Putin signs decree allowing state seizure of businesses hit by drone strikes
The edict covers energy, transport, logistics and any facility deemed critical to national security, and can be imposed by presidential instruction alone. Experts called it "hybrid nationalisation," warning it would be used to seize assets from companies under the pretext of security failure.
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I never knew......that corgis are a thing in Lithuania...
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The floods in NepalSatellite images show bedrock and glacier collapsed on Nepal-China border, then rivers flooded
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TingA little blip in the system. Ting recorded it.
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Digital camouflage@rontuner Maybe something from this collection?
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Digital camouflageWeckert’s earlier work involved using 99 smartphones in a cart to make Google Maps believe there was a traffic jam.
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Digital camouflageI want one, just for fun.
Designer Simon Weckert has created a colourful camouflage shirt that cannot be detected using AI video systems.
Developed in response to a pilot project to use artificial intelligence (AI) video surveillance at Berlin's Kottbusser Tor, which starts this month, the shirt was designed to stop the user being recognised as a person..
https://www.dezeen.com/2026/08/25/digital-camouflage-shirt-ai-video-surveillance-simon-weckert/
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Ever hear of the Hanover Institute for Public Policy?Not a good choice of thread title on my part…I thought adding the tag would help but it probably didn’t…
What got my attention in the article was the idea that websites may be specifically tailored to get picked up by AI. Sort of the next generation of SEO. And that people either won’t take the time or maybe don’t even think to investigate what sources the chatbot used. The possibility for mischief explodes with AI.
This post was linked in the Guardian story and flushes it out more: