between March 1984 and August 1985, an unknown criminal — or maybe a whole group — extorted and terrorized some of Japan’s biggest snack manufacturers. Before long, a simple trip to the candy aisle had become a national act of courage — because one bite could’ve been your last.

The “Glico-Morinaga Case” is one of the strangest, most fascinating, and most unsettling stories to come out of 1980s Japan — a wild mix of kidnapping, ransom demands, mysterious letters, food poisoning and mass panic. And at the center of it all: One shadowy figure, or maybe several, who remain unknown even today, more than 4 decades later!

This… is the story of The Monster with 21 Faces — 1980s Japan’s biggest mystery.

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Thailand on Monday suspended peace talks with Cambodia after two Thai soldiers were injured by a land mine in the disputed border area, casting doubt on a two-week-old pledge by the countries to resolve their longstanding differences at the behest Trump.

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters on Monday that talks with Cambodia could not proceed and that Thailand was still “dealing with an adversary.”

“Everything must stop,” Mr. Anutin said. The hostilities that Thailand thought had disappeared, he added, “had not gone anywhere” and talks had to be halted “until there is further clarity.”

With Firefox 145, we’re rolling out major privacy upgrades that take on browser fingerprinting — a pervasive and hidden tracking technique that lets websites identify you even when cookies are blocked or you’re in private browsing. These protections build on Mozilla’s long-term goal of building a healthier, transparent and privacy-preserving web ecosystem.

I recently joined Pixelfed and, considering there's no algorithm, hashtags are the only way to be discovered.

I hate hashtag optimizing, but I also don't want to upload my image to someone else's random server before posting it to pixelfed, just to generate hashtags. Where should I look to find something I can host myself, or even something that runs natively on Android/Linux, that'll generate hashtags/keywords for an image?

I have a Pixel 8.... a PC with Linux Mint. How do I learn to "self host". Mainly for photo storage backup. Where do I start? I know nothing, absolutely nothing

About 1 in every 8 U.S. teenagers and young adults turns to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for mental health advice, a new study says.

AI bots offer a cheap and immediate ear for younger people's concerns, worries and woes, researchers wrote in JAMA Network Open. However, it's not clear that these programs are up to the challenge, researchers warned.

"There are few standardized benchmarks for evaluating mental health advice offered by AI chatbots, and there is limited transparency about the datasets that are used to train these large language models," investigator Jonathan Cantor said in a news release. He's a senior policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

The new study follows on a report that OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to delusions and suicide, according to The Associated Press.

China suspended for one year port fees levied on U.S.-linked vessels, its transport ministry said on Monday, after Washington announced a similar pause on punitive actions against China's shipping and shipbuilding sectors.

The reciprocated pauses were in line with agreements reached by Donald Trump and Xi Jinping during a summit in South Korea last month.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38565024

Dutch cycling website outspoken about having to close because of AI-related content theft

Ok so idk if this is the most appropriate place to post this, but are the extreme views and statement we see on these platforms really just “bots” and “internet noise” are these genuinely the worst parts of humanity?

For context/elaborating on it, I kinda drifted off from lemmy to reddit due to lack of content here and holee fuck, its just horrifying, the amount of pro genocidal statements and cheers for extremism genuinely makes me feel at extreme unease, but it also makes me ask a question. I come from a conservative southasian society and whenever you bring up topics like treatment of minorities, lgbtq+ rights, feminism etc, people normally dont comment on this stuff or make a “harmless joke” out of it, but seeing reddit pages of the same grp of ppl it makes me genuinely feel that these guys hold on to genuinely insane beliefs, and are just afraid to present it to anyone in person..

https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/us-news/nyc-mayoral-candidate-zohran-mamdani-doubles-down-on-bds-support-wont-say-israel-has-right-to-exist-as-jewish-state/

The Food and Drug Administration says it is removing the black box safety warnings from all hormone therapy creams, pills and other treatments prescribed to ease the symptoms of menopause and perimenopause.

The prominent warnings said these therapies could raise the risks for some cancers, dementia, heart attacks and strokes. That, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary told CBS News' Norah O'Donnell, scared women from using drugs that could in fact improve their health.

So I’ve tried Jellyfin Book plug-in but since it doesn’t allow pinch-to-zoom (at least on my phone’s app) that will not work for me

I’ve already thinker with Kavita so I’ll probably be ok for the first install.

My problem come when I want to run it in the background (as a client ?) at this point I’m completely lost

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/104505

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A new paper argues that current LLMs are fundamentally broken because they're completely static. They call it "anterograde amnesia", which is honestly spot on. A model gets pre-trained, and from that moment on, its weights are frozen. It can't actually learn anything new. Sure, it has a context window, but that's just short-term memory. The model can't take new information from its context and permanently update its own parameters. The knowledge in its MLP layers is stuck in the past, and the attention mechanism is the only part that's live, but it forgets everything instantly.

The paper introduces what they term Nested Learning to fix this. The whole idea is to stop thinking of a model as one big, deep stack of layers that all update at the same time. Instead, they take inspiration from the brain, which has all kinds of different update cycles running at different speeds in form of brain waves. They represent the model as a set of nested optimization problems , where each level has its own update frequency. Instead of just deep layers, you have levels defined by how often they learn.

The idea of levels was then used to extend the standard Transformer which has a fast attention level that updates every token and the slow MLP layers that update only during pre-training. There's no in-between.

