ZURICH (AP) — Gianni Infantino apologized to FIFA's ruling council on Thursday for "mistakes" in his secretive investment plan for the World Cup but didn't give details sought by his toughest critics who want to oust him as the president of soccer's governing body. Soccer officials came to the meeting in Zurich hoping to receive more information about two of the biggest controversies that have surrounded Infantino this year: his now-aborted $4.2 billion World Cup sell-off plan and the Folarin Balogun red-card case at the World Cup where President Donald Trump intervened. READ MORE: Infantino abandoned his World Cup equity plan after seismic FIFA backlash. Here's what to know Despite
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KDE celebrates 30 years with a new Plasma release, a farewell to X11, and a movie. Marking the 30th anniversary of software developer KDE on October 14, the company released Plasma 6.8, debuted a movie, and retired Plasma’s native X11 session support. The announcement from KDE dubs the new Plasma 6.8 as the “30th Anniversary Edition” and describes the update as preparing Plasma for the future. Legacy X11 applications will still function via the XWayland compatibility layer , and KDE applications will also continue supporting X11 under other desktop environments. After 42 years in service, the X11 protocol is losing another major desktop environment. Plasma will fully adopt the Wayland
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What are the messages on spurring the economy that the Democrats are making? Lauren Aratani: In the results from the Guardian’s newest poll with Harris Poll, it’s clear that many Republicans are unhappy about the economy, but they seem conflicted on who is responsible. When asked who or what is most responsible for today’s gas prices – the US federal government, oil companies, the Iranian government or natural economic fluctuations – over half of Democrats and Independents said it is the federal government, while just 28% of Republicans said the same. But that, of course, still means that many Republicans still back their party. Heather: The Democrats’ key message has been: Trump’s war in
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This law affects everyone, especially people in the EU and is an attempt to implement ID verification on: Video-sharing platforms, #AI chatbots, AI companions, games, software app stores and operating systems. https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/117285674482286098 The EU’s planned KIDS Act is causing unrest in the Fediverse, the network of independent servers around Mastodon. Critics warn of age verification on every single server and foresee the end of decentralized social networks. It may be very damaging for the Fediverse, but even if the EU outright banned all ActivityPub servers, that wouldn’t force an end to the Fediverse. The Fediverse does not end at the external borders of the EU.
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Tesla just revealed its redesigned second-generation Roadster with SpaceX thrusters, a vehicle CEO Elon Musk has called “the best of the last of the human-driven cars.” Musk showed off the car at an event outside Waco, Texas, with a demonstration that saw the car use a mixture of high-powered fans and thrusters to drive up an inverted ramp, spin around, and ease itself to a landing on the pavement below. The car also used the thrusters to lift itself over a Cybercab, Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, Model Y, and Model 3 while in motion. “This will be the actual car that’s on the roads,” Musk said of the car, which Tesla showed accelerating 0 to 60 miles per hour in one second. “It literally is just
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The Senate showdown in Texas shows why Donald Trump and the Republican Party are worried about the midterm elections.
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About me: My name is Solène Rapenne , pronouns she/her. I like learning and sharing knowledge. Hobbies: '(Reproducibility BSD OpenBSD Lisp cmdline gaming security QubesOS internet-stuff). I love percent and lambda characters. Former Qubes OS core team member / OpenBSD developer solene@. Contact me: solene at dataswamp dot org or @solene@bsd.network (mastodon). I'm a freelance OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux and Qubes OS consultant , this includes DevOps, DevSecOps, technical writing or documentation work.
Lobsters3h ago
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Launching today Brussle Launching today Improve Jev's accuracy on your data 38 followers Improve Jev's accuracy on your data 38 followers Visit website AI Metrics and Evaluation Brussle calibrates AI decision from models like Jev about your data, runs it again when a record it read changes, and fits it again when the model changes. A correction is applied only when it beats the model on your held-out outcomes.
Product Hunt3h ago
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SK Hynix appears to be navigating choppy U.S.-China chipmaking waters. The company’s flash memory unit, Solidigm, is seeking U.S. approval to send American chipmaking equipment to its factory in Dalian, China, as a condition to continue building a semiconductor factory in the U.S, Reuters reported , citing anonymous sources. Solidigm has been reportedly chalking up plans to build a NAND flash memory chip factory in the U.S., and is considering upstate New York as a potential location for the facility. NAND flash chips are primarily used in solid-state storage drives, which are employed in everything from laptops and smartphones to AI data centers. But the global component shortage thanks to
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President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed overt frustration with the United States in an interview with The Financial Times. He had paused the strikes to comply with a demand from the United States.
