Federal agents arrested journalist Don Lemon on Thursday evening in Los Angeles, according to his attorney, as well as local journalist Georgia Fort, escalating a growing confrontation between the Trump administration and press freedom advocates over journalists' reporting on federal law enforcement actions in Minnesota. L'optimisation est une activité connue de bien des développeurs, fouiller, chercher dans son code, pour, peut être, gagner un peu de performance (beaucoup, parfois). Dans cette tâche ardue, face à des codes grandissants, massifs, utilisant de nombreuses bibliothèques externes, un outil central dans ce travail de fourmi : le profileur.
Le profileur fait partie des outils importants pour le développeur qui se soucie des ressources qu'il utilise. Il lui permet de chercher les points chauds dans son code, comprendre le cout de chaque fonction, chaque ligne implémentée. Bien des outils s'intéressent à une chose : bien utiliser votre processeur.
Mais que se passe-t-il si vous rencontrez des difficultés avec l'utilisation de votre mémoire ? Si vous pensez mal utiliser la fonction malloc() du C ou l'opérateur new du C++ ? Si vous avez oublié qu'une de vos variables globales occupe 10 Go (surtout en Fortran) ?
Publié il y a quelques années MALT (licence CeCILL-C) permet de répondre à la question en cherchant toutes les allocations mémoires faites par votre code. Cet outil avait fait l'objet d'un article sur LinuxFR en 2018 lors de sa mise en open source : Profileurs mémoire MALT et NUMAPROF.
Depuis, cet outil fait son chemin avec l'ajout du support de Rust ainsi que nombreuses corrections et ajouts tels que la possibilité de dumper le profile mémoire juste avant que le système ne soit plein.
Connexionmalt -o dump:on-sys-full-at=80% -o watch-dog=true ./mon_programme
# également :
# -o dump:on-app-using-rss=10G
# -o dump:on-app-using-virt=80%
# -o dump:on-app-using-req=500MLa possibilité de suivre les appels à mmap, mremap, munmap si vous les appelez directement dans votre code au lieu de laisser malloc faire son travail.
MALT a initialement été développé dans le contexte du calcul à haute performance — HPC (High Performance Computing) donc surtout pour le C / C++ / Fortran / Rust.
Dans la communauté scientifique, nous voyons dans les laboratoires de plus en plus fleurir l'usage d'un langage à priori bien éloigné de nos prérogatives de performances : Python.
Dans un cadre de calcul scientifique, il est souvent utilisé plutôt comme un wrapper permettant d'appeler et d'orchestrer des bibliothèques en C /C++ / Fortran, elles, performantes. Quoi que l'usage amène aussi à l'écrire de certaines parties du code en Python grâce à Numpy ou Numba pour accéléré la partie calcule sur des tableaux ou autres frameworks d'exploitation des GPU.
La version 1.6.0 de MALT vient d'ajouter le support (encore quelque peu expérimental) natif de Python permettant d'analyser un code pur python ou mix Python / C / C++…. Il s'agit pour l'instant de la première version avec ce support, il reste donc du travail.
Sont supportés les versions Python supérieures à 3.11 ainsi que les environnements Conda / Anaconda / Venv. À l'heure de rédaction de cet article, cela comprend les versions 3.11 à 3.14.
MALT étant orienté C / C++, il ne supporte que Linux comme système d'exploitation. (NdM: la causalité évoquée ici devrait faire réagir des développeurs d'autres systèmes libres notamment :))
Si la commande malt fonctionne parfaitement, il est recommandé d'utiliser le wrapper malt-python qui adapte quelques configurations spécifiques à Python non encore automatiques.
malt-python ./script.py
# équivalent à
malt --profile python-default ./script.py
# liste des profiles
malt --profile help
# Afficher le profile
malt-webview ./malt-script-py-6889.jsonNotons que l'overhead de MALT est important en Python du fait du large nombre d'allocations générées par ce langage et de la méthode de résolution des piles d'appels pour retrouver les lignes dans votre code. Ces détails d'analyse peuvent être désactivés via :
# Désactivé complète de l'analyse des piles
malt-python -p python-no-stack ./my_script.py
# Analyse des piles par "sampling"
malt-python -p python-sampling ./my_script.pyLa version 1.6.0 arrive également avec une nouvelle interface graphique avec un code remis à jour
par rapport à sa version originale vieillissante.
Pour ceux qui voudraient échanger les profils avec d'autres sur d'autres OS, il est possible depuis la 1.6.0 de générer une version statique des pages de l'interface (hors annotation des sources et arbre d'appel navigable) via :
# Toues les pages possible en statique
malt-webview -static ./report malt-progr-123456.json
# Seulement la page de résumé.
malt-webview -static-summary ./report malt-progr-123456.jsonMALT n'est pas encore disponible dans les distributions classiques, vous devez donc le compiler et l'installer à la main. Le nombre réduit de dépendances obligatoires en fait un outil relativement facile à installer.
On trouvera la procédure dans la documentation du projet.
La documentation a été complètement ré-écrite et disponible sur le site officiel : documentation.
Découvrir un outil est aussi l'occasion d'en découvrir d'autres. Restons dans le monde du Python, si MALT ne vous convient pas vous trouverez peut-être votre bonheur avec les outils suivants et complémentaires à MALT et eux totalement dédiés au Python toujours pour la mémoire :
MALT se positionne par rapport aux deux présentés en apportant une analyse fine en annotant tout le source code de l'application. Il offre également une analyse des variables globales et TLS coté C/C++/Fortran/Rust.
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Libs of TikTok, the anti-LGBTQ+ social media account run by Chaya Raichik, is doxxing everyday Americans who have made online comments against federal immigration enforcement agents and in support of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs who was recently gunned down by immigration agents. Some of Raichik’s targets have merely made social media posts that have admitted to being in anti-ICE chat groups or have publicly asked for whistles to use to warn people of ICE agents approaching.
