Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office is investigating whether a Canadian mining company holds any responsibility in the suspected cartel kidnapping of 10 of its workers, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday.

Sheinbaum said the federal body, led by Attorney General Ernestina Godoy Ramos, will investigate the motive behind the Jan. 23 kidnappings.

“We have to … look into exactly what the labour conditions were for these miners and see if there is or isn’t responsibility," on the part of Vizsla Silver Corp. employees, she said during a morning news conference in Mexico City.

Sheinbaum said the office is also examining whether extortion or threats played a role in the kidnapping.

More than a dozen food companies have urged the European Commission not to ban the use of words such as “sausage” and “burger” for non-meat products.

I would like to distro hop to EndeavourOS, and it has been suggested that I use rclone to copy my home folder to an external SSD. Unfortunately, I don't have an external SSD at the moment, but I do have a phone that has plenty of free space. Is it a good idea to back up my computer files to an Android phone? My gut says it's not a very good idea, but I'm not sure why.

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.

(Since this is a personal blog I'll clarify I am not the author.)

• Trump says it has been difficult to make a deal with Iran
• US fully expects Iran to retaliate, official says
• A sustained campaign carries more risk to US forces, broader Middle East

WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in what could become a far more serious conflict than previously seen between the countries.

The disclosure by the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the planning, raises the stakes for the diplomacy underway between the United States and Iran.

U.S. and Iranian diplomats held talks in Oman last week in an effort to revive diplomacy over Tehran's nuclear program, after Trump amassed military forces in the region, raising fears of new military action.

U.S. officials said on Friday the Pentagon was sending an additional aircraft carrier to the Middle East, adding thousands more troops along with fighter aircraft, guided-missile destroyers and other firepower capable of waging attacks and defending against them.

Trump, speaking to U.S. troops on Friday at a base in North Carolina, said it had "been difficult to make a deal" with Iran.

"Sometimes you have to have fear. That's the only thing that really will get the situation taken care of," Trump said.

just me and the comrades doing some fraternal cuddles

Some are left, some aren’t. But what they have in common is that they are ready to rumble. It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist.

Our leaders are not wise or insightful. They’re not even particularly intelligent. Our society is led by plutocrats who only know how to make more money, by unelected empire managers who only know how to dominate and control, and by elected politicians who only know how to say the right words and make the right…

Common Hasan W

It was a cortisol smash

Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Cuban ambassador to the UN, discusses how the US is also attacking medical programs and tourism.

According to data cited by the Commission on Population and Development (CPD), the percentage of Filipino girls aged 15 to 19 who had begun childbearing declined from 8.6% in 2017 to 5.4% in 2022.

However, live births among girls aged 10 to 14 rose from 2,411 in 2019 to 3,343 in 2023, based on Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) civil registration data referenced by the CPD.

The 2022 National Demographic and Health Survey reported that approximately 10.9% of girls aged 15–19 in the region have begun childbearing. It's the highest rate among all regions in the country.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/59074961

EV sales have lagged expectations, and the shift comes as Europe waters down emissions targets that would allow combustion engines to stay around for longer.