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Nearly 60 percent of SAP migration projects are delayed and over budget as organizations underestimate complexity, allow expansion of scope, and fail to understand internal constraints, according to research from ISG.…
The body count keeps rising. Brad Karp, chairman of elite law firm Paul Weiss, resigned last night after his correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein surfaced. Peter Mandelson, former British ambassador to the U.S., quit the House of Lords as London's Metropolitan Police opened an investigation. — Read the rest
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Shaped by glaciers, earthquakes, and fires, Yosemite National Park will also survive influencers treating it like a personal stunt show. Especially when the influencers' clips make it obvious who was BASE jumping without a permit.
Federal prosecutors allege that Jack Matthew Propeck violated park rules by using a parachute to descend into Yosemite Valley on Oct.
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James Comer has spent months demanding the Clintons testify about Jeffrey Epstein. Now that Hillary Clinton has agreed to a February 26 deposition, she's added a twist: put it on live TV.
"You love to talk about transparency," Clinton wrote on X, directly tagging the House Oversight Committee chair. — Read the rest
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Tourists have been defecating in private gardens in Fujiyoshida, Japan, and "raising a fuss when residents pointed this out." That behavior, along with trespassing, littering, and opening strangers' doors to use their bathrooms, has prompted the town to cancel its annual cherry blossom festival. — Read the rest
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A rising number of American homeowners are ready relocate this year due to extreme weather events and other climate-related concerns.
Some 49 percent of those who own a house are considering moving in 2026 due to climate events, according to a survey of 1,000 American adults by insurance provider Kin Insurance. Also a concern among homeowners is the rising cost of homeownership, the study noted.
"Kin uncovered that climate is driving decisions about where people live and the rising costs of homeownership are changing when and how people buy homes," the study noted. The study also found that nearly all homeowners are concerned about severe weather damaging their homes.
Kin's survey found that within the 49 percent of homeowners who want to move, 19 percent "definitely" are considering it, while 30 percent are "somewhat" considering it. Some 45 percent said they were not considering a move.
As for how far away they want to move, Kin broke up respondents' intentions into three groups:
- Moving within their current city or community: 41 percent
- Moving to a different city or community in their state: 35 percent
- Moving to another state: 25 percent.
That 60 percent considering a move would relocate outside of their current city or community, is a trend confirmed in the aftermath of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.
"Last year, homeowners who suffered catastrophic losses in the Los Angeles wildfires followed a similar pattern when they 'ended up in neighborhoods at least a half-hour's drive away' from their previous homes," Kin noted.
For those considering a move to another state, more than half of respondents wanted to avoid disaster-prone states like Florida and California and preferred to move to what they perceived as low-risk states, including Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware, and Connecticut.
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If you were to show the verbatim text of any of Trump's recent messages and declarations — from his speeches, memos to foreign leaders, and social media blatherings — to anyone who has no predetermined assessment of the man and his motivations, it would be absurdly obvious that the man is in the advanced, and dangerous, stages of senile dementia. As I've said earlier, these are not the missives of an ideological extremist, but rather the disconnected ravings of a man who has totally lost touch with reality.
So why are his political opponents, and the media, scrupulously refraining from calling a loon a loon?
My guess is that the media think their role is to interpret what he means, not report what he says, because if they did the latter (ie their jobs), the public's reaction, around the world and across the political spectrum would clearly be: WTF? And then they'd be in the difficult spot of explaining why they didn't do their jobs years ago and tell their readers how dangerous it would be to allow a severely traumatized and mentally ill man to even run for nomination for high office. Total cowardice.
As for his political opponents, they've gone 'all in' on painting him as a steadfast ideologue and doctrinaire fascist, and hence painted themselves into a corner as the 'moderate' anti-Trumpians. The last thing they want is to let him, and the dim-witted party that nominated him, off the hook on the 'technicality' that he was and is mentally ill and incapable of understanding his actions. They want him to do crazy and dangerous things, and be seen to be doing so 'deliberately', to strengthen their talk-big-and-do-nothing platform of mediocrity, and give voters even less choice than the corporatized US political duopoly already presents them with.
And everyone is afraid to think what it means to have a madman who's been allowed to ignore the legislative function of Congress, ignore all judicial attempts to reverse and block his actions, ignore the US constitution, and ignore international law, running amok, appointing similarly mentally handicapped and incompetent people to key offices, and seemingly free to do whatever his deranged mind and the voices speaking to him are saying.
It took two years for the paralytic, zombified politicians and media to finally state the obvious about Biden's mental state and his unfitness for office. What is going to have to happen before they state the same about the dodderer-in-chief?
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AI datacenters are gobbling up all the RAM and the storage and the graphics chips too, and gamers get stung hardest. Not only is the cost of building a system soaring, but the forthcoming Steam Machine from Valve is being delayed. — Read the rest
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It can be tough to find a good gift for tech obsessives. Since they keep up with the latest releases, they probably already have the new high-profile gadgets out there. Luckily, Engadget staffers keep their eyes peeled all year long for the truly unique stuff. We travel to CES, attend product launches, cover major and minor tech events — we also can't help but buy ourselves any zany, clever, addictive or productive tech we happen to stumble across. In short, we've got some ideas about good gifts for tech nerds (which we are).
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This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/computing/the-best-tech-gifts-and-cool-gadgets-for-2026-140052977.html?src=rssVPNs have a mixed reputation, primarily because you can use the technology to hide your location and identity on the internet. Even the best VPNs can be used to conceal crimes and make the perpetrators harder to track. Fortunately, most of the world's governments (at least for now) recognize that VPNs are just technology that can be used for good or ill.
That means VPNs are legal in almost every country in the world. The countries that do restrict VPNs tend to be those where internet freedoms are already curtailed, like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. There are distinct gradations between those nations, though. And the days of worry-free VPN access elsewhere in the world is starting to show cracks: Currently free jurisdictions — including the UK, France and even several US states — are now considering bans.
