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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…

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results - Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing: #DarkEnergy come together in a single experiment for the first time. Also Dark Energy Survey - DESI-Independent Angular BAO Measurement: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14864. And CosmoSlider - An educational tool for cosmology: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16919

This is called genocide denial. It is “an integral part of genocide” and includes “propaganda while the genocide is going on.”
“Denial is considered a genocidal process, the final stage, and a catalyst or indicator of future atrocities.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_denial

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.

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

Philip Rivers removes himself from Bills coaching consideration: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6999091/2026/01/26/philip-rivers-bills-coaching-candidacy/

"... for his and his family’s safety, [Gustavo Petro] agreed to a diplomatic posting in Belgium in 1994. While there, he studied environmentalism and economics at the University of Louvain, and he became deeply interested in the work of Romanian economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, who warned that while the global economy relies on constant growth, the Earth cannot be exploited forever."

Gustavo Petro: Colombia’s former rebel fighter turned president
From urban rebel to senator facing death threats, what drives Petro, 65, the country’s first progressive president?

Human trafficking. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o2s7e2iusv5jd5gcykzbxms4/post/3mddituuijc2s

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.