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A pack of dogs being kept by a Southern California grandmother has killed her daughter and injured her grandson in an attack, authorities said.
Emily Panuco, 26, of Parker, Ariz., on Friday visited her mother’s home in Big River, a California town along the Colorado River, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.
One of her mother’s dogs had recently had puppies, which were in a cardboard box near the front door, the release said.
When Panuco’s 5…

Mother dies protecting son injured from dog attack at grandmother's home
An Arizona mother was visiting her mother's home in Big River, Calif. on Friday. One of her mother’s dogs had recently had puppies, which were in a cardboard box near the front door, the release said. The child went near the box and was attacked and his mother stepped in to protect him.

"Keir Starmer suggested allowing the US to use the bases to carry out defensive strikes against Iranian targets at the meeting last Friday but was met with opposition from Ed Miliband, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper and Shabana Mahmood, according to the Spectator, which was then picked up by several media outlets."
Leak from secret UK meeting on US attacks on Iran an ‘absolute travesty’, says Lammy | US-Israel war on Iran | The Guardian

Metacurity is the daily intelligence report that thousands of infosec professionals rely on to cope with news overload.
Check out today's issue, which covers critical developments you should know, including
--Cisco, Five Eyes alliance urge immediate patching for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN zero day,
--OpenAI refused to assist in online smear and other misdeeds,
--Shinyhunters pressures Odido with first leak of stolen data,
--Only a small fraction of new vulnerabil…

Cisco, Five Eyes alliance urge immediate patching for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN zero day
OpenAI refused to assist in online smear and other misdeeds, Shinyhunters pressures Odido with first leak of stolen data, Only a small fraction of new vulnerabilities are exploited, Mississippi Medical Center closed through Friday, Anthropic denies it won't support military cyber action, much more

I visited a popular #OpenSource documentation site this morning, and the glare almost blinded me.
Folk, in this day and age, if you run a website, there is NO EXCUSE for not implementing `@media: prefers-color-scheme(dark)`
But, I thought, this is open source! I can submit a pull request to fix this!
Reader, there are ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR distinct colours specified in th…

Let me be clear. If the state of Washington ever asked me the question:
Permanent DST or switch back and forth?
I would eagerly select "No more switching boneheads".
But I would also be emailing the state legislature asking why on earth they ended up with this boneheaded choice, when the obvious, correct, answer was right there all along: Just abolish DST.

Emails from a trove released by the Department of Justice on Friday,
show that as late as 2018,
Epstein was invited to or attended dinners alongside the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and Google vice-president and later Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.
Most of the events were staged by the Edge network,
a creation of literary agent John Brockman,
which offered a …

Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024 (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/data-centers-are-driving-a-us-gas-boom/

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

The Funeral of Handwriting: What We Lose When the Hand Stops Moving
In 2010, the Common Core State Standards Initiative dropped cursive instruction from its recommended curriculum. The decision arrived without ceremony. No public debate, no period of mourning, no recognition that a cognitive practice stretching back to the Sumerian reed stylus was being retired from American education. Forty-one states adopted the standards. Cursive, along with its slower sibling…

The Funeral of Handwriting: What We Lose When the Hand Stops Moving | David Boles, Blogs
In 2010, the Common Core State Standards Initiative dropped cursive instruction from its recommended curriculum. The decision arrived without ceremony. No public debate, no period of mourning, no r…

When DHS, USCIS, and DOGE announced the overhaul of the SAVE program,
they explicitly linked the effort to a campaign to combat the “taint” of noncitizen voter fraud,
a long-standing claim tied to the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
By all appearances, the administration is poised to use the SAVE program to prop up these false claims,
and sympathetic local officials may deploy SAVE to concoct evidence.
This move poses serious risks to vo…

DHS, USCIS, DOGE Overhaul Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Database | Homeland Security
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, alongside USCIS and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), announced a comprehensive optimization of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database to ensure a single, reliable source for verifying non-citizen status nationwide.

Several crew members of a ship that collided with a bridge in Baltimore
almost two years ago
are still being held in the US
by federal authorities
despite the fact that
no criminal charges have been brought against them.
In the early hours of 26 March 2024,
the MV Dali departed the port of Baltimore bound for Sri Lanka.
While navigating the Fort McHenry channel,
the 1,000ft-long Singapore-flagged cargo vessel
lost power before strik…