Is it legal to use a VPN?The answer is almost always yes. In every country except the ones listed in the next section, there are no legal penalties for visiting a VPN website, downloading a VPN or connecting to a VPN server.
In the last few years, however, some countries that were once beacons of online liberty have started considering bans. This is part of a chain reaction that started with age verification laws for websites deemed harmful to children, most prominently the UK's Online Safety Act. Once everyone realized that anyone could circumvent the OSA by using a VPN server in another country, UK politicians began trying to ban VPNs as well. The same thing is currently happening in France. In the US, Wisconsin and Michigan are both proposing age verification laws and VPN bans.
For now, though, none of these VPN bans have passed into law. Some have been defeated by the coordinated efforts of activists, including one Swiss proposal that would have forced Proton VPN to relocate.
In countries that do ban or restrict VPN usage, the laws can take several forms. Some countries have made all VPNs unlawful to use. Others only allow VPNs approved by the government — approval which usually comes from agreeing to share information with law enforcement. In some other countries, it's legal to use a VPN, but you'll face extra penalties if you use one to commit a crime. I'll go through all these categories in the next section.
Where are VPNs illegal?This section is a complete list of countries where using a VPN is a legal risk. If a country isn't on this list, you can assume it's safe to use a VPN. Even nations with bad internet freedom scores, like Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, often don't have anti-VPN laws to avoid scaring off international business.
One more important note is that anti-VPN laws are much more likely to be enforced against locals than foreigners. I'm not saying you should tempt fate, just noting that there are very few cases of a traveler being prosecuted in another country solely for using a VPN.
Countries where VPNs are totally bannedVPNs are completely outlawed in four countries. Three of them — Belarus, Turkmenistan and North Korea — are isolated authoritarian regimes that restrict internet freedoms as part of nationwide crackdowns on all civil and political liberties. Iraq, while slightly more liberal overall, banned VPNs in 2014 in an attempt to kick the Islamic State off the internet. Twelve years later, the ban remains in place.
Uganda is a special case. In 2018, the African nation enacted the world's first social media tax, which the government called necessary to raise funds but which was criticized as a backhanded assault on free speech. VPNs can get around the tax, so Ugandan internet service providers (ISPs) are required to block VPN traffic. However, there's no law on the books against using a VPN, so as long as you bring a service with obfuscation (like NordVPN) you're good to go.
Countries where only approved VPNs are allowedMore common than banning VPNs altogether is restricting VPN usage to those approved by the government. This lets the powers that be grant limited VPN access to businesses for economic reasons, while also being able to yank it away as a method of control. It also means VPNs with a license to operate are likely to report data or install surveillance backdoors.
The nations that handle VPNs this way are China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Bahrain, Myanmar, Pakistan, India, Turkey and Oman. These countries don't ban all VPNs, but target popular providers with intermittent crackdowns and threats.
China in particular uses the so-called Great Firewall, the world's most sophisticated suite of censorship technologies, to prevent its citizens from even visiting the homepages of VPN companies. If you plan to travel in China and want to maintain access to the outside world, download a VPN before you go — and remember that using it while there will technically put you in violation of the law.
Russia is a textbook case of a selective VPN ban, with businesses allowed to use approved VPNs and everyone else left to scramble against periodic mass blocks. Turkey's autocratic government has also tried to crack down on VPN usage by blocking VPN sites, but clumsy implementation has left a lot of holes, allowing Instagram and other social media to remain a free speech lifeline for Turks.
Countries with extra penalties for using VPNs to view blocked websitesIn a few countries, it's legal to use any VPN, but against the law to use them for illegal activities. You might say, "Duh, I'm aware that breaking the law is illegal," but there is a meaningful difference — some crimes are crimier than others. Just like you'll get a much harsher sentence if you rob someone with a weapon, you'll face steeper penalties for using a VPN to view content the government is trying to block. Countries that operate like this include Vietnam, Egypt and the UAE.
Potential future VPN bansToday, a number of countries once considered free and tolerant are proposing wide-ranging age verification laws, usually for reasons that boil down to "think of the children!" If enacted — as the UK's Online Safety Act has shown — they effectively offer a choice between two equally unacceptable alternatives: Live with a censored version of the internet, or get broader access only once you sacrifice your online anonymity.
VPNs are the easiest and most direct workaround to this rising tide of censorship, which is why those same governments have them in their legislative crosshairs. The threat of enforcement chills free activity in a connected world where enforcers can't be everywhere at once.
For now, laws against VPN usage are still largely vague, inconsistent and unevenly applied. As citizens, we can work to make our voices heard and fight against these initiatives before they become law. In the meantime, you may well want to get install your VPN of choice on as many devices as possible — and get your other cybersecurity ducks in a row while you're at it.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/vpn/are-vpns-legal-170000878.html?src=rssOur review of the new AirTag went up yesterday, and that involved testing the new Precision Finding feature on Apple Watches. In the process, I found the setup to be confusing and counterintuitive, and was relieved to discover it wasn't just me. If, like me, you've been trying to set up Precision Finding on your Apple Watch for the AirTag you've just unboxed and attached to a precious belonging, here are the exact steps to take.
First, make sure your Apple Watch is compatible with the feature. That means verifying you're using the Series 9 or later (you would have bought it in or after 2023) or the Ultra 2 and newer. Then, go to the Watch app on your phone and do the following to make sure you've received the latest software update that adds the functionality.
Tap General.
Press Software update.
Make sure the page says you are running watchOS 26.2.1. If not, tap Install Now.
If you need to download the software, make sure your watch is on its charging cradle. Even though my Apple Watch Series 11 was fully charged, I was still told to make sure it's connected to power and had at least 50 percent of juice left for the software to install. After a few minutes, my watch restarted and the app said it was updated to the newest version of watchOS.
Now that you have the right hardware and software, you can set up Precision Finding. I assume you've already connected the new AirTag to the iPhone that's linked to your watch (and if you haven't, make sure to do that).
