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ABOARD THE HNLMS LUYMES—Belgian Navy Commander Erik Kockx was patrolling the Baltic Sea recently when he got word that a ship on NATO’s watchlist was acting in a suspicious manner. After leaving a Russian port, it had slowed down while passing near a pipeline on the sea bottom. The Luymes sailed toward the tanker to investigate.

Kockx leads a task force in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s new mission to police the inland sea that its members share with Russia. NATO in January launched the operation, dubbed Baltic Sentry, after a string of undersea cables and pipelines were damaged by ships—many with links to Russia—that had dragged their anchors. 

“We are functioning as security cameras at sea,” said Kockx, whose usual duty is clearing unexploded mines from the busy waterway.

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Bonta released a report (pdf) compiled by the California Department of Justice following an investigation that included interviews with officers, witnesses who were driving along the road that day and family members who recalled that the man and his daughter had a close relationship. The attorney general called the incident a tragic situation with a tragic outcome.

“This report was quite difficult to publish, and I sincerely hope it provides the community with the answers they’ve been waiting for,” Bonta said in a statement. “The California Department of Justice aims to partner with law enforcement to build a just and equitable legal environment, ensuring that the rule of law is upheld, and justice is accessible to everyone.”

Video and audio released by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department showed Savannah Graziano, 15, was shot and killed as she approached deputies amid a hail of gunfire on Sept. 27, 2022. The video footage recorded by a sheriff’s helicopter and witness dashboard cameras was released in 2024 in response to public records requests made by The Associated Press and other media outlets.

The Labour MP Taiwo Owatemi did not break parliamentary rules, but the government has said it now wants them to be revised.

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Whenever I hear a harpsichord the next thing I expect to hear is an ojou-sama's "ohohohohoho!"

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Camel Chat

Camel Chat is a feature-rich Flutter application designed to provide a seamless interface for communicating with large language models (LLMs) served via an Ollama server. It offers a user-friendly way to interact with open-source AI models on your own hardware.

Features

• Connect to Ollama Servers: Easily connect to any Ollama server with optional basic HTTP authentication.
• Multiple Model Support: Chat with any model available on your Ollama server.
• Complete Chat History: View and manage your conversation history.
• Dark Mode Support: Switch between light and dark themes for comfortable viewing.
• Custom System Prompts: Define system prompts to set the AI's behaviour and context.
• Export Conversations: Export your chats as markdown files for sharing or archiving.
• Chat Organisation: Auto-generated meaningful titles for your conversations.
• Responsive UI: Works seamlessly on both mobile and desktop devices.
• Code Formatting: Proper rendering and formatting of code blocks in responses.
• Local Storage: All your conversations are stored locally for privacy.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• A running Ollama server (local or remote).

Installation

Android

Download and install the APK from the releases page.

Linux

Choose one of the following packages from the releases page:

• Debian/Ubuntu: Download and install the .deb package.
• Fedora/RHEL: Download and install the .rpm package.
• Arch: Download and install .zst package.
• Other distributions: Download the AppImage, make it executable and run it.

Setting Up Your Ollama Server

1. Install Ollama from https://ollama.com/.
2. Pull the models you want to use (e.g., ollama pull gemma3).
3. Run the Ollama server.
4. Connect Camel Chat to your server by entering the URL (e.g., http://localhost:11434/).

Roadmap

Here are some features and improvements planned for future releases:

• Stream Responses: Implement streaming responses for more interactive conversations.
• File Attachments: Upload and process files during conversations.
• Chat Statistics: View usage statistics and performance metrics.
• Release on Flathub
• Windows & macOS Support

The Autorité de la concurrence has fined Apple €150,000,000 for abusing its dominant position in the sector for the distribution of mobile applications on iOS and iPadOS devices between April 2021 and July 2023.

The Autorité had previously rejected a request for interim measures in the case, while deciding to pursue the investigation into the merits.

As part of its investigation into the merits of the case, the Autorité found that while the objective of the App Tracking Transparency (“ATT”) framework is not at its core problematic, how ATT is implemented is neither necessary for nor proportionate with Apple’s stated objective of protecting personal data.

The introduction of the framework led to multiple consent pop-ups being displayed, making the use of third-party applications in the iOS environment excessively complex. The Autorité also found that the rules governing the interaction between the different pop-up windows displayed undermined the neutrality of the framework, causing definite economic harm to application publishers and advertising service providers. In this respect, the Autorité noted that ATT as implemented by Apple penalised smaller publishers in particular since, unlike the main vertically integrated platforms, they depend to a large extent on third-party data collection to finance their business.

Clocks forward folks; off into BST we go.