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MOSCOW — Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan continues to mourn loved ones and hold funerals for the dead, as questions and theories swirl over who was responsible for the weekend attack by gunmen that killed 20 people — most of them police — and injured dozens more.

Armed assailants launched near-simultaneous attacks Sunday on a Jewish synagogue, two Orthodox Christian churches and a police station, in Dagestan's capital Makhachkala and the costal city of Derbent.

And last October, as Israel’s war in Gaza heated up, an angry pro-Palestinian mob of locals overran Dagestan’s main airport in search of Jewish passengers on a flight from Tel Aviv.

“The authors — were the Western intelligence services,” wrote Alexander Sladkov, one of a group of nationalist war correspondents who have gained notoriety on social media amid the conflict in Ukraine.

“I think if we assign responsibility to NATO and Ukraine for every terrorist act that involves national or religious intolerance, this rose-colored fog will lead us to big problems,” Dmitry Rogozin, a noted hawk, wrote on social media on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected concerns that the latest events in Dagestan signaled a return to the waves of violence that plagued Russia through the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Islamist militants from the North Caucasus region routinely terrorized civilians.


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With the recently released KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment, those still relying on old Intel integrated graphics should have a much more pleasant experience thanks to improvements made to the KWin compositor.

For very old Intel integrated graphics, it can effectively be a night and day difference upgrading to the new Plasma 6.1 desktop.

The biggest improvement to bettering the KDE Plasma desktop graphics performance is thanks to dynamic triple buffering support.

It’s not just old or slow processors that benefit though, I also tested this on a laptop with an integrated Intel and a dedicated NVidia GPU.

Triple buffering can’t do magic, but KWin now at least reaches around 100-120fps on that setup, which is likely the best that can be done until the driver issue is resolved and feels a lot smoother already."

Those wanting to learn more about this improvement to KDE Plasma on old graphics hardware can visit Xaver's blog for all the details.


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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 1 hour ago

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A farm has installed three osprey nests, on telegraph poles 56ft (17m) high, in a bid to attract the rare birds to breed.The platforms have been built on land at Warleigh Barton, Plymouth.Elsa Kent, who set up the Tamar and Tavy Osprey Project, said they had been sighted at Warleigh for about 40 years, but had never bred.Her mother, Katherine Kent, said the "huge nests" were an equivalent of a "bed and breakfast" for ospreys.

"If they can inspire more people to get enthusiastic about nature and about connecting to our local ecosystem then that is what I get really passionate about.

"She said the birds visited during their migration to West Africa.

"They use this as a sort of refuge place to fish and build up their energy before making their next big leg of their journey," she said.

The project, external said the south-west of England had no breeding ospreys.Elsa said the nests had been equipped with cameras and an Egyptian goose had laid a clutch of eggs in one of the nests.She said: "If we have baby ospreys in these nests, my life's mission will be complete.

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On June 9, South Korea responded by briefly restarting propaganda broadcasts from its border loudspeakers for the first time in years.

Yoon told American and South Korean troops on the carrier that their countries’ alliance is the world’s greatest and can defeat any enemy.

He said the U.S. carrier is to leave Wednesday for the South Korea-U.S.-Japan drill, dubbed “Freedom Edge.” The training is aimed at sharpening the countries’ combined response in various areas of operation, including air, sea and cyberspace.

During a summit in Pyongyang last week, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a deal requiring each country to provide aid if attacked and vowed to strengthen other cooperation.

The United States and its partners believe North Korea has been providing Russia with much-needed conventional arms for its war in Ukraine in return for military and economic assistance.

Foreign experts say North Korea eventually aims to use its larger nuclear arsenal to wrest greater concessions from the U.S. when diplomacy resumes.


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The joint venture will be co-owned by Rivian and VW Group, which oversees brands like Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, and its flagship Volkswagen.

The new venture was announced in a post from Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, who noted the investment will help the company bring its next generation R2 electric vehicle to market starting in 2026.

VW Group CEO Oliver Blume said all of the company’s brands could benefit from the partnership with Rivian, including potential competitor Scout Motors, which is planning to launch a new lineup of electric trucks in the US.

The plan was to use Rivian’s battery pack and electric motor setup in a Ford or Lincoln branded SUV.

Asked whether the deal would make Rivian the exclusive partner to VW and its brands, Scaringe declined to answer directly.

“In the context of the joint venture, we have certainly talked about the ability to work on other products or private programs outside of the Rivian or Volkswagen Group portfolio,” he said.


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Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia have developed special “energy-smart bricks” that can be made by mixing clay with glass waste and coal ash.

It mostly contains fine pieces of glass (92 percent) left over from the recycling process, along with ceramic materials, plastic, paper, and ash.

Based on bricks produced in their lab, they estimated that “each firing cycle led to a potential value of up to $158,460 through a reduction of 417 tonnes of CO2, resulting from a 9.5 percent reduction in firing temperature.” So basically, if a manufacturer switches from regular clay bricks to energy-smart bricks, it will end up saving thousands of dollars on its power bill, and its kilns will release less CO2 into Earth’s atmosphere.

“Bricks characterized by low thermal conductivity contribute to efficient heat storage and absorption, creating a cooler environment during summer and a warmer comfort during winter.

This advantage translates into energy savings for air conditioning, benefiting the occupants of the house or building,” the study authors explained.

Tests conducted by the researchers suggest that the residents of a single-story house built using energy-smart bricks will save up to 5 percent on their energy bills compared to those living in a house made with regular clay bricks.


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Multiple security firms sounded the alarm on Tuesday, warning organizations whose websites use any JavaScript code from the pollyfill.io domain to immediately remove it.

More than 100,000 sites are already carrying the hostile scripts, according to the Sansec security forensics team, which on Tuesday claimed Funnull, a Chinese CDN operator that bought the polyfill.io domain and its associated GitHub account in February, has since been using the service in a supply chain attack.

