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https://www.tesla.com/roadster
Ramp Demo: 6:03-10:55
Kickflip Demo: 10:56-12:43
Design: 12:47-14:38
Aero: 14:38-15:57
0-60 Demo: 15:58-19:26
Streamed live 13 hours ago
Buckle up.
https://www.tesla.com/roadster
Ramp Demo: 6:03-10:55
Kickflip Demo: 10:56-12:43
Design: 12:47-14:38
Aero: 14:38-15:57
0-60 Demo: 15:58-19:26
Dear Chairmen Wicker and Rogers and Ranking Members Reed and Smith,
As you enter into conference to resolve the differences between the House-passed version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2027 (H.R.8800) and the pending Senate bill (S.4784), We, the undersigned U.S. organizations, strongly urge you to reject the entrenchment of U.S. and Israeli defense collaboration, which goes against U.S. national interests and values, and would expand the risk of U.S. complicity in, and exposure to, human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide.
Specifically, we are deeply concerned by Section 219 in the House NDAA and Section 1217 in the Senate version, which establish a new U.S. Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative aimed at accelerating joint research, development, and integration of Israeli-origin and jointly developed defense technologies into U.S. military systems and programs of record. This would expand U.S-Israeli military integration across some of the most sensitive domains of emerging technology, including quantum computing, AI and autonomous systems, cyber and electronic warfare, directed energy, and defense industrial base co-production, while expediting pathways from R&D into procurement.
The provision would deepen cooperation between the US and Israeli defence sectors by accelerating joint military technology development and other partnerships. The bill passed the House of Representatives in July and awaits Senate action.
The provision of the 2027 National Defence Authorisation Act, known as Section 219, seeks to set up frameworks for joint ventures, licensing agreements and US-based co-production partnerships with the Israeli industry.
In Thursday‘s letter addressed to leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, 56 groups said deeper integration with Israel‘s defence sector would be „exceptionally dangerous“ and urged lawmakers to remove the provision.
(August 2, 2026)
In Sanaâa, Yemenâs capital, pictures of Abdul-Malik al-Houthi are a frequent sight. He glowers from billboards, with a dagger tucked in his belt. Crowds watch his speeches on big screens. His followers wave banners showing his face. Mr Houthi is everywhereâand nowhere. The rebel leader, who has controlled most of north-west Yemen for more than a decade, never appears in public. He holds meetings by video from caves and safe-houses.
These videos will forever haunt our fever dreams. For this list, we‘ll be looking at deepfakes that are scary-realistic… or just plain scary. Our countdown includes Nicolas Cage Will Survive, A Message From âObamaâ, Buscemi Meme, and more!
79. Der Begriff der âsozialen Gerechtigkeitâ hilft zu erkennen, dass Ungerechtigkeit nicht nur aus falschen Entscheidungen einzelner Menschen entsteht, sondern auch aus Strukturen, Mechanismen sowie wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Gegebenheiten, die fast automatisch Ungleichheit hervorbringen. In diesem Sinne hat der heilige Johannes Paul II. von Strukturen der SĂŒnde gesprochen, [108] die dem Willen Gottes entgegenstehen und einen persönlichen und gesellschaftlichen Umkehrprozess erfordern. In dieser Hinsicht betrifft Gerechtigkeit nicht nur die gerechtere Verteilung von GĂŒtern oder die Korrektur bestehender Ungerechtigkeiten, sondern nimmt auch eine wiedergutmachende Dimension an. Sie zielt darauf ab, zerbrochene Bindungen wiederherzustellen und diejenigen wieder einzubeziehen, die ausgeschlossen wurden, unter BerĂŒcksichtigung der Wunden, welche Ungerechtigkeiten hinterlassen haben: Kriege, Kolonialismus, rassistische oder geschlechtsspezifische Diskriminierung, Gewalt gegen ganze Völker, Ausbeutung. Dies kann bedeuten, denjenigen, die ignoriert wurden, WĂŒrde und Stimme zurĂŒckzugeben, Wege zur Heilung des kollektiven GedĂ€chtnisses zu fördern, diskriminierenden Gesetzen und Praktiken entgegenzuwirken und konkret diejenigen zu unterstĂŒtzen, die noch heute die Folgen von in der Vergangenheit erlittenem Unrecht tragen.
