Parcel giant UPS said on Thursday it will offer voluntary buyouts to its full-time U.S. drivers as part of the largest network reconfiguration in its history — a sweeping overhaul that includes cutting 20,000 jobs and closing 73 facilities.

usatoday.com/story/money/busin…

#usa #economy

The Trump Administration is working with State and Local Officials on the ground in Texas in response to the tragic flooding that took place yesterday. Our Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, will be there shortly. Melania and I are praying for all of the families impacted by this horrible tragedy. Our Brave First Responders are on site doing what they do best. GOD BLESS THE FAMILIES, AND GOD BLESS TEXAS!

Resistance in Lebanon will never surrender: Shaeikh Naim Qassem en.abna24.com/news/1704833/Res…

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Jean Dominique Michel and Philippe Bobola: Bifurcation: transhumanism or rehumanization? en.reseauinternational.net/jea…

The Guardian: ā€˜The American system is being destroyed’: academics on leaving US for ā€˜scientific asylum’ in France
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Gaza Health: The death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 57,000 dailyyemen.net/2025/07/05/gaza…

Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky


Hello, its me gabbo the creator of this hellsite. I am totaly not making this post to make sure that lemmy federation works properly

Linux is suddenly booming in Europe. April 2024, Linux had a small 2.84% slice of the desktop market in Europe. Fast forward to July 2025, and that share has jumped to an impressive 5.21%. That’s a massive 83.45% increase in just over a year.

When Windows 10 support ends, hundreds of millions of computers won’t get vital security updates. Instead of buying new hardware, people are choosing a different path.

blazetrends.com/unprecedented-…

#linux #opensource #europe

#Milei hat die Ankündigung seines Besuchs in Deutschland bei der Konferenz in München repostet.


Link zur Ankündigung und Tickets:
misesde.org/2025/07/ludwig-von…
#misesde #Hayek #Mises #Argentinien

Livestream of Black Sabbath and Ozzy farewell concert. "Paranoid, circa 1970"

backtothebeginning.com/

šŸŽ¶ Once upon a time there was a tavern
Where we used to raise a glass or two
Remember how we laughed away the hours;
Think of all the great things we would do.

Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way. šŸŽ¶ "Mary Hopkins, circa 1968)

Ā« Comparer Jean-NoĆ«l #Barrot Ć  un Henry Kissinger ou Ć  un SergueĆÆ #Lavrov, c’est cruel, tant l’un incarne ce qu’est un diplomate et l’autre ce que la #diplomatie ne devrait jamais devenir. Kissinger, disparu en 2023, restera comme un maĆ®tre des rapports de force, un homme qui savait lire le monde, anticiper ses soubresauts, et bĆ¢tir des Ć©quilibres durables avec un mĆ©lange d’intelligence froide et de cynisme assumĆ©. Lavrov, que l’on peut aimer ou dĆ©tester, c’est la constance, la redoutable efficacitĆ© du professionnel qui domine la scĆØne internationale depuis plus de vingt ans, sans jamais perdre son sang-froid ni son cap.

Et puis il y a Jean-NoĆ«l Barrot : l’anti-diplomate par excellence. Agressif lĆ  où il faudrait ĆŖtre subtil, agitĆ© lĆ  où il faudrait peser ses mots, il aligne des dĆ©clarations qui sont systĆ©matiquement l’exact inverse de la rĆ©alitĆ©, comme si sa boussole Ć©tait dĆ©rĆ©glĆ©e au point de toujours pointer le mauvais nord. Peut-ĆŖtre est-ce cela qui l’exaspĆØre tant : de sentir confusĆ©ment qu’il parle pour ne rien dire, qu’il gesticule sans rien obtenir — alors les yeux s’exorbitent, les traits se contractent, la nervositĆ© Ć©clate au grand jour. Il ne nĆ©gocie pas : il tempĆŖte, il ne convainc pas : il agresse. Le tout au service d’une diplomatie franƧaise devenue transparente, voire ridicule, sur les grandes scĆØnes internationales.

