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The latest #AmpedFIVE update introduces support for two popular encrypted CCTV formats, the new Atom Viewer to investigate MP4 container issues, and improved handling of recordings that change resolution.
We've also introduced the Bezier curve in Annotate! blog.ampedsoftware.com/2026/…
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Great work BA and Heathrow 😡 Nine hours and counting sitting on a plane which has travelled nowhere. At a remote parking bay, no food throughout, and mother/baby and a person with a medical condition desperate to get off. As is everyone else. Toilets no longer available as blocked. No sign of steps or buses. And that’s before the wait for luggage. Pathetic and dangerous lack of corporate contingency and responsibility.
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Austriacki przewodnik, który zaatakował polskich alpinistów, ma chyba przechlapane.
Austriacka policja wszczęła śledztwo w sprawie przewodnika, który zaatakował polskich alpinistów.
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🏔️ “I’m a mountain guide, shut up!” — Austrian man attacks Polish climber inches from a cliff
A Polish couple were descending from Grossglockner along a narrow mountain ridge when an Austrian guide and his group tried to squeeze past them. When the Polish climber objected, the man reportedly snapped: “I’m a mountain guide, shut up!” — and then threatened to hit him.
Seconds later, the guide pushed past the climber’s wife, pinned her against the rock and confronted the Polish man — just inches from a steep drop.
The entire incident was caught on video. The local mountain and ski guides’ association called the behavior “catastrophic and absolutely unacceptable” and said it would no longer assign him work. Police and prosecutors have opened an investigation, and the guide could face up to three months in prison.
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🟥 Na wąskiej grani Großglocknera, najwyższego szczytu Austrii, doszło do sceny, która w kilka dni obiegła polskie i austriackie media. Polski turysta z żoną schodził szlakiem Mürztaler Steig.
Kilka metrów obok, nad mgłą i kilkusetmetrową przepaścią, austriacki przewodnik górski stracił panowanie nad sobą. Zdarzenie miało miejsce 22 sierpnia 2026 roku, na wysokości około 3000 metrów, w drodze do schroniska Erzherzog-Johann-Hütte. Polskie małżeństwo, Patryk, 42 lata, i jego żona, znajdowało się na eksponowanej, zaledwie kilkucentymetrowej grani. Kobieta wpinała się właśnie w stalową linę asekuracyjną.
🟥 Nadszedł przewodnik ze swoją grupą. Polak przywitał go grzecznie „Servus” i poprosił, by poczekał, żona była tuż pod nim, a miejsce nie pozwalało na swobodne mijanie. Przewodnik nie zamierzał czekać. "Jestem przewodnikiem górskim, zamknij się!" - usłyszał Polak. Chwilę później padła groźba: " Zamknij się, bo zaraz do ciebie podejdę i ci przywalę!" Przewodnik przecisnął się obok kobiety, przycisnął ją do skały, podszedł do Patryka, złapał go za ramiona i szarpał tuż przy krawędzi, powtarzając „Zachowuj się!”. Na wąskiej grani powstał zator. Klienci przewodnika musieli z trudem omijać kłócących się ludzi. Całość zarejestrowała kamera na kasku Polaka.
Nagranie trafiło do sieci i szybko stało się głośne. Nie dlatego, że wyprzedzanie w górach jest czymś niezwykłym, jest normalne, ale dlatego że profesjonalny przewodnik, człowiek odpowiedzialny za bezpieczeństwo innych, zachował się jak ktoś, kto uznał wąską grań za swoją własność.
Tym razem austriackie środowisko górskie nie broniło „swojego”. Stowarzyszenie przewodników z Kals, które pośredniczyło w zleceniu, nazwało zachowanie mężczyzny „katastrofalnym i absolutnie nieakceptowalnym”. Szef organizacji Michael Amraser przeprosił polskiego turystę. Przewodnik, pochodzący ze Styrii, niebędący członkiem lokalnego stowarzyszenia, stracił dalsze zlecenia przez to biuro. Austriacki Związek Przewodników Górskich i Narciarskich również zdystansował się od incydentu. Policja w Matrei in Osttirol wszczęła postępowanie o narażenie bezpieczeństwa fizycznego. Grozi nawet kilka miesięcy więzienia. Sam Patryk nie złożył zawiadomienia.
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Please help me keep my TD5 Defender on the road but this will be relevant to a lot of older cars!! ‼️IMPORTANT‼️ *Please Share.*
So the government is going to try and effectively remove old vehicles from the road.
They've created a sneaky consultation on this huge change with an end date of only the 6th of September.
They want to have a yearly emissions check on every car and motorcycle on the road AS WELL as your mot.
If you pass the mot but then go to your emissions check, if the vehicle doesn't emit exactly the same emissions as when it was built the car will be banned from any use on the road even if it passed its mot emissions.
‼️ This will effectively destroy cars for those of us who love older cars, as well as those who simply can’t afford a newer car. Also car tuning and modifications will be forced to stop you been able to drive your car.‼️
This is targeting all vehicle, cars, motorbikes, trikes, kit cars etc.
