The United States is greatly expanding the use of a "biometric exit" program, whereby travelers have their photo taken on departure.

United States Secretly Expands Exit Controls For International Air Travelers

^{Ben Schlappig (One Mile at a Time)}

WestJet says some passengers’ personal information was obtained in a cyberattack in June, however it believes the breach did not involve “sensitive” data in most cases.

WestJet says some passengers' personal info stolen in June security breach - Wings Magazine

WestJet says some passengers' personal information was obtained in a cyberattack in June, however it believes the breach did not involve "sensitive" data in

^{Wings Staff (Wings Magazine)}

WestJet says some passengers’ personal information was obtained in a cyberattack in June, however it believes the breach did not involve “sensitive” data in most cases.

WestJet says some passengers' personal info stolen in June security breach - Wings Magazine

WestJet says some passengers' personal information was obtained in a cyberattack in June, however it believes the breach did not involve "sensitive" data in

^{Wings Staff (Wings Magazine)}

Brussels Airport has announced that all departing passenger flights scheduled for Tuesday, 14 October, will be cancelled due to national industrial action. The disruption comes after staff from the airport’s security service provider confirmed their participation in the strike, which is expected to impact airport operations severely.

https://www.aviation24.be/airports/brussels-airport-bru/cancel-all-departing-flights-on-14-october-due-to-national-industrial-action/

The airline reportedly plans to operate the A220 only until the summer of 2026.

Persistent Pratt & Whitney GTF Engine Complications Prompt Air Austral To Retire Airbus A220-300 Fleet

^{Vyte Klisauskaite (Simple Flying)}

Nicholas: Once the system is in place you cannot go back. The ID card is an object that identifies you. You have to have it with you at all times. It makes police control much easier. If you can’t establish identity then they can take you to the police station without any other reason. Once they have the ID card in place then they can add other things- like biometric identification e.g. fingerprints. The base is the card and then they add things. The ID card is the beginning of a general file on everyone that regroups all other information they have to identify someone. They can have your whole life in this one file- your health, civil status etc.

Defending Anonymity - Anarchist Federation

2006 pamphlet on the struggle against ID cards in the UK and Europe.

^libcom.org

As long as a project is not organized as a legal or commercial entity, the CRA requires only a basic "readme" with a security contact. There is no legal risk for individual contributors simply sharing code online or in publications, even when they receive payment for writing an article, as long as the software itself is not monetized or organized.

[ ...] the CRA's focus is on commercial manufacturers and distributors. That means businesses that integrate open source code into EU products must fully comply with documentation, incident response, and lifecycle management requirements. This includes publishing Software Bills Of Materials (SBOMs), patching vulnerabilities within regulated timeframes, and responding proactively to security incident reports.

[...] manufacturers must act on vulnerabilities, even if the upstream maintainer does not fix the issue. Manufacturers selecting open source code for their products must understand the code, support it, and respond to regulatory reporting requirements. This may, Kroah-Hartman observed, increase pressure on companies to use actively supported open source projects or stick closer to mainstream, well-resourced communities."

[...] it's coming soon for companies. Manufacturers are going to care in September of next year. They're going to start panicking in the summer of next year, and things are going to start hitting the fan."

They'll want developers to shoulder the burden the CRA will place on them. But you don't have to do that. It's their problem, not yours as a programmer.

The overworked maintainers of Libxml2, ImageMagick, or contributors to such industry-wise important things as the real-time kernel patches, might enjoy to read this.

The important thing is: Change licenses to copyleft ones, such as GPLv3 or AGPL. By this way, industrial manufacturers are not only obliged to patch their stuff (via the EU CRA), but also, if they sell the result in a product, to re-contribute patches. Win-win!

Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers

Opinion: Impact? Nope, don't worry, be happy, says Linux veteran

^{Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (The Register)}

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/359024.359031

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-studied-the-genes-of-a-woman-who-lived-117-years-heres-what-they-learned-180987412/

Journalist Owen Jones has been booted out of Labour conference with the party citing concerns about safeguarding.

The Jeremy Corbyn supporter accused Labour of "Trumpian behaviour", and said he'd never has his pass revoked before.

Writing on X, he said: "Labour has cancelled my Conference Pass. Absolutely pathetic, Trumpian behaviour. They are here suggesting that attempts to question Cabinet members and MPs about Britain facilitating Israel's genocide is a 'safeguarding issue'.

