#toplink — Public Fediverse posts

US faces critical shortage of Patriot missiles in Europe, officials tell AP https://apnews.com/article/patriot-missiles-iran-war-russia-ukraine-trump-09c7d8030a2e11fbd8ee3f7176b3f2d4
The U.S. military faces a “beyond critical” shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe largely driven by President Donald Trump's war with Iran. That's according to a U.S. defense official in Europe and a NATO official. They spoke on condition of anonymity to
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As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/meta-ai-glasses-may-get-creepier-and-apps-that-detect-them-arent-perfect/
Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.
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Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/us/trump-wild-horses-legal-loophole-slaughter.html
A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
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Do You Know About U.S. Military Spending? Help ProPublica Understand Where the Money Goes. https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/share-military-defense-spending-tips
Many Pentagon projects face delays, budget increases and performance issues. The causes of these problems are often opaque to the taxpayers who foot the bill. Help point us to the most important stories.
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The $1 Trillion Black Box https://www.propublica.org/article/military-defense-spending-budget-series
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spending.
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teen-boys-meta-glasses-harass-bully-girls-school
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
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Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auction-because-ai/5288962
$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP
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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability. https://www.propublica.org/article/private-schools-vouchers-wisconsin-atlas-preparatory
Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reveals an opaque world with little oversight.
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Hakeem Jeffries Rejects Medicare for All, Says He Doesn't Support DSA Agenda https://www.newsweek.com/hakeem-jeffries-rejects-medicare-for-all-dsa-agenda-12328842
The congressman's remarks come as Democrats wrestle with ideological divisions between their progressive and moderate wings.
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Israel's Ben-Gvir advocates killing '30 to 40' people in Gaza every night https://apnews.com/article/ben-gvir-israel-gaza-hamas-netanyahu-53f98e92686746f3c9bccd7cf59f26ad
An extremist official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet has advocated for killing “30 to 40” people in Gaza each night. Comments by Itamar Ben-Gvir surfaced Sunday and were quickly condemned internationally. He made the remarks on a podcast while discussing Israel's r
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Jonathan Schofield (@urlyman) https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111284511932083107
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Now I’m not saying that my granddad, my dad and I are wholly responsible for the #climateCrisis, but this shows how CO2 parts per million have changed during our lifetimes.

It wasn’t just us, guv. There were a few others involved.
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With Donald Trump, the buck tends to stop somewhere else https://apnews.com/article/trump-dodging-responsibility-buck-stops-here-truman-305caf9eaeee3d479f099e2423de8741
President Harry Truman famously kept a “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his White House desk. But the current president, Donald Trump, often veers from that motto of taking responsibility. The Republican has blamed his predecessors for continued inflation. As the unpopular war with Ira
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AI's Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-impact-environment-horrifying-new-paper
AI is giving the fossil fuel industry a major leg up, a new paper has found, indicating its carbon footprint extends beyond data centers.
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Trump Spending Billions to Revert Aircraft Carriers to Steam Catapults, Which Are 15+ Years Out of Date https://truthout.org/articles/trump-spending-billions-to-revert-aircraft-carriers-to-steam-catapults/
Trump’s long hated the modern electromagnetic catapults, seemingly because he simply doesn’t understand how they work.
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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/nine-pbs-loses-access-to-70-years-of-data-after-contracted-cloud-storage-vendor-goes-defunct-public-tv-channel-sues-iron-mountain-data-center-which-hosts-archival-materials-to-ensure-preservation
This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and pop
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Indigenous Fiber Network Connects Remote Subarctic Towns https://spectrum.ieee.org/indigenous-fiber-network
This Cree network reaches the far north and outperforms Starlink
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Kennedy Center Board Decides to Inscribe Trump’s Name on Building https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/arts/design/kennedy-center-closure-board-vote-trump.html
The vote to add “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump” is an aggressive test of a judge’s order to remove his name.
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The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/new-font-turns-ordinary-webpages-into-nonsense-for-ai-scrapers/
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
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Large-scale study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration https://phys.org/news/2026-08-large-scale-link-crime-unauthorized.html
For more than two decades, Charis E. Kubrin has followed the data wherever it leads. As UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, she has built a career studying one of America's most politically charged questions: Does immigration drive crime?
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Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-data-center-largest-pollution-source-texas-usa
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.
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Nvidia gets $500bn from major investors to develop AI infrastructure https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78gr0jv0mdo
The money will be used to develop new data centres to house, operate, and cool miles of stacked computer chips that process AI data and actions.
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Trump Said to Have Secretly Used Military Jet to Leave Turkey Amid Threats https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/politics/trump-plane-ruse.html
President Trump hid in an airport catering cart and was taken to a military jet for a secret flight out of country after the NATO summit last month.
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Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — custom 35-turbine gas plant authorized to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amazons-new-7-65gw-texas-ai-data-center-power-plant-could-become-the-largest-source-of-co2-pollution-in-the-us-custom-35-turbine-gas-plant-authorized-to-emit-33-million-tons-of-annual-greenhouse-gases
Company insists it remains committed to 2040 net-zero carbon emiss
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New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate/amazon-data-center-texas-pollution.html
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.
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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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ICE will release body camera video only when in agency's 'best interests' https://apnews.com/article/ice-body-cameras-officers-shootings-dab1b294c8dc412d9ef8557ccbebfd57
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the public should not expect to quickly see footage of every critical incident. ICE’s body-worn camera policy says it will publicly release video of shootings and other enco
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Minority report: FBI seeks AI for political watch list https://reason.com/2026/07/28/minority-report-fbi-seeks-ai-for-political-watch-list/
Documents show the FBI seeking AI tools to flag Americans before they act, as the terror watchlist's focus moves toward domestic dissent.
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Desktop Linux just cracked 10% market share - and Windows 11 is mostly to blame https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-linux-desktop-finally-cracks-the-10-market-share-barrier/
Windows is in decline, and both Macs and Linux are gaining ground at its expense.
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50-plus military spouses, parents detained in immigration crackdown https://apnews.com/article/military-families-immigration-trump-detained-deported-3337173bff1f06153738c217da52e846
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops. The administration has rolled back immigration protections as part of its mass deportation agenda. The AP found
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