Raichik — whose account regularly inspires death threats against medical workers, educators, and children — has included commenters’ names, photos, and employers to encourage public harassment or professional retaliation against them, the media watchdog site Media Matters reported on Thursday.
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When one Rhode Island teacher wrote in an Instagram post, “May the courage we have all witnessed in everyday heroes like Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good and the people of Minnesota inspire us to be courageous where we live,” Raichik published a screenshot of the post and commented, “Are parents aware and OK with this person promoting violence teaching their kids?”
Numerous videos have shown that neither Pretti nor Good, a queer mother of three
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When one registered nurse in North Carolina wrote that the federal agents who killed Pretti “better pray they never end up in a hospital [because] the nurses won’t be kind (adding a laughing face emoji), Raichik called his comment “a threat against ICE agents,” tagged his place of work, and tagged the North Carolina Board of Nursing, saying that he should be stripped of his medical license.
Libs of TikTok and other right-wing accounts doxxed social media users who made comments celebrating the murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk.
Facebook has temporarily banned Libs of TikTok twice for violating its “community standards”: once in August 2022 and again in January 2024. Twitter has temporarily suspended the Libs of TikTok account five times for “hateful content” and for promoting “violence, threats, or harassment against others” based on minority status. The account has also been temporarily deactivated on Instagram and TikTok.
Raichik’s videos and photos on the Libs of TikTok account often end up recirculated within the right-wing media ecosystem: first by individual social media influencers with large followings, then by larger anti-LGBTQ+ websites like The Daily Caller and The Post Millennial, and eventually into the mainstream by Fox News and other right-wing pundits and politicians. Raichik’s views have influenced anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, according to The Washington Post.
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Donald Trump’s lesbian niece and clinical psychologist Mary Trump eviscerated her uncle’s handling of the Texas floods, calling his recent comments on the tragedy a “grotesque display of self-promotion.”
The president recently visited the disaster zone where more than 130 people, including at least 36 children, were killed in a massive flash flood.
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After he toured the area, Donald Trump called a reporter “evil” for asking about the lack of warnings before the flood that could have saved dozens of lives.
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“Well, I think everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances,” he said, adding that “only a very evil person would ask a question like that.”
“I think this has been heroism. This has been incredible, really, the job you’ve all done. It’s easy to sit back and say, oh, what could have happened here? Maybe we could have done something differently. This was a thing that never happened before.”
On her blog, Mary Trump said her uncle’s horrific response – as well as the way he “appeared genuinely baffled by the magnitude of the disaster” – is “a tactic” to “deflect responsibility.” If he can continue to convey that there was no possible way government officials could have prevented the devastation, she explained, then he is off the hook for any blame.
“This is how he operates,” she said. “He reframes every question of accountability as a personal attack—and by doing so, he avoids taking responsibility altogether.”
She also slammed him for being sad about the floods because of what they have done for America’s image rather than due to the unthinkable loss of life: “We had a country that was very close to being finished,” she quoted him saying, “and now we have the hottest country in the world. That’s why I am so saddened by this.”
“If someone cares only about money, they cannot be trusted to govern,” Mary Trump said in response to this claim from her uncle. “When every decision boils down to cost or savings, disaster is inevitable. We’ve seen this time and time again.”
She emphasized that the president is “a nihilist” who “does not care if the country burns to the ground, as long as he gets loyalty, power, and personal enrichment.”
She said he cannot face “the obvious truth” that he won’t live forever. “Someday, we will all outlive him,” she said. “That is a reality he cannot bear.”
The flash flood began in the early morning hours of July 4th, with the center of the tragedy unfolding in Kerry County, Texas, which sits along the Guadalupe River. The river rose more than 25 feet in two hours.
At least 27 of the young victims were campers at Camp Mystic and were sleeping soundly in their cabins when the water began to rise.
The area is prone to flash flooding, and many in the area have been fighting to implement a better warning system for years.
Additionally, four officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) told CNN that the federal response to the devastating Texas floods was slowed by a Trump administration rule requiring cost approval from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
The Trump administration has disputed these claims with a focus on tooting its own horn rather than on alleviating the suffering going on in Texas.
In a reply to an X post from the senior digital editor for Meidas Touch that showed a clip of Cooper talking about Noem’s budget limitations, the official account of the Department of Homeland Security wrote, “This is a FAKE NEWS LIE from CNN. This reporting is an unapparelled [SIC] display of activist journalism and distracts from the robust, coordinated federal response led by Secretary Noem that has saved over 900+ lives.”
“While these ‘journalists’ slept comfortably in D.C., Secretary Noem deployed to Texas, working day and night to approve every possible need that search and rescue workers had. Within moments of the flooding in Texas, DHS assets, including the U.S. Coast Guard, tactical Border Patrol units and FEMA personnel surged into unprecedented action alongside Texas first responders. The U.S. Coast Guard alone rescued over 230 Americans.”
The post claimed Noem “is leading a historic, first-of-its-kind approach to disaster funding: putting states first by providing upfront recovery support — moving money faster than ever and jump starting recovery.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) also praised the president for his response to the floods. “Never have I seen a response as quick or as effective as I have the Trump administration’s response to this storm,” he claimed.
In a separate statement to reporters, he also called it “the word choice of losers” to try to figure out who is to blame for the lack of advanced warning before the floods. He caused widespread anger when he compared the devastation to losing a football game.
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La campagne de mobilisation pour la 25e édition de Libre en Fête est lancée ! Pour accompagner l'arrivée du printemps, toutes les organisations ayant à cœur la promotion du logiciel libre et de la culture libre sont invitées à proposer des événements de découverte partout en France autour du 20 mars, dans une dynamique conviviale et festive. L'édition 2026 du Libre en Fête aura lieu du samedi 7 mars au dimanche 12 avril.