"This is clearly insane. I've been filming videos at Labour and Tory Conference for a decade now. This involves trying to get ministers to answer questions which - unfortunately! - most media outlets refuse to ask. After countless videos, this is the first time my pass has been revoked.

Owen Jones kicked out of Labour conference over 'safeguarding' issue

The Jeremy Corbyn supporter accused Labour of "Trumpian behaviour", and said he'd never has his pass revoked before, with the party citing concerns over safeguarding

^{The Mirror}

It seems that the Labour Party under Keir Starmer has been taking lessons from Donald Trump on how to deal with the media. That is, if they don’t stenograph the message you want – then ban them from your events. Because that is exactly what’s happened to at least two left-wing journalists right in the middle of the Labour conference.

Labour banning journalists mid-conference

First, it was Owen Jones:

Labour has cancelled my Conference Pass.

Absolutely pathetic, Trumpian behaviour.

They are here suggesting that attempts to question Cabinet members and MPs about Britain facilitating Israel's genocide is a "safeguarding issue".

This is clearly insane. pic.twitter.com/2mDa8ORtuk

— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) September 30, 2025

Then, it was Novara Media’s Rivkah Brown:

Weird, same here.

At the same time as Owen, I received a similar email rescinding my media pass, due to an unspecified "breach of the event code of conduct".

Is Labour purging journalists it doesn't like? t.co/FqVBgkrc8D pic.twitter.com/uudOLAaEQo

— Rivkah Brown (@rivkahbrown) September 30, 2025

Now, the Canary isn’t one to cast aspersions. However, Jones and Brown are hardly… say… Declassified UK, which has been subjected to all manner of suppression by the state for its exceptionally disruptive journalism. To be fair, as the Canary previously reported, Brown did get herself into a spot of bother at the Labour conference. Or rather, Zionists targeted her with false claims of antisemitism.

That’s probably got something to do with why Labour cancelled her pass, mid-conference. For Jones, the reasons also appear to be Israel-related.

But hey – it could be worse, guys. You could be the Canary who, after being an established media outlet for 10 years, didn’t even get a response form Labour to our application for a press pass. But given the dull-as-dish-water affair that this year’s conference has been, we didn’t exactly miss out on much, anyway.

Labour just invented an antisemitism scandal - again

Another day, another manufactured case of antisemitism from the Labour Party is emerging - but Novara are the target this time...

^{Robert Freeman (The Canary)}

Washington’s biggest law firms are issuing memoranda on the implications of NSPM-7, Trump’s new national security directive, yet virtually no one in Congress has bothered to say a thing. What little the mainstream media have said about NSPM-7 has so far been wrong, often downplaying it.

Sources tell me that NSPM-7 will likely cause the FBI’s domestic terrorism watchlist, currently at about 5,000 U.S. citizens, to double in the coming months.

Last Thursday, President Donald Trump issued National Security
Presidential Memorandum-7 (NSPM-7), titled “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence.” It creates a national strategy to investigate, prosecute, and dismantle organized political violence and domestic terrorism, identifying indicators of a potential domestic terrorist as the expression of “anti-Christian” or “anti-capitalism” or “anti-American” views. NSPM-7 directs the federal government to disrupt groups “before” they result in violent political acts. In other words, pre-crime.

Trump’s NSPM-7 Alarms Law Firms While Congress Is Silent

Domestic terror watchlist to double, sources say

^{Ken Klippenstein}

Washington’s biggest law firms are issuing memoranda on the implications of NSPM-7, Trump’s new national security directive, yet virtually no one in Congress has bothered to say a thing. What little the mainstream media have said about NSPM-7 has so far been wrong, often downplaying it.

Sources tell me that NSPM-7 will likely cause the FBI’s domestic terrorism watchlist, currently at about 5,000 U.S. citizens, to double in the coming months.

Last Thursday, President Donald Trump issued National Security
Presidential Memorandum-7 (NSPM-7), titled “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence.” It creates a national strategy to investigate, prosecute, and dismantle organized political violence and domestic terrorism, identifying indicators of a potential domestic terrorist as the expression of “anti-Christian” or “anti-capitalism” or “anti-American” views. NSPM-7 directs the federal government to disrupt groups “before” they result in violent political acts. In other words, pre-crime.

