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A leaked memo by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi
directs the Justice Department and FBI to ❌compile a list of groups that may be labeled
“domestic terrorism” organizations
- based on political views related to immigration, gender and U.S. policy.
The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein,
who joins us to discuss how it expands on Donald Trump’s "NSPM-7 directive" following the assassination of Charlie Kirk,
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“Domestic Terrorism”: Leaked DOJ Memo Targets “Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Christianity”
A leaked memo by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directs the Justice Department and FBI to compile a list of groups that may be labeled “domestic terrorism” organizations based on political views related to immigration, gender and U.S. policy. The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein, who joins us to discuss how it expands on President Donald Trump’s NSPM-7 directive following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which ordered a national strategy to inv…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Leopold Koželuh:
🎵 Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in F Major: II. Adagio
#LeopoldKoželuh
https://open.spotify.com/track/3eqO8VMbbPeEy6eNoe2Olv

EEPROM update: Followed PROG_RD_EN to the output of a massive inverter north of the row decoders. Interestingly, it's got guard rings/tap terminals around it and has large (1.2um channel length) transistors, which suggests it's working with high voltage.
But one side of the inverter is driven by ground and the other by VCORE.
The input of the inverter comes from the block immediately to its left which I'm still tracing out and don't yet understand; the input of TH…

"E-waste recycling in Ghana exposes workers to toxic pollution and health risks"
#Ghana #EWaste #Recycling

E-waste recycling in Ghana exposes workers to toxic pollution and health risks
A University of Michigan study has found that people in Ghana and across the Global South who recycle electronic waste face a difficult paradox: earning livelihoods to ensure survival comes at the cost of severe long-term exposure to toxicity and dramatic environmental pollution.

OpenAI pulls back: ChatGPT will no longer give medical, legal, or financial advice over liability fears - Technology News | The Financial Express
https://www.financialexpress.com/life/tech

#Fensterfreitag Note that my CBT therapy makes it possible for me to have the painting/poster hanging slithtly aslant

Paraphrase of my #IOT hardware rant on slack (unsurprising, since I maintain https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash/)
In a perfect world IOT hardware companies should:
- Have to escrow the firmware. And escrow the source code, not just the binary blob
- The firmware isn't allowed to use binary blobs as device drivers. Chip manufacturers will have to suck it up and document their chips or hardware companies won't be able to use them
- Have to escrow any keys required to update the firmware
- To be sold, have to have a local API, with at a minimum, functionality to update the firmware once the hardware company stops support. No "You have to use our crapware that only works on a phone/computer OS two major versions old, and it has to download firmware from our servers that got turned off when we went out of business / dropped the product's support
- Eighteen months with no updates causes release of the escrowed firmware and update keys. There are bound to be at least some security updates required in that time
- Have to have clearly labeled pads on the board for updating firmware and running diagnostics.
- Not be allowed to lock consumers out of reflashing the firmware. If someone flashes custom firmware before the escrowed firmware is released, and the custom firmware bricks the device, that's on the person who reflashed it, not the company.
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