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Good news for anyone working on their proposals for the next Fantastic Futures conference - the deadline is extended to April 16! #FF2026

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...

SEC filing: Hasbro confirms a cyberattack and says it may take "several weeks" before the incident is resolved, after detecting an intrusion on March 28 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/hasbro-hacked-may-take-several-w…

Hasbro says it was hacked, and may take 'several weeks' to recover | TechCrunch
The American toymaking giant noted that it was continuing to "implement measures to secure its business operations," suggesting that the hackers may still be in the company's systems.

Die Stadtbibliothek Straubing informiert über ihren Umgang mit Personen, die ausgeliehene Bücher zu spät oder beschädigt zurückgeben
(gefunden auf https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUI6PkLDN1b/?utm_source=mastodon&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== )<…

Rebuilding public trust in AI requires meaningful citizen engagement, transparent governance, and robust legislation. Technology itself is not the problem. The issue is that few people trust institutions to deploy it wisely and for their benefit. This makes the first step to answer the following question: What’s it in for me?

Breaking the doom loop: How to rebuild trust in AI
Rebuilding public trust in AI requires meaningful citizen engagement, transparent governance, and robust legislation. By involving communities and prioritising effective oversight, institutions can break the ...

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Better following a run of desktop-installer – following the hint at <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1qeztx1/comment/obd43wk/…

CDash experiments update: Provisioned a VM (not yet reachable from the outside world) to tinker with it since it's been 10 years since I last used the platform.
How it's going so far: ran into https://github.com/Kitware/CDash/issues/3122
They're using npm and a who…

Mental health startup Kintsugi is shutting down and open-sourcing its AI tech to detect depression and anxiety, after failing to secure FDA clearance (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intel…

It’s not easy to get depression-detecting AI through the FDA
Instead, mental health startup Kintsugi shut down and open-sourced its tech.

Notepad Hijacked by
State-Sponsored Hackers
Following the security disclosure published in the v8.8.9 announcement investigation has continued in collaboration with external experts and with the full involvement of the (now former) shared hosting provider.
According to the analysis provided by the security experts,
the attack involved infrastructure-level compromise
that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plu…

Minnesota resident Nicole Cleland had her Global Entry and TSA Precheck privileges revoked
three days after an incident in which she observed activity by immigration agents, the woman said in a court declaration.
An agent told Cleland that he used facial recognition technology to identify her, she wrote in a declaration filed in US District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Cleland, a 56-year-old resident of Richfield and a director at Target Corporation,
voluntee…

ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face
Global Entry and Precheck revoked three days after incident, court filing says.