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As the nation staggers toward the 2026 round of midterm elections,
the threats to the integrity of U.S. democracy
— already a veritable hailstorm of partisan contention
— have escalated dramatically under the second Trump administration,
attaining something like hurricane force.
Owing to the fevered narratives proliferating across right-wing media,
many have come to believe that the nation faces a scourge of “illegal” voting and wide-scale fraud.
Bu…

Trump DOJ Sues to Force States to Share Confidential Voter Data
Trump’s Department of Justice is suing over 20 states in a bid to open voter rolls to purges via federal challenges.

Donald Trump’s hateful, falsehood-filled rant on Thursday
blaming immigrants for crime, “social dysfunction” and economic hardship
is refuted by a wide range of immigration statistics,
which show clearly that immigrants dramatically bolster the US economy
and commit crimes at far lower rates than people born in the US.

The Internet is broken and the inventor of the World Wide Web wants to fix it
Tim Berners-Lee is calling for a return to a decentralized Internet and stronger data privacy, but his arguments could be more inspiring.
😡 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03859-y

The Internet is broken and the inventor of the World Wide Web wants to fix it
Tim Berners-Lee is calling for a return to a decentralized Internet and stronger data privacy, but his arguments could be more inspiring.

President Trump signs an EO establishing the "Genesis Mission" to boost AI research and shorten discovery timelines "from years to days or even hours" (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/trump-ai-genesis-mission-doe-chris-wright<…

Trump orders wide-ranging "Genesis Mission" to boost AI research
It seeks to encourage government data sharing with industry, academia and other scientific institutions.

South Korea’s government is mobilizing an all-hands response to a data breach at e-commerce giant Coupang. The CEO was forced to resign and might face charges.
When has any US company or CEO been held to this level of accountability for a breach?
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/1063937…

Korea launches government-wide probe into Coupang data breach - The Korea Herald
South Korea’s government is mobilizing an all-hands response to a data breach at e-commerce giant Coupang affecting more than 33 million users, establishing an

Looks like a threat actor got massive and wide-scale access to UPenn systems.
The threat actor behind the attack contacted BleepingComputer, claiming the intrusion was far broader and that they had gained access to multiple university systems.
https://www.

Penn hacker claims to have stolen 1.2 million donor records in data breach
A hacker has taken responsibility for last week's University of Pennsylvania "We got hacked" email incident, saying it was a far more extensive breach that exposed data on 1.2 million donors and internal documents.

“ Collectively, these optimizations target common real-world bottlenecks, improving consistency across a wide variety of configurations. HTTP Archive data supports this pattern, showing that WordPress performance variance is driven more by configuration than by core limitations.”
💐 Flowers for the #WordPress performance team, gifted by

CMS | 2025 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive
CMS chapter of the 2025 Web Almanac covering CMS adoption, user experience of websites running on CMS platforms, and CMS resource weights.

📈 #LogsQL query language provides fast full-text search, advanced analytics, and data extraction/transformation at query time. Can be combined with Unix tools like grep, less, sort, and jq for log analysis.
🎯 Optimized for high cardinality fields like trace_id, user_id, and ip addresses. Supports logs with hundreds of fields (wide events), multitenancy, out-of-order ingestion, live taili…

DOJ lawsuit seeking records of
23 million California voters
is dismissed by judge
https://www.ocregister.com/2026/01/16/judge-dismisses-trump-administration-lawsuit-seeking-detailed-voter-informa…

DOJ lawsuit seeking records of 23 million California voters is dismissed by judge
The Trump administration contended that California and other states were illegally blocking the federal government’s wide-ranging effort to scrutinize detailed voter data.