Trump’s NSPM-7 Alarms Law Firms While Congress Is Silent

Domestic terror watchlist to double, sources say

^{Ken Klippenstein}

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/traders-in-co2-credits-are-positioning-for-a-huge-growth-wave?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1OTI0NTkzMCwiZXhwIjoxNzU5ODUwNzMwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMzZWNThHUDQ5MzQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJENTM4MEFFMzNBMkI0N0U3ODFBMTBERjE5QjQ4RjkxNCJ9.K_oC_x0Q89TALlZETmcLSJ6vRAet-zSmrT7npMgrJT4

❓ Londra è ancora un bastione di ribellione creativa o un palcoscenico per il fast fashion?

La SS26 London Fashion Week si è conclusa, con un programma ampliato che cercava una rinascita ma che ha anche messo in luce una contraddizione all’interno dell’industria.

Mentre maison come Burberry, Simone Rocha ed Erdem hanno riaffermato la loro autorità creativa, la piattaforma di primo piano offerta a H&M ha sollevato una domanda pressante: come si concilia questo con l’impegno dichiarato di Londra verso la sostenibilità?

La linea che separa lusso e fast fashion non si è solo sfumata— è crollata.

Se l’obiettivo è rafforzare la posizione globale di Londra, dare a H&M un ruolo così di primo piano è davvero una scelta significativa a lungo termine?

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SS26 London Fashion Week: High-low fashion collapses - suite123

SS26 London Fashion Week: the high-low divide vanished. Was it a triumph of creative rebellion or a surrender to fast fashion exploitation?

^suite123

A quanto pare, da quando Frieren e Fern sono partite, per campare da un lato e raccogliere magie improbabili dall'altro hanno fatto svariati...

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Several Harvard professors — including former Social Science divisional dean Stephen M. Kosslyn, education professor Howard E. Gardner, and former Harvard Medical School professor Mark Tramo — maintained contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein after he was first indicted in 2006 for soliciting prostitution.

Epstein planned gatherings and discussed funding for Harvard research with the professors, who offered the now-deceased felon words of encouragement after the first indictment was filed, according to a collection of more than 18,000 emails from Epstein’s inbox obtained by Bloomberg News.

Between Epstein’s indictment in 2006 and subsequent guilty plea to soliciting prostitution with a minor in 2008, Kosslyn sent Epstein emails arranging dinner with other scholars, and with Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz — Epstein’s close friend and attorney.

Gardner sent Epstein a list of book recommendations and promised to follow up with “advice about offsprings.” Two months after Epstein negotiated a guilty plea to two state charges, Gardner advised him to “take a deep breath” and “take one day at a time.”

Jeffrey Epstein’s Emails Reveal Close Correspondence With Harvard Professors, Bloomberg Reports | News | The Harvard Crimson

Several Harvard professors maintained contact with Jeffrey Epstein after he was first indicted in 2006 for soliciting prostitution, according to Bloomberg News, which reviewed more than 18,000 emails from Epstein’s inbox.

^{www.thecrimson.com}

Brian Merchant has done excellent work covering how LLMs have devoured the work of translators, using cheap, “almost good” automation to lower already-stagnant wages in a field that was already hurting before the advent of generative AI, with some having to abandon the field, and others pushed into bankruptcy. I’ve heard the same for art directors, SEO experts, and copy editors, and Christopher Mims of the Wall Street Journal covered these last year.

These are all fields with something in common: shitty bosses with little regard for their customers who have been eagerly waiting for the opportunity to slash contract labor. To quote Merchant, “the drumbeat, marketing, and pop culture of ‘powerful AI’ encourages and permits management to replace or degrade jobs they might not otherwise have.”

Across the board, the people being “replaced” by AI are the victims of lazy, incompetent cost-cutters who don’t care if they ship poorly-translated text. To quote Merchant again, “[AI hype] has created the cover necessary to justify slashing rates and accepting “good enough” automation output for video games and media products.”

Generative AI creates outputs, and by extension defines all labor as some kind of output created from a request. In the case of translation, it’s possible for a company to get by with a shitty version, because many customers see translation as “what do these words say,” even though (as one worker told Merchant) translation is about conveying meaning. Nevertheless, “translation” work had already started to condense to a world where humans would at times clean up machine-generated text, and the same worker warned that the same might come for other industries.

Yet the problem is that translation is a heavily output-driven industry, one where (idiot) bosses can say “oh yeah that’s fine” because they ran an output back through Google Translate and it seemed fine in their native tongue. The problems of a poor translation are obvious, but the customers of translation are, it seems, often capable of getting by with a shitty product.

