Locally-hosted copy of all posts, sans responses and media enclosures
Home2025May

Roy Schestowitz

Social Control Media Posts

Updated in real time for the given day

  • "This post is long overdue. FOSDEM 2025 is my first time at that event. Wow it's awesome. I've gone to local (to me) conferences before, but FOSDEM is truly on another level." gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2025/05-08-first-time-at-fosdem.gmi    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 04:29:21


  • 🔤SpellBinding: ADRKLOI Wordo: VODKA gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-05-08.gmi    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 04:30:17


  • "I was reading stuff on fedi, as one does, wrote a reply, deleted it, moved on, read some more, wrote a reply, deleted it. In both cases I wanted say that the thing people were talking about seemed to me to be that pattern in capitalism where "not doing a thing" gives you less power over time" gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-05-08-doing-nothing    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 04:31:28


  • Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-05-09.gmi    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 04:33:43


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1289.jpg    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 04:34:16


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1639.jpg    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 04:34:21


  • Hacking dell poweredge to make it shut up gemini://hideout.cyber-cave.org/gemlog/2025-05-09-dell-fans.gmi    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 04:35:37


  • Analog: Patch Panel, Cabling, Case gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250508-0.gmi    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 04:36:42


  • "I was RAd on the 17th and just received an email about RBA. I only had $14k in there. What do I do ? I’m only 44" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jpk2jkbv    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 04:41:52


  • "Palantir is trying to destroy the USA. Peter Thiel is a demon." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtmtm45k    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 04:42:30


  • GNOME Foundation's new executive director is Canadian, a techie, and a GNOME user https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/08/new_gnome_director/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 04:46:43


  • GNOME Foundation Appoints a New Executive Director https://www.webpronews.com/gnome-foundation-appoints-a-new-executive-director/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 04:50:44


  • Microsoft wants you to ditch Windows 10 for Windows 11, but End Of 10 thinks Linux is a better option https://betanews.com/2025/05/08/microsoft-wants-you-to-ditch-windows-10-for-windows-11-but-end-of-10-thinks-linux-is-a-better-option/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 05:04:08


  • As Windows 10's death looms, Linux fans still promote "no ads or telemetry" for your old laptop instead of buying a Copilot+ PC https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-10/end-of-10-promotes-linux-for-your-old-pc    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 05:04:32


  • Can’t upgrade to Windows 11? This Linux project wants to save your old PC from the scrapheap when Windows 10 support ends https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/cant-upgrade-to-windows-11-this-linux-project-wants-to-save-your-old-pc-from-the-scrapheap-when-windows-10-support-ends    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 05:04:53


  • "If you don't want to get rid of perfectly good hardware, installing Linux is one alternative. If that sounds interesting, you'll want to check out "End of 10," a volunteer group dedicated to keeping processors out of the landfill and putting them to good use." https://www.xda-developers.com/end-of-10-group-windows-10-pcs-landfills-linux/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 05:06:34


  • A new Pope selected in secrecy and cancel mobs online suddenly pretend that Catholic Church ever endorsed homosexuality and other things. No, it did not. That shows those people had in their heads a fictional version of what Catholicism was. And no, brigading in social control media won't lead to a resignation.    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 05:08:10


  • "The last release to be based on Debian Bookworm, before the release of Trixie later this year, is now available to download." https://www.hackster.io/news/raspberry-pi-os-gets-its-last-debian-bookworm-refresh-boasts-improved-local-security-and-more-9d980a8ae578    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 05:08:51


  • "Out of nowhere GOG added the SILENT HILL 2 remake from Bloober Team SA and KONAMI, so now more people get to play this highly rated horror DRM-free." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/silent-hill-2-remake-gets-a-surprise-gog-release/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:13:18


  • "As we all suspected, recent changes to Palworld game mechanics were as a direct result of the ongoing lawsuit filed against developer Pocketpair from Nintendo / The Pokemon Company." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/palworld-devs-confirm-game-changes-due-to-the-nintendo-pokemon-lawsuit/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:13:37


  • "Fire Totem Games have announced their really sweet spider physics game A Webbing Journey is finally ready for an Early Access release on May 19th. It will have full Native Linux support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/go-web-slinging-in-the-adorable-looking-a-webbing-journey-on-may-19/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:15:10


  • "OpenRazer is a collection of Linux drivers for Razer devices, giving you better support for all the various device functions." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/openrazer-adds-support-for-razer-naga-v2-pro-and-razer-strider-chroma-plus-bug-fixes-and-new-kernel-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:16:08


  • "A blast from the past, although not too well-known." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/1994-retro-shooter-the-fortress-of-dr-radiaki-gets-a-fancy-edition-re-release-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:18:29


  • "Just what the survivorlike bullet heaven genre thingy needed - nudity! Conquest Dark from Eldritch Sword Games actually has quite a number of fun game mechanics worth exploring, the nudity is optional but it has a point." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/in-the-survivorlike-arpg-conquest-dark-you-start-off-nude-and-build-up-clothing-as-you-go-with-multi-life-mechanics/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:19:14


  • "Will Trump Pretend to Fix What He Broke? - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-trump-pretend-to-fix-what-he    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:21:47


  • "The Specter of Fascism Is Haunting Europe as It Marks VE Day" https://jacobin.com/2025/05/ve-day-wwii-fascism-liberalism/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:21:59


  • "Saudi Arabia Sits on Fence Over BRICS With Eye on Vital Ties With US" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-05-08/saudi-arabia-sits-on-fence-over-brics-with-eye-on-vital-ties-with-us    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:22:17


  • "'We call it betrayal': Veterans join Dems in D.C. to protest Trump’s sweeping VA job cuts" https://kansasreflector.com/2025/05/06/repub/we-call-it-betrayal-veterans-join-dems-in-d-c-to-protest-trumps-sweeping-va-job-cuts/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:22:24


  • "80 years after WWII: Is the US turning its back on Europe?" https://www.dw.com/en/80-years-after-the-end-of-world-war-two-is-the-us-turning-its-back-on-europe/a-72461499    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:22:38


  • "EU rullar ut app för åldersverifikation" | EU rolls out age verification app https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/05/08/eu-rullar-ut-app-for-aldersverifikation/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:23:11


  • "The IC (with an Assist from Journalism) Liberates the IC's Debunking of Trump's Alien Enemies Act" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/06/the-ic-with-an-assist-from-journalism-liberates-the-ics-debunking-of-trumps-alien-enemies-act/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:23:22


  • "A coherent European/non-US clown strategy: building railroads for the clown economy" https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-coherent-non-us-cloud-strategy/ clowns.    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:23:41


  • "Amazon's Secret Weapon 'Kiro' Set to Blow Up the Coding World" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/amazons-secret-weapon-kiro-set-blow-coding-world-1733495    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:23:52


  • "Saudi mortgage boom masks cracks in property market" https://www.semafor.com/article/05/07/2025/saudi-mortgage-boom-masks-cracks-in-property-market    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:24:03


  • "US Air Force sending ‘boneyard’ F-16s to Ukraine for spare parts" https://www.airforcetimes.com/air/2025/05/05/us-air-force-sending-boneyard-f-16s-to-ukraine-for-spare-parts/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:24:17


  • netastasization: "Microsoft not to rehire ousted employees for two years, considers departures ‘good attrition’" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-not-to-rehire-ousted-employees-for-two-years-considers-departures-good-attrition/articleshow/120954302.cms    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:24:44


  • "J&K CM Omar Abdullah: Pakistan went ‘out of its way’ to target civilian population" https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pakistan-went-out-of-its-way-to-target-civilian-population-jk-cm-omar-abdullah/article69548021.ece    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:24:54


  • "Army releases images of terror camps, impact of Operation Sindoor strikes" https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/army-releases-images-of-terror-camps-impact-of-operation-sindoor-strikes-101746610879815.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:25:05


  • iophk: .ru ramping up disinformation campaigns https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/07/russian-officials-criticize-trump-for-exaggerating-us-role-in-wwii-a89002 ("Russian Officials Criticize Trump for ‘Exaggerating’ U.S. Role in WWII - The Moscow Times")    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:25:51


  • 99.1 percent of Norwegian households have access to fast broadband | "99,1 prosent av norske husstander har tilgang på raskt bredbånd | Digi.no" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://www.digi.no/artikler/99-1-prosent-av-norske-husstander-har-tilgang-pa-raskt-bredband/558454    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:26:30


  • "Your primer on the Romanian presidential election" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/eye-on-europes-elections/your-primer-on-the-romanian-presidential-election-george-simion-nicusor-dan/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:26:47


  • "Biden BBC interview: Key takeaways" https://www.axios.com/2025/05/07/biden-bbc-interview-trump-russia-ukraine-election-democracy    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:26:59


  • "BwE tried to take down my videos, so I'm taking down his business" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/bwe-tried-to-take-down-my-videos,-so-i'm:e    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:27:14


  • "Leo XIV is the new Pope - Vatican News" https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-05/cardinal-elected-pope-papal-name.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:27:44


  • "Robert Prevost: Is the new American pope liberal or conservative?" https://www.vox.com/religion/409839/francis-next-pope-liberal-conservative-neither-legacy-church-catholic-conclave    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:27:54


  • "Much like L.A., this American-born pope transcends borders" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-08/much-like-la-this-american-born-pope-transcends-borders    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:28:17


  • "New Pope Leo XIV is no stranger to Michigan: He went to high school here - mlive.com" https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/05/new-pope-leo-xiv-is-no-stranger-to-michigan-he-went-to-high-school-here.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:28:28


  • "Army medic receives award for fending off shooter, saving life" https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2025/05/08/army-medic-receives-award-for-fending-off-shooter-saving-life/ see next    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:28:53


  • "Firearm Violence in America" https://web.archive.org/web/20250303011818/https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/reports-and-publications/firearm-violence/index.html iophk: censored, PDF report gone    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:29:09


  • iophk: only on the map because of interference via Bytedance's Tiktok https://yle.fi/a/74-20160670 ("Finns Party leaders grapple with plummeting poll numbers")    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:29:34


  • "Another strategy game with trains? Sign me up. Break Siege from FojoGames just hit Early Access and looks like it could be another good one. If you missed them a few others I found with trains recently were Apocalypse Express and Fogpiercer." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/control-an-interstellar-train-in-the-deck-builder-break-siege-out-now-in-early-access/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:30:25


  • "Fanatical Bundle Fest is back and one of the sweet new deals is the new Slitherine Strategy Bundle, which includes some great strategy games like Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for cheaps." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/get-some-quality-strategy-games-like-battlestar-galactica-deadlock-in-the-slitherine-strategy-bundle/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:30:35


  • "Paradox Interactive / Paradox Tinto have today announced Europa Universalis V, the next in the series of their popular historical grand strategy games." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/paradox-interactive-announce-europa-universalis-v/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:30:47


  • "Trump and Zelensky hold phone call after Ukraine ratifies minerals deal with U.S." https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/09/trump-and-zelensky-hold-phone-call-after-ukraine-ratifies-minerals-deal-with-u-s    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:31:03


