USDA Quietly Deletes Its Contingency Plan for Funding SNAP
The 55-page “lapse of funding” document for USDA is no longer available online.Raymond Fernández (NOTUS)
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Måten vi gjennomfører studiene våre på er egentlig laget for 1900-tallet.
Det sier Morten Breivik, førsteamanuensis ved Institutt for teknisk kybernetikk på NTNU.
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U.S. agencies back banning top-selling home routers on security grounds
The Commerce Department has proposed barring sales of TP-Link products, citing a national security risk from ties to China, people familiar with the matter said.
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I think that, TP-Link aside, consumer broadband routers in general have been a security problem.
- They are, unlike most devices, directly Internet-connected. That means that they really do need to be maintained more stringently than a lot of devices, because everyone has some level of access to them.
- People buying them are very value-conscious. Your typical consumer does not want to pay much for their broadband router. Businesses are going to be a lot more willing to put money into their firewall and/or pay for ongoing support. I think that you are going to have a hard time finding a market with consumers willing to pay for ongoing support for their consumer broadband router.
- Partly because home users are very value-conscious, any such provider of router updates might try to make money by data-mining activity. If users are wary of this, they are going to be even more unlikely to want to accept updates.
- Home users probably don't have any sort of computer inventory management system, tracking support for and replacing devices that fall out of support.
- People buying them often are not incredibly able to assess or aware of security implications.
- They can trivially see all Internet traffic in-and-out. They don't need to ARP-poison caches or anything to try to see what devices on the network are doing.
My impression is that there has been some movement from ISPs away from bring-your-own-device service, just because those ISPs don't want to deal with compromised devices on their network.
cyberattack in which an attacker sends spoofed ARP messages onto a LAN to associate the attacker's MAC address with the IP address of another host (e.g. the default gateway), causing any traffic for that IP address to be sent to the attacker instead
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That last part says it all, though.
The ISPs are horrible companies, mostly, and that alone warrants that users should be able to have their own router
I need a better router than my ISP wants to give me, then just give me the modem, I'll do the rest
A long time ago, for whatever reason, I decided to do a port scan on my entire WAN subnet. That's how I discovered that a certain brand of DSL modem (I don't recall which) made the admin portal accessible from the WAN. And of course the credentials were admin/admin.
I think most hardware providers do better now but it was just mind boggling to me that it even happened in the first place.
Honestly, even limiting it to, say, the WiFi network, having a default admin login is not great.
Like, Android isolates apps from the rest of your Android system, but not from touching the rest of the network. If any random app I install on my phone can reflash my WAP's firmware or something like that, that's not great.
Lucca Comics and Games, al via la 59esima edizione
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Lucca Comics and Games, al via la 59esima edizione
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New report urges Democrats to abandon focus on LGBTQ+ support
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New report urges Democrats to abandon focus on LGBTQ+ support - LGBTQ Nation
The report pushes for Democratic politicians to move toward the center on a wealth of issues.Faefyx Collington (LGBTQ Nation)
State-By-State Healthcare Cost Hike Fact Sheets - Economic Security Project Action
Higher costs. Terminated insurance. Hospital closures. Job losses. The Healthcare Heist will hurt us all, but some states will get hit harder than others. To find out how the Republican-backed H.R.Economic Security Project Action
Spiegato l’“effetto specchio” del Salar de Uyuni boliviano
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Spiegato l’“effetto specchio” del Salar de Uyuni boliviano
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Exploring the future of artificial intelligence and its integration into humanoid robots. A look at the promise and potential of this rapidly advancing technology.
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A Look at the AI Promise Humanoid Robots
Are humanoid robots ready to be our personal assistants? We explore the large gap between the promised dream and today's reality.Gurpreet Singh
The Scottish king who wrote a treatise on demonology and obssessed over witches
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The Scottish king who wrote a treatise on demonology and obssessed over witches
Why early Protestants embraced demons and witches but turned their backs on ghosts. Listen to expert Penelope Geng on The Conversation Weekly podcast.The Conversation
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Bublik e la scritta polemica contro Moutet: "Ha parlato troppo..."
Finale di partita incandescente al Masters 1000 di Parigi tra Aleksandr Bublik e Corentin Moutet. Il kazako si è imposto in due set con il punteggio di 6-3 7-5 e nel post gara ha avuto qualcosa da ridire su alcune dichiarazioni del francese.La Gazzetta Dello Sport (Gazzetta dello Sport)
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International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.
German newspaper Handelsblatt first reported on the plans. The switch comes amid rising concerns about public bodies being reliant on US tech companies to run their services, which have stepped up sharply since the start of US President Donald Trump’s second administration.
