For a good yawn I need to really open my mouth and push/strain my jaw muscles. If that doesnt happen, then the yawn feels incomplete to my body and it happens again and again till it works "right"

What is the reason/body function behind that?

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/68050695

I don't know if it's the case for anyone else

Toyota boss has a radical solution to catch up to Chinese automakers, which are eating its lunch worldwide. Will it work?

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/68050611

The European Commission is preparing a serious warning to Spain for its limited progress in the fight against corruption. The draft 2026 Rule of Law Report, whose official publication is scheduled for this Friday, calls for accelerating pending reforms and strengthening the bodies responsible for monitoring, investigating, and sanctioning irregularities.

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The report reflects that nine out of ten Spaniards believe that corruption is widespread in the country. Social perception has worsened over the last five years and places Spain in 17th place among community partners and 49th in the world ranking.

The concern has also spread to companies that work with administrations. Four out of ten companies participating in public tenders believe that corruption has prevented them from securing a contract during the last three years, ten points above the European average.

Brussels also detects a rapid deterioration of business confidence in the functioning of awards. The percentage of companies that consider the Spanish public procurement system independent has fallen from 61% to 44% in just one year.

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Public procurement continues to be for Brussels a "high-risk area for corruption". 34% of Spanish tenders receive a single bid, compared to the 28% registered as the average in the European Union, a difference that limits competition and increases the risks of irregularities.

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The Anti-Corruption Plan advances too slowly

The European Commission acknowledges the approval of the State Plan against Corruption announced by Pedro Sánchez in the summer of 2025, after the investigation of the Koldo case reached the then Secretary of Organization of the [ruling Socialist party] PSOE, Santos Cerdán.

The plan includes measures in five main areas: the prevention of irregularities, the strengthening of controls, the protection of whistleblowers and informants, the recovery of assets from crimes, and the increase of transparency and citizen participation. Brussels considers its approval positive, but calls for faster execution and verifiable results.

The Community Executive also analyzes the Public Integrity Bill, which proposes grouping the Office of Conflicts of Interest, the Independent Authority for the Protection of Informants, and a future National Anti-Fraud Agency. The intention is to bring together in a single body the competencies currently dispersed among different institutions.

For Brussels, this future supervisor will have to have true independence and sufficient powers to investigate and impose sanctions. A formal structure without budget, personnel, or executive capacity would be insufficient given the volume and complexity of the irregularities detected.

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No real progress in lobby regulation

Spain also continues without approving a complete regulation of interest groups ... The Independent Authority for the Protection of Whistleblowers has also not managed to fill its entire staff despite the increase in work. Since September 2025, it has received around 400 complaints, while its budgetary limitations hinder the management and protection of those who report possible irregularities. Brussels asks to guarantee the necessary resources to prevent complaints from getting caught in administrative delays.

Major corruption cases continue to last too long

The duration of high-level corruption proceedings once again appears among the main community concerns. Cases such as Gürtel, Púnica, Lezo, or Kitchen remain open or awaiting definitive resolutions more than a decade after their investigations began.

During 2025, 19 new corruption cases were opened at the state and autonomous community levels. Of the 76 procedures analyzed, 52 ended with convictions and 19 concluded with acquittals, according to the data collected in the draft.

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Meanwhile, a Spanish court said Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife Begona Gomez would face trial for alleged influence peddling and embezzlement, dashing her final hope of avoiding the dock.

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The spam campaign attacking Writefreely instances is out of control. Can you contact the admins you know?

@fediverse

Yesterday I received this message from my friend @elettrona:

Are you the one running the "writefreely blogs" bot, aka writefreely@poliverso.org? Because there are tons of English accounts full of links that post nonstop.

And indeed, that account republishing posts from some Italian instances had a staggering amount of spam.

This is due to a very serious vulnerability that hasn't yet been patched by the developers, but which has (obviously) started to be exploited on a large scale.

I've notified all the Italian administrators of @writefreely instances, but I'm having some difficulty contacting the foreign ones.

These are the ones with the most users:

https://write.otter.homes/read
https://infosec.press/read
https://blog.liberta.vip/read
https://write.tedomum.net/read
https://val-vgms.gay/read
https://bolha.blog/read

But there are many others.

Is there anyone among you who can try this or at least spread the word?

Note: As I mentioned, the vulnerability has been known for a long time and is currently being exploited on a large scale.

https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/issues/1649

Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar has confirmed that an investigation is underway into former Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó’s relationship with Russia, while also announcing new public safety measures for Budapest and providing updates on major transport and energy projects.

Speaking at the government’s weekly press briefing on Thursday, Magyar touched on several of the country’s most closely watched political and economic issues.

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Magyar confirmed that authorities are examining Szijjártó’s relationship with Russia, an issue he previously described as potentially amounting to “treason.” However, the prime minister declined to reveal further details, saying the investigation involves classified documents and sensitive diplomatic material.

“I do not want to prejudge the process,” Magyar said, adding that the government will publish information once it can do so without affecting the investigation.

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Magyar also said consultations continue with professional organisations over the government’s planned guest worker restrictions. While detailed legislation has not yet been finalised, he said the government’s objective remains to protect Hungarian employees from being replaced by lower-paid foreign workers willing to accept poorer working conditions.

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Former foreign minister Szijjarto's recent quit of his parliament job and his announcement to join China’s BYD has been criticized.

PM Peter Magyar called him "an outright lobbyist for BYD", referring to the billions of forints in Hungarian taxpayer money that the Chinese company has received in investment support over the past decade. “Now even Fidesz voters may realise whose interests Szijjarto really represented in government,” Magyar posted.

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Meanwhile, Hungary government reports Orban-era IT contracts to police about ​the suspected misuse of public funds ‌during purchases of educational software made by the previous administration of Viktor Orban.

