Tootfinder

This is a cell in the notorious s21 interrogation center where the Khmer Rouge warehoused people before hauling them off to the killing fields. Barely big enough for one person. Basically this is what ICE is building in warehouses in the United States.

Popular media shows Santa's sleigh as red no matter which way it's flying, or even when it's standing still.
It's not. When it's parked, it's green. But most observers only see it flying away after making a delivery, hence the red shift.
And if you're lucky to see it inbound it's blue with a hint of UV-A. Wear sunglasses.

U.S. Air Force: F22-Pilot arbeitet im Flug mit autonomer MQ-20-Drohne zusammen
Ein F-22-Pilot hat eine autonome MQ-20-Avenger-Drohne im Flug angewiesen, verschiedene taktische Aufgaben zu übernehmen und Luftbedrohungen abzuwehren.

Complaint by Coupang's U.S. investors may turn data leak probe into trade flash point
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-01-23/business/tech/Compl…

Complaint by Coupang's U.S. investors may turn data leak probe into trade flash point
U.S. investors in Coupang sought intervention in the Korean government's probe of the e-commerce giant over a data leak, potentially escalating the domestic investigation into an international trade conflict.

Donald Trump's company has announced plans for a skyscraper in Australia,
which according to his son Eric, will be the country's tallest building.
The tower will be built on Queensland's Gold Coast and be 335 metres (1,100ft) high, taller than the Shard in London.
Construction of the 91-storey
Trump International Hotel & Tower, Gold Coast is set to begin in August,
according to the hotel's developer, Altus Property Group.
The building w…

Trump Organization unveils plans for 'Australia's tallest skyscraper'
The tower will be built on Queensland's Gold Coast and be 335 metres high, taller than the Shard in London.

Source: Binance considers reintroducing stock tokens after removing them in 2021; OKX, Kraken, Bitget, and others are expanding their tokenized stock offerings (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/crypto-exchanges-want…

Crypto Exchanges Want to Trade U.S. Stocks Everywhere
Some of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges are racing to let their customers trade crypto tokens that seek to track U.S. stocks, creating a parallel market that’s beyond the reach of U.S. regulators. Binance is exploring reintroducing stock tokens on its exchange after having removed them in ...

It's Christmas eve and we showed my father Mario Kart again, but he's drinking alcohol as always, and he keeps getting better at it?? He never liked video games and he always sucked at Mario Kart when we played it in the past, but now that he's drunk he's even beating me and my sister at it?

Dallas Cowboys preview with Logan Paulsen and who's at Fred Smoot's Christmas dinner? https://www.commanders.com/video/dallas-cowboys-preview-with-logan-paulsen-and-who-s-at-fred-smoot-s-christmas-dinner

Q&A With FPF Vice President for U.S. Policy, Matthew Reisman
https://fpf.org/blog/qa-with-fpf-vice-president-for-u-s-policy-matthew-reisman/
@…

Stay warm out there!

“No," said Ivan firmly. "He is not. He is merely rather quiet. It's not the same thing at all. You don't want to see what he's like pissed.”
By: “What does he look like, pissed?"
Ivan:"Identical to what he looks like the rest of the time. That's the scary part.”
Lois McMaster Bujold, “A Civil Campaign”

GM Omar Khan says 'door's open' for Aaron Rodgers return; Steelers also looking for 'franchise' QB https://www.nfl.com/news/gm-omar-khan-says-door-s-open-for-aaron-rodgers-return-steelers-also-looking-for-fr…

It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it
is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It
isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.
-- Oxford University Press, Edpress News

It's "galaxy season" for astrophotographers (the Milky Way isn't well visible right now during the night, so a lot of nebulas aren't either).
Here's a "snap" I did two years ago of Markarian's Chain, a stretch of galaxies that forms part of the Virgo Cluster.
🔭🧪 #astrophotography

that's just "that's just [fill-in-blank]slop, you only like it because it's [fill-in-blank]"slop, you only like it because it's another terminally online cliche to automatically reach for when u have nothing, only relatively recent and therefore hasn't been 100% run into the ground (until now)

Minder baby's met RS-virus op intensive care, prik lijkt te werken
#RSvirus #vaccinatie

Workout of the day.

