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“Opening locks” might not sound like scintillating social media content,
but Trevor McNally has turned lock-busting into online gold.
A former US Marine Staff Sergeant, McNally today has more than 7 million followers and has amassed more than 2 billion views
just by showing how easy it is to open many common locks by slapping, picking, or shimming them

10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.

Zahlen, bitte! TON 618: Riesiges Schwarzes Loch mit 66 Milliarden Sonnenmassen
TON 618 ist ein Quasar, in dem sich ein Schwarzes Loch mit wahrlich gigantischen Dimensionen befindet. So ziemlich alles daran gereicht zu Superlativen.

This car was reportedly going 80 to 100 mph. That shouldn't be possible on a (sub)urban street. Every other commonly used consumer product has basic safeguards: you can't accidentally set your toaster to 2,000°F. Speed limiters in all cars now!
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"Le Monde – Budget 2026 : des taxes sur les multinationales et les géants du numérique américains votées Š l’Assemblée, au grand dam du gouvernement"
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/artic…

Budget 2026 : des taxes sur les multinationales et les géants du numérique américains votées à l’Assemblée, au grand dam du gouvernement
En première lecture, les députés ont approuvé à une écrasante majorité un amendement de LFI et un autre de Renaissance. Ces deux mesures pourraient rapporter plus de 20 milliards d’euros, mais ont peu de chances de passer l’étape du Sénat.

All three major South Korean telcos, SK Telecom, KT Telecom, and now LG Uplus, have reported cybersecurity incidents to the government over the past six months (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/28/lg-uplus-is-late…

LG Uplus is latest South Korean telco to confirm cybersecurity incident | TechCrunch
Korean telecom giant LG Uplus is the third major phone provider in the past six months to report a cybersecurity incident.

https://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-mob-museum-opens-new-exhibit-on-digital-organized-crime
The Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas opens new exhibit on digitally organized crime

The Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas opens new exhibit on digitally organized crime
The Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas opened a groundbreaking new exhibit today that explores how organized crime has evolved from "street shakedowns" to "cyber shakedowns" in the digital age.

from my link log —
Lazy linearity for a core functional language.
https://alt-romes.github.io/posts/2025-11-26-lazy-linearity-popl26.html
saved 2025-11-27

Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/mekong-sand-mining-risks-collapse-of-se-asias-largest-freshwater-lake-study-finds/

Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds
Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The Mekong’s annual wet season flood pulse that feeds water into Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake has been dwindling year by year. Experts have long pointed to upstream hydropower dams in China […]

Americans Are Getting a Look at Next Year's ACA Premiums and Many Don't Like It (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/americans-are-getting-a-look-at-next-years-aca-premiums-and-many-dont-like-it-b6a2326b?st=doLpez&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p158#a251028p158

Meituan reports Q3 revenue up 2% to $13.4B and a $2.3B adjusted net loss, worse than $1.9B est., its first loss since 2022, amid a price war with JD and Alibaba (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…