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Minnesota receives federal approval on their final BEAD
(Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) proposal
-- Christopher Terry
https://blandinonbroadband.org/2025/12/20/minnesota-…

Minnesota receives federal approval on their final BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) proposal
Broadband Breakfast reports… Five more states have received federal approval on their final spending plans under the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program. Idaho, Ma…

Salesforce cuts off access to third-party app after discovering ‘unusual activity’ https://therecord.media/salesforce-cuts-off-access-to-third-party-unusual-activity

Just discovered a new RAT at #hacklu and it seems the name can confuse a lot of french-speaking persons.
RATatouille
Not sure it''s a good idea for the SEO of the RAT author. ;-)
🔗 http…

RATatouille: A Malicious Recipe Hidden in rand-user-agent (Supply Chain Compromise)
RATatouille: A Malicious Recipe Hidden in rand-user-agent (Supply Chain Compromise)

Trying to read a paper related to my research. I have access to it through my university's arrangements with the publisher, meaning that the uni pays (several £100k per year) for the access.
Publisher website (#Elsevier): error "there was a problem providing the content you requested"
#Scihub

The title is “DC’s Access Journalists Turned the News Into a Luxury Good” and I for one hadn’t realized how true this is until I read https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/dcs-access-journalists-turned-the-news-into-a-luxury-good

DC’s Access Journalists Turned the News Into a Luxury Good
Before the internet, what would today be called a “paywall” was just...

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/google-searches-police-access…

Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant
In a decision that only affects Pennsylvanians but could have privacy implications elsewhere, the state's Supreme Court ruled that police did not need a warrant to access a rape suspect's Google searches.

"Further, outdated rules on the use of cookies and other tracking technologies are still governing the protection of the user’s terminal equipment and the access and collection to information from user’s terminal equipment. This requires pragmatic and immediate clarifications to limit consent fatigue, provide legal clarity on rightful access and processing, and enhanced data availability to businesses."
My fatigue stems more from politics leaving their citizens alone...

As fascism descends, you are going to need easy to access and use alternatives to Big Tech (aka Fascist Tech).
So maybe bookmark the Chatons collective site initiated by our friends at Framasoft with hosted versions of free-software services for collaborative writing, video conferencing, scheduling appointments, collaborative spreadsheets, file sharing, picture sharing, etc.

The only two development environments in the 90s that ever came somewhat close to this dream were Visual Basic and Microsoft Access.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115588696937650065

These items are going to be in today's Metacurity, but it's not only Jaguar Land Rover who are being targeted by malicious actors.
Stellantis, Chrysler's parent, announced it experienced unauthorized access to its N. American customer platform.

Remotely access your #Synology from anywhere with #Tailscale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o2EhK-QvmY…

"As people’s access to the world is so much influenced by what’s digitally accessible, and as we’re seeing the undermining of whatever might have previously passed as authentic, it’s absolutely essential that we are offering the user buttressing evidence that proves the authenticity of what they’re looking at."

Folks using #PhanpySocialDev , there are 2 new features that need a bit of testing:
1. QR code for profiles and shortcuts settings - includes scanner (camera) too
2. Import/export accounts - the export *excludes* access tokens, so need to login again after import
They’re quite hidden, so just a heads-up 🙇‍♂️

Oregon groups push for attorney access for immigration detainees | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/oregon-groups-push-for-attorney-access-for-immigration-detainees/

The New Yorker has digitized its full archive covering 100 years, including covers and adding upgraded search capabilities; subscribers get unlimited access (Nicholas Henriquez/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-entire-new…

The Entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized
Subscribers now have easier, unlimited access to every article, cover, and issue published in the magazine, as it marks its hundredth anniversary in print.

One key point of democracy (and the minimal requirement) is that there is an official and working way to get rid of the running government (and representatives i.e. parliament).
This includes a free press, i.e. access to information and different (critical) views on politicians.
#pol

"famine, overwhelming injuries, a collapsed healthcare system, and outbreaks of disease fuelled by the destruction of water and sanitation infrastructure.
"On top of that, [there is] restricted access to humanitarian aid. This is a very fatal combination, so that makes [the situation] catastrophic and beyond words."
"If you take the famine and combine it with a mental health problem which we see is rampant, then the situation is a crisis for generations to come…

Gaza health crisis will last for 'generations', WHO chief warns
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells the BBC far more aid is needed to start tackling mounting problems in Gaza.

