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Emails released by the U.S. Justice Department trace a years-long friendship between Jeffrey Epstein and Karim Wade — the son of Senegal’s former president — who was jailed for corruption.

If you are to believe the glossy marketing campaigns about ‘quantum computing’, then we are on the cusp of a computing revolution, yet back in the real world things look a lot less dire. At least if you’re worried about quantum computers (QCs) breaking every single conventional encryption algorithm in use today, because at this point they cannot even factor 21 yet without cheating.

In the article by [Craig Gidney] the basic problem is explained, which comes down to simple exponentials. Specifically the number of quantum gates required to perform factoring increases exponentially, allowing QCs to factor 15 in 2001 with a total of 21 two-qubit entangling gates. Extrapolating from the used circuit, factoring 21 would require 2,405 gates, or 115 times more.

underlying article: https://algassert.com/post/2500

DECLAWED Dashboard.

Dallas has obtained unique drawings showing the scale of the modernization of Plant No. 9 in Yekaterinburg.

This plant is a key manufacturer of artillery barrels for the Koalitsiya and Msta self-propelled howitzers, tank guns for the T-90 and T-14 Armata, as well as for the modernized T-62 and T-72 tanks.

Over the past ten years, Russia has been actively purchasing German, Italian, and Taiwanese machine tools. Even now, despite sanctions, the plant plans to install 22 units of foreign equipment. How did they get there?

The results of the joint investigation with @Tatarigami_UA are available on this link.

Not really.

But the military does, because further improvement allows stealthier micro-camera-transmitters and things like that.

So they don't let you buy a phone that lasts 10 years with a giant battery and a 6-square-inch SoC at a good price.

They make you buy overpriced short lived phones with tiny chips and batteries, to make you want the next newest most power-efficient chip, with 5G or 6G wireless. Thanks to your support, they can deploy a global network of this tech, and use it for things like MilliMobiles and NSO Group device access.

They don't let the prices go down at full speed on hard drives, RAM, graphics cards, etc. They can just print money to get as much as they need, while worker ants have to provide heavy support to the industry if we want table scraps. We even have to argue about what we do and don't "own" after buying it.

All for their surveillance state, to control you in service of eroding your constitutional rights (not to mention bombing kids and protecting sexual predator islands)

“The very concept of "revolutionary violence" is somewhat falsely cast, since most of the violence comes from those who attempt to prevent reform, not from those struggling for reform. By focusing on the violent rebellions of the downtrodden, we overlook the much greater repressive force and violence utilized by the ruling oligarchs to maintain the status quo, including armed attacks against peaceful demonstrations, mass arrests, torture, destruction of opposition organizations, suppression of dissident publications, death squad assassinations, the extermination of whole villages, and the like.”

― Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

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cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/58845954

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/7149414

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Spain’s diplomatic corps and foreign affairs journalists have raised alarm over what they describe as a sharp institutional decline at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since the arrival of José Manuel Albares, citing growing restrictions on press access and increasingly centralised decision-making.

On Monday, Madrid’s Press Association condemned what it described as “pressure” from senior foreign ministry officials – including journalist “vetoes” and the informal labelling of media outlets as “friendly” or “hostile”.

The controversy flared last week when a journalist noted at a press conference that Albares had not held a standalone presser for eight months. Days later, El Confidencial Digital reported that the minister had sought to bar her from the ministry – a move later conveyed to her employer by his spokesperson.

The episode sparked outrage among Spain’s foreign affairs press corps, which accuses Albares of undermining press freedom since taking office in 2021.

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Concerns extend beyond the media. Alberto Virella, president of the Association of Spanish Diplomats (ADE) and a former ambassador to Senegal, told Euractiv that the opacity mirrors deeper problems within the ministry itself.

“The ministry’s communication policy is anomalous,” Virella said, noting that ambassadors – and diplomats more broadly – are discouraged from speaking to the press for fear of reprimand.

He added that appointment procedures have also become less transparent, with postings no longer clearly based on seniority but on criteria “known only to the minister”.

“These conditions favour arbitrariness and cronyism,” Virella said, warning that they weaken Spain’s diplomatic effectiveness.

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Spain’s diplomatic corps and foreign affairs journalists have raised alarm over what they describe as a sharp institutional decline at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since the arrival of José Manuel Albares, citing growing restrictions on press access and increasingly centralised decision-making.

On Monday, Madrid’s Press Association condemned what it described as “pressure” from senior foreign ministry officials – including journalist “vetoes” and the informal labelling of media outlets as “friendly” or “hostile”.

The controversy flared last week when a journalist noted at a press conference that Albares had not held a standalone presser for eight months. Days later, El Confidencial Digital reported that the minister had sought to bar her from the ministry – a move later conveyed to her employer by his spokesperson.

The episode sparked outrage among Spain’s foreign affairs press corps, which accuses Albares of undermining press freedom since taking office in 2021.

...

Concerns extend beyond the media. Alberto Virella, president of the Association of Spanish Diplomats (ADE) and a former ambassador to Senegal, told Euractiv that the opacity mirrors deeper problems within the ministry itself.

“The ministry’s communication policy is anomalous,” Virella said, noting that ambassadors – and diplomats more broadly – are discouraged from speaking to the press for fear of reprimand.

He added that appointment procedures have also become less transparent, with postings no longer clearly based on seniority but on criteria “known only to the minister”.

“These conditions favour arbitrariness and cronyism,” Virella said, warning that they weaken Spain’s diplomatic effectiveness.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42965410

by Ed Augustin
1/23/26

Major media outlets have long joined in these doomsday forecasts, but in the weeks leading up to and after the U.S. attack on Venezuela, the familiar storyline returned with renewed intensity. The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs and The Guardian have all used the exact same phrase: “Cuba is on the brink.”

These outlets rarely report with any depth on the primary cause behind Cuba’s devastating economic crisis: U.S. sanctions. Such is the case with a November article in The Economist: "Cuba is heading for disaster, unless its regime changes drastically."

Also:

• Cuba to Enter “State of War”
• House Approves Bill Funding Cuba “Democracy Promotion”
• More Than Half the US Wants Cuba to Be Sovereign
• Solidarity Activists Organize “Call-in Day” for Cuba
• Cubans in the US Now Treated Like Other Immigrants
• Cuban Man’s Death in ICE Custody Likely a Homicide
• China to Send Cuba New Aid

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/34017704

Fruit from Moquilea tomentosa

I can barely finish a couple of these and I already feel satiated. At least for me, this is not the kind of fruit that I can eat a pound in the blink of an eye

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/26447

Another correspondence from the files released by the DOJ shows the Emirati businessman describing sexual experiences to Epstein

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This is how "divide and conquer" works in Europe right now, in practice. If the Greeks stick with Europe, they risk their security by leaving Erdogan as the only interlocutor of Trump in the East Mediterannean.

One of Spain's most respected memory associations on Monday accused the leftist government of flouting its own much-vaunted policy to remove public symbols inherited from Francisco Franco's brutal dictatorship.