SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Pete Hegseth is under increasing fire for a double-tap strike, first reported by The Intercept in early September, in which the U.S. military killed two survivors of the Trump administration’s initial boat strike in the Caribbean on September 2.

As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric and personal identification to access legal porn.

Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has once again called for longer working weeks has returned, this time with an emphasis on schedules like the 996-pattern used in parts of China.

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Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.

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Valve has been a big proponent of Linux gaming, and now the company is investing in Android support on Linux. It’s already possible to run Android in a Linux container through Waydroid, but Valve has developed a new fork – and it has officially named it Lepton.

The Soviet system used psychiatry as a weapon by diagnosing political opponents as mentally ill in order to confine them as patients instead of trying them in court. Anyone who challenged the state such as dissidents, writers, would-be emigrants, religious believers, or human rights activists could be branded with fabricated disorders like sluggish schizophrenia. This turned normal political disagreement into supposed medical pathology and allowed the state to present dissent as insanity.

*Press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the apparent war crime was legal even as she said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth knew nothing about it.*

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Pete Hegseth asked U.S. Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey to retire in October after Holsey expressed concerns about the legality of the Trump administration’s boat bombings in the Caribbean, according to a new report.

Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) announced Wednesday he plans to introduce articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Swiss data protection officers have warned public bodies not to use cloud services from industry hyperscalers Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, due to a lack of true end-to-end encryption.

*Alleged gunman faces nine charges including second-degree murder in New York state case*

The government targeted disabled people from some of the poorest communities in the country, who McNamara referred to as, “the subterranean poor.”

also i hope the curl joke is correct i don’t use it that much

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Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement.

*Leaving the EU has reduced Britain’s GDP by up to 8pc, according to a devastating US study*

“AI CEOs generate thought leadership at the push of a button

Casting support is still available on older Chromecast devices or TVs that support Google Cast natively, according to Netflix’s support page

I wonder if this pill would’ve made Dick larger or made him small.

😜 OK MAGA I brought some 🍿 to watch the mental gymnastics justifying her release.

*Leaked assessment based on confidential accounts from 24 FBI sources describes organization as a ‘rudderless ship’*

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Illinois state officials have given national rental car companies official notice that immigration enforcement agents using their vehicles are not allowed to swap the rental’s assigned license plates for other plates to disguise the vehicles, and if they do, the rental car companies could be held liable.

Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow. All publicly-trusted Certificate Authorities like Let’s Encrypt will be making similar changes. Reducing how long certificates are valid for helps improve the security of the internet, by limiting the scope of compromise, and making certificate revocation technologies more efficient.

An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device. That’s when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn’t consented to. The user, Harishankar, decided to block the telemetry servers’ IP addresses on his network, while keeping the firmware and OTA servers open. While his smart gadget worked for a while, it just refused to turn on soon after. After a lengthy investigation, he discovered that a remote kill command had been issued to his device.

Here we go…. It took them some time but ads is going to be inside chat gpt as well. And impossible to block.

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Might need to update the hair cut on this:

With only eight fluent Nyiyaparli speakers remaining, an Aboriginal group is racing against time to save its 41,000-year-old language.

Not the first time they were caught.

Most european countries use 2 round elections or proportional representation.

Lieutenant General Christian Freuding fears the longstanding military partnership between the two allies is unravelling under President Trump’s administration

The worst-case scenario is now a possible one: European troops fighting off an invasion largely alone.

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TranscriptA comic in four panels: Panel 1. Wide view angle in the office of the University of Magic Headmaster. The room is filled with shelves of ancient tomes, but mainly, a carpet leading to the desk of the boss. A young gothic sorceress enters the room with determination, followed by a robotic cyber-parrot flying behind her: the Avian Intelligence bird. Detail: the boss has a AI Parrot too and seat nearby a large circular active portal. She points her finger at her AI Parrot. Gothic Sorceress: “Headmaster, I’m requesting to opt out of the Avian Intelligence program!” Panel 2. Shot on the desk of the Headmaster, an old wizard and his AI parrot, perched. He is deeply busy and his attention is fully absorbed on his paperwork, probably signing administrative stuff, giving a minimal attention to her. Headmaster: “Not an option. Our investors say it’s the future of magic.” Panel 3. The Headmaster gestures grandly at a portal nearby him, while adjusting his glasses. The circular view into another dimension reveals a distorted, broken wonderland. Twisted trees shaped like cartoon elephant, architectures of towers with faces, and weird creatures with big nose, moustache, the body of fish and long leg ending by three fingers. The atmosphere is both fascinating and deeply unsettling. Headmaster: “See? With mine I created this world in minutes. Not perfect, lots of small bugs, but it works… mostly.” Panel 4: The young gothic student and the Headmaster stand before the dimension. She is skeptical with her hands on her hips, while the Headmaster seems tries to justify himself while thinking about it, the hand twisting a bit of beard on his chin. Gothic Sorceress: “It’s ugly and broken." Headmaster: “"Vibe spelling”, I call it.”. source here

I feel this way as I get older. I don’t care how “realistic” the latest iteration of Call of Battlefield 19: Looty-Shooty Palooza” is, give me compelling gameplay; Not a generic “go here, shoot that, loot this” gameplay loop.

For the second time in just over a month, a large-scale raid by dozens of immigration agents in New York City was met with a similarly large-scale counter-protest. This time, however, the protesters thwarted the authorities’ plans before they began.