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[12:14] Govt would not support DSTs on US big tech, says Donohoe

The Minister for Finance has said that the Government would not support the use of Digital Sales Taxes on US big tech as a countermeasure to resolve the current impasse between the European Union and the United States over trade tariffs.

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#Government #DigitalSalesTaxes #US #theEuropeanUnion #theUnitedStates




[15:00] 'So proud you were my father': Colin Farrell at funeral

Former Shamrock Rovers player and businessman Eamon Farrell has been remembered at his funeral by his son, actor Colin Farrell, as having been a gem of a father who was adored by him and his siblings.

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#ShamrockRovers #EamonFarrell #ColinFarrell












[09:25] US can deport pro-Palestinian student protester - judge

An immigration judge has ruled that a pro-Palestinian student protester, a US permanent resident detained by the Trump administration, can be deported, his lawyer said.

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#pro_Palestinian #US #Trump




‘Completely out of touch’: golf and dinners for ‘king’ Trump as economy melts down theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a… #Trumptariffs #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Mar-a-Lago #Worldnews #Florida #USnews




[13:42] Israel to expand offensive 'throughout most of Gaza'

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has announced that the military plans to expand its ongoing offensive across much of Gaza, warning residents to evacuate from active combat zones.

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#Israeli #IsraelKatz #Gaza





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[02:59] Man charged with Donald Trump assassination threat

A US man posting content online as "Mr Satan" has been charged with threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump and other government officials, the Department of Justice announced.

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#US #DonaldTrump #theDepartmentofJustice



[$] Managing multiple sources of page-hotness data

Knowing how frequently accessed a page of memory is (its "hotness") is a key input to many memory-management heuristics. Jonathan Cameron, in a memory-management track at the 2025 [...]

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If there is a key hot page, it can become a bottleneck problem due to locking.

An AI will never figure out the problem.

#Coding #AI #Insanity










Fedora Targets 99% Package Reproducibility by October linux.slashdot.org/story/25/04…





Leaked Meta data reveals campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts

Link: dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…