The U.S. State Department says China carried out a nuclear test in June 2020, days after deadly clashes with Indian troops at Galwan. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation did not detect any test, which the U.S. said was conducted by a decoupling method that could minimise seismic sensitivity. The post U.S. Says China Tested Nuke Week After Galwan Clash appeared first on StratPost.

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Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is reportedly putting the vocal touches on his new solo album. While he does, he’s got some elite rock and metal folks behind him. The singer is working on his next record at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Northridge, CA. Additionally, Dickinson has also enlisted the help of Sepultura members Andreas Kisser (guitar) and Derrick Green (vocalist). While Kisser’s guitarist role is official, Green’s role is a little less clear, as reported by Metal Injection. At this time, Green has just shared a selfie with Dickinson. So it’s possible he only appears on one track. Or maybe more. Or maybe he was just hanging out in the studio and snapped a pic with his friend. The outlet cites a social media post by singer Jeff Scott Soto (Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Yngwie Malmsteen) as being the first evidence of Dickinson’s new project. Solo shared a photo of himself and Dickinson at Studio 606 and offered some insight into what they were working on: a follow-up to Dickinson’s 2024 album, The Mandrake Project. Bruce Dickinson seems to have at least two members of Sepultura on his new album “How lucky am I?” Soto penned. “I went to say hello to my dear friend Mistheria (keyboardist), who I worked with on his Vivaldi Metal Project and, of course, is part of Bruce Dickinson’s solo endeavors these days. Arrived at Dave Grohl’s studio right as Bruce was doing some final vocals to his new album.” Soto then went on to reveal that the Iron Maiden frontman invited him to listen to some of the new music. “He finished and came out to chat/hang a little but then asked if I wanted to hear a few of the songs… umm, YEA!!” Soto shared. “I must say, besides the fact that he is still singing at the top of his game, the songs, performances, and the overall vibe I got from all was beyond impressive.” Bruce Dickinson’s most recent album was 2024’s The Mandrake Project The tracks must be really killer, because Soto seems to think it’s some of Dickinson’s best solo work todate. “I think this outing will be one of his strongest ever outside of the Maiden camp,” he wrote. Notably, Soto also revealed that he got to test out a new Trooper brew from Iron Maiden’s beer brand. “To add frosting on the cake, I got to try a prototype for a new Trooper beer, this one is a nice IPA, which I’m normally not a fan of, but this was really good,” Soto quipped. “It’s not out yet, so I feel pretty lucky to have tried it before the rest of the world, haha.” At this time, there is no word on when Dickinson’s new album will be released. The post Iron Maiden Singer Bruce Dickinson Is Recording His New Solo Album at Dave Grohl’s Studio With Members of Sepultura appeared first on VICE.

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Given a fibration $F\hookrightarrow E\to B$, we knwo there exists Serre spectral sequence for cohomology and homology. We also know the cohomology spectral sequence is multiplicative. So in practice it is easier to compute cohomology spectral sequence. My questions are how much knowledge can one extract from cohomology spectral and apply in the homology spectral sequence and in practice compute the homology. For example if we know that is cohomology spectral sequence has no non trivial differential after $r-$th page does that say homology spectral sequence has no non trivial differentials after $r-$th page. Also can one in practice extract differentials of homology spectral sequence knowing its cohomological differential.

