🔓 Mexican government partially unblocks secure internet
#mexico
One day after California’s Democratic party urged candidates without a “viable path” in the state’s crucial race for governor to drop out,
the crowded field showed no sign of winnowing down.
At least nine Democrats are in the running to replace the outgoing governor, Gavin Newsom,
with no clear frontrunner,
💥which has fueled fears that the number of candidates could lead to two Republicans advancing to the November election.
Rusty Hicks, the chair of California’…
us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
ICE is scrutinizing work from home permissions for its employees with disabilities, continuing trend across government - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/02/ice-scrutinizing-work-home-permissions-its-employees-disabilities-continuing-trend-across-government/411201/?oref=ge-featured-river-secondary
"An analysis in October suggested that on just 27% of the vote (roughly in the middle of its polling over the past year), Reform UK would win 48% of the seats, allowing it to take power with a small coalition partner. If Reform UK forms the next government, it will be for one reason and one reason alone: our electoral system." -- George Monbiot, citing
California's "top-two" primary system is:
1. a terrible design from the perspective of democracy; but
2. working as intended for these centrist, corporate Democrats using it to pressure progressives to drop out. POSIWID
https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/0
As a general matter the US Federal government can not hold a copyright.
As such the "Coalie" character (see article below) may well be fair game for use by any and all in counter-messaging.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyrigh
Waffle House bans Florida wingnut weirdo. https://www.newsweek.com/james-fishback-waffle-house-campaign-banned-flordia-gubernatorial-election-11623958
Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones via malicious websites; iVerify suggests it may have been originally built for the US government (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/coruna-iphone-hacking-toolkit-us-government/
Nvidia says it's seeing "strong" demand from China for its H200 chips but is awaiting approvals from both Washington and Beijing before sales could begin (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/