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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: On Tuesday, Mexico's Senate approved (PDF) a reform of the Federal Copyright Law that ties ISP liability to having a policy to terminate repeat infringers. [This policy has to be published permanently on their website and in their terms of service, and it must include a basic way to notify users. In other words, what can be terminated is the Internet connection itself, not just an account. According to Mexican business outlet EL CEO, this means that access providers such as Telmex and Izzi will need such a policy.] The Senate approved the amendments with roughly two-thirds of the vote, as the opposition voted against. The Chamber of Deputies already approved the same text in October, so the decree now goes to President Claudia Sheinbaum. Her government proposed the changes in May to bring the law in line with the USMCA trade agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada.

[...] Providers that don't comply risk facing liability. Under the new rules, any ISP that fails to meet its safe harbor conditions becomes liable for its users' infringements if it knowingly contributes to, induces, or causes the infringement. The same goes for an ISP that can control the infringing user and profits directly from the infringement. In both cases, the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) can fine the provider up to roughly 4.7 million pesos (~$250,000), depending on the infringement. The law doesn't explicitly define the term repeat infringer, nor does it say how many piracy accusations it takes before a subscriber can be cut off. According to Aurora Lopez-Portillo, director of legal services at IP firm ClarkeModet, each provider has to decide its own threshold. She told EL CEO that ISPs should also check whether the accusations actually hold up, while giving users a chance to respond, even though the law doesn't require that.

During Tuesday's Senate debate, some lawmakers in the opposition raised similar concerns. Senator Gabriel Elizondo warned that families can share a single connection, so the pirating activities of one person could leave an entire household offline. Previously, opposition lawmakers proposed requiring a court order before Internet service could be suspended, but that proposal was not adopted. [...] There, failing to meet the safe harbor conditions, including the repeat infringer policy, is the first requirement for liability. If an ISP also contributes to infringement with knowledge of it, or can control the infringer and directly profits from it, it can be held responsible. The new repeat infringer rules will take effect 180 days after their publication in Mexico's official gazette, which hasn't happened yet as far as we can see. How Mexican ISPs will define a repeat infringer, and how many accusations it takes, has yet to be seen.

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The European Commission has preliminarily found that TikTok violates the Digital Services Act because its For You recommendation algorithm can create a "rabbit hole effect," repeatedly exposing users to potentially harmful content involving topics such as sadness, isolation and body image. TikTok must change the feed's design or potentially face fines of up to 6% of its global annual revenue. The Verge reports: The findings come months after the EU Commission declared that TikTok's design is too "addictive." While TikTok has implemented controls to mitigate the algorithm's "rabbit hole effect," the Commission says its preliminary findings suggest that they're not effective. TikTok must now change the design of its For You feed, or else face fines of up to 6 percent of its global annual turnover. The platform is also facing pressure in the US, with lawmakers and a wave of lawsuits raising concerns about child safety. "Every time a user scrolls or likes a video on TikTok, the algorithm serves more of the same leading users down rabbit holes they cannot easily escape from," Henna Virkkunen, the EU Commission's executive vice president of tech sovereignty, security, and democracy, says in the press release. "Today's preliminary findings show again that TikTok needs to step up its efforts to protect users' well-being, including those of minors."

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Onenigheid en onzekerheid beheersen deze dagen de Nederlandse politiek. De coalitiepartijen hebben nog altijd geen meerderheid voor hun cruciale belastingplan.

SACRAMENTO (ANP) - Kiezers in de Amerikaanse staat Californië verwerpen naar verwachting een unieke belasting voor miljardairs, voorspelt Decision Desk HQ, dat de Amerikaanse verkiezingsuitslagen bijhoudt, op X. Met bijna drie kwart van de stemmen geteld, steunt slechts 46 procent van de kiezers het voorstel, 54 procent is tegen.

Het voorstel, bekend als Proposition 40, behelsde een eenmalige belasting van 5 procent op het vermogen van miljardairs die begin 2026 in Californië woonden. Het merendeel van de opbrengsten zou worden ingezet om de gezondheidszorg te versterken. Kiezers konden zich erover uitspreken tijdens de midterms van dinsdag.

De verwerping is een tegenslag voor pogingen om extreem vermogen in de hele Verenigde Staten te belasten. Voorstanders hoopten dat Californië als blauwdruk zou dienen voor soortgelijke initiatieven elders in het land.

Het voorstel sneuvelde mede door tegenstand van een coalitie die onder meer bestond uit tech-miljardairs en de Democratische gouverneur Gavin Newsom. Zij besteedden meer dan 300 miljoen dollar aan advertenties en andere middelen om de publieke opinie tegen het voorstel te keren.

Russia could use tri leader summit to nudge China and US closer to its position on Ukraine, experts say. What we know on day 1,718

Beijing has confirmed that it is discussing a historic meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the US president, Donald Trump, and Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Mao Ning, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, said at a press briefing this week in Beijing that China “is in communication with relevant parties regarding a meeting between the three heads of state”, which could take place on the sidelines of the Apec summit in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen this month.

Russia would probably use the summit to nudge China and the US closer to Moscow’s positions on Ukraine, said Sun Yun, director of the China program at the Stimson Center. However, Trump has been warned by his advisers to steer clear of Ukraine as a topic of the discussions, said Danny Russel, a former senior state department official who served in Barack Obama’s administration and who is now a distinguished fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute.

