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Canada has reached a ​deal to become an observer to an advanced fighter jet ‌program being pursued by Japan, Britain and Italy, a senior Canadian-based source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.

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Canadian defense officials are due to make a ​formal announcement on Tuesday of next week at the ⁠Farnborough International Airshow in Britain, said the source, who requested anonymity ​given the sensitivity of the matter.

The three countries launched the Global ​Combat Air Programme (GCAP) in 2022 to field a next-generation stealth fighter by 2035, led by Britain's BAE Systems, Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and Italy's Leonardo.

Any Canadian ​involvement would mark GCAP's first expansion beyond its three founding ​members.

Although observer status is an initial step that does not entail any financial ‌commitments, ⁠Canada could deepen its cooperation later, depending on how the project turns out.

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[The move] represents another step in Canada's efforts to diversify its defense spending ​away from the United States and forge closer ​European ties.

Last ⁠December, Ottawa said it would join the European Union's Security Action for Europe initiative, which will give Canadian defense companies expanded access to ⁠the European ​market.

GCAP is one of two major ​Western sixth-generation fighter projects, alongside the U.S. Air Force's Next Generation Air Dominance program.

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This week, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research (CITR) won a key battle in its fight to reverse a visa-restriction policy that the Trump administration had used to attempt to revoke green cards and deport non-US citizens who work on misinformation, disinformation, fact-checking, content moderation, compliance, and trust and safety.

In an opinion published Tuesday, US District Judge James Boasberg granted a preliminary injunction blocking the State Department from enforcing the policy until the CITR’s lawsuit is resolved.

On its face, the policy does not require visa denials or deportations. Instead, it authorizes immigration investigations into individuals suspected of helping foreign adversaries attempt to manipulate public opinion by suppressing US speech.

Over the course of the litigation, the State Department so far has failed to prove that any of the five researchers explicitly targeted under the policy had any connection to a foreign power attempting to censor Americans or manipulate US public debate. Left unchecked, the State Department’s authority seemingly had “no clear stopping point short of the [content moderation] field itself,” Boasberg said.

Disclaimer: auto generated YouTube subtitles for Arabic video from arch user.

English Transcript: "دونكم.. صرخة Arch Linux" (Arch Linux Cry)

Video: Watch here

Wait, all of you, wait. Let me stand among you for a moment, as one who only means to advise.

Word has reached me that many of you now ride upon gentle, obedient distributions — ones that lead their user by the hand like a toddler taking his first steps.

You call them by soft, friendly names, but in truth they are nothing but gilded chains, shackles dressed in every color of the rainbow — the one who wears them believes himself free, when in fact he is a prisoner to someone else's will.

As for me and my brothers and sisters of Arch, we chose a rough, unpaved path — one no guide leads and no one smooths. We walk it barefoot across the gravel of the terminal, unafraid, unshaken, because we believe dignity is only earned by carrying the weight of your own choices.

Know this, all who ask: this system was not built to please the newcomer, nor designed to coddle the beginner's hand.

It was built on a principle they call "Keep It Simple, Stupid," and to us, that is not stupidity at all — it is honesty itself, truth in its purest form.

The system hides nothing from you, decides nothing on your behalf. It places every thread of your fate in your hands. Weave it well, and you tailor yourself a garment unlike any other, weave it poorly, and blame no one but the hand that pulled the thread.

As for the cries you hear when someone's system collapses after one update — to us that is no flaw, it is a trial that separates the sincere from the pretender, the steady from the shaken.

Whoever stands firm after a broken update, and rebuilds their system with their own hands from the rubble, reaches a rank no one confined to a distro that guards them from all harm — like a mother guards her infant — will ever reach.

And know that we do not stand alone in this arena. Behind us lies a treasury like no other, known as the Arch User Repository, holding programs you'll find nowhere else.

Gathered by the devoted, by hand, as volunteer labor — imposed by no ruler, granted by no guardian, whenever you wish to install something rare, you reach into that vault and take what pleases you, asking permission of no one.

