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Published 16 May 2024 at 15.28 Foreign. Five Israeli soldiers were killed and seven wounded on Wednesday after being mistakenly attacked by their own forces, Haaretz reports. Share the article TwitterShare A preliminary investigation of the deaths show that Israeli tanks identified a weapon and opened fire on nearby Israeli forces. The unit fired upon…

Published 16 May 2024 at 16.59 Foreign. Björn Höcke, regional leader of the Alternative for Germany party, has now been sentenced to a hefty fine for breach of opinion – after saying “All for Germany”. Share the article TwittraShare Björn Höcke, who is group leader of the AFD in Thuringia, was charged with saying “everything…

Google will add video as input to its search engine. Until now, the search engine could only handle text, audio and images. There will also be AI Overviews with answers to complex questions. Google search with video This makes it possible to make a video of, for example, a malfunctioning device with the question 'why…

Google has announced Veo, its AI model for video generation. Customers can customize and extend clips with prompts and commands, among other things. Later, parts of Veo should become available for making YouTube Shorts. Veo makes videos with 1080p resolution, Google announced. The feature is in Google's new VideoFX and video creation is done via…

Mozilla has released version 126 of its Firefox web browser. In this release, among other things, the copy link without tracking function has been improved, hardware acceleration for the AV1 codec on Apple hardware equipped with an M3 processor has been enabled, and the browser supports a new and more efficient way of content encoding.…

Version 13.0.15 of Tor Browser has been released. Tor stands for The Onion Router and is a network that can be used to surf the Internet fairly anonymously. All users' TCP traffic is routed through different Tor routers, after which it is virtually impossible for the recipient to find out who the original sender was.…

Google has shown Project Astra, a prototype of glasses with a camera, microphone and speaker. Using generative AI, it can have conversations and answer questions about the environment and what can be seen in it. Google has not disclosed details of the glasses that Google has developed for Project Astra. It comes from the company's…

Published 14 May 2024 at 15.36 Domestic. The police began early on Tuesday morning a coordinated effort against serious organized crime in the Gothenburg area. At least 15 people have been arrested. Share the article TwittraShare During the morning and forenoon, several people have been detained. About ten have been brought in for questioning, while…

Published 14 May 2024 at 18.13 Law & Right. A 24-year-old man who has been issued a stay ban in central Gothenburg has violated it repeatedly in a short period of time. Now he has been arrested for the violations. Share the article TwittraShare The new law on preventive stay bans can prohibit staying within…

Published 15 May 2024 at 07.57 Media. Video platform Rumble is now demanding competitor Google for up to a billion dollars, reports Axios. Share the article TwittraShare Rumble has profiled itself as a site with a right-wing profile and more freedom of expression than Youtube. Among other things, it is the only major platform that…

Published 15 May 2024 at 08.30 Domestic. A new study from Lund shows that some of the world's most media-promoted climate scientists burn half their carbon dioxide ration in a week. Among other things, traveling to climate conferences in exciting and exotic locations of a luxury and vacation nature. This is shown by a new…

Published 15 May 2024 at 21.14 Foreign. Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico has been shot several times and his injuries are described as life-threatening. Share the article TwittraShare Robert Fico was shot outside on Wednesday afternoon in connection with government meeting in the city of Handlova. He is said to have been hit by several…

The Dutch Employee Insurance Agency has started informing victims of the recent data breach in which 150,000 CVs were accessed by one person. It varies per victim as to what information was stolen during the incident. The 150,000 CVs were uploaded by people to the werk.nl website and the settings of their account on that…

Version 190 of Fan Control has been released. This program, which uses the open source Libre Hardware Monitor project, can manage and monitor the fans in the computer. This makes it possible to keep the computer cool or quiet with different profiles and configurations. Fan Control can handle most fans and controllers, and can be…

Google is testing the ability to run the ChromeOS operating system on Android smartphones. This requires a special version of the open source variant ChromiumOS, which runs on a virtual machine via the Android Virtualization Framework on a smartphone. The functionality was demonstrated at a Google event, according to describes Android Authority. Google is said…

VodafoneZiggo is releasing a general app for Vodafone and Ziggo customers. With the Vodafone & Ziggo app, customers of both providers can manage their subscriptions and view invoices. The app is now available for Android and iOS. According to VodafoneZiggo, customers can use the updated app 'to find information about products, invoices and services in…

TSMC will start building its European chip factory at the end of this year. The chipmaker confirmed this on Wednesday during an event in the Netherlands. The factory will be located in Germany and will produce chips using processes up to 12nm. TSMC is 'on schedule' to start building its German chip factory in the…

Published 15 May 2024 at 09.35 Domestic. After 45 years, the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University ceases to exist as a separate unit. The reason is, among other things, work environment problems and internal conflicts, writes Sydsvenskan. Share the article TwittraShare The Department of Gender Studies at Lund University was founded in 1978,…

Published 15 May 2024 at 10.57 Foreign. More than two years after the war in Ukraine started, the employment rate among the over a million Ukrainians who came to Germany is very low. This puts pressure on the government, which has presented the refugees as a way to reduce the labor shortage. Share the article…

Published 15 May 2024 at 12.11 Domestic. An unexpected “climate culprit” has been discovered – in the form of the climate scientists themselves. Share the article TwittraShare A new study from Lund University shows that the climate scientists themselves consume large amounts of carbon dioxide during their conferences. Some of them dispose of half their…

Published 15 May 2024 at 13.51 Domestic. The exoplanet 55 Cancri e probably has an atmosphere dominated by carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide, according to a new study published in Nature. Share the article TwittraShare 40 light-years away from our own solar system lies the exoplanet 55 Cancri e. It orbits 65 times closer to…

Published 15 May 2024 at 16.14 Domestic. Former national police chief Anders Thornberg is suspected of causing the death of another in connection with the handling of the Linda Staaf scandal in 2022, which ended with Stockholm's former police chief Mats Löfving taking his own life. Share the article TwittraShare At the end of April,…

Developer Mr-Wiseguy has created a tool that can speed up the process of creating unofficial PC ports of Nintendo 64 games. The original game files can be converted into an executable .exe file with the tool in a short time. To avoid legal disputes, users must provide their own game files, writes VGC. Mr-Wiseguy's software…

OpenAI unveiled its new AI model GPT-4o during its Spring Update. According to OpenAI, the model is twice as fast as GPT-4 Turbo and is available to all users. The company also releases ChatGPT on macOS. According to OpenAI, GPT-4o is 'much faster' and the model improves text, image and audio capabilities. While GPT-4 models…