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Update on a Security Incident Involving Third-Party Customer Service

✇Morgan - Cacahuètes 🥜
Par : Morgan - Cacahuètes 🥜
20 janvier 2026 à 20:48

Discord s’est fait niquer par un sous-traitant en support client, 70k utilisateurs ont peut-être leurs photos d’ID gouvernemental exposées, avec noms, emails, IP et bouts de conversations avec le support. Ils ont coupé l’accès, prévenu les flics et envoient des mails aux victimes. 😤

Via Sebsauvage (https://sebsauvage.net/links/?aF17dg)

Thread HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468997


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Who owns your data?

✇Morgan - Cacahuètes 🥜
Par : Morgan - Cacahuètes 🥜
20 janvier 2026 à 20:49

Un procès à la Cour suprême US pourrait décider si tes données de localisation chez Google (ou ailleurs) t'appartiennent ou si les flics peuvent les piocher comme un buffet à volonté. Spoiler : le capitalisme de surveillance a déjà répondu "à nous" en vendant tes traces à qui paie, mandat ou pas. 😤

Thread HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692135

Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260120170309/https://werd.io/who-owns-your-data/


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Doing more things just for the hell of it.

✇Morgan - Cacahuètes 🥜
Par : Morgan - Cacahuètes 🥜
20 janvier 2026 à 20:51

Faire des trucs juste pour le fun, sans optimiser, monétiser ou en faire du contenu, parce que tout transformer en corvée c’est chiant à la longue. 😤


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Sarah McBride had the best 7-word response to a Republican who tried to insult her

✇LGBTQ Nation
Par : Greg Owen
20 janvier 2026 à 21:00

Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia was serving as Speaker Pro Tem in the House of Representatives last week when he took the opportunity to insult his colleague from Delaware, Rep. Sarah McBride. But she showed that she was unfazed by the insult.

“The chair now recognizes the gentleman from Delaware, Rep. Sarah McBride, for five minutes,” Clyde said from the dais, introducing her on Tuesday.

Related

House Dems unite to tell GOP to stop “demonizing” trans people with “dehumanizing” slurs

McBride ignored the misgendering slight and carried on with remarks honoring several Delawareans for their service and achievements in the state. The Democrat claimed she hadn’t heard Clyde disparage her.

“I didn’t hear the comment,” McBride told The Advocate through a spokesperson on Friday, before uttering seven words reminiscent of Mariah Carey’s famous dig at Jennifer Lopez: “I don’t know who Rep. Clyde is.”

“As always, I am grateful to serve and remain focused on lowering costs for my constituents.”

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It was just another day in chambers for the first transgender member of Congress.

McBride has endured an avalanche of insults from fellow members since before and after taking her seat in the House last January.

In November, 213 House Democrats signed a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) demanding he condemn Republican lawmakers for repeatedly using “demonizing and dehumanizing” language directed at McBride and the wider transgender community.

Those include Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) yelling “Tr***y! Tr***y! Tr***y!” in a House hearing, and members carrying their anti-trans campaigns online; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) went after McBride last year, calling her a “groomer” while sharing McBride’s deadname on social media.

“We write to you to strongly condemn the rise in anti-transgender rhetoric, including from members of Congress, and to urge you to ensure members of Congress are following rules of decorum and not using their platforms to demonize and scapegoat any marginalized community, including the transgender community,” Democrats told Johnson in the letter.

Clyde is the latest example of that bigoted behavior. 

The staunch MAGA Republican from a solidly conservative district in Georgia doubled down on his disparaging remark after he made it.

“The People’s House recognizes basic biology,” he posted to X, along with video of his remark the same day.

The People’s House recognizes basic biology. pic.twitter.com/7FABwwLWZq

— Rep. Andrew Clyde (@Rep_Clyde) January 13, 2026

“[Deadname] ‘Sarah’ McBride is a man. No amount of makeup can change this biological truth,” Clyde posted to X on Wednesday, adding McBride’s deadname to the original insult.

Then Clyde went after the previous, correct references to McBride’s gender in the congressional record.

“MR. [deadname] ‘Sarah’ McBride is a MAN. The House Clerk must correct the congressional record to reflect this biological fact,” he said.

Several of Clyde’s Republican colleagues, all anti-trans and woke culture warriors in their own right, piled on following the Georgia rep’s break with decorum.

