The planned takeover of the insolvent solar glass manufacturer collapsed unexpectedly, leaving approximately 215 remaining employees facing layoffs.

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9892085/7366041

Background from noyb:

In December 2019, noyb had filed complaints against three providers of French websites, because they had implemented cookie banners that turned a clear “NO” into “fake consent”. Even if a user went through the trouble of rejecting countless cookies on the eCommerce page CDiscount, the movie guide Allocine .fr and the fashion magazine Vanity Fair, these websites sent digital signals to tracking companies claiming that users had agreed to being tracked online. CDiscount sent “fake consent” signals to 431 tracking companies per user, Allocine to 565, and Vanity Fair to 375, an analysis of the data flows had shown.

CNIL sanctions Conde Nast. Today, almost six (!) years after these complaints had originally been filed, the French data protection authority CNIL has finally reached a decision in the case against Vanity Fair: Conde Nast, the publisher behind Vanity Fair, has failed to obtain user consent before placing cookies. In addition, the company failed to sufficiently inform its users about the purpose of supposedly “necessary” cookies. Thirdly, the implemented mechanisms for refusing and withdrawing consent was ineffective. Conde Nast must therefore pay a fine of €750.000.

Information published about the show by London Palladium included further warnings of ‘imitation blood' and 'some violence'
Fan Gerald Dixon told The Sun: “What next? A warning that the hit musical includes catchy tunes?

“This nonsense is enough to make anyone utter the Lord's name in vain.”

While welcoming voluntary CSAM scanning, scientists warn that some aspects of the revised bill "still bring high risks to society without clear benefits for children."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53932397

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1. I mourned the Tiananmen martyrs
2. Whose free speech was so brutally quelled
3. And I cheered when Mandela walked freely
4. After so many years in a cell
5. But mister Assange can rot in prison
6. Those secrets were not his to tell
7. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
9. I attend sensitivity trainings
10. And I leave feeling so reassured
11. I love Oprah and Magic and Foreman
12. It’s great seein’ blacks become entrepreneurs
13. The economy’s become so inclusive
14. Revolution would just be absurd
15. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
17. I cheered when Obama was chosen
18. My faith in the system restored
19. And I'll never forgive Ralph Nader
20. For the race he stole from Al Gore
21. And I love hard-working Latinos
22. As long as they don't move next door
23. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
25. Something happened to working class voters
26. They’ve disgraced America’s name
27. Someone’s controlling the way that their minds work
28. And Vladimir Putin’s the man who’s to blame
29. But if you think you can win Single Payer
30. You must be completely insane
31. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
33. I listen to All Things Considered
34. I’d consider anyone’s views
35. I watch Colbert and Rachel Maddow
36. I use irony in everything I do
37. But when Trump set his sights on Maduro
38. There was no one more red, white and blue
39. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
41. I vote for the Democratic Party
42. They’re strengthening NATO command
43. I saw Bono at the Live Eight Concert
44. I’d buy anything endorsed by his brand
45. We’re gonna make poverty history
46. I’m on Facebook, taking a stand!
47. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
49. Sure once I was young and impulsive
50. I wore every conceivable pin
51. I fought for a socialist future,
52. Which I actually thought we could win
53. Ah, but I've grown older and wiser
54. And that's why I'm turning you in
55. So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal

As measles cases continue to rise around the globe, the World Health Organization warns it's a signal that other disease outbreaks could soon follow.

The surging number of measles cases around the world is a stark warning sign that outbreaks of other vaccine-preventable diseases could be next, the World Health Organization warned Friday.

“It’s crucial to understand why measles matters,” said Dr. Kate O’Brien, director of the WHO’s Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals. “Its high transmissibility means that even small drops in vaccine coverage can trigger outbreaks, like a fire alarm going off when smoke is detected first.”

That is, measles is often the first disease to pop up when vaccination rates overall drop.

The Prime Minister of Lithuania said the country will seek action through international judicial institutions in response to Belarus’ ongoing use of smuggler balloons, which continue to drift into Lithuanian territory.

According to LRT on November 27, Inga Ruginienė explained that several ministries are now collecting evidence and evaluating the possibility of filing a case with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the risks and damage caused by these balloon flights. Over recent months, Vilnius Airport has been forced to shut down multiple times because of them.

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As the UK paper The Telegraph reports, the balloons, which contain GPS trackers and around £3,000 worth of cigarettes each, are released high into the air in Belarus before floating across the border into Lithuania. Moscow is using Belarus to unleash these swarms of balloons into Lithuania to create air-traffic chaos and find weak spots on Nato’s eastern flank.