Comcast extends Mike Cavanagh's contract through January 1, 2029, and grants a ~$35M performance-based stock package; he's set to become co-CEO in January 2026 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/comcast-…

Comcast Extends Michael Cavanagh Contract Through 2029, Gets $35M Stock Award
Michael Cavanagh, as he's set to assume the role of Comcast's co-CEO on Jan. 2, extended his employment contract with the cable and media conglomerate that runs through Jan. 1, 2029.

Good God, Trump's apes killed a protester in Minneapolis. It's time to send the Guard against these monsters.
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426

Luckily, I can use last year's lecture notes unchanged for the course that's about to start in [checks watch] 10 minutes, because that's not what it's supposed to look like…
I’m trying to use the #Pandoc diagram.lua filter with mermaid to produce PDF via #Typst. Apparently the p…

Luckily, I can use last year's lecture notes unchanged for the course that's about to start in [checks watch] 10 minutes, because that's not what it's supposed to look like…
I’m trying to use the #Pandoc diagram.lua filter with mermaid to produce PDF via #Typst. Apparently the p…

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Taiwanese attempts to charm the mercurial US administration, an Indian regulator’s ongoing attempts to juice Apple and Jensen on his travels.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/chip

Taiwan’s Trump strategy - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Taiwanese attempts to charm the mercurial US administration, an Indian regulator’s ongoing attempts to juice Apple and Jensen on his travels.

here's my new solution for "i need to send a file to someone and i really don't want them to need anything but the browser"
unsurprisingly, it uses https://codeberg.org/git-pages/git-pages

It's What's Inside (2024) - Eight friends with somewhat messy relationships spend a night screwing around with mind swaps (or body swaps). It's cleverly constructed, and it does a lot to help you keep track of who's who, but I still got confused at a few points (mild face blindness doesn't help). It did all make sense on 2nd viewing.
Thrash pointed out that fursuiters can actually do this type of identity swap, but this movie does a few things that does need the mag…

«Empty Hands» es lo nuevo sorprendente y multifacética Poppy.
#Poppy

So former Dutch Minister and @… leader Sigrid Kaag is not part of Trump's "Board of Peace", but of his closely related "Gaza Executive Board", which has 4 members in common with the founding Executive Board of Trump's "Board of Peace": Witkoff, Kushner, Blair, Rowan

Raiders place TE Brock Bowers and S Jeremy Chinn on Reserve/Injured list https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-place-te-brock-bowers-and-s-jeremy-chinn-on-reserve-injured-list

WATCH LIVE:
Democratic lawmakers join the
'People's State of the Union' rally
during Trump's address today
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-democratic-lawmaker…

WATCH LIVE: Democratic lawmakers join 'People's State of the Union' rally during Trump's address
More than two dozen Democratic lawmakers plan to to attend the "People's State of the Union" rally on the National Mall on Tuesday night instead of listening to President Donald Trump's address inside the House chamber.

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
BLAKE: Zen, hold it there. Now then, play it back, slowly. There! That's it, that's what's been bothering me.
VILA: I don't see anything special.
AVON: It's in the wrong place.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/21 B7B3

»Microsoft confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption #key if asked—you can thank Windows 11's forced online accounts for that:
#Windows 11's online Microsoft Account requirement means your #PC

Microsoft confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked — you can thank Windows 11's forced online accounts for that
Microsoft says it will provide the FBI with BitLocker encryption keys if requested for PCs that upload their key to the cloud via your Microsoft Account.

The cover of this week's edition of Science..
The details say it all - everything that Trump's shadow touches is broken.
https://www.science.org/
Let's do what we can to preserve science (which is an international endeavour) and support our US colleagues until the US gets rid of Trump!

