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Administration reinstates mental, substance abuse grants 1 day after canceling them (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5690488-trump-administration-restores-samhsa-grants/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p103#a260115p103

B08 - Hostage
USHTON: Inga! [She comes out of hiding as Ushton restores the oxygen to the room.] Get them out of there. I'll deal with Travis. [Ushton drags Travis out and dumps him down a cliff. Inga lets Blake, Avon and Vila out.]
VILA: Ugh.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/641 …

It might sound reasonable in theory, but it restores discrimination in practice.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-rule-restores-equal-protection-all-civil-rights-enforcement

Department of Justice Rule Restores Equal Protection for All in Civil Rights Enforcement
Today, the Justice Department issued a final rule updating its regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964. This rule ensures that our nation’s federal civil rights laws are firmly grounded in the principle of equal treatment under the law by eliminating disparate-impact liability from its Title VI regulations.

Ukraine restores power after nationwide blackout, rolling outages to continue: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/ukraine-restores-power-after-nationwide.html

💡 Why hashes over timestamps?
- Timestamps can be manipulated
- Backup restores mess up mtime
- Hashes reliably detect real content changes
🚀 Result: 32,000 files completely scanned in under 30 seconds – syncing only the delta!

Federal court blocks key parts of Trump's anti-voting order, restores states' control over elections (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-court-blocks-key-parts-of-trumps-anti-voting-order-restores-states-control-over-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p128#a260109p128

CORPOELEC calls the munitions that took out power in the attack on Caracas "missiles." Says that it has been able to restore 80% of the lost power.
Resilience in the face of devastation: CORPOELEC restores electricity service after attack on substations
https://mppee.gob.ve/?p=103285

Prototype device restores lost smell by teaching the brain to feel odors https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-prototype-device-lost-brain-odors.html
Substitution of human olfaction by the trigeminal system

Prototype device restores lost smell by teaching the brain to feel odors
There is new hope for people who have lost their smell. Scientists have successfully tested a breakthrough device that lets people detect the presence of certain odors. This innovative system helps them "smell" again by translating odors into feelings (like touch) inside the nose.

Chornobyl plant restores external power after temporary outage caused by Russian attack, according to Energy Ministry: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/20/chornobyl-plant-restores-external-power.html

Trump's leadership restores US influence in Latin America (Peter Laffin/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/4447336/trump-leadership-restores-us-influence-latin-america/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p55#a260206p55

I just found out that in old planes, flight computers were programmed with audio cassette tapes 😯 which now makes me want to look up how data recording on MCs worked on the C64 (before my time).
I remember that in the 90s, I tried to run "play.exe word.doc" to get my SoundBlaster card to write to my cassette tape. Which of course didn't work.
I bet there is a FOSS project that backups and restores to audio cassettes.
Well, I guess now I know how I'll spend my…

Extremely frustrated with #Backblaze today. They actively block restores to non-Apple formats on a Mac - even natively supported ones like ExFAT. I explicitly want to restore to non-Apple format to achieve platform agnosticism. Now I have 8 TB stuck in their cloud and have to decide which bothersome way outside my elderly Mac Mini server I want to struggle with in order to get my data back.…

Japan’s Askul resumes limited online sales 6 weeks after ransomware attack https://therecord.media/askul-resumes-limited-ordering-following-ransomware-attack

ZOR filters: fast and smaller than fuse filters
Antoine Limasset
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03525 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.03525 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.03525
arXiv:2602.03525v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Probabilistic membership filters support fast approximate membership queries with a controlled false-positive probability $\varepsilon$ and are widely used across storage, analytics, networking, and bioinformatics \cite{chang2008bigtable,dayan2018optimalbloom,broder2004network,harris2020improved,marchet2023scalable,chikhi2025logan,hernandez2025reindeer2}. In the static setting, state-of-the-art designs such as XOR and fuse filters achieve low overhead and very fast queries, but their peeling-based construction succeeds only with high probability, which complicates deterministic builds \cite{graf2020xor,graf2022binary,ulrich2023taxor}.
We introduce \emph{ZOR filters}, a deterministic continuation of XOR/fuse filters that guarantees construction termination while preserving the same XOR-based query mechanism. ZOR replaces restart-on-failure with deterministic peeling that abandons a small fraction of keys, and restores false-positive-only semantics by storing the remainder in a compact auxiliary structure. In our experiments, the abandoned fraction drops below $1\%$ for moderate arity (e.g., $N\ge 5$), so the auxiliary handles a negligible fraction of keys. As a result, ZOR filters can achieve overhead within $1\%$ of the information-theoretic lower bound $\log_2(1/\varepsilon)$ while retaining fuse-like query performance; the additional cost is concentrated on negative queries due to the auxiliary check. Our current prototype builds several-fold slower than highly optimized fuse builders because it maintains explicit incidence information during deterministic peeling; closing this optimisation gap is an engineering target.
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