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Reform wins big in British local elections, reshaping the U.K. right

Nigel Farage's Reform U.K. gained over 1,000 seats, marking a seismic realignment in the traditional two-party system.

Sam Altman Had a Bad Day In Court - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: As the trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI ended its second week, the Tesla CEO started scoring points against Sam Altman. His witnesses landed three solid punches in testimony about how Altman runs OpenAI as CEO, raising concerns about his d...

OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software

Last October engineers at Meta announced OpenZL as a format-aware compression framework

Cloudflare To Cut About 20% Workforce As AI Adoption Reshapes Operations - Slashdot

Cloudflare plans to cut about 20% of its workforce, or more than 1,100 employees, as it restructures around an "agentic AI-first operating model." Reuters reports: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince and co-founder Michelle Zatlyn said in a message to employees that the company was reimagining every team...

KDE Plasma 6.7 To Support ICC Profiles In HDR Mode, Direct Scan-Out Improvement

KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing additional Plasma 6.7 desktop features ahead of the stable release due out in mid-June.

New GCC Back-End Proposed For WebAssembly

When it comes to compiling C/C++ code to WebAssembly (WASM), LLVM/Clang and other LLVM-based tooling has dominated the space

Linux Erroneously Thinks Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs Run At 7GHz

With Intel's recently-launched Bartlett Lake P-core-only processors intended for the embedded market, there is a rather surprising oversight under Linux: the Intel P-State driver reporting a 7.0+ GHz clock speed

osnews.com

Google is tying reCAPTCHA to Google Play Services, screwing over de-Googled Android users – OSnews

Reason Magazine

Review: The 'Boring History for Sleep' podcast mostly delivers on its promise

If this podcast has a flaw, it's that occasionally the episodes are slightly too interesting.

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion |

A Tale of Two Speeches and the Fight for the West

Western history is no longer approached as a complex legacy, marked by both common failings and unparalleled achievements—but is instead subjected to anachronistic and biased persecution.

Fiber Optic Cables Can Eavesdrop On Nearby Conversations - Slashdot

sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Cold War spies planted bugs in walls, lamps, and telephones. Now, scientists warn, the cables themselves could listen in. A fiber optic technique used to detect earthquakes can also pick up the faint vibrations of nearby speech, researchers reporte...

LWN.net

A 2026 DAMON update

The kernel's DAMON subsystem provides user-space monitoring and management of system memory. D [...]

Reason Magazine

Brickbat: Bad Day

A Tennessee special education teacher has been charged with assault for allegedly dragging a nonverbal 9-year-old boy across a rug at...

American Partisan

UN Climate Panel Quietly Admits Its Doomsday Climate Scenarios Were ‘Implausible’

Original article here The IPCC has published a new generation [...]

FEX 2605 Brings Performance Improvements, Initial Snapdragon X2 Elite Fixes

FEX 2605 is out this weekend as the newest monthly feature release to this emulator for running Linux x86_64 binaries on ARM64 (AArch64) devices

'Changing of the Guard'? AMD, Intel, and Micron Soar While Nvidia Lags - Slashdot

While Nvidia has dominated the "infrastructure boom" since 2022's launch of ChatGPT and "the generative AI craze," CNBC writes that "This week offered the starkest illustration yet of what MIzuho analyst Jordan Klein said could be a 'changing of the guard in AI.'" Chipmakers Advanced Micro Devices ...

Sons of Liberty Media

Just Imagine The Message That YOU Are Sending The Next Ones That Are In Line » Sons of Liberty Media

“If we do not resist at the first attack, it may be too late.” – James Otis, jr. There is a story of a merciful captain of a ship. While a passing ship took an unwarranted shot at the merciful captain’s ship, the captain showed mercy to it and asked the opposing captain to “please” …

LWN.net

Four stable kernels with partial fixes for Dirty Frag

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.5, 6.18.28, 6.12.87, and 6.6.138 stable [...]

gCaptain

U S Confirms Iranian Attack On U S Navy | gCaptain

U S Confirms Iranian Attack On U S Navy. Follow live coverage of the Strait of Hormuz crisis and its impact on global oil flows, tanker operations, and energ...

Sons of Liberty Media

Israel Continues Strikes On Lebanon, Despite Ceasefire » Sons of Liberty Media

Israel’s strike on cities in Lebanon continues despite the ceasefire. Some of the more recent attacks have hit a commercial center in the southern part of the country and buildings in Beirut’s suburbs. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated he had personally approved a strike on Beirut, which he said targeted a commander in Hezbollah’s …

NASA Keeps Track As Mexico City Sinks Into the Ground - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Walking into Mexico City's sprawling central Zocalo is a dizzying experience. At one end of the plaza, the capital's cathedral, with its soaring spires, slumps in one direction. An attached church, known as the Metropolitan Sanctuary, tilts in t...

Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement - Slashdot

Apple and Intel have reportedly reached a preliminary agreement (paywalled; alternative source) for Intel to manufacture some chips used in Apple devices, after more than a year of talks and pressure from the Trump administration. It's still unclear which Apple products would use Intel-made chips, b...

American Partisan

Dana White Says Society Is Failing Young Men, And The Backlash Proves His Point

Authored by David Manney via PJ Media, Dana White touched some [...]

