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MITRE-backed cyber vulnerability program to lose funding Wednesday (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)

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SOS Children’s Village Director: “With ‘System Sprener’ the train has almost left at the age of twelve” byteseu.com/925141/ #Austria #Österreich #RepublicOfAustria #RepublikÖsterreich



👉 Professor Katherine Franke, retired member of the Columbia Law Faculty, New York, decries dealings with Trump admin: youtube.com/shorts/XBkbq8eFsUE #ColumbiaUniversity #Trump


In an exclusive interview with The Intercept, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz denounces Columbia University’s response to the Trump administration’s $400M funding cut.

He points to the review of Middle East studies, changes in faculty appointments, and the arrests of Palestinian students as signs of eroding academic freedom.

Read the full story + transcript: interc.pt/4jCiB1j




Vanadium version 135.0.7049.100.0 released:

github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium…

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21751…

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security #browser




DOGE trumpets unemployment fraud that government already found apnews.com/article/doge-trump-…


The student arrested at his naturalization interview knew it was coming

Mohsen Mahdawi was admired among pro-Palestine and pro-Israel activists for speaking peacefully to both sides. ICE detained him anyway.



#RIP Wink Martindale, the king of the television game show who hosted “Tic-Tac-Dough,” “Gambit” and “High Rollers,” died Tuesday. He was 91.

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#rip



We did it, we finally found a farming subsidy that someone would cancel! (It's the subsidy for climate-friendly practices.)

Trump administration cancels $...



MOD scandal: Anusic’s associate abolished NATO Cernicat. Dila data about Milanovic! byteseu.com/925135/ #Croatia #Hrvatska #RepublicOfCroatia #RepublikaHrvatska


New law 'protecting child influencers' is bad and dangerous. I investigated what the law actually says and spoke to top free speech and legal experts about how it could be used. What I found is not what the media is reporting usermag.co/p/utah-protect-chil…
in reply to Taylor Lorenz

There's a dodgy grey area here where children producing content either by themselves or at the behest of their parents are engaging in work if their efforts are being monetised. This legislation seems poorly thought out but there is a whole quandry of child labour laws which I think does need to be addressed somehow since these content creators are technically working, generating taxable income.
in reply to Taylor Lorenz

"Investigated what the law actually says"
I am hoping that means that you read the bill.
Which, let's be honest, if you did, that is more than at least half the people that voted for or against the bill.


Brilliant. Why didn't I think of that.


Email Asimakopoulou in Officers: The CoE canceled the fine of 40,000 euros in ND byteseu.com/925133/ #EllinikíDimokratía #Greece #HellenicRepublic #Ελλάδα #ΕλληνικήΔημοκρατία


Students at Pentagon schools sue Hegseth over book bans on race and gender (Ed Pilkington/The Guardian)

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Dublin industrial estate to be redeveloped for 6,000 homes byteseu.com/925129/ #Éire #Ireland #PoblachtNaHÉireann #RepublicOfIreland