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  • ‘If Iran gets a bomb it will be Bibi’s’: Trump’s deal outline sparks alarm in Israel

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  • "To Trump's credit, it needs to be said that at least he tried," Ariel Kahana wrote in the Hebrew-language daily Israel Hayom. "His bold willingness to unleash the United States' tremendous firepower on Iran is tens of times preferable over the historic impotence that was shown by all of his predecessors.

    "The bottom line is that Iran can and is presenting to the world a victory picture by dint of the very fact that it is still standing. Trump, for the time being, does not have a similar counter-picture of his own to show. That isn't very good news for the Israeli people."

    Bloody heck these people need a swift head reboot. Jumping into a preemptive war of choice is not something you execute into without knowing you have an endgame, and alternatives already mapped out (not Trump's strong suit). Further you accept the consequences once you start it, as you can't deflect very well when a solid peace with good economics was at hand before prior.

    Good luck with the polls, I hope they reflect the death and hardship this caused.

  • Ukraine has successfully tested using balloons to launch Hornet strike and reconnaissance drones.

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  • I'm not sure it's necessary as the RCS on this in float is less than 0.1 m2 and given it loves with the air mass at 8km it's likely going to be filtered out by the Moving Target Indication filter. Also at 8km (26k ft) it is outside the range of a Repeynik Russian counter-UAV radar (5 km altitude limit, at 10km range).

    They might get it when it is in powered flight mode and comes down, but still might be interesting.

  • Belgium Proves F-16 Anti-Drone Rocket That Bypasses U.S. Supply Chain, Ukraine Set to Benefit | Defense Express

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  • That's great to see, but I think build rate will still be the issue. BAE in the US is at ~25,000 units/year and Thales Belgium says 2,500 by years end, so even a 5th of the supply will surpass that if sent to the Ukraine. Now I won't say Trump won't be anass about it.

    The more the merrier for Ukraine, whatever it takes. They'll need it this winter especially, if Russia doesn't financially collapse or decide to do an ambiguous attack on a NATO state to save itzelf. (Yes I realize the latter makes no sense, but it makes sense to them apparently.)

  • It's Monday 05/04/2026. Hey, What's Going On!

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  • May he 4th be with you.

  • Why Iran’s Oil Infrastructure Is Not Exploding Like Trump Said It Would

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  • Interestingly this doesn't even mention China's Xi'an Freight train to Iran's Aprin port. They have a train bypass operational.

  • Russian oil exports slump as Ukraine hammers ports and refineries

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  • Coupled with Russian Economic challenges (GDP shrinking, deficit increasing sharply, unemployment at historic lows, high interest rates...) I am guessing that this is now more of Ukraine War to Lose, as mitigating the windfall puts Putin in a very tight spot. Maybe he can leverage the Arctic ports to ship more oil out, but not enough to make up the deficit by winter. He still has to spend a bunch on the Free Economic Zone they have captured, but it's entirely a white elephant.

    Ukraine could still fall prey to Trump's whims, or Putin's influence (of other countries), or Putin could act rash an pull out the big weapons, but none of that "wins" this war. Conventional manpower is still the major constraint for both sides. I expect some sort of unconventional endgame here (armistice, long-term grey zone warfare, something other than negotiated peace), but one of those possibility is regime change... Not at 66% approval, but that rating will finish asymptotically if he doesn't figure the money out.

  • Kremlin says Europe's drone cooperation with Ukraine shows its growing involvement in the war

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  • Yea, keep bitchin Putin. You started this war and while Ukraine isn't going to win it outright, it has found a way to survive and potential thrive with the EU behind it. It doesn't even NATO at this point. Ukraine found away to adapt, sustain, and build global alliances. Russia has a axis of frienemies, and a dependence on oil ports that just keep getting blow up.

    It can't even hold the Free Economic Zone it invaded as it's in a budget crisis over holding it, but giving it up means a political loss. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of idiots.

    We could talk about the demographic flip and failure Russia is seeing because of this. Ukraine will see this too, but has better chances at being it's diaspora and new immigrants in.

    Oh, and my original point was that Europe was in this fully when the defense industry from around the world started build industrial based in Ukraine putting their skin in the game.

  • App turns phones into at-home ultrasound devices

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  • Absolutely bullshit in a headline, but also potential mamas will probably use this often. The value in hearing your baby's heartbeat is probably a huge reassurance to many.

    Having said that, as a hardware professional, when could we see a consumer accessible mobile ultrasound? I don't have a spare $2-5k for what they use in ambulances, but I am hoping something low res low quality is accessible in a few years. (Having just read about the open source phased array, I have new hope for many things).

  • Iran declares Hormuz open as Lebanon ceasefire begins | AFP

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  • While I understand the taco sentiment, I actually think this might stick for a bit. There's a huge amount of back end political pressure on this and Israel is probably feeling it too. Asia & Europe are at their oil breaking points (Asia is in particular struggling to get oil even at inflated prices), and that frankly is most of it, but you also do have the hardware expenditures yearly budgets spent in days. No one except Israel and Iran hardliners really want this war.