All new roads lead to increased deforestation in Ecuador’s Indigenous territory https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/all-new-roads-lead-to-increased-deforestation-in-ecuadors-indigenous-territory/

All new roads lead to increased deforestation in Ecuador’s Indigenous territory
Between March and May 2025, at least eight children from the Achuar Indigenous community died of leptospirosis in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon. The disease is preventable with access to safe drinking water and timely treatment. But these two conditions are absent in Taisha, one of the poorest five cantons in Ecuador and the one with […]

Oh. my. god. is :thunderbird: #Thunderbird's calendar broken. It keeps asking for passwords. And of course doesn't tell for which calendar 🤪. Apparently the only thing it can do is associate a base (!) url (not the full calendar url, no no no) to ONE user/password combination. You have a server with multiple accounts of which you want to access the calendars? No. You put the user@... i…

Heat All-Access
a podcast hosted by the Voice of the Perth Heat Cavan Malayter, giving you an inside look at the Perth Heat with news, analysis, and weekly interviews with players, coaches...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/heat-all-…

Jeffrey Epstein Had Access to Trump's Inner Circle, While Working With Steve Bannon (Nafeez Ahmed/Byline Times)
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/jeffrey-epstein-had-access-to-trumps-inner-circle-while-working-with-steve-bannon/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p164#a251117p164

Keycard, which lets enterprises manage AI agent access to internal systems, raised a $30M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $8M seed led by a16z and boldstart (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/21/ai-agent-security-startup-keyca…

AI agent security startup Keycard reels in $38M - SiliconANGLE
AI agent security startup Keycard reels in $38M - SiliconANGLE

EHR-MCP: Real-world Evaluation of Clinical Information Retrieval by Large Language Models via Model Context Protocol
Kanato Masayoshi, Masahiro Hashimoto, Ryoichi Yokoyama, Naoki Toda, Yoshifumi Uwamino, Shogo Fukuda, Ho Namkoong, Masahiro Jinzaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15957

EHR-MCP: Real-world Evaluation of Clinical Information Retrieval by Large Language Models via Model Context Protocol
Background: Large language models (LLMs) show promise in medicine, but their deployment in hospitals is limited by restricted access to electronic health record (EHR) systems. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables integration between LLMs and external tools. Objective: To evaluate whether an LLM connected to an EHR database via MCP can autonomously retrieve clinically relevant information in a real hospital setting. Methods: We developed EHR-MCP, a framework of custom MCP tools integrate…

Multilingual LLM Prompting Strategies for Medical English-Vietnamese Machine Translation
Nhu Vo, Nu-Uyen-Phuong Le, Dung D. Le, Massimo Piccardi, Wray Buntine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15640

Multilingual LLM Prompting Strategies for Medical English-Vietnamese Machine Translation
Medical English-Vietnamese machine translation (En-Vi MT) is essential for healthcare access and communication in Vietnam, yet Vietnamese remains a low-resource and under-studied language. We systematically evaluate prompting strategies for six multilingual LLMs (0.5B-9B parameters) on the MedEV dataset, comparing zero-shot, few-shot, and dictionary-augmented prompting with Meddict, an English-Vietnamese medical lexicon. Results show that model scale is the primary driver of performance: larger…

RangeSAM: Leveraging Visual Foundation Models for Range-View repesented LiDAR segmentation
Paul Julius K\"uhn, Duc Anh Nguyen, Arjan Kuijper, Holger Graf, Dieter Fellner, Saptarshi Neil Sinha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15886

RangeSAM: Leveraging Visual Foundation Models for Range-View repesented LiDAR segmentation
Point cloud segmentation is central to autonomous driving and 3D scene understanding. While voxel- and point-based methods dominate recent research due to their compatibility with deep architectures and ability to capture fine-grained geometry, they often incur high computational cost, irregular memory access, and limited real-time efficiency. In contrast, range-view methods, though relatively underexplored - can leverage mature 2D semantic segmentation techniques for fast and accurate predicti…

