Drugs Have Won The War On Drugs: Drugged-Up Rat Infestation Edition
Perhaps the only headline just as repeatable as “‘No Way to Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” is this other banger from The Onion: Drugs Win Drug…
Police Union Still Insists NY Misconduct Records Are Secret Despite Court Decisions Saying Otherwise
When you’re playing with house money, playing one losing hand after another isn’t a sign of tenacity. It’s just a way of signaling you can’t be trusted with the house’s…
Daily Deal: Linux/UNIX Training Bundle
Linux and UNIX operating systems have become increasingly popular in commercial computing environments. Due to their rapid growth in today’s businesses, Linux/UNIX administrators have also become very much in demand.…
DOGE’s ‘Genius’ Coders Launch Website So Full Of Holes, Anyone Can Write To It
If you want to write something on the U.S. government’s official DOGE website, apparently you can just… do that. Not in the usual way of submitting comments through a form,…
Price Hikes, Enshittification Trigger 700K Customer Losses At Disney+, ESPN+
Now that streaming subscriber growth has slowed, we’ve noted repeatedly how the streaming TV sector is falling into all of the bad habits that ultimately doomed traditional cable TV. That…
Mississippi’s Top Court Says Rights Violations Are OK If Cops Don’t Know How To Do Their Jobs
There are things you can and can’t do when setting up checkpoints. If it’s DUI enforcement, you can talk to drivers and see if they seem intoxicated. If it’s near…
Democrats And The Price Of Protection
While democracy burns, corporate America is busy checking the wind direction. Google renames the Gulf of Mexico to flatter a wannabe autocrat’s ego. Business leaders draft contingency plans for the…
Google Chrome may soon use “AI” to replace compromised passwords
Google’s Chrome browser might soon get a useful security upgrade: detecting passwords used in data breaches and then generating and storing a better replacement. Google’s preliminary copy suggests it’s an…
Verizon beats lawsuit from utility worker who said lead cables made him sick
Verizon has defeated a lawsuit filed by a utility pole worker who claims that lead cables made him sick. A federal judge on Friday granted Verizon’s motion to dismiss the…
Judge orders Trump admin. to restore CDC and FDA webpages by midnight
A federal judge today, February 11, gave the Trump administration until 11:59 pm tonight to restore public documents and datasets that were abruptly removed or altered from federal health websites…