Can workers compete with machines and stay relevant in the AI era?
AI looks set to be transformative for us all, but it also brings a real risk of job losses and widening social and economic divides. UN experts are focusing on how to manage that transition, to ensure the benefits of the technology outweigh the threats.
Mecha Comet - Modular Linux Handheld Computer (Currently on Kickstarter)
Mecha Comet - Modular Linux Handheld Computer
A handheld Linux computer powered by open-source software. Modular, programmable, and truly yours to own, build and mod.Mecha
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Jadoo TV Shutdown: Why the South Asian streaming platform closed after a $25M piracy judgment
Jadoo TV, once one of the most prominent providers of pirated South Asian content to global audiences, has permanently ceased operations worldwide. Its downfall follows a December 2024 court ruling that issued a final judgment of $24,969,911 and a permanent injunction against both Jadoo TV and its US-based CEO, Sajid Sohail.
lotta "conservative" (hate this word, they're fucking regressive not conservative) jews around the US about to find out they're not actually white enough for this club anymore...
(i assume worst case scenario, where trump isnt desposed of/things don't magically return to normal when he's gone)
Yep.
Kinda puts things into perspective when popular opinion can be so collectively and proudly incorrect.
I never assume the group is right just because they're in the majority anymore.
Russian Warriors Smash Ukrainian Reserves Heading Towards Liberated Petrovka in Zaporozhye
Russian Warriors Smash Ukrainian Reserves Heading Towards Liberated Petrovka in Zaporozhye
The Russian Ministry of Defense published a video on Saturday showing footage of the fighting for the settlement of Petrovka in the Zaporozhye region.Sputnik International
Russian Forces Liberate Petrovka Settlement in Zaporozhye Region – MoD
Russian Forces Liberate Petrovka Settlement in Zaporozhye Region – MoD
Russia's Battlegroup Vostok has taken control of the settlement of Petrovka in the Zaporozhye Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.Sputnik International
One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did
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Ce matin, le ministre de l’Intérieur, ex Préfet de Police de Paris, Laurent Nuñez, a annoncé avoir demandé au Préfet du Haut Rhin de « saisir la justice pour…mollette (BLA BLA BLA)
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Imperial Oil says it will shutter Norman Wells oil operations this summer
Imperial Oil says it will end more than a century of oil production in Norman Wells later this year.
The closure has been in the works since 2022, but until now, there has been no solid timeline for the shutdown.
In a news release Friday, the company said the move is needed because of declining production at the site.
It said production is slated to end in the third quarter of 2026 "as the facility comes to the end of its lifespan."
Imperial Oil said it's working on a final closure and reclamation plan for the site. Reclamation work is not expected to start until after 2030.
SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers
SpaceX files plans for million-satellite orbital data center constellation
SpaceX is seeking FCC approval for a satellite constellation of unprecedented scale intended to function as an orbital data center.Jeff Foust (SpaceNews)
Outgoing consumer advocate sideswipes PCs over their 'nonsense' handling of Churchill Falls MOU
Dennis Browne has been replaced as consumer advocate, but the usually soft-spoken and tactful St. John's lawyer is not going away quietly.
Browne was a guest on CBC Radio's The Signal on Thursday, and was heavily critical of Premier Tony Wakeham and the new PC government's handling of the Churchill Falls MOU, which was announced in late 2024 by a former Liberal government led by Andrew Furey.
Browne said Wakeham and his team have turned the issue into a "political football," are risking a deal between Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec that has the potential to stabilize the province's finances, and described those appointed to review the MOU, specifically the chair, as "not much of a panel."
He also blasted the government for appointing lawyer Adrienne Ding, who has links to the PC Party, as the interim consumer advocate. Browne said his successor should have been selected by the Independent Appointments Commission, which was established by legislation a decade ago by another former Liberal premier, Dwight Ball.