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178. In unseren Tagen zeigt der Kolonialismus ein neues Gesicht. Er beherrscht nicht mehr nur Körper, sondern eignet sich Daten an und verwandelt das persönliche Leben in verwertbare Informationen. Ganze Gebiete, insbesondere jene mit geringerer geopolitischer Bedeutung und gröĂerer struktureller AnfĂ€lligkeit, werden derzeit von einer neuen Logik der Ausbeutung durchzogen: Gesundheitsdaten, epidemiologische Profile, genetische Karten und demografische Daten. Dies sind die neuen âSeltenen Erdenâ der Macht: lebenswichtige Informationen, die, sobald sie miteinander verknĂŒpft sind, dazu genutzt werden können, Vorhersagemodelle zu trainieren, Investitionsstrategien zu lenken, Krisen vorauszusehen und vor allem auszuwĂ€hlen, wer und was zĂ€hlt. Wer ĂŒber die Gesundheitsdaten ganzer Bevölkerungen verfĂŒgt â heute oft unter dem Deckmantel von Forschungsinnovation oder Entwicklungshilfe erhoben â, besitzt in Wirklichkeit einen strukturellen Hebel fĂŒr die Zukunft: Er kann die BedĂŒrfnisse und die MĂ€rkte gestalten. Und er kann vor anderen entscheiden, wem Medikamente, Investitionen und SchutzmaĂnahmen zugeteilt werden. Hierin liegt eine der dringlichsten moralischen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit: gemeinsames Wissen in ein Gemeingut zu verwandeln, statt es als Beherrschungsinstrument zu nutzen. Das bedeutet, den Menschen nicht nur die Daten zurĂŒckzugeben, die sie beschreiben, sondern auch die Möglichkeit, zu entscheiden, wie diese genutzt werden, von wem und fĂŒr wen. Andernfalls wird das digitale Zeitalter nicht postkolonial sein, sondern in einer anderen Form kolonial.
179. Die neuen Formen der Sklaverei leben von Wirtschaftsketten und digitalen Infrastrukturen. Daher ist es notwendig, in mehrere Richtungen zu arbeiten. Erstens mĂŒssen Lieferketten, die die Technologiebranche und die digitale Wirtschaft stĂŒtzen, transparenter werden, damit kein Wettbewerbsvorteil auf unsichtbarer Ausbeutung aufbaut. Zweitens mĂŒssen Unternehmen und Investoren klare Kriterien fĂŒr eine prĂ€ventive ethische ĂberprĂŒfung (due diligence) festlegen und dabei den Schutz der Arbeitnehmer, die BekĂ€mpfung von Zwangsarbeit sowie die sozialen Auswirkungen datengesteuerter GeschĂ€ftsmodelle zu ihren PrioritĂ€ten zĂ€hlen. DarĂŒber hinaus mĂŒssen digitale Plattformen verantwortungsbewusst mit Behörden und der Zivilgesellschaft zusammenarbeiten, um zu verhindern, dass Programme fĂŒr Kommunikation, Zahlung und Profiling zu KanĂ€len fĂŒr die Anwerbung und Kontrolle von Opfern werden. Wenn diese MaĂnahmen zusammenwirken, dann kann das digitale Umfeld von einem Raum der Ausbeutung in einen Raum des Schutzes, der PrĂ€vention und der Förderung der WĂŒrde verwandelt werden.
(April 23, 2026)
Die Studie untersucht die deutsch-israelische MilitĂ€rkooperation seit dem VerkĂŒnden der âZeitenwendeâ durch
Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz, die fĂŒr eine massive Aufstockung der deutschen MilitĂ€rausgaben steht. Angesichts
der israelischen Aggressionen und dem Genozid in Gaza seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 stellt der Beitrag fest, dass die MilitĂ€rkooperation mit Israel einen VerstoĂ gegen das Völkerrecht darstellt. Sie zeigt weiter auf, wie deutsche Gesetzgeber und MilitĂ€rvertreter Verbindungen zur IDF und zur israelischen RĂŒstungsindustrie suchen, sei es beim Erwerb von MilitĂ€rtechnologie, beim Informationsaustausch ĂŒber Wirtschaftswachstum durch die Waffenproduktion oder um Erkenntnisse ĂŒber die effiziente Integration von Frauen
und der Reserve in die Armee zu gewinnen. Die Studie untersucht zudem die Interessen der Akteure, die die MilitĂ€rkooperation vorantreiben, und skizziert die Folgen des Militarismus fĂŒr die deutsche Zivilgesellschaft im Hinblick auf die Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Staaten.