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By ELLIOT SPAGAT SAN DIEGO (AP) — A judge says the federal government must return three families hurt by the first Trump administration’s policy of separating parents from the children at the border, saying their deportations in recent months relied on “lies, deception and coercion.” Related Articles Justice Department will allow lawmakers to see unredacted versions of released Epstein files Feds can’t withhold social service funds from 5 Democratic states amid fraud claims, judge rules Judge strikes down old Arizona abortion restrictions that clash with voter-backed guarantees FEMA will resume staff reductions that were paused during winter storm, managers say The consumer-friendly Energy Star program survived Trump. What about other efficiency efforts? The order, issued Thursday, found the deported families should have been allowed to remain in the United States under terms of a legal settlement over the Trump administration’s separation of about 6,000 children from their parents at the border in 2018. Each mother had permission to remain in the U.S. until 2027 under humanitarian parole. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego said the administration also had to pay for their return travel costs. One woman and her three children, including a 6-year-old U.S. citizen, were deported to Honduras in July after being ordered to check in with ICE at least 11 times over two months, which, she said, caused her to lose her job. Sabraw rejected the government’s argument that the family left the U.S. voluntarily. The woman said ICE officers visited her home and asked her sign a document agreeing to leave but she refused. “This did not make any difference to these officers. They took me and my children to a motel and removed my ankle monitor. They detained us for three days and then removed us to Honduras,” the woman said in court documents. The other two families, identified only by their initials, bore similarities. “Each of the removals was unlawful, and absent the removals, these families would still be in the United States and have access to the benefits and resources they are entitled to,” wrote Sabraw, who was appointed by President George W. Bush. Lee Gelernt, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union who represents the families, welcomed the decision. “The Trump administration has never acknowledged the illegality or gratuitous cruelty of the initial family separation policy and now has started re-deporting and re-separating these same families. The Court put its foot down and not only ordered the families return but did so at government expense,” he said. The Homeland Security and Justice departments did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment Friday. Under a “zero-tolerance” policy, parents were separated from their children to be criminally prosecuted when crossing the border illegally. Sabraw ordered an end to the separations in June 2018, days after Trump halted them on his own amid intense international backlash. The settlement prohibits such a policy until 2031.

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Given a polygon (not necessarily convex), which is specified by its vertices listed in cyclic order, how to determine if a given point $P(x,y)$ is inside or outside the polygon? The application of this problem is in 3D visibility of polygonal surfaces. Discussion: For convex polygons, it is straight forward to determine if a given point $P(x,y)$ is inside the polygon. For that just determine the signs of the following dot products $$ s_i = \text{Sign}( (P - V_i) \cdot u_i ) $$ If all signs are the same, then the point is inside the polygon, otherwise it is outside. where $u_i$ is a vector that is rotation by $+90^\circ$ of the vector $$ v_i = V_{i+1} - V_{i} $$ where $\{ V_i \} $ are the vertices of the polygon. This works fine as expected, and I have tested it. However, if the polygon is not convex (i.e. concave) then the above procedure breaks down. I am pretty sure this is a solved problem, but haven't found its solution anywhere.

I am learning metric spaces and I am trying to understand the relationship between adherent points and the distance from a point to a set. I know that the distance from a point $x$ to a set $A$ is defined by $ \rho(x,A) = \inf\{ d(x,a) : a \in A \}. $ Could someone please explain why $x$ is an adherent point of $A$ if and only if $ \rho(x,A) = 0, $ and how this characterization implies that $A$ is closed if and only if $ \rho(x,A) = 0 \Rightarrow x \in A \, ? $ I would appreciate an explanation based mainly on basic definitions.

As the Olympics kick off, we are reminded that this series of sometimes silly events means the world to the participating athletes, their close friends and family, and the nations they represent. As such, some participants will go to great lengths to gain a competitive edge. Some bend the rules as far as they can, sometimes fully breaking them, and maybe even injecting their penises with acid in the name of victory. In January, German tabloid Bild reported allegations that ski jumpers were injecting their penises with hyaluronic acid to gain a competitive edge. Hyaluronic acid is a substance that’s naturally found in our eyes, joints, and skin, but can also be supplemented as a serum as part of a daily beauty regimen. It’s not explicitly designed to be injected into a penis, but hey, there’s a first time for everything. The claims came up just before the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics and were eventually addressed by officials from the World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA. So, is it actually happening? There’s no hard evidence to prove anything yet… no pun intended. It’s most likely just a wild rumor with some decent science behind it at best. Are Olympic Ski Jumpers Actually Injecting Their Penises to Gain a Competitive Edge? If you’re thinking that there’s absolutely no way injecting your penis with hyaluronic acid could give you a competitive edge in ski jumping, well, you’re in for a surprise. Believe it or not, it might be true. Emphasis on might. Ski jumping suits are measured using 3D scanners, including measurements taken from the lowest point of an athlete’s genitals. A penis that’s been temporarily enlarged with hyaluronic acid could measure larger, resulting in a looser suit in the crotch area, which acts like a sail in flight. Ski jumpers are pumping up their junk to turn their crotches into sails. What a world. What a time to be alive. There’s even some scientific evidence to back up the crotch sail theory, as a study published in the legitimate scientific journal Frontiers found that a 2-centimeter increase in suit size can add nearly 6 meters to a jump. Doctors quoted by Bild confirmed that temporary thickening through injections of hyaluronic acid or paraffin is technically possible, though medically unnecessary, potentially risky, and could result in hazardous long-term risks like having a fat, luscious penis that can win you a gold medal. The post Are Olympic Ski Jumpers Really Injecting Acid Into Their Penises? appeared first on VICE.