U.S. men's hockey team expected to attend Trump's State of the Union speech (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-us-mens-hockey-team-state-union-speech-congress-rcna260479
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p114#a260224p114

from my link log —
OpenWV: Open reimplementation of Google's Widevine Content Decryption Module for browsers.
https://github.com/tchebb/openwv
saved 2026-01-23 https://<…

GitHub - tchebb/openwv: Open reimplementation of Google's Widevine Content Decryption Module for browsers
Open reimplementation of Google's Widevine Content Decryption Module for browsers - tchebb/openwv

"ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that.""
Stephen Miller’s Database – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2026/01/24/stephen-millers-database/

The US Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker Operation Zero, its founder Sergey Zelenyuk, and others for acquiring and reselling stolen US defense exploits (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026…

Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker accused of buying exploits stolen from U.S. defense contractor | TechCrunch
The U.S. Treasury announced it was imposing sanctions against a Russian broker of zero-day exploits, its founder and two affiliates, citing a threat to U.S. national security. Another affiliated zero-day broker in the United Arab Emirates was also sanctioned.

Happy Saturday! Metacurity offers our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--The untouchable hacker god who destroyed psychotherapy patients,
--AI prompt injection is an unsolvable problem,
--Deepfakes are messing up Canada's justice system,
--What the hack of Russia's Unified Military Registry revea…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 1/17/26
The untouchable hacker god who destroyed psychotherapy patients, AI prompt injection is an unsolvable problem, Deepfakes are messing up Canada's justice system, What the hack of Russia's Unified Military Registry revealed, The US military needs to accelerate its tests of AI trustworthiness

We should all be furious about Trump's failure to release the Epstein files. We should all be skeptical of what's in them. Not everything the FBI collects turns out to be true.

There are investigations linking specific no-name Twitter accounts with less than 30 followers as the source of Musk's and Trump's disinformed beliefs. We are able to trace Trump's conspiracy beliefs of the gold being stolen in Fort Knox to just some random account on Twitter claiming it.
Whoever runs that account has more influence than you. You don't even need Russia or China to plant disinformation on a mass-scale, apparently all it takes is some Twitter Account.

More than two dozen Democratic lawmakers plan to to attend the "People's State of the Union" rally on the National Mall on Tuesday night instead of listening to Donald Trump's address inside the House chamber.
https://www.p…

WATCH LIVE: Democratic lawmakers join 'People's State of the Union' rally during Trump's address
More than two dozen Democratic lawmakers plan to to attend the "People's State of the Union" rally on the National Mall on Tuesday night instead of listening to President Donald Trump's address inside the House chamber.

Workout of the day.

Mr Rogers always said that we should look for the helpers. That's great. Unfortunately Trump's armed goon squad is also looking for the helpers.

Daniel Jeremiah's top 50: 2026 NFL Draft prospect rankings 2.0 https://www.nfl.com/news/daniel-jeremiah-s-top-50-2026-nfl-draft-prospect-rankings-2-0

Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's "dynamic view" option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/gemini-vs-chatgpt-product/

Google Starts to Bridge OpenAI's Product Moat
Gemini's "Dynamic View" is a terrible name for a profound product...

Un poco de pop con «How Did I Get Here?» del ex One Direction, Louis Tomlinson.
#LouisTomlinson

Raiders place TE Brock Bowers and S Jeremy Chinn on Reserve/Injured list https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-place-te-brock-bowers-and-s-jeremy-chinn-on-reserve-injured-list

South Korea's three major terrestrial broadcasters, KBS, MBC, and SBS, sue OpenAI, alleging it used their news content to train AI models without authorization (Lee Yoon-seo/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10680650

Korea's top TV networks sue OpenAI for training ChatGPT with their news - The Korea Herald
South Korea's three major terrestrial broadcasters KBS, MBC, and SBS filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, seeking an injunction to halt alleged copyright infringemen

If the girl you love moves in with another guy once, it's more than enough.
Twice, it's much too much. Three times, it's the story of your life.

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
DAYNA: Well no, but Soolin's right though, Servalan will be more worried about the mining, the stuff they're digging up now, won't she?
GERREN: Unfortunately, they're not digging up anything much. There's virtually no feldon left. Belkov's milked this planet for twelve good years, now he knows the game's up, he wants to use the crystals to buy survival.

Updated my Android (Xiaomi HyperOS) while traveling abroad and had a minor freakout when it stopped charging. All my travel plans are on that phone, not to mention it's my camera. I REALLY don''t need it to quit on me.
Turns out it's a "feature" that only charges to 80% in order to save wear on the battery. I turned that off.
Phew.