(Artikel 23, 2026)
In einer neuen Studie der Informationsstelle Militarisierung e.V. untersucht Melchior Grabowski die militĂ€rische Zusammenarbeit zwischen Israel und Deutschland seit dem VerkĂŒnden der Zeitenwende. Sie zeigt auf, dass trotz massiver VölkerrechtsbrĂŒche Israels umfangreiche MilitĂ€rkooperationen zwischen den beiden LĂ€ndern stattfinden, die tief in Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft eingreifen. Damit deckt die Studie auf, welche deutschen Interessen abseits der âStaatsrĂ€sonâ in der militĂ€rischen Kooperation mit Israel bestehen.
(July 2, 2025)
The first pillar involves establishing a joint German-Israeli cyber research centre, which would serve as the intellectual foundation for developing advanced defensive technologies. This collaboration leverages Israelâs established expertise in cybersecurity innovation with Germanyâs robust technological infrastructure and research capabilities.
Strengthening cooperation between intelligence services forms the second component, specifically enhancing collaboration between Germanyâs BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) and Israelâs Mossad. This intelligence-sharing framework aims to provide early warning systems for emerging cyber threats and coordinate responses to state-sponsored attacks.
The third element focuses on expanding Germanyâs anti-drone defence capabilities, addressing a growing concern as unmanned aerial vehicles become increasingly weaponised and accessible to hostile actors.
Helium, a by-product of natural gas extraction used in semiconductor manufacturing for ultra-clean cooling, leak detection and inert shielding, faces a global squeeze, with Qatar among the worldâs most important suppliers.
This comes as the US-Israeli attacks on Iran have already disrupted liquefied natural gas (LNG) production in Qatar, a leading LNG supplier, and constrained shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a key energy chokepoint that is now paralysed.
(February 10, 2026)
For the next decade, Epstein continued to recruit engineers from U.S. national security entities, including DARPA, to his genome hacking project. He asked Kathryn Ruemmler, the White House attorney who had handled the legal fallout from the Edward Snowden leaks, to help him source cryptographers from the National Security Agency. âCan you find a guy from nsa that can think about signal intelligence applied to DNA,â Epstein wrote . âI want to intercept communication between living cells in organisms.â
In late 2012, he had sent the same request to Boris Nikolic, Bill Gatesâ top aide: âdo you have any contacts at nsa so that we can use de encypriton (sic) in biological systems?â âYes,â Nikolic replied, âThere are no many places where I do not have someone ;)â
(August 30, 2025)
The Horizon Europe program, described by the EU as âa scientific research initiative to develop a sustainable and livable society in Europe,â has awarded around 475 million euros to 348 Israeli start-ups and research projects since October 2023, many of which are run by former IDF soldiers and intelligence officers.
In 2024, the EU awarded grants of âŹ220m to 179 companies and initiatives run by Israelis. The scale of this funding, coming in a year when the worldâs pre-eminent genocide experts all declared Israel was committing a genocide, a year in which entire cities were wiped out and tens of thousands of civilians murdered, is staggering.
In the same year Israel was also the third largest recipient, behind France and Germany, of âacceleratorâ grants, a separate component of the Horizon program intended to support small and medium-sized companies working to improve life in Europe.
Spain has cancelled a major defence deal with Israel for supplying advanced aerial technology for its Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet, news website Haaretz reported on Thursday.
This âŹ207m contract cancellation marks the third defence deal to be terminated by Spain, the report said.
Spain on Wednesday approved a law mandating „total“ arms embargo on Israel as part of measures aimed at stopping the genocide in Gaza.
This technology has been used for crowd-control purposes since the early 1990s.
