Two U.S. F-18 fighter jets flying in tandem entered Venezuelan airspace around noon Tuesday, circling over the Gulf of Venezuela in the latest show of force against the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

The flyover — carried out despite the Venezuelan regime’s possession of a number of Russian-made anti-aircraft batteries — took place less than 100 miles northeast of Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second-largest city. Thousands of Venezuelans tracked the aircraft online through specialized tracking websites, watching as the jets traced a bow-tie-shaped pattern over the gulf.

The fighters remained inside Venezuelan airspace for at least 40 minutes at an altitude of roughly 25,000 feet before heading north and leaving the area.

Voith said it plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs, representing about 10% of its workforce,

Voith supplies machines and technical systems to a range of industrial sectors. Its portfolio includes turbines, generators and digital control technology for hydropower plants, as well as systems for processing recycled paper.

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Australia has more than 250 data centres and more in the pipeline, prompting experts to warn against using drinking water to cool servers.

It comes after the Commonwealth announced its National AI Plan after a two-year consultation period.

One water authority is already exploring the use of recycled waste water for data centres.

Welp, 8 Democrats have nibbling on their faces so far...

But we'll see.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40097729

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40097729

The idea of a “right to repair” — a requirement that companies facilitate consumers’ repairs, maintenance, and modification of products — is extremely popular, even winning broad, bipartisan support in Congress. That could not, however, save it from the military–industrial complex.

Lobbyists succeeded in killing part of the National Defense Authorization Act that would have given service members the right to fix their equipment in the field without having to worry about military suppliers’ intellectual property.

Under one version, co-sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mt., defense companies would have been required to supply the information needed for repairs — such as technical data, maintenance manuals, engineering drawings, and lists of replacement parts — as a condition of Pentagon contracts.

I just has the honors of writing a guest article on selfh.st about my ever so slowly evolving project, dockcheck.

Late last week, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warned Trump against the EO, advising him to “leave AI to the states” to preserve federalism and allow local protections.

Since Israel launched its genocidal war in Gaza in 2023, several nations – including Japan, Canada, France, Italy, and Spain – have moved to enact various arms embargoes against Israel. The US, which has supported, supplied, and financed Israel’s assault, could now help backfill any weapons that Israel may be missing, under the defense bill released Sunday night.

A provision buried deep in the proposed National Defense Authorization Act calls for the “continual assessment of [the] impact of international state arms embargoes on Israel and actions to address defense capability gaps.”

The measure can be found more than 1,000 pages into the 3,000-page NDAA. The bill is considered a piece of must-pass legislation, and is expected to move quickly. The massive bill typically passes with bipartisan support.

The EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, first published in May 2022, has become the "most criticized law of all time". Here's how to stop it now!

Unlike his other products, it’s not powered by Steam.

The European Union is investigating Google for potential antitrust violations related to its AI models.