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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin
asked the Justice Department this week to probe the reliability of a widely used digital voting system,
as well as whether election nonprofits had improperly obtained private voter data.
Mullin’s concerns center around a multistate voter data collective
— called the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC
— which is designed to prevent the sharing of any records “indicating an individual is a non-citizen,”…

Mullin Requests a DOJ Probe Into Voting Systems
The Homeland Security secretary called into question the country’s ballot-marking devices as well as nonprofits’ access to private voter data.

NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Wednesday, Aug. 5 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-wednesday-aug-5

A small proposal:
I propose that formally vowing to abjure certain harmful practices may be very good for you and the community around you, and if we treat it not as a lifestyle choice but an ethical stance comparable to Conscientious Objection ( the refusal to bear arms in war, as for example Quakers do) then it may have more legal protection and political force.
As an initial list of four deeply inconvenient practices to give up for the sake of yourself and all other living bei…

Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/9875…

The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility
The internet fights over anthropomorphism around the Hugging Face hack.

Every Wednesday in September, we're hosting the 2026 Contemporary Australian Architects Speaker Series. Now in its 38th year, this annual lecture series discusses innovative ideas around design, art, and architecture. Join us in person or online.
#NFSA #Canberra

Making progress on the ngscopeclient demo board. It's not the most optimized design, but it's mostly a junk-box build out of stuff I had lying around.
So far I have:
* USB-C power UART
* Probe clips on the USB (12 Mbps) so it can also be used as a test signal
* 5-button D-pad and 2.13" e-ink display for controlling test pattern generation (can also be controlled via UART)
* XC7A35T-2FGG484I FPGA
* STM32H750 MCU
* One GTP of the FPGA (TX only…

NFL news roundup: Latest league updates from Tuesday, Aug. 4 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-tuesday-aug-4

As the UK government presses again for unwarranted access to private user data,
Apple has issued another complaint asking the country's independent judicial body to intervene.
In 2024, the UK reworked its laws to give it the authority to not only legally, but also secretly, demand Apple help it spy on iPhone users around the world.
Following US complaints, the UK backed down, only to try again in October 2025.
Now according to the Financial Times, Apple has file…

UK faces new legal fight from Apple over backdoor access to iCloud data
As the UK government presses again for unwarranted access to private user data, Apple has issued another complaint asking the country's independent judicial body to intervene.

A profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who insists that "Xbox is not for sale" despite mass layoffs and divested studios since inheriting the flailing division (Zachary Small/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/ar…

Xbox’s Millennial C.E.O., Asha Sharma, Isn’t Playing Around
“I think the industry will require disruption,” said Asha Sharma, who has overseen layoffs and divested studios since inheriting Microsoft’s flailing video game division.

Bouquet fire grows in Angeles National Forest near Santa Clarita as heat wave grips SoCal
The Bouquet fire grew overnight to 1,048 acres and is now 40% contained.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department issued evacuation orders for the remote mountainous area northeast of Santa Clarita on Saturday afternoon.
John Miller, a forest spokesperson, said the canyon has several small cabins and some residents,
and he estimates roughly 30 to 60 people are directly affecte…

Evacuation orders issued for Bouquet fire outside Santa Clarita
The fire, which started around 3 p.m. Saturday in Angeles National Forest, had reached 843 acres, according to Cal Fire.