This was the part of the process that confused me. Instead of opening the Find Items app on the watch, Precision Finding for the new AirTag actually exists as a shortcut in the Control Center. Here are the steps to add it there:
Open the Control Center by pushing the button below the dial on the side of the watch.
Scroll all the way to the bottom and press "Edit."
Push the + button at the top left of the screen.
Scroll down and tap Find Items.
Press Find AirTag, then tap Choose. You should see the new AirTag you've linked to your account here.
Select the AirTag you want to precisely find.
Drag the icon to whichever position you prefer within the Control Center.
Hit Done.
Now, whenever you want to locate your item, you can pull up the Control Center, press this button and the Precision Finding interface will appear, showing how far away it is. You can also push the button on the bottom right of this screen to get the AirTag to ring, guiding you to where your item is.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/how-to-use-your-apple-watch-to-precisely-find-your-new-airtag-164922731.html?src=rssAfter celebrating its fifth anniversary earlier this month, the tough-as-nails survival Viking game Valheim is coming to Switch 2 this year. Initially launched as a Steam Early Access game in 2021, Valheim lets you team up with up to nine other players online as you explore a procedurally generated open world inspired by Norse mythology.
Whether playing alone or with your Viking pals, survival depends on crafting the right gear, building shelters and prevailing in punishing combat encounters. The ultimate aim of the game is to kill various gods dotted around the game's different biomes to be deemed worthy of entering Valhalla. But you can ignore the bosses if you'd rather focus on collecting recipes and cooking up banquets for your fellow bearded adventurers.
If I'm being brutally honest, the Switch 2 version of Valheim doesn't appear to be much of a looker in the announcement trailer, but it's technically still an early access game at the time of writing, and you do get support for mouse controls and HD Rumble 2 on Nintendo's console.
After debuting on PC, Valheim later made the jump to Xbox and will also launch on PS5 later this year. There's currently no release date for that or the newly announced Switch 2 port, but they could arrive at the same time to coincide with the game hitting 1.0.
Valheim was announced during today's third-party-focused Nintendo Direct, in which a bunch of Bethesda games were also confirmed for Switch 2 in 2026.
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Mass arrests by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are overwhelming the US court system in Minnesota.
The Trump administration's massive deportation spree in Minnesota - pompously titled 'Operation Metro Surge' - created a corresponding surge in emergency legal cases. This left courts so short-staffed that several top lawyers quit outright. Still others have voiced their intention to follow suit in recent weeks.
The Minnesota US attorney's office stated that:
ICE flouting ordersThe Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in this district has been utterly overwhelmed by the number of recent habeas petitions in Minnesota, during a time when the Office is short staffed.
Justice Department records show massive numbers of legal violations by ICE, including violations of judges' orders, illegal arrests, and botched court filings.
Minnesota judges are particularly alarmed at defiance from Homeland Security and their Justice Department counterparts in Washington. In particular, ICE is regularly flouting orders to bring their detainees before a judge when ordered - a legal right and duty known as habeas corpus.
Politico described one situation in which:
'Broken system'In one recent case, ICE arrested a man with no criminal record who was residing legally in Minnesota on a rare "T" visa, meant for victims of a severe form of human trafficking or who aided law enforcement in a trafficking investigation. A day after a magistrate judge inquired about the case, the Justice Department said it should be dismissed because the man had been released. Four days later, however, DOJ sent a cryptic filing misidentifying the man as "she" and suggesting he had been relocated to a detention facility in El Paso.
DOJ then blew off the deadline to clarify what had occurred, leading the judge to conclude that "ICE transferred Petitioner from Minnesota to Texas without notice and indeed, from this record it appears that even [DOJ] may not have known about the transfer."
Underscoring the depths of the crisis, on Tuesday 2 February, a judge asked prosecutor Julie Le why his federal court orders were being ignored by ICE. Le, in apparent distress, said:
The system sucks. This job sucks. And I am trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need.
She went on to add that:
Sometime I wish you would just hold me in contempt, your honor, so that I can have a full 24 hours of sleep.
Le argued that ICE officials simply ignore her and other Justice Department lawyers when they tell them to obey the courts. Even simple inquiries went completely unanswered, and Le's threats of legal repercussions made no impact.
The prosecutor branded the situation a "broken system", and even revealed that she'd tried to quit - but there was no-one ready to replace her.
Open authoritarianismHowever, Trump's team are denying their responsibility for the situation. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), tried to blame the judges themselves for the crisis:
The Trump administration is more than prepared to handle the legal caseload necessary to deliver President Trump's deportation agenda for the American people. It should come as no surprise that more habeas petitions are being filed by illegal aliens — especially after many activist judges have attempted to thwart President Trump from fulfilling the American people's mandate for mass deportations.
This line of reasoning is severely faulty. It is a court's role, when necessary, to determine the legality of an individual's actions. If the state could ignore a habeas petition on the grounds of an individual being "illegal", it could simply declare anybody illegal without trial.
This is both clearly a monstrous abuse of power, and precisely what the Trump administration is doing.
A Justice Department spokesperson likewise blamed "rogue judges" for the massive increase in detention cases. They argued that without the judges rulings, there wouldn't be any "concern over DHS following orders."
That is to say, if the judges didn't demand that ICE follows the law, there would be no issue. Again, an openly authoritarian proclamation.
Shock and aweThe fact that Minnesota's courts are overwhelmed is not a glitch in the system. It's not a result of the Justice Department being understaffed, or - God forbid - ICE being under-resourced. Rather, this overwhelm is part of the plan.
Trump has always relied on shock and awe tactics. He perpetrates as many open crimes and heinous violations of basic human decency as quickly as possible, such that his opponents barely have time to muster a reaction before the next onslaught.
Because the courts are overwhelmed, ICE and the Trump administration can act with impunity. The administration has said outright that if it's allowed to break the law, then there won't be any issues. It intends to break the law; it intends to ignore basic legal rights; it intends to deport anyone it sees fit. This was always the plan.
