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Trevor Noah Sues Donald Trump Over Alleged Threatening Messages
Following Explosive Truth Social Rant
A high-profile legal and political controversy has erupted
after comedian and television host Trevor Noah filed a lawsuit
against Donald Trump,
alleging that the president sent “damaging, intimidating, and dangerous” private direct messages
following a public dispute tied to comments made during the Grammy Awards

Trevor Noah Files $100m Lawsuit Against Donald Trump for damages, Alleging the President Issued Dangerous and Intimidating Private Messages After Explosive Truth Social Rant where The President Denied Epstein Island Allegation Following Grammy Awards Backlash
Trevor Noah Sues Donald Trump Over Alleged Threatening Messages Following Explosive Truth Social Rant A high-profile legal and political controversy has erupted after comedian and television host Trevor Noah filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, alleging that the president sent “damaging, intimidating, and dangerous” private direct messages following a public dispute tied to comments […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116171339797022986
I don’t care if someone calls stuff “spaceflight” (though that usually includes portions of actual flight through air).
But if it’s for a scientific or technology discussion it’s hugely inaccurate and misleading.
In space, things always move in orbits, which is essentially more or less perpetually falling.
To make things go places (e.g. make a thing go to Mars), you change how it’s falling.
Play some Kerbal Space Program some time!

Starlink says it is providing free broadband service to new and existing customers in Venezuela through February 3, 2026 (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-free-internet-venezuela-us-raid-maduro.h…

Elon Musk's Starlink offers free internet access in Venezuela following U.S. airstrikes and Maduro’s arrest
SpaceX's Starlink is offering free broadband internet service to the people of Venezuela through Feb. 3, amid the fallout of a U.S. military operation in the country.

Reach reports 2025 revenue down 3.7% YoY to £518.4M, adjusted operating profit up 2.4% YoY to £104.7M, and Google Discover traffic down 46% YoY in H2 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/plunging-goo…

Plunging Google Discover traffic hits Reach digital revenue
Major cost cuts at Reach helped keep profits up in 2025 despite falling revenue across both digital and print.

With the currently released things about Bill Gates in the Epstein files (he had sex with the women and girls Epstein provided and asked Epstein for antibiotics to secretly give to his then-wife to treat the STI he gave her) how are we feeling about the Gates Foundation funding ... anything? Why should that creep (through his foundation) get to use that kind of power to shape what scientists and NGOs can do?
(Nobody should have that power, most foundations are politically a net negativ…

Dang it all. The dryer at our holiday accommodation appears to have, bizarrely, melted the zip (just a small section, but enough) on my Cactus shorts... and now I'm perpetually flying low. These are my 90% of days-type clothing in summer. Sigh. Luckily, I'll be able to take them in for repairs shortly... assuming I can find something to wear while they're at the shop.

Filing: Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon reports a $316M net profit in 2025, its first profitable year; rivals Moore Threads and MetaX narrowed their losses (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-t…

Profits rise for China’s semiconductor firms on AI boom, tech self-reliance push
Domestic A-share companies in the sector are forecast to achieve substantial growth in their 2025 results, according to Donghai Securities.

…everyone there was white. •Everyone•. This particular park would usually be more white than not, but…this was weird.
There’s officially a city prohibition on ICE setting foot in city parks, but who knows what that’s worth? Those bastards will do anything if they think they can get away with it. And they’ll grab people right off the streets if they’re falling behind quota for the day. Who’d risk that?
ICE had apparently succeeded turning the park into all-white world they dreamed of. It was…creepy.
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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…

The government of California is implementing a law that requires operating system providers to implement some form of age verification into their account setup procedures.
Assembly Bill No. 1043 was approved by California governor Gavin Newsom in October of last year, and becomes active on January 1, 2027 (via The Lunduke Journal).
The bill states, among other factors, that "An operating system provider shall do all of the following:"
"(1) Provide an accessib…

A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup
It's basic, and by the looks of it, near unenforceable.