• IBM Announcement;
• The Paper;
• Video.

Experiment delivered up to 34% improvement in predicting the probability of winning customer inquiries in the European corporate bond market

• Hacker News;
• Reddit.

The Federal Trade Commission has secured a historic order with Amazon.com, Inc., as well as Senior Vice President Neil Lindsay and Vice President Jamil Ghani, settling allegations that Amazon enrolled millions of consumers in Prime subscriptions without their consent, and knowingly made it difficult for consumers to cancel. Amazon will be required to pay a $1 billion civil penalty, provide $1.5 billion in refunds back to consumers harmed by their deceptive Prime enrollment practices, and cease unlawful enrollment and cancellation practices for Prime.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/4740695

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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a report on Sept. 23 detailing the vast scale of torture committed by Russian forces on Ukrainian civilians held in captivity in occupied territories.

Between June 1, 2023, and Sept. 10, 2025, OHCHR documented 508 cases of civilian detainees, including 392 men, 103 women, three girls, and nine boys. These include individuals of all age groups, from adolescents to older adults, as well as 15 persons with disabilities.

"We will leave you to rot. No one will find you. No one needs you. You don't exist. We'll bury you right here; only hungry dogs will find you," one civilian detainee said when describing the threats he received in captivity.

Moscow occupies roughly 20% of Ukrainian territory in the east and the south.

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"People have been arbitrarily picked off the streets in occupied territory, charged under shifting legal bases and held for days, weeks, months, and even years, often with limited contact to their families," Volker Turk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in the report.

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Former detainees reported experiencing a broad array of torture and ill-treatment during their captivity. Commonly described methods included severe beatings with various objects such as batons and sticks, electric shocks to different body parts, mock executions, kickings, threats of death, and violence directed either to a detainee or their loved ones.

Detainees were also subjected to stress positions, such as "bent walking" and prolonged kneeling on concrete surfaces, and different forms of humiliation, including forced singing of the Russian anthem and patriotic songs.

According to the report, over 92 % of the 216 released civilian detainees interviewed since June 2023 provided consistent and detailed accounts of being subjected to torture or ill-treatment during their captivity. Additionally, 101 interviewees described witnessing torture or ill-treatment of other detainees.

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One civilian detainee held in captivity by Russian soldiers said his captors beat him "heavily with a baseball bat, targeting legs, a knee, and head."

"They damaged my elbow, displaced my kneecap, and injured my feet. I told one of them to be a human being and shoot me dead. He replied that he would not waste ammo to kill me," he said.

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"Torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment are absolutely prohibited and the life, well-being and dignity of persons deprived of their liberty must be respected," the report says.

Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said on May 9 that Ukrainian authorities had confirmed the ongoing detention of around 1,800 Ukrainian civilians by Russia. The actual figure is likely much greater, as verifying the information is difficult.

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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a report on Sept. 23 detailing the vast scale of torture committed by Russian forces on Ukrainian civilians held in captivity in occupied territories.

Between June 1, 2023, and Sept. 10, 2025, OHCHR documented 508 cases of civilian detainees, including 392 men, 103 women, three girls, and nine boys. These include individuals of all age groups, from adolescents to older adults, as well as 15 persons with disabilities.

"We will leave you to rot. No one will find you. No one needs you. You don't exist. We'll bury you right here; only hungry dogs will find you," one civilian detainee said when describing the threats he received in captivity.

Moscow occupies roughly 20% of Ukrainian territory in the east and the south.

...

"People have been arbitrarily picked off the streets in occupied territory, charged under shifting legal bases and held for days, weeks, months, and even years, often with limited contact to their families," Volker Turk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in the report.

...

Former detainees reported experiencing a broad array of torture and ill-treatment during their captivity. Commonly described methods included severe beatings with various objects such as batons and sticks, electric shocks to different body parts, mock executions, kickings, threats of death, and violence directed either to a detainee or their loved ones.

Detainees were also subjected to stress positions, such as "bent walking" and prolonged kneeling on concrete surfaces, and different forms of humiliation, including forced singing of the Russian anthem and patriotic songs.

According to the report, over 92 % of the 216 released civilian detainees interviewed since June 2023 provided consistent and detailed accounts of being subjected to torture or ill-treatment during their captivity. Additionally, 101 interviewees described witnessing torture or ill-treatment of other detainees.

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One civilian detainee held in captivity by Russian soldiers said his captors beat him "heavily with a baseball bat, targeting legs, a knee, and head."

"They damaged my elbow, displaced my kneecap, and injured my feet. I told one of them to be a human being and shoot me dead. He replied that he would not waste ammo to kill me," he said.

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"Torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment are absolutely prohibited and the life, well-being and dignity of persons deprived of their liberty must be respected," the report says.

Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said on May 9 that Ukrainian authorities had confirmed the ongoing detention of around 1,800 Ukrainian civilians by Russia. The actual figure is likely much greater, as verifying the information is difficult.

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For the first time, US residents can now invest in memecoins through traditional brokerages. Trading will only get stranger from here.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49541009

The cuts, all of which will take place in Germany, represent about 10 percent of Bosch's total workforce in the country

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Today, we're excited to announce the release of Linkwarden 2.13! 🥳 This update brings significant improvements and new features to enhance your experience.

For those who are new to Linkwarden, it’s basically a tool to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve webpages, articles, and documents, all in one place. It’s great for bookmarking stuff to read later, and you can also share your resources, create public collections, and collaborate with your team. Linkwarden is available as a Cloud subscription or you can self-host it on your own server.

This release brings a range of updates to make your bookmarking and archiving experience even smoother. Let’s take a look:

What’s new:

🏷️ New Tag Management Page

We added a dedicated page where you can view, sort, add, bulk merge, and bulk delete you Tags, all in one place.

⚙️ Compact Sidebar

You can now shrink the sidebar for a more compact and minimal look.

🐞 Bug fixes and Optimizations

This release comes with many bug fixes, security fixes, and optimizations that's recommended for all users.

✅ And more...

There are also a bunch of smaller improvements and fixes in this release to keep everything running smoothly.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/compare/v2.12.2...v2.13.0

Want to skip the technical setup?

If you’d rather skip server setup and maintenance, our Cloud Plan takes care of everything for you. It’s a great way to access all of Linkwarden’s features—plus future updates—without the technical overhead.

We hope you enjoy these new enhancements, and as always, we'd like to express our sincere thanks to all of our supporters and contributors. Your feedback and contributions have been invaluable in shaping Linkwarden into what it is today. 🚀

Also, the Official Mobile App for iOS and Android are coming very soon! Follow us on Mastodon, Twitter (X), and Bluesky for the latest updates.

A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.

Update: Viral call-recording app Neon goes dark after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/4740484

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• Russia will run a 4.6 trillion ruble budget deficit in 2026, its fifth in a row, due to falling revenue and war spending.
• The VAT rate will rise to 22% next year, and more companies will be forced to pay it to boost revenue.
• Russia plans to borrow 2.2 trillion rubles and scrap tax breaks for small businesses to cover the widening gap.

I was expecting lemmy to sort posts by upvotes but this is not the case: I often find a post with 70 upvotes further down the thread than a post with 20 upvotes.

what decides what goes up and what down?

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what is that you usually do or see in your country or area but is weird to do in other area you have traveled or vice versa?? like it is unusual to wear footwear indoors in asia.

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