av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 27, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
Adolf Hitler has retained his seat in Ompundja, Namibia, winning a fifth term of office with Oshana Regional Council. The 59-year-old regional councilor and member of the South West Africa People’s Organisation is lauded for his grassroots work and anti-apartheid activism, according to local media.
A popular figure in his lightly-populated constituency, Adolf Hitler Uunona is well-aware of why he gets media attention abroad and is always ready to denounce his Nazi namesake. He generally omits part of his name from daily life but politics is all about paperwork.
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av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 27, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
The European Union’s Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that Poland and other countries in the bloc must recognize same-sex marriages. Though Polish law does not allow marriage between people of the same sex, it is obligated by its membership of the union to respect those that take place elsewhere.
The EU Court of Justice made the binding ruling at the request of a Polish court handling the case of the men who had contested the refusal to transcribe their German marriage certificate in the Polish registry. The couple, who wed in Berlin in 2018, have been identified only by their initials in the case.
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av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 27, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
HP Inc has become the latest big tech firm to announce it is laying off thousands of jobs while investing heavily in AI. The printer and PC maker said it will be cutting staff by between 4,000 and 6,000 people by the end of fiscal 2028 as it focuses on automation tools such as agentic AI.
HP revealed the cuts in its latest earnings report. It estimates that the move will save the company $1 billion across three years. The restructuring is expected to incur around $650 million in costs, around $250 million of which will fall in fiscal 2026.
Techspot
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 26, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
The historic Georgia criminal case against President Trump and more than a dozen of his allies for their efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election result has officially come to an end.
”The case is hereby dismissed in its entirety,” Fulton Superior Judge Scott McAfee ordered Wednesday.
Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia, moved to end the prosecution against the remaining defendants after he assumed the case from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who was disqualified by a court late last year.
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av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 26, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
Movies made for Netflix shouldn’t qualify for Oscars, according to James Cameron.
The celebrated director made the comment on the podcast The Town With Matthew Belloni ahead of the release of his latest film, Avatar: Fire And Ash, next month.
Belloni asked Cameron for his thoughts on the news that Netflix is vying with Comcast and Paramount to acquire Warner Bros. – Cameron is hoping for Paramount and said that “Netflix would be a disaster”.
He added that “[Netflix CEO Ted] Sarandos has gone on the record saying theatrical films are dead”. Belloni replied: “He’s now promising theatres if he buys Warner Bros.”
Källa: James Cameron says Netflix films shouldn’t qualify for Oscars: ”The Academy Awards mean nothing to me if they don’t mean theatrical”
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 26, 2025 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
It’s not just Google’s Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 we have to be thankful for this year around the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S.
No, today the German AI startup Black Forest Labs released FLUX.2, a new image generation and editing system complete with four different models designed to support production-grade creative workflows.
VentureBeat