Max Schrems hat nach 11 Jahren(!) endlich gegen Meta gewonnen: In Österreich (und wahrscheinlich der EU) sind Datensammlungen für personalisierte nur mit Einwilligung und unter strengen Auflagen zu besonders schützenswerten Personendaten und der Sammlung von Daten bei Dritten. Symbolischer Schadenersatz: 500€
#Schrems

Swarm Oracle: Trustless Blockchain Agreements through Robot Swarms
Alexandre Pacheco, Hanqing Zhao, Volker Strobel, Tarik Roukny, Gregory Dudek, Andreagiovanni Reina, Marco Dorigo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15956

Swarm Oracle: Trustless Blockchain Agreements through Robot Swarms
Blockchain consensus, rooted in the principle ``don't trust, verify'', limits access to real-world data, which may be ambiguous or inaccessible to some participants. Oracles address this limitation by supplying data to blockchains, but existing solutions may reduce autonomy, transparency, or reintroduce the need for trust. We propose Swarm Oracle: a decentralized network of autonomous robots -- that is, a robot swarm -- that use onboard sensors and peer-to-peer communication to collectively ver…

Currently happening basically outside my window, with what appears to be one police vehicle present for every protester (not hyperbole)... https://worldbeyondwar.org/protesters-curren…

Wilderness 4WDing is a 'hobby' no one should be allowed to have. It's simply wasteful and destructive. It's like having the hobby of demolishing other people's buildings. It's just stupid. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/nati…

"Nicht der ideale Weg": "Hyper Light Breaker" stirbt im Early Access
Das Indie-Studio Heart Machine entlässt Angestellte und beendet die Entwicklung von "Hyper Light Breaker". Zumindest ein Update soll aber noch kommen.

Nearly half of rural hospitals now operate at a loss.
As new federal budget cuts take effect, analysts warn that hundreds of rural hospitals more may close.
-- threatening to turn vast stretches of the country into health-care deserts.
At the center of this growing crisis lies a rollback in federal health-coverage spending.
Nonpartisan analyses show large Medicaid reductions over ten years.
-- the total is on the order of eight to nine hundred billion dollars f…

Rural Hospitals in the United States Face Collapse
As Medicaid cuts deepen, small-town hospitals across Republican states are closing, leaving millions without access to emergency care.

STM32MP2 bringup progress: I have a "FSBL" (really my whole firmware) image booting from QSPI flash, doing some very low level init, then hanging before it starts the UART.
But it's able to open up debug access without needing ST's wrapper. I hard code a few pointers for SFRs that I don't have structs for but it's enough that I can get gdb attached and the code isn't TOO ugly.
Now I need to figure out why Timer::Sleep() is being derpy in BSP_InitUART…

So am I understanding this correctly that the upcoming NPM authentication and token changes mean our only publishing workflow options henceforth are either switching to OICD Trusted Publishing[1] via GitHub Actions or using granular access tokens. The problem with the former is that I wanted to migrate my projects to Codeberg soon (which isn't supported). The problem with the latter is that granular tokens are unsuitable for publishing packages from a large monorepo, since these tokens a…

thi.ng/umbrella

Many digital accessibility practitioners are used to searching for stuff about NVDA and getting results for Nvidia instead, but today I see Nvidia’s earnings tending and I glance at it and think, “Whoah, when did NV Access get such a big donation?”

from my link log —
The future of open access academic publication.
https://blog.dshr.org/2019/10/future-of-open-access.html
saved 2019-10-25 …

Future of Open Access
The Future of OA: A large-scale analysis projecting Open Access publication and readership by Heather Piwowar, Jason Priem and Richard Orr ...

The Olivia Nuzzi comeback shows everything that is wrong with modern media, where personal branding, access trading, and controversy trump credibility (Colby Hall/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-olivia-nuzzi-comeback-is-everyth…

The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.

Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant https://therecord.media/google-searches-police-access-without-warrant-pennsylvania-court-ruling

Washington state cities turn off license plate reader cameras amid ruling on data access – GeekWire
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/washington-state-cities-turn-off-license-plate-reader-cameras-amid-ruling-on-data-access/

When I attempt to login to elk.mstdn.ca, I get a 502 error. (see screenshot attached). So for the past couple of months, I have been unable to access Elk on my Win 11 Desktop.
However I WAS able to continue to access Elk on my Macbook Pro laptop until a couple of weeks ago, but now I get the same error there.
When I investigate this at cloudflare, I am advised:
There are two possible causes:
 502/504 errors from your origin web server (most common).
I also have noticed that my security program, BitDefender has notified me of this several times:
firefox.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an unmatching security certificate to cdn.signalayer.com. We blocked the connection to keep your data safe since the used certificate was issued for a different web address than the targeted one
Is this possibly related to my difficulties?
I have attached a screenshot of the CloudFlare error
I would very much appreciate any assistance or advice anyone can provide.