“[Deadname] ‘Sarah’ McBride is a man. Appreciate @Rep_Clyde for acknowledging this basic biological truth on the House floor,” Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois posted to X.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) backed Clyde as well, declaring in a post, “A biological man can never be a woman, no matter how much makeup he puts on. My friend @Rep_Clyde stands for truth.”

“Truth Matters,” added Republican Rep. Sheri Biggs of South Carolina.

Clyde’s public demonization on the House floor happened on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases challenging state laws banning trans-student athletes from playing girls’ sports.

Hours later, he posted from the steps of the court, demonizing trans people yet again.


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Productivity Theatre

✇Morgan - Cacahuètes 🥜
Par : Morgan - Cacahuètes 🥜
20 janvier 2026 à 21:00

Des devs perdent du temps à faire faire à l'IA des trucs que leur IDE fait en deux clics, juste pour frimer ou parce qu'ils kiffent leur nouveau jouet 🤡.


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Halo: The Master Chief Collection – Complete Edition (All 6 games) – v1.3528.0.0/Build 19905945

✇FitGirl Repacks
Par : FitGirl
20 janvier 2026 à 21:01

#1291 Updated Halo: The Master Chief Collection – Complete Edition (All 6 games) v1.3528.0.0/Build 19905945


Genres/Tags: Action, Shooter, First-person, 3D
Companies: Bungie, Microsoft Game Studios
Languages: RUS/ENG/MULTI12
Original Size: 135.8 GB
Repack Size: from 5.7 GB [Selective Download]

 

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Discussion and (possible) future updates on CS.RIN.RU thread

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Repack Features

  • Based on Steam BuildID 19905945 P2P release: 135.8 GB, thanks to AR-81!
  • Goldberg crack/emu applied over
  • 100% Lossless & MD5 Perfect: all files are identical to originals after installation (when installed with all games, languages and optionals)
  • NOTHING ripped, NOTHING re-encoded
  • Selective Download feature: you can skip downloading and installing of: any of six games, multiplayer/Firefight-only maps for H:R, Halo 2, Halo 3 & Halo 4, useless videos and voiceover packs you don’t need
  • Main game launcher and all included games have separate installers, so you can easily download and install the game you need the moment you need it. Just make sure to install each game to the folder, where main MCC Launcher has been installed
  • Significantly smaller archive size (compressed from 135.8 to 5.7~75.8 GB, depending on selected games and components)
  • Installation time varies from 5 minutes (H3ODST + one language, 16-threads CPU) up to 1.5 hours (all six games + all languages, 8-threads CPU)
  • After-install integrity check so you could make sure that everything installed properly
  • HDD space after installation: up to 135.8 GB
  • Language can be changed in game settings (text and audio separately)
  • Repack uses XTool library by Razor12911
  • At least 3 GB of free RAM (inc. virtual) required for installing this repack
Game Description

Halo: Reach comes to PC as the first installment of Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Now optimized for PC, experience the heroic story of Noble Team, a group of Spartans, who through great sacrifice and courage, saved countless lives in the face of impossible odds. The planet Reach is humanity’s last line of defense between the encroaching Covenant and their ultimate goal, the destruction of Earth. If it falls, humanity will be pushed to the brink of destruction.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary comes to PC as the second installment of Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Now optimized for PC, relive the spectacularly remastered edition of the original Halo campaign, created in celebration of the 10th anniversary of one of the most beloved franchises in gaming history. After crash-landing on a mysterious ringworld known as Halo, the Master Chief is tasked with helping the remaining humans survive against the overwhelming Covenant forces. While doing so, he and Cortana uncover Halo’s dark secret and fight to protect all life in the galaxy.

Halo 2: Anniversary comes to PC as the next installment in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Now optimized for PC, experience the impeccably remastered edition of the original Halo 2 game. Following the destruction of Halo, humankind experiences a short-lived victory. Eager for revenge, the Covenant launches a surprise attack on Earth, but they find themselves ill-prepared to defeat the UNSC’s home fleet and are forced to flee into slipspace. When the Master Chief pursues his overzealous enemies, they discover yet another Halo ring, uncovering long-buried secrets, including an unlikely ally, that will dramatically alter the course of the Human-Covenant Conflict forever.

Halo 3 comes to PC as the next installment in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Now optimized for PC, witness the Master Chief’s return to finish the fight between the Covenant, the Flood, and the entire Human race in this dramatic, pulse-pounding conclusion of the original Halo trilogy. With the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance, the Master Chief returns to uncover an ancient secret hidden beneath the sands of Africa, which could hold the key to humanity’s salvation or destruction – an object that could change the tide of the Human-Covenant conflict.

