Onionphone is a native Android application for anonymous, end-to-end encrypted push-to-talk voice and text communication over the Tor network. No servers, no accounts, no phone numbers — your .onion address is your identity.

Cross-platform compatible with Terminalphone — call between Android and Linux/Termux using the same protocol.

Optionally use your connection as a relay for ephermeral group channels.

Find the release page for version 1.0.2 which supports custom bridges for accessing censored networks.

The Performing Right Society (PRS) has "commenced legal proceedings" against Steam owner Valve over the use of its members' works on Steam "without permission."

The organization claims that while games right across the spectrum use music to "transform play into emotional, immersive experiences," Valve has "never obtained a licence for its use of the rights managed by PRS on behalf of its members, comprising songwriters, composers, and music publishers."

PRS claims "many game titles which incorporate PRS members' musical works are made available on Steam," including "high profile series" such as Forza Horizon, FIFA/EA FC, and GTA.

PRS said that as it had sought to work with Valve about the licensing issues "for many years without appropriate engagement from Valve," it has now issued legal proceedings under the UK's s20 Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988 and requires any game that uses PRS' works to obtain a licence.

"The litigation will progress unless Valve Corporation engages positively with discussions and takes the necessary license to cover the use of PRS repertoire, both retrospectively and moving forwards," the organization said in a press statement.

Dan Gopal, chief commercial officer, PRS for Music said: "Our members create music that enhances experiences and PRS exists to protect the value of their work with integrity, transparency, and fairness. Legal proceedings are not a step we take lightly, but when a business’s actions undermine those principles, we have a duty to act.

"Great video games rely on great soundtracks, and the songwriters and creators behind them deserve to have their contribution recognised and fairly valued."

In its annual figures, the company said that earnings fell from €12.4 billion ($14.45 billion) to €6.9 billion year on year.

Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume said the VW Group would cut "around 50,000 jobs by 2030" across Germany.

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The investigation looked at what content from political parties and politicians is shown to newly created accounts that are interested in parties and politicians from either the left or the right.

It found that the algorithms push content from the far right to the right-leaning and left-leaning accounts and, to a lesser extent, push content from the radical left to left-leaning accounts.

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After the website archive.today launched a DDoS campaign against a small blog in January 2026, a request for comment was started. After the discovery of tampered archives, consensus was reached to deprecate the site used almost 700 thousand times on the English Wikipedia.

The Green Party is welcoming news that the government has backtracked on plans to reinstate live animal exports.

Animal Welfare Minister Andrew Hoggard told 1 News he could not get Cabinet agreement on overturning the ban, which formed part of coalition agreements with both ACT and NZ First.

"From the outset, there was overwhelming outrage from veterinary experts who expressed there was no way to maintain animal welfare standards and herd cattle onto ships where they spend weeks at sea wallowing in their own waste. It's fundamentally cruel and there's no way to uphold the barest animal standards while exporting at sea," Abel said.

"They couldn't get it across the line because New Zealanders didn't want to see animals suffering in that way."

A 57,000-strong petition calling for the ban to stay in place was presented to parliament in 2024.

At the time, Hoggard said he wanted the ban overturned by 2025.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/60494710

German exports recorded their sharpest decline in more than a ​year and a half in January due to falling ‌demand from China and Europe, federal statistics office data showed on Tuesday.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) offered on Monday a passage through the Strait of Hormuz, starting Tuesday, to any Arab or European country that expels the Israeli and US ambassadors from its territory.

Meanwhile, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi said Tehran has a single condition for halting hostilities if Israel and the United States comply: “no further aggression,” adding that several countries, including Russia, China, and France, have contacted Iran to help ease tensions and encourage de-escalation.

Earlier, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani said security in the Strait of Hormuz is unlikely while the war ignited by the US and Israel in the region continues.

German exports recorded their sharpest decline in more than a ​year and a half in January due to falling ‌demand from China and Europe, federal statistics office data showed on Tuesday.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/60490540

At least you're not paying for the media🏴‍☠️

When Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran had spent two decades studying US wars to build a system that could keep fighting even if the capital was bombed, he was describing more than resilience; he was outlining the logic of Iran’s defence doctrine.

At the centre of that doctrine is what Iranian military thinkers call “decentralised mosaic defence” – a concept built on one core assumption: that in any war with the United States or Israel, Iran may lose senior commanders, key facilities, communications networks and even centralised control, but must still be able to keep fighting.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/60481861

The nation’s antitrust watchdog also ordered the carmaker to rectify its deceptive marketing practices. According to the authority’s investigation, the carmaker concealed the actual battery supplier for several models — the EQE and EQS EVs — and promoted as if all of the vehicles were equipped with batteries from CATL, the world’s largest battery maker.

Mercedes-Benz Korea and its German headquarters were already aware of the battery suppliers, but deliberately deleted information on Farasis in its sales guide here, according to the FTC investigation. The local subsidiary received education materials on the battery suppliers for each EV lineup from the German headquarters in May 2021.

China's exports surge 22% in January-February, driven by robust electronics demand

Economists surprised by growth in clothing, textiles, and bags exports

Trade surplus tops expectations, reaching $213.6 billion in first two months

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/60489436

Before the intervention, Nexperia produced wafers in Europe and packaged them into ‌chips ⁠in China. Afterwards, the company fractured, with Nexperia China declaring independence and Nexperia Europe halting wafer shipments to China, citing nonpayment.

In its statement, Nexperia China said it has begun ​using 12-inch wafers ​to make ⁠products including bipolar discrete devices, Schottky rectifiers and electrostatic discharge devices - all simple chips that ​Nexperia also makes.

Before the intervention, Nexperia produced wafers in Europe and packaged them into ‌chips ⁠in China. Afterwards, the company fractured, with Nexperia China declaring independence and Nexperia Europe halting wafer shipments to China, citing nonpayment.

In its statement, Nexperia China said it has begun ​using 12-inch wafers ​to make ⁠products including bipolar discrete devices, Schottky rectifiers and electrostatic discharge devices - all simple chips that ​Nexperia also makes.