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”Czechia said it had received commitments from Canada, Denmark, and other countries that do not wish to be identified. Belgium has also allocated 200 million euros ($216 million) to the initiative, while the Netherlands pledged 250 million euros ($271 million).” #ukraine #eu…

New Clippy is the AGI!…

”Europe could someday be competing against three autocracies: “Russia, China, and the United States.” When he said that, it was my turn to shake my head, not because I didn’t believe him, but because it was so hard to hear.”…

”The company is working with a limited number of partners including social tools like Sprinklr, Sprout Social, Social News Desk, Hootsuite, tech news board Techmeme, and a few other developers.”…

”Wirecard, the German equivalent to PayPal…with a valuation of $28 billion… COO Jan Marsalek wasn’t just responsible for Germany’s largest financial fraud in history. He was also a decade-long Russian spy.”…

The UK offered solutions to Berlin’s resistance to sending them, including a swap deal that would see Britain supply Kyiv with more of its own Storm Shadow missiles, and Germany then restock the UK with replacement long-range missiles.…

”Germany, home to 133 active pro-Kremlin voices across business, media, diasporas, and fringe political movements. Before the invasion, many mainstream German groups also openly backed Moscow”…

”American singer LP’s concert in Lithuania was canceled after she posed in a Russian flag hoodie. The event organizers said… With this decision, we want to draw LP’s attention, as well as other artists planning events in Lithuania, that we will not tolerate messages supporting the aggressor country”

“The most important thing is people who are close to Putin: his friends, associates and keepers of mafia money. You and all of us must fight [against] the criminal gang,” Navalnaya said. Navalnaya added that the West should aim for “investigations into the financial mechanism, not statements of concern but…

”At the RRC gala event held in Moscow, the Russian Red Cross was praised as the nation’s oldest humanitarian organization. The event would have been ordinary had Avangard not been an arms factory under the ownership of the sanctioned, state-owned Almaz-Antey Group”…

”North Korean munitions factories are operating at full capacity to supply weapons to Russia in exchange for much-needed food and other necessities… North Korea is estimated to have shipped around 6,700 containers to Russia since the summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian leader Vladimir…

”They hope to record billions of the animals’ clicking sounds with floating hydrophones, and then to decipher the sounds’ meaning using neural networks…. Their codas could be orders of magnitude more ancient than Sanskrit.”…

Funny how countries change their stance with Russia’s advancement. Do they become like CEE when Russia is at their border? ”Sending western troops to fight in Ukraine “could not be ruled out” and that Paris would drop its long-standing opposition to purchasing emergency artillery supplies for Ukraine from…

Russian meddling with elections and threatening with nukes are nothing new. From 60 years ago: “The Soviet Union was mainly motivated by a desire to ensure Kekkonen's re-election in 1962. Kekkonen, who enjoyed the confidence of the Soviet leadership, was seeking re-election for the first time,

Digitalisation finally enters Hollywood after roaming elsewhere for decades: ”To his mind, AI tech poses an existential risk to the entertainment industry that it can't ignore: "There’s got to be some sort of regulations in order to protect us. If not, I just don’t see

”We pretend to hurt our enemies but without hurting our own interests. Everyone involved in these posturing policies knows this. Nobody cares. ..Any country can ban bankers, lawyers, accountants, company directors and others from the rest of the world who keep the wheels turning for the Kremlin. The plutocratic elite…

It takes the US to do the sanction job in Finland ”Finland-based HD Parts OY has made thousands of shipments of spare parts since 2022, making it one of the largest foreign suppliers of truck parts to Russian companies.”…

”This week a security deal was announced that could see Chinese police on the streets of Hungary… It has long been Chinese Communist party policy to drive a wedge between Europe and America, and in a narrow sense its investment in Hungary has paid dividends, since Orban has faithfully blocked…

”Even when Europe can produce combat forces, they often lack the things needed to fight effectively and for long enough: command-and-control capabilities, such as staff officers trained to run large headquarters; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, such as drones and satellites; logistics capabilities, including airlift; and ammunition to last…