Trending news on the Fediverse
The most-shared links across the Fediverse over the last day, with summaries and live discussion. Updated every 5 minutes.
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TechCrunchCisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports 'record quarterly revenue' | TechCrunch
This is Cisco's latest layoff in recent years, while the company's chief executive touts record revenue and growth.
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ProPublicaA Unique Oregon Law Allows It to Block Healthcare Deals. In Five Years, the State Hasn’t Done So Once.
Lawmakers said that giving the state oversight would stop multibillion-dollar deals from reducing care and increasing costs. Some who supported the law say it hasn’t been nearly as effective as they hoped.
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AP NewsGunfire breaks out in Philippine Senate where authorities tried to arrest a senator
A burst of gunfire rang out in the Philippine Senate, sparking chaos in the building where authorities had tried to arrest a senator wanted by the International Criminal Court in connection with a deadly government crackdown on drugs.
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BBC NewsCuba has run out of diesel and oil, energy minister says
The minister says the situation in Cuba is "extremely tense", as a US-led blockade of oil to the country causes widespread power cuts.
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The Hacker News18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Module Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE
NGINX Rift CVE-2026-42945 scores 9.2 after 18 years, enabling unauthenticated RCE or DoS via crafted HTTP requests.
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Ars TechnicaNeanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago
“Every time I go to the dentist, I think about that guy,” researcher says.
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BBC NewsSmart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever
The biggest tech firms are set to sell millions of smart glasses despite growing privacy concerns.
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WIREDxAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit
Emails show that Elon Musk’s company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.
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GamingOnLinuxIf you drop (or throw) your new Steam Controller it will scream at you
Ah the Wilhelm scream, we've all heard it right? Well, Valve snuck a little Easter Egg into the new Steam Controller when you drop it.
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ProtonProton's password manager passes audit by top security firm | Proton
Independent auditors confirmed Proton Pass is exceptionally secure. See why transparency is our strongest security feature.
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404 MediaInternet of Shit: AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops
"I hoarded a large database of something valuable, just not what you expect… 150k stools images."
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TechCrunchMusk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center | TechCrunch
Gas turbines at xAI's Colossus 2 data center have drawn a lawsuit over the company's use of "mobile" gas turbines as power plants.
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Electronic Frontier FoundationThe Science is Not Settled: How Weak Evidence is Fueling a National Push to Ban Social Media for Youth
As statehouses ramp up for 2026, we’re seeing a familiar and concerning trend of lawmakers rushing to regulate the internet based on shockingly shaky science. From the California State Assembly to the Massachusetts and Minnesota legislatures, a wave of bills is crashing against the digital lives of...
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Scientific AmericanAI enters the exam room, and nurses are left to manage the fallout
When alerts misfire or can’t explain themselves, nurses still carry the risk
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TheregisterNHS England confirms: Palantir staff can access patient data
Tech firm's employees can get an 'admin' role letting them into the National Data Integration Tenant... and its identifiable information
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PoliticoPoll: Democrats want to beat the GOP — even if that means fewer Black districts
A new POLITICO Poll suggests many appear willing to embrace a maximalist posture on redistricting.
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The Document FoundationWhy a digital document is a piece of software, and what that means for your freedom - TDF Community Blog
Most people, including many competent software developers, think of a digital document the way they think of a sheet of paper: an inert object that holds words and pictures, indifferent to the tool used to open it. This intuition is wrong, and the consequences of getting it wrong shape everything from vendor lock-in to cybersecurity to the long-term readability of public records. A digital document is not paper. It is a piece of software. The HTML parallel The clearest way to see this is to think about a web page. When you visit a website, your browser receives a file – an HTML document – and executes it. It parses the markup, applies styling rules, runs embedded scripts, fetches additional resources, and assembles the result into something you can read. The page you see on screen is not a static image transmitted from the server, it is the output of a small program that your browser ran on your behalf. Nobody disputes that a web browser is software. Yet the HTML file it consumes is also, in a meaningful sense, software: a set of instructions describing what should happen when the file is opened. Change the instructions, and the rendered
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PBS NewsDual citizenship, eh? Under new law, millions of Americans may now also be considered Canadian
A recent change to Canada's requirements has led to a surge in applications from its southern neighbor.
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The New York TimesJustice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
One of the settlement terms under review is for the I.R.S. to drop any audits of the president, his family members and businesses.
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abc7.comBaldwin Park food distribution event draws long lines, some turned away after food runs out
A drive-thru food distribution event drew lines of cars in Baldwin Park on Wednesday, but not everybody was able to get food because the demand was so high.
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TheregisterWhere to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
: Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives
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The New York TimesJudge Orders U.S. to Return Colombian Woman Deported to Congo
The unusual ruling came after the judge found that the Trump administration had most likely violated the law by deporting the 55-year-old woman to the African country despite its refusal to take her.
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CNNAs the US starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help | CNN
Cuba is struggling with nationwide blackouts as the US’s effective oil blockade strangles fuel supplies. But the crisis may accelerate its clean energy revolution
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Yahoo NewsThis AI data center will be bigger than 2,000 Walmarts and dump '23 atom bombs worth of energy' into the environment every day — and locals are terrified
This project could physically alter the landscape for humans and wildlife
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WIREDMeet the Sad Wives of AI
Men are obsessed with AI. Many of their wives absolutely hate it—and them.
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ProPublicaImmigrants Detained in Chicago Military-Style Raid Seek Millions in Damages
New accounts from 17 men, women and children taken in a midnight raid paint a violent, terrifying portrait of the federal agents’ alleged actions. These descriptions form the basis of claims filed this week against DHS and other federal agencies.
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Al‘Mass mobilization’ expected in Selma, Montgomery this weekend after Supreme Court decision
The National Day of Action for Voting Rights will include rallies in Selma and Montgomery against plans that include threatening seats held by Black representatives.
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404 MediaSoftware Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
“It's making me dumber for sure.”
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It's FOSSIn a Big Move to Linux Security, Debian Makes Reproducible Builds Mandatory
Packages that can't be rebuilt byte-for-byte are now blocked from entering Debian's testing branch.
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Fortune'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | Fortune
Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.
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The Globe and MailSignal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill
Secure messaging service says it will not weaken its encryption, privacy safeguards for government
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