Russia seeks to involve Laos in war against Ukraine, military intelligence claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/russia-seeks-to-involve-laos.html
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
Elon Musk’s team of Texas lobbyists during the 2025 legislative session did not rival those of huge energy and telecommunications companies,
which typically employ dozens of people to represent them.
⭐️But Musk and his companies still hired more lobbyists this year than any other since 2021, according to data from the Texas Ethics Commission.
❌Musk, the billionaire businessman behind carmaker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. …
Paradromics implanted and removed its Connexus brain implant in a patient for ~10 minutes during epilepsy surgery on May 14, a first for the Neuralink rival (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/paradromics-neuralink-rival-tested-brain-impl…
from my link log —
MicroHs: Haskell implemented with combinators by Lennart Augustsson.
https://github.com/augustss/MicroHs
saved 2025-05-17 https:/…
'Judges sometimes violate the law': Trump admin implores Trump-appointed judge to enjoin entire federal district court over automatic stays barring deportations in habeas cases
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/judges-sometimes-violate-the-law-trump-admin-implores-trump-appointed-judge-to-enjoin-entire-federal-district-court-over-automatic-stays-barring-deportations-in-habeas-cases/
Some economists are beginning to question the accuracy of recent U.S. inflation data
after the federal government said staffing shortages hampered its ability to conduct a massive monthly survey.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the office that publishes the inflation rate,
told outside economists this week that a hiring freeze at the agency was forcing the survey to cut back on the number of businesses where it checks prices.
In last month’s inflation report, which exa…
OpenAI says it disrupted 10 malicious operations in the past three months, including four that likely originated in China and targeted multiple countries (Shannon Bond/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/05/nx-s1-5423607/openai-china-influence-operation…
The U.S. military B-2 Spirit bomber pilots and crew involved with the coordinated strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last month have been invited to attend a July 4 celebration at the White House
-- but it's not clear what measures have been taken to protect their identities.
The White House confirmed to Military.com that those involved in the mission, dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, were invited to the White House's July 4 celebration.
It follows comments mad…
The C.B.O. estimate is all but certain to inflame debate within the G.O.P. about the spending bill.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that the broad Republican bill to cut taxes and slash some federal programs
👉would add $2.4 trillion to the already soaring national debt over the next decade,
in an analysis that was all but certain to inflame concerns that President Trump’s domestic agenda would lead to excessive government borrowing.
The C.B.O…