Quant Ć  Mark #Rutte, secrĆ©taire gĆ©nĆ©ral de l’ #OTAN, ses sarcasmes sur la longĆ©vitĆ© de Lavrov trahissent surtout une gĆŖne : il sait bien qu’en face de lui, Lavrov a des dĆ©cennies de mĆ©tier que lui-mĆŖme ou ses alliĆ©s ne pourront jamais rattraper. Et Kaja #Kallas, Ć  la tĆŖte de la diplomatie europĆ©enne, complĆØte ce tableau d’ #amateurisme : des postures binaires, des slogans vides, aucune profondeur, aucune vision, rien que des leƧons creuses donnĆ©es au monde, dont personne ne se soucie.
Voici la diplomatie occidentale : des figurants ignares et nerveux. Ā»


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ā€œJust as Nazi Germany’s crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled, Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians would not be possible without Microsoft.ā€

thegrayzone.com/2025/05/23/mic…

#microsoft #palestine #genocide

in reply to Günter

@Günter One could say ants especially know what to eat. They seem pretty intelligent and shouldn't be discounted. They make excellent food testers. The ants that I live among seem to be fans of black tea. I don't use any sweeteners and I'm partial to black teas and I have an electric tea kettle outside and they're always flocking to it. They also do not like sugar free sodas according to my experiments and observations.

#Gesundheitsminister #RFK Robert F. #Kennedy Jr. und #Landwirtschaftsministerin #Brooke #Rollins haben ihr Interesse bekundet, #H5N1-Ausbrüche ungehindert in US- #Geflügelfarmen ausbreiten zu lassen.


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#Corona #Covid #BigPharma #BigBusiness #Angstmacherei
#Angst ist #Geld !

The team behind Trump's World Liberty Financial project has proposed lifting restrictions on the WLFI "governance token" to make it tradeable. I predicted shortly after its launch that if Trump succeeded in gutting the SEC, he would do this.

This would lift the substantial restrictions on the token (non-US or accredited investors only, locked tokens with no secondary sales) that were aimed at sidestepping attention from the previous SEC, and could be enormously lucrative for Trump.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

We built a thing! I spent the past few months building Trusted Signatures, a SaaS product that makes it easy to provide durable signed PDFs at scale.

This makes it easy to prove documents came from who they’re supposed to, unaltered.

  • āœ… AATL and eIDAS compatible signatures (Adobe Reader green check āœ…)
  • āœ… Detached CMS support — send only the SHA-256 hash, keep your files local
  • āœ… Accessible via HMAC API key
  • āœ… No full-PDF uploads — just clean cryptography

Perfect for building secure workflows for finance, legal, or compliance — or if you’ve ever wanted a programmable signature API you can actually trust.

in reply to Brad Koehn ā˜‘ļø

@Karl Auerbach trusted-signatures.com

Yeah, DocuSign has a bunch of challenges, sender authentication being one. Another is that after everyone has signed, it signs the PDF with its own certificate, which can tell you if the document was modified but not where it came from.

We're looking at solving problems like this as a supply chain issue; it turns out there's a lot of fraud involving doctored PDFs.

For example, if someone sends you an invoice against a valid PO, but they've put in their own account for payment, you're out the money. But if you only accept signed PDFs, you (or better: your systems) can immediately validate that the invoice actually came from the correct source, unmodified.

Another common problem area is real estate fraud: documents pour in from all over the place (appraisals, inspections, bank statements) and people try to put forward fraudulent ones all the time. If they were signed, then the risk of fraud drops precipitously, and even if there is fraud, the senders cannot repudiate the documents and are still on the hook.

We make it so cheap (our price per PDF quickly approach $0.001 per PDF) that there's no reason not to sign everything your organization sends, and to require the companies sending you PDFs to sign theirs.