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An inquiry into the deaths of at least 30 people who drowned while trying to cross the English Channel in 2021 has found that emergency services could have prevented the deaths.
On November 24, 2021, the dinghy they were travelling on started to fill with water and capsized. To date, it is the deadliest small boat disaster on record in the English Channel.
Only two of the people on board survived. Emergency services found them nearly 12 hours after they called for help.
In total, authorities found 27 bodies and confirmed another four people were missing.
Channel crossing: a damning inquiry.The inquiry found that staff numbers across the national network at HM Coastguard were "above what was required". However, the recommended seasonal staffing at MRCC Dover is three operational staff for search and rescue. Importantly, this number "was not satisfied". The inquiry found:
The only fully qualified staff member working in the search and rescue team at MRCC Dover that night was the Search and Rescue Mission Co-ordinator (SMC). The two others in the SMC's team that night were trainees: one was partially qualified but deemed to be operational, and the other was non operational.
Shockingly, these staffing pressures meant that the SMC was unable to take a break. This:
unsurprisingly left him feeling overwhelmed and fatigued. The short staffing also resulted in an absence of appropriate supervision for the non-operational trainee, who was called on to undertake operational tasks.
Moreover, both Border Force Maritime and the RNLI lacked sufficient resources to deal with the situation.
Despite a seemingly healthy number of surface assets available on the night of 23 to 24 November 2021, HM Coastguard and Border Force were reluctant to deploy more than one, as this would have reduced the availability of an already insufficient number of assets on the following day.
A surveillance aircraft that should have provided "critical intelligence" also did not launch due to poor weather. Of course, there was no contingency plan.
Additionally, authorities missed calls and texts from the boat, or did not follow them up. This, combined with the widely held belief that the people on the boat were exaggerating their distress, meant that the coastguard underestimated the urgency of the situation.
To make matters worse, HM Coastguard did not inform the helicopter searching the area to look for people in the water. The report states:
There were problems with the search undertaken by the helicopter R163. Based on the drift analyses commissioned by the MAIB, it is likely that the area covered by R163's search contained the swamped small boat. However, its search was not effective for locating a swamped small boat or people in the water. R163 was not tasked to incident 'Charlie' specifically and was not informed by HM Coastguard that it was to locate a sinking small boat or people in the water. The captain of R163 told the Inquiry that if he had been informed that there were people in the water, "that does change things". Instead, R163 was tasked to look for the multiple small boats that were believed to be in a similar area.
Ultimately, authorities and emergency services could have prevented all of the deaths. The inquiry report concludes:
As the analysis makes clear, the flaws in HM Coastguard's decision-making were systemic. In particular they are attributable to the inordinate pressure on HM Coastguard staff at MRCC Dover handling search and rescue for small boats, the absence of effective supervision of those staff, the limitations of the remote working model to assist them, and the belief which had developed among HM Coastguard personnel that callers from small boats regularly exaggerated their level of distress.
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This article contains graphic details of rape and sexual assault.
The latest tranche of Epstein documents have provided further evidence that he was not only a vile paedophile, he was also an appalling racist. We've previously covered Epstein's sickening fantasies about using the supposedly "superior gene pool" of himself and the children he raped to create a "super-race".
However, the new files provide further evidence of his eugenicist views. In an email to linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky, the now-dead former financier suggested that Black people are less intelligent than others:
Epstein - racist views and racist friendsThe test score gap amongst African-Americans is well documented. 20 years of testing. Many countries. James Watson had some of his private views made public and hence his dismissal from society. He told me that after one sentence he became an un-person. Making things better might require accepting some uncomfortable facts. You told me that.
James Watson was a Nobel Prize winner alongside Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin following their discovery of DNA. He was also a horrible racist. He said:
There's a difference on the average between blacks and whites in IQ tests. I would say the difference is genetic.
Watson described himself as "gloomy" regarding Africa's prospects due to his claim that:
…all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.
Epstein appeared to indicate in another email that he was meeting Watson for breakfast. A white supremacist podcaster called Jean-François Gariépy also says Epstein gave him $25,000.
Epstein was of course a major backer of the world's leading racist endeavour, the genocidal land theft project that is so-called 'Israel'. He was a likely Mossad spy and has been pictured wearing an Israeli Genocide Forces sweatshirt. He was also a close friend of former 'Israeli' prime minister Ehud Barak. It is alleged Barak was the man who Virginia Giuffre alleged raped her "more savagely than anyone had before".
Former 'Israeli' PM bemoans "quality" of African and Arab peopleNow, in a newly released audio recording, Barak can be heard in conversation with Epstein. Adding an extra layer of racism to his already racist desire to have new arrivals to 'Israel' steal Palestinian land, Barak talks of controlling the "quality" of these aspiring land thieves. He says:
…we can control the quality much more effectively than our ancestors, or the founding fathers of Israel, could deal with the waves. [It] was a kind of salvation wave from North Africa, from the Arabs, from wherever.
They took whatever came, just to save people. Now we can be selective.
Note the use of "whatever", rather than "whoever", as if Black and Arab people are just convenient objects to pad out the settler-colony's demographics. Rather than what he clearly sees as sub-standard material, the Nazi instead wants another "one million Russians".
A number similar to that came to invade historic Palestine in the immediate aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse. Given it's a conversation with a child rapist, Barak - being the sickening creep he is - inevitably turns the conversation in a smutty direction, saying:
I think that many will prefer it to be Belorussians [who arrive]. Many young, handsome girls will come. Tall, thin.
This is the only moment Epstein can be heard in the recording, letting out a chuckle.
Zionism is a fundamentally racist ideologyOf course, this all makes sense, given Zionism is a fundamentally racist project at its core. It grants one ethnic group exclusive rights to land they have no claim on, as they exterminate the native inhabitants. The racism which Barak espouses has just been an additional stain on top of that underlying bigotry.
