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A 25-year-old man and 31-year-old woman will face the ACT Magistrates Court on Wednesday on charges of reckless foreign interference, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.

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The case underscores longstanding concerns among Australian security agencies that Beijing has shown little hesitation in pursuing domestic political objectives beyond its borders, including through efforts to monitor, influence or pressure members of the Chinese diaspora.

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Russia is unlikely to attack any NATO member in the near future, but plans to continue its war against Ukraine, according to Estonia’s annual international security report. Published by the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service (EFIS) on Tuesday, the report focuses almost exclusively on Russia, warning that the Kremlin is actively preparing for its “next war.”

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According to the Estonian assessment, the Kremlin “merely feigns interest” in peace talks aimed at ending the war with Ukraine. Russia hopes to restore bilateral relations with the United States and “formalize Ukraine’s defeat,” the report says. At the same time, EFIS maintains that Moscow continues to view Washington “as its principal adversary.”

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Referring to China and Russia as “allies without a treaty,” the report says that both countries are trying to tip the global balance of power in their favor. The EFIS characterizes frequent consultations between Moscow and Beijing as an attempt to “mitigate the risk” of one side striking a deal with the U.S. “behind the other’s back.”

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Although under strain from international sanctions, Russia’s military-industrial complex continues to function thanks to sanctions evasion schemes that keep dual-use goods flowing into the country, the report notes.

The report also notes that since 2021, Russia’s military-industrial complex has increased artillery ammunition production more than seventeenfold. According to the EFIS, this indicates that Russia is “highly likely” to rebuild its stockpiles in preparation for future conflict, even as the war against Ukraine continues.

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Russia is facing increasingly severe economic problems and continues to neglect nearly all non-military sectors, the report says. EFIS predicts that Russia’s GDP will contract in 2026, raising the risk of economic and social instability.

The report says that the Russian economy has “entered a downturn” and would likely still face serious problems even if the war were to end and sanctions were lifted. As the defense sector expands at the expense of the civilian economy, nearly all other sectors are in recession or stagnating.

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Meanhwile, The Moscow Times reports that Russian companies are increasingly moving employees to part-time work amid worsening economic conditions.

The number of partially employed workers in Russia now stands at its highest level in over a decade, [the pro-Kremlin daily] Izvestia said, citing an analysis of Rosstat data by Moscow-based auditing network FinExpertiza.

While the official unemployment rate is currently hovering around 2.2%, the surge in part-time work highlights the hidden strain on Russia’s economy as the invasion of Ukraine nears its four-year mark.

Some 5.5 million Russians were classified as partially employed in the third quarter of 2025, up 12% from the previous quarter and the highest figure since 2015.

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A 25-year-old man and 31-year-old woman will face the ACT Magistrates Court on Wednesday on charges of reckless foreign interference, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.

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The case underscores longstanding concerns among Australian security agencies that Beijing has shown little hesitation in pursuing domestic political objectives beyond its borders, including through efforts to monitor, influence or pressure members of the Chinese diaspora.

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Israel’s far right seems to believe that destroying Palestinian governance will afford Israel more strength. On the contrary—it is a mistake that will become expensive, bloody, and self-destructive as it accelerates the cycles of resentment and violence. And Washington, too, stands to lose a great deal by turning a blind eye to the West Bank: the PA’s collapse will remove any plausible path toward the kind of regional stabilization and effective postwar settlement on which the Trump administration has staked much of its foreign policy legacy.

A Harvard Business Review study is answering the question ‘what will employees do if AI saves them time at work?’ The answer: more work.

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The suspect in a Canada school shooting was an 18-year-old who had a history of police visits to her home to check on her mental health, authorities said Wednesday, a day after the attack that killed eight people in a remote part of British Columbia.

Police said Jesse Van Rootselaar was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted wound following the assault on a school in the small mountain community of Tumbler Ridge.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said Van Rootselaar first killed her mother and stepbrother at the family home before attacking the nearby school. She had a history of mental health contacts with police, he said.

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Preliminary data from the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) showed that about 726,000 people were employed in the sector in Germany in 2025, nearly 47,000 fewer than a year earlier and almost 107,000 fewer than in 2019.

The company's German locations will be most heavily affected by the cuts, with a couple hundred jobs to go at its semiconductor plant in Regensburg, chief executive Aldo Kamper said.

Ams Osram plans to move production of items that are also made by Asian competitors to Asia for cost reasons

The idea of machines that can build even better machines sounds like sci-fi, but the concept is becoming a reality as companies like Cadence tap into generative AI to design and validate next-gen processors that also use AI.

In the early days of integrated circuits, chips were designed by hand. In the more than half a century since then, semiconductors have grown so complex and their physical features so small that it's only possible to design chips using other chips. Cadence is one of several electronic design automation (EDA) vendors building software for this purpose.

Even with this software, the process of designing chips remains time-consuming and error-prone. But with the rise of generative AI, Cadence and others have begun exploring new ways to automate these processes.

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I'm an English teacher who wanted to "cut the cord" wherever I could, so I started learning about domain hosts, containerization, .yaml files, etc.

Since then, I've been hosting several pods for file sharing and streaming for many years, and I'm currently thinking about learning kubernetes for home deployment. But why?

If you aren't in development, IT, cyber security, or in a related profession, what made you want to learn this on your own? What made you want to pick this up as a hobby?

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A total of 28,582 of cars are affected in Germany, according to BMW.

Product inspections revealed a faulty solenoid switch, which controls the electricity flow in a circuit. Models affected include the BMW's 2 Series Coupé, several variants of the 3 Series, 4 Series and 5 Series, the 6 Series Gran Turismo, the 7 Series saloon and the X4, X5, X6 and Z4, according to the carmaker.