(March 17, 2025)
Here, we introduce an approach for creating remote audio spots, dubbed audible enclaves, by harnessing the local nonlinear interaction of two self-bending ultrasonic beams with distinct spectra. The self-bending ultrasonic beams created by acoustic metasurfaces, though inaudible, can bypass obstacles such as human heads.
(today)
Telecommunications engineer Juan Miguel Navarro, from the Catholic University of Murcia in Spain, collaborated with Yun Ling over a decade ago on acoustic simulations for large venues. Navarro notes that sound focusing has been used for over 20 years in security applications, such as long-range acoustic devices, considered non-lethal weapons because they emit painful sounds that incapacitate the enemy.
Die globalen MachtverhĂ€ltnisse Ă€hneln dabei denen, die schon vor Hunderten von Jahren gegolten haben. Die Zeiten in denen die Reichen und MĂ€chtigen das Lineal an die Landkarte ansetzen und die Welt unter sich aufteilen ist zwar vorbei. Aber an ihre Stelle sind neue Machthaber getreten. Die reichsten Firmen aus dem Globalen Norden gewinnen Profit und Macht auf Kosten des Globalen SĂŒdens â Ă€hnlich wie im Kolonialismus, der nur scheinbar hinter uns liegt. GroĂe Tech-Unternehmen wie Google und Meta kontrollieren sogar die Infrastruktur und den Zugang zum Internet â bauen Unterseekabel rund um den afrikanischen Kontinent.
To join Nostr you need a profile, but it is not the usual one that a company generates and manages for you. You create it yourself, no permissions are required.
Nostr is a different experience from the beginning: because there is no central authority taking care of who is who, each user is identified by a cryptographic keypair; donât worry about the tech slang, it is just a strong password that you will have to keep safe.
This wizard is one of the many ways to bootstrap a Nostr profile that you can later use in other apps. We help you to create your keypair and safely manage it in a few steps. Are you ready?
The aim of ELI5 (explain me like I‘m 5) is to explain difficult things simply. This is urgently needed in our high-tech world, because only by understanding the technologies can we use them properly and develop them further.
I‘m starting my series with Nostr, a relatively new internet protocol.
Schwierige Dinge einfach zu erklĂ€ren ist der Anspruch von ELI5 (explain me like I‘m 5). Das ist in unserer hoch technisierten Welt dringend erforderlich, denn nur mit dem VerstĂ€ndnis der Technologien können wir sie richtig einsetzen und weiter entwickeln.
Ich starte meine Serie mit Nostr, einem relativ neuen Internet-Protokoll.
About the mission
Launch date: Late February 2025
The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is a planned two-year mission that will survey the sky in optical as well as near-infrared light which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions. Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 450 million galaxies, as well as, more than 100 million stars in our own Milky Way.
NASA will host a news conference at 12 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 31, to discuss a new telescope that will improve our understanding of how the universe evolved and search for key ingredients for life in our galaxy.
Agency experts will preview NASAâs SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) mission, which will help scientists better understand the structure of the universe, how galaxies form and evolve, and the origins and abundance of water. Launch is targeted for no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27.
The web. Email. RSS feeds. XMPP chats. What all these technologies had in common is they allowed people to freely interact and create content, without a single intermediary.
Weâre building the AT Protocol, a new foundation for public conversation and social networking which gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience.
Sign up for the Bluesky private beta.
The underlying protocol for Bluesky is ATP, much like the underlying protocol for the web is HTTP. Our goal was to make social media work more like the open systems that defined the early web, like blogs and email.
(February 20, 2023)
AS&E devised a product to complement the machines it made for airports and seaports. It placed a low-powered X-ray machine on the back of a Ford Motor Co. chassis. The U.S. military used the mobile scanner to detect improvised explosive devices during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the company said. Domestic law enforcement could disguise the vehicle as a delivery van and use it to scan cars in, say, a stadium parking lot.
The X-ray van, called the ZBV, made its debut in 2003. Michael Tropeano, general manager of AS&Eâs cargo-scanning division, said he thought the product would be a winner from day one.
The United States and the European Union could launch talks on critical materials trade when U.S. President Joe Biden welcomes European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in the White House on Friday.