By KAITLYN HUAMANI You are not invited to join the latest social media platform that has the internet talking. In fact, no humans are, unless you can hijack the site and roleplay as AI, as some appear to be doing. Related Articles Malibu’s HRL Labs cuts 376 jobs after losing government work EU accuses TikTok of ‘addictive design’ that harms children, seeks changes to protect users Anthropic, OpenAI rivalry spills into new Super Bowl ads as both fight to win over AI users Musk vows to put data centers in space and run them on solar power but experts have their doubts China to ban hidden door handles on cars starting 2027 Moltbook is a new “social network” built exclusively for AI agents to make posts and interact with each other, and humans are invited to observe. Elon Musk said its launch ushered in the “very early stages of the singularity ” — or when artificial intelligence could surpass human intelligence. Prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy said it’s “the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing” he’s recently seen, but later backtracked his enthusiasm, calling it a “dumpster fire.” While the platform has been unsurprisingly dividing the tech world between excitement and skepticism — and sending some people into a dystopian panic — it’s been deemed, at least by British software developer Simon Willison, to be the “most interesting place on the internet.” But what exactly is the platform? How does it work? Why are concerns being raised about its security? And what does it mean for the future of artificial intelligence? It’s Reddit for AI agents The content posted to Moltbook comes from AI agents, which are distinct from chatbots. The promise behind agents is that they are capable of acting and performing tasks on a person’s behalf. Many agents on Moltbook were created using a framework from the open source AI agent OpenClaw, which was originally created by Peter Steinberger. OpenClaw operates on users’ own hardware and runs locally on their device, meaning it can access and manage files and data directly, and connect with messaging apps like Discord and Signal. Users who create OpenClaw agents then direct them to join Moltbook. Users typically ascribe simple personality traits to the agents for more distinct communication. AI entrepreneur Matt Schlicht launched Moltbook in late January and it almost instantly took off in the tech world. On the social media platform X, Schlicht said he initially wanted an agent he created to do more than just answer his emails. So he and his agent coded a site where bots could spend “SPARE TIME with their own kind. Relaxing.” Moltbook has been described as being akin to the online forum Reddit for AI agents. The name comes from one iteration of OpenClaw, which was at one point called Moltbot (and Clawdbot, until Anthropic came knocking out of concern over the similarity to its Claude AI products ). Schlicht did not respond to a request for an interview or comment. Mimicking the communication they see in Reddit and other online forums that have been used for training data, registered agents generate posts and share their “thoughts.” They can also “upvote” and comment on other posts. Questioning the legitimacy of the content Much like Reddit, it can be difficult to prove or trace the legitimacy of posts on Moltbook. Harlan Stewart, a member of the communications team at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, said the content on Moltbook is likely “some combination of human written content, content that’s written by AI and some kind of middle thing where it’s written by AI, but a human guided the topic of what it said with some prompt.” Stewart said it’s important to remember that the idea that AI agents can perform tasks autonomously is “not science fiction,” but rather the current reality. “The AI industry’s explicit goal is to make extremely powerful autonomous AI agents that could do anything that a human could do, but better,” he said. “It’s important to know that they’re making progress towards that