I read it - and found it interesting - when I was around 15, but that is a while ago now.
My initial thought here was "no wonder Trump is a fan" of AI models.

What about Edward Bulwer-Lytton? An author so inspiring they named awards after him.

There is a bill which has either just been passed or is currently being discussed, it is to criminalise calling Israel's right-to-exist into question. It looks to me to be stupid posturing because the German constitution guarantees free speech.
What you will see quite frequently in Germany is a city banning a political demonstration for some reason or other. The organisers then appeal this ban in a court (it takes maybe a day) and it gets overturned. I can't remember such a ban not being overturned but maybe there were a couple, several years ago. It is stupid posturing with taxpayers' money which only serves to give work to a few lawyers.

There were two duty officers executing a warrant at the house of Niehoff

Was one of the unnamed people called Niehoff? I even did a text search in that Yahoo link and there was n-o-t-h-i-n-g.

Oh, Remember "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" from the early 1970s? Their "very interesting, but stoopid" fake German wore Nazi uniforms with all the associated symbols, I assume that could never have been shown in Germany. It could not have been anyway, nowadays most Germans speak decent English but that was not the case back then.

You know that the Telegraph was bought by the Axel Springer Verlag (which is German) a couple of weeks ago? I wonder how long that "rabidly anti-German" is liable to last.

The actual link takes you to a Yahoo page which is allegedly quoting a Telegraph article 1:1. I suppose that's borderline acceptable because an attempt to read a Telegraph article gets you a "Create your free account or log in" message, but the FA should have least carried a link to the original story.
I would have liked to have at least looked at the original article (without an account) to see when it was written and maybe also who wrote it - the Telegraph was taken over by the German "Axel Springer" group a couple of weeks ago.

Looking more closely at the allegations (and only articles from Germany and in German), Rainer Zitelmann compared Hitler with Putin - including pictures of both - and someone apparently took exception and complained to the police. RZ has no idea whether it was a Putin fan, a neo Nazi or whatever who complained. According to his lawyer, it was pretty much a joke and the complainant did not have a leg to stand on, the police agreed and dropped charges citing "insufficient evidence".
I remember discussions on this particular law around 45 years ago (it's nothing new), there had been an anti-Nazi demonstration in Berlin back then and the Police went after some of those involved for "glorifying forbidden symbols" - they showed a Nazi cross with a red line through it on a banner saying "Stop Nazis". This was during the cold war when West Berlin was an island surrounded by East Germany, some of the things the police got up to back then (with backing from the courts) were pretty outrageous - including a murder of a student in a crowd and refusal of medical help to a prisoner with cancer until it was too late. A terrorist group named themselves after the date of that murder and killed a politician or two before fading away, I don't think they were ever caught.

Now to Naomi Seibt and the AfD. I'd never heard of her but Naomi Seibt appears to be a Laura Loomer figure who was under observation by the "MI5 equivalent" as a potential extremist. Whenever there's an extremist political crime in Germany (or the UK for that matter) you will either hear that the perpetrator was under observation or that they were not. That Islamic murderer in Berlin a day or so ago (CSD) had been under observation. I don't know how many people currently have that status, Naomi Seibt used that (and her online friendship with Elon Musk) to claim persecution and go for asylum in the US.
The AfD is a collection of various streams of right-wingers with various motivations, some of them mutually exclusive. Some of the things some of them are calling for (expelling naturalised citizens of a darker hue) are explicitly against the country's constitution - the Nazis withdrew citizenship from Jews back in the day and the constitution explicitly rules that kind of thing out.

Three British MPs have been murdered in the past 11 years. Jo Cox (Labour) by a neo Nazi, someone whose name escapes me (Conservative) by an Islamic terrorist and Ann Widdecombe (Conservative, then Brexit, then "Reform" (Brexit re-branded)). Ann Widdecombe retired years ago, she was a public figure who appeared on TV a lot and was murdered around 3 weeks ago by some weirdo for reasons that I don't think have been made public yet, I believe he was not "under observation".

The system would have been designed to identify potential issues such as overgrown lawns, peeling paint, and illegal dumping

Ok, so the night before the garbage trucks visit, dump all kinds of crap on the lawns of those who voted for this. Peeling paint is a bit more difficult to organise but spreading the seeds of fast-growing weeds is also an option when the homeowners are away on holiday.

Can't see that happening, the Chinese government know they need a domestic source of DRAM chips not subject to sanctions and I'd expect them to do whatever is necessary to protect that particular baby. The word "tariffs" springs to mind. It is not as though the Chinese domestic market is not big enough to sustain a fab.

Looking the company up (valnet.com, the "tech news site" XDA developers is theirs), they are in Canada and the US. Given their use of language in the FA, I had thought they would be Chinese.
If SwaySure and Huawei really are looking to produce DRAM chips, this is an obvious move given US sanctions and something which should reduce the upwards pressure on prices. Expect China to export more DRAM in the medium/long term, and presumably prices will eventually drop.

How much of the US is more than 100 miles away from an airport or an airstrip? Light planes can land pretty much anywhere, in an emergency they can also land on highways although that is pushing things. Sounds like Dubya pretty much disabled the US Constitution, and that the current incumbent has driven a 16 wheeler semi through that gap.
Did that never get to the Supreme Court (in the days before it was itself disabled)?

Compared to what? Acrobat Reader?
I use Linux and Adobe stopped providing updates to the Acrobat Reader port several years ago, there is no PDF reader under Linux which covers all the many "features" Adobe inserted into the PDF specs so I'm quite happy with those which cover most of the bases.

As someone who's been on VOIP for around 8 years now, what's wrong with that?
This is VOIP over cable, cable which was originally laid down for cable TV.
My internet plan is good for 300Mb (I could get 1Gb if I needed it). Most of the time it will actually give me 350, but occasionally something goes wrong and it drops to single digit speeds. It costs me in the region of $60 monthly including 5G mobile.

Isn't that nice that the slop house knows everything about you.

It's not as though that was not known already.

I wonder when his birthday is - he is 19 now, but how old was he 14 months ago?
(Looking at the second link - the pdf - he was born on December 3 2006 so he was 18 in May 2025)

As long as China does not introduce retaliatory sanctions for something Chaotically Stupid.