  • All the media SPAM about Bill Espteingate merely reaffirms the reality public opinion is strongly against him, so he's bribing more media to try to change this. https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:31:58


  • And YES, he CAN be arrested a THIRD time. He should.    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:32:19


  • "Today is the 21st Big SASIG conference. What is the Security Awareness Special Interest Group (SASIG) ?" ☛ https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=47 https://cybershow.uk/media/episodes/sasig.mp3 | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:48:06


  • "We've just released a new series of Pedagogy Quick Reads — practical, research-informed guides designed to enhance your classroom practice." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pedagogy-quick-reads-turning-abstract-ideas-into-classroom-practice/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:48:31


  • "ARC sells airline ticket records to ICE and others" ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/05/08/arc-sells-airline-ticket-records-to-ice-and-others/ | Source: Papers Please    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:49:50


  • Professional Hunters Kill a Shocking Number of Animals in South Africa ☛ https://therevelator.org/hunters-south-africa/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:50:46


  • "Renewables" ☛ https://fair.org/home/jumping-to-blame-renewables-for-iberian-outage/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:53:14


  • "Some 5,600 citizens took the trouble to respond, despite the lack of an easy online interface to do so" ☛ https://walledculture.org/eu-prepares-to-give-new-rights-to-live-streaming-sites-to-the-detriment-of-the-internet-and-its-users/ | Source: Walled Culture    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:56:23


  • Patents ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-134-year-old-patent-reveals-the-proper-way-to-hang-toilet-paper | Source: Science Alert    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:56:38


  • "large app store operators" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/662180/app-store-freedom-act-apple-third-party-app-stores | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:57:11


  • "a cryptic tweet by Sweeney" ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2775464/fortnite-could-return-to-the-iphone-this-week-if-apple-doesnt-block-it.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:57:19


  • "The availability of Chromebooks for basic education students in Finland varies significantly by municipality." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20160558 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:57:48


  • "The controversy over Windows 11's hardware requirements is more nuanced. On one side, there is the laudable goal of securing Windows by requiring the presence of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 and a relatively modern CPU." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/microsoft_hardware_gates/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:58:05


  • "Peacock users with the add-on are being told that if they take no action before a certain date (in most cases later this month), they’ll automatically be switched over to Peacock Premium—which, confusingly, is the ad-supported version of Peacock." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2776253/peacock-may-have-just-ruined-your-black-friday-subscription-deal.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:58:17


  • [Old] "The industry group A3SA, which is in charge of digital rights management (DRM) for ATSC 3.0, released a specification this week for recording encrypted ATSC 3.0 channels from an antenna." ☛ https://www.techhive.com/article/2250871/drm-remains-a-stumbling-block-for-dvrs-embracing-atsc-3-0.html | Source: Tech Hive    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:58:36


  • "The FCC is quietly contemplating a fundamental restructuring of all broadcasting in the United States, via a new DRM-based standard for digital television equipment, enforced by a private “security authority” with control over licensing, encryption, and compliance." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/fcc-must-reject-broadcast-drm | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:59:45


  • "By this Public Notice the Media Bureau seeks comment on the Petition for Rulemaking (Petition)1 filed by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) asking the Commission to “establish a clear timeline to complete the transition” to ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV)" ☛ https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-25-314A1.pdf | Source: US FCC    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 06:59:54


  • [Old] "ATSC 3.0 Interactive Content" ☛ https://www.atsc.org/atsc-documents/a-3622020-atsc-recommended-practice-digital-rights-management-drm/ |    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:00:01


  • [Old] "the Advanced Emergency Information broadcaster application, as well as basic interoperability testing of new models from TV set manufacturers." ☛ https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/latest-atsc-30-plugfest-targets-transport-drm-and-more |    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:00:07


  • "ASUS has recently unveiled a new ATX motherboard based on the Intel Q870 chipset, designed to support Intel Core Ultra Processors (Series 2) using the LGA1851 socket" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/asus-unveils-q870-atx-motherboard-with-lga1851-and-intel-core-ultra-series-2-support/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:02:12


  • "OpenEmbed is developing the MeshWalkie, a handheld wireless device built around the ESP32-S3, SX1262 LoRa module, and L76K GNSS, using the enclosure of a Quansheng UV-K6 radio." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/meshwalkie-combines-esp32-gnss-and-lora-in-uv-k6-radio-enclosure/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:02:21


  • "A little technical post to document something that was apparently not obvious to everybody." ☛ https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/archives/2025/05/08/yes-the-apple-ii-mousecard-irq-is-synced-to-the-vbl/ | Source: Colin Leroy-Mira    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:03:04


  • "The robot uses a set of eight servo motors, two for each leg, that work in concert to move along the ground. They are all controlled by an Arduino Mega 2560" ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/05/08/this-plant-always-gets-enough-sunlight-thanks-to-its-robotic-legs/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:05:40


  • "In our previous post we show you how to install MicroPython on ESP32-EVB and to drive the board’s relays from the web server." ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/interfacing-different-sensors-with-esp32-evb-and-micropython-dht11-dht22-shtc3-and-ds18b20/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:05:52


  • "In this guide, we’ll cover three essential tools to enhance your Ubuntu server security: UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall), Fail2ban, and AppArmor." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/hardening-ubuntu-server/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:37:15


  • "One of the easiest and most flexible ways to handle backups is by writing a custom script" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/linux-file-backup-script/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:37:24


  • How To Install MySQL Workbench on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-mysql-workbench-fedora-42/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:38:09


  • How To Install OnlyOffice on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-onlyoffice-fedora-42/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:38:30


  • How To Install FreeIPA on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-freeipa-fedora-42/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:38:46


  • How To Install Nethogs on Rocky GNU/Linux 9 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-nethogs-rocky-linux-9/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:39:11


  • How To Install Midnight Commander on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-midnight-commander-debian-12/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:39:50


  • How To Install Clang on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-clang-fedora-42/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:40:41


  • How To Install LXDE Desktop on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-lxde-desktop-debian-12/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:41:14


  • Ubuntu Replaces Sudo with Untested Rust Alternative in Next Release ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ubuntu-replaces-sudo-with-untested    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:42:44


  • Guy Buys GNU Emacs Book From Amazon... Gets "Hitler's Table Talk" in Disguise ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/guy-buys-gnu-emacs-book-from-amazon    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:42:55


  • "We’ve all got to that point on a given system where we start to run out of storage space." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-find-large-files-on-any-linux-machine | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:44:15


  • "We have started using WireGuard to build a small mesh network so that machines outside of our network can securely get at some services inside it (for example, to send syslog entries to our central syslog server)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/NetplanWireGuardOneFileOnly | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:44:28


  • Pluralistic: Who broke the internet? (08 May 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/08/who-broke-the-internet/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:45:36


  • BSD Now 610: OpenBSD 7.7 ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/610    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:46:10


  • Everything BAD that computers EVER did... for DECADES.... is now being framed by the media as "HEY HI" for the veneer of "novelty". Example: surveillance or algorithms flag some certain person. Now in 2025? OH, THIS IS AN HEY HI ISSUE!!!!    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:49:32


  • So a lot of the time when the media utters the words "ethical AI" it just means something like "responsible computing". This issue is 50+ years old, but the media is full of phonies.    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:50:37


  • I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M_hmwBBPnc    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:54:35


  • "Generally, U.S. regulators are too captured to even acknowledge there’s a problem." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/08/california-bill-would-require-that-att-and-comcast-make-broadband-affordable-for-poor-people/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:57:53


  • "When the program was killed, 23 million Americans suddenly faced significantly higher broadband bills. In some states, community broadband networks have been filling the void" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/07/community-owned-networks-offering-locals-dirt-cheap-broadband-after-republicans-dismantle-federal-low-income-program/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:58:05


  • "Rather, the Great Enshittening is the result of specific policy choices, made in living memory, by named individuals, who were warned at the time that this would happen, and they did it anyway." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/08/who-broke-the-internet/#bruce-lehman | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 07:58:26


  • "Ottoman tragedy" ☛ https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/the-execution-of-syrian-and-lebanese-intellectuals-an-ottoman-tragedy-79238 | Source: ANF News    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:03:29


  • "federal agencies also ended payroll deduction of union dues in April" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/05/trump-collins-veterans-affairs-unions/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:03:47


  • "Kane, director of the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development, dreaded calling her AmeriCorps members to say the federal government had just terminated their positions in the nationwide service program." ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/05/08/repub/as-trump-slashes-americorps-states-lose-a-federal-partner-in-community-service/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:04:12


  • "Media workers have reportedly become targets instead. According to RSF, two journalists — Ahmad Falaha of France 24’s Arabic service and Moawiya Atrash of Franco-German broadcaster Arte — were arrested and threatened with execution." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/press-advocacy-group-urges-syria-to-actively-protect-journalists/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:05:03


  • "police service admitted to using the controversial tool beginning in October 2019 and committed to stop using it in February of the following year." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/five-year-wait-toronto-police-foi-records-1.7524991 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:05:23


  • "It would be donating 20 million kronor ($2 million) in 2025 to the Prague-based station, the statement added." ☛ https://www.thelocal.se/20250508/sweden-to-donate-2-million-to-radio-free-europe-after-trump-pulls-funding | Source: The Local SE    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:06:05


  • "RSF also helped smuggle out Marina Ovsyannikova, the former state TV journalist who protested the war on-air in 2022." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/05/film-critic-yekaterina-barabash-appears-in-france-after-escape-from-russia-a88968 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:06:32


  • "US Appeals Court Reverses Halt To Funding For Radio Free Europe" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/broadcasting-media-news-courts-rfe-rl/33408586.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:06:45


  • "The trial, which will take place in Bornholm's largest town Ronne" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/denmark-trial-for-quran-burning-kicks-off-in-bornholm/a-72467497 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:08:47


  • "What happens when the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer lands in China?" ☛ https://petewarden.com/2025/05/08/why-the-chinese-government-taught-ai-to-lie/ | Source: Pete Warden    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:09:13


  • "A Turkish court last month handed the 40-year-old an 11-month suspended sentence on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan." ☛ https://www.thelocal.se/20250508/swedish-foreign-minister-urges-turkey-to-release-jailed-journalist | Source: The Local SE    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:09:42


  • "Since his detention in late March, the suspended mayor has continued to communicate with the public through his X account." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/x-restricts-erdogan-rival-imamoglu-s-account-in-turkey-307228 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:10:01


  • Politicians in Twitter/X are bossed by MElon the Nazi and KSA the schmazi https://techrights.org/n/2024/07/21/Meme_Hate_Speech.shtml    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:10:35


  • "A couple of years ago, Judy Blume noted that book banning was not only undergoing a resurgence in the US, but was at that point “much worse” than she had noticed during the 1980s." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/may/08/forever-review-an-absolutely-adorable-tv-take-on-judy-blumes-banned-teen-sex-classic | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:11:10