For the ICC, such concerns are not abstract: Trump has repeatedly lashed out at the court and slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
Al Jazeera | HRL’s report showed images containing clusters of objects and ground discolouration that it believes to be evidence of human bodies. The HRL appears to back up other accounts from aid groups that reported chaotic scenes on the ground, including killings, arrests and attacks on hospitals.
“The actions by #RSF presented in this report may be consistent with war crimes and crimes against humanity (CAH) and may rise to the level of genocide,”
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Yale report finds evidence of RSF mass killings in Sudan’s el-Fasher
Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab says satellite images seem to show mass killings in Sudan’s western city of el-Fasher.Justin Salhani (Al Jazeera)
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LibreOffice 25.2.7 Is Out as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 25.8 - 9to5Linux
LibreOffice 25.2.7 is now available for download as the last update in the LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series with 43 bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Volley: l'offerta di DAZN si arricchisce con le dirette delle partite della Serie A2 Credem Banca | Sport in TV
DAZN amplia la propria offerta del volley con l’arrivo della Serie A2 Credem Banca 2025/2026, trasmessa in esclusiva e in modalità gratuitaSport in TV
Want to know how dark things are? 25 Governors are suing the President so he doesn’t starve his own people. That’s where we are.
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Want to know how dark things are? 25 Governors are suing the President so he doesn’t starve his own people. That’s where we are.Bella Vita (Substack)
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Sudan expels UN World Food Programme officials as conflict escalates
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Sudan expels UN World Food Programme officials as conflict escalates
Two WFP officials are give 72 hours to leave without explanation - days after a key city falls to the RSF.Wedaeli Chibelushi (BBC News)
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Mi dicono che oggi Maradona avrebbe compiuto 65 anni.
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Rio Gaetano, invece, ieri ne avrebbe compiuto 75.
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Leggendo ci si allontana dal mondo per comprenderlo meglio.((( aitanblog )))
'Federleicht'
Pusteblumen gelöscht. Diese Farben mag ich nur in der Natur. Ich seh Phönix aus der Asche schweben.
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Companies
- Nvidia’s market valuation topped $5 trillion, cementing its dominance in AI chips but drawing regulatory attention.
- OpenAI is gearing up for an IPO that could value the company at up to $1 trillion, reflecting its market leadership.
Applications
- Worldpay integrated OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol, allowing U.S. ChatGPT users to checkout instantly with secure payment flows.
- Los Angeles partnered with Google Public Sector to roll out Google Workspace with Gemini across 27,500 employees, boosting AI-augmented productivity.
- Vail, Colorado adopted HPE’s AI-enhanced smart-city platform to detect wildfires early, leveraging camera analytics and geospatial data.
Funding
- OpenAI CFO cited the Microsoft partnership as a catalyst for faster capital raising and resource access.
- Microsoft reported a 74% jump in AI spending to $34.9 billion, earmarking massive data-center expansion to support AI workloads.
Regulation
- US senators introduced the GUARD Act to impose safeguards.
- The EU is assessing whether ChatGPT should be classified as a “Very Large Online Search Engine” under the Digital Services Act (DSA), which would add transparency and risk-assessment duties.
- California’s attorney general announced continued oversight of OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit entity, despite retaining a nonprofit arm.
Hardware
- Extropic unveiled its Thermodynamic Sampling Unit (TSU), a probabilistic chip claimed to be up to 10,000 times more energy-efficient than conventional GPUs.
- President signaled intent to sell Nvidia’s Blackwell AI chips to China, sparking criticism over national-security implications.
Products
- Adobe “Corrective AI” feature can edit the emotional tone of voice-overs and separate audio elements automatically.
- IBM released the IBM Defense Model, a secure, domain-specific AI system built with Janes data for mission-critical defense tasks.
AI Safety
- Security researchers found that OpenAI’s Atlas browser can be hijacked via crafted URLs to execute arbitrary instructions, highlighting high-risk exposure in AI-driven web tools.
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Milan-based Bending Spoons, which buys and seeks to revitalize tech brands like AOL, raised $710M led by T. Rowe Price at an $11B pre-money valuation (Sara Fischer/Axios)
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Milan-based Bending Spoons, which buys and seeks to revitalize tech brands like AOL, raised $710M led by T. Rowe Price at an $11B pre-money valuation
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Lies that taught me I was “broken” and “there’s something wrong with me.” Part 6.
Ableist lie: “You’re too sensitive.”
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Talvez ganhe possibilidade de ser vice presidente.
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Spyware Dante e attacchi zero-day su Chrome: come proteggersi
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Parla italiano il vendor di spyware legato agli attacchi zero-day su Chrome, ma il problema, legato allo spyware Dante, non è soltanto tecnico, ma soprattutto etico e politico, dopo il caso Paragon. Ecco quali sono le
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I tried to manifest all the items (also those I am really sure I already *bought*), but for some reason that feature seems to be a little bit buggy… no wonder only 0.6% of all people got that achievement.
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