Historian Avi Shlaim has recounted his early experiences of racism as an Arab Jew upon his family's arrival from Iraq. Ethiopian Jews who arrived in the Zionist pseudo-state were sterilised, so they couldn't outnumber the preferred white population. Arab people in 'Israel' are denied the same provision of services as their Jewish counterparts, including access to bomb shelters.
It's not only racism that the Zionist entity shares with Epstein. It is also a vehicle for mass sexual abuse. Paedophiles have used the apartheid colony as a means of evading justice elsewhere. The most senior figures in the Zionist government have refrained from deporting such individuals.
Palestinian children are routinely sexually assaulted in the brutal prison system run by the terrorists in West Jerusalem. Children are "hit or touched on the genitals", with 69% being strip searched.
Palestinians have recounted systematic sexual abuse in the 'Israeli' system of torture camps. Those kidnapped describe being raped with dogs, iron bars and batons. Tamer Qarmut was kidnapped from Gaza in November 2023. He described his abuse:
He [the guard[ shoved a wooden stick up my anus, left it there for about a minute, and pulled it out. Then he shoved it back in, even harder, and I screamed at the top of my lungs. After a minute, he pulled the stick out again, told me to open my mouth, pushed the stick into my mouth and forced me to lick it.
Knesset members have defended the right to rape kidnapped Palestinians. They even staged a violent protest at a torture centre when it appeared rapists may be held to account for their crimes.
The Zionist entity is effectively Epstein in 'state' form. A project of massive racism, violence and sexual abuse, allowed to continue its crimes way beyond the time it should have been held to account.
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Reform UK and its leader Nigel Farage are no party of the people. Their emerging Epstein links show how their relationships with unaccountable transnational ruling elites let them play politics on easy mode. What has changed is that we're starting to see more and more receipts.
If Farage's outfit knows one thing it is money. A privately-educated banker himself, Farage has always played the tweed populist while making money moves behind the scenes. For example, this virulent critic of Muslims and Islam was in the Middle East last week ago courting UAE billionaire's for donations.
But there is more. Property tycoon billionaire and Reform treasurer Nick Candy has now been revealed as an associate of late child-rapist, Zionist, and fascist Jeffrey Epstein.
Reform have an Epstein problemAs Skwawkbox reported recently, the Epstein files name Candy in relation to Epstein. There was even an email talking about Candy's property firm selling a London flat for Epstein.
The emails appear to show, among other things, that Epstein was a fan of Candy, that Candy and Epstein appear to have swapped phone numbers through a third party, spoke directly - and that disgraced Labour grandee Peter Mandelson was also in the mix.
You should read the full report here.
A former Tory donor, Candy shifted to Reform UK in 2024 and now serves as their treasurer. He even promised the party a massive sum to support their bid for office. Even far-right tech baron Elon Musk - another Epstein associate - approved of the move.
Candy's job is to elicit money for the nativist party whose officials have spent the last week dodging questions on Epstein. One even threatened to storm out of a TV interview when pushed on the party's connections to Epstein.
Needless to say the full extent of Candy's - and his financial dealings - with Epstein are still hazy. Yet the pair's apparently rather collegiate relationship tells a story.
Questions to answerTax expert and economist Richard Murphy drew out some of the contradictions in the Reform UK/Epstein relationship.
Murphy wrote on 5 February:
In December 2024, Candy announced that he had quit the Conservatives and would "become the treasurer for Reform UK". He then joined Nigel Farage and Elon Musk at a strategy meeting at Donald Trump's Florida mansion, the latter two of whom also appear in the Epstein files.
Adding:
The trio's names all appear in a tranche of three million documents released by the US Department of Justice last Friday
Murphy rightly noted:
Appearing in the Epstein files is not an indication of wrongdoing.
But as he pointed out questions remained. And that no Reform MP seemed to have attended the debate on Epstein and Mandelson on 4 February:
That is true, but questions still need to be asked about this and about why, apparently, no Reform MP thought it appropriate to be in the Commons yesterday. Why could that be?
But what are we to make of it all? Because treating Epstein as an aberration, rather than a product or expression of a system, rather misses the point.
Global transnational elitesEpstein was many things. And by all credible accounts every single one of those things was reprehensible. He was a prolific (and prolifically self-serving) operator in international affairs: connector, deal-maker, and schmoozer. Epstein was one figure in an amoral network of transnational elites, dealing in information and brokering power.
He traded in what he and his vile cohorts considered nothing more than property, be it human (his sex-trafficked victims seem to be regularly sidelined in all this) or inanimate. His own politics were clearly of the furthest right.
Ultimately men like these - and they are overwhelmingly men - want to make a world in their own image. With that in mind organisations like Reform UK - led by people with bottomless reserves of base viciousness, bigotry and ambition - are going to have a profound appeal for powerful, hyper-rich grotesques like Epstein.
The core truth is Reform UK aren't popular, they're just connected. They're the electoral wing of a propertied global cartel. Underneath the pint-swilling, faux-populist trappings they represent an identifiable set of class interests. Those interests, as it happens, are the same values as tech barons, billionaires, bankers and property tycoons, petro-lords and bought-and-paid-for politicians and abusers whose names are all over Epstein's gruesome files.
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By Joe Glenton
Piers Corbyn, brother of Jeremy Corbyn, is officially on the ballot for the Your Party Central Executive Committee (CEC) in elections ending 5 January. This is despite Piers's links to various conspiracy theories.
A pale imitation of his younger brotherCorbyn passed the ballot with 103 votes as an independent yesterday. Since then, people have raised their concerns:
Piers Corbyn is a climate change denier who has been protesting outside refugee hotels alongside fascists of late. The fact that he's allowed to be in YourParty, nevermind that he has been endorsed for its CEC by 102 London members, is shocking. https://t.co/jZBIpwk87p
— Adam Ramsay (@AdamRamsay) February 4, 2026
Piers has a long history of controversial beliefs, having been very active in the anti-vax movement, leading to his arrest on several occasions. He didn't stop there, going on to harass NHS workers, accusing them of murder. He also turned up at a drag story time in Brighton screaming "Your parents were straight!"
