cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73350952

Für die CDU Deutschlands ganz klar: Es gibt keinen Völkermord in Gaza, wir stehen an der Seite Israels und der Ukraine im Kampf gegen den Terror und Aggression.

Wir stehen für Freiheit und wollen uns verteidigen können, damit wir es nicht müssen. Daran wird sich nichts ändern

Wir stehen zur Meinungs- und Kunstfreiheit, doch auch hier gibt es Grenzen - mindestens aber muss die Kunst mit deutlichem Widerspruch leben

For Germany’s CDU, it is crystal clear: There is no genocide in Gaza; we stand with Israel and Ukraine in the fight against terror and aggression.

We stand for freedom and want to be able to defend ourselves so that we don’t have to. That will not change.

We stand for freedom of expression and artistic freedom, but there are limits here as well—at the very least, art must be able to coexist with clear dissent.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/71975475

Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications (“Chat Control 1.0”) to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions), the motion to reject it failed to secure the required absolute majority of 361 votes. As a result, mass scanning is now permitted again until 2028.

Samsung announced stellar results last night, noting a 19x quarterly increase in operating profit, allowing the firm to pass Nvidia as the most profitable in the world. Kim Yong-Kwan, president and head of corporate management, strategy, and operations for Samsung Electronics’ Device Solutions (DS) division, said that the semiconductor unit’s 2026 operating profit will exceed everything it has earned across roughly 40 years in the chip business.

Brokerage consensus puts Samsung’s full-year 2026 operating profit near 300 trillion won ($196 billion), and its second-quarter figure at about 84.6 trillion won ($55.1 billion). Samsung easily beat the consensus with $58.5 billion when it posted preliminary results on July 7, overtaking Nvidia’s most recent quarterly operating profit of $53.54 billion and becoming the most profitable technology company in the world for the period, on the back of AI-driven memory demand.

Samsung’s DS division booked 53.7 trillion won ($35.1 billion) of the company’s 57.2 trillion won in total operating profit during the first quarter of 2026, roughly 94% of the total, which is why the division’s projection sits so close to Samsung’s full-year consensus.

“This year’s profit will exceed the cumulative profit generated over the past 40 years since we entered the semiconductor business,” Kim Yong-Kwan told staff, scoping the claim to the chip business rather than the wider conglomerate.

Samsung entered the semi space by acquiring Korea Semiconductor in 1974 and shipped its first 64Kb DRAM in the mid-1980s. SamMobile estimates the division’s cumulative operating profit from 1985 to 2025 at under 300 trillion won. Samsung’s smartphone, display, and appliance businesses have earned far more than that over the same period, so the record applies to memory and logic chips, not to Samsung overall.

Contract prices for DRAM and NAND have risen steeply through 2026 as AI server demand outran supply, pushing memory makers toward 40% to 50% operating margins on NAND in the first half of the year. Prices for 12 GB LPDDR5X modules have reached about $145, and Samsung is negotiating further commodity DRAM increases for the third quarter. The DS division’s earnings move with those contract prices, and Samsung has told customers to expect tight supply through at least 2027.