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  • Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games

  • People should be concerned. Robots like these may be deployed against Taiwan in the next few years.

  • Microsoft accused of leaking Dutch civil servants' names to U.S. government

  • Indeed. Schrems III cannot come too soon, and maybe this time it will stick.

  • The Far Side, March 26, 1993

  • Hopes these white coats are gonna show up at the White House real soon.

  • Do not

  • IIUC, the point of the leaflets is to extend consent education, so that instead of just covering the first group below it also covers the second.

    1. UK school pupils. They already receive it.
    2. Asylum seekers. AFAIK they did not previously receive it, which was a twofold problem: a. for the victims of the very small number of asylum seekers who committed crimes against consent, perhaps not knowing how seriously that would be viewed in the UK; and b. for the many innocent asylum seekers tarred with the same brush.
    3. Older adults in the UK. These may never have received consent education, but unfortunately are often reactionary enough to vote Reform if anyone tries to “nanny” them - so they will probably never receive it.

    Labour needed to do something to stop the law-abiding majority of asylum seekers having their reputations tarnished by a tiny number of no-goodnik asylum seekers.

    IMO, the booklets were a good move by Labour. They will make it easier for thicker members of the public to distinguish between the very few bad apples among asylum seekers (“This guy broke the rules, and can’t plead ignorance because he received the booklet in a language he reads fluently”) and the law-abiding majority.

  • Fooling Flock: The Car Wrap That Blinds Plate Cameras

  • Is the word “Donut” kryptonite to Flock?

  • How to compromise your system with a job interview

  • Why wouldn't you be concerned about VM or container escapes?

  • Biggar Penis Woods get the chop after getting blown too much

  • D'you think she found it hard?

  • Racism and sexism have become normalised in Britain, says equalities minister

  • A decade and a half of recent Tory rule is the main (not the only, but the main) reason for this.

    Their austerity program and educational cuts threw working class, especially kids, into relative poverty and ignorance.

    Their “hostile environment” policy entrenched xenophobia.

    Their support for the far-right’s wet dreams of a Brexit referendum and a hard Brexit lent the chauvinists establishment support and a veneer of respectability.

    Other reasons include constant boosting (and funding) of chauvinist social media accounts as part of Russia’s (and maybe China’s, etc) decade of hybrid warfare aimed at destabilising liberal democracies and eroding support for human rights.

  • mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say

  • In the UK at least, decisions and rationale about which vaccinations and treatments should be publicly-funded via the NHS are published quite transparently. For example: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/story/preventing-cancer-extending-vaccination-boys

    Vaccinating everyone in the UK against everything for which vaccines are available (even against diseases with very low risk in the UK) would cost so much that the NHS would have to cut treatments with very high benefit-to-cost ratio.

    Therefore, below a certain benefit-to-cost threshold, the UK has no reasonable choice except to withhold public funding. The HPV vaccine for boys was right on that threshold. IMO, the UK did the right thing by funding the clear benefit (HPV vaccine for girls, whose risk was significantly higher per existing evidence) and extending it to boys when additional evidence showed it was worth doing so.

  • Question: searching and browser randomly injecting Cloudflare etc. "checks"

  • mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say

  • mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say

  • Cost-benefit is the likely reason.

    For comparison: the UK initially concluded the cost-benefit ratio was in favour of girls-only HPV vaccination, but IIUC updated this assessment and offered it to boys too after a public campaign by Jaime Winstone.

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    mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say

    arstechnica.com /health/2026/08/mrna-cancer-vaccine-succeeded-in-phase-3-melanoma-trial-moderna-and-merck-say/

  • Retention.com Founder on 'Email Laundering'

  • It would probably be a better use of time for those people to vote and lobby their legislatures for decent privacy protections in law.

  • Retention.com Founder on 'Email Laundering'

  • Yet another example of why US citizens would benefit from GDPR-equivalent privacy laws.

  • Inflatable sleep mat (Therm-a-rest NeoAir) repair tape

  • Thanks for this!

    I'm unfamiliar with Aquaseal. If I tried Aquaseal first without success, and it failed, what would be involved in prepping the surface afterwards for Tear-Aid or similar?

    In other words, is the Aquaseal likely to interfere with subsequent membrane adhesion - and if so, how does one remove the Aquaseal from a NeoAir without worsening the existing damage.

    I've used Tyvek for other applications, but never for repairing inflatable items. Intriguing suggestion. I'll look into it further.

  • Launching an EU Citizens' Initiative (ECI) for Device Neutrality & Open Attestation ("My Device, My OS")

  • Where will you post updates?

  • iOS 26.6.1 And iOS 18.7.10—Update Now Warning For All iPhone Users

  • "The iOS 26.6.1 update fixes three flaws in the iPhone Kernel and nearly 20 in WebKit."

  • It's Tuesday 08/18/2026. Hey, What's Going On!

  • Feel free to message me or add a reply here after you try posting there, and I can check to see if the post is visible for me. Thanks!

  • Trump’s Broken Promises, in 11 Charts

  • Sorry, I'm not sure how to bypass that. Maybe disable JavaScript or try Reading Mode?

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump’s Broken Promises, in 11 Charts

    www.nytimes.com /interactive/2026/08/18/opinion/trump-economy-campaign-promises.html
  • Buy it for Life @slrpnk.net
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    Inflatable sleep mat (Therm-a-rest NeoAir) repair tape

  • Buy European @feddit.uk
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    Affordable stainless steel watch straps?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Reporting Cloudflare challenge loops

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    AI’s potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds

    www.theguardian.com /technology/2026/aug/11/ai-will-do-more-to-boost-fossil-fuel-production-than-green-energy
  • Uplifting News @lemmy.world
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    US court rules Meta, other tech companies must face thousands of lawsuits over social media addiction

    www.reuters.com /world/us-appeals-court-allows-thousands-lawsuits-against-social-media-companies-over-2026-08-10/
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    How to use international date format, instead of American?

  • Autism @lemmy.world
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    Just me, or does the autism infinity logo...

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules

    www.wsj.com /us-news/how-amazon-built-a-data-center-in-a-california-town-without-anyone-noticing-8610bb67
  • Autism @lemmy.world
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    Neurotypicals say I should make decisions with incomplete information.

  • Uplifting News @lemmy.world
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    Former dairy farm to become 'climate resilient' nature reserve

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/cpd76vep8yqo
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Trump’s Vision for A.I. Dominance Comes With Major Air Pollution

    www.nytimes.com /2026/08/05/climate/data-centers-pollution-trump-ai-energy.html
  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    Russian army deserters in Germany: 'No choice but to run'

    www.dw.com /en/russian-army-deserters-in-germany-no-choice-but-to-run/a-78020377
  • Electricians @lemmy.world
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    UK: electrician vs cable jointer vs meter installer

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images

    www.404media.co /google-earths-new-ai-lets-anyone-fabricate-completely-bullshit-satellite-images/
  • Uplifting News @lemmy.world
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    German startup to scale up fully recyclable wind turbine blades

    recyclingportal.eu /archive/96839
  • Cybersecurity @sh.itjust.works
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    Are NFC hardware tokens (Yubikey, NitroKey) less secure than USB-only ones? If so, how to mitigate?

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Full text of the roadmap for Hamas to disarm and Israel to leave Gaza

    apnews.com /article/gaza-hamas-israel-deal-text-7347ef0f3b745f22c12b67f786b70f0f
  • Uplifting News @lemmy.world
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    AI labels to be compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules

    www.theguardian.com /technology/2026/jul/31/ai-labels-to-be-compulsory-on-authentic-looking-content-under-eu-rules