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Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that his administration will move forward with developing the so-called “Golden Dome” missile defense system that he envisions will protect the United States from possible foreign strikes using ground and space-based weapons.

“Once fully constructed, the Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles even if they are launched from other sides of the world, and even if they are launched from space,” Trump said, “forever ending the missile threat to the American homeland.”

The option that Trump chooses will determine its timeline and cost. The $25bn coming from Republicans’ budget bill is only set to cover initial development costs. The final price tag could exceed $540bn over the next two decades, according to the congressional budget office.

Do you know the difference between lamb, mutton, and hogget? If so, can you get the latter two labeled as such?

Quando Mattarella difendeva l’astensione ai referendum
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https://pagellapolitica.it/articoli/mattarella-difendeva-astensione-referendum
Da vicepresidente del Consiglio, disse che «ogni elettore può scegliere cosa fare»: di votare oppure no

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In 2010, an elite unit of the Chinese police entered an Apple shop in Shanghai and violently assaulted the customers. The attack was so brutal that the floor tiles subsequently had to be replaced: they were too bloodstained. Those customers had been waiting in line for days for the latest iPhone; their crime was to refuse to leave upon learning that the shop had sold out of stock.

Yet no official record of this event exists. The shop’s cameras were cut and employees had their phones wiped. “It shows you how quickly the Chinese can brush everything under the carpet,” one person present tells journalist Patrick McGee. “It was like a mini-Tiananmen Square.” The incident is one small example in McGee’s eye-opening book, Apple in China, of how the Californian iPhone maker has “bound its future inextricably to a ruthless authoritarian state”.

When people think of Apple’s presence in China, the focus tends either to be on the cheap manufacture of the company’s parts and the poor working conditions at those factories, or on the censorship of content on Apple devices inside the country. McGee, a journalist at the Financial Times, breaks down in much greater detail the relationship between this capitalist company and communist nation – a relationship so intertwined and complex that it will take decades to unravel. He makes the argument that not only has China effectively made Apple what it is today, but the reverse is also true. “China wouldn’t be China today without Apple,” McGee writes. “[Apple’s] investments in the country have been spectacular, rivalling nation-building efforts.”

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The more Apple invests in both training these [Chinese] contracted factory workers and paying for special machinery that could only be used for its products – in 2018 the value of Apple’s “long-lived assets” in China peaked at $13.3 billion – the more it becomes bound to the country. [Apple contractor's] Foxconn hubs, for example, are now surrounded by hundreds of sub-suppliers that cater to Apple’s every whim. “Anything we wanted, we could get it,” one engineer recalls. “Whatever we needed, it would happen.”

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Apple is notoriously secretive, but McGee proffers dozens of first-hand accounts of how the company essentially bumbled its way into becoming hooked on China. By the time Apple executives realise that the Chinese president Xi Jinping is ramping up repression at home and taking a more combative stance in international affairs, it’s too late to untangle the relationship: those business ties, McGee writes, are “unbreakable”. In 2016, when the Chinese authorities make it clear that they can remove, whenever they want, the cheap and plentiful labour on which Apple relies, Cook is compelled to make a trip to the Chinese Communist Party headquarters. The company pledges to invest $275 billion in China over the next five years. It does not, unsurprisingly, announce this investment to the Western press.

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Apple has avoided a looming court showdown thanks to a last-minute resolution with Epic Games over Fortnite’s App Store status. What began as a standoff over delayed approvals ended quietly, with both companies informing the court that no further action was needed at the moment.

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India’s environment ministry has announced new rules to improve waste management in the construction and demolition industry. The 2025 rules, set to take effect starting April 1, 2026, will place greater responsibility on waste producers and introduce mandatory recycling targets, reports contributor Akshay Deshmane for Mongabay India. As India rapidly builds infrastructure, the waste from the country’s construction and demolition industry is expected to reach 165 million metric tons annually by 2030, according to India’s Central Pollution Control Board. To curb that waste, the government has introduced a suite of rules to encourage developers to reuse and recycle construction waste. The new rules require that producers — people responsible for construction or reconstruction projects with a built-up area of 20,000 square meters (about 215,000 square feet) or more — must prepare a waste management plan that assesses the amount of waste expected from all aspects of their project and submit it to the local authority for approval. The rules also define extended producer responsibilities (EPR), requiring producers to collect and segregate waste, store it safely, and ensure recycling or proper handover to authorized agencies or recyclers. Producers must reach EPR recycling targets of 25% in 2025-26 and 100% by 2028-29. Additionally, the new rules require that processed construction and demolition debris must be reused in certain construction activities; 5% in the next two years and 25% by 2030-31. “The mandated minimum targets for using recycled C&D [construction and demolition] waste in construction and infrastructure projects are especially promising. They can…This article was originally published on Mongabay

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Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection (CPDP) is a conference funded and organised by Google, Microsoft, and TikTok (platinum sponsors get to help organise panels and participate on the main stage).

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By Imran Mulla
Published date: 20 May 2025 15:07 BST

""The world is judging," Lammy said. "History will judge them [the #Israeli government]. Blocking aid, expanding the war, dismissing the concerns of your friends and partners. This is indefensible and it must stop.""

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