Ukraine again came under attack from Russia on Saturday, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy repeated his calls for allies to supply Kyiv quickly with missiles for the US-made Patriot system to defend Ukrainian cities. Zelenskyy on Friday had warned that the Ukrainian military was bracing for new ⁠strikes ​by Russian forces against important infrastructure. “We ⁠have intelligence at this time that Russia is preparing new strikes on energy, on ⁠bridges across the Dnipro, on civilian infrastructure,” Zelenskyy said ​in his nightly ‌video address. “The ‌air force and the armed forces of Ukraine ‌as a whole are preparing for defence. It will not be easy.”

Kyiv, along with other Ukrainian cities, has been subjected to near-constant attacks for several weeks. A missile attack by Russian forces ⁠early on Saturday damaged a residential ⁠building in the Ukrainian capital, according to Mayor ​Vitali ‌Klitschko. The city’s military administration, also writing on Telegram, said two people were injured and a building housing a kindergarten was ‌damaged. Officials continued to warn residents of the potential for more strikes hours ​after the attack.

President Zelenskyy says he wants specific guarantees from western allies on how postwar security support would function when the war with Russia finally ends. Zelenskyy’s comments in an interview aired late Thursday followed two days of discussions among allies in Brussels that focused on postwar security and reconstruction. They also came before planned three-way talks next week in Abu Dhabi between Ukraine, Russia and the United States, the first trilateral peace discussions since February. “What matters is that it’s clear on paper,” Zelenskyy said in an interview with Ukraine’s private 1+1 television broadcast late Thursday. “The question isn’t dozens of points, but simply an understanding of the outcome: If Russia starts [attacking] again, what will happen? Who will do what, with what means, and when?”

The Brussels meetings brought together officials from the US, UK, France, Germany and the European Union, along with representatives from the World Bank and the US investment group BlackRock, Ukrainian lead negotiator Rustem Umerov wrote in an online post. “We separately discussed the threats from Russia to Ukraine and all of Europe, as well as joint steps to counter them,” Umerov wrote.

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She came from humble Italian origins to join India’s ruling family. Then both her mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi, and her husband, Rajiv, were brutally murdered. In a rare interview, the politician talks about her reluctant rise to power, Narendra Modi’s repressive regime – and why youth protests give her hope for the future

• Read an exclusive extract from Sonia Gandhi’s memoir here

For a woman who has been a witness to some of the most significant political moments in modern Indian history, Sonia Gandhi likes to insist her life has been far from remarkable. “Oh, I don’t know that I would say it’s an extraordinary story,” she says, shifting uncomfortably.

It’s hard to reconcile this modest characterisation with the course her life has taken over the last 79 years. Born to a working-class family in a small town in northern Italy, today she sits at the heart of Indian political power, having weathered assassinations and personal tragedy to become one of the country’s most influential figures. She held Indira Gandhi’s bloodied body after the then-prime minster, her mother-in-law, was gunned down at their home in Delhi in 1984. She then became India’s first lady when her husband, Rajiv Gandhi, took his mother’s place as prime minister. And when Rajiv, too, was killed, she threw aside her distaste for politics to step up and lead his fragmenting party. In 2004, having taken Congress to electoral victory, she famously turned down the prime minister post. She can still boast of being the longest-serving president of Congress, both when India’s oldest political party was in power and later, when it became the flailing opposition. When Gandhi stepped down in 2017, her son Rahul was appointed her successor.

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Santiago Peña was detained minutes after he was impeached by Congress, as protesters took to the streets demanding answers after the suspension of the Ueno bank

Paraguay’s rightwing president has been placed under house arrest minutes after he was impeached by Congress, amid a severe crisis that left more than half the country’s population unable to access their bank accounts.

Santiago Peña is being investigated about allegations he used his political influence to favour a bank that expanded exponentially under his government and was suspended this week after irregularities.

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Now seen further north at Heathcote, Southern Shorthaul Railroad's CEY005, CF4405 & CEY003 lead AR03 empty export coal along the Up Illawarra Main, approaching Platform 1 on Thursday, 5 November 2026.

Having departed Port Kembla Inner Harbour earlier in the morning, the three-unit lash-up is making it's way north through the Illawarra towards Sydney before heading west via the Main Western Line and over the Blue Mountains to Centennial Coal's Airly Mine near Capertee.

With CEY005 leading, CF4405 tucked in as the second unit and CEY003 bringing up the rear of the locomotive consist, the trio have the empty coal rake in tow as they approach Heathcote on the Up Road. Having already negotiated the climb out of the Illawarra Escarpment, AR03 is continuing it's northbound run towards the Sydney metropolitan network, where it will need to be pathed around the busy suburban passenger timetable before continuing west towards the coalfields.

SSR's recently commenced export coal operations between Centennial Coal's Airly, Clarence and Springvale mines and Port Kembla Inner Harbour have certainly added some much-needed variety to freight movements along the Illawarra, with the CEY and CF Class combinations becoming a particularly welcome sight.

CEY005 CF4405 CEY003 | AR03 | Heathcote, NSW | 0936 05/11/2026