À l'occasion du Libre en Fête, tous les groupes d’utilisateurs et utilisatrices de logiciels libres (GULL), les espaces publics numériques (EPN), les bibliothèques et médiathèques, les clubs informatiques, les fablabs et hackerspaces, les centres sociaux et culturels et toute autre organisation souhaitant agir en faveur de la promotion du logiciel libre et de la culture libre sont invitées à organiser des évènements de découverte à destination du grand public partout en France.
Le Libre en Fête est une initiative de l'April.
Les dates retenues pour l’édition 2026 sont du samedi 7 mars au dimanche 12 avril. Bien sûr, un événement peu avant le 7 mars ou peu après le 12 avril est le bienvenu aussi.
Il est possible de proposer des événements « ad hoc », ou bien déjà prévus pour la période concernée (ateliers récurrents, permanences…). Le site du Libre en Fête donne toutes les informations utiles pour participer à l'initiative.
Les événements proposés dans le cadre du Libre en Fête peuvent prendre n'importe quelle forme, tant qu’il s’adressent au grand public : conférence de découverte, atelier d’initiation, fête d'installation1, exposition de panneaux sur le logiciel libre comme par exemple l'Expolibre, diffusion de vidéos ou films sur le logiciel libre, mise à disposition de postes informatiques sous logiciel libre, de jeux vidéos libres, etc.
Bien sûr, il est possible de proposer plusieurs activités au sein d'une même journée de découverte. Et si vous prévoyez un fond musical, pensez à diffuser des titres sous licence libre ; vous pouvez regarder du côté des musiques diffusées dans l'émission de radio de l'April Libre à vous !.
Retrouvez plein d'idées d'événements sur le site du Libre en Fête !
La coopération entre différentes organisations au niveau local est vivement encouragée. Les groupes d’utilisateurs et utilisatrices de Logiciels Libres (GULL) peuvent notamment être sollicités en raison de leurs connaissances et de leur expertise en matière de Logiciel Libre. D’autres structures peuvent mettre à disposition d’autres ressources telles que les locaux, le matériel informatique et multimédia, voire des compétences en communication et/ou animation.
Des liens utiles pour la recherche de partenaires sont disponibles sur le site de l'initiative.
Le référencement d'un événement dans le cadre du Libre en Fête se déroule via le site de l'Agenda du Libre : il suffit d'ajouter le mot-clé libre-en-fete2026 (sans accent) lors de la soumission de l'événement ou, si l'événement a déjà été soumis, via le formulaire d'édition reçu par courriel. Votre événement apparaîtra alors automatiquement sur le site du Libre en Fête, à la page Événements.
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard — who was spotted yesterday in an FBI raid on the election offices of Fulton Country, Georgia (a county that Donald Trump targeted in his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election) — has ties to anti-gay organizations in her home state of Hawaii, including one that promoted conversion therapy, the widely debunked practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
But does Tulsi Gabbard support conversion therapy? We took a closer look at her history and words about the subject. It seems that while she disavows conversion therapy for sexual orientation, it’s less clear whether she supports conversion therapy for gender identity.
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During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Gabbard worked for The Alliance for Traditional Marriage, an anti-gay political action committee (PAC). The PAC spent over $100,000 to convince Hawaiian voters to pass Amendment 2, a November 1998 ballot measure allowing the state legislature to restrict marriages to opposite-sex couples (effectively banning same-sex marriage in the state). Gabbard was 17 years old at the time of the vote.
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Gabbard’s father, Mike, was a prominent anti-gay activist in the island state. He served as the director of Stop Promoting Homosexuality, on the steering committees of the National Campaign to Protect Marriage and the Hawaii-based coalition, Save Traditional Marriage, and also hosted an anti-gay radio show, Let’s Talk Straight Hawaii, CNN reported.
Tulsi Gabbard was quoted in a 2000 press release from The Alliance for Traditional Marriage in which she blamed “homosexual activists” for opposing her mother Carol’s campaign for a seat on the Hawaiian State Board of Education, stating, “This war of deception and hatred against my mom is being waged by homosexual activists because they know, that if elected, she will not allow them to force their values down the throats of the children in our schools.”
“Working with my father, Mike Gabbard, and others to pass a constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage, I learned that real leaders are willing to make personal sacrifices for the common good,” Gabbard told The Honolulu Star-Bulletin during her run for the Hawaii state legislature in 2002. “I will bring that attitude of public service to the legislature.”
During a hearing on a bill to ban same-sex civil unions in Hawaii in 2004, Gabbard said, “To try to act as if there is a difference between ‘civil unions’ and same-sex marriage is dishonest, cowardly, and extremely disrespectful to the people of Hawaii. As Democrats, we should be representing the views of the people, not a small number of homosexual extremists.”
The Alliance for Traditional Marriage’s website, which appears to have been written by Gabbard’s father, had an FAQ that promoted conversion therapy and groups that push it.
The Alliance for Traditional Marriage’s website contained the following text promoting conversion therapy:
Can homosexuals change their sexual orientation?
Yes, of course. The bottom line is: We don’t accept the fictitious homosexual or gay identity. Homosexuality is a behavior, not an identity. In other words, there is no such thing as a homosexual or “gay”. Historically, the word “homosexual” didn’t exist until the mid 1800s, and when it was originally coined it referred to “homosexual attractions” not an entity or person known as a “homosexual.” These labels are simply political constructs created by homosexual activists to achieve their goal of societal acceptance. Our position is this: Humans are born heterosexuals. It’s simple, just check the plumbing. The vast majority of us have sexual desires for the opposite sex, while a small minority have homosexual, bi-sexual, or omnisexual desires. Then you’ve got some people who have sexual desires for children, animals, dead bodies, or whatever.