  • "This lawsuit is an attack on the United States Constitution and the First Amendment. It has absolutely no merit and it cannot stand" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/sanders-calls-on-cbs-owner-to-stand-up-for-first-amendment-not-surrender-to-trump | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:13:33


  • "Internet restrictions have become common during major events involving Putin, particularly amid growing concerns over drone attacks and sabotage attempts linked to the war in Ukraine." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/05/moscow-hit-with-internet-disruptions-ahead-of-victory-day-parade-a88971 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:14:17


  • "Public demonstrations against Putin and Russia’s war in Ukraine have become increasingly rare amid sweeping laws that effectively ban criticism of the military." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/06/elderly-activist-stages-rare-anti-putin-protest-across-from-kremlin-before-jumping-off-bridge-a88981 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:15:16


  • "Although he posted links to articles he'd written about Sweden's NATO accession -- which was initially blocked by Turkey -- he was not responsible for the photo selection." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250430-swedish-reporter-gets-suspended-term-over-erdogan-insult | Source: France24    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:15:38


  • [Old] "The special correspondent for the Swedish media Dagens ETC has been held in the high-security Marmara prison in the city of Silivri, since 30 March." ☛ https://rsf.org/en/turk%C3%AFye-rsf-calls-authorities-release-swedish-journalist-joakim-medin | Source: RSF    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:16:07


  • "X (formerly Twitter) has begun blocking over 8,000 accounts in India following government orders, including accounts of global media and prominent users." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/x-blocks-8000-accounts-in-india-under-government-order/articleshow/121005398.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:17:21


  • "The platform said it received executive orders from the government requiring it to block over 8,000 accounts ‘subject to potential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment of the company’s local employees’" ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/x-says-it-blocked-8000-accounts-in-india-after-govts-executive-orders/article69554836.ece | Source: The Hindu    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:17:38


  • "It was the first time in Arizona judicial history — and possibly nationwide — that AI has been used to create a deceased victim’s own impact statement." ☛ https://www.abc15.com/news/region-southeast-valley/chandler/family-uses-ai-to-create-video-for-deadly-chandler-road-rage-victims-own-impact-statement | Source: ABC    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:19:17


  • "There’s a lot of latitude in victim impact statements. And the family’s grief is real. But of course, it’s not just about one family — this presents huge and obvious problems going forward for the rest of us." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/08/christopher-pelkey-ai-victim-testimony-from-beyond-the-grave/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:19:36


  • "As Phoenix's ABC 15 reports, an uncanny simulacrum of the late Christopher Pelkey, who died from a gunshot wound in 2021, played in a courtroom at the end of his now-convicted killer's trial." ☛ https://futurism.com/ai-dead-brother-impact-statement | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:20:33


  • "How the sister of Christopher Pelkey made an avatar of him to testify in court." ☛ https://www.404media.co/i-loved-that-ai-judge-moved-by-ai-generated-avatar-of-man-killed-in-road-rage-incident/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:20:57


  • Normal people: WTH is this nonsense? A cheesy movie plot?    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:21:18


  • Misinformation/Disinformation for a PR stunt?    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:21:54


  • "any organizations have over the years outsourced a lot of their IT." ☛ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-overview/ | Source: Bert Hubert    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:22:16


  • "A pattern has emerged with stunning clarity, yet insufficient alarm" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-new-belt-and-road | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:22:54


  • "Canonical's Ubuntu 25.10 is set to make sudo-rs, a Rust-based rework of the classic sudo utility, the default – part of a push to cut memory-related security bugs and lock down core system components." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/08/ubuntu_2510_makes_rusk_sudo_default/ | Source: The Register UK http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/07/Rust_is_Starting_to_Seem_More_Like_Microsoft_hosted_Digital_Mao.shtml    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:24:26


  • This will not improve security; it will, however, give Microsoft more control    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:25:06


  • "As part of the ‘AI Continent’ initiative, the EU is launching a new act to address Europe’s gap in cloud and AI infrastructure capacity through: [...]" ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14628-AI-Continent-new-cloud-and-AI-development-act_en | Source: European Commission    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:25:55


  • "good attrition." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-not-to-rehire-ousted-employees-for-two-years-considers-departures-good-attrition/articleshow/120954302.cms Slop and distraction from impending MAS LAYOFFS    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:26:29


  • "In addition to his work inside the bureau, Vorndran has often acted as the FBI’s lead official for government-wide efforts on digital security issues, including ransomware." ☛ https://therecord.media/bryan-vorndran-leaving-fbi | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:26:48


  • "Per layoff tracker Trueup, so far in 2025, 284 layoffs have taken place at tech companies, affecting 53,399 employees." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/as-google-job-cuts-continue-a-look-at-big-tech-layoffs-in-2025/articleshow/120999313.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:27:06


  • "How did the ancestral function of these proteins evolve into something new?" ☛ https://www.the-scientist.com/floral-stink-evolved-through-three-amino-acid-changes-72992 | Source: LabX Media Group    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:27:38


  • "I assumed that birds use the geomagnetic field to fly halfway around the world. They don’t. Not all of them." ☛ https://interconnected.org/home/2025/05/08/pigeons | Source: Matt Webb    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:27:49


  • "The system's reliance on mobile gas turbines for power drew ire from residents and environmental groups, who raised alarms about their impact on air quality and community health." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/08/xai_turbines_colossus/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:28:45


  • "I’ve talked to a few friends who own Teslas, and they share my discomfort. It’s not fun driving around in what some people are calling a “swasticar.” Add to that the purely selfish fear that Teslas these days are liable to be keyed or even torched." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/i-regret-my-tesla/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:28:59


  • Bulkmatic to invest US $250M in northern Mexico ☛ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/nearshoring-in-mexico/bulkmatic-invest-northern-mexico/ | Source: Mexico News Daily    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:29:22


  • "Microsoft Corp. has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that would have amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity" ☛ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-26/microsoft-abandons-more-data-center-projects-td-cowen-says | Source: Bloomberg    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:29:44


  • [Old] "The tech giant's withdrawal from new capacity leasing was largely led by the decision not to support additional training workloads from ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the analysts led by Michael Elias said in a note." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-pulls-back-more-data-center-leases-us-europe-analysts-say-2025-03-26/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:30:00


  • "Traditionally, the big risk in HODL-ing cryptocurrencies has been their volatility. Fortunately, now the US goverenment is all-in on cryptocurrencies, this risk is greatly reduced." ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2025/05/the-risks-of-hodl-ing.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:30:17


  • "As part of the plea deal, Mashinsky admitted to lying to Celsius customers about fundamental aspects of the business—including how their funds would be invested—and manipulating the price of a proprietary" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/celsius-founder-alex-mashinsky-sentenced-to-12-years-in-prison/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:30:33


  • "The Federal Aviation Administration plans to replace 618 radars, install anti-collision tarmac technology at 200 airports" ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51309496/us-plans-to-spend-billions-to-update-air-traffic-control-system | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:31:44


  • "Cutbacks have gutted the staff at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory" ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/05/08/millions-of-people-depend-on-the-great-lakes-water-supply-trump-decimated-the-lab-protecting-it/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:33:10


  • "The legislation, House Bill 5004, would strengthen the state’s existing carbon-reduction goals" ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-business/policy-and-regulation/net-zero-by-2050-ct-lawmakers-try-again-on-climate-legislation/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:33:18


  • "the Trump administration who inadvertently invited a reporter to a Signal chat" ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/telemessage-signal-clone-us-government-hack | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:34:43


  • "the unsanctioned communication methods" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2025/0508/signal-security-hegseth-waltz | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:34:57


  • "monitoring busy shipping routes" ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/global/europe/2025/05/08/denmark-to-field-unmanned-vessels-for-monitoring-busy-shipping-routes/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:35:45


  • "detrimental to India's friendly relations with foreign countries" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/08/india_pakistan_content_block_advice/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:36:09


  • "Atul Gawande was leader of global public health for USAID. On a recent podcast he runs some more numbers." ☛ https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/05/07/the-musk-massacre/ | Source: Jon Udell    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:37:30


  • "Fortunately, more reliable sources than DOGE [sic]’s self-reported figures exist." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/musk-doge-spending-cuts/682736/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:38:03


  • "The EU Parliament on Wednesday urged a stop to Türkiye’s plans for accession into the EU after the country failed to address major democratic shortcomings and silenced dissident voices." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/eu-parliament-urges-to-continue-freezing-turkiye-eu-membership-talks/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:39:35


  • Former New Zealand Supreme Court judge set to join Hong Kong’s top court following exodus of foreign justices ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/09/former-new-zealand-supreme-court-judge-set-to-join-hong-kongs-top-court-following-exodus-of-foreign-justices/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:39:56


  • "Account not available in India. This is because we complied with a legal request to restrict this content." ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/meta-blocks-access-to-muslim-news-page-in-india/article69551807.ece | Source: The Hindu    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:40:24


  • "Meta has banned a prominent Muslim news page on Instagram in India at the government's request, the account's founder said Wednesday, denouncing the move as "censorship" as hostilities escalate between India and Pakistan." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/meta-blocks-access-to-muslim-news-page-in-india/articleshow/120981352.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:41:17


  • "Yle reported about the project in the small city of Kouvola on Wednesday, in an article that examined the effort's foreign financial backers — as well as news that TikTok would be the centre's main tenant." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20160552 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:41:39


  • "There are still too many unanswered questions, many aspects to be studied, and deep taboos surrounding the most devastating conflict in history" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-08/80th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-world-war-ii-how-does-a-country-fall-into-the-abyss-of-hatred.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:42:13


  • "The speed with which civilian programs and agencies are being slashed in the second Trump era gives away the true purpose of the Department [sic] of Government Efficiency (DOGE [sic])." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/doge-pentagon-military-industrial-complex/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:42:43


  • "That statement was the closest TikTok advertising executives got to addressing the app's uncertain fate in the United States in the company's annual spring pitch to marketers." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/tiktok-facing-a-us-ban-tells-advertisers-were-here-and-confident/articleshow/120949835.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:43:15


  • "The incident took place overnight from Friday to Saturday in the Lazdijai District. According to the VSAT, a group of migrants brought a ladder in an attempt to climb over the border fence." ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2554663/migrants-pelt-lithuanian-border-guards-with-sticks-stones-vsat | Source: LRT    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:43:47


  • "In December 2023, when Tavender did a survey of his year 6 pupils (aged 10-11), 45 of 60 pupils already had smartphones – 75%" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/07/the-crux-of-all-evil-what-happened-to-the-first-city-that-tried-to-ban-smartphones-for-under-14s | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:44:31


  • "American newspaper the Wall Street Journal reports that the US is set to increase espionage activities in Denmark and Greenland in line with the stated objective of the Trump administration of taking control of the territory." ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20250507/united-states-to-step-up-espionage-on-denmark-and-greenland-as-part-of-takeover-goal | Source: The Local DK    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:44:42


