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133-year old Kodak says it might have to cease operations | CNN Business Eastman Kodak, the 133-year-old photography company, is warning investors thats it might not survive much longer.

looks like kodak is toast

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Hyundai wants Ioniq 5 owners to pay to fix a keyless entry security hole Thieves have been stealing cars with a Game Boy-like device

if i were hyundai, i would personally pay whatever it costs to avoid another kia scandal rather than alienate present and prospective customers

www.theverge.com/news/757205/...

I et interview med Politiken virker Lars Løkke Rasmussen nu til at bekræfte nedenstående analyse.

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National Drought Group meets to address “nationally significant” water shortfall Five areas remain in drought with six more in prolonged dry weather

can't help wonder how much water their ai data centres are using

www.gov.uk/government/n...

This is REALLY CLEVER. Reverse osmosis desalination using the pressure at the bottom of the ocean. Sea water is 2.5% denser than fresh, so the fresh water just flows up the output pipe on its own*.

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* The article says pumped, but I'm not sure that's even necessary.

UN committee urges NI Executive to tackle racist violence It wants the NI Executive to “adopt robust measures to prevent and combat paramilitary racist violence

If I was Justice Minister and the United Nations had to intervene to tell me to do my job, I'd step down.

Yet history keeps repeating itself..

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i hope the people who talk about "reddit alternatives" realize that what they really want is a *subreddit alternative*

Reddit will block the Internet Archive It’s another move to protect against AI scraping.

Reddit will block the Internet Archive

I’m quoting this because it is a very fair point for which I have an answer: The first thing is to recognize that in a democracy there is no such thing as “ the majority.” Instead, there are many and multiple overlapping majorities that can be assembled from different parts of the whole.

Historic heatwave unfolding in France.

Bordeaux just observed its hottest day on record with a provisional 41.6°C (107°F) — data since 1920. Red level extreme heat warnings are in force for the south of the country.

Sadly, this heatwave is far from over...

broadcasting your far-right plans in caps lock

Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US government Chipmakers agree to unusual arrangement to secure export licences from Trump administration

FT openly calls the Nividia AI deal an export tariff, which is what it is. Export tariffs are outlawed by the US Constitution. www.ft.com/content/cd1a...

Analysis: Nvidia has the biggest weight in the S&P 500 of any individual stock since 1981 and the highest P/E as the index's top stock since Microsoft in 1999 (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)

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Sources: Nvidia and AMD agreed to pay the US government 15% of revenues from H20 and MI308 chip sales in China to obtain export licenses granted last week (Financial Times)

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not a great week for danish stocks as ørsted drops 30% after asking for a $10B cash injection to stay afloat

ICE looted their restaurant and tried to break into the safe. News chopper footage caught them backing their cars up to the door and carrying out cases of food.

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

just goes to show how crucial anti-corruption is as a central policy plank

his run for congress was such a (misogynistic) mess too

If the federal government can simply seize privately held patents then that is the end of the U.S. patent system, the legal basis for American innovation.

for sale
patent for curing cancer
never used

A source reached out to me claiming MasterCard contacted Riot Games about the ongoing Steam/itchio controversy. MasterCard is a major Riot esports sponsor. This is the message going around internally from Riot, paraphrased: * MasterCard has asked Riot to keep an eye out for negative sentiments on official Riot streams * Riot has asked esports content creators working with official Riot properties to watch out for any negative sentiments toward MasterCard * Moderators have been told to look out for any unusual activity around the MasterCard issue

Mark Carney won on a promise of strong but fair Canada. This is how he is betraying that vision The Carney government is repeating the mistakes of Paul Martin and Stephen Harper.

> [Carney's cuts] on this scale would outstrip even those made by Stephen Harper and could eliminate as many as 57,000 full-time jobs from the public service. What’s more, there was little indication during the campaign that such cuts would be coming (...)

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substack sucks but i don't buy the people acting surprised a newsletter that basically absorbed quillette turned out like this

Trans women to be banned from single-sex spaces under EHRC guidance The Equality and Human Rights Commission has been criticised by trans rights campaigners for its response to the Supreme Court’s ruling

This doesn't mention trans men once

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Almost half NI race rioters reported for domestic abuse The figures for Northern Ireland – 48% - were higher than the UK average (41%).

Almost half NI race rioters reported for domestic abuse
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Photo from an article with the title "Apple CEO gifts Trump glass sculpture with 24-karat gold base". The base looks like cheap Temu plastic, and the glass disc sculpture on top has the Apple logo on it and looks like an old ladies $10 night lamp The glass sculpture features the text PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP APPLE AMERICAN MANUFACTURING PROGRAM The bottom has Tim Cook's signature followed by MADE IN USA, 2025. All text is in small caps in an atrociously selected sans-serif font that's almost as embarrassing as the sucking up to a fascist administration.

fascist collaboration aside, this is some heinous design work too

Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns Grok 4 is going into private preview, for now

Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns

Questions for Ireland as investigation reveals Microsoft data centre use by Israeli military A Guardian report has revealed Microsoft’s cloud services are used by Israel’s Unit 8200 to archive millions of Palestinian phone calls.

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