So what we’re dealing with here are tendencies, desires, feelings, urges, and behaviors, not personal identity. The major question to consider is: Can a person control their sexual desires and urges? Obviously, the answer is yes. A married man meets an attractive flirtatious woman in the supermarket who says, “Come home with me.” Whether he turns her offer down because he’s afraid he’ll get AIDS, or whether he’s motivated out of love for his wife, the fact is: he said no to that sexual urge. He controlled his mind.
Similarly, for those who experience the urge for sexual activity with someone of the same sex, it’s possible to overcome those sexual desires, no matter how powerful they may be. It is possible to redirect or rechannel that sexual energy in a different direction.
Compulsive sexual craving, regardless of one’s so-called sexual orientation, is a spiritual problem. Because we are by our very nature, active, loving spiritual beings, we crave love–we want to love someone and we want to be loved. Because this is a spiritual craving, it cannot be satisfied in the material dimension. The only person who can satisfy this craving is the Supreme Lord, our dear Father, our dear Master and Friend.
This is why Lord Jesus Christ commands us to love God with all our hear, mind and being. Actually, if you read the Koran, the Vedas, the Torah–the message is the same: place your love, first and foremost on God. He is the only source of real happiness, real fulfillment, real love.
So, to answer your question, yes a person can change. A person can walk away from homosexuality if they are repentant, sincere, and determined. For many, it’s a very difficult path. But thousands have successfully left the “gay” lifestyle.
There are some excellent “ex-gay” organizations out there such as Exodus, Courage, and Homosexuals Anonymous, made up of former homosexuals–both men and women–who are actively helping those who struggle with homosexual desires. In addition, the National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), a group of dedicated psychologists and psychiatrists has a remarkable success record in helping people who experience homosexual tendencies or urges to overcome those desires.
Despite the website’s claims, homosexual behavior has a long evolutionary root in human ancestry; such behavior is not considered a mere “craving” or a mental illness (unlike a desire to have sex with children, animals, or dead bodies — which are only brought up by anti-gay organizations to inspire disgust and outrage against gay people).
Furthermore, numerous LGBTQ+ affirming churches do not consider homosexuality to be “a spiritual problem” or a sin of temptation or lust. Every major medical and mental health organization opposes conversion therapy because research shows it to be harmful and ineffective.
Also, regarding the other organizations named in the FAQ: Exodus International shut down in 2013 after its founders admitted that they were still totally gay; Homosexual Anonymous, which seems now-defunct, was co-founded by Colin Cook, who resigned after a scandal in which he allegedly had sex with 12 male clients; and, NARTH (which changed its name to the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity), faced a scandal in May 2010 when its former officer and scientific advisor, George Rekers, was caught vacationing with a 20 year-old gay escort he met at RentBoy.com.
In 2017, Gabbard supported the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act, federal legislation to prohibit anti-LGBTQ+ conversion therapy. In a March 2019 CNN Town Hall, speaking as a Democratic presidential candidate, Gabbard said that she never personally supported conversion therapy.
“I personally never supported any kind of conversion therapy, I never advocated for conversion therapy, and frankly I personally never knew what conversion therapy was until just the last few years,” she said.
“I was raised in a very socially conservative home. My father was Catholic. He was a leading voice against gay marriage in Hawaii during that time. Again, I was very young, but these were the values and beliefs that I grew up around,” she added.
She then noted that, while serving in the U.S. Army during a deployment to the Middle East, she “saw firsthand the negative impact of a government attempting to act as a moral arbiter for their people, dictating in the most personal ways, how they must live their lives.” This “contradicted with some of those values and beliefs that I grew up with,” she admitted.
“I also served with gay and lesbian and trans service members,” she continued, “and we became very good friends, and knew in the most deep and visceral way that I would give my life for any one of them, and I knew that they would do the same for me and serving there overseas, being in a place where race or religion or orientation, these were things that didn’t matter because we were focused on our mission of service. So these experiences caused me to go through some soul-searching myself.”
She then noted that, during her six years serving as a Hawaiian representative in the U.S. House, she supported the Equality Act, the repeal of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, the Restore Honor to Servicemembers Act, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, the Safe Schools Improvement Act, and the Equality for All Resolution.
She also highlighted her receiving a 100% positive legislative rating from the Human Rights Campaign during that time.
In January 2014, Gabbard released a four-minute video apologizing. In it, she said, “In my past, I said and believed things that were wrong, and worse, they were very hurtful to people in the LGBTQ community and to their loved ones.”
While there’s no evidence to suggest that Gabbard herself underwent conversion therapy — she has been twice married, both times to men — she reportedly grew up in a fringe off-shoot “cult” of the Hare Krishna movement known as the Science of Identity Foundation.
A 2017 New Yorker profile noted that Gabbard’s parents “joined the circle of disciples” surrounding the group’s founder, Chris Butler, when the family moved to Hawaii in the 1980s. As a child, Gabbard spent two years at “informal schools run by followers of Butler,” and Gabbard has referred to Butler as her “guru dev” or spiritual master.
While Gabbard claimed to have never heard Butler “say anything hateful, or say anything mean about anybody,” in a 2017 Medium post, former Science of Identity Foundation member Lalita characterized Butler as “an abusive, misogynistic, homophobic, germophobic, narcissistic nightmare.” Lalita wrote that, as a child, she was forced to listen to Butler’s taped lectures on topics like “how evil and out of control gay people were, how women were inferior and subhuman [sic] and should be controlled by their husbands.”
Another former member told The Independent in 2022 that new Science of Identity Foundation recruits were taught to be “highly homophobic.”
According to The New Yorker, “In the 1980s, Butler excoriated same-sex desire; he wrote, for instance, that bisexuality was ‘sense gratification’ run amok, and warned that the logical conclusion of such hedonistic conduct was
In 2020, Butler — who is also known to followers as Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa — addressed his position on homosexuality in a Q&A posted by the Science of Identity Foundation’s Medium account.