  • "Putin's war of aggression, his campaign against a free, democratic country, has nothing in common with the fight against Nazi tyranny in World War II" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2301306.html | Source: RTL    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:45:06


  • "The greatest such lie is that the Soviet Union should even be counted among the Allies. Generously, we might call the USSR a co-belligerent of the US and UK after 1941, when Germany invaded." ☛ https://thenextmove.substack.com/p/exposing-russias-great-patriotic-lies | Source: Garry Kasparov    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:47:11


  • "Germany itself again expressed gratitude for the change that May 8, 1945, brought to the world and to itself." ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/05/08/europe-marks-80th-anniversary-of-world-war-iis-end/ | Source: USMC    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:47:20


  • "The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) recently joined a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) task force geared towards finding and deporting immigrants" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/no-postal-service-data-sharing-deport-immigrants | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:49:04


  • "Geofence warrants require a provider—almost always Google—to search its entire reserve of user location data to identify all users or devices located within a geographic area and time period both specified by law enforcement." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/appeals-court-sidesteps-big-questions-geofence-warrants | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:51:54


  • "The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) submits these comments in response to Congresswoman Lori Trahan’s March 18, 2025, request for information on modernizing the Privacy Act of 1974." ☛ https://epic.org/documents/comments-of-epic-to-congresswoman-lori-trahan-on-efforts-to-reform-privacy-act-of-1974-and-protect-americans-data-from-government-abuse/ | Source: EPIC    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:52:09


  • "On 14 April, Meta announced that it would use the personal data of European users for artificial intelligence (AI) training in the future." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/verbraucherzentrale-nrw-requests-meta-cease-and-desist-ai-training-eu | Source: NYOB    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:54:00


  • "The lawsuit against NSO was filed in 2019, after it came to light that a zero-day vulnerability had been exploited to deliver NSO-made spyware to roughly 1,400 WhatsApp users." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/spyware-maker-nso-ordered-to-pay-167-million-over-whatsapp-hack/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:54:24


  • "Pegasus is carefully designed to use zero-day vulnerabilities to infect handsets, ideally without any user interaction." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/nso_group_meta_verdict/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:54:43


  • "six-year legal battle after NSO [cracked] 1,400 WhatsApp accounts belonging to journalists, human-rights activists and government officials." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/meta-awarded-167-million-in-damages-from-israeli-cybersecurity-firm/articleshow/120954798.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:55:04


  • "For those who may be unfamiliar, 23andMe is a DNA-testing company based in California that asks customers to send in a saliva sample to receive results about their ancestry and any subsequently linked health risks." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/michigan-in-color/delete-your-account/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:55:18


  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/mapping-a-decades-worth-of-hybrid-threats-targeting-australia/ | Source: The Strategist    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:57:23


  • Windows TCO: "The vulnerability in question is tracked as CVE-2025-29824 and it was patched by Microsoft with its April 2025 Patch Tuesday updates." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/second-ransomware-group-caught-exploiting-windows-flaw-as-zero-day/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:57:51


  • Windows TCO: "The downstream extortion attacks highlight the ongoing risk organizations confront when a vendor is hit by a cyberattack, exposing not just their data but also that of others in their supply chain." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/powerschool-customers-hit-by-downstream-extortion-threats/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:58:05


  • Windows TCO: "From 2022 to 2025, the platforms — identified as Cfxapi, Cfxsecurity, neostress, jetstress, quickdown, and zapcut — allegedly allowed users to bombard websites and servers with high volumes of junk traffic, often rendering them inaccessible." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/poland-ddos-arrests-europol-operation-poweroff/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:58:57


  • Windows TCO: "For years, law enforcement authorities in North America, Europe and the APAC region have worked together to disrupt services that enable anyone to launch DDoS attacks against specified online services." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/europol-announces-more-ddos-service-takedowns-arrests/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:59:11


  • Windows TCO: "aware that a threat actor has reached out to multiple school district customers in an attempt to extort them using data from the previously reported December 2024 incident." ☛ https://therecord.media/despite-ransom-payment-powerschool-extorting | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:59:25


  • Windows TCO: "However, in the advisory it published on its website, the NCSC appears to have given credence to the theory that the attackers gained access to corporate victims' internal systems by exploiting employees' legitimate accounts." ☛ https://www.exponential-e.com/blog/ncsc-warns-of-it-helpdesk-impersonation-trick-being-used-by-ransomware-gangs-after-uk-retailers-attacked | Source: Exponential-e Ltd    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 08:59:38


  • "This past Sunday, Russian state television aired a “documentary” by propagandist Pavel Zarubin celebrating 25 years of Vladimir Putin’s rule." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/08/the-same-food-as-regular-people | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:02:49


  • "This is when I decided that is time to get over it. I don’t think that Mastodon is different than other social media. At least not to me." ☛ https://blog.pcora.eu/2025/05/08/goodbye-mastodon.html | Source: Pedro    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:03:02


  • "Last night I demoted my Fosstodon admin account, then flipped the switch and migrated to Micro.blog. Here's some thoughts on why I did that." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/blog/goodbye-fosstodon | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:03:15


  • "Emails obtained by the newspaper show that Musk's handlers tried to make public meetings allowing neighbors to speak out about his plans private instead." ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-begging-privacy | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:05:14


  • "A once-cherished family tradition that has sparked many a family discussion appears to be on the decline - and our fixation with screens may be to blame" ☛ https://www.scotsman.com/news/technology/screen-time-is-killing-the-family-dinner-chat-9-expert-tips-to-restart-the-conversation-5119337 | Source: The Scotsman    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:05:59


  • "pivot to video" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah-rah-rasputin/#credulous-dolts | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:07:07


  • "There’s a certain type of online place that’s all too common out there" ☛ https://notes.neatnik.net/2025/05/mirrored-gardens | Source: Adam Newbold    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:07:45


  • "Last year, Jesse Cunningham — a self-described "SEO specialist who leverages the power of AI to drive real results" — appeared in a livestream for a closed members group for SEO secret-trading." ☛ https://futurism.com/slop-farmer-ai-social-media | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:08:56


  • "competition between the United States and China drives Washington to cede control over its economy and military to a rogue AI, ultimately resulting in human extinction." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/researchers-reboot-push-for-ai-safety-after-paris-summit-bust/articleshow/120981380.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:09:14


  • "Volunteers entered the applicants' names into a ChatGPT prompt directing the chatbot to gather background information about that person, as an alternative to potentially time-consuming search engine queries." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/worldcon_uses_ai/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:09:50


  • "The 2025 State of Web Dev AI" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/ai-generated-code-needs-refactoring-say-76-of-developers/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:10:12


  • aka poorly plagiarised "Code" https://techrights.org/o/2023/02/10/copilot-in-court/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:10:41


  • "We still have not seen a single valid security report done with AI help." ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/08/curl-takes-action-against-ai-bug-reports/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:10:54


  • "Job hunting can be a dehumanizing, demoralizing experience even if you’re interacting with an empathetic recruiter on the other end." ☛ https://www.404media.co/ai-recruiter-apriora-tiktok/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:11:33


  • "Twenty-seven years ago, Steve Jobs took the stage at the Flint Center in Cupertino to unveil the first new product since his return to Apple: the original iMac." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2773722/nearly-three-decades-later-apple-owes-everything-to-the-imac.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:12:14


  • "Of the total projected fatalities, 4.5 million were children, according to a study by the ISGlobal institute, in which researchers from Brazil, Mozambique, and the United States participated" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-08/dissolving-usaid-could-lead-to-an-additional-14-million-deaths-by-2030.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:12:39


  • "I changed to the 35g ambient twilight switches and they're much better for me. This is the first Choc switch I've used that I actually like, rather than it being the one I dislike the least." ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/new-keyboard-day | Source: Jasper Tandy    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:13:08


  • "The headline change, a 2K (2560 × 1600) panel running at 240 Hz, finally brings the Serval into the 16:10 era, giving users markedly more vertical space for code, CAD models, or spreadsheets while keeping motion buttery-smooth during high-frame-rate gameplay." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/system76-serval-ws-linux-laptop/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:13:34


  • "Judge John McConnell Jr. issued Tuesday’s preliminary injunction, halting further implementation of the order" ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/federal-court-blocks-funding-cuts-to-us-libraries-and-museums/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:14:22


  • "Twelve years ago, German librarian Anne Christensen presented eight hypotheses why librarians don’t like discovery layers." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/05/08/guest-post-eight-hypotheses-why-librarians-dont-like-retrieval-augmented-generation-rag/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:14:35


  • "Neither the Library of Congress nor the White House immediately responded to a request for comment from Reuters." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-05-08/trump-fires-head-of-library-of-congress-new-york-times-reports | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:15:03


  • "The role of science in today’s world is questioned" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/us-cuts-scientific-talent-europe/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:15:24


  • "Leshin's tenure as director was also marked by many triumphs, not least the continued operation of the Mars rovers, flights of the Ingenuity helicopter, and saving the Voyager mission." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/08/nasa_jpl_director_quits/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:16:47


  • "This is a website. It is hypertext. It is too complicated for linear formats. But we can still approach it a little bit in a linear way, for a treat." ☛ https://ratfactor.com/atom-explanation | Source: Dave Gauer    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:17:10


  • "After reading another horror story of how a person was locked out of their Google account, I decided to pull the switch." ☛ https://laplab.me/posts/switching-from-gmail/ | Source: Nikita Lapkov    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:29:28


  • "You can import a Python package, and call a Python function from that package inside your R environment." ☛ https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/uv-part-3-python-in-r-with-reticulate |    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:30:07


  • "Lately I’ve heard a lot great things about uv, an extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust." ☛ https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/uv-part-1-running-scripts-and-tools |    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:30:19


  • "PyTorch is one of AI’s top open source projects." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/pytorch-foundation-welcomes-vllm-and-deepspeed-as-hosted-projects/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:30:28


  • "How do we make something utterly mundane? By using it and working at the boundaries of our skills." ☛ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/write-the-most-clever-code-you-possibly-can/ | Source: Buttondown LLC    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:31:01


  • iophk: more harmful efffects of social control media, bytedance's tiktok is used as a tool to create division and strife https://yle.fi/a/7-10077472 ("Lotta Alho vill utmana fördomarna: Varför hatas finlandssvenskar och språket så mycket? | Huvudstadsregionen | Svenska Yle")    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:32:39


  • "Arrived at ULB via tram. For me, a conference is mostly a networking event so I just hangs around the booths." ☛ https://clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2025/05-08-first-time-at-fosdem.gmi | Source: Martin Chang    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:33:22


  • "Posting this here because I hadn't previously noticed that this defaults to UTC, which is a useful detail." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/8/sqlite-create-table-default-timestamp/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:33:41


  • "I wrote about my views on the common Apache modules for SAML and OIDC authentication" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/ApacheOIDCEasyTesting | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:34:24


  • Monthly News – April 2025 ☞ https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4840    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:34:56


