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From yesterday.

PC Mag: Sexism, Imposter Syndrome, and Success: Women in Cybersecurity Are Done Staying Quiet https://www.pcmag.com/news/sexism-imposter-syndrome-success-women-in-cybersecurity-black-hat-2025# @PCMag@flipboard.com #cybersecurity #Infosec #BlackHat

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A couple of days-old.

AP: News Media Corp., which owns local newspapers across five states, will close 14 operations, leaving dozens of communities without news source https://apnews.com/article/midwest-west-publisher-newspaper-rural-closure-f20a52cb56ba504bb68d1919fac259a4 @AssociatedPress@flipboard.com

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It's UCLA's turn

AP: WH official: Trump administration seeks $1 billion settlement from UCLA https://apnews.com/article/trump-administration-ucla-ec848b4bee5c184f29dba9d7181904a1 @AssociatedPress@flipboard.com

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Trump executive order gives politicians control over all federal grants, alarming researchers

AP: https://apnews.com/article/trump-executive-order-federal-funding-grants-nih-fema-4b4b6c23a25a8ae3fdc7b43c4586c999 @AssociatedPress@flipboard.com

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Hegseth reposts Christian nationalist video featuring pastors saying women shouldn’t be allowed to vote

Stop this. From yesterday.

AP: https://apnews.com/article/women-hegseth-defense-secretary-religion-d962f472910fb47a0c66cd37b01f550d @AssociatedPress@flipboard.com

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From yesterday.

Anybody actually looking for this news? Thou shalt not code, thou shalt supervise the AI upstart who knows more than you.

The Register: GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/github_ceo_ai_coding/

The CEO's post is from July 3: Developers, Reinvented https://ashtom.github.io/developers-reinvented @theregister@geeknews.chat #GitHub #AI

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It's this kind of persistent behavior, precedent after precedent, that makes Meta's latest move to invite outsiders to WhatsApp chats suspect, just as it launches its initiative to make "intelligent" AI models.

Instead of asking for consent and get[ting] 'no' as an answer, they just decided that their right to profits overrides the privacy rights of at least 274 million EU users."

The Register: Meta training AI on social media posts? Only 7% in Europe think it's OK https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/meta_training_ai_on_social/ @theregister@geeknews.chat #Meta #privacy #AI #socialmedia

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CISA issues emergency directive requiring federal agencies to update systems to prevent Microsoft Exchange vulnerability https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/cisa-issues-emergency-directive-requiring-federal-agencies-update-systems-prevent-microsoft-exchange

CISA Releases Ten Industrial Control Systems Advisories https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/08/07/cisa-releases-ten-industrial-control-systems-advisories #CISA #cybersecurity #infosec #Microsoft

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More layoffs?

"The Just Cause developer’s latest game was announced four years ago and nothing has been seen since."

VGC: Microsoft has stopped development on Avalanche Studios’ Contraband https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/microsoft-has-reportedly-stopped-development-on-avalanche-studios-contraband/ #Microsoft #Xbox

GamesRadar: Microsoft bloodbath continues 9,000 layoffs later with the death of Contraband, the '70s co-op game from the studio behind open-world hit Just Cause https://www.gamesradar.com/games/co-op/microsoft-bloodbath-continues-9-000-layoffs-later-with-the-death-of-contraband-the-70s-co-op-game-from-the-studio-behind-open-world-hit-just-cause-and-it-seems-hideo-kojimas-od-is-the-only-thing-thats-safe/ @GamesRadar@flipboard.com

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This piece is from June. It's interesting that it brings up Bizmarck and Mao Zedong - even Khomeini - in relation to what is happening to the U.S.

"Governments of both the right and left have occasionally implemented sweeping, oppressive, and frequently violent state-mandated social rebellions. Rather than simply altering political arrangements, a cultural revolution sees a nation go to war with itself."

Hyperallergic: Donald Trump’s Cultural Revolution https://hyperallergic.com/1016649/donald-trump-cultural-revolution/