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Blog post showing that with read access to nodes/proxy on a Kubernetes cluster, you get complete RCE:

https://grahamhelton.com/blog/nodes-proxy-rce

Kubernetes official response: Not a bug. We'll just document harder.

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Sanctuary policies are legal. The Supreme Court has been clear for decades that the federal government cannot commandeer state or local governments to enforce federal immigration law. This isn’t “playing with fire.” It’s constitutional law.
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🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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THE MAGATS, in "Cognitive Disso-nuts"
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https://boingboing.net/2026/01/28/tom-the-dancing-bug-its-the-magas.html

Funny thing from my morning: K-12 students have backed school IT workers into such a corner that they've established their own open-source subculture to combat it. They've even developed some interesting privacy-first approaches, such as logging to local storage and then using other enterprise tools to slurp those logs from student laptops. This means they don't even have to have the extension make calls to remote servers.

Not funny thing from my morning: my son (a minor) was notified that his MIT Scratch profile and projects are going to be used for training AI, and he's upset about it. He doesn't understand why there's no choice to opt out, and I don't either.

It sounds like MIT could learn a thing or two about respecting privacy and boundaries from K-12 IT workers.

"Britain’s reliance on Palantir, the controversial US data surveillance firm, is a “gaping national security vulnerability”, MPs and tech experts have said, as a Nerve investigation reveals how deeply embedded the company is in the UK’s critical national infrastructure.

The Nerve’s investigation shows the company, co-founded by one of President Trump’s most loyal allies, Peter Thiel, is enmeshed in Britain’s civil and defence structures to a far greater degree than previously realised. The Nerve has found at least 34 current and past state contracts across at least 10 government departments, local councils and police authorities.

The investigation also reveals previously undisclosed contracts between Palantir and AWE Nuclear Security Technologies, the agency that underpins Britain’s nuclear deterrence programme.

The agency, formerly known as the Atomic Weapons Establishment, designs and manufactures the nuclear warheads carried by UK submarines. The Nerve has found £15m worth of contracts for “cloud support” on the Crown Commercial Service dashboard, an agency that works with the Cabinet Office and external suppliers.

These contracts are not on the government’s official contract finder website and the Ministry of Defence refused to either confirm or deny their existence. Palantir did not acknowledge or respond to the Nerve’s inquiries.

The Nerve’s research – shown in two infographics here – shows that Palantir has current and historic deals worth £388m with the MOD across at least a dozen contracts and extensions to contracts, and more than £244m with the NHS (12 contracts/extensions). Government agencies and authorities with smaller contracts include Coventry city council, Leicestershire police, DEFRA and the Homes for Ukraine scheme."

https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-technologies-uk-government-contracts-size-nuclear-deterrent-atomic-peter-thiel-louis-mosley

#UK #Palantir #Surveillance #Thiel #NuclearWeapons

Today, the DSA Human Rights Alliance has published guidelines to set the stage for a globally aware and rights-respecting enforcement of the DSA in the coming years. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/dsa-human-rights-alliance-publishes-principles-calling-dsa-enforcement-1

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/

Some local governments are turning to resident-led nonprofit organizations known as "workers' cooperatives" to provide essential services, amid the withdrawal of supermarkets and other businesses. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/28/japan/society/worker-cooperatives-rural-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #depopulation #hiroshima #kyotango #tsukuba #rurallife

After years of constant attacks from Trump, a man attempted to spray an unknown substance at Rep. Ilhan Omar during her town hall event in Minneapolis tonight. Police arrested the man that lunged at Omar and used a syringe to spray a liquid.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/ilhan-omar-sprayed-substance-minneapolis-town-hall/3882424/
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The new head of the Ellison family's CBS "News" is adding more commentators (mostly from the right wing, it seems) and firing actual journalists.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/27/nx-s1-5689849/after-rocky-start-bari-weiss-to-cut-staff-add-commentators-at-cbs-news

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If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse

This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/beware-government-using-image-manipulation-propaganda

In the past year, ICE and CBP have descended into utter lawlessness. We join with many others in saying that Congress must vote to reject any further funding of ICE and CBP this week. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/eff-statement-lawless-actions-ice-and-cbp (2/3)

As the people of MN take action to protect their community members, there are many efforts and organizations that people can show support for at Stand With Minnesota. https://www.standwithminnesota.com/ (3/3)

Hardware maintenance on 2026-01-28 (tomorrow), starting 19.00 CET (18.00 UTC)

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“zzt how dare you accuse Mozilla employees of suffering from incredibly obvious LLM psychosis”

please “enjoy” the State of Mozilla, one of the least hinged things I’ve seen released with apparent pride by an established corporation: https://stateof.mozilla.org/

note the 2001-style not-Flash intro. the fake captcha. the timecube-esque prattle about AI threatening humanity. “DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS”. the ASCII art cop finger in the footer of the main page. all of it. what in fuck is this.

When companies do mass-layoffs and adopt "AI" one quarter and report a productivity increase the next, that's not because of the "AI" but because their productivity is an aggregate measure divided by headcount. They reduced the headcount while customer lock-in keeps the aggregate measure up 4/

This morning, ICE was staking out an elementary school bus stop here in Minneapolis. A crowd with whistles chased them off.

Just in case you somehow thought they were leaving Minnesota.

Just in case Senators somehow thought maybe it’s OK to give them a military-sized budget after all just because they demoted that one guy.

Trump Does a Soft TACO as Republicans, NRA and Law Enforcement Officers Oppose ICE Thuggery. A Gambit or a Real Climbdown?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/trump-does-a-soft-taco-as-republicans-nra-and-law-enforcement-officers-oppose-ice-thuggery-a-gambit-or-a-real-climbdown.html