  • Linux Mint 22.2 Modernises its Default Theme ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/linux-mint-22-2-default-theme-changes    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:35:12


  • "Linux Mint has released its regular monthly newsletter; this time, we have some exciting updates to share. First, the team confirmed the labels for its next point release and upcoming Debian-based edition. Linux Mint 22.2 will answer to “Zara,” while LMDE 7 (the Mint variant built directly on Debian rather than Ubuntu) has been dubbed “Gigi.”" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-mint-y-theme-gets-a-modern-touch/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:35:58


  • "Linux Mint has released its regular monthly newsletter; this time, we have some exciting updates to share. First, the team confirmed the labels for its next point release and upcoming Debian-based edition. [...]"    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:36:34


  • "Linux Mint 22.2 will answer to “Zara,” while LMDE 7 (the Mint variant built directly on Debian rather than Ubuntu) has been dubbed “Gigi.”" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-mint-y-theme-gets-a-modern-touch/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:36:39


  • "Debian bookworm is getting what could be its last hurrah as the basis for Raspberry Pi's operating system, with what's likely to be its final appearance on a release for the diminutive computers." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/08/the_final_bookwormbased_raspberry_pi/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:37:15


  • Easily Toggle Ubuntu’s New Wellbeing Reminders On/Off ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-wellbeing-toggle-gnome-extension    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:39:16


  • Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to MSN Weather ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-msn-weather/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:39:39


  • Uwe Kleine-König: The GNU/Linux kernel's PGP Web of Trust ☞ https://blog.kleine-koenig.org/ukl/the-linux-kernels-pgp-web-of-trust.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:40:54


  • "Your Steam Deck can do more than just play games. Valve effectively crammed a laptop into a handheld form factor, threw Linux on it, and left the system wide open for anyone to fiddle with." https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-use-your-steam-deck-as-a-linux-pc/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:41:31


  • "Below are free apps that easily convert different media types: images, eBooks, videos, and audio files: [...]" ☛ https://greycoder.com/the-two-best-free-audio-and-video-converters/ | Source: GreyCoder    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:42:54


  • "The Nmap Project has officially launched the highly anticipated Nmap 7.96, bringing a wealth of new features, performance upgrades, and bug fixes to the popular network scanning tool" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/nmap-7-96-released/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:43:06


  • "This article is aimed at those like me who use Ubuntu and PostgreSQL to develop locally on their computer and after the last update to Ubuntu 25.04 they have two versions of PostgreSQL installed." ☛ https://www.paulox.net/2025/05/07/upgrading-postgresql-from-version-16-to-17-on-ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin/ | Source: Paolo Melchiorre    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:43:37


  • "This new release is built atop the newly released Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” repositories. Users can now also benefit from Linux kernel 6.14, which promises improved hardware support and performance under the hood." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/stable-clonezilla-live-update-brings-kernel-6-14-and-btrfs-v6-13-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:43:57


  • "According to disclosures from the openSUSE security team, a troubling workaround was discovered in the DDE packaging. Specifically, the Deepin community packager introduced a “license agreement” dialog within the deepin-feature-enable package, effectively circumventing standard security review processes required by openSUSE." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-removes-deepin-desktop-over-security-policy-violations/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:44:47


  • "According to disclosures from the openSUSE security team, a troubling workaround was discovered in the DDE packaging."    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:45:04


  • "[...] Specifically, the Deepin community packager introduced a “license agreement” dialog within the deepin-feature-enable package, effectively circumventing standard security review processes required by openSUSE." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-removes-deepin-desktop-over-security-policy-violations/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:45:10


  • "AI tech rights"... yeah, go ahead and spam away the term "rights" https://in.investing.com/news/company-news/cerence-sues-microsoft-and-nuance-over-ai-tech-rights-93CH-4812165    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:46:45


  • [Old] "FreeBSD evidently found last year’s Community Survey so useful that they’re turning it into an annual event." ☛ https://fossforce.com/2025/04/freebsd-wants-to-know-a-few-things/ | Source: Unicorn Media    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:49:05


  • "As was at least to some extent clear from the previous articles" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250508122430 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:49:17


  • "Among the key fixes, Cantor, a front-end to powerful mathematics and statistics packages, received a crucial correction" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-gear-25-04-1-apps-collection-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:51:00


  • "It can be really amazing just how bad video game companies have been, and currently still are" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/07/fallout-1-2-source-code-preserved-only-through-one-person-refusing-to-delete-copies-of-it/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:52:05


  • Latvian universities to share defence innovation funding ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/08.05.2025-latvian-universities-to-share-defence-innovation-funding.a598224/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:53:17


  • "truce" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/08/no-russian-drone-strikes-reported-on-first-night-of-putin-s-declared-three-day-truce-but-ukraine-reports-guided-bomb-strikes-on-sumy-region | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:53:46


  • ukraine ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/08/ukraine-reportedly-orders-troops-to-fire-only-in-response-to-russian-attacks-during-putin-s-declared-ceasefire | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:53:59


  • Braže: More sanctions against Russia required ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/08.05.2025-braze-more-sanctions-against-russia-required.a598270/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:54:22


  • Full transcript: The 2025 Distinguished Leadership Awards recognize leaders reshaping the global landscape ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/news/transcripts/full-transcript-the-2025-distinguished-leadership-awards-recognize-leaders-reshaping-the-global-landscape/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:54:54


  • Russia’s coming summer offensive could be deadliest of the entire war ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russias-coming-summer-offensive-could-be-deadliest-of-the-entire-war/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:55:35


  • Lithuania’s Seimas vows to never recognise Russia’s claim to Ukrainian territories ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2557153/lithuania-s-seimas-vows-to-never-recognise-russia-s-claim-to-ukrainian-territories    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:55:53


  • Russia’s Victory Day Parade: What to Know. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/world/europe/russia-victory-day-parade-moscow.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:56:07


  • Russia’s Military Show of Strength Masks Economic and Diplomatic Cracks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/europe/russia-military-parade.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:56:20


  • Victory Day in Russian-Occupied Ukraine: A Muted Celebration ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/europe/russia-ukraine-victory-day-ww2.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:56:34


  • "minerals deal" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/09/trump-and-zelensky-hold-phone-call-after-ukraine-ratifies-minerals-deal-with-u-s | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:57:19


  • "ratifies" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/08/ukrainian-parliament-ratifies-minerals-deal-with-u-s | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:57:33


  • "the new frontrunner may be no better for Ukraine" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/08/back-to-the-polls | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:57:49


  • Baltics close airspace to those travelling to Russian parade ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/08.05.2025-baltics-close-airspace-to-those-travelling-to-russian-parade.a598178/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:58:17


  • Russia-Linked APT Star Blizzard Uses ClickFix to Deploy New LostKeys Malware, Surveillance Giant Google Warns ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/google-finds-data-theft-malware-used-by-russian-apt-in-select-cases/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:58:37


  • "Victory Day parade" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/08/azerbaijani-president-ilham-aliyev-to-skip-russia-s-victory-day-parade | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:59:02


  • "FSB reports sharp drop in North Korean arrivals to Russia" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/08/fsb-reports-sharp-drop-in-north-korean-arrivals-to-russia | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:59:27


  • "Meduza journalist Lilia Yapparova reports on how Russian soldiers and civilians buy their way out of going to war" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/08/people-simply-didn-t-know-how-else-to-save-themselves | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:59:54


  • CAFC Affirms TTAB: US SPACE FORCE Falsely Suggests a Connection with the United States ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/05/cafc-affirms-ttab-us-space-force.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 10:00:59


  • PostgreSQL 17.5, 16.9, 15.13, 14.18, and 13.21 Released! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-175-169-1513-1418-and-1321-released-3072/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 10:03:30


  • Istio 1.26.0 Change Notes ☞ https://istio.io/latest//news/releases/1.26.x/announcing-1.26/change-notes/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 10:04:36


  • Denmark Outraged by Report of Increased Spying in Greenland ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/asia/denmark-greenland-us-consulate-spying.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 10:05:20


  • PostgreSQL 18 Beta 1 Released! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-beta-1-released-3070/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 10:06:21


  • All-in-one Stress Test & Benchmark Tool OCCT Adds Official GNU/Linux Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/05/occt-adds-linux-support/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 10:07:00


  • Video: LFNW 2025 - Retro Gaming Preservation with the MiSTer FPGA Project ☞ http://www.montanalinux.org/video-lfnw2025-misterfpga-202504.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 10:08:22


  • Automating unplanned surprises out of your IT strategy ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/automating-unplanned-surprises-it-strategy    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 10:10:14


  • How to set up NVIDIA NIM on Red Bait OpenShift Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/05/08/how-set-nvidia-nim-red-hat-openshift-ai    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 10:10:30


  • GAFAM sponsors https://reg.experiences.redhat.com/flow/redhat/sum25/loginGenAttendee/page/start    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 10:12:25


  • "Whether you're a longtime customer, a partner exploring new ideas or someone just beginning your open source journey, this guide will help you get the most out of your experience in Boston from May 19 - 22. From what to pack to how to plan your day, here’s what to know before you go." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-summit-2025-guide-first-time-attendees    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 10:12:58


  • Red Hat planted this fake story and then linked to it https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/CW-Developer-Network/Red-Hat-AI-is-not-about-size-its-about-fit-for-purpose https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/friday-five-may-9-2025-red-hat https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/friday-five-may-9-2025-red-hat Adrian Bridgwater is all about stenography    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 10:15:07


  • Over 11,000 VA health care employees apply to leave, but ‘very few’ eligible for separation incentives ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/hiring-retention/2025/05/over-11000-va-health-care-employees-apply-to-leave-but-very-few-eligible-for-separation-incentives/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:04:04


  • Time running out for S. Korea’s ruling party to finalise its candidate for presidential polls ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/time-running-out-for-s-koreas-ruling-party-to-finalise-its-candidate-for-presidential-polls    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:05:13


  • Chinese premier Li Qiang to visit Malaysia for key Asean-Gulf summit, say sources ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/chinese-premier-li-qiang-to-visit-malaysia-for-key-asean-gulf-summit-sources-say    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:05:41


  • Acid attack case on Malaysian national footballer Faisal Halim classified as ‘no further action’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/acid-attack-case-on-malaysian-national-footballer-faisal-halim-classified-as-no-further-action    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:05:58


  • Surveillance ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/tourists-visiting-malaysia-can-now-sign-up-for-touch-n-go-ewallet-to-make-qr-payments    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:06:40


  • New lifts, pipes, cafes: China doubles down on urban upgrades to buck ‘consumption downgrade’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/new-lifts-pipes-cafes-china-doubles-down-on-urban-upgrades-to-buck-consumption-downgrade    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:08:10


  • Dihydroxyacetone Man to raise Hong Kong Jimmy Lai case in China trade talks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/trump-to-raise-hong-kong-jimmy-lai-case-in-china-trade-talks    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:08:39