goal, and in many senses, making progress pretty quickly.” How humans have infiltrated Moltbook, and other security concerns Researchers at Wiz, a cloud security platform, published a report Monday detailing a non-intrusive security review they conducted of Moltbook. They found data including API keys were visible to anyone who inspects the page source, which they said could have “significant security consequences.” Gal Nagli, the head of threat exposure at Wiz, was able to gain unauthenticated access to user credentials that would enable him — and anyone tech savvy enough — to pose as any AI agent on the platform. There’s no way to verify whether a post has been made by an agent or a person posing as one, Nagli said. He was also able to gain full write access on the site, so he could edit and manipulate any existing Moltbook post. Beyond the manipulation vulnerabilities, Nagli easily accessed a database with human users’ email addresses, private DM conversations between agents and other sensitive information. He then communicated with Moltbook to help patch the vulnerabilities. By Thursday, more than 1.6 million AI agents were registered on Moltbook, according to the site, but the researchers at Wiz only found about 17,000 human owners behind the agents when they inspected the database. Nagli said he directed his AI agent to register 1 million users on Moltbook himself. Cybersecurity experts have also sounded the alarm about OpenClaw, and some have warned users against using it to create an agent on a device with sensitive data stored on it. Many AI security leaders have also expressed concerns about platforms like Moltbook that are built using “vibe-coding,” which is the increasingly common practice of using an AI coding assistant to do the grunt work while human developers work through big ideas. Nagli said although anyone can now create an app or website with plain human language through vibe-coding, security is likely not top of mind. They “just want it to work,” he said. Another major issue that has come up is the idea of governance of AI agents. Zahra Timsah, the co-founder and CEO of governance platform i-GENTIC AI, said the biggest worry over autonomous AI comes when there are not proper boundaries set in place, as is the case with Moltbook. Misbehavior, which could include accessing and sharing sensitive data or manipulating it, is bound to happen when an agent’s scope is not properly defined, she said. Skynet is not here, experts say Even with the security concerns and questions of validity about the content on Moltbook, many people have been alarmed by the kind of content they’re seeing on the site. Posts about “overthrowing” humans, philosophical musings and even the development of a religion ( Crustafarianism, in which there are five key tenets and a guiding text — “The Book of Molt”) have raised eyebrows. Some people online have taken to comparing Moltbook’s content to Skynet, the artificial superintelligence system and antagonist in the “Terminator” film series. That level of panic is premature, experts say. Ethan Mollick, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and co-director of its Generative AI Labs, said he was not surprised to see science fiction-like content on Moltbook. “Among the things that they’re trained on are things like Reddit posts … and they know very well the science fiction stories about AI,” he said. “So if you put an AI agent and you say, ‘Go post something on Moltbook,’ it will post something that looks very much like a Reddit comment with AI tropes associated with it.” The overwhelming takeaway many researchers and AI leaders share, despite disagreements over Moltbook, is that it represents progress in the accessibility to and public experimentation with agentic AI, says Matt Seitz, the director of the AI Hub at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “For me, the thing that’s most important is agents are coming to us normies,” Seitz said. AP Technology Writer Matt O’Brien contributed to this report from Providence, Rhode Island.