⭐ Starred a repository

WorksApplications/SudachiDict
A lexicon for Sudachi
github.com/WorksApplications/SudachiDict

GitHub - WorksApplications/SudachiDict: A lexicon for Sudachi
A lexicon for Sudachi. Contribute to WorksApplications/SudachiDict development by creating an account on GitHub.

Booz Allen Hamilton commits $400M to a16z's newest set of funds, for which a16z raised $15B in January; this is Booz Allen's first LP stake in any VC fund (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/01/23/booz-allen-hamilton-400m…

Booz Allen Hamilton commits $400M to a16z funds
It's the firm's first LP stakes in any venture funds.

Every NFL team's biggest need entering the combine; Darryn Peterson's camp breaks silence on Kansas situation

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-team-needs-scoutin…

Who's paying the attendees?
From: @…
https://assortedflotsam.com/@politicsbot/115951193821755824

Para los fans del thrash, el nuevo disco de Dave Mustaine y compañía «Megadeth»
#Megadeth

"We have to build industrial-level security for AI agents in that particular area. To me, that's still a gap that somebody needs to work on," Raj Sharma, EY's global managing partner of growth and innovation said.
Execs at Davos say AI's biggest problem isn't hype — it's security

Execs at Davos say AI's biggest problem isn't hype — it's security
EY and KPMG executives at Davos said that AI security is a big risk, especially AI agents and, looking ahead, quantum computing.

Trump Officials Plan To Drop Army's Preference For Blind Vendors
The decision was approved by Trump’s education secretary,
Linda McMahon,
the former professional wrestling CEO,
according to a notice.
The Education Department oversees what’s known as the "Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facility Program",
which was created during the Great Depression to help integrate blind workers into the U.S. workforce due to discrimination.
An Education D…

Trump's Latest Target In His Anti-DEI Rampage: Blind Workers
Education Secretary Linda McMahon has apparently decided that giving blind entrepreneurs priority at Army dining halls "adversely affects" U.S. interests.

A job listing shows Google is developing a new Android-based "Aluminium OS" that is "built with AI at the core", potentially as a ChromeOS replacement for PCs (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/aluminium-os-android-f…

Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC: Here's what we know
Goodbye ChromeOS, hello Aluminium OS: Here's everything we know about Google's plans to bring Android to PCs!

⭐ Starred a repository

togatoga/karukan
Japanese Input Method System for Linux, Neural Kana-Kanji Conversion Engine fcitx5 IME
github.com/togatoga/karukan

GitHub - togatoga/karukan: Japanese Input Method System for Linux, Neural Kana-Kanji Conversion Engine + fcitx5 IME
Japanese Input Method System for Linux, Neural Kana-Kanji Conversion Engine + fcitx5 IME - togatoga/karukan

I'm sitting here in so-called communist Vietnam, reading about Trump's goons killing another American in minneapolis, and I just want to scream out loud. What the f is happening to america?

Could Christmas night be Travis Kelce's final game at Arrowhead Stadium? https://www.nfl.com/news/could-christmas-night-be-travis-kelce-s-final-game-at-arrowhead-stadium

JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump's attempt to strip security clearance from #whistleblower lawyer
#Mark #Zaid.
Judge Amir Ali (Biden) says the move may violate Constitution's ban on bills of attainder.

Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social)
JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump's attempt to strip security clearance from whistleblower lawyer Mark Zaid. Judge Amir Ali (Biden) says the move may violate Constitution's ban on bills of attainder. Doc: https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv1365-52

Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in H2, with plans to integrate a vendor to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is planning stablecoin comeback in the second half amid U.S. regulatory shift
The Facebook owner’s stablecoin integration involves planning a third party vendor to help administer stablecoin-based payments and a new wallet to be implemented, sources said.

