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Meta allegedly gave accounts engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex” 16 chances before suspending them, according to testimony from the company’s former head of safety and well-being, Vaishnavi Jayakumar. The testimony — along with several other claims that Meta ignored problems if they increased engagement — surfaced in an unredacted court filing related to a social media child safety lawsuit filed by school districts across the country.

A new transparency feature on X has ignited a political firestorm after screenshots circulated online claiming the US Department of Homeland Security's official account was listed as being based in Israel. The tool, which appeared over the weekend, lets users view an account's current or previous location by tapping the join-date field. While designed to expose foreign-run troll farms, many of which masquerade as American political voices, it instead triggered a wave of speculation about high-profile accounts, including a series of MAGA-branded profiles that appeared to originate from Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.

The complaint, Garza v. Campbell Soup Company, case number 25-018465-CD, was filed on November 20, 2025, by the Runyan Law Group on behalf of plaintiff Robert Garza. The defendants are Campbell Soup Company and supervisor J.D. Aupperle.

The claims—centered on a secretly recorded tirade in which a senior vice president allegedly mocked the company’s products, its customers, and Indian employees—challenge the credibility of Campbell’s public values and highlight broader concerns about how corporations handle discrimination complaints.

With Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) on upcoming Intel processors doubling the number of general purpose registers (GPRs) among other advantages, Intel engineers are beginning to think of possible kernel uses for the extra registers.

To date there hasn't been much thought given to kernel uses for these extra registers with the enablement thus far of APX primarily focused on user-space software. There is some thinking that these EGPRs (Extended General Purpose Registers) may be useful to help reduce kernel stack pressure. But it also needs to be decided among kernel developers just how much they plan to make use of these extra registers for knowing the best design for how to handle their use in sharing with user-space. Plus needing to keep assuming APX is optional for x86_64 Linux, maintaining legacy register use, etc.

So someone recently told me I should cut back on donations to open source projects. So I broke down my spending since October 1st (with subscriptions annualized) and ... I'm not spending enough. My spending on FOSS is that 1.3% slither and adding in subscription services makes it 4.1%.

I'm not in a rush to start donations, since I don't want to add to the December-ness of FOSS donations. I just want to hear people's thoughts.

I currently donate to:

1. GrapheneOS
2. KDE
3. Mint (Update: Since drawing this graph this has been cancelled. Due to their security and the fact I don't really use them anymore)

In terms of priorities I have the following:

1. Contributes to the "security by default" of the Linux ecosystem.
2. Headquartered outside of the US, or at the very least a project that's a middle-finger to US big tech.
3. Something I actually use would be preferable (Currently I use Kubuntu (distro-hop aggressively pending) with DesktopPal97, CachyOS, GrapheneOS, ProtonMail/Drive/Pass, LibreOffice, Steam, Threema, Anki, Lemmy, Firefox, various Accrescent Apps, and various browser extensions)

The real tough part is that I don't want to use PayPal (Thiel/Musk), GitHub sponsors (Microsoft), or Bitcoin (I'm open to mining it in the background, but I don't like the idea of turning real cash into fake cash).

So what do you all donate to?

What is it?

Harper is a free English grammar checker designed to be just right. You can think of it as an open-source alternative to Grammarly. I created it after years of dealing with the shortcomings of the competition.

Private

Harper is completely private, in every sense of the word.

Since Harper runs on-device, your data doesn't go anywhere you don't want it to.

That means you have 100% certainty we don't violate your copyright by training large language models.

Harper also intentionally avoids including any kind of generative AI in any part of our processing pipeline.

A sophisticated phishing campaign is currently leveraging a subtle typographical trick to bypass user vigilance, deceiving victims into handing over sensitive login credentials. Attackers utilize the domain “rnicrosoft.com” to impersonate the tech giant.

By replacing the letter ‘m’ with the combination of ‘r’ and ‘n’, fraudsters create a visual doppleganger that is nearly indistinguishable from the legitimate domain at a casual glance.

This technique, known as typosquatting, relies heavily on the font rendering used in modern email clients and web browsers.

In the closing hours of JawnCon 0x2, I was making a final pass of the “Free Stuff for Nerds” table when I noticed a forlorn Kindle that had a piece of paper taped to it. The hand-written note explained that the device was in shambles — not only was its e-ink display visibly broken, but the reader was stuck in some kind of endless boot loop. I might have left it there if it wasn’t for the closing remark: “Have Fun!”

Truth is, the last thing I needed was another Kindle. My family has already managed to build up a collection of the things. But taking a broken one apart and attempting to figure out what was wrong with it did seem like it would be kind of fun, as I’d never really had the opportunity to dig into one before. So I brought it home and promptly forgot about it as Supercon was only a few weeks away and there was plenty to keep me occupied.

The following isn’t really a story about fixing a Kindle, although it might seem like it on the surface. It’s more about the experience of working on the device, and the incredible hacking potential of these unassuming gadgets. Whether you’ve got a clear goal in mind, or just want to get your hands dirty in the world of hardware hacking, you could do far worse than picking a couple of busted Kindles up for cheap on eBay.

Bluetooth® audio has come a long way since 2001, when the Headset Profile (HSP) and Hands-Free Profile (HFP) first enabled bidirectional voice calls over Synchronous Connection-Oriented transport. The Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) followed in 2003, bringing high-quality audio streaming to our headphones and speakers. While these Bluetooth® "classic" profiles have served us well for over two decades, they come with fundamental limitations that have become increasingly apparent in modern use cases.

If you've ever wondered why your music quality drops dramatically when you answer a call on your Bluetooth® headset, you've experienced one of A2DP's key limitations firsthand. Its unidirectional nature means that enabling a microphone requires switching to HFP, resulting in that noticeably reduced audio quality. Beyond this, Bluetooth® classic exhibits high latency (100-200ms for A2DP) and high power consumption, by modern standards, which results in inadequate battery life for all-day use cases like hearing aids. These and many more limitations have led vendors over the years to drive this outdated technology to its limits and develop non-standard solutions such as Google's Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids (ASHA) profile and Apple's Made for iPhone (MFi) extensions.

Enter LE Audio, introduced with Bluetooth® 5.2 in 2020, which represents a fundamental shift in the Bluetooth® audio architecture. This post outlines what changes LE Audio brings, what its support status is on Linux, and what lies ahead for building great Linux-based products that make use of this functionality. The content of this post was originally a talk presented at the Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2025, which you can watch here

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