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Die @Bundesregierung hält sich beim Thema Lieferungen von #Material und #Waffen an #Israel bedeckt.

@Geri hat heute allerdings einen Link auf eine interessante Analyse von @salisburyamnesty gepostet, die die offizielle Importstatistik von Israel auf Lieferungen aus #UK untersucht. Die Methodik ist auf S.3 des Dokuments beschrieben:

salisburyai.com/wp-content/upl

Die aktuelle Statistik seit Jahresbeginn bis Stichtag Ende Juni lässt sich hier herunterladen:
data.gov.il/dataset/customs_im

Filtert man nach den Kriterien der Analyse, aber für #Deutschland, dann finden sich durchgängig, bis Ende Juni 2025 insgesamt gut 160 Lieferungen: #Waffen und #Munition, Teile für Panzer oder gepanzerte Kampffahrzeuge, und Flugzeugteile. Letztere kann ich mangels Datenbasis nicht eindeutig einer militärischen oder zivilen Nutzung zurechnen.

Walter Sofronoff knew material shared during Bruce Lehrmann prosecution inquiry was confidential, Federal Court hears

Lawyers for the ACT Integrity Commission have rebuffed claims that some of …
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #ACT #actintegritycommission #appeal #AU #Australia #brucelehrmann #Canberra #commission #confidential #corruptconduct #dishonestly #federalcourt #head #inquiry #integrity #localnews #localstories #material #Media #share #Sydney #waltersofronoff
newsbeep.com/12752/

“Suno, for those of you not familiar, is an #AI #SongGenerator: enter a text prompt (such as “a jazz, reggae, EDM pop song about my imagination”) and a song comes back. Like many #GenerativeAI companies, it is also being sued by all and sundry for ingesting #copyrighted #material. The parties in the suit — including major labels and the #RIAA — don’t have a smoking gun, since they can’t directly peek at Suno’s #TrainingData. But they have managed to generate some suspiciously similar-sounding AI generated materials, #mimicking (among others) “Johnny B. Goode,” “Great Balls of Fire,” and Jason Derulo’s habit of singing his own name.

#Suno essentially admits these songs were #regurgitated from #copyrighted source material, but it says such use was legal. “It is no secret that the tens of millions of #recordings that Suno’s model was trained on presumably included recordings whose rights are owned by the Plaintiffs in this case,” it says in its own legal filing. Whether AI training data constitutes fair use is a common but unsettled legal argument, and the plaintiffs contend Suno still amounts to “pervasive #illegal #copying” of artists’ works.”

#NYA / #music / #ElizabethLopatto / #amazon / #DataTheft <neilyoungarchives.com/news/3/a>

neilyoungarchives.comNeil Young Archives

🧑‍🔬Engineers develop ECO-friendly Plastic from Mineral found in Seashells.

According to UNESCO, plastic waste makes up 80% of all #marine #pollution, with 8–10 million metric tons of plastic making its way into our oceans each year. USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers have discovered a mineral commonly found in seashells could be the key to a safer #plastic #alternative.

link.springer.com/10.1557/s435

HEY TEAM

I'm thinking about making my bike cargo container again, the one that goes into the (long but very atypically short) triangle in my bike. Here's a thread with pictures of a the foamcore mockup:

mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/

I'm looking for a semi-rigid but not completely rigid sheet material that's thin - like, 2-3mm. I want something that can squish a bit but will return to its shape - like, a rather determined foam, I think, more than necessarily a plastic.

Basically, I want to be able to make a soft thin-wall box, which I'll enclose in fabric and anchor to the upper bar with integrated velcro or possibly cording. Not sure yet.

Is this a thing? Does this material exist?

MastodonSolarbird :flag_cascadia: (@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)Attached: 1 image I was worried that the foam core from last night's experiment was too thick; I was right. But that's okay, partly because I wasn't going to use foam core for real anyway, and also because I could shave it down. (previous thread: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/114606316141976158 ) #BikeTooter #maker #diy

American banking groups want the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to revoke its cybersecurity incident disclosure requirements:
pymnts.com/cybersecurity/2025/

One of the problems they cite with the rule is "weaponization by hackers" where they link to my reporting as an example when AlphV tried to pressure a victim by complaining to the SEC that the victim hadn't timely disclosed to the SEC.

Direct link to letter to the SEC: sifma.org/wp-content/uploads/2

PYMNTS.com · Banks Want SEC to Rescind Cyberattack Disclosure Requirements | PYMNTS.comAmerican banking groups want the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to revoke its cybersecurity incident disclosure requirements.  These groups, led