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In the 1980’s, there were no freely available C compilers (I guess Borland was inexpensive, but not free). The GNU C Compiler was the first such. The project focused on being bootstrappable, reproducibility from source with a fixed dependency chain. Corporates took advantage of GCC, and continue to, but have also been happy that LLVM came along with its permissive licensing. LLVM was a free lunch for GPU deployment, letting corporates customize it to compile shaders without having to release the sources. In the LLM era of mostly closed weights, closed and pirated datasets and inaccessible compute requirements, what would, or does, an open alternative look like? Or should something else be
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Introducing the Rosalind Academic Plan, offering eligible academic labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind and tools to advance life sciences research.
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“It definitely makes you wonder truly who is the real monster in the situation.” Director Yûta Shimotsu is describing events in a new episode of live-action J-horror anthology show Strange: Junji Ito's Tales for Sleepless Nights , but he could be referring to almost any episode. The award-winning manga artist of the title, whose macabre short works are adapted into disturbing 30-minute bites, has a way of blurring lines between protagonist and antagonist amid his surreal nightmares. Tales for Sleepless Nights aired its 12-episode first season on TV Tokyo this summer, and now HBO Max is bringing those eerie frights to US audiences. The first two installments “Lovesickness (Part 1 of 3)” and
Wired15h ago
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Ask HN: Did you 'invest' in NFTs or memecoins? | Hacker News Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Ask HN: Did you 'invest' in NFTs or memecoins? 7 points by agent008t 15 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments 5 years ago there was a lot of talk, even on here, of getting rich from NFTs and memecoins, discussing airdrops etc. Bored Ape Yacht Club and the like. I was just wondering what happened to those, particularly NFTs of 'digital collectibles'. As I understand, most of the ones that sold for hundreds thousands or even millions are worth 0 now? Interested to hear about experiences with 'yield farming' as well - another term I have not heard in the
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Online pornography depicting strangulation or incestuous relationships will be banned from early November, the government has announced. From 6 November, it will be illegal to possess or publish porn which shows strangulation or suffocation, depicts sexual activity between people who are related or shows adults role-playing as children under 16. The new rules follow a review into porn regulation in 2025 which found depictions of choking were "rife" on popular porn sites and had helped normalise the act among young people. Conservative peer Baroness Gabby Bertin, who headed the review, said the news came "not a moment too soon". She told the Press Association the change in law would "send
BBC Technology3h ago
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The state is seeking potentially millions in damages from Discord, claiming the company misled and deceived children and their parents about safety measures on the app. I generally support suing tech companies until the breaking point but U feel bad because Florida agrees
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With the ChatGPT extension installed, it can pull information from your open tabs or bring the AI bot into the sidebar. OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone , but now ChatGPT’s Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the extension installed, OpenAI says ChatGPT can now view your browser tabs when you tag Chrome in ChatGPT’s web or desktop app, posting a demo video showing someone asking ChatGPT to compare the three tabs they have open with sofas they’re considering. Here are some of the sample queries OpenAI listed for using the upgraded add-on: It’s also updated ChatGPT in the sidebar , with “the full power of
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submitted by silence7 to news 24 points | 0 comments https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/us/ice-pursuit-houston-dead-man.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JFE.e4B5.wEKm0GP37a70 ICE agents rammed a man during a pursuit in Houston, leaving him with a shattered leg. But a bulletin of the target shows a man who died in 2017, his daughter said.
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Launching today Audio Lip Sync Pro for Blender Launching today Generate high-quality facial animations, direct from audio. 33 followers Generate high-quality facial animations, direct from audio. 33 followers Visit website 3D & Animation • Product add-ons • Voice AI Tools Audio Lip Sync Pro is a tool for animators and modellers to generate high-quality lip-sync animations directly from audio clips. All processing is performed locally, no account, subscription, or network access is (or ever will be) required. Buy once, own for life! Currently, it supports meshes with ARKit blendshapes inside Blender (via the Video Sequencer). Releases for Unity and Maya are coming soon! svg]:size-4
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submitted by lavenie to science 1 points | 0 comments https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/15/neanderthal-remains-human-ancestor-killed-by-spear-iraq-kurdistan-cave-earliest-find
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submitted by lavenie to world 3 points | 0 comments https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/oct/15/the-hidden-costs-of-fracking-boom-in-argentina-linked-to-trail-of-sickness
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