The paper presents a Hierarchical Optimizers and Parallel Extensible model with additional levels. You might have a mid-frequency level that updates its own weights every, say, 1,000 tokens it processes, and a slower-frequency level that updates every 100,000 tokens, and so on. The result is a model that can actually consolidate new information it sees after pre-training. It can learn new facts from a long document and bake them into that mid-level memory, all while the deep, core knowledge in the slowest level stays stable. It creates a proper gradient of memory from short-term to long-term, allowing the model to finally learn on the fly without just forgetting everything or suffering catastrophic forgetting.

So, a buddy of mine dropped off a box of 18 Wyse 3040 & 5010 thin clients. I believe they all run W10 embedded, but doing some research, I think I can also run a lightweight Linux OS like maybe Tiny Core. The 5010 can run SuSE Linux Desktop 11, ThinOS, or ThinOS PCOIP acording to Dell.

So, the burning question I have today is 'If you were gifted a box of 18 Wyse 3040 & 5010 thin clients, what would you do with them'? I want something I can incorporate into my already established homelab.

Inundate me with ideas!

This morning literally the below news:

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/jammu-and-kashmir-police-recover-300-kg-of-rdx-an-ak-47-rifle-and-ammunition-from-faridabad-near-delhi-9606244

Jihadists are back at it!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/4937011

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A new report from ENISA (European Union Agency for Cybersecurity) warns that public administrations across the EU are facing a surge in cyberattacks, with hacktivists increasingly relying on distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) campaigns. Central governments were the most targeted, accounting for 69% of incidents. The majority of incidents targeted the websites of parliaments, ministries, and national authorities/agencies, largely skewed by DDoS attacks.

As these institutions handle vast amounts of sensitive data and provide essential public services amid growing digitization, even a single incident can cause major disruption and erode public trust. The 42-page report identifies DDoS attacks, data breaches, ransomware, and social engineering as the most prevalent threats. ENISA’s latest sectoral analysis offers a comprehensive view of these risks, aiming to inform better risk assessments, strengthen mitigation strategies, and guide policymaking across the public sector.

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ENISA expects several trends to shape the cyber threat landscape for the EU’s public administration sector in 2025. DDoS campaigns are likely to continue, particularly around major events such as elections and international summits, though they may not cause significant operational disruptions. State-linked activity is also expected to persist, with Russia- and China-aligned intrusion groups maintaining cyber espionage campaigns aimed at collecting strategic data from EU institutions.

The use of artificial intelligence in social engineering is projected to grow, with generative language models, voice-cloning, and face-swap tools increasingly leveraged for phishing, vishing, and misinformation campaigns. These operations may move beyond simple extortion to focus on manipulating public opinion and eroding trust. Opportunistic ransomware attacks are also anticipated to continue, causing occasional but notable service disruptions across the public sector.

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The report also identified state-nexus intrusion sets publicly documented as associated with Russia and China that were active in cyberespionage campaigns against the public administration in the EU, notably targeting governmental entities.

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Addition:

China-linked hacker group UNC6384 (also known as Mustang Panda) attacks European diplomatic agencies in Hungary, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, and Serbia between September and October 2025.

Basically title. I want an app that can integrate with a server to run whisper and small local llms to place phone calls and such. Already have ollama and such, so that side is done. I just need the integration.

Edit for clarity: I mean a local siri type thing.

The United States has struck two more alleged Latin American drug-running boats, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday, adding that all six people on board were killed. Critics say the US strikes in the Pacific and Caribbean – which have now claimed the lives of 76 people – amount to extrajudicial killings

Note: a bit weird title; better is" LatAm boats".

Edit: apperantly someone liked my suggestion, as the title was just changed.

After the pathetic move by the Democrats just days after an incredibly positive election for them, I am wondering what people think about the next shift in consciousness among the working class in the US.

Just anecdotally, I have found that most people are not afraid to talk about politics in places where its usually prohibited (mostly work, school, etc). The anger among the more liberal people I've seen is palpable.

As the American economy is showing trends of generational decay, the US government is also taking actions that will immediately impact tens of millions of people. The economy is in turmoil while ICE kidnaps people off the streets. Universal healthcare, food assistance, etc, seem like sound policies to many people simply because it would stabilize the economy more at this point.

The Dems are still the vehicle through which the majority of people think that the "resistance" will come from, but after this latest government reopening vote I'm seeing some very existential reactions.

I'm curious what people think will happen next in terms of the consciousness of the masses. I dont think the masses are anywhere close to accepting a vanguard party, but I do think that a massive shift away from the two current parties in power is possible within the next few years. I could see a shift toward democratic socialism as a party emerges with all the new contradictions that will arise with that.

What do y'all think?

The soldiers who agreed to talk confirmed the IDF’s routine use of human shields, contradicting official denials, and gave details of Israeli troops opening fire unprovoked on civilians racing to reach food handouts at the militarised distribution points set up by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

“In basic training for the army, we all chanted ‘means, intent and ability’,” Capt Yotam Vilk, an armoured corps officer, says in reference to the official IDF training guidelines stipulating that a soldier can fire only if the target has the means, shows intent and has the ability to cause harm.

“There’s no such thing as ‘means, intent and ability’ in Gaza,” Vilk says. “No soldier ever mentions ‘means, intent, and ability’. It’s just: a suspicion of walking where it’s not allowed. A man aged between 20 and 40.”