Halo 3: ODST comes to PC as the next installment in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Now optimized for PC, experience the events preceding Halo 3 through the eyes of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODST) as they return to familiar ground and attempt to uncover the motivations behind the Covenant’s invasion of New Mombasa. Isolated and vulnerable, use stealth and precision to survive the dangers of the Covenant occupation in a gripping new take on combat in the Halo universe.

Witness the Master Chief’s triumphant return to battle an ancient evil bent on vengeance and annihilation in Halo 4. Shipwrecked on a mysterious world, faced with new enemies and deadly technology, the universe will never be the same.

Selective Download

You can skip downloading of any of six included games, H:R, H2A, H3 & H4 MP maps, useless videos and voiceover files or you don’t need. Here is the list of selective/optional files:

  • fg-optional-useless-videos.bin (unneeded background videos)
  • fg-halo-cea-01.bin (all six bins are required if you want to install HCEA)
  • fg-halo-cea-02.bin
  • fg-halo-cea-03.bin
  • fg-halo-cea-04.bin
  • fg-halo-cea-05.bin
  • fg-halo-cea-06.bin
  • fg-halo-cea-selective-english.bin (recommended for all languages without their own voiceovers pack)
  • fg-halo-cea-selective-chinese.bin
  • fg-halo-cea-selective-french.bin
  • fg-halo-cea-selective-german.bin
  • fg-halo-cea-selective-italian.bin
  • fg-halo-cea-selective-japanese.bin
  • fg-halo-cea-selective-korean.bin
  • fg-halo-cea-selective-spanish.bin
  • fg-halo-2-01.bin (all six bins are required if you want to install Halo 2)
  • fg-halo-2-02.bin
  • fg-halo-2-03.bin
  • fg-halo-2-04.bin
  • fg-halo-2-05.bin
  • fg-halo-2-06.bin
  • fg-halo-2-multiplayer-maps-1.bin (download these two bins only if you want to have multiplayer maps)
  • fg-halo-2-multiplayer-maps-2.bin
  • fg-halo-2-selective-english.bin (recommended for all languages without their own voiceovers pack)
  • fg-halo-2-selective-chinese.bin
  • fg-halo-2-selective-french.bin
  • fg-halo-2-selective-german.bin
  • fg-halo-2-selective-italian.bin
  • fg-halo-2-selective-japanese.bin
  • fg-halo-2-selective-korean.bin
  • fg-halo-2-selective-spanish.bin
  • fg-halo-3-01.bin (all four bins required if you want to install Halo 3)
  • fg-halo-3-02.bin
  • fg-halo-3-03.bin
  • fg-halo-3-04.bin
  • fg-halo-3-multiplayer-maps.bin (download this bin only if you want to have multiplayer maps)
  • fg-halo-3-selective-english.bin (recommended for all languages without their own voiceovers pack)
  • fg-halo-3-selective-chinese.bin
  • fg-halo-3-selective-french.bin
  • fg-halo-3-selective-german.bin
  • fg-halo-3-selective-italian.bin
  • fg-halo-3-selective-japanese.bin
  • fg-halo-3-selective-korean.bin
  • fg-halo-3-selective-mexican.bin
  • fg-halo-3-selective-portuguese.bin
  • fg-halo-3-selective-spanish.bin
  • fg-halo-3-odst-01.bin (all three bins are required if you want to install Halo 3: ODST)
  • fg-halo-3-odst-02.bin
  • fg-halo-3-odst-03.bin
  • fg-halo-3-odst-selective-english.bin (recommended for all languages without their own voiceovers pack)
  • fg-halo-3-odst-selective-chinese.bin
  • fg-halo-3-odst-selective-french.bin
  • fg-halo-3-odst-selective-german.bin
  • fg-halo-3-odst-selective-italian.bin
  • fg-halo-3-odst-selective-japanese.bin
  • fg-halo-3-odst-selective-korean.bin
  • fg-halo-3-odst-selective-portuguese.bin
  • fg-halo-3-odst-selective-spanish.bin
  • fg-halo-4-01.bin (all five bins are required if you want to install Halo 4)
  • fg-halo-4-02.bin
  • fg-halo-4-03.bin
  • fg-halo-4-04.bin
  • fg-halo-4-05.bin
  • fg-halo-4-multiplayer-maps.bin (download this bin only if you want to play in multiplayer or in Firefight mode)
  • fg-halo-4-selective-brazilian.bin
  • fg-halo-4-selective-chinese.bin
  • fg-halo-4-selective-english.bin (recommended for all languages without their own voiceovers pack)
  • fg-halo-4-selective-french.bin
  • fg-halo-4-selective-german.bin
  • fg-halo-4-selective-italian.bin
  • fg-halo-4-selective-japanese.bin
  • fg-halo-4-selective-korean.bin
  • fg-halo-4-selective-mexican.bin
  • fg-halo-4-selective-polish.bin
  • fg-halo-4-selective-russian.bin
  • fg-halo-4-selective-spanish.bin
  • fg-halo-reach-01.bin (all four bins are required if you want to install Halo: Reach)
  • fg-halo-reach-02.bin
  • fg-halo-reach-03.bin
  • fg-halo-reach-04.bin
  • fg-halo-reach-multiplayer-maps.bin (download this bin only if you want to play in multiplayer or in Firefight mode)
  • fg-halo-reach-selective-chinese.bin
  • fg-halo-reach-selective-english.bin
  • fg-halo-reach-selective-french.bin
  • fg-halo-reach-selective-german.bin
  • fg-halo-reach-selective-italian.bin
  • fg-halo-reach-selective-japanese.bin
  • fg-halo-reach-selective-korean.bin
  • fg-halo-reach-selective-mexican.bin
  • fg-halo-reach-selective-portuguese.bin
  • fg-halo-reach-selective-spanish.bin
Backwards Compatibility