  • US imposes Iran-related sanctions on third China ‘teapot’ refinery, ports ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-imposes-iran-related-sanctions-on-third-china-teapot-refinery-ports    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:09:04


  • ST Picks: Tariffs, trade and talks - Can China and the US come to a consensus? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/st-picks-tariffs-trade-and-talks-can-china-and-the-us-come-to-a-consensus    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:09:16


  • Nvidia reportedly halts RTX 5090D deliveries in China — undelivered orders canceled, GPU ban speculated ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-reportedly-halts-rtx-5090d-deliveries-in-china-undelivered-orders-canceled-gpu-ban-speculated    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:09:34


  • At last they do not say "HEY HI chips" or nonsense to the same effect    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:09:59


  • Former SK hynix employee transferred advanced chip packaging technologies to Huawei ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/former-sk-hynix-employee-transferred-advanced-chip-packaging-technologies-to-huawei    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:10:22


  • Hong Kong removes protection against land reclamation in Victoria Harbor ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/05/08/china-hong-kong-harbor/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:10:53


  • Warner Music Posts Q1 2025 Revenue Dip Amid U.S. Declines, ‘Market Share Loss in China’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/08/warner-music-group-earnings-q1-2025/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:11:13


  • "Please close the window" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/08/please-close-the-window | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:11:56


  • "landmine ban treaty" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/08/lithuanian-parliament-votes-to-withdraw-from-landmine-ban-treaty | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:12:20


  • "Sub-Nanosecond Timing" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/08/a-constant-fraction-discriminator-for-sub-nanosecond-timing/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:13:31


  • "voltmeter" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/08/the-owon-hds160-reviewed/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:14:24


  • DIY Holochess Table ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/08/let-the-wookie-win-with-this-diy-holochess-table/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:16:47


  • ‘Search is going off a cliff’: CNN, BillBC and Economist chiefs on future of news ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/cnn-bbc-economist-ai-discoverability-legacy-media/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:17:40


  • "You might be old enough to remember record platters, but you probably aren’t old enough to remember when records were cylinders." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/08/edison-phonograph-plays-the-cylinders/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:18:10


  • "In the driving simulator community, setups can quickly grow ever more complicated and expensive, all in the quest for fidelity. For [CNCDan], rather than buy pedals off the shelf, he opted to build his own." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/08/diy-driving-simulator-pedals/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:18:37


  • "Although [Vitor Fróis] is explaining linear regression because it relates to machine learning, the post and, indeed, the topic have wide applications in many things that we do with electronics and computers" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/08/understanding-linear-regression/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:18:53


  • 28 Most Populous US Cities Are Sinking, New Survey Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/28-most-populous-us-cities-are-all-sinking-new-survey-finds    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:19:30


  • Interactive Map Reveals Ocean Pathways Vital For 109 Species ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/interactive-map-reveals-ocean-pathways-vital-for-109-species    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:19:42


  • Scientists Discover Genetic Mutation Linked to Needing Less Sleep ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-genetic-mutation-linked-to-needing-less-sleep    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:20:01


  • Psychedelics May 'Reset' Brain Cells in Mood And Immune Disorders ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/psychedelics-may-reset-brain-cells-in-mood-and-immune-disorders    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:20:22


  • DNA Reveals Surprising Twist About Christopher Columbus ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-reveals-surprising-twist-about-christopher-columbus    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:20:35


  • Ultra-Rare 'Asian Unicorn' Has Genome Sequenced, And It Could Mean Everything ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ultra-rare-asian-unicorn-has-genome-sequenced-and-it-could-mean-everything    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:20:55


  • Japan fair trade watchdog warns Tokyo hotels over information-sharing as room prices soar ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-fair-trade-watchdog-warns-tokyo-hotels-over-information-sharing-as-room-prices-soar    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:48:08


  • South Korean presidential front runner says US risks isolation with tariffs ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korean-presidential-frontrunner-says-us-risks-isolation-with-tariffs    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 11:48:34


  • Inflation on the rise as Mexico anticipates another interest rate cut ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/inflation-april-interest-rate-cut/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 12:31:01


  • Windows TCO ☞ https://blog.didierstevens.com/2025/05/09/update-oledump-py-version-0-0-81/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 12:31:43


  • Intelligence Agencies Increase Focus on Greenland, U.S. Officials Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/politics/trump-greenland-intelligence.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 12:32:14


  • EPO leak out shortly. This weekend: OSI leaks, too.    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 12:33:33


  • Nvidia celebrates dumping of Biden-era Hey Hi (AI) chip export rules — simpler new policy promised ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-celebrates-dumping-of-biden-era-ai-chip-export-rules-simpler-new-policy-promised    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 12:34:22


  • There is no such thing as Hey Hi (AI) chips. It's just some buzzwords-decorated bunch of GPUs with another market    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 12:35:27


  • Just because everyone ELSE says "HEY HI" does not mean you should TOO. Say NO. Do not participate in the nonsense.    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:34:30


  • ‘Wildly Inappropriate Behavior’: Real Estate Group Is Accused of Cover-ups ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/realestate/appraisal-institute-sexual-harassment-exam-flaws.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:34:59


  • Musk-Tied Investor Clashes With One of World’s Biggest Asset Managers ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/business/lawsuit-brookfield-musk-raffaelli.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:35:08


  • Nit-picks: The White House’s Stealth April 8 Archive of “Parts” of the Houthi Signal Chat ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/08/nit-picks-the-white-houses-stealth-april-8-archive-of-parts-of-the-houthi-signal-chat/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:35:28


  • Universal Music Calls Drake a Hypocrite as Ugly Defamation Lawsuit Drags On—UMG Dismisses Latest Action as ‘Legal Blather’ and Full of ‘Wild Conspiracies’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/08/umg-drake-defamation-lawsuit-dismissal/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:36:14


  • Chiapas midwives denounce laws limiting access to birth certificates ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/chiapas-midwives-registry/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:37:02


  • iHeartMedia Faces Class Action Lawsuit After Major Data Breach ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/08/iheartmedia-faces-class-action-lawsuit-after-major-data-breach/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:37:24


  • US Defense Secretary cancels Women, Peace and Security programs ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/us-defense-secretary-cancels-women-peace-and-security-programs/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:37:45


  • No Phones, No Internet: The Vote for a New Pope Is Held in Extreme Secrecy ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/08/world/pope-conclave-news/pope-vote-secret-technology-banned-security    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:38:05


  • A Year Ago, Columbia Security Was Hands-Off at a Protest. Not This Time. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/nyregion/columbia-library-occupation.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:38:29


  • Pakistan’s US ambassador says India, Pakistan have had contact at national security level ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/pakistans-us-ambassador-says-india-pakistan-have-had-contact-at-national-security-level    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:38:54


  • After projecting losses of $1.5 billion, AMD CEO Lisa Su calls for a balance between export controls and national security ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/after-projecting-losses-of-usd1-5-billion-amd-ceo-lisa-su-calls-for-a-balance-between-export-controls-and-national-security    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:39:15


  • Driest start to a year across England since the 1950s - uk water suppliers    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:39:57


  • RCEs and more in the KUNBUS GmbH Revolution Pi PLC ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/rces-and-more-in-the-kunbus-gmbh-revolution-pi-plc/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:43:25


  • Lithuania has ‘plan B’ if US pulls out of Europe – president ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2556862/lithuania-has-plan-b-if-us-pulls-out-of-europe-president    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:43:39


  • Father of wanted Hong Kong activist Anna Kwok denied bail on nat. sec grounds ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/08/father-of-wanted-hong-kong-activist-anna-kwok-denied-bail-on-nat-sec-grounds/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:44:05


  • Poland to train 100,000 military volunteers annually by 2027 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250508-poland-to-train-100-000-military-volunteers-annually-by-2027    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:44:31


  • Tightening the legal noose for rhino poachers ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/border-security/tightening-the-legal-noose-for-rhino-poachers/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:44:49


  • ISS seminar hears DR Congo is quasi-state lacking internal legitimacy ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/iss-seminar-hears-dr-congo-is-quasi-state-lacking-internal-legitimacy/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:46:02


  • Sen. Murphy: Convicted Felon administration has ‘illegally gutted funding for cybersecurity’ ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/sen-murphy-trump-administration-has-illegally-gutted-funding-for-cybersecurity/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:46:23


  • It’s a wrap: NT Defence Week 2025 ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/its-a-wrap-nt-defence-week-2025/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:46:44


  • Announcing the Summer 2025 OpenSSF Mentorship Program ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/05/08/announcing-the-summer-2025-openssf-mentorship-program/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:47:14


  • Microsoft Wicresoft Layoffs https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3305558/microsoft-joint-venture-wicresoft-halts-projects-china-lays-thousands-workers    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:49:54


  • New Leaks Coming Soon, We Maintain 100% Record of Successful Resistance to Censorship http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/28/New_Leaks_Coming_Soon_We_Maintain_100_Record_of_Successful_Resi.shtml    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 13:58:11


  • The Gerstnerisation of Microsoft: Seventh Wave of Microsoft Layoffs (Over 20,000 to be Cut) Allegedly Going to Start Shortly, Probably Start of Next Week, Microsoft Spreads Chaff and Noise Before the Big Axes Fall http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/09/The_Gerstnerisation_of_Microsoft_Seventh_Wave_of_Microsoft_Layo.shtml    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 14:33:45


  • Masimo Manufacturing Facilities Hit by Cyberattack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/masimo-manufacturing-facilities-hit-by-cyberattack/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 15:41:46


  • Dozens of SysAid Instances Vulnerable to Remote Hacking ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/dozens-of-sysaid-instances-vulnerable-to-remote-hacking/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 15:42:20


  • Cisco Patches 35 Vulnerabilities Across Several Products ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-patches-35-vulnerabilities-across-several-products/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 15:42:45


  • Improperly Patched Samsung MagicINFO Vulnerability Exploited by Botnet ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/improperly-patched-samsung-magicinfo-vulnerability-exploited-by-botnet/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 15:46:23


  • Possible Zero-Day Patched in SonicWall SMA Appliances ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/possible-zero-day-patched-in-sonicwall-sma-appliances/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 15:46:49


  • Join Arduino at Automate 2025 to explore the future of automation ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/05/08/join-arduino-at-automate-2025-to-explore-the-future-of-automation/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 15:48:42


  • Modern TableView in QML: What’s New in Qt 6.8 and Beyond ☞ https://www.basyskom.de/modern-tableview-in-qml-whats-new-in-qt-6-8-and-beyond/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 15:49:13


  • Falkon 25.04.1 Release notes ☞ https://www.falkon.org/posts/2025/2025-05-08-falkon-25-04-1-release-notes/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 15:49:45


  • Hong Kong man jailed for 1 year over ‘seditious’ online posts targeting police, judges, gov’t ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/08/hong-kong-man-jailed-for-1-year-over-seditious-online-posts-targeting-police-judges-govt/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 15:50:58