The problem is that most jobs are not output-driven at all, and what we’re buying from a human being is a person’s ability to think.

Every CEO talking about AI replacing workers is an example of the real problem: that most companies are run by people who don’t understand or experience the problems they’re solving, don’t do any real work, don’t face any real problems, and thus can never be trusted to solve them. The Era of the Business Idiot is the result of letting management consultants and neoliberal “free market” sociopaths take over everything, leaving us with companies run by people who don’t know how the companies make money, just that they must always make more.

When you’re a big, stupid asshole, every job that you see is condensed to its outputs, and not the stuff that leads up to the output, or the small nuances and conscious decisions that make an output good as opposed to simply acceptable, or even bad.

The only thing “powerful” about generative AI is its mythology. The world’s executives, entirely disconnected from labor and actual production, are doing the only thing they know how to — spend a bunch of money and say vague stuff about “AI being the future.” There are people — journalists, investors, and analysts — that have built entire careers on filling in the gaps for the powerful as they splurge billions of dollars and repeat with increasing desperation that “the future is here” as absolutely nothing happens.

You’ve likely seen a few ridiculous headlines recently. One of the most recent, and most absurd, is that that OpenAI will pay Oracle $300 billion over four years, closely followed with the claim that NVIDIA will “invest” “$100 billion” in OpenAI to build 10GW of AI data centers, though the deal is structured in a way that means that OpenAI is paid “progressively as each gigawatt is deployed,” and OpenAI will be leasing the chips (rather than buying them outright). I must be clear that these deals are intentionally made to continue the myth of generative AI, to pump NVIDIA, and to make sure OpenAI insiders can sell $10.3 billion of shares.

OpenAI cannot afford the $300 billion, NVIDIA hasn’t sent OpenAI a cent and won’t do so if it can’t build the data centers, which OpenAI most assuredly can’t afford to do.

NVIDIA needs this myth to continue, because in truth, all of these data centers are being built for demand that doesn’t exist, or that — if it exists — doesn’t necessarily translate into business customers paying huge amounts for access to OpenAI’s generative AI services.

NVIDIA, OpenAI, CoreWeave and other AI-related companies hope that by announcing theoretical billions of dollars (or hundreds of billions of dollars) of these strange, vague and impossible-seeming deals, they can keep pretending that demand is there, because why else would they build all of these data centers, right?

That, and the entire stock market rests on NVIDIA’s back. It accounts for 7% to 8% of the value of the S&P 500, and Jensen Huang needs to keep selling GPUs. I intend to explain later on how all of this works, and how brittle it really is.

The intention of these deals is simple: to make you think “this much money can’t be wrong.”

It can. These people need you to believe this is inevitable, but they are being proven wrong, again and again, and today I’m going to continue doing so.

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 words.

^{Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)}

Taking a page from the private insurance industry’s playbook, the Trump administration will launch a program next year to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the federal government by denying care to Medicare patients.

The pilot program, designed to weed out wasteful, “low-value” services, amounts to a federal expansion of an unpopular process called prior authorization, which requires patients or someone on their medical team to seek insurance approval before proceeding with certain procedures, tests, and prescriptions. It will affect Medicare patients, and the doctors and hospitals who care for them, in Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Texas, and Washington, starting Jan. 1 and running through 2031.

Protesters said the Israeli prime minister should be in the Hague, not New York City

'Arrest Netanyahu': Israeli PM gets a New York welcome outside the UN

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a half-empty room at the UN General Assembly, thousands of protesters were gathered in Times Square to condemn his presence in New York City.

^{Maysa Mustafa (Middle East Eye)}

When the Great Recession hit in 2008 and Americans stopped buying cars, it soon became clear that the auto companies might well go out of business. The millions of jobs that would’ve been lost and the terrible blow to the American economy were considered intolerable, so the government bailed the industry out to the tune of almost $80 billion.

It was hugely controversial at the time; you might remember Mitt Romney’s famous “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” op-ed, which he never quite lived down. But what few Americans probably know is that there was a bailout almost as big during Donald Trump’s first term. The difference was that Trump’s bailout was entirely predictable and entirely avoidable. And now he’s about to do it all over again.

In this case, the ones being bailed out are farmers.

Just as he did in his first term, Trump seems to be implementing the following brilliant economic strategy. First, impose tariffs on foreign goods, knowing that other countries (especially China) will retaliate by no longer importing American agricultural products. Next, take the revenue raised by tariffs — which are essentially a sales tax imposed at ports of entry — and hand the money to the farmers who were harmed by his trade war.

