Eugene Vindman, armed services committee member, says president and secretary of state are ‘gaslighting’ over intelligence sharing as Trump heads to North Carolina

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Thom Tillis, the outgoing Republican senator from North Carolina, has said he expects his party to face a thrashing come November, as a the consequence of Donald Trump’s policy agenda. “I have on my countdown clock as ‘whoop ass’,” Tillis said in an interview with Politico.

“It adds up. It adds up in the American mind. The thing about the American people, I love the electorate, they’re a pretty kind and forgiving people, but they don’t like bullies … There’s an element on either end of the political spectrum that loves the bully. Most of the people in the middle don’t,” he said.

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Far-right presidential candidate’s TV debate swipe at rival backfires as people take to social media to parody it

To Flávio Bolsonaro and his publicists, it must have seemed an ingenious idea that would expose his rival’s supposed crookedness on the eve of Brazil’s presidential election.

But the far-right politician’s decision to attend a primetime television debate against his leftwing opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with the word “corrupto” (corrupt) written on the palm of his hand has backfired.

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• Kompany told to rest after struggling with infection

• His assistant poised to oversee Champions League game

Vincent Kompany is touch and go to be in the Bayern Munich dugout against Arsenal at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday night as he battles a debilitating virus that has affected his legs. Kompany was unable to attend his team’s training session on Tuesday before the Champions League tie, ceding the responsibility for the pre-match press conference to his assistant, Aaron Danks.

Kompany has been told to rest after he struggled through Bayern’s 6-1 home win over RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga on Saturday, after which the club’s sporting director, Max Eberl, addressed the media instead of him. There have been reports in Germany that Kompany needed to lie down on his sofa at home after the Leipzig game and that the viral infection had affected an existing hip problem which meant he could hardly walk.

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Maria Vorontsova spoke at a forum marking the launch of a laboratory to study how longer lifespans affect public policy, the economy and the labor market.

Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through galactic quantities of data”, a very amateur astronomer has found a possible exoplanet candidate. MIT is going to point their satellite at the candidate planet to collect more data soon.

(v.l.n.r. Topper, Topper, Gerard Joling, Topper)

Gerard Joling, de leukste en de topste Topper, is niet langer de leukste en de topste Topper. Sterker nog, hij is na 21 jaar helemaal geen Topper meer, zo maakt hij bekend in een videoboodschap (zie na de klik). Hij neemt naar eigen zingen op precies het goede moment afscheid, en daar zijn wij het hartgrondig mee eens. Want als zo'n volle Arena op een gegeven moment doorheeft dat die hoge noten in Shangri la niet meer zo makkelijk komen, joekelen ze daar straks ook bier over Joling heen en verandert Toppers In Concert nog eens in een boksgala. Helaas blijft hij nog wel actief als solo-artiest, had niet gehoeven. Blijven Jeroen van der Boom, Jan Smit en René Froger (hoelang nog?) over als treurig trio. Wij vonden de Toppers al niks meer na het vertrek van Gordon, maar nu Joling stopt zal heel muziek minnend Nederland zich vast afvragen: zijn de Toppers de Toppers nog wel?