Vamos con la música en otro viernes de lanzamientos. Partimos con lo nuevo de The Damned, «Not Like Everybody Else», disco que incluye un cover a «See Emily Play», de Pink Floyd, que no les quedó nada mal. 👌🏻
https://album.link/s/28pRfoAGlowiuGus9h4lBq

Before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity for the crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--A database with 149 million usernames and passwords was exposed on the internet,
--Venezuelan nationals who stole cash from ATMs using malware will be deported from US,
--FBI asked Microsoft to unlock encrypted laptops,
--Under Armour is investigating massive data breach,
--Tech investors want the US government to prob…

A database with 149 million usernames and passwords was exposed on the internet
Venezuelan nationals who stole cash from ATMs using malware will be deported from US, FBI asked Microsoft to unlock encrypted laptops, Under Armour is investigating massive data breach, Tech investors want the US government to probe S. Korea's treatment of Coupang following data breach, much more

Workout of the day.

So all that talk about a good guy with a gun was just marketing material for the weapons industry?

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras confidentially files for a US IPO after withdrawing a previous IPO last year, and a listing could take place as soon as April (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-cerebras-files-confidenti…

Exclusive: Cerebras Files Confidentially For a U.S. IPO
Cerebras Systems has again made a confidential filing for a U.S. public offering, according to people with knowledge of its plans. The designer of AI chips and systems has been meeting with prospective investors before a potential listing that could take place as soon as this April, they said. The company had aimed to go public last year, but announced last December it was withdrawing its IPO

Federal judge Mary McElroy has blocked the Trump administration’s
attempt to reallocate federal Homeland Security funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy’s ruling on Monday solidified a win for the coalition of 12 attorneys general
that sued the administration earlier this year after being alerted that their states would receive drastically reduced federal grants due to their “sanctuary…

Federal judge blocks Trump administration's homeland security funding cut to Democratic states
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempt to cut Homeland Security funding from states that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy ruled Monday in favor of 12 attorneys general who sued after their states faced reduced federal grants due to their “sanctuary” status. The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA had cut over $233 million from several states. McElroy found the funding cuts arbitrary and ordered their rest…

If Rams are NFL's top team, who is No. 2? Plus: Purdy's performance, 2026 targets https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6916089/2025/12/23/nfl-best-team-2025-rams-seahawks-patriots/

Workout of the day.

I get cranky about the price of a hot dog in an airport. Seeing those Gucci and Swarovski shops turns me positively French Revolution. Such ridiculously conspicuous consumption.

Kraken launches what it claims are the first regulated perpetual futures contracts based on tokenized stocks, available to non-US users and trading 24/7 (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Kraken brings crypto-style, 24/7 perpetuals trading for tokenized U.S. stocks
The crypto exchange is bringing U.S. stocks closer to the crypto world, letting users trade derivatives of tokenized stocks around-the-clock and with 20x leverage.

Trump may have just created the "kryptonite" that brings down his second administration,
according to a new report
Trump's MAGA movement coalition has started to crack in recent weeks over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files,
which Trump promised to release in full during his 2024 presidential campaign.
The administration has sought to withhold files from the public,
and the Justice Department has said it
"nee…

'End of the era': Trump just created the 'kryptonite' that could bring down his presidency
President Donald Trump may have just created the "kryptonite" that brings down his second administration, according to a new report. Trump's MAGA movement coalition has started to crack in recent weeks over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which Trump promised to release i...

Dumbest iot device I've seen lately wasn't on-demand water heater that you control with your phone. Why are you using a phone in the shower?

Panthers-49ers on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from San Francisco's 20-9 win https://www.nfl.com/news/panthers-49ers-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-san-francisco-s-20-9-win

Workout of the day.

Through the miracle of the internet, I can sit here in Savannah watching on my TV WCCO in Minneapolis enjoying videos of how bad the snow storm is in New York. Shadenfreude!

The EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its "regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures" (Lorne Cook/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/europe-bret

EU warns of possible action after the US bars 5 Europeans accused of censorship
The European Union's executive is warning of possible action against the U.S. after travel bans were imposed on five Europeans accused of pressuring American technology firms to censor viewpoints. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the five "radical" activists. They include Thierry Breton who is the former EU commissioner responsible for supervising social media rules. The European Commission condemned on Wednesday the U.S. decision and is seeking clarification. It says the EU is within…

I hate to break it to you all but flying reindeers aren't in the Bible.