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I am lucky enough to have red-necked wallabies visit my place and I love the way they stand very still looking at me to make sure I am no threat. I'm not but vehicle drivers on the streets around my place often are. I've pulled off a dead wallaby and a friend helped me to get another badly-injured one to the vet where it was put down. Other neighbours have had similar experiences. What a terrible feeling it is to see these and other beautiful native animals dead by the side of the road. If cars weren't bad enough, wallabies face other threats.

Australia's larger kangaroos are generally widespread, mobile, able to use a range of open habitats and capable of fending off predators. Our wallabies are far more particular. Some depend on rocky ranges and escarpments. Others need dense woodland or particular patches of arid-country vegetation. Their smaller ranges and more specialised habitats make them especially vulnerable when Country is cleared, fragmented, overgrazed, or affected by climate change and catastrophic bushfires.

Many smaller wallabies also fall within, or close to, Australia’s notorious “critical weight range”: mammals weighing roughly 35 grams to 5.5 kilograms that are particularly devastated by foxes and feral cats.

For more interesting info and great photos of various types have a look at this article: https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/our-other-wallabies?cid=041a981b-853b-4355-a7b0-1182c033c5f6

You might also like this video, Fight to save the endangered [Victorian] southern brush-tailed rock wallaby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd3Q0uGKcDc

We all talk about the big bang as this moment the Universe begins by popping into existence with simple hydrogen and some helium. Hydrogen and Helium are gases that are able to carry sound. Today, space has expanded so much that there is vacume beyond where matter clumps together to form stars/planets, which means the sound couldn't propagate, but the early early Universe wouldn't have clumped like today; there would have been hydrogen everywhere. This means it would have been loud everywhere.

*Edit: I know we call it the Big Bang because of the rapid expansion of spacetime, but I always just pictured the general motion of expansion as the "bang". Never thought of how loud it would have been.

The code also suggested that Suno was using proxies to scrape songs from YouTube through a company called Bright Data, which sells scraping tools, infrastructure, and data services. Additional code shows that with the help of an online tool called PodcastIndex, Suno identified 420,000 different podcasts that had at least five, 30-minute episodes and sought to download roughly 1 million hours of podcasts

The hacker, ellie.191, told 404 Media they breached the company by hacking an individual employee using the Shai-Hulud worm, a supply chain attack that allowed hackers to harvest GitHub and cloud service credentials. They said they also accessed Suno’s customer list, which included customers’ emails and/or phone numbers and Stripe payment details, depending on what they used to login. The hacker provided a sample of some of the customers, some of whom confirmed to 404 Media they had used their phone number to sign up for Suno and said they were never notified of a breach.

Last month, The Atlantic reported on several music databases that are widely used in AI training, consisting of millions of tracks: “Three of the datasets I found are distributed as a list of links to songs on YouTube or Spotify. AI developers download the actual audio using tools that automate the job, some of which allow developers to bypass logins, advertisements, and mechanisms that might earn money or subscribers for creators. Such tools violate the terms of service of these platforms.

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[Q&A with Alicia García-Herrero is Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at Natixis and a Senior Fellow at Bruegel.]

The relationship [between China and Russia] is undeniably asymmetric ...

Russia has imposed tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. Interestingly, those tariffs have at times been higher than the EU’s, although that often goes unnoticed. They’ve also been repeatedly adjusted, reflecting the constant push and pull between Moscow’s domestic pressures and Beijing’s demands. Every time China pressures the Kremlin to ease those restrictions, it only fuels resentment among parts of the Russian establishment ...

Technology transfer between Russia and China remains highly selective. What China has largely provided are dual-use goods—not the know-how or industrial capacity to manufacture them independently. That includes microelectronics, CNC machines and components for drones. These supplies help Russia sustain production in the short term, but they do not make the country technologically self-sufficient. If those supply chains were disrupted, Russia would still struggle to replace them domestically ...

At the same time, China continues to seek access to Russian military technology, while Putin is increasingly wary of handing over capabilities without receiving meaningful strategic concessions in return. That’s what makes this relationship more complicated than China’s ties with countries such as Iran. In Iran’s case, the flow of technology and dependence is largely one-directional. With Russia, both sides are trying to extract technological advantages from the other while simultaneously preventing the other from gaining too much ...

That’s why I think the relationship is far less stable than it appears. On paper—as we heard, unfortunately, right before the invasion of Ukraine—it was presented as a ‘no-limits’ partnership. In reality, however, it is not a relationship built on trust ...

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Lifting sanctions [by Europe on Russia] remains very difficult unless there is a significant move from Russia itself to end the war on terms that are acceptable, in my view, to both Europe and Ukraine. And that is an important point.

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I can tell you quite openly that China desperately needs exports right now. And that is why the tone towards Europe is changing and becoming somewhat more positive. China used to say: “There is nothing to negotiate here. Take it or leave it — you need us.” Now the message is a bit more nuanced: “Yes, you need us, but we also need you, so maybe we can move beyond this trade dispute.”

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China understands that the situation in Europe is becoming increasingly difficult. Look at the tens of thousands of potential job losses at Volkswagen, for example. The reality is that China is no longer in such a strong position to use its leverage over Russia — unless Russia is willing to give away a great deal. And even then, because the Chinese economy is struggling outside of exports, using that leverage would come at a significant cost for Beijing.

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The alleged sabotage included desecrating memorials to Polish victims of the UPA, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army that took part in the murder of tens of thousands of Poles during World War Two known as the Volyhnia massacre.

"The aim was to incite ethnic tensions between Poland and Ukraine," Poland's Internal Security Agency (ABW) said in a statement.

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