“I made the decision a long time ago not to put so much emphasis on sexual morality, and rather focus on God’s unconditional love for all of us, regardless of our sexuality, our tendencies, desires, faults, flaws, or sins,” he said.
However, he added, “Every scripture of every religion denounces sexual relations between people of the same sex. And it would be the height of arrogance for me to reject God’s loving guidance on this issue.”
Butler explained that his “combative” language around homosexuality in the past was due to his lack of “empathy for people’s personal challenges of dealing with their sexual desires,” and credited encountering students who he said “were struggling with homosexual tendencies” for his change in tack.
In 2017, Gabbard told The New Yorker that she had discussed same-sex marriage with Butler “perhaps a while ago” and that they disagreed on the issue.
In January 2025, The Daily Beast revealed an audio recording from the late 1990s of Butler spewing anti-LGBTQ+ hate in a profanity-laced lecture to his disciples, in which he called gay relationships “sinful, ugly, unhealthy, and unnatural,” and denounced the existence of “f*gg*ts” and “d*kes” and secular society’s acceptance of them.
In 2022, Gabbard announced her disaffiliation from the Democratic Party, citing issues with the party’s “wokeness” and “anti-white racism.” She then announced her newfound membership in the Republican Party. In her final months in Congress, she co-sponsored the anti-trans “Protect Women’s Sports Act” and endorsed Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, which prohibits public school students from receiving instruction on LGBTQ+ issues.
In November 2022, Gabbard released a Facebook video stating that the number of kids who identify as transgender and those receiving gender-affirming care has risen over the past five years due to “the radical ‘woke’ agenda being pushed on our kids by so-called ‘healthcare professionals,’ [mainstream]/social media, and even [President Joe] Biden directly.”
“This is very intentional, and it’s the consequence … [of] rejecting the existence of objective reality, by rejecting this most fundamental truth of the differences between a biological male and female,” she said.
She also claimed there are no long-term studies on the effects of these “dangerous treatments on our kids,” but then contradicted her claim by saying that hormone therapy and puberty blockers harm cognitive development.
Evidently, Gabbard opposes gender-affirming care for trans youth, something that advocates say forces trans children to de-transition and identify with a sex and a body that do not match their gender identity. Some opponents of gender-affirming care for trans youth have advocated for forcing trans kids into mental health counseling, something that trans youth advocates say is a form of conversion therapy that would try to convince trans kids that they’re not actually cisgender.
While it’s unclear if Tulsi Gabbard supports conversion therapy for trans youth, she is part of a presidential administration that has called “gender ideology” a form of “indoctrination.” Some Republicans have pushed legislation to require health insurance companies to cover services related to de-transitioning, including “conversion therapy” to turn trans people into cisgender individuals.
As Director of National Intelligence, Gabbard won’t likely be making any statements about conversion therapy in the near future, unless it becomes an emergent matter of national security. But her past record shows that, despite disavowing conversion therapy, she opposes any public school curriculum that affirms the identities of LGBTQ+ students.
However, since the Republican-leaning U.S. Supreme Court is about to hear a case challenging bans on the practice (which are in place in at least 23 states), the practice could soon make a comeback and harm even more LGBTQ+ youth and adults, especially as the White House increasingly designates gender-affirming care as a form of
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Indirect prompt injection occurs when a bot takes input data and interprets it as a command. We've seen this problem numerous times when AI bots were fed prompts via web pages or PDFs they read. Now, academics have shown that self-driving cars and autonomous drones will follow illicit instructions that have been written onto road signs.…
The ShinyHunters ransomware group has claimed the theft of data containing 10 million records belonging to the Match Group and 14 million records from bakery-café chain Panera Bread.
The Match Group, that runs multiple popular online dating services like Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, and Hinge has confirmed a cyber incident and is investigating the data breach.
Panera Bread also confirmed that an incident occurred and has alerted authorities. “The data involved is contact information,” it said in an emailed statement to Reuters.
ShinyHunters seems to be gaining access through Single-Sign-On (SSO) platforms and using voice-cloning techniques, which has resulted in a growing number of breaches across different companies. However, not all of these breaches have the same impact.
For the Match Group, ShinyHunters claims:
“Over 10 million records of Hinge, Match, and OkCupid usage data from Appsflyer and hundreds of internal documents.”
Match says there is no evidence that logins, financial data, or private chats were stolen, but Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and tracking data for some users are in scope. A notification process has been set in motion.
For Panera Bread, ShinyHunters claims to have compromised 14 million records containing PII.
Panera Bread reassures users that there is no indication that the hackers accessed user login credentials, financial information, or private communications.
ShinyHunters also breached Bumblr, Carmax, and Edmunds among others, but I wanted to use Panera Bread and the Match Group as two examples that have very different consequences for users.
When your activity on a dating app is compromised, the impact can be deeply personal. Concerns can range from partners, family members, or employers discovering dating profiles to the risk of doxxing. For many people, stigma around certain apps can lead to fears of being outed, accused of infidelity, or even extorted.
The impact of the Panera Bread breach will be very different. “I just ordered a sandwich and now some criminals have my home address?” Data like this is useful to enrich existing data sets. And the more they know, the easier and better they can target you in phishing attempts.
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According to new data from the US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), streaming video subscription prices jumped a whopping 29 percent year over year. That’s compared to the 2.7 percent jump in consumer costs seen more generally across other goods and services.
Of course BLS doesn’t explain why streaming video prices are soaring at such a dramatic rate. It’s something we’ve touched on repeatedly: as giant media companies increasingly consolidate, they’re trying to find new, frequently obnoxious ways to continue to goose quarterly earnings and create the illusion of perpetual growth despite a major slowdown in new subscribers.