This repack is NOT backwards compatible with my previous HTMCC repacks.

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I'm addicted to being useful

✇Morgan - Cacahuètes 🥜
Par : Morgan - Cacahuètes 🥜
20 janvier 2026 à 21:02

Un ingénieur admet adorer son boulot malgré la merdification ambiante, parce que résoudre des problèmes et se sentir utile lui donne une satisfaction de chien de travail qui kiffe sa niche. Il compare ça à Akaki Akakiévitch, le copiste obsédé de Le Manteau de Gogol, sauf qu’il a un meilleur salaire et des collègues moins cons. Le piège ? Les boîtes exploitent cette addiction en te collant des tickets Jira à l’infini ou en te faisant bosser pour des gens que tu méprises. Sa solution : protéger son temps, bosser pour sa hiérarchie, pas pour la file d’attente des tickets, et éviter de chercher à impressionner les connards.

Thread HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46690402

Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260120210858/https://www.seangoedecke.com/addicted-to-being-useful/


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eradman/entr: Run arbitrary commands when files change

✇Morgan - Cacahuètes 🥜
Par : Morgan - Cacahuètes 🥜
20 janvier 2026 à 21:10

entr surveille les fichiers et lance des commandes quand ils changent, sans polling grâce à kqueue/inotify. Parfait pour relancer un build, un serveur ou un test dès qu’un fichier est modifié. Exemple : find src/ | entr make 🚀

Thread HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29564311

Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20260116064318/https://github.com/eradman/entr/


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Halo: The Master Chief Collection Repack Updated

✇FitGirl Repacks
Par : FitGirl
20 janvier 2026 à 21:15

This is just a notice for my subscribers about freshly updated Halo: The Master Chief Collection repack. Now it’s updated to Complete Edition v1.3528.0.0/Build 19905945.

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(comic) At my previous org, we used to do things differently

✇Morgan - Cacahuètes 🥜
Par : Morgan - Cacahuètes 🥜
20 janvier 2026 à 21:26

Un comic de Work Chronicles qui montre comment les boîtes se la jouent "chez nous c'était mieux avant" dès qu'un truc change, alors que c'est juste du vent pour masquer leur propre rigidité 😒.


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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy goes wobbly on AI bubble possibility

✇theregister.co.uk
20 janvier 2026 à 21:29

Sure it's a bubble and the deals are circular - that doesn't mean Amazon's not going to try to extract value from it

Could one of the most prominent tech company leaders be less-than-enthused about the AI economy? In an interview, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy didn't dismiss the idea that the AI bubble could pop, despite his company's massive investments in the technology. …

Trans advocates blast upcoming puberty blocker studies as unethical & biased

✇LGBTQ Nation
Par : John Russell
20 janvier 2026 à 22:00

Transgender rights advocates in the U.K. are blasting two recently announced research studies on the effects of puberty blockers on trans young people as unethical and biased.