To be fair, some of the above is kind of tame compared to the time Piers was arrested on suspicion of inciting arson.
Observers have also clocked Piers holding signs saying 'Stop the Boats' outside of migrant hotels:
Members of Congress are demanding answers from Meta after it ran advertisements by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that they say included imagery and music intended to appeal to white nationalists and neo-Nazis.
In a letter sent to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Reps. Becca Balint, D-Vt., and Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., questioned how the social media company approved an ad campaign from the Department of Homeland Security featuring the song "We'll Have Our Home Again," which is popular in neo-Nazi spaces. The lawmakers urged Meta to cease running the ad campaign on its social media platforms and asked whether the company would commit to ending its digital advertising partnership with DHS.
The Intercept was among the first to report ICE's use of the song in a paid post recruiting for the agency, which published shortly after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
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The lawmakers also questioned imagery contained in the ads that extremism researchers said echoes far-right "reclamation" narratives long associated with racist violence and accelerationist ideology.
"Businesses are not on the sideline at this moment and it is important they also know how they are contributing to what is happening in Minnesota and across the country," said Balint. "A lack of change is not neutrality but complicity."
Meta did not respond to a request for comment. The Department of Homeland Security, which has not responded to the congressional letter, defended its recruitment messaging in a statement to The Intercept.
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin rejected comparisons between the ads and extremist propaganda, arguing that criticism of the campaign amounted to an attack on patriotic expression.
"By Reps. Becca Balint and Pramila Jayapal's standards, every American who posts patriotic imagery on the Fourth of July should be cancelled and labeled a Nazi," McLaughlin said. "Not everything you dislike is 'Nazi propaganda.' DHS will continue to use all tools to communicate with the American people and keep them informed on our historic effort to Make America Safe Again."
McLaughlin also accused critics of "manufacturing outrage" and said the controversy had contributed to a rise in assaults against ICE personnel. "It's because of garbage like this we're seeing a 1,300% increase in assaults against our brave men and women of ICE," she said.
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McLaughlin did not provide evidence to support the claim. Similar assertions by the Trump administration about sharp increases in assaults against immigration agents are not reflected in publicly available data.
The most controversial ad in the campaign was a paid DHS recruitment post that published less than two days after the fatal shooting in Minneapolis. It paired immigration enforcement footage with the song "We'll Have Our Home Again" by Pine Tree Riots. Popular in neo-Nazi online spaces, the song includes lyrics about reclaiming "our home" by "blood or sweat." In the ad, it played as a cowboy rode a horse with a B-2 Spirit bomber flying overhead.
The ad featured a scene of a B2 bomber flying over a man on horseback. Screenshot: @DHSgov/X.com
After publicly rebuking allegations that the song had neo-Nazi ties, DHS later removed the recruitment post from its official Instagram account, according to a review of the page and reporting by other outlets. The department did not announce the deletion or respond to questions about why it was taken down. DHS did not address the song's documented circulation in white nationalist spaces or its appearance in the manifesto of a 2023 mass shooter.
The Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch project has separately documented the song's origins and circulation within organized white nationalist networks. The song was written and performed by Pine Tree Riots, a group affiliated with the Männerbund, which the SPLC has previously identified as a white nationalist organization. Hatewatch also found that the song has circulated widely in extremist online spaces and appeared in recruitment efforts by far-right groups.
Balint and Jayapal framed the controversy as bigger than a single post. They accuse Meta of profiting from a large-scale digital recruitment campaign relying on themes that would stand out to white nationalists. They questioned what safeguards existed to prevent extremist-linked content from appearing in government advertising, and whether recent changes to Meta's hate-speech policies allowed the company to run the ads.
The letter details the scale of the recruitment push. According to the lawmakers, DHS spent more than $2.8 million on recruitment ads across Facebook and Instagram between March and December of last year, and paid Meta an additional $500,000 beginning in August. During the first three weeks of last fall's government shutdown, ICE spent $4.5 million on paid media campaigns, the lawmakers write. The letter also cites reporting showing DHS spent more than $1 million over a 90-day period on "self-deportation" ads targeted at users interested in Latin music, Spanish as a second language, and Mexican cuisine.
Balint and Jayapal argue that such spending has been made possible by an influx of funding for ICE. A decade ago, ICE's annual budget totaled less than $6 billion. Under new federal appropriations enacted last year, the agency has roughly $85 billion at its disposal, making it the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the United States. According to analysts cited by lawmakers, its budget is bigger than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined.
The lawmakers pointed to what they described as a deterioration in internal oversight and hiring standards, including waived age limits, large signing bonuses, and reports of recruits being rushed into the field without adequate training. They argued that the combination of rapid expansion, aggressive recruitment, and weak platform safeguards poses risks to public safety.
"It is important that we scrutinize how that funding is being used, particularly if it is being used to attract certain demographics for hiring while pushing others to the periphery, or out of our society," Balint said.
The letter asks Meta to disclose the scope and duration of its advertising agreement with DHS, provide any communications related to the recruitment ads, and explain what restrictions apply to paid government content under its policies.
Meta's Community Standards prohibit content that promotes dehumanizing speech, harmful stereotypes, or calls for exclusion or segregation targeting people based on protected characteristics, including race, ethnicity, national origin, and immigration status.
The policies also state that Meta removes content historically linked to intimidation or offline violence and applies heightened scrutiny during periods of increased tension or recent violence involving targeted groups. The members of Congress questioned whether those standards were enforced consistently for paid government advertising tied to DHS recruitment.
"There are a whole host of safeguards that should be considered," Balint said. "But at a minimum, they need to abide by their own community guidelines."
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Balint said the inquiry is ongoing and could expand beyond the recruitment campaign itself. "I am certainly going to continue looking into how private groups are profiting off of or contributing to the untenable dynamic with ICE that is putting our communities at risk," she said.
Since the recruitment campaign became the subject of public scrutiny, DHS and ICE have not made additional posts using the same song, imagery, or music across their official social media accounts.