That means significantly more ads (even if you pay for no ads). It means higher overall prices despite a decline in quality. It means layoffs, worse customer service, and companies that refuse to even host popular content they paid for because they’re too cheap to pay for residuals. It means new annoying restrictions on what you’re paying for, and companies that harass you for sharing your password with your college kid or elderly relative. It means more lazy, clickbait content catering to the lowest common denominator and less quality, thoughtful art.
It means enshittification.
And it’s going to get worse. The corrupt Trump administration is demolishing whatever is left of U.S. media consolidation limits, ensuring another massive round of harmful “growth for growth’s sake” mergers that temporarily goose earnings, create tax breaks, and badly justify outsized executive compensation, but generally make all of the existing problems in the industry worse (especially for labor and consumers).
According to the BLS, streaming and gaming subscriptions and rentals saw higher “streamflation” (read: price gouging) in 2025 than any of the other industries or services measured. The closest comparison was coffee (28 percent), which is largely soaring due to Trump’s ignorant and pointless tariffs that consumers have to pay for.
If you’re old enough, you’ve already watched this play out with traditional cable (many of the executives screwing up streaming were the same ones that screwed up traditional cable). So you know the pattern: they’ll continue to push their luck on price hikes, driving many people to free alternatives (or piracy), at which point the executives who made out like bandits blame everyone and everything but themselves.
None of this is reflected honestly by any of the media companies that cover this sort of thing, because their tendency toward honest and courageous journalism is being undermined by the same forces. Like check out this Hollywood Reporter breakdown of the issue, which they dub “streamflation.” They amusing hint at the fact there might be causes for this massive surge in pricing, but can’t get around to listing any:
Again, because enshittification doesn’t discriminate, and the same forces making streaming video more expensive and shittier are taking a hatchet to U.S. journalism and truth in service to the almighty dollar. Corporate media is incapable of reporting honesty about corporate media: there’s no money in it.
Federal agents have arrested gay journalist Don Lemon for covering an anti-ICE protest in Minnesota. His lawyer, Abbe Lowell, called it “a stunning and troubling effort to silence and punish a journalist for doing his job.”
“Don will call out their latest attack on the rule of law and fight any charges vigorously and thoroughly in court,” he said.
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On January 18, a group of protesters entered the Cities Church in St. Paul, chanting “ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good.” One of the church’s pastors, David Easterwood, is the acting field office director for Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Lemon, who used to be a CNN host but is now an independent journalist, was at the demonstration and broadcast it.
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The current administration decried the protest as an attack on a “house of worship” and, specifically, “Christian worshippers,” and conservatives denounced it as a sign that protestors had gone too far, even though ICE agents have been entering churches as well to arrest people who may or may not be undocumented immigrants.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked a federal magistrate judge for an arrest warrant for eight people at the demonstration, including Lemon. The magistrate signed off on arrest warrants for three of them, but not Lemon. The DOJ appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, but a three-judge panel refused to overturn the magistrate judge’s decision in a ruling last Friday that was published on Saturday. On Monday, the DOJ said it would no longer try to arrest Lemon.
The New York Times is reporting that Lemon was arrested late Thursday in Los Angeles on charges connected to the Cities Church protest, although it’s not clear what those charges are. The DOJ has not said yet who granted it a warrant for his arrest.
“Once the protest started in the church, we did an act of journalism, which was report on it and talk to the people involved, including the pastor, members of the church, and members of the organization,” Lemon said in a video before he was arrested. “That’s it. That’s called journalism.”
“The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable,” attorney Lowell said. “There is no more important time for people like Don to be doing his work.”
“Arresting a journalist for doing his job is a blatant assault on the First Amendment and press freedom,” said out gay New York City Councilmember Erik Bottcher on Instagram following Lemon’s arrest. “This kind of intimidation has no place in a democracy and must be condemned unequivocally.”
Lemon has long been critical of the president and his administration, and he made headlines last year when he called out Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) to her face for her use of transphobic slurs. The president reposted a message on Truth Social demanding Lemon be jailed for reporting on the protest, according to Deadline.
Lemon is expected to appear in court later today.
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Former Division I college football player Jake Eldridge has shared that he spent so much of his sports career hiding his sexuality that the stress put him in the hospital.
Speaking to People on 27 January, he said he knew he was gay from a young age, but “football became the thing that kind of pushed everything else aside”.
Eldridge was recruited to play football in Big 10 at Rutgers University, and it wasn’t long before the weight of hiding his sexuality began to have an impact on his mental health.
“While it felt like everything I’d worked for was finally coming true, at the same time, it felt like an imprisonment – like this was my life now, and I didn’t have another option,” he said.
Things came to a head when people began speculating about his sexuality. “My roommate would come home and tell me people were asking if I was gay,” he shared. “My biggest fear wasn’t just people knowing – it was people knowing before I was ready.”
Eldridge began to worry that he would be bullied, his scholarship would be rescinded or he wouldn’t be allowed to play anymore if people found out he was gay.
As his freshman season drew to a close, he was hospitalised with ulcerative colitis, an autoimmune condition, for three days, which doctors said was likely triggered by stress.
“It was the stress of being closeted,” he says. “Going in every day and faking who I am for years on end. I’d been saying for years, ‘This is making me sick.’ And then my body finally proved it.”
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Lady Gaga took a moment to decry the actions of ICE and express her solidarity with Minnesota.
“I want to take a second to talk about something that’s extremely important to me. Something important to people all over the world and especially in America right now.
“In a couple of days, I’m gonna be heading home and my heart is aching thinking about the people, the children, the families, all over America, who are being mercilessly targeted by ICE,” Lady Gaga said over the mic during a 29 January Tokyo show of her Mayhem Ball tour.
“I’m thinking about all of their pain and how their lives are being destroyed right in front of us. I’m also thinking about Minnesota and everyone back at home who is living in so much fear and searching for answers on what we all should do.
