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from my link log —
Constant-time support lands in LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code at the compiler level.
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/25/constant-time-support-lands-in-llvm-protecting-cryptogra…

Constant-time support lands in LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code at the compiler level
Trail of Bits developed constant-time coding support for LLVM 21 that prevents compilers from breaking cryptographic implementations vulnerable to timing attacks, introducing the __builtin_ct_select family of intrinsics that preserve constant-time properties throughout compilation.

A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his &qu…

The whole thing is optimized for scams, deception and other criminal behavior:
- user interface that deceptively pretends it's a human you're talking to
- claims from companies highly exaggerate capabilities
companies and "experts" constantly hype "AGI" which they (funnily enough) do to both make investors greedier and spread fear and as a distraction because these algorithms can't actually do what they keep promising
- large-scale accounting and financial fraud (e.g. what Nvidia is doing with circular selling)
- biggest case of copyright infringement in history
Note: I think the underlying technology is really cool, and definitely has use cases and can be used for actually good things. But: some technology just has more downsides than upsides, and some should only be used by experts in controlled environments. Leaded gasoline, asbestos and chlorofluorocarbon are also all really cool technology.
In this case perhaps the techology itself doesn't do anything inherently bad, however the people making it are lying about what it can do, the people selling it are motivated purely by greed and the people using it (often forced to do so) are being deceived.

Ce texte devrait être en accès libre…
« En Cisjordanie occupée, Turmus Ayya est peuplé Š 85 % de citoyens américano-palestiniens. Chaque été, ces binationaux viennent retrouver leur famille et entretenir le lien avec leur terre d’origine. Ils constatent alors que leur passeport américain n’offre aucune immunité contre les persécutions de l’armée et des colons sur ce territoire où les implantations israéliennes illégales s’accélèrent. »

'Everybody gotta eat': With Rice back, Chiefs finally have offense they envisioned https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46685079/kansas-city-chiefs-offense-rashee-rice-return-elite-offense-commanders

Finally found some time to look into the QGISMCP plugin.
The original connects #QGIS :qgis: to #Claude through the Model Context Protocol #MCP. I rewired it to work with a local European alternative: the new m…

GitHub - anitagraser/qgis_mcp: Model Context Protocol (MCP) that allows LLMs to use QGIS Desktop
Model Context Protocol (MCP) that allows LLMs to use QGIS Desktop - anitagraser/qgis_mcp

A NASA mission that studied the interior of hurricanes collected its final data on Nov. 12, as the last two CubeSats in its fleet were powered down prior to re-entering Earth’s atmosphere: #TROPICS (Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats) mission originally consisted of four identical, milk carton-sized satellites that launched in May 2023.

Finally, a German opposition to a ban that I can support!
Germany wants to keep the names 'veggie burger' and 'vegetarian sausage'. The latter was invented by the 'greatest German of all time', Konrad Adenauer, so it should be considered part of German cultural heritage.
https://www.

Agrarminister Rainer gegen "Veggie-Burger"-Verbot in der EU
In der EU könnten Begriffe wie "Veggie-Schnitzel" bald verboten werden. Bundesagrarminister Rainer will sich dagegen einsetzen: Er hält die Debatte für "unnötig" - und sieht vor allem negative Folgen bei einem Verbot.

Spending a few hours with old girl Violet as her humans needed to go out but she's terrified of the constant fireworks we have at the moment.
Normally I only walk her so she's spent ages by the door looking at her harness and crying, but finally she settled down.
Not too many fireworks yet but it's only 5pm. If it gets bad she'll be shaking and panting and I may have to give her morphine 😢

As a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories in the lab.
Now, as a neuroscientist working at the frontiers of brain science, he foresees a future where
we can replace our negative memories with positive ones.
In "How to Change a Memory", Ramirez draws on his own memories
—of friendship, family, loss, and recovery
—to reveal how memory can be turned on and off like a switch,
edited, and even
constructed fro…