What that means is that the farmers will be insulated at least somewhat from the damage Trump’s foolish trade war did to them; in other words, they’ll get a bailout. The rest of us will pay for it. And the economy will get no benefit at all.

Get ready for the next big bailout

Trump's tariffs are wrecking the agribusiness economy — again.

^{Paul Waldman (Public Notice)}

In a move that is sure to make Ripple nervous, traditional financial network Swift announced yesterday that it is partnering with Consensys and more than 30 global banks to build a blockchain based network that will run in parallel with its traditional network. Interestingly, unlike XRP, there is no native coin, rather it aims for interoperability (probably using Chainlink with whom the company did case studies for a few years already). There is also a strong focus on regulatory compliance.

Swift To Build a Global Financial Blockchain - Slashdot

Camembert writes: In a move that is sure to make Ripple nervous, traditional financial network Swift announced yesterday that it is partnering with Consensys and more than 30 global banks to build a blockchain based network that will run in parallel …

^{news.slashdot.org}

The announcement came after the Trump administration last week issued new rules to “drastically” restrict non-U.S. citizens from getting trucking licenses, and threatened to withhold federal funding from states that did not comply.

DPS said it would immediately suspend issuance of the licenses to non-citizens who are refugees, asylees or covered by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that protects from deportation children brought to the country without authorization.

Texas stops issuing CDLs to refugees, asylum seekers, DACA

The announcement is in line with a Trump administration rule to “drastically” restrict non-U.S. citizens from getting trucking licenses.

^{Benjamin Wermund (Houston Chronicle)}

Bukele wanted the contractor out of the country — and in Ambassador Ronald D. Johnson, he had a powerful American friend. Johnson was a former CIA officer and appointee of President Donald Trump serving in his first diplomatic post. He had cultivated a strikingly close relationship with the Salvadoran president. After Bukele provided Johnson with the recordings, the ambassador immediately ordered an investigation that resulted in the contractor’s dismissal.

It was not the only favor Johnson did for Bukele, according to a ProPublica investigation based on a previously undisclosed report by the State Department’s inspector general and interviews with U.S. and Salvadoran officials. The dismissal of the contractor was part of a pattern in which Johnson has been accused of shielding Bukele from U.S. and Salvadoran law enforcement, ProPublica found. Johnson did little to pursue the extradition to the United States of an MS-13 boss who was a potential witness to the secret gang pact and a top target of the FBI-led task force, officials said.

How a U.S. Ambassador Allegedly Shielded President Bukele From Law Enforcement

A previously undisclosed State Department report and interviews reveal accusations that U.S. Ambassador Ronald D. Johnson shielded Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele from U.S. and Salvadoran law enforcement.

^ProPublica

New York officials cite a law there that seeks to protect medical providers who prescribe abortion medications to patients in states with abortion bans — or where such prescriptions by telehealth violate the law.

New York and California are among the eight states that have shield laws with such provisions, according to a tally by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights.

The Abortion Coalition of Telemedicine said they “fully expect” California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, to uphold his state’s shield law in the new case.

Murrill told The Associated Press that she will sue governors whose shield laws “purport to protect these individuals from criminal conduct” in Louisiana.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pills-arrest-warrant-doctor-louisiana-california-c7147b3147cc75e764607b49c52e6644

Cambio di strategia in casa Rai 1: da sabato 4 ottobre 2025, Ballando con le Stelle di Milly Carlucci inizierà più tardi, intorno alle 21:30, mentre lo slot post TG1 delle 20:00 tornerà ad essere occupato da Affari Tuoi con Stefano De Martino. Una scelta dettata dalla necessità di fronteggiare lo strapotere di Canale 5, che in access e prime time domina con l’accoppiata La Ruota della Fortuna e Tú Sí Que Vales.

TUTTI I DETTAGLI: Ballando slitta alle 21.30, torna Affari Tuoi nell’access del sabato di Rai 1

AUDITEL: ASCOLTI TV

Ballando con le Stelle slitta alle 21:30: torna Affari Tuoi al sabato su Rai 1

Ballando con le Stelle slitta alle 21:30. Rai 1 riporta Affari Tuoi al sabato per contrastare La Ruota della Fortuna. Ecco cosa cambia.

^{Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)}