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1 day agoHow odd. To date, Trump had exhibited such forthrightness and transparency.
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The Israeli government’s absence in the negotiations leading up to the MOU has become a perilous hindrance for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces career-defining elections before the end of October.
Trump’s facing elections three days after the end of October. They are probably going to do a lot to determine what the latter half of his term looks like.
More information than just the clip:
I don’t really have any personal intrinsic issues with Palantir, but every time I see it, it still boggles my mind that they chose that name. Like, from a branding standpoint, just why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBMiyEzOJmI&t=110
Gandalf: “You know this?”
Saruman: “I have seen it.”
Gandalf: “A palantír is a dangerous tool, Saruman.”
Saruman: “Why? Why should we fear to use it?”
Gandalf: “They are not all accounted for, the lost seeing stones. We do not know who else may be watching!” He throws a sheet over the palantír, catching a momentary glimpse of Sauron’s eye and recoiling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantír
The stones were an unreliable guide to action, since what was not shown could be more important than what was selectively presented. A risk lay in the fact that users with sufficient power could choose what to show and what to conceal to other stones: in The Lord of the Rings, a palantír has fallen into the Enemy’s hands, making the usefulness of all other existing stones questionable.
I mean, yes, I like Tolkien too, but for fuck’s sake. Just pick some sort of suitably-bland name that, oh, alludes to “insight” or “data” or “analytics”, like “Deepsight” or something like that.
11·4 days agoI mean, the kernel is modular to address this. If you aren’t using a given set of functionality, the code doesn’t get loaded into memory. You can maybe shave a bit of disk space down, but aside from that…
And some stuff, like filesystems, really aren’t hardware-specific.
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
Well, she’s already resigned and her last day is in two weeks, so…I’m not much of a Gabbard fan, but she’s going to be a non-factor in pretty short order.
refusing to back down will hurt Canadians, not help them.
I don’t think that putting bans on under-16s being able to use social media is very good policy, but I also don’t see how it’s my job as an American to improve Canadian policy. If they’re gonna pass a law that isn’t a good idea, well, there are about 200 countries out there, and I’d say that every one of them have some collection of laws that I don’t think are a great idea.
If Canadians don’t like the law, then it’s up to Canadians to get it repealed. There is always gonna be some contingent out there that is going to be pushing for laws that I don’t think is a good idea.
Besides, several US states have tried (in some, being blocked as violating the state constitution). There are several conservative states where social media bans for minors or laws requiring parental sign-off on use are in force now.
If I’m going to stick my fingers in someone else’s legislative agenda, they are gonna top the list, not Canada.
1·7 days agoThis doesn’t seem like a fantastic strategy for Russia, seeing as Russia’s GNSS system is also probably subject to jamming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EKS_(satellite_system)
In a report published in June 2026, researchers identified three satellites from the EKS constellation as a source of space-based GNSS interference, such as GNSS jamming. Beginning in 2019, the researchers tracked powerful wide-area interference from the satellites over Europe, Greenland, and Canada. Significant interference was detected with the US American GPS, European Galileo, and Chinese BeiDou satellite networks, but interference was minimal on Russia’s own GLONASS network[27][28][29].
Any one of those parties might decide to reciprocate.
18·9 days agoA federal judge in Mississippi has punished all four lawyers on opposing sides in a civil trial and canceled the proceedings after some of them, relying on artificial intelligence, cited fake legal cases in court filings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/us/ai-lawyers-sanctioned-mississippi.html
In an order filed on Monday, Sharion Aycock, a senior U.S. District Court judge, wrote that the four lawyers had violated Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure when they certified that the information in their filings was factual.
I think one concerning thing is that this is the easiest thing to check. I mean, at some point, I assume that someone is going to rig something up to LexisNexis to actually validate the existence of cited cases, because that’s pretty simple and mechanical. Heck, even those lawyers, even if they don’t have any tech people at their fingertips, could have had a paralegal check citations or something. It really shouldn’t be that fundamentally hard for a lawyer to avoid getting in trouble for this specific issue, even if they generated the text with an LLM.
My bigger concern is that if lawyers are willing to put stuff like this out, they’re presumably also willing to put out information that hasn’t been checked where the errors are subtler and it’s harder to find erroneous material. In the case of citing nonexistent cases, it’s really easy to say “the lawyer clearly didn’t even look at this”, because it’s hard to make that kind of error if you have read over it. This is, once highlighted, flagrant and obvious. But…there’s potential for subtler errors, where it’s harder to tell whether the lawyer did at least try to review the material and just made a basic error, and thus it’s harder to impose punishments for it.
Magewell Pro Capture card
I’ve been kind of shifting towards use of USB devices over internal cards.
All of the USB devices that I have still can be connected to computers. Ditto for DE-9 serial ports, though I might need a USB adapter.
But I’ve seen ISA->PCI/AGP->PCIe obsolete a lot of old hardware that I’ve had sitting around, and that’s just on the PC. That includes my video capture hardware.
but definitely don’t come across as murderers
Well, I mean, the charge is manslaughter, not murder.
searches
https://www.humaneworld.org/en/campaign/ending-chinas-dog-and-cat-meat-trades
Globally, an estimated 20 million dogs and 6 million cats are slaughtered annually for human consumption. Of these, approximately 10 million dogs and 4 million cats are killed each year in China alone.