🚧 Towards Modeling Road Access Deprivation in Sub-Saharan Africa Based on a New Accessibility Metric and Road Quality
#roads

Towards Modeling Road Access Deprivation in Sub-Saharan Africa Based on a New Accessibility Metric and Road Quality
Access to motorable roads is a critical dimension of urban infrastructure, particularly in rapidly urbanizing regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, many urban communities, especially those in informal settlements, remain disconnected from road networks. This study presents a road access deprivation model that combines a new accessibility metric, capturing how well buildings are connected to the road network, with road surface type data as a proxy for road quality. These two components togeth…

Be part of the conversation about how to #DefendResearch, support #OpenAccess, and protect #Education! Register for next week's SJSU OA Virtual Conference, where I'm very excited …

So my car has been complaining I should put some exhaust emissions neutralizing fluid in it. A thing they call AdBlue I believe.
Bought a big 10l drum of the stuff ready to fill up.
But when I look at where I expect to find the hole for filling it, I just find a capped off tube and a warning sticker "See the GM Citreon Berlingo Blaze manual" for the adblue refilling hole.
Only user manual I have is the one telling me to expect it there.
The car was converted for wheelchair access at some point in its life. I think they are referring to the wheelchair-adaption manual, which the seller did not give me.
🤔
Have been looking around the car as much as I can for a couple of hours this morning to no avail. Where have they hidden this hole to fill up adblue?
Maybe it's under the engine or something now and you have to put the thing on stilts to find it?
🤷
Asked my mechanic about it and he says to bring it in on Monday. Gonna be a pain if I have to rip up the floorboards or something every year to refill that.
#mechanic #car #diesel

Bret Taylor says his AI agent startup Sierra has hit $100M in ARR, after launching in February 2024, up from about $20M this time last year (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/sierras-revenue-flex

Sierra's revenue flex
ARR is the new AI startup recruiting pitch. Also: Harvey's Winston Weinberg this week on ACCESS.

Plan S – Quo Vadis?
#openaccess
https://blog.scielo.org/en/2025/11/19/plan-s-quo-vadis/
(Versions in Portuguese and Spanish also available)

Plan S – quo vadis? | SciELO in Perspective
By late 2025, Open Access has become mainstream in rhetoric but fragmented in practice. The path forward likely lies not just in enforcing compliance but in diversifying infrastructures—combining global principles with networked regional, scholar-driven implementation.

"When Focusing on Terminology Becomes a Hurdle to Open Access Outreach"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/focusing-on-terminology-hurdle-open-access-outreach
"Convers…

That's not great.
"A security researcher said Home Depot exposed access to its internal systems for a year after one of its employees published a private access token online, likely by mistake. The researcher found the exposed token and tried to privately alert Home Depot to its security lapse but was ignored for several weeks."
#HomeDepot #GitHubAccessToken

A post from the archive 📫:
Invalid Access to memory location in KUDU App Services
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/invalid-access-to-memory-location-in-kudu-app-services

Uncertainty-Aware, Risk-Adaptive Access Control for Agentic Systems using an LLM-Judged TBAC Model
Charles Fleming, Ashish Kundu, Ramana Kompella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11414

Uncertainty-Aware, Risk-Adaptive Access Control for Agentic Systems using an LLM-Judged TBAC Model
The proliferation of autonomous AI agents within enterprise environments introduces a critical security challenge: managing access control for emergent, novel tasks for which no predefined policies exist. This paper introduces an advanced security framework that extends the Task-Based Access Control (TBAC) model by using a Large Language Model (LLM) as an autonomous, risk-aware judge. This model makes access control decisions not only based on an agent's intent but also by explicitly considerin…

It's currently a problem of access to gigabits through punybaud.
-- J. C. R. Licklider

A non starter for me. NO game will be allowed that access to my machine.
https://flip.it/yspke8

Linux should gate all shell access through a ring 0 LLM to compete with Microsoft

For years, China’s government has used what’s known as the
“Great Firewall” to censor the internet inside its country and block access to select foreign websites.
Now, a document leak shows that little-known Chinese company
'Geedge' is exporting these tools to other countries,
including Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia.

