Google plans to build a large artificial intelligence data centre on Australia's remote Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with the Department of Defence earlier this year, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with officials.

Plans for the data centre on the tiny island located 350 km (220 miles) south of Indonesia have not previously been reported, and many details including its projected size, cost and potential uses, remain secret.

However, military experts say such a facility would be a valuable asset on the island, which is increasingly seen by defence officials as a critical frontline in monitoring Chinese submarine and other naval activity in the Indian Ocean.

The agreement is part of a broader legislative package to boost defence-related investment under the EU budget, the so-called ‘mino-omnibus’.

As expected, it will make EU programmes more flexible and better aligned to support Europe's defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB), innovation, and infrastructure — from military mobility to dual-use technologies.

The Commission emphasized that this is a key element in the implementation of the ReArm Europe Plan and a direct complement to the Mid-Term Review of the Cohesion Policy and the Defence Readiness Omnibus.

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Contracts between Israel and Trump-linked firms reveal campaigns and plans to target millions of U.S. churchgoers, deploy bots, hire influencers and try to make ChatGPT more pro-Israel.

The automaker announced on Wednesday as part of its “AI Day” that it is launching three robotaxi models. The vehicles will use four of Xpeng’s self-developed “Turing” AI chips. Xpeng claims the chips represent the combined highest in-car computing power in the world, at 3,000 TOPS, an industry measure.

Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’

While Andrew initially announced he would no longer use his royal titles, there were further damaging allegations about his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, prompting the King to formally remove his honours.

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The failure to limit global heating to 1.5C is a “moral failure and deadly negligence”, the UN secretary general has said at the opening session of the Cop30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.

António Guterres said even a temporary overshoot could “unleash far greater destruction and costs for every nation. It could push ecosystems past catastrophic and irreversible tipping points, expose billions to unliveable conditions, and amplify threats to peace and security”.

Sergei Markov and Roman Alyokhin, respectively the political analyst and pro-war blogger, were both designated as “foreign agents” this year, a label previously used against anti-Putin voices. Carrying a negative Soviet-era connotation, it obliges people to identify themselves as foreign agents on social media and in other publications, as well as exposing them to crippling financial limitations.

Taken together, analysts say, the cases point to a new trend: a purge not only of dissenters but also of the regime’s own supporters, as rival factions within the system turn on each other.

“First, they went after the anti-war voices. Now there are none left, and the repressive machine cannot be stopped,” said the Russian political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann.

I'm almost embarrassed to ask this question, but it's been bugging me for years. I've read the documentation, searched online. Perhaps my search-fu is lacking.

In ntopng there is a panel called Traffic Classification. One of the classifications is 'fun'. Exactly how is this classification derived, and what is classified as 'fun'?

Hi all, I made a simple container to forward tailscale traffic towards a WireGuard interface, so that you can use your commercial VPN as an exit node. It's called tswg

https://github.com/stratself/tswg

Previously I also tried Gluetun + Tailscale like some guides suggested, but found it to be slow and the firewall too strict for direct connections. Tswg doesn't do much firewalling aside from wg-quick rules, and uses kernelspace networking which should improve performance. This enables direct connections to other Tailscale nodes too, so you can hook up with DNS apps like Pi-hole/AdguardHome.

I've shilled for this previously, but now I wanna promote with an actual post. Having tested on podman, I'd like to know if it also works on machines behind NATs and/or within Docker. Do be warned though that I'm a noob w.r.t. networking, and can't guarantee against IP leaks or other VPN-related problems. But I'd like to improve.

Let me know your thoughts and any issues encountered, and thank you all for reading

The Internet faces an existential crisis as nearly 50% of all traffic is now non-human, with AI-generated content and bots threatening to overwhelm authentic human interaction[^1]. According to recent studies, this includes automated programs responsible for 49.6% of web traffic in 2023, a trend accelerated by AI models scraping content[^1].

The problems are stark:

• Search engines flooded with AI-generated content optimized for algorithms rather than humans
• Social media platforms filled with AI "slop" and automated responses
• Genuine human content being drowned out by machine-generated noise
• Erosion of trusted information sources and shared truth

However, concrete solutions exist:

1. Technical Defenses:

• Open-source spam filtering tools like mosparo for protecting website forms
• AI scraper blocking through systems like Anubis
• Content authenticity verification via the CAI SDK[^1]

2. Community Building:

• Supporting decentralized social networks (Mastodon, Lemmy)
• Using open-source forum platforms that emphasize human moderation
• Participating in curated communities with active fact-checking[^1]

3. Individual Actions:

• Using privacy-focused browsers and search engines
• Supporting trusted news sources and independent creators
• Being conscious of data sharing and digital footprint[^1]

"While exposure to AI-generated misinformation does make people more worried about the quality of information available online, it can also increase the value they attach to outlets with reputations for credibility," notes a 2025 study by Campante[^1].

[^1]: It's FOSS - The Internet is Dying. We Can Still Stop It

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