Since February, "this domain was caught injecting malware on mobile devices via any site that embeds cdn.polyfill.io," Sansec, an e-commerce security company, warned, adding that any complaints about the malicious activity are quickly vanished from the GitHub repository.

In February, he said he had nothing to do with the domain name's sale, and presumably the associated GitHub repo, to the Chinese CDN, and urged everyone to remove its code from their webpages as a precaution following the change in ownership.

Soon after other popular CDN providers including Fastly, where Betts works today, and Cloudflare created mirrors of polyfill.io so that sites could continue to use the code for the meanwhile without having to load in stuff from a Chinese entity.

"The concerns are that any website embedding a link to the original polyfill.io domain will now be relying on Funnull to maintain and secure the underlying project to avoid the risk of a supply chain attack," Cloudflare's Sven Sauleau and Michael Tremante said in February.


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In a landmark ruling that threatens to unravel Israel's government, the country's Supreme Court has ordered the military to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men, who've long been exempt from service.

Tuesday's decision was unanimous, and comes amid intensified public opposition to the policy following the Hamas-led attack on Israel last year, and the months-long war in Gaza that has strained the military's resources.

Before Tuesday's ruling, the Israeli government had repeatedly extended the waiver, but it has been unable to pass a law that would make it permanent, or allow for a more limited draft of ultra-Orthodox men.

With conscription of the ultra-Orthodox now set to start, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now faces the prospect of eroding support within what was already a fragile coalition keeping him in power.

The ultra-Orthodox military exemption goes back to Israel's 1948 founding in the wake of the Holocaust, when protecting the remnant of religious scholars was considered key for a Jewish state.

But in Israel, where military service is otherwise mandatory, Haredi families have on average six or seven children, a birth rate that makes them the fastest growing segment of the country's population.


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George Latimer, a pro-Israel centrist, defeated U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman on Tuesday in a Democratic primary in suburban New York that highlighted the party’s deep divisions over the war in Gaza.

Most current members of Congress have been able to repel challenges from within their party, though GOP Rep. Bob Good is in a tight contest with a rival backed by Donald Trump in a race that is too close to call.

In the final stretch of the race, he rallied with liberals Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders, while Latimer pulled in the endorsement of former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Also on Tuesday, Democratic voters on Long Island picked former CNN anchor John Avlon as the candidate who will challenge incumbent Republican Rep. Nick LaLota in a district that’s been controlled by the GOP for a decade.

The Long Island congressional district has become a priority for Democrats as the party tries to flip suburban seats in New York as part of a strategy to win a House majority.

In central New York, two other Democrats are vying to become the party’s nominee to take on U.S. Rep. Brandon Williams, a Republican who represents a recently reconfigured congressional district where President Joe Biden beat Trump by 11 points in the 2020 election.


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The driver of the car, Margot Lewis, of North Liberty, Iowa, was found out of the vehicle being tended to by a passerby.

“In checking to see if anyone else was in the vehicle, a deceased individual, a 35-year-old female, was located in the back seat,” the sheriff’s office said.

The condition of the deceased woman was “suspicious” and “it was immediately apparent that the death was not a result of the motor vehicle accident” the sheriff’s office said.

According to a probable cause affidavit filed in the case, a deputy found the back seats of the Lewis' vehicle folded down and found the body wrapped in a bed sheet, blanket, a futon-style mattress and a tarp.

The body was cold to the touch and there appeared be dried blood soaked in the bed sheet.

An autopsy found, based on preliminary information, that the fatal injuries to the victim "were not caused by, and preceded, the car crash," the affidavit said.


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Progressive Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., lost his primary Tuesday to a moderate challenger who was backed by pro-Israel groups, NBC News projected, following a bitter and expensive race that exposed the party’s divisions.

Nearly $15 million of that spending came from the United Democracy Project, a super PAC linked to the powerful pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which backed Latimer.

A former Bronx middle school principal, Bowman stormed Washington after unseating 16-term Rep. Eliot Engel, then the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and one of the most powerful Jewish lawmakers in Congress, in 2020.

As the Democratic nominee, Latimer will almost certainly be the next congressman from New York’s 16th district, a diverse area north of Manhattan that includes parts of the Bronx and south Westchester County.

Former CNN anchor John Avlon won the Democratic primary to take on GOP Rep. Nick LaLota, NBC News projects.

And Rep Tom Suozzi, who won a special election to take back his old Long Island-based seat, will face former state Assemblyman Mike LiPetri.


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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 6 points 6 hours ago

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So far, legal attacks on organizations pointing out X’s abundance of extremist content have been rebuffed: a judge tossed X’s suit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate in March on First Amendment grounds, ruling that Musk’s lawyers were trying to muzzle free speech with intimidation tactics.

Currently, Media Matters for America, an anti-misinformation nonprofit, faces a similar suit — considered “bogus” by legal experts — over an article detailing how the site served pro-Nazi posts next to ads while Musk himself endorsed antisemitic conspiracy theories.

O’Connor is the notoriously partisan George W. Bush appointee who in 2018 declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional in an attempt to repeal it entirely (the Supreme Court struck down that widely mocked decision), and has a long record of other rulings that align with right-wing ideology.

In March, the judge had to recuse himself from hearing a suit by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and banking trade groups seeking to block a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that caps most credit card late fees at $8.

Even without O’Connor on the case, Media Matters will have to contend with some other judge in the largely conservative Northern District of Texas, an arena bound to be more receptive to X’s efforts to censor progressive institutions that criticize it.

Media Matters did score an important win back in April, when D.C. District Court Judge Amit Mehta blocked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from launching an investigation into the nonprofit on the heels of X’s lawsuit.


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