“When entire communities lose their sense of safety and belonging, it breaks something in all of us. I hope that you’ll all stand with us tonight.
“I know we’re not in America right now, but we are with our community and we love you,” she continued.
Gaga then dedicated her song “Come To Mama” to those struggling in the current climate in Minnesota, saying “We need to get back to a place of safety and peace and accountability.
“Good people shouldn’t have to fight so hard and risk their lives for well-being and respect and I hope, I hope our leaders are listening.”
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Yellowjackets star Jasmin Savoy Brown has shared that her Scream 7 character’s pronouns are she/they.
The 31-year-old queer actor also uses she/they pronouns. Brown explained that they clarified their Scream character’s pronouns amidst “so much ugliness in the world.”
Brown, known for playing the teenage Taissa Turner in the thriller Yellowjackets, stars as Mindy Meeks-Martin in the horror franchise. They joined as the Woodsboro teenager in 2022’s Scream before appearing in 2023’s Scream VI and the upcoming Scream 7.
Ahead of the film’s release, Brown shared more details about the character of Mindy. Her post sees her character wearing a trio of pins, one of which reads “she/they.”
On their Instagram story, they posted: “idk how y’all find these things I’ve never seen but yes l’ve officially made Mindy she/ they. In the midst of so much ugliness in the world, [ice cube emoji, seemingly referring to ICE] being an obvious horror, there is a clear attack on our queer and trans community.
Jasmin Savoy Brown announces her ‘SCREAM 7’ character’s pronouns are she/they:
— A Shot (@ashotmagazine) January 29, 2026
“I’ve officially made Mindy she/they. In the midst of so much ugliness in the world, ICE being an obvious horror, there is a clear attack on our queer and trans community… I hope it means something… pic.twitter.com/vtmE0xUw1H
“I think small on screen choices, such as a character in a major franchise wearing a pin that validates their gender as outside of the binary, matters. I hope it means something to you to see Mindy’s she/they pin on the big screen next month.”
Some Scream fans were excited at the news, but others responded to Brown’s post negatively.
“Girl whatever,” one used posted with crying emojis.
Another user posted, sarcastically: “Her: “Gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay”. Anyone: “Okay. We get it.” Her: “The horror of being attacked! OH GOD!””
Many others questioned Brown’s decision to make a stand about a character’s pronouns, instead of speaking out about the fact that Melissa Barrera was fired from Scream 7 in November 2023 by production company Spyglass Media Group due to her pro-Palestinian social media posts, which they deemed antisemitic.
One critic wrote: “bringing up that ice is terrorizing queer people while working for a company that fired Melissa Barrera for speaking up about Palestine.”
The slasher film is being directed by Kevin Williamson after the original director, Christopher Landon, walked away after Melissa Barrera was fired.
A sequel to Scream VI, Scream 7 is set to follow Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) building a new life for herself. Then a new Ghostface killer begins to target her daughter, Tatum (Isabel May). Sidney decides once and for all she must face her past and put an end to the killings.
Scream 7 is scheduled for release on February 27.
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Orange Is The New Black star Samira Wiley and her writer wife Lauren Morelli are set to divorce after nine years together.
A representative told Out that the pair are “amicably filing for divorce”, adding that they remain committed to co-parenting their four-year-old daughter.
Wiley and Morelli met while working on Netflix show Orange Is the New Black, where Wiley starred as inmate Poussey Washington.
Morelli has previously said writing for the show helped her come to terms with her sexuality, having previously been married to a man.
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Gay journalist Don Lemon has been arrested in connection with attending and reporting on a protest in Minnesota.
Lemon (59) was arrested late Thursday (29 January) night on charges that he violated federal law. The journalist, who previously worked for CNN, said he was reporting when he entered the Cities Church, a Christian church in St Paul, Minnesota, on 18 January.
He said he attended to observe a protest against the immigration crackdown in the area, which has seen Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, both 37, killed by federal immigration agents.
However, protestors interrupted a service at the church, where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official serves as a pastor, and chanted “ICE out”.
The chant resulted in the Trump administration charging eight people, including Lemon, citing a law that protects people seeking to participate in a service in a house of worship.
A magistrates judge approved the charges against three people, rejecting the evidence against Lemon and the others as insufficient.
The Justice Department then petitioned a federal appeals court to force the judge to issue additional warrants, a request that was denied.
Lemon’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, has vowed to fight the charges.
He said in a statement, as per The New York Times: “This unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and transparent attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration will not stand. Don will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court.”
Lemon is set to appear in federal court in Los Angeles on Friday morning. It’s thought that he will challenge the prosecution’s case by arguing that he was covering the event as a journalist, not protesting.
Lemon is an independent journalist who has his own YouTube show.
In an interview with Scripps News Lemon opened up about his public feud with rapper, and Trump’s “number one fan”, Nicki Minaj.
On 19 January, “Super Bass” rapper Minaj referred to the former CNN news anchor as “DON ‘C*** SUCKIN’ LEMON” in a post on X, formerly Twitter, after the journalist reported on the protest against ICE at Cities Church.
Minaj added that she wanted “thug” Lemon “in jail” as she believed “he would never do that to any other religion”. She shared the post alongside an image of Chucky the doll wearing a wig.
At the time, Lemon responded by saying Minaj was out of her “depth”. He doubled down on those comments and told Scripps News: “So I said, why do African Americans support her, why do gay people support her, members of the LGBTQ community support her? You shouldn’t because she’s a homophobe and she’s a racist. She’s racist, I believe, against Black Americans.”
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A newly formed nationwide coalition of conservative organizations is mounting a coordinated campaign to overturn marriage equality in the United States, reviving arguments that advocates say the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a decade ago and reframing them around a familiar and ludicrous claim: that recognizing same-sex marriages harms children. Pour posséder (encore) mon viel iPod Touch (sous iOS 4), effectivement je ne peux plus rien faire car les certificats sont morts.