Massive leak exposes how China’s ‘Great Firewall’ is being exported to other countries
For years, China’s government has used what’s known as the “Great Firewall” to censor the internet inside its country and block access to select foreign websites. Now, a document leak shows that a little-known Chinese company is exporting these tools to other countries, including Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia. Ali Rogin speaks with WIRED senior writer Zeyi Yang to learn more.

Open-Access Scientific Game-Theory Paper Shows Religion Worth a Damn
Fear of supernatural PUNISHMENT can harmonize human societies with nature: an evolutionary game-theoretic approach
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05734-7?ref=404media.co
…

Fear of supernatural punishment can harmonize human societies with nature: an evolutionary game-theoretic approach - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Human activities largely impact the natural environment negatively and radical changes in human societies would be required to achieve their sustainable relationship with nature. Although frequently overlooked, previous studies have suggested that supernatural beliefs can protect nature from human overexploitation via beliefs that supernatural entities punish people who harm nature. Studies of folklore and ethnology have shown that such supernatural beliefs are widely found. However, it remains…

#Federal monitor wants #SantaClara County held
in #contempt for purposefully dragging feet on mandated jail reforms.
Report finds “The county’s continued

Federal monitor wants Santa Clara County held in contempt for dragging jail reforms
The Prison Law Office is asking a federal judge to start fining the county over its inability to improve jail staffing or reduce its inmate population to ensure adequate medical access under a 2018…

In Texas, Tierra Walker Wasn’t Offered an Abortion Before a High-risk Pregnancy Killed Her — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-tierra-walker-preeclampsia

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

"6 universities reject White House funding deal with attached demands. Multiple other schools have yet to respond "
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/16/us/trump-universities-compact-funding
So the Trump admin is trying their "quiproquo" technique with US…

4 universities decline White House offer for expanded access to federal funding in exchange for demands. Here’s what we know
The battle for academic freedom and institutional sovereignty in higher education continues to play out as another university has rejected a White House offer for expanded access to federal funding in return for agreeing to a series of demands.

Update, disconnecting wifi connection has not made windows laptop run faster. The "Fast access" part of windows filefinder is now running even slower...
I only want to check my backup to an external hard drive has worked!
6/n

Hyro, whose AI agents let US health care organizations automate tasks like scheduling and prescription renewals, raised $45M, taking its total funding to $95M (Sophie Shulman/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rylcu6valg

Hyro secures $45 million to scale AI automation in US healthcare
The startup aims to ease staffing pressures and improve patient access by deploying AI agents across hospitals and health systems nationwide.

An Artificial Intelligence Driven Semantic Similarity-Based Pipeline for Rapid Literature
Abhiyan Dhakal (Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal), Kausik Paudel (Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal), Sanjog Sigdel (Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15292

An Artificial Intelligence Driven Semantic Similarity-Based Pipeline for Rapid Literature
We propose an automated pipeline for performing literature reviews using semantic similarity. Unlike traditional systematic review systems or optimization based methods, this work emphasizes minimal overhead and high relevance by using transformer based embeddings and cosine similarity. By providing a paper title and abstract, it generates relevant keywords, fetches relevant papers from open access repository, and ranks them based on their semantic closeness to the input. Three embedding models…

Looks like law enforcement disrupted the Rhadamanthys infostealer.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rhadamanthys-infostealer-disrupted-as-cybercriminals-lose-server-access/

Rhadamanthys infostealer disrupted as cybercriminals lose server access
The Rhadamanthys infostealer operation has been disrupted, with numerous "customers" of the malware-as-a-service reporting that they no longer have access to their servers.