In the wake of the widely criticized Cass Review and the U.K. government’s subsequent decision to ban puberty blocking medication for the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors, National Health Service (NHS) researchers announced two studies on the drugs’ effects on young people in November.

Related

New report from European medical orgs declares unwavering support for gender-affirming care

According to The Guardian, one of the two studies, the Pathways Trial, will randomly divide some 226 participants between the ages of 10 and 16 into two groups. One will receive puberty blocking medication immediately, while the second will receive the medication after a year. Participants’ quality of life, emotional well-being, and physical development will be compared to those of a third group, which will not receive puberty blockers.

Medical journal The BMJ notes that the study has been approved by a research ethics committee and received regulatory approval from the Health Research Authority (HRA) and the Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA).

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But the Pathways Trial has nonetheless received widespread criticism, both from advocates for and against gender-affirming care for minors.

In a November 22 statement, Chay Brown, healthcare director for U.K. trans rights nonprofit TransActual, said that the study “is the result of an ideological view at the very top of the NHS that being trans is a ‘less desirable outcome.’”

In the same press release, TransActual reiterated its position that the U.K. Department of Health and Social Care’s decision to ban puberty blockers for trans minors, but not for the treatment of conditions like precocious puberty in cisgender minors, is “discriminatory” and not based in actual scientific evidence. The group argues that the study represents an “unambiguously a violation of medical ethics,” as it is currently the only way for young people experiencing gender dysphoria in U.K. to access the medication they need.

“It is unconscionable to coerce young people into participating and, for half of the cohort, delay the care they’ve been assessed as needing,” Brown said. “It is and will be for a long time to come the only means that young people have of accessing puberty blockers through the NHS, and it is strictly capped at 226 regardless of how many would benefit from the care.”

Similarly, the World Professional Associations for Transgender Health (WPATH) and its European and U.S. counterparts EPATH and USPATH released a joint statement earlier this month outlining five ethical concerns about the Pathways Trial. These included the risk of coercion and compromised informed consent, and delayed access to medically necessary care for participants.

According to The BMJ, the study has also been criticized for lacking a placebo group, which limits researchers’ ability to determine whether any observable effects can be attributed to medication.

TransActual also noted the high potential for bias in the study, headed by researchers at King’s College London, due to its senior personnel. The group noted that Deputy Chief Investigator Dr. Michael Absoud has links to The Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated anti-LGBTQ+ hate group.

“We fear this study is designed from the outset to arrive at a specific conclusion, and so will not generate good scientific evidence. Indeed, it cannot while it operates in such a coercive manner, inducing desperate trans people to perform whichever version of trans-ness a panel of doctors will accept,” TransActual’s press release reads.

“Like the Cass Review before it, the trial is in all likelihood an elaborate pantomime to generate a false sense of scientific legitimacy for what is purely a moral panic about gender related healthcare – with the enthusiastic collaboration of most of the UK’s politicians and news outlets,” TransActual wrote.

At the same time, The BMJ notes that the hashtag #StopTheTrial has been shared thousands of times on social media by people who oppose treating gender dysphoria in minors with puberty blockers. In November, U.K. Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch sent a letter to health secretary Wes Streeting describing the trial as “activist ideology masquerading as research,” according to the medical journal.

Responding to criticisms, Dr. Hilary Cass, lead author on the Cass Review, told The BMJ that the study “would allow researchers to gather evidence safely within a structured study, rather than leaving young people to experiment on themselves.”

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Don Lemon responds to DOJ threats & Nicki Minaj’s homophobic insults over his Minneapolis ICE coverage

✇Advocate.com
Par : Christopher Wiggins
20 janvier 2026 à 22:12
don lemon, harmeet dhillon and nicki minajAfter the Department of Justice under President Donald Trump publicly warned that his coverage of an anti-ICE protest inside a Minnesota church could carry legal consequences, independent journalist Don Lemon has forcefully defended his journalism. Free press advocates say the administration’s posture reflects a broader, authoritarian, unlawful shift in how the federal government engages with journalists.

Can You Trust Mark Meador?

✇techdirt.com
Par : Corbin Barthold
20 janvier 2026 à 21:38

The FTC remains politicized. One commissioner is leading the way—when it suits him.