Former Codiac Regional RCMP officer faces 7 more sex charges involving youths
A former New Brunswick RCMP officer is facing seven more sex-related criminal charges involving youths, an independent police watchdog agency announced Friday.
Former corporal Jeremy Bastarache, 38, from Shediac River, was charged in 2024 with communicating for a sexual purpose with someone he believed was under 16.
He is now accused of two more counts of that offence, making an arrangement with a person, for the purpose of facilitating a sexual offence towards a person. One count involves someone he believed to be under 16 and another he believed was under 18, according to the Serious Incident Response Team.
The other five charges include communicating for obtaining sexual services for consideration from a person under 18 years, procuring a person under 18 for the purpose of facilitating an offence, trafficking a person under 18, as well as making and possessing child pornography.
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Proposed tundra swan hunting season on Prairies prompts concern from hunter
The federal government is considering a proposal to establish a new hunting season for tundra swans in the Prairie provinces — a move that one hunter says could endanger trumpeter swans, a similar-looking, sensitive species.
Proposed changes to Canada's migratory bird regulations would create a new tundra swan hunting season in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Tundra swans are hunted in a handful of U.S. states, but in Canada they're currently a protected species at the federal level.
David Duncan, a hunter and retired biologist, says such a hunt could lead to people mistakenly shooting trumpeter swans, a sensitive species that can't be hunted anywhere in North America.
I think the only way you'd figure it out would be field ambush hunting where you can get a good look at a flock as they come down in a pea field or something. It doesn't sound like they migrate together and their flyways might be fairly predictable for targeting hunting areas.
But other than size which is hard to judge on the wing, I wouldn't take a shot based on that.
I know a lot of people are instinctively against hunting, but with massive food availability on harvested fields in wintering areas with no predators, these species can grow out of control very quickly. Snow geese are devastating arctic areas that are very slow to rebound because of the sheer numbers and lack of hunters. I had heard about this sort of concern with mixing up swans with snow geese, though that's a lot easier to identify on the wing so I don't think there's been much bykill from that.
Children and police officers among at least 30 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza | Gaza | The Guardian
Gaza’s health ministry has recorded more than 500 Palestinians deaths by Israeli fire since the start of the ceasefire on 10 October.Despite Israel’s frequent killing of Palestinians in violation of the ceasefire, the deal has moved to a crucial second phase. Some of the thorniest issues are contained in this phase, which requires Hamas to disarm and hand over power to a Board of Peace organisation staffed by appointees of the US president, Donald Trump.
A recent presentation in Davos by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who is also involved in Trump’s Gaza project, showed the Trump administration’s plan for “developing Gaza”, complete with futuristic skyscrapers overlooking the Mediterranean.
Most of Gaza has been levelled and basic infrastructure remains inoperable as a result of Israeli bombing over the past two years, which has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians. Last year, a UN commission of inquiry found that Israel had committed a genocide in Gaza.
Israeli strikes on Gaza reportedly kill at least 12, one of the highest tolls since October agreement
The strikes, which killed women and children, came a day before a border crossing is expected to open in Gaza’s southernmost cityGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Fable Game
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Fable Oyunu; Aksiyon, Macera, Rol Yapma, Üçüncü Şahıs Bakış Açısı, Fantastik Sonbahar 2026 - PC, Xbox Series X Çıkış: 1 Aralık 2026 - PlayStation 5 Geliştirici: Playground Games Yayıncı: Xbox...Türkiye'nin Güncel Teknoloji Forumu | techforum.tr
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Fable Oyunu; Aksiyon, Macera, Rol Yapma, Üçüncü Şahıs Bakış Açısı, Fantastik Sonbahar 2026 - PC, Xbox Series X Çıkış: 1 Aralık 2026 - PlayStation 5 Geliştirici: Playground Games Yayıncı: Xbox...Türkiye'nin Güncel Teknoloji Forumu | techforum.tr
Proton's predictions for the internet, 2025 reviewed and 2026 projections
Our predictions for the internet in 2026
From age verification and VPN bans to AI gone wrong, these are our predictions for how the internet will change in 2026.Ben Wolford (Proton)
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in reply to pastermil • • •pastermil
in reply to stressballs • • •If someone spend more effort advertising their product than they are developing it, then I would question their product.