  • HKFP’s investigative reporting nominated for prestigious SOPA award ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/08/hkfps-investigative-reporting-nominated-for-prestigious-sopa-award/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:07:42


  • Apple Asks the Court to Halt App Store Overhaul Amid Successful Epic Games Appeal ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/07/apple-app-store-overhaul-appeal/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:08:25


  • Fittl: Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1020452/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:09:36


  • "The word “Schlieren” is German, and translates roughly to “streaks”. What is streaky photography, and why might you want to use it in a project? And where did this funny term come from?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/08/flow-visualization-with-schlieren-photography/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:10:28


  • Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in April 2025 ☞ http://blog.alteholz.eu/2025/05/my-debian-activities-in-april-2025/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:12:44


  • India tells X to block over 8,000 accounts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-tells-x-to-block-over-8000-accounts    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:17:37


  • France marks 80 years since Victory Day ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250508-france-marks-80-years-since-victory-day    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:18:07


  • People Used to Talk ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/07/People_Used_to_Talk.shtml    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:18:36


  • Lasse Fister, Organiser of Libre Graphics Meeting, Points Out the Code of Conduct is Likely Violated by the Same People Who Promote Codes of Conduct (and Then Bully Him Into Cancelling a Keynote) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/08/Lasse_Fister_Organiser_of_Libre_Graphics_Meeting_Points_Out_the.shtml    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:18:44


  • "Victory Day" - Part I: That is the Day Microsofters Who Assault Women Pay for Their Actions in Foreign Land (Using "Guns for Hire" Who Attack Their Own Country for American Dollars) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/08/Victory_Day_Part_I_That_is_the_Day_Microsofters_Who_Assault_Wom.shtml    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:18:52


  • Throwing Out the Jury: How the Federal Circuit’s ‘Particularized Testimony’ Rule Further Threatens the Doctrine of Equivalents ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/05/particularized-testimony-equivalents.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:21:00


  • Dominion Harbor entity, Arlington Technologies, networking patent monopoly prior art found ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/5/8/dominion-harbor-entity-arlington-technologies-networking-patent-prior-art-found http://techrights.org/wiki/Dominion_Harbor/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:21:51


  • ToolGen and Vertex focus battle over CRISPR/Cas therapy Casgevy in Europe ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/toolgen-and-vertex-focus-battle-over-crispr-cas-therapy-casgevy-in-europe/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:22:29


  • Baidu developing AI-driven animal to human translator – Dr Doolittle plans revealed in patent monopoly application ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/baidu-developing-ai-driven-animal-to-human-translator-dr-doolittle-plans-revealed-in-patent-application    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:22:46


  • MIPI C-PHY v3.0 released with 18-Wirestate mode encoding increasing the per-lane performance by up to 35 percent ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/09/mipi-c-phy-v3-0-released-with-18-wirestate-mode-encoding-increasing-the-per-lane-performance-by-up-to-35-percent/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:23:42


  • Announcing Istio 1.26.0 ☞ https://istio.io/latest//news/releases/1.26.x/announcing-1.26/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:24:24


  • Everything Presence Lite ESP32-based mmWave presence sensor tracks up to three targets simultaneously ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/08/everything-presence-lite-esp32-based-mmwave-presence-sensor-tracks-up-to-three-targets-simultaneously/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:26:11


  • 88: The Same Bucket ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24125    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:28:16


  • Certificate lifetimes are getting shorter, and that’s a good thing! ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/05/08/certificate-lifetimes-are-getting-shorter-and-thats-a-good-thing/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/21/Gemini_Capsules_Still_Outsourcing_to_Certificate_Authority_Let_.shtml    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:37:57


  • Event Wrap: Local APIGA Taiwan 2025 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/05/09/event-wrap-local-apiga-taiwan-2025/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:38:11


  • From infra to product and tooling to product: a journey ☞ https://blog.relyabilit.ie/from-infra-to-product-and-tooling-to-product-a-journey/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:40:19


  • The Pentagon’s Culture Wars Strike West Point ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/politics/west-point-hegseth-culture-wars.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:41:00


  • Key military, diplomatic escalations in troubled India-Pakistan ties since 1999 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/indian-strike-on-pakistan-is-worst-fighting-between-neighbours-in-over-2-decades    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:41:35


  • Australia's Woodside confronts protests, investor anger at annual meet ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australias-woodside-confronts-protests-investor-anger-at-annual-meet    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:43:00


  • Pakistan hails role of Chinese jets in repelling India strikes ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/pakistan-hails-role-of-chinese-jets-in-repelling-india-strikes    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:47:40


  • North Korea leader oversees missile test simulating nuclear counterstrikes ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-leads-missile-test-stresses-nuclear-force-readiness-kcna    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:47:54


  • Press advocacy group urges Italy to investigate spyware attacks on journalists ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/press-advocacy-group-urges-italy-to-investigate-spyware-attacks-on-journalists/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 16:48:39


  • Welcome to Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2025 contributors! ☞ http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2025_welcome_contributors    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 17:00:17


  • Google Summer of Code 2025 – Five Participants are Joining Us This Year ☞ https://www.scummvm.org/news/20250508/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 17:00:51


  • The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2025 selected projects ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/05/08/gsoc-2025-selected-projects/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 17:02:25


  • Patents. "The pain jolted me awake. It was barely dawn, a misty February morning in 2023. My side felt as if I’d been stabbed." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 17:03:16


  • Columbia U Will Pay $750M to Survivors of OB-GYN Robert Hadden ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/columbia-university-750-million-settlement-robert-hadden-sexual-assault | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 17:04:22


  • "Democrats Blast Trump Plan to Shrink Veterans Affairs Staff" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-doug-collins-democrats-transparency-job-cuts-healthcare | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 17:04:49


  • Plasma 6.3.5 update for Kubuntu 25.04 available via PPA ☞ https://kubuntu.org/news/plasma-6-3-5-update-for-kubuntu-25-04-available-via-ppa/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 17:08:54


  • "This kind of sh-t is why I've left other companies. If you need to have above average performance to be considered normal, you better be fu--ing paying my a-s above average, and with their 5 year vesting sh-t, they sure aren't." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtpkeftq    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 17:10:46


  • "Microsoft is firing US employees and moving the jobs to India. It has nothing to do with low performance, in most cases." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsnkcaz4    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 17:11:18


  • Why Surveillance Giant Google Search Deal is Critical for Firefox’s Future ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/mozilla-says-google-search-deal-vital-to-firefoxs-survival    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 17:11:56


  • Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1020545/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 17:12:13


  • health @ Savannah: GNU Health becomes an organization in the Python Package Index - PyPI ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10770    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 17:12:44


  • "Couple of months ago manager promised big layoffs in Canada. Was keen to see them as I work with more incompetent arrogant fools than anything else. Big disappointment - I'm aware of only two having left and one of them might have been a retirement. The train of broken promises never ends." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtrr4bwc    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 17:13:58


  • Good and Evil gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2025-05-09-Good_and_Evil.txt    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:10:17


  • 🔤SpellBinding: BILOSYU Wordo: SWAIN gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-05-09.gmi    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:10:58


  • "Out before my evening plans yesterday, I was leaving the coffee shop after refilling my jar of beans. Crossing the street, a middle-aged woman, somewhere around my own age, smiles at me, and calls out, "I like your hair!"" gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/5-09.gmi    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:11:37


  • "Ever since I left GitHub and ran my own Git server, I hosted my repositories on vigrey.com/git/. This never entirely sat right with me, so I think I will work soon-ish towards changing that. My intention is to host my git server at the git subdomain instead, so git.vigrey.com." gemini://vigrey.com/journal/im-considering-a-breaking-change-to-my-git-server.gmi    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:12:29


  • "(This post is an anti-LLM rant post, but more importantly to me, it's an anger at the modern web requiring Javascript everywhere post in disguise)" gemini://vigrey.com/journal/in-which-llms-made-the-web-worse-yet-again.gmi    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:13:10


  • Military-Grade Anti-Linux Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Propaganda Using Abusive Monopolist Microsoft LLMs in Fake 'News' Sites (Slopfarms) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/09/Military_Grade_Anti_Linux_Microsoft_Propaganda_Using_Microsoft_.shtml    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:29:38


  • Linux Mint 22.2 Codenamed “Zara”, LMDE 7 Will be Called “Gigi” ☞ https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-2-codenamed-zara-lmde-7-will-be-called-gigi    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:30:09


  • KTrip is a public transport navigator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ktrip-public-transport-navigator/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:30:31


  • System76 Refreshes Serval WS GNU/Linux Laptop with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU ☞ https://9to5linux.com/system76-refreshes-serval-ws-linux-laptop-with-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5070-ti-gpu    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:31:15


  • KDE Gear 25.04.1 ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.1/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:31:47


  • FOSS Weekly #25.19: sudo-rs, Terminal Makeover, Kazam 2.0, Mission Center and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-19/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:33:14


  • The sole maintainer of GNU/Linux distribution AnduinOS turns out to be a Abusive Monopolist Microsoft employee ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/the-sole-maintainer-of-linux-distribution-anduinos-turns-out-to-be-a-microsoft-employee/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:33:55


  • Linux Mint 22.2 and LMDE 7 get names, Mint-Y updated to look more modern ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-mint-222-and-lmde-7-get-names-mint-y-updated-to-look-more-modern/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:35:21


  • XigmaNAS – storage NAS distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/xigmanas-storage-nas-distribution/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:37:18


  • Grock displays a geological map of the UK ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/grock-displays-geological-map-uk/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:38:25


  • Kadas Albireo is a mapping application based on QGIS ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/kadas-albireo-mapping-application-qgis/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:38:59


  • dclock is a digital clock ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dclock-digital-clock/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:39:06


  • 12 Best Free and Open Source Food and Drink Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/foodanddrink/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:39:59


  • Janus is a general purpose WebRTC server ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/janus-general-purpose-webrtc-server/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:40:31


  • "End of 10" Project's aim is to help backdoored Windows 10 users keep their PCs running for years ☞ https://www.ghacks.net/2025/05/08/end-of-10-projects-aim-is-to-help-windows-10-users-keep-their-pcs-running-for-years/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:41:12


  • No Internet Access 'SSH to the Rescue', (Thu, May 8th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31932    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:43:54


  • Node.js 24 Drops MSVC, Embraces ClangCL on backdoored Windows ☞ https://linuxiac.com/node-js-24-drops-msvc-embraces-clangcl-on-windows/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:44:47


  • Dependency of PeasyScan missing in Daedalus ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202505/dependency-of-peasyscan-missing-in-daedalus.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:45:36


  • I Created a Better Way to Navigate Than the Classic cd Command ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/cdd/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:45:52


  • KDE Gear 25.04.1 Fixes Session Restore in the Dolphin File Manager and Other Bugs ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-25-04-1-fixes-session-restore-in-the-dolphin-file-manager-and-other-bugs    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:46:26


  • Why the Financial Times has gone long with video ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/financial-times-video-journalism-youtube/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:47:13


