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Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a "sustained, cross-border attack" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/ubuntu-infrastructure-ha…

Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day
The outage has hampered communication concerning a critical vulnerability that gives root.

A photojournalist and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press sue the FAA over a ban on flying drones within 3,000 feet of DHS buildings and vehicles (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/journalist-sues-faa-over-drone-…

Journalist Sues FAA Over Drone No Fly Zone Designed to Prevent Filming ICE
A Minnesota journalist is challenging a 3,000 foot restriction on flying near DHS assets on First Amendment grounds.

Ban slanted laptop stands! :angery:
#Caterday

Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.

The Trump administration’s pattern of granting sympathetic, right-wing influencers with large digital followings
special access to its mass deportation operation
is broad and involves dozens of people.
TPM chose to focus in depth on four influencers, each with different audiences, approaches, and backgrounds.
They are Ben #Bergquam,
his sometimes associate Josh

Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers
As DHS officers flooded into Minneapolis on an early December day, Mahamed...

I've got the growing feeling that DevOps/SRE Microservices was a surefire way to slow down any business almost to a halt.
If you followed that route you likely have many small teams that need to coordinate with each other for every change you make. Nobody can make decisions or talk authoritative on overall things anymore because everything has been decomposed and shifted left to the poor developer doing everything now.

Sorry not sorry but I’ll be over here doing anything but wallowing in a cognitively offloaded prison of my own making https://defector.com/go-ahead-and-use-ai-it-will-only-help-me-dominate-you

Go Ahead And Use AI. It Will Only Help Me Dominate You. | Defector
This piece was originally published on How Things Work, a newsletter by Hamilton Nolan. If you enjoy this, or the author’s previous work covering the NFL for Defector, you should subscribe to his newsletter right now. Recently there has been a lot of commentary of the following type: BAD WRITER [touchily]: “Actually, I do use…

Sources: Eater has been central to Vox Media's divestiture talks as interest in food media grows, an uptick that began when Wonder bought Tastemade for $90M (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/feeding-frenzy-food-media-tasty-eater/

The Feeding Frenzy Fueling Food Media M&A
Eater and Tasty are the latest publishers looking to capitalize on a growing appetite for food and dining brands

Comcast drops the NFL Network from its Xfinity package after the prior agreement expired, and says it's in negotiations with the channel's new owner, Disney (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/comcast-loses-the-nfl-network-over-co…

Comcast Loses The NFL Network As Its Contract Ends As Talks Happen With It New Owner, ESPN | Cord Cutters News
In a development that echoes past carriage battles, Comcast’s Xfinity cable and television service has dropped the NFL Network from its lineup, leaving millions of subscribers without access to the league’s dedicated 24-hour channel. The blackout, which began late Thursday night following the expiration of prior distribution agreements, comes just months after ESPN officially completed […]