However, a lot of people here seems to have negative sentiment against all forms of marketing. Hopefully I'm misinterpretting it.
stressballs
in reply to pastermil • • •Prove_your_argument
in reply to stressballs • • •Four hundred bucks for 8gb of ram, three face plates, the upgraded uber slow processor and 128gb of storage. 3.92” amoled screen.
Four fifty for an ayn Thor with 16gb of ram, 1tb nvme. 6” amoled screen and 3.92” bottom amoled screen.
That’s how I escaped the marketing. Pricing and specs. If your primary use case is just gaming and not a very low power handheld PC, it’s just not good.
A $90 miyoo mini plus 128gb is just fine for small portable handheld emulator too. Sold on Amazon and not a kickstarter fantasy that could take years. I’m sure there’s many other better options.
These things don’t have feature parity. They don’t do all the same things. They are however way better at what they do.
stressballs
in reply to Prove_your_argument • • •Prove_your_argument
in reply to stressballs • • •I have thought about the thor or whatever vita looking thing they have but the reality is that I probably wouldn't do a ton of emulation right now. These devices look cool as hell, but I don't need more tech ewaste/paperweights.
I have a deck and hardly use it when I go anywhere because being an adult is a shitload of responsibility and relationship work... and next to no time alone where I can game in peace. lol
If I still had a subway/train commute or I was still a bachelor in my 20s or 30s it would be another story though. Deck is way too big for the subway, but the thor is basically just a 3DS. I used a 3ds/vita/ds for over a decade almost daily because of my commute.
favoredponcho
in reply to als • • •RIotingPacifist
in reply to als • • •Modular computing always seems to fall victim to Moore's law/similar, everything core get so much better every 5 years, that by the time you want to refresh anything, it's usually time to upgrade the whole thing.
Periferals are nice but USB is already a multivendor connector standard and if the choice is 3d printing cases or trusting a vendor to exist in 10 years I'm betting on 3d printers for now.
Hope I'm wrong but this isn't the first time I've seen a project like this.
At the end of the day the n900 was the ultimate portable Linux machine, but it died because within 10 years you could do all of that on an android device AND have a decent phone too.
jnod4
in reply to RIotingPacifist • • •HelloRoot
in reply to jnod4 • • •You are the exception, not the norm.
Most people are on the bandwagon of buying the shiny new thing with a bigger version number once every year or two (even when the old one still works perfectly).
The mecha comet is one of those devices that get hyped up among the nerds, but after a month 90%of them will either gather dust on a shelf or end up on the second hand market for cheap. You can see the same pattern in many nieche hardware subcultures, linux phones, flipper zero, raspberry pis, various digital music gadgets, AI bs hardware etc.
(I have like 20 random things like that rotting in a box, just to be transparent)
orc_princess
in reply to HelloRoot • • •aMockTie
in reply to HelloRoot • • •I personally can't say that I agree, especially in current economic conditions.
Many people do buy the shiny new things regularly, but I would argue that most people can't afford that luxury and try to get the most life out of what they own.
On a separate note: I can't speak to Linux phones, digital music gadgets, or AI hardware, but raspberry pis and flipper zeros on the second hand market are absolutely not cheap, and regularly sell for MSRP of new devices.
I'm sorry to hear that you've struggled to find regular use of those 20 random things, but that doesn't mean your experience is representative of most people.
Prove_your_argument
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in reply to als • • •SpacePanda
in reply to als • • •Just missing Bluetooth. But it's really cool! I guess you could plug in USB c headphones. Really like the HDMI port, could have done mini HDMI, but, regular size gives more flexibility.