Does Fidelity's Reorganization Signal the Beginning of the End for 'Small-Team Agile'? - Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader cellocgw writes: Hiding inside another layoff report, Fidelity is reorganizing: "The changes are aimed at moving the teams away from an 'agile' makeup -- comprising smaller, siloed squads -- and toward larger teams built to move faster on projects." OMG, as they say: "Sudde...

osnews.com

Detecting (or not) the use of -l and -c together in Bourne shells – OSnews

Kubernetes v1.36: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to GA

Volume group snapshots were introduced as an Alpha feature with the Kubernetes v1.27 release, moved to Beta in v1.32, and to a second Beta in v1.34. We are excited to announce that in the Kubernetes v1.36 release, support for volume group snapshots has reached General Availability (GA). The support for volume group snapshots relies on a set of extension APIs for group snapshots. These APIs allow users to take crash-consistent snapshots for a set of volumes. Behind the scenes, Kubernetes uses a l

The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity

Is Another Moderna mRNA Dud on the Way? - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity

Remember Moderna? It is one of the United States government preferred companies that made big money off the vehement push for virtually every person in America to take their experimental coronavirus “vaccine” shots promoted under the deceptive description of “safe and effective.” With that grab for profits having largely petered…

We Are Change

Ben Shapiro & Nick Fuentes Just Revealed Their TRUE COLORS | We Are Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-bqOJzXddw

Kconfirm Is On A Quest To Clean Up The Linux Kernel's Configuration System

New tooling being worked on for possible mainline Linux kernel inclusion is Kconfirm as a new tool for detecting misusage and efforts stemming from Kconfig, the configuration system for kernel builds.

The New Stack

OpenAI Codex arrives in the browser with new Chrome extension

OpenAI released a Codex Chrome extension that allowed agents to operate within live browser sessions and authenticated workflows across multiple tabs.

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion |

Keystone XL Rebranded as “Keystone Light” in Trump’s Push for North American Energy Security

This project is a leaner, faster, and more litigation-resistant project that reuses idle pipe, threads existing corridors, avoids reservation land, and is racing the clock to lock in steel-in-the-ground before the next Democratic administration can once again sacrifice North American energy security to green ideology.

Reason Magazine

What Can Be Done To Stop Campus Disruptions?

Judge Ho draws a direct line between Yale and UCLA.

Will Maryland's Utility Bills Increase $1.6B to Support Other States' Datacenters? - Slashdot

To upgrade its grid for data centers, PJM Interconnection (which serves 13 states) plans to spend $22 billion — and charge nearly $2 billion of that to customers in Maryland, argues Maryland's Office of People's Counsel. The money "will be recovered in rates for decades" and "drive up Marylan...

Reason Magazine

Secret ICE Memo Tells Local Police Not To Disclose Immigration Enforcement Info Without ICE's Permission

The policy may undermine federal and state laws ensuring the free flow of information necessary to hold government actors accountable.

DevOps.com

Vercel's deepsec Brings AI-Powered Security Scanning Into the Development Workflow - DevOps.com

Vercel open-sources deepsec, an AI-powered security scanner that finds vulnerabilities in large codebases using coding agents.

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Infitac FMP13 - Brushbeater Store INC

The INFITAC Fast Mini Series includes two compact thermal pistol sights—the FML19 and FMP13—featuring 384×288 and 256×192 resolution sensors, both operating

DOJ Indicts Jewish Group for 'Large-Scale, Decade-Long Insider Trading Scheme'

LWN.net

More stable kernels with partial Dirty Frag fixes

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.1.171, 5.15.205, and 5.10.255 stable kernels, quickly fol [...]

Reason Magazine

Let's Talk about Neal Katyal's TED Talk

He takes a shot at Michael McConnell as "that guy" and compares the Court's questions to Harvey AI.

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion |

Mark Hamill Deletes Bluesky Post That Seemed to Advocate Assassinating Trump

'The left is going to keep doing this until one of their acolytes actually does it.'

StephanKinsella.com

Libertarian Answer Man: Mises [and Proudhon] on “Property is Theft”

[From my Webnote series] Related Collectively Homesteaded Easements and the Enclosure Movement On Property Rights in Superabundant Bananas and Prope

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion |

'Intersectionality' Ideology Is Driving People To Lose Their Minds

My appearance on The Western Spirit podcast, covering Intersectionality, the Red-Green alliance, SPLC, Tucker Carlson, JD Vance, and more.

FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 2 Brings Updated Zstd, Bug Fixes

FreeBSD 15.1 continues working its way toward a stable release in June

We Are Change

It Just Dropped: Astronauts Saw THEM on the Moon… | We Are Change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZadheJlOXk

The New Stack

“Several known limitations”: Developers react to Cursor's promising but still-moving SDK

Cursor SDK lets developers build AI agents using Cursor's own runtime and harness — but Python support is missing and the platform remains in public beta.

Liberty Nation News

Callais Ruling Cascades Through the Courts and Redistricting Explodes

Red-state redistricting is running wild – don’t blink or you may miss it!

StephanKinsella.com

<em>100 Years with Rothbard</em>: Porto, Portugal

[Cross-posted at PFS and HansHoppe.com] Libertarians around the world are this year celebrating Murray Rothbard's 100th birthday. At the PFS we published a b

The New Stack

"The terminal still matters": Amp rebuilds its CLI for an agentic future beyond the command line

Amp's new Neo CLI brings remote control, plugins, and compaction to AI coding agents, as the industry debates whether the terminal or cloud becomes the primary interface.