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The video argues that the EU’s GDPR has been rendered meaningless.

It warns that new chat control measures will override existing privacy protections.

It suggests that EU citizens will effectively lose chat privacy under the new rules.

TypeScript type stripping now enabled by default, allowing direct execution of .ts files without setup.

The new import.meta.main feature lets scripts detect if they are the main module.

New API fileURLToPathBuffer added to URL module.

The U.S. Supreme Court granted cities power to penalize people for sleeping outside.

San Francisco has been among the most aggressive cities using this authority to clear homeless encampments.

Jim Sanborn’s Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters features an engraved secret code that has remained unsolved for 35 years.

The mysterious code has caused personal turmoil for Sanborn, including strained relationships and unwanted visitors.

Sanborn has received death threats from enthusiasts attempting to crack the code.

DOE’s mandate to keep large fossil-fuel power plants running could cost ratepayers about $3.1 billion annually by 2028.

The cost estimate uses a proxy of $89,315 per MW-year based on reliability-must-run contracts.

States with the highest projected costs include California ($389 million), Texas ($183 million), and Colorado ($178 million).

In his 1935 novel “It Can't Happen Here,” Sinclair Lewis warned that authoritarianism hides behind patriotism and religious imagery.

Authoritarian leaders use narratives of national greatness and divine mandate to mobilize support.

They systematically capture institutions by placing loyalists in government, law enforcement, and the courts.

Hyundai is charging Ioniq 5 owners £49 in the UK for an optional cybersecurity patch.

The patch includes software and hardware upgrades to address hacking of wireless locking protocols.

Thieves have used handheld devices to exploit vulnerabilities in Ioniq 5, EV6, and GV60 locks.

Baltimore’s annual murder rate has fallen to its lowest level in almost 50 years thanks to a unified violence-prevention strategy.

The city used American Rescue Plan funding to launch a data-driven focused deterrence program that targets individuals at highest risk of gun violence.

Case workers deliver personalized letters from the mayor offering social services and support, backed by the promise of prosecution if individuals decline help.

Sensitive documents from the Trump-Putin summit were accidentally left on a public hotel printer.

The eight-page packet included precise meeting schedules, room locations, and phone numbers of U.S. staff and Russian attendees.

The documents showed Trump intended to gift Putin an American Bald Eagle desk statue.

You can order any short message up to 140 characters to be permanently inscribed on a clay tablet.

Messages are transliterated into Old Persian cuneiform syllables rather than translated.

Each tablet is handmade from ceramic-grade clay, dried, fired, and shipped.