Right-Side-Out: Learning Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Garment Reversal
Chang Yu, Siyu Ma, Wenxin Du, Zeshun Zong, Han Xue, Wendi Chen, Cewu Lu, Yin Yang, Xuchen Han, Joseph Masterjohn, Alejandro Castro, Chenfanfu Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15953

Right-Side-Out: Learning Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Garment Reversal
Turning garments right-side out is a challenging manipulation task: it is highly dynamic, entails rapid contact changes, and is subject to severe visual occlusion. We introduce Right-Side-Out, a zero-shot sim-to-real framework that effectively solves this challenge by exploiting task structures. We decompose the task into Drag/Fling to create and stabilize an access opening, followed by Insert&Pull to invert the garment. Each step uses a depth-inferred, keypoint-parameterized bimanual primitive…

Iran on Thursday said it was ending the agreement it signed in September
allowing the International Atomic Energy Agency to resume inspections there,
after a resolution passed earlier in the day by the agency’s board
demanding “precise information” about Tehran’s enriched uranium and nuclear sites “without delay.”

A statement by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that countries that voted for the resolution
— backed by France, Britain, Germany and the …

Iran cancels new nuclear inspections it agreed to after bombing campaign
The termination of the agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency follows U.S.- and European-led charges that access has been denied.

Nano Banana Pro is great at following instructions, generates interim "thought images", and makes full infographics with well-rendered text from a short prompt (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/20/nano-banana-pro/

Nano Banana Pro aka gemini-3-pro-image-preview is the best available image generation model
Hot on the heels of Tuesday’s Gemini 3 Pro release, today it’s Nano Banana Pro, also known as Gemini 3 Pro Image. I’ve had a few days of preview access …

World Cup ticket prices.
#worldcup

I’m currently working on a software designed more than a decade ago. It offers a plugin architecture: you can develop a plugin whose lifecycle is handled by the software. The tough part, though, is how you access the platform capabilities: via static methods on singletons.
How did I #test my code?

Sabotage of climate action is systemic, not the result of individual actors.
Free download of ebook.
H/t @…
Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network
https://

Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network
Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.

About 40 to 50 Pentagon reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon rather than agree to new US government-imposed restrictions on their work (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-a…

Journalists exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power. The refusal was near-unanimous, from trade publications, wire services, television networks and newspapers, and included outlets that appeal largely to conservatives like Fox News Channel and Newsmax. Many of the reporters chose to turn in their badges together at the 4 p.m. deadline set by the Defense Departm…

Anyone using UTM/QEMU with a NT 3.51 VM?
I’m looking for correct network settings. It detects NE2000 ISA and assigns an IP but I can’t ping anything.
UTM mentions to set IRQ to 9 but that’s not an option I see (it’s set to 2).
Mainly I want to access a FTP server on the host computer to transfer files.
👉 I know how to use search engines, therefore please only make suggestions if you are personally familiar with this, thank you. 👈

Roblox in talks with Russia to restore access after platform ban sparks backlash https://therecord.media/roblox-in-talks-with-russia-to-restore-access-ban

Man Stores AI-Generated 'Robot Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/man-stores-ai-generated-robot-porn-on-his-government-computer-loses-access-to-nuclear-secrets/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p64#a251014p64

from my link log —
Execute-only pages vs PAN (privileged access never) on arm64.
https://siguza.github.io/PAN/
saved 2020-01-07 https://dotat.at/:/CBAC3.h…

Unequal access to nature: Few outdoor spaces in Europe and the U.S. accommodate sensory, mental disabilities https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/unequal-access-to-nature-few-outdoor-spaces-in-europe-and-the-…

Unequal access to nature: Few outdoor spaces in Europe and the U.S. accommodate sensory, mental disabilities
Sprawled along the Pacific coastline near San Francisco, Golden Gate National Recreation Area is full of wildflowers, beaches, and old-growth coastal redwoods, shrouded with a thin layer of marine fog that dissipates in sunlight. Visitors fish, hike, camp, and surf, the temperate climate and ocean views providing a boost to their mental and physical health. […]

ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/

Kavanaugh Voted To Overturn 'Roe'—But His Words Could End Up Helping to Protect Abortion Access
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/14/brett-kavanaugh-roe-dobbs-abortion-access/

Google sues data scraping company SerpApi for allegedly using hundreds of millions of fake search requests to access copyrighted material from Google products (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/g

Check out today's Metacurity for a comprehensive run-down of crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Yanluowang initial access broker faces up to 53 years in prison following guilty plea,
--CBO breach is considered 'ongoing,'
--Asahi's shipments are at 10% following attack and ahead of holiday season,
--Payments by British insurers for cyber incidents have tripled,
--Chinese national faces UK sentencing this week for money …