Plus aucune connectivité ne marche : les sites HTTPS ne fonctionnent plus (les certificats de base sur le téléphone sont périmés, et du coup aucun autre certificat ne peut être vérifié). Il peut encore servir comme baladeur MP3, mais ça fait longtemps que je ne m’en sers plus.
Aussi, ce n’est pas propre à iOS. Mes vieux téléphones Android on plus ou moins le même problème, même si c’est plus simple à bidouiller pour y ajouter les nouveaux certificats (voire une rom alternative).
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed Donald Trump for saying that he wants to make housing even more expensive for Americans because people who can’t afford to buy homes right now don’t “work very hard” anyway.
“I don’t want to drive housing prices down,” Trump said at a January 29 Cabinet meeting. “I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes. And they can be assured that’s what’s going to happen.”
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Trump’s comments put him firmly on what has been called the “NIMBY” side of the discussion of housing policy in the U.S. When there aren’t enough houses for everyone who wants to buy one, the price goes up as wealthier people bid up the cost of existing housing. Building more houses would drive down the prices of existing houses.
That’s good for people looking to enter the housing market, but many existing homeowners view their homes as investments, assets they believe should appreciate faster than inflation over time. NIMBYs oppose the construction of new housing, especially in tight markets, to keep the value of their houses high.
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“Existing housing, people that own their homes, we’re going to keep them wealthy,” Trump said. “We’re going to keep those prices up. We’re not going to destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn’t work very hard can buy a home.”
Trump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."
— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2026-01-29T17:41:54.941Z
Buttigieg called out Trump, reminding people that he campaigned in 2024 on lowering the cost of living.
“First of all, build more housing,” Buttigieg said, then diving into how Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy have increased interest rates.
“I also think it was very revealing that his idea of somebody who wants to buy a home is somebody who doesn’t work very hard,” he continued. “Most of the people I know are working very hard.”
His actions have led to higher prices for groceries, housing, utility bills, and more.Of course the president will do anything to avoid talking about his economic failures.
— Pete Buttigieg (@petebuttigieg.bsky.social) 2026-01-30T04:38:33.599Z
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These days, the conversation around climate change so often focuses on matters of soaring temperatures and extreme weather events. While they no longer dominate the discourse, rising sea levels will nonetheless still be a major issue to face as global average temperatures continue to rise.
This poses unique challenges in coastal areas. Municipalities must figure out how to defend their shorelines, or decide which areas they’re willing to lose. The City of Palo Alto is facing just this challenge, and is building a natural kind of seawall to keep the rising tides at bay.
The traditional way to fight back against the sea is with seawalls. These typically consist of steep slopes constructed on the shoreline, which are designed to reflect wave energy back to the sea and stop it from eating away at the land. They are normally built using rocks, steel, or concrete walls to dissipate the energy of incoming waves. They are typically simple to design and construct, and prove relatively effective at staving off erosion. However, they can also be quite imposing and unsightly, and often do very little to support native fauna and flora.
The City of Palo Alto is taking an altogether different approach by building a horizontal levee to protect the shore of Harbor Marsh. It eschews the usual steeply sloped seawall concept entirely. Instead, the coast is to be given a gentle gradient constructed of earth, creating a so-called “ecotone slope”—a long, sloping habitat down to the water line. Where the tide meets the shore, native plantings will support a tidal marsh, transitioning to a freshwater marsh with different plants farther up the slope, with volunteers planting 35 species in all. It’s hoped that restoring these habitats in the area will provide support to species like the Ridgway’s rail and the salt marsh harvest mouse.
Furthermore, from the top of the horizontal levee, wastewater will be fed in to support the growth of native plants, which will work with the soil to filter out pollutants as it makes its way to the sea in a process referred to as “polishing treatment”. It’s not intended to remove heavy pollutants from the water; this work is handled at existing municipal water treatment facilities. What the levee can handle is soaking up some of the nitrogen and phosphorous content to support plants on the slope. This reduces the amount of these nutrients that gets released out into the bay, which can cause fish die-offs, algal blooms, and other undesirable consequences.
Due to its limited size, the horizontal levee will only handle 100,000 gallons of wastewater per day, which isn’t much against the 20 million gallons that currently flows out into the bay. Ultimately, that’s because the work at Harbor Marsh is a pilot project for the City of Palo Alto. Ideally, it will prove effective in both limiting coastal erosion as well as supporting native plants and animals. If it proves successful, it could become a strategy used elsewhere along the San Francisco coastline and beyond. The Bay Area as a whole needs to be protected against rising sea levels, as the name implies, so projects like this are a key focus as authorities plan for the future.
As it stands, large artificial seawalls probably aren’t going anywhere. It’s very straightforward to build massive concrete and steel structures to defend a piece of coastline. The engineering involved is well understood, and the construction process does not require particular finesse in the selection of plants or the maintenance of native habitats. However, in areas where it’s desirable to slow erosion in a greener fashion, horizontal levees could become popular. After all, it’s a lot nicer to stroll on a path alongside a burgeoning native marshland than it is to feel the sun bouncing off acres of harsh concrete. If the Harbor Marsh experiment works, expect to see similar projects take off in coastal areas around the world.
Heated Rivalry took over Ottawa on the Prime Time 2026 red carpet on January 29, where Canadian PM Mark Carney met actor Hudson Williams.
Carney grinned as he pulled on a jacket inspired by the now-iconic Team Canada fleece from the series and joked with Williams, who plays one of the show’s closeted pro hockey players, asking him to “do the leg thing” for photos.
Inside the gala, the PM praised the show’s creator Jacob Tierney for keeping the production in Canada and refusing U.S. studio pressure to “tone it down”.
Speaking about the series, Carney said: “That could only be made in Canada, [celebrating] who we are, loving who we want to love.”
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