The Federal Trade Commission under Lina Khan was not a well-run institution. I wrote about this at the time, often and at length, and I regret nothing. But wow—wow—would you be forgiven for thinking that the goal of new management is to make Khan’s tenure look good by comparison. There is plenty to say about this sorry state of affairs, but for now let’s focus on a single commissioner.

Why just one? Isn’t the FTC a multi-member body? Well, these days the agency is something of a husk. President Trump has purported to fire two commissioners—the Democrats, naturally. The FTC Act says he cannot do that, but the Supreme Court appears poised to bless the move on constitutional grounds (a serious mistake). A third commissioner, Melissa Holyoak, recently departed after a brief stint. And rumors swirl that the chair, Andrew Ferguson, will soon take on a second job overseeing a nationwide fraud unit at the Justice Department.

That leaves Mark Meador. He may soon be the lone commissioner who has not been defenestrated, jumped ship, or been pulled into a dual role.

Last week I saw Meador speak at an antitrust conference in the Bay Area. As a matter of policy, his remarks were not to my taste. He aired a familiar set of complaints about modern tech products. Apple’s “liquid glass” is confusing; Google’s AI overviews—that stuff that now appears above the search results—are annoying; AI-generated cat videos, and short-form video more generally, are bad for the soul. It is certainly true that tech companies have many bad ideas. It does not follow that Mark Meador knows better. Yet he spoke with complete confidence in his own superior vision for the tech industry. He knows what the social media market should look like. He knows how to “win the AI race the right way.” The man is, apparently, a prophet.

Some of Meador’s gripes were not really about products at all, but about people. People shouldn’t like short-form video. The government, Meador seemed to suggest, must protect them from themselves. You might say that Meador wants to replace the consumer-welfare standard, under which the FTC protects markets that work to give people what they want, with a moral-welfare standard, under which the FTC pushes markets to give people what they are supposed to want—as determined by Mark Meador.

Maybe people should be more virtuous. But what business is that of the FTC? The FTC Act makes commissioners competition regulators, not philosopher-kings or morality police.

One European lawyer I spoke with at the conference seemed rather taken with Meador’s speech. He wants to crack down on Big Tech, after all; what’s not to like? I tried to explain how Meador plainly judges companies by a moral code, and why that code should give any upstanding European pause. Meador is committed to “the just ordering of society that best facilitates human flourishing.” He speaks unabashedly of the need for “beauty and virtue,” “moral values,” and “tradition and custom.” He peppers his writing (yes, his antitrust writing) with theological language, referring to human beings as “embodied souls seeking communion with their fellow man and their Creator.” The undertone—the dog whistle, if you will—is not Brussels-style social democracy. It is national conservatism, if not flat out Christian nationalism.

Which brings me to my real objection to Meador’s appearance. In Palo Alto, he was mild, reasonable, even conciliatory. The speech itself was a little misguided but pleasant enough. The problem was what it concealed: the other Mark Meador, and the other FTC.

In his speech, Meador called for apolitical enforcement. Antitrust, he said, should not serve an “unrelated political agenda.” It should not target disfavored industries. He and the agency should not “make decisions according to how political winds are blowing.”

How rich. Maximally politicized enforcement has characterized the Trump administration at large, and the Trump FTC in particular. Consider the Omnicom–IPG settlement. The FTC allowed two major advertising firms to merge, but only after restricting the new entity’s ability to withhold advertising dollars based on a publisher’s viewpoints. The settlement is a transparent assault on advertising firms’ First Amendment right to boycott publishers on grounds of social or ideological principle. It is also a nakedly political effort to redirect advertising dollars toward right-wing outlets.

Or consider the FTC’s hapless social-media “censorship” inquiry. This move, too, is an attack on First Amendment rights—this time, platforms’ right to moderate content as they see fit. And this move, too, is aimed at helping the right, specifically those right-wing speakers who insist—baselessly, by and large—that platforms have “silenced” them. Take also the FTC’s foray into debates over gender medicine. The FTC is not a medical regulator; it has no expertise in this area. But transgender issues are at the center of the culture war, so the agency could not resist weighing in, thumb firmly on the scale for the political right.

For Meador to sit in Palo Alto and sermonize about ignoring political winds was an insult to anyone paying attention to his agency or the administration it serves.