The post Lawmakers Call on Meta to Stop Running ICE Ad Featuring Neo-Nazi Anthem appeared first on The Intercept.
A 45-year-old MAGA hat wearer has been arrested after getting out of his truck to fight teenage girls at an anti-ICE protest in Buda, Texas.
Chad Michael Watts was charged with two counts of assault causing bodily injury after police determined he was the "primary aggressor" in a confrontation with students from Johnson High School on Monday, reports KXAN. — Read the rest
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CAA's guidance also including booking sites to enable passengers to make 'more informed travel decisions'
Airlines and booking firms should give UK customers information about the environmental impact of their flights, the regulator has said.
The Civil Aviation Authority urged booking sites to enable passengers to make "more informed travel decisions" by setting out estimates for carbon emissions for flights landing or taking off from British airports.
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is heading to the Switch 2 on June 3. The news was dropped at this morning's Nintendo Direct livestream. This is the second part of the FF7 remake-a-palooza. The first installment, Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade, was released for Nintendo's console on January 22. Only a six month wait between chapters? Sony fans had to wait four years.
For the uninitiated, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth remakes the middle portion of the PS1 classic Final Fantasy 7. The graphics are, obviously, quite different, but so is the gameplay. This isn't exactly the JRPG you remember, with a real time action system instead of turn-based mechanics.
This is a full port of the PS5 game, further proving that the Switch 2 is a capable little machine. It's certainly pretty to look at, as proven by the trailer. As an aside, the port is also coming to Xbox Series X/S on the very same day.
Now that all of the major consoles will soon be home to both current FF7 remakes, we can join in solidarity as we wait for the third and final installment. Yeah, that's right. A JRPG from 1997 requires three gigantic remakes. We don't even know when the third one is coming out, but rumors suggest 2027.
Today's Nintendo Direct also revealed that a bunch of Bethesda games are heading to the Switch 2, including Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition on February 24, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on May 12 and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered sometime later in the year.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/final-fantasy-7-rebirth-comes-to-switch-2-on-june-3-163009481.html?src=rssHorizon is one of PlayStation's biggest franchises at this point. Alongside Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West, there are a bunch of spin-off games. Joining them is Horizon Hunters Gathering, a co-op action game that original Horizon developer Guerrilla is making for PlayStation 5 and PC. We've known since 2022 that the studio was working on a Horizon multiplayer game.
Here, you'll be able to team up with a couple of friends to hunt killer machines, Monster Hunter style. Guerrilla says it's designing the hunts to be challenging and replayable. "Combat is tactical, reactive, and deeply skill-based, building on the tactical precision of the Horizon games while embracing the dynamics of team play," game director Arjan Bak wrote on the PlayStation Blog. The game also has a more stylized look compared with the more grounded visuals of the mainline games.
Horizon Hunters Gathering has multiple game modes. In Machine Incursion, you'll battle waves of machines plus a tough boss. Guerrilla is pitching Cauldron Descent as a longer, multi-stage mode with a series of chambers to work through. These will contain things like battles with machines and "hidden doors that promise power and reward for teams prepared to open them."
There's a roster of characters to choose from that will expand over time. Each hunter has their own melee or ranged weapons and playstyles. The game has a roguelite perk system too, through which you'll be able to shape your hunter's build on each run, and you can select a class that alters their abilities. There's a social hub where you can customize your characters, visit shops, upgrade your gear and assemble a team for a mission.
Guerrilla says Hunters Gathering is canonical to the Horizon universe. It has a narrative campaign with "new mysteries, characters and threats." You'll be able to play through the story with bots or with friends in co-op. The studio says it will add more adventures over time.
There'll be support for cross-play and cross-progression between PS5 and PC. Guerrilla says it'll have more to share about the game in the coming months, but you won't necessarily need to wait a long time to try it out. The first closed playtest will take place later this month. You can sign up through the PlayStation Beta Program.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/playstation/guerrilla-reveals-horizon-hunters-gathering-a-co-op-action-spin-off-for-ps5-and-pc-162058264.html?src=rss
We've been talking about how the Trump GOP is launching an all out attack on Netflix's proposed merger with Warner Brothers. Not because they care about antitrust or corporate power, but because they really want Trump-allied billionaire Larry Ellison to buy Warner Brothers, CNN, and HBO. It's part of their unsubtle plan to acquire what's left of U.S. media and turn it it to MAGA state television (see: Hungary).
Of course, if you're a corrupt, Trump-bootheel-licking, GOP lawmaker looking to turn U.S. media (or what's left of it) into a Trump-friendly agitprop machine, you can't just openly admit this. So the GOP have had to dress up their attacks on Netflix as some sort of principled stand against media consolidation, "leftist propaganda," child indoctrination, and "wokeism." Real pudding-brained cult shit.
Enter ever-the-opportunist Josh Hawley, who "grilled" Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos this week in Senate hearings, leveraging anti-trans hysteria and fear-mongering to pretend Netflix is somehow radically leftist:
"Why is it that so much of Netflix content for children promotes a transgender ideology?" Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley asked Sarandos on Tuesday. "Almost half of your content for children—I'm talking about minor children now, I'm not talking about teenagers, minor children—promotes a transgender ideology agenda."
If you're a grown adult, you probably realize Netflix's primary interest is in making money by producing whatever gets people's attention. That has ranged from military dramas featuring (gasp) homosexuals (something you'll recall made the Trump Pentagon cry), to hack comedians who like to punch down against trans folks. If Netflix has an ideology, it's opportunism.
Hawley's (false) claim that half of Netflix's children's programming supports a "trans agenda" was simply made up, and originates in a Heartland Institute "study" making the rounds in DC designed to demonize Netflix. Allowing, as we noted above, Larry Ellison to swoop in, dominate U.S. media, and do all of the ideological bullshit the GOP is pretending to be worried about. Just like we saw with the Trump GOP's hijacking of TikTok by weird right wing zealots like Larry Ellison and Marc Andreessen.