Yanluowang initial access broker faces up to 53 years in prison following guilty plea
CBO breach is considered 'ongoing,' Asahi's shipments are at 10% following attack and ahead of holiday season, Payments by British insurers for cyber incidents have tripled, Chinese national faces UK sentencing this week for money laundering, Firefox gets anti-fingerprinting fix, much more

Source: Tencent has secured access to Nvidia's Blackwell chips through a cloud service operated by Tokyo-based Datasection (Jacob Adelman/Barron's Online)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/china-tence…

A US federal judge denies Disney's request to block Sling TV's one-day pass that allows streaming of live content, saying Disney didn't prove "irreparable harm" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/824017/disney-sling-tv-cab…

Disney loses bid to block Sling TV’s one-day cable passes
A federal judge in New York has denied Disney’s motion to block Sling TV’s temporary streaming passes, which give viewers access to live content for as little as one day.

Google sues data scraping company SerpApi for allegedly using hundreds of millions of fake search requests to access copyrighted material from Google products (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/g

Before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metcurity for the crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--US, Canada warn of Chinese-linked Brickstorm malware that gains long-term access,
--Intellexa had access to personal data of Predator spyware targets,
--Int'l partners release AI security guide for OT orgs,
--Phreeli cellco doesn't ask for identifying info,
--Taiwan suspends Rednote over fraud cases,
--Alb…

US, Canada warn of Chinese-linked Brickstorm malware that gains long-term access
Intellexa had access to personal data of Predator spyware targets, Int'l partners release AI security guide for OT orgs, Phreeli cellco doesn't ask for identifying info, Taiwan suspends Rednote over fraud cases, Albiriox Android malware evolves quickly, NCSC debuts proactive notifications, much more

NPR lost access to the Pentagon because they will not sign an unprecedented Defense Department document,
which warns that journalists may lose their press credentials for "soliciting" even unclassified information from federal employees that has not been officially approved for release.
That policy prevents press from doing our job.
Signing that document would make us stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable.…

An Airwallex executive warned in 2023 that China staff were pushing to access client data; Keith Rabois accuses Airwallex of enabling Chinese access to US data (Lucas Baird/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/companies/finan…

Airwallex data access concerns over about China-based staff accessing customer data
A senior executive warned about improper access of private customer details presumably “driven by [China]“, but received pushback due to revenue concerns.

CNN plans to launch its All Access streaming subscription tier on October 28 for $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year in the US (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/cnn-subscription-service-launch-1236588685/

CNN’s Subscription Service To Launch October 28 At $6.99 Per Month
CNN is making another go of it with a subscription service, announcing an Oct. 28 launch for its “all access” service at a price of $6.99 per month. Subscribers will have access to live and on demand content, as well as digital journalism.  “It’s an essential step in CNN’s evolution as we work to give […]

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday an aggressive plan to continue dismantling the Education Department,
ending the agency’s broad role in supporting academics at elementary and high schools and in expanding access to college.
Those responsibilities, which had been overseen by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Office of Postsecondary Education,
will instead be largely taken over by the Labor Department.
Additional changes include movin…

Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department
Responsibilities for K-12 and college programs, among others, will be moved to other federal agencies.

Salesforce expands its partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to embed their AI models into Agentforce 360, including letting customers access it in ChatGPT (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/i

Salesforce expands OpenAI, Anthropic partnerships, eyes Agentforce everywhere
Salesforce expanded partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to embed their large language models into Agentforce 360. At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce said it has expanded a partnership with OpenAI so customers can access Agentforce 360 in ChatGPT. Salesforce customers will be able to access sales records, review conversations and build Tableau visualizations from within ChatGPT.

A look at Defense Secretary Hegseth's efforts to limit Pentagon press access; sources: he tried to bar an NBC News reporter who had dug up info about his past (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/business/media/hegseth-penta…

Inside Hegseth’s Effort to Limit Press Access at the Pentagon
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is at odds with the news media to a degree unseen in modern times, former Pentagon officials say.

