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Monday December 8, 2025. 09:53 PM
The world's richest and loudest crybaby let loose a full-blown rant demanding the European Union somehow be abolished for the crime of fining his dodgy business under the Digital Services Act. The European Commission hit X with the ruling on Friday following a two-year...
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A security flaw in the widely-used Apache Tika XML document extraction utility, originally made public last summer, is wider in scope and more serious than first thought, the project’s maintainers have warned. Their new alert relates to two entwined flaws, the first...
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Alina Habba, Donald Trump's ethically challenged TV lawyer and courtroom chaos goblin, has resigned from her brief stint cosplaying a U.S. attorney, a position a federal court recently ruled she never had the legal right to occupy in the first place. — Read the rest The...
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Enterprises are testing AI in all sorts of applications, but too few of their proofs of concept (PoCs) are making into production: just 12%, according to an IDC study. Amazon Web Services is concerned about this too, with VP of agentic AI Swami Sivasubramanian devoting much...
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Leave it to a malfunctioning valve and terrible timing to turn a naval test dive into a horror story. In this Scary Interesting installment, the saga of the USS Squalus unfolds like a mashup of Das Boot and The Poseidon Adventure, with a side of 1930s military engineering...
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Your 2 AM burrito run is someone else's business intelligence now. Every time you order Thai food at 11 PM or take an Uber to that same bar every Friday, you're not just living your life —you're generating valuable marketing data. — Read the rest The post Uber is selling...
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the standards body responsible for the TLS encryption standard — which your browser is using right now to allow you to read LWN.net. As part of its work to keep TLS secure, the IETF has been entertaining proposals to adopt...
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The Orange Menace's newly released 'national security strategy' is a fever dream scribbled in Sharpie over a Risk board. In it, the convicted felon nee president's team rewrites global alliances, threatens South America with murderous boat strikes, and warns Europe that its...
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That rock‑solid study that regulators leaned on for decades to claim glyphosate was harmless? It's gone. The journal formally retracted the 2000 paper after admitting it was ghostwritten by the chemical's maker, leaving a crater where public trust once stood. Last week,...
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In a grotesque new memo, the Trump‑led DOJ has told prison inspectors to stop enforcing anti‑rape safeguards for trans and intersex inmates, basically turning any safety net into Swiss cheese overnight. The memo, dated Dec. 2, takes aim at existing standards of the...
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AI browsers including Perplexity Comet and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas present security risks that cannot be adequately mitigated, and enterprises should prevent employees using them, according to Gartner. “Gartner strongly recommends that organizations block all AI browsers...
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They had done everything right. Passed the tests. Paid the fees. Been approved. Showed up at Boston's Faneuil Hall on December 4 to take the oath that would make them American citizens. Then officers started asking everyone what country they were from. — Read the rest The po...
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Jon Seager, VP of engineering for Canonical, has announced a plan to develop a universal Public Key Infrastructure tool called upki: Earlier this year, LWN featured an excellent article titled 'Linux's missing CRL infrastructure'. The article highlighted a number of key...
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Joshua Aaron built ICEBlock to help people know when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were nearby. Now he's suing the Trump administration for forcing Apple to remove it. The New York Times reports that Aaron, an Austin-based developer, filed suit Monday in federal ...
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You might remember that I reviewed the Boox Palma 2 a while back: a tiny Android-powered device with a 6.13-inch e-paper display. The Palma series is the smallest e-reader I've tested. I love that I can read almost anything on it anywhere, thanks to its size and Google...
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When the shelf says $5 and the register says $7.65, who's going to notice? Dollar stores built their brand on one promise: low prices for people who can't afford to shop anywhere else. A Guardian investigation reveals they're not keeping that promise — and their most...
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In 2016, Pete Hegseth had a message for American troops: don't follow unlawful orders from Donald Trump. CNN's KFile unearthed multiple appearances where the then-Fox News contributor warned that service members had a duty to refuse illegal commands. 'The military's not...
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The Trump EPA — staffed with former chemical industry insiders — has proposed nearly doubling the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale. Nice, former lobbyists will determine how much carcinogen you should breathe. ProPublica reports that the agency is...
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Creating problems and then solving them with taxpayer money: a tradition continues. President Trump is set to announce a $12 billion aid package for American farmers on Monday. The reason farmers need $12 billion? Largely, President Trump's trade war. According to the Wall...
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Donald Trump made history Sunday as the first sitting president to host the Kennedy Center Honors, transforming what's traditionally been a dignified evening of presidential box-sitting into a full-on Trump production. As The Hill reports, Trump emceed the event honoring...
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