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Surprisingly few organizations were promoting Linux distros at Open Source Summit Europe. The only dedicated stands we found belonged to two Chinese projects, with openEuler occupying the larger booth. For users accustomed to Western enterprise distros, openEuler may be a less familiar name, but it has an impressive history. It's the modern free community version of Huawei's EulerOS, a version of which achieved official official UNIX™ certification. openEuler is no longer a solely Huawei project, though. Since then, it's been opened up, and it is now run by the OpenAtom Foundation. OpenAtom was co-founded in 2020 by Huawei along with some other big Chinese names, such as Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent. Another of the co-founders was Inspur, which formerly developed its own distro, K/UX – a version of which also achieved official UNIX™ certification. Inspur K/UX won Unix certification in February 2016, and EulerOS seven months later. K/UX's Unix certification expired in 2019. A few months later, in May 2019, the US placed wider sanctions on Huawei. It is possible that the fresh restrictions on American sales prompted Huawei's interest in closer co-operation with other companies in the Chinese Linux space. As far as we can see, there were no further versions of K/UX after version 3. As additional motivation for cooperation, both EulerOS and K/UX were originally based on CentOS Linux, and of course, in December 2020, the CentOS Project announced it would shift its focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. The openEuler community has taken the platform in new directions. It has built its own stack of tools for developing, deploying, and running LLMs, called Intelligence BooM. It has a tool for migrating CentOS Linux systems to openEuler, called x2openEuler. As you would expect, it supports Kubernetes, as well as Docker and Podman, but it also has its own container engine called iSula (named after a species of ant). Aware that it's less known outside Asia, at the Open Source Summit, OpenAtom was handing out copies of a special "Focus Guide" from Admin Magazine, which is also available as a free download. Some parts of this are also available online without registration, such as AI and the BooM Stack and Automating Migration to openEuler. openEuler has a dual-strand release cycle, akin to Ubuntu rather than the RHELatives, with LTS versions and more frequent "innovation releases." The current LTS is version 24.03, released in June 2024, while the latest version is 26.09. There is a plethora of versions and editions available on the downloads page: the latest release is for x86-64 and 64-bit Arm. The LTS version adds support for RISC-V and LoongArch, and there are minimal versions for 32-bit Arm as well. The older 22.03 LTS was also available for SW-64, meaning the SunWay RISC processors that Register sister site The Next Platform looked at in 2016. As LWN put it last year, this is a "non-upstream kernel port." There are five types of installation ISO available: Offline Standard, Offline Everything (a hefty 24.9 GB), Network Install (a still significant 1.5 GB), and two variants of the desktop "DevStation" version – a basic one at 3.3 GB and an "everything" edition at 25 GB. We gave the DevStation a very quick whirl in VirtualBox. It boots into its own installation program called Heolleo, which offers the choice of Simplified Chinese or English. Installation took a while, as it automatically fetches updates as it goes. We ended up with a GNOME desktop configured for Chinese, but we opened Settings, typed "language" into the Search box, and picked English. After a reboot, we could read most of the desktop. Program groups and some other elements are still in Chinese, but it's navigable with a bit of guesswork. It's GNOME 49, with the Dash to Panel and Arc Menu extensions preinstalled for a slightly more familiar layout. Opening a terminal, we were greeted with: Welcome to 6.18.48-0.0.0.15.oe2609.x86_64 It also offers the Deepin Desktop Environment, UKUI (as seen in Ubuntu Kylin), MATE, Xfce, and the Kiran Desktop Environment, which is a new one to us. In places, the English-language materials for openEuler mention Chinese CPU makers rather than western ones – which is understandable, in context. Examples include processors from Hygon, a Chinese licensee of AMD designs, as well as Phytium and Kunpeng, which explain the Arm support on offer. In the western world, the Red Hat user community responded to the end of CentOS Linux by building new free distros that stay as close as they can to their progenitor: the Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux projects, rebuilt from Red Hat source code. Then, when the IBM subsidiary restricted access to that source to its customers in 2023, the Rocky and AlmaLinux projects started to diverge. Rocky aims for the closest possible RHEL compatibility, and its most visible innovation is that it's built its own new build service. It also found a clever workaround to get Red Hat's kernel source code. AlmaLinux still targets RHEL compatibility, but differentiates itself by retaining older device support and older CPU architectures after Red Hat drops them. Chinese vendors have responded very differently. Those offering CentOS Linux-based OSes clubbed together, dropped their rival versions and their UNIX compatibility efforts, and instead are working on new tools and subsystems. Much like European interest in digital sovereignty, this is in part due to the Trump administration. Half a decade after it was cut off from its upstream sources, the openEuler platform is thriving and growing, even if few in the western world pay any attention at all. ®

Today is Tom Petty’s birthday. I’ve been a big fan of Tom Petty since I first heard “Refugee” and “Don’t Do Me Like That” on the radio as a nine-year-old kid. My Appreciation for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers has only grown over the years as I’ve come to understand the power of Tom’s empathy for the underdog in his storytelling and the band’s dynamic chemistry in their musical arrangements and performances. I was lucky enough to work with Tom on several projects before he passed, and I was honored when Adria Petty reached out to me to illustrate a portrait of her dad for the cover of the “Tom Petty: An American Treasure” box set. With this year marking 50 years since the release of the first Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album, Adria approached me again to create an early career portrait of Tom as a young man hungry to break through with his music and voice. I made this portrait of Tom to capture the intensity, attitude, and vigor of his early career. Those traits persisted and were eventually widely recognized as a tenacious working-class ethic, but the Heartbreakers’ debut album wasn’t an immediate hit, despite featuring the now-classic “American Girl” and “Breakdown.” I’ve always admired independence, determination, and vision, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had all those things in spades. Through this collaboration with Tom Petty’s estate, we are proud to support ACLU in their efforts to ensure that every eligible voter has the information and the right to cast their ballot and have their vote counted. Thanks, Tom, for 50 years of music and mojo, and for never backing down!

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ABYEI (ANP/RTR/AFP) - Het dodental na een droneaanval op een markt bij Abyei in het grensgebied tussen Soedan en Zuid-Soedan is gestegen naar 153, aldus de lokale autoriteiten. Eerder werden nog 73 doden gemeld.

Volgens de autoriteiten in Abyei raakten minstens 27 mensen gewond. Ze stellen dat het Soedanese regeringsleger maandag 22 projectielen had afgevuurd op de markt. "Onder de slachtoffers bevinden zich kwetsbare groepen van de burgerbevolking, onder wie vrouwen, kinderen, ouderen, lokale handelaars, leden van de Ngok Dinka-gemeenschap, Zuid-Soedanese repatrianten en Soedanese vluchtelingen die hier hun toevlucht hadden gezocht voor het bredere regionale conflict."

De markt wordt gebruikt als doorvoerpunt voor goederen naar gebieden die onder controle staan van de paramilitaire Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Het reguliere leger en de paramilitaire Rapid Support Forces (RSF) voeren sinds april 2023 oorlog met elkaar.