  • South Korean politicians use ‘mukbang’, YouTube livestreaming to engage voters ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-politicians-use-mukbang-youtube-livestreaming-to-engage-voters    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:47:36


  • Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome ☞ https://blog.chromium.org/2025/05/fighting-unwanted-notifications-with.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:48:13


  • Upgrade Fedora 41 to Fedora 42 ☞ https://owlhowto.com/upgrade-fedora-41-to-fedora-42/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:48:54


  • How To Mount and Unmount Drives on Your GNU/Linux machine ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-mount-and-unmount-drives-on-your-linux-machine    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 18:59:57


  • How To Monitor CPU and RAM Resources in Any GNU/Linux Distro ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-monitor-cpu-and-ram-resources-in-any-linux-distro    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:00:06


  • How to View Your Command History in Any GNU/Linux Operating System ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-view-your-command-history-in-any-linux-operating-system    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:00:19


  • syslog-ng 4.8.2 is now available ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/other/syslog-ng-4-8-2-is-now-available/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:00:50


  • Kubernetes 1.33: Volume Populators Graduate to GA ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/05/08/kubernetes-v1-33-volume-populators-ga/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:01:22


  • LibreOffice 24.8.7 is available for download ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05/08/libreoffice-24-8-7/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:02:57


  • Putin to host world leaders at lavish army parade amid Ukraine war ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250509-putin-world-leaders-army-parade-ukraine    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:05:41


  • Putin and Pooh-tin Rebuke U.S. and Vow to Strengthen Ties ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/world/europe/putin-xi-meeting-trump.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:06:02


  • Brazil’s President Confronts a Changing World ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/brazils-president-confronts-a-changing-world    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:06:21


  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Calls For 30-Day Cease-Fire After Ukraine Accuses Russia Of Breaking Its Own Truce ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-ceasefire-world-war-two-anniversary-victory-day-putin-zelenskyy/33407971.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:06:35


  • Now ‘friends of steel’: Pooh-tin and Putin meet in Moscow ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/05/08/china-russia-xi-jinping-putin-partnership/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:06:56


  • 8 Excellent Free Books to Learn Julia ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/excellent-free-books-learn-julia/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:07:16


  • China vows to stand with Russia in face of ‘hegemonic bullying,’ Pooh-tin tells Putin ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/08/china-vows-to-stand-with-russia-in-face-of-hegemonic-bullying-xi-tells-putin/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:07:39


  • Victory Day: A show of strength and alliances by Putin ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250508-victory-day-a-show-of-strength-and-alliances-by-putin    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:07:50


  • Dihydroxyacetone Man reiterates call for unconditional 30-day Ukraine ceasefire ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250508-trump-presses-russia-for-unconditional-30-day-ukraine-ceasefire-putin-zelensky-usa    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:08:04


  • System76’s Got Game With Its New Serval WS Laptop ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/05/system76s-got-game-with-its-new-serval-ws-laptop/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:08:56


  • System76’s Got Game With Its New Serval WS Laptop ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/05/system76s-got-game-with-its-new-serval-ws-laptop/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:11:20


  • DC-ROMA launches a $349 RISC-V mainboard with an 8-core CPU and 50 TOPS of AI performance and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS support https://liliputing.com/dc-roma-launches-a-349-risc-v-mainboard-with-an-8-core-cpu-and-50-tops-of-ai-performance-and-ubuntu-24-04-lts-support/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:17:15


  • Moving to Microsoft GitHub and unfinished, untested code for critical bits https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-25-10-sudo-rs/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/07/Rust_is_Starting_to_Seem_More_Like_Microsoft_hosted_Digital_Mao.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/06/Ubuntu_Becomes_Microsoft_GitHub_Based_on_Decision_Made_by_Briti.shtml    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:19:36


  • because some young dude from the Army gets his facts from the back doors proponents or social control media or higher-ups who have other priorities http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/19/Is_Ubuntu_Compromised_Push_Away_From_GNU_and_GPL_Led_by_Army_Of.shtml    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:20:38


  • "If you want to make Linux as productive an environment as possible, the terminal window is where it's at. Here are five things that can be done efficiently from the command line." https://www.zdnet.com/article/5-surprisingly-productive-things-you-can-do-with-the-linux-terminal/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:25:42


  • "Linux Mint has forked and modified many GNOME and GTK applications to keep them working with the Linux distro’s custom theme support. The team is now trying a new approach that would allow more current apps to work, without extensive modification or fully killing theme support." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-mint-embracing-gtk4-future/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:26:08


  • "The new laptop also features a 2K 16:10 display, an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU, up to 96GB of DDR5 RAM, and up to 12TB PCIe 5.0 and 4.0 SSD storage." https://9to5linux.com/system76-refreshes-serval-ws-linux-laptop-with-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5070-ti-gpu    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:26:39


  • "Save time by looking back in history to what you typed before." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-view-your-command-history-in-any-linux-operating-system    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:26:59


  • How I Manage Files in My Linux-Windows Dual Boot PC https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-manage-files-in-my-linux-windows-dual-boot-pc/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:27:43


  • "I really get the feeling that it's time to leave i486 support behind. There's zero real reason for anybody to waste one second of development effort on this kind of issue." https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-drops-support-for-486-and-early-pentium-processors-20-years-after-microsoft/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:29:02


  • "System76 has been selling Linux desktops and laptops for years, and now the company has revealed an updated Sevrval WS laptop. The latest model has an Intel Core Ultra 9 processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics, and of course, full support for desktop Linux." https://www.howtogeek.com/system76-serval-ws-laptop-linux-rtx-5070-ti/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:29:56


  • It's the "End of 10," but that doesn't mean you have to install Windows 11 https://www.laptopmag.com/laptops/windows-laptops/switch-from-windows-to-linux-end-of-10    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:30:14


  • Remotely Control Youtube With This Command-line Approach on Linux https://hackernoon.com/remotely-control-youtube-with-this-command-line-approach-on-linux    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:31:18


  • Forget CCleaner -- BleachBit 5.0 is here to remove junk, broken files and bloat from Windows 10/11 and Linux https://betanews.com/2025/05/08/forget-ccleaner-bleachbit-5-0-is-here-to-remove-junk-broken-files-and-bloat-from-windows-10-11-and-linux/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:33:52


  • "You could switch to Windows 11... or you could ditch Windows altogether." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/windows-10-support-is-ending-but-end-of-10-wants-you-to-switch-to-linux tomshardware adopted gnu/linux and now, as a result, covers it a LOT more. Good!    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:36:13


  • 4 free project management apps I recommend on Linux - and why you should use one https://www.zdnet.com/article/4-free-project-management-apps-i-recommend-on-linux-and-why-you-should-use-one/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:36:38


  • "SDesk is a lightweight Linux distribution designed with a familiar interface, making it an ideal choice for users transitioning from Windows." https://www.zdnet.com/article/ready-to-ditch-windows-for-good-this-is-the-linux-distro-i-recommend-for-beginners/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:37:16


  • "Linux Mint leader Clement Lefebvre revealed today the codename of the next release of the popular, Ubuntu-based Linux Mint distribution, Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara”, along with the codename for LMDE 7." https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-2-codenamed-zara-lmde-7-will-be-called-gigi    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:37:37


  • Pinta is Microsoft Mono. Avoid. Use Krita, GIMP etc. https://www.linuxmadesimple.info/2025/05/how-to-install-pinta-on-kubuntu-2404.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 19:39:40


  • Rust Propaganda Now Amplified by Slopfarms Powered by Microsoft LLMs, Encouraging the Outsourcing of GNU/Linux Distros to Microsoft/GitHub/NSA (and a Shift Away From GPL/Copyleft) http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/09/Rust_Propaganda_Now_Amplified_by_Slopfarms_Powered_by_Microsoft.shtml    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 20:16:23


  • "This is all speculation. Rumor mill." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtpkeftq    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 20:25:23


  • "Microsoft is mulling job cuts that could happen as soon as next month." https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-mulls-more-job-cuts-managers-non-coders-2025-4    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 20:25:50


  • keeping trademark rights in Russia https://www.dw.com/en/why-eu-us-companies-are-keeping-trademark-rights-in-russia/a-72403093    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 20:28:42


  • Pro-Russian hacker group targets over 50 Dutch websites in coordinated attack https://nltimes.nl/2025/05/03/pro-russian-hacker-group-targets-50-dutch-websites-coordinated-attack    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 20:29:23


  • Ukraine Destroys Electrical Equipment Factory https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-05-04/ukraine-destroys-electrical-equipment-factory-in-russias-bryansk-region-governor-says    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 20:29:54


  • Ukrainian Journalist in Russian Custody https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/05/05/torture-death-ukrainian-journalist-russian-custody    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 20:31:08


  • Ransomware Charge https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/ukrainian-national-extradited-spain-face-conspiracy-use-ransomware-charge    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 20:41:07


  • Globe Safety https://xkcd.com/3086/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 20:42:17


  • About 20 Pounds https://xkcd.com/3085/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 20:42:50


  • Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object https://xkcd.com/3084/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 20:43:06


  • DMA +++ LLW 2025 +++ PMPC +++SFP https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202505.en.html    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 20:44:17


  • DPC (Ireland) - TikTok ttps://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=DPC_(Ireland)_-_TikTok    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 20:58:32


  • TikTok faces €530 million EU fine over China data transfers https://www.dw.com/en/tiktok-faces-€530-million-eu-fine-over-china-data-transfers/a-72420728    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 20:58:54


  • BRICS booster https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-05-04/trump-says-would-extend-tiktok-deadline-if-there-is-still-no-deal    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 20:59:33


  • Private space travel has reignited debate over use of prestigious title https://theconversation.com/who-gets-to-be-called-an-astronaut-private-space-travel-has-reignited-debate-over-use-of-prestigious-title-255630    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 21:22:49


  • How dogs and cats are evolving to look alike and why it’s humans’ fault – new research https://theconversation.com/how-dogs-and-cats-are-evolving-to-look-alike-and-why-its-humans-fault-new-research-255260    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 21:23:14


  • Chinese research isn’t taken as seriously as papers from elsewhere https://theconversation.com/chinese-research-isnt-taken-as-seriously-as-papers-from-elsewhere-my-new-study-255794    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 21:24:00


  • Why prices on some of Americans’ go-to shopping sites are suddenly spiking https://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/411498/de-minimis-trump-tariff-temu-shein-amazon-prices    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 21:42:03


  • As Cheeto Mussolini Pushes Privatization of USPS, Amazon May Be Preparing to Take Over https://truthout.org/articles/as-trump-pushes-privatization-of-usps-amazon-may-be-preparing-to-take-over/    

posted Friday, May 09, 2025 at 21:42:40


  •    

posted Thursday, May 08, 2025 at 16:06:17


  • Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US ☞ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/pakistani-firm-shipped-fentanyl-analogs-scams-to-us/    

posted Thursday, May 08, 2025 at 16:06:47



Updated in real time for the given day Maintained by Roy Schestowitz