Playtime is canceled for 69 schools in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) on Monday morning thanks to a colorful but potentially risky batch of sand.

Kmart and Target issued product recalls Saturday after samples of a widely-used play sand were found to have traces of asbestos, forcing the schools to close, the state government said Sunday.

Inspections are underway and could "take days," ACT Education Minister Yvette Berry in a post on Facebook, adding that testing so far had come back "negative to airborne asbestos" from all schools. People who have been in contact with the sand do not require a clinical assessment, health officials say.

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) says Israeli soldiers have fired at its peacekeepers from a tank near an army position in southern Lebanon.

In a statement, UNIFIL said the Israeli military “fired on UNIFIL peacekeepers from a Merkava tank from near a position Israel has established in Lebanese territory”.

It said heavy-machinegun rounds struck about 5 metres (5.5 yards) from the peacekeepers’ location.

Wish to major in liberal studies and this seems like the best place

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In four days, the EU Commission releases the Digital Omnibus, a proposal to "simplify" GDPR that would actually weaken privacy protections on many front: narrowing personal data definitions, giving AI companies blanket access to sensitive data, eliminating employee and journalist protections, and enabling remote device access without consent. In this video, we break down what's changing, why it matters globally, and exactly what you can do to fight back.

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#gdpr #europe #omnibus

I'm not OP, but that post resonated with me a lot.

Denmark's rotating presidency of the EU has been juggling a lot of difficult political balls: the climate negotiations ahead of the COP30 in Brazil, the "simplification" omnibuses that have run into political battles in the European Parliament, and much else. We travel to Copenhagen to talk to Denmark’s Minister for European Affairs, Marie Bjerre, about how the presidency is going, and how the small country is dealing with the big geopolitical headwinds blowing into Denmark.

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Wherever possible, only components from our own production – this is the federal government's plan for German telecommunications networks, which Chancellor Friedrich Merz surprisingly announced on Thursday at the congress of the German Retail Association in Berlin.

"We have decided within the government that we will replace components wherever possible – for example in the 5G network – with components that we produce ourselves," according to consistent media reports citing Merz, including the Handelsblatt. "And we will not allow components from China in the 6G network." Merz did not provide a more precise classification, for example, what is considered "self-produced" according to this standard. The statement is said to have been made during a Q&A session and is not to be found in the transcript of his speech.

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The industry should discuss what can be done not only to become more independent from China, but also from the USA and the major technology companies, Merz is further quoted as saying. However, Merz ruled out a complete decoupling from China.

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Just at the beginning of the month, the Federal Network Agency tightened its rules for components of the 5G network. The regulator argues that 5G networks represent the future backbone of digitized economies, connect billions of systems, and process sensitive information in critical infrastructures (Kritis). According to the Handelsblatt, the CDU, CSU, and SPD last week also agreed on new legislation also agreed on new legislative tightening last week to ban equipment from German telecommunications networks deemed insecure.

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According to the legally anchored "Huawei Clause", the federal government can prohibit the use of "critical components" in cases of "potential threats to public safety and order." The federal government and the mobile network operators reached a fundamental agreement last year to no longer use technology from Huawei or ZTE for critical components of the radio networks by 2029.

This is a joke I'm not that angry but it is mildly annoying bruh get some airpods before I turn into a monkey and snap your phone in half

Inspired by https://hexbear.net/post/6755687 because I agree with them that loud phones are annoying especially as someone with sensory issues

Several experts suggested reducing speed on the Autobahn.

It would reduce carbon emissions and would also save Germany money:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/autobahn-speed-limit-would-cut-carbon-and-bring-e1bn-in-benefits-study-says/

https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-11-24/faced-with-energy-crisis-germans-agonize-over-autobahn-speed-limits.html

Many German boomers were absolutely outraged.