There's reportedly a new way for websites to spy on visitors: by monitoring how their computers' SSDs behave. The technique is called FROST, short for "fingerprinting remotely using OPFSbased SSD timing," and it runs through JavaScript on a web page. So far, this looks more practical in lab conditions than in the real world. read more
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett painted a rosy picture of the economy Sunday, downplaying Americans' growing pessimism about the economy amid high gas prices and rising inflation as the Iran war goes on. read more
American cities are also misspelled in the database, which pulls directly from ICE arrest reports. read more
Comedian Bill Maher ribbed President Trump on Friday over his dismal poll numbers and the blowback to a massive upcoming bash on the National Mall celebrating America's 250th birthday. read more
What it means to be a man is a theme in Texas Senate race as Paxton attacks Talarico read more
Multiple performers booked for a festival celebrating America's 250th birthday have dropped out, many saying they were misled about the political affiliation of the event. read more
Historian Heather Cox Richardson writes about the Republican Senator in 1950 who took a stand against Republican Senator Joe McCarthy. "I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny--Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear," Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine said while McCarthy sat two rows behind her. "While it might be a fleeting victory for the Republican party, it would be a more lasting defeat for the American people. Surely it would ultimately be suicide for the Republican party and the two-party system that has protected our American liberties from the dictatorship of a one-party system." read more
President Donald Trump's $4.7 billion war on cocaine smugglers has claimed the lives of nearly 200 people yet hasn't made the drug meaningfully harder to buy in the United States, according to experts. read more
A federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for Texas authorities to enforce key parts of a law that would allow state officials to arrest and deport people suspected of having illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. read more
A research project examining AI-driven recruitment hires across the US has revealed a systemic racial bias. read more
Belarus' president has been accused of flagrant human rights violations and enabling Russia's war in Ukraine. That hasn't been a barrier to his friendship with Donald Trump. read more
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday called President Donald Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund a "bad idea" and urged the president to "drop it." "Let's get rid of this fund," Pence said in an interview with NBC's Meet the Press. "I mean, it's deeply offensive to me that you could have a fund that could even possibly compensate people who assaulted police officers or vandalized the Capitol on January 6th. And I think that's broadly held by most Republicans and most Americans."
Guidance memo on who can get free tickets to White House UFC Fight: "Ticket recipients are required to meet the DOW waist-to-height ratio standard of less than 0.55, as well as all service specific physical fitness test requirements," one of the memos sent to service members says, using the Pentagon's preferred acronym for the agency. read more
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian: The far shorter Middle East war has rapidly revealed the strategic weakness of US firepower in an interconnected world. In scale, of course, the current conflict does not match the Vietnam war, which went on for years, led to the deaths of 58,220 US soldiers, and is often perceived as the totemic and unmatchable example of US hubris. By comparison with the Vietnam odyssey, Iran feels more like a day trip. But in terms of consequence, it is still possible that the "excursion" will prove to be the bigger geopolitical turning point for the unrivalled superpower, the moment when the US will have to concede it mishandled a war not just because it had no convincing battle plan, but also no grand strategy to match how the contemporary world works. In an interconnected world, Trump believes progress is achieved through conflict, not cooperation. read more
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Kennedy Center from temporarily closing its doors for a yearslong renovation and said its board violated the law when it added President Donald Trump's name to the historic performing arts venue. read more
The bill, an urgency measure, becomes effectively immediately -- just in time for California's Tuesday primaries. California Governor Gavin Newsom repeatedly derided Donald Trump as he signed an election bill on Wednesday, saying stronger guardrails are needed in the wake of a "delusional" president. read more
