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A news publication has verified some of the details included in a woman’s testimony to the FBI in 2019,
in which she accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor.
The publication in question
— Charleston, South Carolina-based The Post and Courier
— was not able to verify the woman’s allegations against Trump.
However, it was able to confirm details about her family history, her personal legal history, and other historical facts relating t…

Newspaper Confirms Some Details in Trump Accuser’s Epstein-Related Story to FBI
The Post-Courier was able to verify key dates a woman accusing Trump of sexual assault provided to FBI agents in 2019.

Open Banking VRP (variable recurring payments), the API expected to supplant Direct Debit, is now being referred to as "Bank on File".
(I think I experienced a moment of metaphoric reversal when I pictured this as a series of physical filing cabinets a la Gilliam's Brazil.)
https://

TrueLayer: Bank on File is on the launch pad
Bank on File is launching to bring recurring payments (VRP) to Pay by Bank. Get faster settlement, lower costs, and secure, consumer-controlled subscriptions.

The FTC says it won't enforce COPPA against companies using age verification tools as long as they use the collected data only to verify a user's age (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/ftc-says-it-wont-enforce-coppa-age-verification

FTC says it won’t enforce COPPA against proper use of age verification tools
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday issued a policy statement advising industry that it will not bring enforcement actions against website and online service providers who collect, use and share personal data using age verification technologies.

I don’t think Trump is unsophisticated in the way he wields language
— far from it.
He can load up the graphic detail through vivid, dynamic verbs when he wants to,
-- such as in one of the stories of bravery he told in his State of the Union address, perhaps with the help of his speechwriters:
“He absorbed four agonizing shots, shredding his leg into numerous pieces. … And even as he was gushing blood, which was flowing back down the aisle — helicopter lands at a s…

Opinion | What Trump Is Doing to the English Language
There is a morality to verbs, especially in political speech.

Gonna spin up a test livestream in a few to verify a bunch of stuff in the lab WRT cameras and populate the back side of the first ReworkCTF board.
It probably won't be super exciting (lots of component tweezering) but I'd love if a couple of people would join to give feedback on camera angles, audio quality, etc.

where do #websub[1] implementers meet these days?
[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/

“When you click “verify” on LinkedIn, you’re not giving your passport to LinkedIn. You get redirected to a company called Persona. Full name: Persona Identities, Inc. Based in San Francisco, California.
LinkedIn is their client. You are the face being scanned.
I had never heard of Persona before this. Most people haven’t. That’s kind of the point — they sit invisibly between you and the platforms you trust.”
(via @…

Just had a small argument with an AI (an LLM) over the Early Modern English (Shakespeare's English) use of singular verb conjugation with the singular: "they."
ex: "There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me" - The Comedy of Errors, Act 4, scene 3
I won the argument, both because I was right, and because the AI doesn't understand anything. 😜
Good times getting into my

#FotoDerWoche mit spiegelndem See.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/04/photo-of-the-week-mirror-lake-stuttgart/

Photo of the week: Mirror lake, Stuttgart
In two minds über den Eckensee, an dem ich immer vorbei komme, wenn ich in Stuttgart zur Arbeit gehe und mal nicht im Home-Office bin. Ich verstehe ästhetisch, was er da soll, und ich bin auch bei weitem nicht der Einzige, der da gerne stehen bleibt und Fotos macht. Aber ein "See", der mehrmals im J

Oh the joys of a mainframe upgrade.
Defining what type of testing is needed and specific test cases to verify that all functionality for the system is available.
Also, a short briefing note for the upcoming board meeting to describe what is being done, why, when, where the backup will be running from, who is doing what portions and how we verify that it all went smoothly.
It should go smoothly (famous last words), but we will verify that the upgrade was completed and comp…