Sounds like it.
The article title and body don’t match in the amount of the sale:
sold for US$25
He was later told that Chutou had been sold to a dog meat restaurant for 180 yuan (US$27) and the pet had been eaten.
I mean, not that it’s that far off, but seems odd to have an article where the two don’t match.
I’d have some real questions about rollover risk on these. Three-wheel ATVs have a bad history and were banned in the US back in the 1980s — they’re less stable than quads and heavy enough to incur severe crush injuries in a rollover — and I’d expect that the batteries make these even heavier.
And these aren’t just personal vehicles, like the ATVs, but being used to run a commercial service. The government probably has a heightened interest in safety of passengers of commercial service.
Lives are cheaper in some places in the world, and maybe that’s not a luxury that that Zimbabwe can afford, if it needs inexpensive transport. But if there is one kind of vehicle that I’d be dubious about, it’d be something like these.
The attack targeted a wide range of sensitive credentials typically found in developer and CI/CD environments. Aikido’s analysis shows the malware attempted to collect GitHub Actions tokens, AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure credentials, HashiCorp Vault tokens, Kubernetes service account tokens and kubeconfig files, npm and PyPI publishing tokens, SSH private keys, Docker registry credentials, GPG keys, and .env files.
This doesn’t solve the problem of people storing credentials where credential-stealers can steal them, but it’s not a bad idea to periodically invalidate your credentials and generate new ones, even if you don’t know that they’ve been compromised, just on the off change that someone has grabbed yours and has them stored up, ready to use them at some point in the future.
That’s especially true if you develop or package software (and thus users of your software trust you to keep their systems secure) or have administrator access to any networks or multiuser systems (and thus your users trust you to keep their data secure).
I’d personally rather like to see external hardware keystores used where possible. YubiKey-type things aren’t perfect — they don’t have a display, so you can’t use trusted hardware to visually validate whatever you’re signing — but at least they’re relatively cheap and keep someone who compromises a computer from grabbing credentials.
FIFA tripled the price of its best available tickets to the FIFA World Cup final, making $32,970 seats available Thursday for the July 19 match at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Soccer’s governing body listed those seats as front category 1 on its sales site on a day that saw members of Congress question the pricing structure for World Cup tickets and ask FIFA for more transparency on asking prices.
FIFA previously had a high price of $10,990 for category 1 at the final. However, that ticket was now available Thursday night only as wheelchair and easy access amenity category 1.
Tickets for the July 14 semifinal at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, were listed at $11,130, $4,330, $3,710 and $2,705. Seats for the following day’s semifinal at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium were at $10,635, $3,545 and $2,725.
More expensive than for NFL tickets!
Face value for tickets to Super Bowl 60 range from $950 to $8,500, according to Friedman, who provided USA TODAY Sports a screenshot of a seating chart with ticket prices.
“They really know what they need,” and are putting “serious effort” into acquiring advanced machine tools, factory equipment, research and dual-use technology, said Christoffer Wedelin, deputy head of operations at the Swedish Security Service.
Russia also needs sanctioned computer technology and software updates for machine tools, Martelius said.
Even more important to the KGB was obtaining research data about Western technology, including integrated circuit design, computer-aided manufacturing, and, especially, operating system software that was under U.S. export control. They offered 250,000 Deutschmarks for copies of Digital Equipment’s VMS operating system.
Peter Carl and Dirk Brezinski apparently met with the KGB a dozen times, filling many of their requests: source code to the Unix operating system, designs for high-speed gallium-arsenide integrated circuits, and computer programs used to engineer computer memory chips.
Alone, the source code to Unix isn’t worth $130,000. Chip designs? Perhaps. But a sophisticated computer design program . . . well, maybe the KGB did get its money’s worth.
— The Cuckoo’s Egg, discussing the situation in 1986
That was 40 years back and when the Soviet Union was still around. Some things haven’t changed all that much.
Yeah, they mention it in the article, but I figure that whatever this guy wants, it’s more than whatever they’re generating.
For passionate enthusiasts, Ferraris are not merely cars but works of art…the sound of the engine revving evokes a sensation comparable to listening to the music of Giuseppe Verdi or Giacomo Puccini.
“I agree with him – the horse needs to be removed,” said Barone, adding that his main gripe was its lack of sound. “How can you have a Ferrari without any vroom?”
I suppose that someone could make a device that polls OBD-II for the current RPM and feeds more synthetic ICE engine sound into the sound system.
EDIT: Hell, if you’re freed from the constraints of an actual ICE engine, there’s probably some sort of sound that’s more psychologically-optimized to make the guy happy than whatever an actual engine puts out.
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Apparently the sharia court gave her the maximum sentence for a single act.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180310195447/http://iranhrdc.org/english/human-rights-documents/iranian-codes/1000000351-islamic-penal-code-of-the-islamic-republic-of-iran-book-five.html#18