These smugglers have a more sinister goal than profit: creating air traffic chaos on Nato’s eastern flank, in what Lithuania says is a new phase of Moscow’s hybrid war on the West.

Since October the Baltic region’s second-largest airport, in Vilnius, has been forced to close nine times due to the swarms of balloons, which also reached neighbouring Latvia for the first time this week.

There have even been reports of balloon launches from Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave sandwiched between Lithuania, Poland and key Russian ally Belarus.

Lithuania also warned that the balloon launches pose a “serious” threat to Nato security on its eastern flank, and were being “perpetrated in the broader context of Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine.”

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Paris's Louvre museum said on Thursday, November 27, it would raise ticket prices for most non-EU visitors, meaning US, British and Chinese tourists among others will have to pay $37 to get in.

The museum told Agence France-Presse (AFP) the 45% price hike aims to boost annual revenues by up to $23 million to fund structural improvements at the world's most-visited art museum, which is reeling from the daylight theft of priceless treasures last month.

From 2026, visitors from outside the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway will have to pay €32 – an extra €10 – from January 14, the museum and staff unions said after the measure was approved at a museum board meeting.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/42636072

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Here is the original report by the Bank of Finland.

Chinese exporters have been raising prices for Russian military-industrial buyers, exploiting the Kremlin’s reliance on their supplies as western sanctions restrict imports, new research has revealed.

Prices of export-controlled products shipped from China to Russia rose 87 per cent between 2021 and 2024 on average, according to a new paper from the Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (Bofit). The price of similar goods shipped elsewhere rose only 9 per cent.

The research shows that while Russia has been able to use Chinese suppliers to get around western restrictions on the purchase of products that have potential military uses, the wave of sanctions imposed in the wake of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has pushed up costs for the Kremlin.

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The authors, Iikka Korhonen and Heli Simola, focused on a major pinch point: the trade in goods listed as “machinery and mechanical appliances”, a category that includes a large number of items identified as being of importance to the war-industry push.

They concluded sanctions have “limited Russia’s technological capabilities by making the importing of critical goods more expensive”.

In some cases, they found that increases in the value of export-controlled imports from China to Russia had been driven entirely by price rises rather than an increase in trade flows. By 2024, Russia’s imports of Chinese ball bearings had surged 76 per cent since 2021 in dollar terms. But the volume of exports dropped 13 per cent over that time.

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Relief from sanctions remains a critical goal of the Kremlin. In the original 28-point peace plan devised by the US and Russia and presented last week to Ukraine, the document states “the lifting of sanctions will be discussed and agreed upon in stages and on a case-by-case basis”.

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What if they were awake this whole time but couldn't tell the difference? I think mods should sell their father's modding fortune to a Japanese business man. Or, more accurately, they think they should do that.

Archived link

Here is the original report by the Bank of Finland.

Chinese exporters have been raising prices for Russian military-industrial buyers, exploiting the Kremlin’s reliance on their supplies as western sanctions restrict imports, new research has revealed.

Prices of export-controlled products shipped from China to Russia rose 87 per cent between 2021 and 2024 on average, according to a new paper from the Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (Bofit). The price of similar goods shipped elsewhere rose only 9 per cent.

The research shows that while Russia has been able to use Chinese suppliers to get around western restrictions on the purchase of products that have potential military uses, the wave of sanctions imposed in the wake of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has pushed up costs for the Kremlin.

...

The authors, Iikka Korhonen and Heli Simola, focused on a major pinch point: the trade in goods listed as “machinery and mechanical appliances”, a category that includes a large number of items identified as being of importance to the war-industry push.

They concluded sanctions have “limited Russia’s technological capabilities by making the importing of critical goods more expensive”.

In some cases, they found that increases in the value of export-controlled imports from China to Russia had been driven entirely by price rises rather than an increase in trade flows. By 2024, Russia’s imports of Chinese ball bearings had surged 76 per cent since 2021 in dollar terms. But the volume of exports dropped 13 per cent over that time.

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Relief from sanctions remains a critical goal of the Kremlin. In the original 28-point peace plan devised by the US and Russia and presented last week to Ukraine, the document states “the lifting of sanctions will be discussed and agreed upon in stages and on a case-by-case basis”.

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*Tries to stand agains but instead slip over again launching the bowl if beans back up into the air causing it to do a full flip then land upside down on head, resembling a bean helmet, spilling red bean sauce all across face *

Shucks oh cripe crap cripe please don't tell my boss. This is the third time today