So far they are just targeting cars after 2001 but they want to use it on every vehicle on the road targeting mot & tax exempt (historic) vehicles.
They've purposely not given this consultation much time, so please go to the bottom of this page, click this link: smartsurvey.co.uk/s/x-QHYJB7… and click *DISAGREE* and tell them you do not want any of this from the government and share the consultation for others to do the same.
Only way to stop this would be to get the results of this consultation to be a resounding NO (DISAGREE)!
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One for you @MattHowlett3 – at Moston, England
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BREAKING: The Alpine Club of Pakistan has confirmed that the bodies of Nirmal Purja ‘Nimsdai,’ Zhong Wang, Nima Sherpa and Kilu Sherpa have been recovered from Broad Peak and brought to Base Camp following an exceptionally challenging and technically demanding operation.
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Hard not to admire the ingenious mischief behind the digital rebirth of @ScotRail
The beautiful unmanned West Highland line station Tulloch has discarded all analogue information and now boasts a handy QR code. One problem. There is no mobile coverage of any kind. Genius.
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BREAKING: The ground rescue team has reached the location of renowned Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja "Nims Dai" at approximately 5,700 metres on Broad Peak. According to the Alpine Club of Pakistan, rescuers also sighted three additional bodies at the same location, though their identities have not yet been confirmed. The rescue team is now working to bring the bodies down to the Japanese Camp.
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For decades the pursuit of the world’s fourteen eight-thousanders was measured in years. Then Nimsdai reduced that timeline to months and shattered the limits of what people believed possible. Some of his Records were broken, but something greater also changed: young climbers and ordinary dreamers began to see the impossible as a challenge they could one day face themselves. He is a trendsetter of modern mountaineering who redefined speed, style, and ambition in high-altitude mountaineering.
One of the moments that best captured Nimsdai’s spirit came in 2021, during the historic first winter ascent of K2. He and nine fellow Nepali climbers waited just below the summit, joined together and stepped onto the top as one team while singing Nepal’s national anthem. Nims climbed without supplementary oxygen. It was more than a summit, it was a powerful declaration of Nepali courage, unity and pride that will never be forgotten.
Beyond records and summits, Nims never forgot the people who carried the weight of mountaineering far from the spotlight. He repeatedly recognised the porters and support staff whose strength and sacrifice make Himalayan expeditions possible. The Porter House in Lobuche stands as a lasting expression of that respect. He also revealed to the world the extraordinary skill, dignity, and courage of Nepali climbers, qualities that have too often been overlooked or forgotten in commercial high-altitude expeditions.
Nims lived boldly and dreamed beyond accepted limits. He made the world understand that Nepali climbers were not supporting characters, they were the heroes of their own stories.
Everest Today extends its deepest condolences to his family, friends, teammates and everyone whose life he touched. Rest in peace, Nimsdai. ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ!
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A farmer dies in April 2026.
His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.
The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.
On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.
In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.
The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.
The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.
A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.
The Treasury collects £140,000.
The land never produces British food again.
Clarification regarding the podcast:
FFV1 was created by Michael Niedermayer in 2003 as volunteer work. Later FFV1-related work was partly funded by various entities, including members of the archival community
Please distinguish later funded work from the creation of FFV1
For those people having to use Photoshop for their Forensic Image and Video work... please don't use this for faces! 😉
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Today, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of Shapefile and 3D model import support on Google Earth. Plus, we’ve also added elevation profiles to the measure tool just for… good measure! goo.gle/4w1MPC0
You’ve made it clear. You want to be able to bring more of your data and models to Google Earth’s real-world canvas. We're excited to take the next step in delivering on that promise with these new features:
🔶 Shapefiles (SHP): Render industry-standard geospatial data as performant, cloud-native layers.
💡 3D Models (GLB): Place custom architectural mock-ups, massings, and more in a visually rich context.
🗻 Elevation Profiles: View detailed terrain data in the measure tool you already know and love.
These new features are live now on Google Earth!
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Mountain rescue teams fear they could have to stop providing first aid cover at community events in light of new government proposals to introduce registration fees and inspections.
Mountain rescue teams and similar volunteer-led organisations should be exempt from these changes
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Today the Southport Inquiry published its findings.
I’m not talking about the agencies right now.
I’m talking about his parents.
Because somebody fucking has to.
I’m a former detective. 21 yrs in the force, I know what I’m looking at🧵👇
Thank you to @AnthropicAI for sending FFmpeg patches
Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software.
It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans.
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Max is wrong, when someone does investigative reporting, he and RB boycott them. Like Ted Kravitz when he reported correctly that “Michael Masi was fired for not interpreting the rules as they were written, which robbed Hamilton from his 8th WDC “HE GAVE IT TO MAX VERSTAPPEN.” 🤡
🚨| LASH OUT: after DEMANDING a rude reporter LEAVE, Max Verstappen🇳🇱 has spoken out against reporters
🗣️: “Journalism is a dying art… It’s all gotcha’s there’s no real investigating”
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