## Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth’s use of Signal posed risk to US personnel, AP sources say

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That person also said the report concluded that Hegseth violated Pentagon policy by using his personal device for official business and it recommended better training for all Pentagon officials.

The AP is using anonymous sourcing to provide information for this story.

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Hegseth declined to sit for an interview with the Pentagon’s inspector general but provided a written statement, that person said.

He also did not admit fault following the Signal revelations, asserting that the information was unclassified.

Hegseth told Fox News Channel in April that what he shared over Signal was “informal, unclassified coordinations, for media coordinations and other things.”. »

### Afghanistan’s Taliban makes 13-year-old boy execute convicted murderer in stadium spectacle attended by 80,000

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The convicted murderer, called Mangal, and two others had been found guilty of killing 13 members of the teenager’s family, including several children and women.

open image in gallery A Taliban policeman looks on as a crowd heads toward the stadium to witness the execution ( AP ).

During their previous rule of Afghanistan in the late 1990s, the Taliban regularly carried out public executions, floggings and stonings. »

### Testing shows why the Steam Machine’s 8GB of graphics RAM could be a problem

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By Valve’s admission, its upcoming Steam Machine desktop isn’t swinging for the fences with its graphical performance.

In our reviews of these GPUs, we’ve already run into some games where the RAM ceiling limits performance in Windows, especially at 1440p.

But for our purposes here, the two GPUs that highlight the issues most effectively are the 8GB Radeon RX 7600 and the 16GB Radeon RX 7600 XT. »

### Belgium Opposes Seizing Russian Assets, Says Moscow’s Defeat Is “a Fairy Tale” — UNITED24 Media

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He said that for this reason, frozen Russian assets will ultimately need to be returned to the Kremlin once the Russia’s war against Ukraine ends.

The prime minister said Belgium is under “enormous pressure” regarding the debate over whether Russian sovereign funds should be seized and transferred to Ukraine.

EU officials suspect that Belgium has been keeping the revenues generated from these assets for itself rather than transferring them to Ukraine. »

### Gavin Newsom launches portal for California residents to snitch on federal agents who ‘abuse their authority’

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California has launched a new online portal for citizens to report misconduct by federal officers, hoping to push back against what state officials called a "campaign of terror" by the Trump administration.

Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement that he would "not stand by while federal agents abuse their authority in California", vowing that "no one is above the law".

In September, Newsom signed a new law forbidding local or federal law enforcement agents from covering their faces while on official business. »

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