Russia is using Chechen ‘TikTok soldiers’ on the front lines and to train its troops, highlighting the ‘desperation’ in its military: UK intel
27 Jul

Russia is using Chechen ‘TikTok soldiers’ on the front lines and to train its troops, highlighting the ‘desperation’ in its military: UK intel

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Pro-Russian Chechens, famed for their social media appearances, have been "pressed back into frontline service" in Ukraine, the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.The MoD estimated in May that there were around 9,000 troops fighting in pro-Russian Chechen units in Ukraine.While some have been fighting in the country since 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and the war in the Donbas began, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic, dispatched extra fighters as Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.Chechen units faced heavy losses in the early stages of the conflict, with many sent to carry out rear and…
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Websites accuse AI startup Anthropic of bypassing their anti-scraping rules and protocol
27 Jul

Websites accuse AI startup Anthropic of bypassing their anti-scraping rules and protocol

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Freelancer has accused Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude large language models, of ignoring its "do not crawl" robots.txt protocol to scrape its websites' data. Meanwhile, iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens said Anthropic has ignored the website's policy prohibiting the use of its content for AI model training. Matt Barrie, the chief executive of Freelancer, told The Information that Anthropic's ClaudeBot is "the most aggressive scraper by far." His website allegedly got 3.5 million visits from the company's crawler within a span of four hours, which is "probably about five times the volume of the number two" AI crawler. Similarly,…
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Defer & Panic Recovery In Go
27 Jul

Defer & Panic Recovery In Go

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Panics are caused by operations like accessing elements outside the bounds of an array, null dereference, closing closed channels, and so on. They are abnormal operations that should be avoided by checks in the code, but sometimes these scenarios are missed, and the panic can crash our application. There might be many reasons to recover from a panic, the most obvious being to "fail gracefully" by finishing cleanup operations and properly reporting the errors before exiting. Panic recovery in Go is based on defers, lets take a look at how they work. Each time the function encounters a defer statement,…
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Video shows an explosives-laden Jet Ski-style vehicle likely belonging to Ukraine floating off a beach in Turkey
27 Jul

Video shows an explosives-laden Jet Ski-style vehicle likely belonging to Ukraine floating off a beach in Turkey

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A modified Jet Ski-style vehicle laden with explosives was found floating off the coast of Turkey, near Istanbul.The personal watercraft, believed to belong to the Ukrainian military, offers a unique insight into how Ukraine has been producing makeshift sea drones.Photos of the vehicle show an "electro-optical /infrared camera ball above the handlebars," as well as "other sensors," H I Sutton, a naval analyst, wrote on his website.The vehicle's seats have been replaced by control boxes and a Starlink antenna, and two black cylinders likely to be explosive charges have been attached to each side of its front, Sutton wrote, adding:…
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Amazon drops the first teaser for its upcoming Yakuza adaptation
27 Jul

Amazon drops the first teaser for its upcoming Yakuza adaptation

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Amazon has released its first teaser video for Like A Dragon: Yakuza, its live action adaptation of SEGA's Yakuza games, at San Diego Comic-Con. There's a lot of focus on the inking process of Kazuma Kiryu's iconic dragon tattoo, but you'll also get glimpses of Kamurocho's night scene, various characters in the series and the underground fight club that shows up as a mini-game across the franchise. In the last few seconds of the video, you'll see a shirtless Kiryu heading to a circle of cheering viewers betting on his match.When the company announced the show in June, it described…
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Russian soldiers are relying heavily on their personal cellphones to wage war in Ukraine even though it risks getting them killed
27 Jul

Russian soldiers are relying heavily on their personal cellphones to wage war in Ukraine even though it risks getting them killed

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Russian soldiers appear to be heavily relying on their personal cellphones to conduct military operations in Ukraine, using them for tasks like coordinating strikes and navigating the battlefield.Former US military officers say this trend underscores a lack of secure military communication options or discipline and leaves Russian soldiers vulnerable to Ukrainian attacks. Kyiv has previously used cellular data to then launch deadly strikes on Moscow's positions.Recognizing the problem, the Russian government is actively working to clamp down on this trend. Its lower house of parliament, the State Duma, recently proposed an amendment that would allow its soldiers to be punished…
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How to Fix the Annoying White Space Issue in iOS Safari: A Beginner’s Guide with Easy Solutions
27 Jul

How to Fix the Annoying White Space Issue in iOS Safari: A Beginner’s Guide with Easy Solutions

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Have you ever been designing a website and been working on a flawless page when all of a sudden the iOS Safari keyboard appears? There it is—a large blank area that is not welcome on your page. You're not alone, though, if you're scratching your head as to why that is. Let's investigate this peculiar issue and work out a solution. What’s Going On? Imagine this: your user taps on a form field, and the virtual keyboard just magically appears. As it pushes up the content, a little pesky white space shows up at the bottom of the page. It's…
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Solid-state batteries are finally making their way out of the lab
27 Jul

Solid-state batteries are finally making their way out of the lab

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Sign up for the Freethink Weekly newsletter! A collection of our favorite stories straight to your inbox Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. This article is an installment of Future Explored, a weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox every Saturday morning by subscribing here.It’s 2030, and you just bought your first electric vehicle. You took the plunge because of the car’s solid-state battery — the same kind of energy-dense, ultra-safe battery also powering your smartphone and other tech devices. Millions of drivers will soon join you, drawn in by better…
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