Direct link to CCC video of talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-agent-ai-spy

A social media post from the Department of Labor is attracting criticism for appearing to echo a Nazi-era slogan from the early 20th century.

“It is a sign that people aren’t happy within the U.S. government, clearly. The shooting [of Good] was the last straw for many people,” Dominick Skinner, ICE list founder, told The Beast.

Hey everyone! In case you haven’t noticed, this is a new community focused on NonPolitical Comics (NPCs), which essentially means no gloom and doom of the day stuff.

The refugees, many of them from Somalia, had passed security screenings before coming to the United States. The Trump administration has vowed to “re-examine thousands of refugee cases.”

Back in 2012, Canada passed Bill C-11, the Copyright Modernization Act. It’s a law that bans Canadian companies from modifying America’s digital tech exports. We passed it because the US threatened us with tariffs:

Blue states need to halt federal income tax witholding in protest.

The federal government is openly embracing white nationalist online content — including in a recruitment post after Jonathan Ross killed Renee Good.

*The details from the leak have been uploaded to ICE List, a website that claims to have the identities of ICE agents, collaborators, and leadership personnel*

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British (veterinarians) have been forced to chase lorries down the motorway on their way to Dover due to the “pure hell” of Brexit paperwork needed by inspectors in Calais, MPs have been told.

Opinion - Michelle Goldberg Jan. 12, 2026

An ophthalmologist in Tehran has documented more than 400 eye injuries from gunshots in a single hospital, as overwhelmed medical staff struggle to cope with the toll of an increasingly violent crackdown on nationwide protests by Iranian authorities.

U.S. President Donald Trump says his country needs Greenland for national security. That has Greenlanders worried about their own national security.

As the Iranian authorities impose a near-total communication blackout on a country convulsed by mass protests, videos and witness accounts slowly emerging suggest that the government is waging one of its deadliest crackdowns on unrest in more than a decade.

A week away from open enrollment ending in most states, 17 GOP members of the US House of Representatives helped Democrats pass a bill to restore lapsed Affordable Care Act premium tax credits—but senators have declined to act with that same urgency, and the deadline for many Americans to make coverage decisions for 2026 is Thursday.

The federal privacy watchdog has found Staples Canada did not fully remove personal information from returned laptops that it later resold.

EDIT: I accidentally fell for AI slop

As President Trump threatens Iran, Venezuela, Mexico, Greenland and more, renowned historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is “an empire in decline,” following a predictable pattern of militarism abroad and political instability at home as it loses power and influence on the world stage. “American politics become increasingly contorted and irrational,” says McCoy. “I think the thing to do is to realize that we are an empire in decline, … and it will continue for another decade or two, until American power finally slips away.”

During the anti-ICE protest THP, despite orders to not escalate from MPD, charged protesters and started grabbing/cursing at them.

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Claude bros know how to measure performance. They just don’t.

In the past few months the MetaBrainz team has been fighting a battle against unscrupulous AI companies ignoring common courtesies (such as robots.txt) and scraping the Internet in order to build up their AI models. Rather than downloading our dataset in one complete download, they insist on loading all of MusicBrainz one page at a time. This of course would take hundreds of years to complete and is utterly pointless. In doing so, they are overloading our servers and preventing legitimate users from accessing our site.

VoidLink includes an unusually broad and advanced array of capabilities.

A reminder that Bill Clinton’s appearances in the Epstein files released so far include a reference to Donald Trump fellating him (allegedly)