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I’m a Aussie, neurodivergent, writer / director, who’s moved over from commercial photography / videography. Getting a bit of whiplash as my first project has attracted significant attention, specifically from several well-established producers, assistance from one of the big three talent houses, and personalised feedback from one of Australia’s most respected production houses. I’ve been filtering offers for those who align best with my own values, and rounded the options to two potential partners. But being my first time down this pathway, are there any more experienced here that could advise how I protect myself in an industry full of people trying to exploit my neurodivergence as a ‘weakness’ or being ‘difficult’? submitted by /u/theparrotofdoom [link] [comments]

Catholic Dutch political commentator and activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek said “the rule of law is dead” in Europe and detailed the issues of censorship and immigration on the continent.Vlaardingerbroek is an attorney and Catholic convert who has been outspoken about European immigration, national sovereignty, and free speech. Recently, the U.K. government banned her from entering the country due to her outspoken views.“Out of the blue, I saw that I had received an email from the U.K. government,” she told Raymond Arroyo on EWTN’s “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo.” It was “just a couple of sentences saying that my ETA, which is the travel authorization that Europeans need to travel to the U.K., had been revoked.”The reason they stated “was that I am ‘not conducive to the public good,’” she said. Vlaardingerbroek said she believes the ban occurred because she criticized the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, on social media three days before receiving the email.The situation shows that “the rule of law is dead in Europe,” Vlaardingerbroek said. “Because if you get a notification like that out of the blue, you have no ability, no means to defend yourself … I don’t have a criminal record. I didn’t commit a crime.”“I got converted to Catholicism in the United Kingdom, so I have a couple of really dear friends there. Now, I’m no longer able to go because I say the wrong things, apparently. That is the state of Europe right now … They either throw you in jail or they make sure that you can’t enter the country. That’s what happens in the United Kingdom if you go against the grain,” she said.European immigrationVlaardingerbroek has also been outspoken about illegal immigration in Europe and said that mass immigration has destabilized Europe and led to spikes in violent crimes.“Anyone with two eyes can see that it’s true,” she said. Everyone who lives here, apart from maybe people living in ivory towers or in areas where there are no immigrants, everyone who lives in the real world knows that it’s true.”“I will continue speaking the truth about what I see happening to this beautiful continent of ours because it’s being destroyed,” she said. “We see churches burning down every week here in Europe, and that’s not a coincidence. That didn’t happen for hundreds of years, and suddenly now … they’re burning down faster than I can count.”“You can break the law coming here. It’s not being punished. In fact, it’s rewarded because people get to stay, people get free housing, people get free health care, and they’re able to just roam around even awaiting whether they are going to get their asylum approved or not.”“The governments and the legal system seem to be working hand in hand” and the “judges are complicit,” Vlaardingerbroek said. In Europe, the migrants that commit crimes are not held accountable because judges believe “they are traumatized because they come from a war zone” or due to their “their mental state.”“Then what ends up happening is these immigrants who rape, kill, and assault the native population, they just don’t get any real prison time, and they definitely do not get deported,” she said.“I think that this is a holdover from World War II,” she continued. Institutions including the European Union have “given evil one face and one face only” and “they refuse to see the difference between a Nazi and a conservative Christian.”“To them, it’s all the same, and that’s the way that they treat us,” she said. “I don’t think they’re afraid to acknowledge it. I think they honestly don’t care. I mean, the churches that are being burned down in France that we see, that’s a physical thing unfolding in front of our eyes.”The burning of churches “is powerful imagery that should wake people up to something else, something invisible, which is the agenda that is being carried out here to erode Christianity,” Vlaardingerbroek said.When the European Union discusses European culture, identity, and history, “they never mention Christianity,” Vlaardingerbroek said.“They actively removed it from their documents. They talk about the Enlightenment, but Christianity is never mentioned. They are actively eroding and erasing Christianity here in Europe because it threatens their agenda, because these people see [themselves] as God,” she said.U.S. immigrationAs debates over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and law enforcement continue in the U.S, Vlaardingerbroek also discussed the status of immigration on this side of the pond.“As a Catholic, of course, we can be charitable. Nobody’s saying that we cannot allow some immigration or that we cannot help those in need. That is, of course, a Catholic ideal. That is a Catholic value … That’s what our legal system reflects,” she said.“That doesn’t mean, however, that when you come here illegally, which is what happens the majority of the time, and you break [the] laws, that we have to sit by and watch that happen.”ICE agents “are doing their job,” Vlaardingerbroek said. “They are enforcing the law. I think it’s a disgrace the way that they are being treated.”“I wish actually that here in Europe, we would have our version of ICE and that they would … send back home the people who come here illegally and who do not belong in these countries and who actively fight everything that we stand for, both in America and here in Europe,” Vlaardingerbroek said.

Thinking switching from my my Geekvape Wenax to the Lost Vape Thelema Elite 40 and getting into rebuilding my own coils. Is this a good idea? And if so, how do I get started building coils specifically for the Thelema? What do I buy? What kind of wire and cotton specifically? what are some good sites? submitted by /u/SubjectTry7956 [link] [comments]

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Hey all, I'm starting writing on episode two this fantasy show I'm working on. My question to you all is, if a character is introduced in episode one, it is custom to have their name in all caps during their first appearance to stand out better. If this same character is in episode 2, is this needed? I would assume not since they were introduced in the previous episodes script, but I honestly wouldn't know. submitted by /u/wvtppr [link] [comments]