Edit:
Oop it has Bluetooth, lost my money idk if I can stop myself from buying it
kickstarter.com/projects/mecha…
alekwithak
in reply to SpacePanda • • •aMockTie
in reply to als • • •I don't need it...
I don't need it...
I don't need it...
I don't need it...
(M.2/NVMe, LTE and 5G, GPIO)
I don't....
(Planned support for LoRa, Meshtastic, and FPGAs)
I...
(Everything open source, useful for me at work, employer will pay for)
Sold!
It doesn't seem to be especially performant for games based on the videos they've put out, but a solid handheld with these specific features, and separate from my mission critical work android phone will hopefully be very useful.
CarrotsHaveEars
in reply to aMockTie • • •No. You don't need it.
Just get a used ThinkPad for work, and whichever handheld game console if you want to play while on a trip.
Run Linux on ThinkPad. It's open source too.
aMockTie
in reply to CarrotsHaveEars • • •I already have a work laptop running Linux, but it doesn't support GPIO or LoRa without additional dongles/accessories. Working on industrial equipment while occasionally in remote locations, makes this device appealing to me specifically.
I'm also fortunate to have my employer willing to foot the bill, especially when they can also see the utility of this device in our line of work.
If you don't work in this specific niche, your mileage will obviously vary.
CarrotsHaveEars
in reply to aMockTie • • •Great! Go for it then.
I don't know what's LoRa though, but can't you just plug an Arduino board to the computer's USB port and get a bunch of GPIOs? It's cheap. It's durable.
aMockTie
in reply to CarrotsHaveEars • • •Already done!
LoRa is a low power radio communication protocol that is very useful for warehouse and farming equipment, among many other things. I currently use ESP32s for GPIO, LoRa, and Wifi, and occasionally FPGAs for various tasks. But ad-hoc testing and diagnosis can be a pain for these devices, requiring multiple different dongles, power adapters, and converters.
If I can consolidate 75% of that gear into a single, handheld device, it will easily pay for itself in productivity gains.
Prove_your_argument
in reply to aMockTie • • •LTE and NVME is mutually exclusive on the device I believe.
If all you need is a 3.92” screen, 8GB of ram or less, 128GB of space plus an sd card, and a tiny screen then it’s fine. Kickstarter though means unknown delivery date. I don’t think they’ve sold anything before?
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in reply to als • • •I don't see the point of this.
A smartphone is literally a handheld computer with more capability than this. Save for game controls, there is very little that a touchscreen doesn't completely replace with full flexibility (besides, unless it's the size of a Gameboy, the vertical controller layout sucks).
This isn't a new concept either, as I'm pretty sure I've seen two phones and one whole laptop using this exact drop-in modularity gimmick. They all failed.
aMockTie
in reply to Tattorack • • •Having a dedicated handheld device with the features of a smartphone, running Linux natively (not just android), and also GPIO and LoRa are what make this especially appealing to me. Everything being open source brings this from "I'll probably buy this" to "shut up and take my money" for me personally.
Sure, I could probably get accessories to achieve the same thing with my work phone. But if something catastrophic happens and the phone is damaged, I'm having a very bad day. Damaging a $300-400 device sucks, but I can still call my boss and ask him to order a replacement and receive calls from customers at the end of the day.
Of course these specific benefits are unique to me and my line of work. I also thankfully have a boss who trusts my judgment when purchasing new tools and tech, and a budget that can easily accommodate this kind of investment and risk.
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in reply to als • • •The skeptic in me is a little suspicious, this sounds too good to be true. I've already been burned out from other crowdfunded projects where the company just dissapeared or simply couldn't deliver anything before running out of money. Like the Pandora.
Nowadays I only back projects from companies that have successfully released something before, so this will be a wait and see. If they can deliver I may buy one when it's released.
B0rax
in reply to punkibas • • •Which, ironically, is the opposite of what kickstarter was meant for.
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