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This year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged to build Europe’s strongest army – a tall order for a country whose military has undergone years of neglect.

The coalition government is hoping a new bill agreed upon last week will help make this a reality, bolstering Germany’s forces in the face of the perceived threat from Russia and a significant shift in US foreign policy.

The sweeping new reforms will see Germany attempt to boost its numbers to 260,000 soldiers, up from around 180,000 currently, in addition to an extra 200,000 reservists, by 2035.

#Note title : country tag adedd in brackets for clarity [The Netherlands]

Dutch mayors are increasingly implementing emergency measures that reportedly restrict citizens’ rights, such as preventive searches and bans on gatherings, according to NOS data.

In 2012, seven such measures were active in six municipalities; this year, 77 decisions were recorded across 38 municipalities, including extensions.

original NOS NL

Graph: emergency measures per year

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Linux 6.18-rc7 just arrived in the Git tree as the newest weekly test build leading up to Linux 6.18 stable hopefully debuting next Sunday, 30 November.

Linux 6.18-rc7 has continued landing many bug/regression fixes for this last kernel release of 2025. With this also being the last major Linux kernel version of 2025, Linux 6.18 is also anticipated to become the annual Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version.

I'm carving this into the pyramids where it doesn't belong, to throw archeologists for a loop

The extent of dependence on the USA in the digital sector is currently being experienced by a French judge. Nicolas Guillou, one of six judges and three prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC), was sanctioned by the USA in August. He described his current situation as a digital time travel back to the 1990s, before the internet age, in a recent interview.

The reason for the US sanctions are the arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. They were indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the context of the destruction of the Gaza Strip. The USA condemned this decision by the court, whereupon the US Treasury Department sanctioned six judges and three prosecutors.

Digitally excluded from almost everything In Guillou's daily life, this means that he is excluded from digital life and much of what is considered standard today, he told the French newspaper Le Monde. All his accounts with US companies such as Amazon, Airbnb, or PayPal were immediately closed by the providers. Online bookings, such as through Expedia, are immediately canceled, even if they concern hotels in France. Participation in e-commerce is also practically no longer possible for him, as US companies always play a role in one way or another, and they are strictly forbidden to enter into any trade relationship with sanctioned individuals.

NEW YORK (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism, he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.

His comments provide clarity into who directed the CDC’s website change, after many current and former staffers at the agency were surprised to see new published guidance on Wednesday that defies scientific consensus. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic, has upended the public health agencies he oversees and pushed for and enacted changes that have unsettled much of the medical community, which sees his policies as harmful for Americans.

“The whole thing about ‘vaccines have been tested and there’s been this determination made,’ is just a lie,” Kennedy said in the interview, which was conducted Thursday.

The CDC’s “vaccine safety” page now claims that the statement “vaccines do not cause autism” is not based on evidence because it doesn’t rule out the possibility that infant vaccines are linked to the disorder. The page also has been updated to suggest that health officials have ignored studies showing a potential link.

cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/18028352

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In addition to Valve contributing to the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for enhancing the Linux gaming experience and their AMD-powered Steam Deck, the upcoming Steam Frame VR headset is making use of Mesa's open-source "Turnip" Vulkan driver for Qualcomm Adreno graphics.

Linux consulting firm Igalia who has long seen funded work from Valve wrote a blog post today to outline their recent efforts given last week's Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller announcement. Igalia highlighted the work they have been doing for the Steam Frame around FEX for x86/x86_64 emulation on ARM for the Qualcomm Snapdragon powered VR device. Plus the work done to Turnip for serving as the Vulkan driver on the Steam Frame

(for those who don't know, that's a monitor lizard)

In short, by 2027 or 2030+ we could be in for a surprise, or more precisely, the emergence of superintelligence and a dystopia that comes with it.

I think I can imagine that this superintelligence that will rule our world will be a mixture of a digital neural network(AI) and a human neural network(grown in a lab. Or someone will simply want absolute power and merge their neural network, or rather their brain with an AI).

Articles I found about it:

Scientists are growing mini-brains to power computers -- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7p1lzvxjro

AI 2027 -- https://ai-2027.com/

My thoughts: I think I saw something similar in one dystopia where people were controlled by a similar AI system, that is, artificial intelligence + organic human intelligence. The world there was stable, but all the people were so lonely, stupid, empty, lacking freedom, etc.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/Fragrant_Cherry7789 on 2025-11-23 23:30:12+00:00.

I have found a perfect setup for me, I use Symfonium music player, customized it perfectly for my needs and store my music locally, on my phone. However, I also added lyrics for all my songs (it took a while but it's done).

The issue is, the way I do it right now is I download the songs on squidwtf, use LRCGET to download lyrics for the song, and if the lyrics are not available there, I copy paste the lyrics from online sources to an .lrc file and transfer the song and lyrics to my phone.

However, it is a hassle to do that every time I find a new song so I was wondering if anyone knows an easier way of doing it? Basically the easiest way to download songs with lyrics on phone. Any ideas?

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The original was posted on /r/pcmasterrace by /u/hosseinhx77 on 2025-11-24 11:23:51+00:00.

Sorry for clickbaiting the title, but "Boss preppers" just isn't quite the same somehow. Also not sure if Technology is the right community for this, but anyway here it is...