kind of mistake. Human error in complex network configurations is real.

    But there are a few things that make pure-accident harder to swallow here.

    First, the announcement persisted. Multiple researchers spotted it, documented it, and publicly reported it. Network operators contacted FLAG Telecom. The incident was visible in public routing data. Yet it stayed live for an extended period. Accidents get cleaned up faster when there’s external pressure and the error is obvious.

    Second, the timing. The government ban announcement, followed immediately by a technically sophisticated routing manipulation that happened to push users toward a blackhole rather than a redirect, followed by slow remediation – this sequence is either a spectacular coincidence or it isn’t.

    Third, the competitive context. Reliance Jio and RCom share common ownership threads with Mukesh Ambani’s broader business empire, which has a strategic partnership with Meta – the company behind WhatsApp, Telegram’s primary competitor in India. Telegram’s growth in India has been directly at WhatsApp’s expense. A platform disruption that makes Telegram unreliable while WhatsApp continues working normally is commercially convenient for a Meta-aligned entity.

    None of this proves intent. But “we accidentally configured a global BGP hijack of our primary competitor’s IP space and then didn’t fix it quickly when people noticed” is a story that requires you to accept a lot of charitable coincidences stacking up simultaneously.

  • Trump administration to force foreigners in the US to apply for a green card abroad

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  • The Trump administration has cut legal immigration by 132,000 people per month, far more than the drop in illegal crossings. These are doctors, engineers, workers, and entrepreneurs. Over the last 30 years, legal immigrants reduced the U.S. deficit by $14.5 trillion. And Trump has increased our deficit by another trillion in 2026. With an aging population and shrinking workforce, we need them. This isn't border security, it is economic suicide. Our kids and grandkids will pay the price for this idiocy.

  • Why don't they get this?

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  • It's called Agrovoltaics and it works pretty damn good,if you do it right.

    The pairing can also offer some synergies. Solar panels can help moderate ground temperatures, provide shelter for livestock and help plants retain moisture.[6] For farmers the ability to produce electricity can help diversify their income stream.

    Solar panels block light, which means that dual use systems involve trade-offs between crop yield, crop quality, and energy production.[7] Some crops/livestock benefit from the increased shade, obviating the trade-off,[8] such as green leafy vegetables, and spices such as turmeric and ginger, whereas staple crops such as wheat, rice, soybeans or pulses require more sun.[9] Agrivoltaics has also been used at scale in arid and semi-arid regions to stabilize soils, reduce dust storm intensity, increase vegetation cover, provide forage for livestock, and curb desertification, notably in northern China.[10][11]

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    Trump thinks he’s flying to Beijing with leverage. China spent 6 years making sure he doesn’t have any

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  • While I understand the sentiment, I think there are a huge number of hurdles in front of them. Certainly they have become a manufacturing powerhouse, but they also have a lot more dependencies then does the US. Also everyone is going to be hit by the demographic inversion here shortly, so that's going to be a dynamic environment to be "the world power". Such as climate change and the reduction of the rule of law.

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    AI data center bans are rapidly multiplying across the US — 69 jurisdictions block new builds, with four moves noted as permanent

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  • Don't forget this is an international game though. China is playing this game.

  • Do we agree that late Gen Z (2008-) is just completely different than early Gen Z?

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  • Given as these "Generation" tend to be made up anyway for marketing, tell me more about the split you are thinking of and why?

  • What's the real reason most countries aren't having children?

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  • This is a great data pull btw. This is similar across much of the Global North.

  • What's the real reason most countries aren't having children?

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  • Data doesn't support that at all.

    Many just don't want to, which is not fear. Only a few of those polled (across many countries) indicate fear (state of the world, fear of being a parent, etc) as being the reason. Egotism, insecurity, genetics, finances, etc are all some of the basis and they cannot all be boiled down to just fear. This is structural and cultural not just emotional.

  • What's the real reason most countries aren't having children?

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  • This is a great question, and I highly recommend diving into this and it's implications. It's a sort of simple answer, but is really very complex with some deep fundamentals.

    I went on a rant @lod's comment, which I maybe should have posted directly, but I've spent years digging in on this and it's impacts.

    I'm happy to have direct conversations about it, but I have found out that Lemmy isn't the forum for more than simple direct answers.

    I hope you get some great answers though!

  • What's the real reason most countries aren't having children?

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  • While I appreciate the optimism, I'm not sure that the historical data bears out that we will probably see the birthrates climb again when the supports are in place. This is a massive challenge for all of the Global North, but especially Japan, China, South Korea, and then all the way up in the "developed world." Some where around Panama, Indonesia, or Myanmar is where you see the 2.1 replacement rate (from 2024 data), so something close to 100 countries below 2.1 TFR.

    Bribes have been tried (as in one time payments for kids). Child Care coverage has been tried. Other structural changes (like the Nordic dual parent paternity leave, or even time shifted paternity leave like France and others).

    Maybe you mean more than just economic and governmental supports. As Claudia Goldin has said "cultural changes around gender and women's autonomy are the primary drivers of fertility decline, not just economic factors that policies might address"

    This is why, as an American, I'm so confused about the anti-immigration bonanza happening. It's not only against the American ethos, but shooting ourselves in the foot both economically and culturally. We need more people to make up for the future loss that is happening, and people from around the world have wanted to come. They pay for their worth in huge amounts (I'm already digressing so I won't paste more journals and such on this), and what's more if we want the economy to thrive and survive we need them... (Should we have a growth based economy is another question, that is worth asking, but again digression.)

    Anyway, the point is Global North has tried and failed to address TFR, and no one has one that battle. Greater standard of living = lower TFR.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    ravenaspiring @sh.itjust.works

    How ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop.

    www.buchodi.com /how-chatgpt-serves-ads-heres-the-full-attribution-loop

  • California to hold special election for Congressional District 14 seat after Swalwell's resignation

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  • A special election to fill California's 14th Congressional District seat will be held on Aug. 18, according to the governor's office.

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  • Other explained this in more detail, but TLDR:

    The moon waxes and wanes from earth's perspective throughout the month, yet half the moon is always facing the sun. Just being tidally locked doesn't mean it doesn't get sun.

    As someone else said:

    Dark Side ≠ Far Side

  • House Republicans flee Congress in record numbers amid growing dysfunction

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  • As a fairly liberal person, I'm amused more than angry with the comment.

    I like the facts and would rather let them speak for themselves.

    While it's true that the majority of the reps and senators killed, harmed, or hurt in the last two years are blue such as John Hoffman and his wife, Melissa Hortman, Josh Shapiro, Pelosi's husband, etc. Don't discount Kirk's killing, and Trump's assassination attempt.

    So two very prominent Republican and copy cat challenge are a norm.

    Also worth understanding that although the news only talks about the big events, the number of reports of some form of intimidation and threats against politicians in general in the US (local, state, and National) has started to bubble. This is the trend which has caused a lot of politician across the board to rethink their life's work.

  • politics @lemmy.world
    ravenaspiring @sh.itjust.works

    America Needs Economic Warriors

    www.foreignaffairs.com /united-states/america-needs-economic-warriors
  • politics @lemmy.world
    ravenaspiring @sh.itjust.works

    Future NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made bold promises. Can he keep them?

    www.pbs.org /newshour/politics/future-nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-has-made-bold-promises-can-he-keep-them