Avoiding a single loss or lawsuit will cover the cost a thousandfold.

in reply to Brad Koehn ā˜‘ļø

@Brad Koehn ā˜‘ļø - You've got what appears to be a useful service. I sent pointers to some of our company people who might be interested. And I've got to revisit into some trust/will materials that could be improved by a layer of content/source integrity protection.

Europe’s first geostationary sounder satellite is launched | EUMETSAT


#science #space #climate #meteorology

Europe has taken a major step forward in strengthening its resilience to extreme weather events with the successful launch of the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder 1 (MTG-S1) satellite. MTG-S1 will deliver new streams of atmospheric data, enabling earlier, more accurate warnings that protect lives, property and infrastructure.


eumetsat.int/europes-first-geo…

"ā€˜Why don’t they stay in France?’

Most refugees head for a country where there is some link of language, family or community. North Africans stay in France because they have some French. Refugees from what were once UK colonies often have English as a second language."

kentandsurreybylines.co.uk/pol…

I played a minor role in helping to get some peoples’ very private information off of the internet. Small contributions can make a difference. Help when you can.


PostMortem: Data Leak Brandt Kettwick Defense

Type of leak


Azure Blob with the multi-year archive of a law defense firm. Files were readable and indexable for anyone. The leak contained data like search warrants, master case files from law enforcement, interviews with victim, accused and victim of sexual assault cases and much, much more. In total there were several tenthousand documents.

URL of the leak was: brandtdefense.blob.core.window…

Threats from the leak


I see the following threats:Confidentiality people seeking legal counsel help is compromised Privacy of mutliple U.S. citizens compromisedVery likely violation of several laws and ethic guidelines

TimelineApril 2025: Leak is dicovered by a security researcher.June 4th 2025: Significance of the leak identified, multiple attempts by the security researcher to close the leak (Email, Web Contact), no reply during the complete incidentJune 12th 2025: A second security reseracher attempts to contact the law defense firm, no reply till the end. Calls to the designated phone number were hung up by the law firm.June 19th 2025: FBI and Hopkins (Minnesota police department) are informed.June 21st 2025: I join the effort. Email directed to the owner of the comany and one identified affected person. Not reply during the complete incident.June 25th 2025: Second security researcher reaches out to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). They reply nearly immediately that they will investigate,June 29th 2025: I make a infosec.exchange/@masek/114767… and ask for help to get the attention of the law firm. The second researcher reaches out again to the BCA.July 2nd 2025: Leak is closed. BCA answers that they were unable to get the attention of the law form via phone and email, so they send officers on site to convey the seriousness of the leak. They also say that the law firm had asked their IT department and it denied any possibility of a leak.

Analysis


This is not a complete failure analysis. These are only my own observations. Looking

Failures:The chosen IT department was unable to adhere even to the most basic levels of data security.Even when asked by the customer, the IT department denied the possibility of a leak.The law firm has no proper process to deal with external IT security alerts.Lack of understanding concerning the responsibility on the side of the law firrm. Outsourcing only delegates the work but not the legal obligations.

Impact


It can be safely assumed (due to duration and easiness to discover) that all data on those server is now in the hands of inttelligence services (e.g. Russia, China) and cyber criminals with little care about the privacy of US citizens. Especially for people looking for material to blackmail people, this leak was a gold mine.

Acknowledgments


Thanks to @JayeLTee and @PogoWasRight@infosec.exchange for doing most of the work. A description of the incident from the viewpoint of Dissent can be found databreaches.net/2025/07/04/no…

Furthermore I wish to praise the work of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

Also thanks to @TonyYarusso and @bkoehn@hachyderm.io for assisting us in getting the necessary attention.

Closing Remarks


It is clearly necessary that we have at least one public contact in each country that investigates and closes data leaks reported to them. The effort to close even the worst leaks is unbearable and currently rests on the shoulders of security researchers and their supporting environment.

Time spent on this leak from my side (without the time for this report) is 4+ hours. My best estimate on the effort of all people involved closing this leak would be in the hundreds of hours. The amount of time spent by the person responsible for the leaking system on security issues: None.

infosec.exchange/@masek/114800…

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