North Dakota law lists fake critical minerals based on coal lawyers' names
https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/government-politics/article_515812a0-d29a-4161-91f1-3e53003e2911.html
https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/government-politics/article_515812a0-d29a-4161-91f1-3e53003e2911.html
The Bismarck Tribune
North Dakota law lists fake critical minerals based on coal lawyers’ names
A landmark North Dakota law approved last year accidentally lumped in two fake names in a list of critical minerals that appear to be inspired by coal company lawyers who
C-Sentinel: System prober that captures "system fingerprints" for AI analysis
https://github.com/williamofai/c-sentinel
https://github.com/williamofai/c-sentinel
GitHub
GitHub - SpeyTech/c-sentinel: Semantic Observability for UNIX Systems - A lightweight C-based system prober with AI-powered analysis
Semantic Observability for UNIX Systems - A lightweight C-based system prober with AI-powered analysis - SpeyTech/c-sentinel
Millennium Challenge: A corrupted military exercise and its legacy (2015)
https://warontherocks.com/2015/11/millennium-challenge-the-real-story-of-a-corrupted-military-exercise-and-its-legacy/
https://warontherocks.com/2015/11/millennium-challenge-the-real-story-of-a-corrupted-military-exercise-and-its-legacy/
War on the Rocks
Millennium Challenge: The Real Story of a Corrupted Military Exercise and its Legacy
Since the infamous Millennium Challenge 2002 (MC ’02) concept-development exercise, run by the now-defunct U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM), was leaked
During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
https://sparkbox.com/foundry/helene_and_mobile_web_performance
https://sparkbox.com/foundry/helene_and_mobile_web_performance
Sparkbox
During Helene, I Just Wanted a Plain Text Website
We recently passed the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene and its devastating impact on Western North Carolina. As a web developer, I am thinking again about my experience with the mobile web on the day after the storm.
California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info
https://consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov/
https://consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov/
ICE Is Using Facial-Recognition Technology to Quickly Arrest People
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-facial-recognition-app-mobile-fortify-dfdd00bf
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-facial-recognition-app-mobile-fortify-dfdd00bf
The Wall Street Journal
ICE Is Using Facial-Recognition Technology to Quickly Arrest People
Widespread use of the technology has raised alarms among privacy advocates and some former officials.
A spider web unlike any seen before (2025)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/science/biggest-spiderweb-sulfur-cave.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/science/biggest-spiderweb-sulfur-cave.html
NY Times
Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before
A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider.
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-databases-retrospective.html
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-databases-retrospective.html
Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.
Inducing self-NSFW classification in image models to prevent deepfakes edits
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496357
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496357
Anna's Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension
https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-org-domain-after-surprise-suspension/
https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-org-domain-after-surprise-suspension/
Torrentfreak
Anna's Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension (Update, .Se Too) * TorrentFreak
Popular shadow library Anna's Archive has lost control over its main domain name. Annas-archive.org was suspended and put on serverhold status.
Ozempic Melted Away Weight–and the Idea of 'Body Positivity'
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ozempic-melted-away-weight-and-the-idea-of-body-positivity-4917671c
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ozempic-melted-away-weight-and-the-idea-of-body-positivity-4917671c
The Wall Street Journal
Opinion | Ozempic Melted Away Weight—and the Idea of ‘Body Positivity’
People no longer feel obliged to pretend there’s something shameful about wanting to be thinner.
RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499976
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499976
'We need Greenland': Trump repeats threat to annex Danish territory
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0zg974v1o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0zg974v1o
Bbc
'We need Greenland': Trump repeats threat to annex Danish territory
The US president has repeatedly said he wants the island to become a part of the US.
The last supported version of HP-UX is no more
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/hpux_end_of_life/
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/hpux_end_of_life/
The Register
The last supported version of HP-UX is no more
: Remember when HP made its own CPUs and Unix? We wonder if it does