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Since Israel launched its genocidal war in Gaza in 2023, several nations – including Japan, Canada, France, Italy, and Spain – have moved to enact various arms embargoes against Israel. The US, which has supported, supplied, and financed Israel’s assault, could now help backfill any weapons that Israel may be missing, under the defense bill released Sunday night.

A provision buried deep in the proposed National Defense Authorization Act calls for the “continual assessment of [the] impact of international state arms embargoes on Israel and actions to address defense capability gaps.”

The measure can be found more than 1,000 pages into the 3,000-page NDAA. The bill is considered a piece of must-pass legislation, and is expected to move quickly. The massive bill typically passes with bipartisan support.

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Bad for consumers, bad for the environment, 230+ groups say

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/09/datacenter_pause_congress_help/

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Rachel Reeves has received over £200k from the Zionist lobby over the years - how the fuck is this a functioning democracy?

[Op-ed by Maria Popova and Anastasia Leshchyshyn, both researchers at McGill University.]

When Canadians think about our neighbours, we generally think only of one: the United States. But we also have a neighbour to the North: Russia, whose proximity has only been enhanced by the effects of climate change on the Arctic.

And we need to shift our assumptions quickly. With the terms of Ukraine’s future now being determined, the kind of Russia that emerges from the Russo-Ukrainian war is the one Canada will meet in the Arctic.

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However, despite our mental maps fooling us otherwise, the North does not end with us; the Russian neighbour just across the Arctic Circle is much closer than we tend to realize.

Last week’s speech by CSIS Director Daniel Rogers should jolt Canadians from their North American preoccupations and reorient our attention to Canada’s Arctic with warnings that Russia and China have “significant intelligence interests” in the region.

Word of Russian prowling in the Arctic is far from revelatory, and it has been suggested that Rogers’ address was a timely effort to shore up public support for the Carney government’s recent increases in defence spending. Yet “significant” was also the adjective selected by Rogers to describe Russia’s military presence in the Arctic, and the state itself was notably characterized as remaining “unpredictable and aggressive.”

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In a speech delivered in Kyiv on Ukraine’s Independence Day in August 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney offered an assessment of Russia’s imperial ambitions in Ukraine: “We see this war clearly, as a horrific act of aggression, a maniacal quest to recreate a history that itself was filled with injustice, and we know that peace will only come through strength.”

Canadians are perhaps not as clearsighted in comprehending their own country’s proximity to this same aggressor, and even less so in their ability to predict or imagine how exactly Russian aggression might manifest to undermine Canadian interests.

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To call Russia our neighbour would be to recognize that the outcome of the Russo-Ukrainian war has direct implications for Canadian security, and that support for Ukraine is a direct investment in our own defence, rather than a donation to a distant cause.

To call Russia our neighbour would be to induce a shift in Canada’s broader political calculus, by illuminating the scope of our susceptibilities and expanding our understanding of what the defence of our interests entails.

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If Ukraine is defeated, Canada risks dealing with an emboldened, expansionist neighbour — and not just the one to our south.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his refusal to cede territory, resisting U.S. pressure for compromise with Russia.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-trump-putin-cf17d925e21e6d6329fadff7e3efbb90

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The bill also expands limits on demonstrations by banning protests around community, cultural, and religious centres, regardless of the activities taking place inside. Critics warn that creating “bubble zones” around such places restricts freedom of speech and peaceful assembly, and could effectively criminalize lawful protest that is not hate-motivated—for example, when Palestine solidarity protesters (many of them Jewish) protested outside synagogues hosting non-religious events promoting the illegal sale of Palestinian land in the West Bank.

The federal government says these new restrictions aim to make Canada safer and better able to fight hate crimes. But, in a joint letter, 37 diverse civil society organisations stressed their opposition to the bill. The signatories demanded that Parliament withdraw the bill, saying it would worsen systemic inequities and undermine Canada's commitments to freedom of expression.

Some legal infrastructure defining criticisms of Israel as hate speech is already in place. In 2019, the federal government adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which broadens the definition of antisemitism to include some criticisms of Israel. According to the federal government's document on the subject, referring to "the existence of the state of Israel is a racist endeavor" is anti-semitism. The document's list of examples of hate-speech includes phrases such as "you can't be antiracist and Zionist" and that "Zionism is a racist & violent settler-colonial project." Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) criticized the definition, saying it was being used to "suppress and even criminalize pro-Palestine speech and activism."

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Hello lemmings, I've once again come for your advice. I've built a sff system with a dual boot bazzite os. This will be mostly for my kids playing games and media serving from Big picture in the living room. I'm trying to figure out the best way to set up the accounts. Ideally it would be as close to a console experience as possible but I want to make sure each kid can save their own progress. What's my best option here? Does everyone need their own os account that signs them into steam properly? I've never set up a system for multiple users before.

