Iran appears to be targeting what it views as American vulnerabilities, including air defenses meant to guard troops and assets in the region.

The Iranian military is adjusting its tactics as the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign progresses, senior U.S. defense officials said, even as the Trump administration insists that the United States is winning the war.

In the 11 days since the conflict began, Iran has targeted key American air defense and radar systems in the region, according to U.S. military officials and military experts.

Iranian-backed militias have attacked hotels frequented by American troops. One militia in Iraq launched a drone swarm attack on an upscale hotel in Erbil, demonstrating that Iran was aware that the Pentagon was housing troops in hotels in the region, a senior U.S. military official said.

He and two other officials said that Iran appeared to have accepted that it could not match the United States and Israel on pure firepower. But by simply surviving the barrage, the officials said, the government in Tehran can claim victory.

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MPs have rejected a Lords amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would allow a social media ban for under 16s.

AI users who are being immiserated and precaratized by bosses who have been convinced to fire their colleagues and pile their work on the terrorized survivors of the layoffs hate the AI, because it makes their life worse in every way.

Whereas the people who choose when and how to use AI — the centaurs — are only using AI to the extent that it is useful, and throwing it away when it’s not. They may make poor choices about the AI, but those choices are theirs, they are not imposed from on high. A bicyclist who chooses to commute on two wheels can have a glorious ride, or they can ride like a maniac and end up eating dirt, but they are having a fundamentally different experience from, say, a gig delivery platform rider who has been given an impossible quota and is having their pay eroded by algorithmic wage discrimination.

I find these articles providing pithy names for AI's holes quite helpful, another was "semantic ablation." So I appreciate the overall mission here:

Every day the bubble persists, the harms of today and tomorrow increase. We need to burst that bubble as soon as possible. That’s how I came to spend the summer writing a book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux with the working title The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to AI, whose goal is to improve the quality of AI criticism so that it inflicts maximum damage on AI swindlers and their terrible investment bubble.

France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle has been deployed to the eastern Mediterranean as part of a wider French naval response to rising tensions linked to the conflict involving Iran.

Five-year collaboration targets nanostack devices and backside power delivery at sub-1nm nodes.

• Hacker News;
• Reddit.

When women riders and drivers told us they wanted more control over how they ride and earn, we listened. That feedback led to Women Preferences, features designed to give women the choice to ride with other women. Since our first pilots last summer, we’ve heard just how much that choice matters—from feeling more comfortable in the back seat to more confident behind the wheel.

A move to toughen Australia's immigration laws while offering Iranian soccer football players asylum has been labelled "hypocritical" by the Greens and refugee advocates.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/7691349

TL;DR: The dispute allows Pedro Sanchez to frame himself as defending democratic values and distract from weakening support of the more left-wing partners in his ruling coalition, as well as from the fact that he is seeking to strengthen ties with China in opposition of his EU partners.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has banned the Al Quds march - the first protest march banned in Britain since Tommy Robinson's EDL 2012

It's true ask your mom

God bless you mam for fighting back against those satanists from CNN and MSNBC.

Netherlands: after an embarrassing saga where Dutch minister Karremans, took control of the Chinese chip manufacturer Nexperia, almost bringing the European car industry to it's knees, the Chinese company is now producing these chips in China locally. It's like the Dutch government doesn't understand that the Chinese have a backup plan for their backup plan. Like there would be no response? Within months another foreign company is leaving the Netherlands because the Dutch government is an American lapdog.

• Lobsters;
• Hacker News.

This randomly popped into my head.

Wedge issues

I blame each and every one of you.

As speculation mounts that Kim Jong-un and Trump could meet this month, analysts say Pyongyang will continue to see nuclear weapons as a matter of survival

North Korea’s launch last week of a missile from a naval destroyer elicited an uncharacteristically prosaic analysis from the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un. The launch was proof, he said, that arming ships with nuclear weapons was “making satisfactory progress”.

But the test, and Kim’s mildly upbeat appraisal, were designed to reverberate well beyond the deck of the 5,000-tonne destroyer-class vessel the Choe Hyon – the biggest warship in the North Korean fleet.

His pointed reference to nuclear weapons was made as the US and Israel continued their air bombardment of Iran – a regime Donald Trump had warned, without offering evidence, was only weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.

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Further details about the up to 350 jobs losses expected at the CSIRO are likely to be announced this week.

A CSIRO scientist fears the cuts will harm Australia's ability to adapt and respond to climate change, but the science agency says that's not the case.

A union branch representing CSIRO scientists is calling for urgent funding to stop the job losses.

I hope some of you here have some ideas why our government would be doing this? Is it to follow the example of the US with its axing of many climate change related programs and institutions? Is it because these scientists are going to be supplanted by AI programs? I find this situation bewildering.