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Popular prayer program becomes propaganda pusher after reported Israeli hack

Iranian worshippers got notifications saying 'help has arrived'

Imagine your favorite app encouraging you to surrender during a war. That's happening right now in Iran.…

Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones

Don't expect to see compatible hardware before 2027

GrapheneOS is headed to Motorola smartphones in 2027, pending hardware from the Lenovo-owned brand that satisfies the privacy-focused Android fork's requirements.…

Linux Xft Unicode fonts

Dear Lazyweb, can someone show me a straightforward example of an X11 program calling XftDrawStringUtf8 that succeeds in displaying Japanese characters? On Debian 13 with "fonts-noto" installed, "lxterminal" can do it but XScreenSaver still can't seem to display anything more complicated than Cyrillic.

E.g. "unicrud --block Katakana".

The actual XFT font I get from XftFontOpenXlfd("-*-sans serif-bold-r-*-*-*-180-*-*-*-*-*-*") is

Noto Sans-300 :familylang=en :style=Bold :stylelang=en :fullname=Noto Sans Bold :fullnamelang=en :slant=0 :weight=200 :width=100 :pixelsize=401.899 :foundry=GOOG :antialias=True :hintstyle=1 :hinting=True :verticallayout=False :autohint=False :globaladvance=True :file=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoSans-Bold.ttf :index=0 :outline=True :scalable=True :dpi=96.4557 :rgba=5 :scale=1 :minspace=False :fontversion=131334 :capability=otlayout\:DFLT otlayout\:cyrl otlayout\:grek otlayout\:latn :fontformat=TrueType :embolden=False :embeddedbitmap=True :decorative=False :lcdfilter=1 :namelang=en :prgname=unicrud :postscriptname=NotoSans-Bold :color=False :symbol=False :variable=False :fonthashint=True :order=0 :namedinstance=False :fontwrapper=SFNT

Previously, previously, previously.

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‘We’ll run out of food this week’: attacks on Iran have left Gaza under siege

Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, threatening to plunge 2 million people into a new hunger crisis

Israel closed all crossings into Gaza indefinitely when it attacked Iran, imposing a siege that has already pushed up food prices and threatens to plunge 2 million people into a new hunger crisis.

After more than two years of war, and with Israeli forces in control of about 60% of the territory, almost all of Gaza’s food must be brought in.

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France to increase nuclear arsenal and European weapons cooperation, Macron says

French president says Paris could deploy nuclear capable fighter jet to countries such as Germany and Poland

France will increase the size of its nuclear arsenal for the first time in decades and significantly intensify nuclear weapons cooperation with eight European allies including the UK as part of a “major” strengthening of its deterrence doctrine, Emmanuel Macron has said.

Amid growing concern among European leaders about wavering US commitments to help defend the continent, the French president said on Monday that Paris could deploy nuclear-capable Rafale fighter jets to partner countries such as Germany and Poland.

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Schuilen in Israël tijdens een begrafenis en een echte Rembrandt in Amsterdam

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Dinsdag hoort Mels van B. zijn straf, hoe zat de zaak ook alweer?

Barendrechter Mels van B. hoort dinsdag welke straf hij krijgt voor het misbruiken van tientallen jonge meisjes. Tegen de verdachte is veertien jaar cel en tbs geëist. Een samenvatting van de zaak in acht vragen.

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Editor At 184-Year-Old Ohio Newspaper Pushes To Let AI Draft News Articles

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: The Plain Dealer, Cleveland's largest newspaper, has begun to feature a new byline. On recent articles about an ice carving festival, a medical research discovery and a roaming pack of chicken-slaying dogs, a reporter's name is paired with the words "Advance Local Express Desk." It means: This article was drafted by artificial intelligence. "This article was produced with assistance from AI tools and reviewed by Cleveland.com staff," reads a note at the bottom of each robot-penned piece, differentiating it from those still written primarily by journalists. The disclosure has done little to stem the backlash that caromed across the news industry after the paper's editor, Chris Quinn, published a Feb. 14 column lamenting that a fresh-out-of-college job applicant withdrew from a reporting fellowship when they found out the position included no writing -- just filing notes to an AI writing tool.

"Artificial intelligence is not bad for newsrooms. It's the future of them," Quinn wrote, adding that "by removing writing from reporters' workloads, we've effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week." [...] Quinn, for his part, says his paper's use of AI to find, draft and edit stories is a success story that others must emulate if they want to survive. "It's a tool," he said in a phone interview last week. "If AI can do part of our job, then why not let it -- and have people do the part it can't do?" He added that the paper's embrace of technology -- including using AI to write stories summarizing its reporters' podcasts and its readers' letters to the editor -- is already boosting its bottom line, helping it retain staff at a time when other newspapers are shrinking or even shutting down. Just 130 miles east of Cleveland, the 240-year-old Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said in January that it will close its doors this spring.

Quinn, who has led the Plain Dealer's newsroom since 2013, said its newsroom has shrunk from some 400 employees in the late 1990s to just 71 today. Over the past three years, Quinn has implemented a suite of AI tools with various purposes: transcribing local government meetings, scraping municipal websites for story leads, cleaning up typos in story drafts, suggesting headlines and helping reporters draft follow-ups to articles they've already written. He said he is particularly pleased with an AI tool that turns podcasts by the paper's reporters into stories for the website, which he said generated more than 10 million page views last year. He has documented those efforts in letters to readers and sought their feedback. But the paper's latest experiment -- using AI to turn reporters' notes into full story drafts -- has aroused indignation online and anxiety within the paper's ranks.

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Speaking Truth To Power: The New York Times Editorial Board Just Used Their Platform To Make A Brave Statement Against War In The Middle East

Wow. This is powerful journalism!

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Cyprus krijgt geel reisadvies na droneaanval

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het reisadvies voor Cyprus is geel geworden. Daarmee maakt het Nederlandse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken duidelijk dat er risico's zijn voor mensen die naar het land afreizen.

Een Britse luchtmachtbasis op Cyprus werd in de nacht van zondag op maandag getroffen door een droneaanval. Volgens de Cypriotische president Nikos Christodoulides ging het om een Iraanse Shahed-drone. Die aanval volgde op de oorlog met Iran die de Verenigde Staten en Israël zaterdag ontketenden.

"In Cyprus kunnen geweldsincidenten plaatsvinden die verband houden met militaire operaties in het Midden-Oosten", schrijft Buitenlandse Zaken bij het reisadvies. "Blijf weg van militaire bases, inclusief de Britse soevereine basisgebieden."