Equally striking was the contrast between Meador’s tone inside the conference room and the tone he and the FTC adopt elsewhere. In his remarks, Meador urged listeners not to “draw up battle lines.” Washington and Silicon Valley, he said, should root for each other’s success. During the Q&A, he endorsed a “just the facts, ma’am” approach. He expressed distaste for heated rhetoric from private parties—inflated claims about the stakes of litigation or boasts about whipping the FTC in court. Such talk amounts, he complained, to “melodramatic atmospherics.”

But Mark Meador and the Trump FTC do melodramatic atmospherics with the best of them. Last year, for instance, the FTC convened a conference titled “The Attention Economy: How Big Tech Firms Exploit Children and Hurt Families.” The title was all too fitting: the whole event was slanted, overheated, and self-righteous. Meador led the charge. He likened “the battle over the ‘attention economy’” to “the fight against Big Tobacco.” He argued that social media companies sell an addictive and harmful product; that they must keep children hooked, “craving the next fix, the next puff, the next notification”; and that they peddle lies in their defense.

No doubt this jeremiad resonates with some. I think it’s nonsense. But the point here is not whether Meador is right or wrong. It’s that he is two-faced. In Silicon Valley, he presents himself as mildly uneasy about short-form video. Elsewhere, he portrays social media companies as irredeemable reprobates, scarcely distinguishable from cigarette manufacturers. The Meador we saw projected reasonableness. In reality, he is a fanatic.

What Meador concealed about himself pales, though, beside what he concealed about the FTC. Excuse me, commissioner, did you just say you oppose overheated rhetoric? Where were you after the FTC lost its antitrust case against Meta?

The defeat was not surprising. The case was weak from the outset, failing to grapple with competitors such as YouTube and TikTok. It was dismissed in a careful opinion written by an able judge. That judge, James Boasberg, also ruled against the Trump administration’s reprehensible efforts to hustle men, without due process, to a prison in El Salvador. In response to that ruling, some GOP lawmakers launched a campaign to impeach him. The case for impeachment is risible. But that did not stop the FTC from exploiting it. After the Meta loss, an FTC spokesperson, Joe Simonson, sneered: “The deck was always stacked against us with Judge Boasberg, who is currently facing articles of impeachment.”

This statement is an embarrassment. Everyone at the FTC should be mortified by it. But there it is. Mark Meador has no standing to lecture others about decorum.

Nor should we expect this to be an isolated lapse. The second Trump FTC has been staffed with people who are terminally online. In a sense, they are the dog that caught the car: they have memed their way into an amount of power they are neither competent nor responsible enough to wield.

This became obvious when the FTC set out to punish Media Matters. The organization had published a study finding that ads appeared next to hate speech on the alt-right-friendly platform X. The agency then launched a sweeping investigation (another example, contra Meador, of the FTC’s overtly political posture). The courts blocked the probe, finding it to be retaliation for constitutionally protected speech. Evidence of a retaliatory motive included, almost comically, some FTC staffers’ big fat mouths. Before joining the agency, a cadre of young edgelords had been spending their time spouting off on social media. Joe Simonson (he of the appalling comment after the Meta loss) had mocked Media Matters for employing “a number of stupid and resentful Democrats.” Another staffer had called the group “scum of the earth.”

This is the backdrop to Meador’s calls, in Palo Alto, to lower the temperature. Spare us, commissioner.

The word at the conference was that the FTC is in disarray. Many experienced attorneys and economists accepted one of the Trump administration’s buyout offers. Others concluded, after a return-to-office mandate, that if working for the FTC was going to be a hassle—don’t forget those “five things you did this week” emails!—they might as well leave for higher pay. I heard this from a former government official who had himself recently decamped to private practice. When I asked this refugee about the FTC’s ambitions to police social media or wade into gender medicine, he said he would not be surprised if the agency ultimately accomplishes very little. Who knows. But the intuition is sound: you cannot decimate and demoralize an agency and then expect it to move regulatory mountains.

When Meador was appointed, Tyler Cowen summed things up nicely, concluding that he “is just flat out terrible,” including for his inability to maintain “a basic level of professionalism.” Is he lonely at the top? With the agency hollowed out, Meador may be a king without a throne. One can only hope that his capacity for mischief will be constrained by the wreckage below.