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The Linux Foundation today announced it's formed another foundation under its growing umbrella that extends well beyond the traditional "Linux" landscape: the Agentic AI Foundation.

The Agentic AI Foundation "AAIF" has been formed with Anthropic contributing the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block's goose, and OpenAI contributing their AGENTS.md specification for guiding coding agents.

The Agentic AI Foundation aims for "a neutral, open foundation to ensure agentic AI evolves transparently and collaboratively."

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6983619

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/12440

At least four people were killed and dozens of others were injured in a series of airstrikes carried out by Thailand inside Cambodia on Monday, December 8. The airstrikes, which started in the early morning, continued throughout the day causing massive displacement of civilians and destruction of civilian infrastructure.

Thailand claimed its military actions were in response to Cambodian air strikes a day earlier, in which two of its soldiers were killed and several others were injured. The Thai army called the attacks a threat to its national security.

According to Reuters, over 350,000 people were evacuated from the border districts of Thailand following Cambodian strikes on Sunday.

Cambodia has denied Thai claims, instead accusing it of violating the ceasefire agreement signed between the two countries under the mediation of US President Donald Trump in October. It also accused the Thai forces of deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure and UNESCO heritage sites.

In turn, Thailand denied allegations of targeting civilians, claiming that its airstrikes were only focused on eliminating military threats inside Cambodia.

Neth Pheaktra, information minister of Cambodia, confirmed the death of citizens in a social media post on Monday. He also announced the shutdown of all schools and other educational institutions near the bordering regions, and the evacuation of civilians.

Hun Manet, Cambodian prime minister, called for respect of the ceasefire agreement and denied Thai claims of military preparations, appealing for national unity to protect the country’s sovereignty.

Cambodia has also claimed that Thai aggressions are unilateral and it has not responded to any of its military provocations yet, expressing hope for peace.

Call for peace

Meanwhile, Thailand’s prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, claimed Thai forces are doing what is necessary in self defense and warned of more such strikes, accusing Cambodia of initiating the attacks on Thai sovereignty and territorial integrity in a press conference on Monday.

Meanwhile, some regional leaders called for the cessation of hostilities and offered mediation. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim called for restraint and the opening of dialogue between the two countries.

“Thailand and Cambodia are close partners of Malaysia and key members of ASEAN. We urge both sides to exercise maximum restraint, maintain open channels of communication and make full use of the mechanisms in place,” Ibrahim urged.

Ibrahim was one of the key persons involved in the ceasefire agreement, which was announced following days of similar clashes between the two countries in July. At that time, Thailand recalled its ambassador from Phnom Penh following a mine blast on its border that injured one of its soldiers.

This triggered a deadly fight involving F-16 jets between the two countries. At least 48 people, mostly civilians, and over 300,000 were displaced.

A temporary ceasefire was called on July 28 following interventions from China, Malaysia, and the US.

Both countries had similar clashes in 2011 as well. The recurring clashes are reportedly related to a prolonged dispute over the demarcation of borders between them.

The 817 kilometer-long borders between the two South-East Asian nations were drawn by the French in 1907, when it ruled Cambodia as a colony.

The ceasefire agreement signed between the two countries in October in Kuala Lumpur under Trump’s mediation called on both sides to withdraw their troops from the border areas and start confidence-building measures, including direct negotiations.

However, it has been pointed out that the pact did nothing to address the long-standing issues related to the boundary dispute. This was reflected in the eruption of fresh clashes and disputes within weeks of signing of the agreement.

Clashes broke out despite Cambodia denying that Thailand suspended talks in November, this time accusing it of laying new landmines on the border, Reuters reported.

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"Urgent | Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced that 100 Israeli doctors have confirmed their readiness to inject Palestinian prisoners with poison in the event that death sentences are issued against them. ...."

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to impose a 5% tariff on Mexican goods if Mexico doesn't promptly release a significant quantity of the water it owes to the United States under the terms of a 1944 treaty.

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With Firefox 146 being released today to the stable channel, Mozilla has promoted the next major version of its open-source, free, and cross-platform web browser, Firefox 147, to the beta channel for public testing.

Firefox 147 promises support for the Freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory Specification, zero-copy hardware-decoded video support on AMD GPUs to improve video playback performance, support for the Safe Browsing V5 protocol, and WebGPU support for all Apple Silicon Macs.

Firefox 147 also promises to improve the Picture-in-Picture feature by adding support to automatically open a new player window for a playing video in a tab if that tab is ever backgrounded, which was previously in Firefox Labs, as well as support for Compression Dictionaries, IETF RFC 9842.

RAM-related price hikes are about to hit a bunch more devices.

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