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Flock is quietly training police to sway city leaders to buy surveillance tech:

As East Bay communities raise concerns about civil liberties and immigration enforcement, the license plate camera company is seeking support from its customers -- law enforcement officers. [...]

Brian Hofer, executive director of Secure Justice, a privacy…

I am once again seeking a contact inside the Yahoo DNS team.

Early this morning the "home" record vanished from the "mcom.com" domain. I need it put back. Oddly, the "mosaic" record is still there.

My last contact there was Paul Frieden, in 2023, but the only email address I…

But if they pop: There are only so many trillions that can vanish from portfolios before it triggers a recession.

David Rush is accused of:

• Lying on his background check forms;
• Time-card fraud;
• Oh yeah, and also stealing $40M worth of gold bars.

Rush, a former senior executive service-level CIA employee in Virginia, was arrested on May 19:

FBI agents searching his home seized more than 300 1-kilogram gold bars…

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Trend reversal started a year ago. Services inflation stuck at high rate for a year. Now prices of food, energy, computers & software (inflationary AI boom), and gold jewelry (gold price spike) all surged.

In this, the Year of Our Apocalypse 2026, Rockbox still cannot display EXIF album art if it is a progressive JPEG of any minuscule size or resolution.

I can't even.

Rockbox does not support RLE-compressed BMP files, nor does it support progressive and multi-scan JPEG files. JPEG files must consist…

The stock has a history of collapsing by 50% to 98% after every spike, regularly falling below its Dotcom Bubble high. But this time is different?