Corbin K. Barthold is Internet Policy Counsel at TechFreedom. Republished with permission from Policy & Palimpsests

New Linux Patch Improved NVMe Performance +15% With CPU Cluster-Aware Handling

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Par : Michael Larabel
20 janvier 2026 à 22:51
Intel Linux engineers have been working on enhancing the NVMe storage performance with today's high core count processors. Due to situations where multiple CPUs could end up sharing the same NVMe IRQ(s), performance penalties can arise if the IRQ affinity and the CPU's cluster do not align. There is a pending patch to address this situation. A 15% performance improvement was reported with the pending patch...

Black trans woman helps MAGA racist escape violent mob

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Par : Daniel Villarreal
20 janvier 2026 à 23:00

A Black man and a transgender woman helped rescue white supremacist provocateur Jake Lang — a Republican U.S. Senate candidate who assaulted U.S. Capitol police officers during the January 6, 2021, riots — after Lang held an anti-Somali, anti-Islam demonstration last Saturday on the steps of Minneapolis, Minnesota’s City Hall.

Lang — who says that Jewish people want to turn the children of white Christian men into “[n-word] lovers” — had promised to lead a march through the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood (which has Minneapolis’ highest concentration of Somali-American residents) before burning a Quran on the steps of City Hall. But he reportedly didn’t get to do either because a group of about 100 anti-racist counterprotestors — who outnumbered the 10 attendees of Lang’s event — cornered Lang outside City Hall before attacking him and chasing him away.

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The anti-racist counterprotestors threw objects and water balloons at Lang before a 30-year-old Black Minneapolis resident named Isaiah Blackwell helped Lang escape.

While Blackwell and other men led Lang away, the crowd continued to lob abuse at Lang, with one person even kicking Lang in the head and numerous others opening the rear car door and kicking Lang some more as a Black trans woman eventually helped Lang escape. Lang suffered bruises, scrapes, and a cut on his head, though he didn’t report his injuries to local law enforcement, the Minneapolis police said.

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“I’m a man, and I believe all humans should be treated the same. It doesn’t matter,” Blackwell told The Star Tribune when explaining why he rescued Lang. Despite Lang’s racist views, Blackwell said, “[Lang] has a story to tell, like I have a story to tell. I took my voice, and I told them, ‘Don’t touch him. Let him go.’ I made a space so he could get out of there.”

Seeing footage of Blackwell assisting Lang, former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak told the aforementioned publication, “Lang saw that Black man as less than him. The Black man saw Lang as a human being.”

Mossad Parasite Jake Lang went to incite hatred in Minneapolis.

Well, he succeeded 😆

Bravo to the beautiful people of Minneapolis 👏🏼pic.twitter.com/RP92xKAm49

— ADAM (@AdameMedia) January 18, 2026

Lang reportedly ducked into a local hotel about four blocks away from City Hall before exiting the hotel about 10 minutes later. Upon exiting, a 22-year-old trans woman named Daye Gottsche saw Lang bloodied and being attacked. Gottsche allowed Lang into the backseat of a car driven by her friend.

“All of a sudden, there’s a bloody man running up to our car and begging for help. We let him in,” Gottsche said. “We’re surrounded by a crowd of people that is clearly angry because they are like beating on the car door, trying to bust open the windows. It was insane.”

Gottsche, who was riding with her friend on the way to a bar, said she and her friend got “weird vibes” from Lang and asked him to leave the vehicle after he said that Trump had helped save his life. Trump pardoned Lang after he had served four years in prison for attacking a U.S. Capitol police officer during the January 6, 2021, riots.

Lang then gave Gottsche his phone number and promised to pay for the damage inflicted upon her friend’s vehicle, including a broken headlight.

Gottsche said she texted Lang, writing to him (in part), “While i do not whatsoever support you or ur ideals, im happy to see that you are gonna be okay, and i hope this has some sort of impact on you. Because the fear and urgency you felt trying to escape that crowd is what people here feel everyday. America was never ours to begin with, so how does it make sense that we cant share, especially with people seeking safety and shelter?”

Lang later recounted the incident to Alex Jones, the anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist who broadcasts InfoWars, saying that he was “lynched” but “Good Samaritans” saw “the humanity of the situation” and saved him.

“I’m so grateful for them,” Lang told Jones. “Many of them were Black. Some of them were even Muslim. And it shows, you know, obviously, this underlying human compassion.”

Lang spent the holiday weekend reposting supportive social media posts from a variety of anti-LGBTQ+ right-wing accounts that blame the Minneapolis counterprotestors for attacking Lang while omitting any mention of Lang’s provocative, racist rhetoric.

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