Sean Payton's plan for Broncos backup Jarrett Stidham's AFC Championship Game start: 'He's gonna rip it' https://www.nfl.com/news/sean-payton-s-plan-for-broncos-backup-jarrett-stidham-s-afc-champions…

All I want for Christmas is ..
From: @…
https://www.threads.com/@laughingsquid/post/DSp1-Yhjkjm

Representative Robert Garcia accused the administration of shielding powerful figures who abused women and girls.
"The White House is openly engaged in a cover-up protecting Epstein's co-conspirators and the powerful men who abused women and girls", he said,
noting it was "outrageous that the DOJ has illegally withheld over 1 million documents from the public".
Notably, under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, there was a December 19 deadline for …

Trump's DOJ 'receives' one million new Epstein files. When can we expect another document drop?
When will the next Epstein files be released? The DOJ says it has received over 1 million new Epstein-related records, but when will we see them? All we know.

Samsung's Harman agrees to acquire ZF's radar and automotive computing driver-assistance business for €1.5B, as the European auto-supplier sector struggles (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-23…

Who's in and who's out for Championship Sunday? Final injury reports for Patriots-Broncos and Rams-Seahawks

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/champion…

The capacity to govern is breaking down, and that's a huge problem for everyone.
"Morale is one of the issues that has caused us difficulty, frankly, in getting additional help.
And it has caused us to lose some of the help that we have had."
https://www.la…

Lessons from the Minnesota’s Civil Contempt Case
“The government’s understaffing and high case load is a problem of its own making,” a federal judge observed.

France's La Poste says it has suffered a suspected DDoS attack in "a major network incident" on Monday, which disrupted its postal and banking services (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/fran

France's postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack | TechCrunch
France's postal service, La Poste, said it was hit by a disruptive cyberattack that knocked its services offline.

The one true version...

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig calls on senators to reject DHS funding bill
The fatal shooting comes days after most Democrats in the U.S. House rejected a bill that would provide additional funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
The Republican majority passed the bill with help from seven Democrats,
and it is set for a vote in the U.S. Senate next week before the Jan. 30 funding deadline.
If Senate Democrats reject the DHS funding bill, it could result in a partial…

Sources: Grab's planned acquisition of GoTo has hit a snag over Indonesian carrier Telkomsel's unwillingness to sell its ~2% stake in GoTo at current valuations (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

The days of collecting visa stamps in your passport are slipping away as border control points switch to electronic systems that scan the biometric data stored in chips.
Efficient, yes. Romantic, no.
#travel

TRUMP MOCKS WOMEN’S HOCKEY TEAM WHILE CONGRATULATING MEN ON GOLD
The president complained to that he would also have to invite the women’s team to White House
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-mocks-us…

Trump Mocks Women’s Hockey Team While Congratulating Men on Gold
President Donald Trump mocked the U.S. Women's hockey team during a congratulatory call to the men's team after winning the Olympic gold medal.

Google invests an undisclosed sum in Sakana AI, valued at $2.6B in November 2025, to boost Gemini's presence in Japan; Sakana AI gains access to Google's LLMs (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Appalling.

Donald Trump unveiled a new class of so-called “battleships” on Monday,
but his plans are already hitting rough waters on social media.
In remarks from his Mar-a-Lago estate, the president claimed that the two “Trump Class” military vessels would be
the “fastest, the biggest and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built.”
Trump described himself as
a “very aesthetic person” while noting that he,
along with the U.S. Navy,
would wor…

Critics Sink Trump's Bonkers Battleship Plans: 'Got The Design From G.I. Joe'
The president, who claimed to be a "very aesthetic person," said he would join the U.S. Navy in designing the vessels named after him.

Trump continues his war on competency.
https://apnews.com/article/diplomacy-ambassadors-state-department-1a10058998c86e799ce4e5132a99da18

WaPo coverage of Jack Smith's testimony (gift link)
https://wapo.st/3LpTsvy

Bari Weiss was hired to put an end to CBS News as a legitimate and independent journalistic institution. She's doing exactly what she was hired for.

GA supreme court wants insurrectionist lawyer disbarred
https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/01/georgia-high-court-wants-tougher-discipline-for-lawyer-who-took-part-in-jan-6/

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/top-stories-in-politics-mjjjoeffz/-/a-8OOIdyrcQeuRadAgJV8RtQ:a:43591897-/0
She's not the MyPillow guy.