  • xkcd #3233: Make It Myself

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  • No no, you should feel valued! You played, you learned, you moved on.

  • Pepsi was warned $7 for Doritos was too much. Now they are paying the price

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  • I was hoping someone else would catch that. Fuck making a real value, just make it seem like it.

    Asshats. May their stock go down like the Titanic and their management find mud pits.

  • Iran unable to open the Strait of Hormuz to more shipping traffic because it cannot locate all of the mines it laid

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  • From Sal, it's less that they can't find them then they are creating a toll booth chokepoint.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9rslGBcEZQ

    This is a huge freedom of navigation issue as well as incursions into Oman territorial waters.

  • Pepsi was warned $7 for Doritos was too much. Now they are paying the price

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  • Beyond cutting prices, PepsiCo is also rethinking its overall game plan to get sales back on track. In December 2025, the company said it would shrink its product lineup by about 20 percent, focusing more on its biggest, best-selling brands while cutting down on less popular items. At the same time, it’s investing more in promotions and tweaking package sizes to make its snacks feel like a better deal for shoppers.

  • Hackers Weaponize Claude Code Leak to Spread Vidar and GhostSocks Malware

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  • Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers recently discovered a highly deceptive campaign leveraging the leak as a social engineering lure to target developers seeking access to the source code.

    In this newly discovered campaign, attackers have established malicious GitHub repositories that masquerade as the authentic leaked repository.

    One prominent page, published by a threat actor named idbzoomh, currently ranks near the top of search engine results for users attempting to find the files.

    The repository promises an unlocked version of the enterprise software featuring no usage limits. Instead of legitimate code, the provided zip archive contains a Rust-based dropper executable.

    Upon execution, this dropper deploys the Vidar information stealer to siphon sensitive credentials and GhostSocks to proxy network traffic.

  • Grid batteries reach stunning new peak of 44 percent of evening demand in California, the world's fourth biggest economy by GDP

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  • This is another view on what happened on Sunday in California. Batteries charged heavily throughout the day, soaking up the excess solar, approaching charging rates of 10 GW at times. In the evening, most of the output was centred on the early evening peak, but batteries supplied a significant share throughout the evening.

    The biggest loser in this transition has been gas, with the share of battery storage staying at high levels throughout the evening peak. On Sunday, it stayed above 20 per cent of grid demand for almost four hours.

    As Fulghum noted: “To put that kind of output during peak demand hours into perspective, it’s equivalent to the output from:

    • 15-20 combined-cycle gas plants
    • 6 Hoover dams
    • More than the all-time peak demand of Portugal or Greece.”

  • Half of planned US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure and parts from China — the AI build-out flips the breakers

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  • Nice eval and analysis. I am finding it more and more obnoxious that lemmy doesn't seem to like true debate. Take the down votes as a good sign that you struck a possible cord of reality.

  • UK's RapidRanger air defense systems now protect Ukraine from Russian drone attacks

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  • It does. Missiles are $30k or £100k+

  • Rise of the shrubs: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C

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  • The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory is in the former ghost town of Gothic, abandoned after the closure of its silver mines. Over winter, the landscape lies quietly under a bed of snow. In early spring, the only way for researchers to get to experimental sites – at an altitude of 10,000ft – is by skiing across country.

    Electric infrared radiators warmed five experimental plots of 30 sq metres year-round. Head-height heaters were on day and night over a patch of meadow, keeping it 2C above normal temperatures with an annual electricity bill of $6,000 (£4,450). They warmed the top six inches of soil. Animals could come and graze and the natural system was preserved as much as possible.

    Over 29 years, researchers found that shrubs increased by 150% in warmed plots compared with those without warming. The surface of the soil was dried by up to 20%, and shallow-rooted plants became stressed. Some wildflowers went extinct in heated plots. "It's a sign of things to come," says lead researcher Lara Souza from the University of Oklahoma.

    Scientists also noted big changes in the invisible world of soil fungi and microbes. Shrubs and sage brush don't rely on fungi in the same way as grasses. They found a decline in fungi that help plants acquire nutrients, and an increase in fungi that decompose organic matter. "This highlights that when you have a big change above ground, you've likely got a big change below ground," says Souza. "Turning back is very unlikely."

  • I do this on behalf of soup

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  • As The Soup, I bequeath the honor of my crest! Slurp thy in my name!

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    As Lemmy's Ice beans the only ICE we need, right?

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    Has USA crime actually dimished in 2025?

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    Hotly contested mayoral election isn’t just about the candidates. The NYPD’s future is also at stake

    edition.cnn.com /2025/11/01/politics/nypd-nyc-mayoral-election
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    Stephen Miller Sparks Suspicion After ‘Glitch’ on CNN When He Mentioned ‘Plenary Authority’

    time.com /7324096/stephen-miller-plenary-authority-cnn-glitch-trump-national-guard-deployment/
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    Stephen Miller Sparks Suspicion After ‘Glitch’ on CNN When He Mentioned ‘Plenary Authority’

    time.com /7324096/stephen-miller-plenary-authority-cnn-glitch-trump-national-guard-deployment/