And we have a phrase for this, one we raise like a banner, one we hold like a creed: "I use Arch, by the way," and this is not the empty boast the ignorant take it for, it is a declaration — testimony that we carried the full weight of our choice ourselves, we do not cast it upon a developer, nor a repository, we, and only we, are the captains of our ship, and the captains of its wreck, should it sink.

So to those who believe the easy road is the safe one, know that ease can sometimes disguise hidden ignorance, and whoever hands the reins of their decisions to another forfeits forever the chance to know their own system with certainty, for the one who is led never knows the road as well as the one who carves it themselves.

And to you who mock Arch for its difficulty, listen: difficulty is not a flaw to be hidden, it is a sieve that separates. Whoever passes through it is never the same again, they become the true owner of their system, not a tenant in it, not a passing guest.

So whoever seeks comfort, let them go where comfort lives, and we will not blame them, to each their own choice.

But whoever wishes to know their computer as an equal, to converse with it directly, without mediation, let them draw near to us, and walk the rough road with us, and know that every line they write with their own hand is a new thread in a garment no one will ever weave for them.

That is all I wished to say. I am not the owner of this video. I am merely the echo of the cry of everyone who once typed pacman -S and felt, for a moment, the world sat between their fingertips.

I Use Arch, BTW. 🗿

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As the rubber boat he was on rocked through choppy waves, fear washed over Chinese dissident Dong Guangping, who had gone without sleep for two days.

The 68-year-old knew he was taking a huge risk trying to flee China by sea, but even then, he had underestimated the challenges of this journey.

He was badly sunburned, his phone was running out of battery, and his portable charger had gone flat. Apart from the sky and the sea, there were no landmarks around him. He could only hope that the digital compass would get him to South Korea before his phone went flat.

"Not being able to navigate would have been terrifying. I could have drifted back towards China," Dong told BBC Chinese nearly two months after his perilous escape.

Forty hours after setting out from China's eastern Shandong province, Dong was rescued by the coast guard and fishermen in Korean waters on the night of 27 May.

He was briefly detained in South Korea but has since resettled in Canada, where his family had been living.

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"I can never survive in China," said Dong, who spoke to BBC Chinese in a video call from Toronto.

"If I didn't leave, I will never be at peace for the rest of my life. I had to show the Chinese Communist Party I was capable of leaving. They cannot stop me, they cannot control me."

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Dong, a police officer-turned-human rights activist, has been jailed in China several times for his activism.

In 1999, Dong was fired from the police force after 13 years because he signed a petition to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the brutal Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

Then in 2001, he was imprisoned for three years for "inciting subversion of state power". He was jailed again in 2014 for participating in another Tiananmen commemoration event, according to Amnesty International.

Dong had fled China four times previously but was sent back each time. "But I have always held fast to one conviction: I must get out into the free world," he tells BBC Chinese.

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In September 2015, he travelled to Bangkok with his wife and daughter, where they were granted refugee status by the United Nations and approved for resettlement in Canada.

But days before they were scheduled to leave for Canada, Thai authorities deported Dong to China, where he was jailed for "inciting subversion" and "crossing the national border illegally". He was sentenced to three and a half years in jail.

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In May this year, with just a few hours of sailing practice, Dong started his journey in Weihai, Shandong, in a 3.3m long rubber dinghy equipped with an engine.

The poor weather conditions at sea prompted him to reroute and head towards South Korea, which is a closer destination.

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Dong was sent to a refugee centre in Incheon and later granted political asylum in Canada.

He is not the first Chinese dissident to flee across the sea to South Korea.

In 2023, another Chinese activist Kwon Pyong fled to South Korea on a jet ski. He was initially detained on immigration charges but later resettled in the US.

Speaking about the moment when he found out his flight to Toronto was confirmed, Dong said he was "overcome with emotion holding the air ticket".

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In this News Brief, we dissect the Orwellian phrase "right to exist," why it only applies to Israel, what purpose it serves, and why Palestinians are never said to have such a right.

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Original title (KO): 포핸즈 (Pohaenjeu, Four Hands)

A gentle, gifted piano prodigy enters an arts high school and gets swept into the chaos of teen friendship, rivalry, first love, and all the messy growing-up vibes that come with it.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/305644