Amazon rolls out Alexa on the web to early access users, with chat functionality, smart home controls, file management, and cross-device conversations (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/with-new-ale

Downing Street makes changes to press access, cutting an afternoon briefing and promising more press conferences, which will be open to social media influencers (Emilio Casalicchio/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/keir-starmer-do…

Keir Starmer’s Downing Street axes afternoon media briefings
The move has already sparked an uproar from Westminster’s journalists.

Roblox plans to require all users to undergo an age estimation process to access chat features, starting January 2026, in an effort to enhance child safety (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/822718/roblox-age-estimation-verification-chat…

Roblox will require age estimation to chat starting next year
After scrutiny over its ability to protect children on the platform, Roblox is making a big change.

Disney and CJ ENM's Tving partner to offer bundles that combine access to Disney , Tving, and South Korean streamer Wavve at discounted rates in South Korea (Patrick Brzeski/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

Disney+ and CJ ENM’s TVING Launch Landmark Streaming Partnership in Korea
The new collaboration — Disney’s first with a local OTT service in Korea — follows the company’s recent deal bringing TVING dramas to Disney+ in Japan.

France charges a crew member of an Italian passenger ferry for allegedly infecting the ship with a remote access tool on behalf of a foreign power (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fr…

Roblox plans to require all users to undergo an age estimation process to access chat features, starting January 2026, in an effort to enhance child safety (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/822718/roblox-age-estimation-verification-chat…

Roblox will require age estimation to chat starting next year
After scrutiny over its ability to protect children on the platform, Roblox is making a big change.

Sources: UK officials believe China was behind the October cyber attack on the UK's Foreign Office, which aimed to access tens of thousands of sensitive files (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fc7ebe87-8099-45f8-a8c2-2cf1c0b7dd83

Switzerland launches a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access to NFC tech on iPhones violate its antitrust laws (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/12/apple-pay-swiss-antitrust-probe-nfc/

Apple Pay Faces Swiss Antitrust Investigation Over NFC Access
Switzerland's competition authority has launched a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access to...

Meta's head of Threads Connor Hayes says that fediverse compatibility isn't a priority for its current roadmap, but it is something that it's "maintaining" (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/whats-next-for-threads

What's next for Threads
Connor Hayes wants Meta's X rival to be "the place on the internet to talk about what's going on in the world." Also: Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour this week on ACCESS.

Anthropic commits to buy $30B in Azure capacity in a new deal with Microsoft and Nvidia, which commit to invest up to $5B and $10B, respectively, in Anthropic (Microsoft)
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/18/microsoft-nvidia-…

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announce strategic partnerships - The Official Microsoft Blog
Anthropic to scale Claude on Azure Anthropic to adopt NVIDIA architecture NVIDIA and Microsoft to invest in Anthropic Today Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announced new strategic partnerships. Anthropic is scaling its rapidly-growing Claude AI model on Microsoft Azure, powered by NVIDIA, which will broaden access to Claude and provide Azure enterprise customers with expanded model choice and new capabilities. Anthropic...

Denmark's government has reached a political agreement to ban social media access for anyone under 15, with a possible parental consent exception from age 13 (Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/11/07/denmark-wants-to-ba…

Denmark wants to ban access to social media for children under 15
The proposal would be one of the most sweeping steps yet by a European country to curb social media use among young people.

JPMorgan Chase secures deals with fintech middlemen, like Plaid, covering 95% of third-party data pulls, and will receive payment for access to customer data (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/jpmorgan-chase-fintech-fees.html

JPMorgan Chase wins fight with fintech firms over fees to access customer data
The JPMorgan Chase deals mark a shift in the power dynamic between banks, middlemen and the fintech apps that are increasingly threatening incumbents.

An internal Google email said it received many complaints over Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled the ads could remain online (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/15/israel-ads-youtube-famine…

As famine struck Gaza, Google let Israel run YouTube ads claiming, ‘There is food’
An internal Google email said it received many complaints about Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled they could remain online.

Meta, TikTok, Google, and YouTube sue California over a new law that prohibits personalized feeds for minors without parental consent, claiming it violates 1A (Bernie Pazanowski/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/states-of-p…

Tech Giants Sue California Over Social Media Access Law (2)
Meta Platforms Inc., TikTok Inc., Google LLC, and YouTube LLC are challenging a California law that forbids social media platforms from allowing minors to access personalized feeds without parental consent.