As I've noted previously, ideally you'd block all additional media consolidation, since these megadeals are consistently terrible for labor, consumers, and product quality. But that's not happening under a Trump administration that has lobotomized all key regulators. So ideally, while not great, Netflix acquiring Warner Brothers is the best of a bunch of bad options, and probably the route Dem lawmakers and activists should be backing.
Such are the strange days we live in.
The GOP and Heartland attack on Netflix serves two functions: it either scuttles the deal so that Larry Ellison can buy Warner Brothers, and/or it forces Netflix to continually debase itself to please Trump if it wants merger approval. Since Netflix isn't interested in CNN and Warner Brothers' Discovery channels due to sagging ratings, it's likely these are spun off and sold to Ellison anyway even if Netflix's deal succeeds.
Again, look to Orban's Hungary and Putin's Russia if you want to see what the Heartland folks and Josh Hawley are keen on building. Our broken, corporate press is already largely incapable of being factually honest (particularly about corporate power or the GOP), and they're well on the way toward being consolidated into what will ultimately become a 24/7 autocrat ass kissing machine.
You know, to protect the children.
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"The road is pocked from the hurricane," the driver says, "so don't blame me for the bumps." Claeon laughs with us, then continues. "I don't know why they don't fix it." As we leave the port, I see a warehouse next to the dock with a collapsed roof. It's filled ... [continued]
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Does anyone know of a compilation of "Mainstream Collapse/Doomer Predictions" - predictions and analysis from key players "inside the mainstream socioeconomic system" who can't just be brushed off as "radical climate doomers" (as they tend to do with Hansen et al).
By that, I mean quotes like the one below from Dr. Günther Thallinger, Board Member, Allianz, that "capitalism as we know it ceases to be viable" above 3C of climate change?
"Once we reach 3°C of warming, the situation locks in. Atmospheric energy at this level will persist for 100+ years due to carbon cycle inertia and the absence of scalable industrial carbon removal technologies. There is no known pathway to return to pre-2°C conditions. (See: IPCC AR6, 2023; NASA Earth Observatory: "The Long-Term Warming Commitment")
At that point, risk cannot be transferred (no insurance), risk cannot be absorbed (no public capacity), and risk cannot be adapted to (physical limits exceeded). That means no more mortgages, no new real estate development, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function. And with it, capitalism as we know it ceases to be viable." https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/climate-risk-insurance-future-capitalism-g%C3%BCnther-thallinger-smw5f/ Dr. Günther Thallinger, Board Member, Allianz
Or the Insititure of Actuaries ">2Bn deaths if we hit 2C by 2050" from https://actuaries.org.uk/media/wqeftma1/planetary-solvency-finding-our-balance-with-nature.pdf
If a compilation doesn't already exist, post your your favourites as replies and I'll compile the list. If you do have a suggestion please link to the original source for verification/validation.
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Hey, so last time I had a new phone I was able to download an older version of BlackPlayer EX by following a link on this subreddit, but that link no longer works and all the other app sites I've found have been super sketchy and the downloads never work. Can I ask if anyone on here is willing to share their installer of a pre-20.6 BlackPlayer EX? Much appreciated, thank you.
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TL;DR: For just $34.97 (reg. $219.99), Microsoft Office Professional 2021 gives you the desktop Office apps for one Windows PC, with no monthly fee.
Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows is only $34.97 (reg. $219.99), and it's for anyone who's tired of software turning into a subscription treadmill, especially when all you need is for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations to open correctly, edit cleanly, and export without drama. — Read the rest
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The greenback is down double digits against the euro, Mexican peso, Brazilian real, and a long list of other currencies since January 20 last year. So where can Americans travel internationally where their money is not automatically worth 15% less than it was a year ago? Well, thanks to some dollar pegs, governments in big fiscal trouble, and irrational exchange oddities, we do still have some options. Here are the best places to travel in 2026 if you earn dollars and want to still find a great deal. (If you earn in euros, book a plane ticket to anywhere already!)
Bedbugs Tracking RegistryIt's been a long time since I've encountered bedbugs in a hotel where I've stayed, but a few friends have woken up to the tell-tale lines of bites after a stay. Sometimes it has been at places that are going for more than $1,000 a night. If you're worried about what's lurking under the sheets where you're going, check this BedbugReports.com public database where past guests can report a problem. Unfortunately it's limited to the USA only, so hit me up if you know of one that's wider in scope.
Rent Prices WorldwideWant to feel better about how much you're spending on rent? Check out this chart for a visualization of what monthly rent prices are like around the world for major cities and either rejoice or weep. This pulls data from Numbeo and some prices seem high until you realize that they use "3BR apartment in the city center" for comparison, even in cities where few people live in places that big. Still, it's fun to gasp at rates in NYC, Singapore, and London, then realize you could live large for less than $1,000 in Rio, Bogota, Cairo, or Bangalore. Or less than $1,500 for three bedrooms in Cape Town, Athens, Budapest, or Kuala Lumpur.
Ranking the Digital Nomad DestinationsI haven't dug too hard into the data on this Global Digital Nomad Report released this past September from Global Citizen Solutions, but it's an admirable effort to evaluate which countries are doing the right things to attract digital nomads. They must have given taxes very little weight though since Spain shows up at #1 despite its double taxation status for non-EU members at 183 days forward. Most of those in the top-10 are expensive too, but maybe it doesn't matter since they say of these nomads, "79% earn >$50k; average salary ~$124,416." Here's another stat: "The 1-year visa is the global standard (~66%), and 76.6% of programs are renewable."
A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World's Cheapest Destinations. See past editions here, where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you.
New York wants to put a kill switch on your 3D printer. The state's 2026-2027 executive budget bill (S.9005 / A.10005) would require all 3D printers sold in New York to include "blocking technology" — software that scans every print file through a "firearms blueprint detection algorithm" and refuses to print anything flagged as a potential gun part. — Read the rest
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