181097258 submission ptorrone writes:
The FCC just added all foreign-made consumer routers to its Covered List, banning new models from receiving authorization for import or sale in the US. The agency cited Volt, Flax, and Salt Typhoon cyberattacks, but cybersecurity researchers note the same vulnerabilities existed on American-brand routers too (Salt Typhoon targeted Cisco hardware). No evidence of deliberate backdoors has been presented. Netgear stock jumped 16% after hours. There isn't a single router currently manufactured entirely in the USA. Existing models are grandfathered but firmware updates are only guaranteed through March 2027. If you're running a home network and don't want to wait for the government to pick winners, now's the time to flash OpenWrt, build a router from a Banana Pi or Raspberry Pi with pfSense, or support open-source networking projects like OPNsense. When proprietary supply chains get cut by policy, open-source firmware becomes the supply chain. Adafruit has a writeup with more actionable steps for makers and hackers. 181097064 submission alternative_right writes:
Astronomers have an answer for a long-running mystery in astrophysics: why is the growth of supermassive black holes so much lower today than in the past? A study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray telescopes found that supermassive black holes are unable to consume material as rapidly as they did in the distant past. The results appeared in the December 2025 issue of The Astrophysical Journal. 181096680 submission cusco writes:
https://kdwalmsley.substack.co...
A private company in China has developed hypersonic missiles, that cost the same as a Tesla Model X. This missile, the YKJ-1000 is being marketed for sale, at a reported price of $99,000, and it’s in mass production now after successful tests. That is far below what countries will spend to target and shoot down the missile if it’s heading their way.
Besides the low cost, they can be launched from anywhere. The launcher looks like any one of the tens of millions of shipping containers floating around on the ocean, or sitting at ports, or riding along on trucks, or sitting on industrial lots. The launchers for these missiles are hiding in plain sight, in other words.
Whatever tactical advantages great-power countries have in ballistics is going away, fast; 1,300 km is 800 miles, and so the range is anything within 800 miles of wherever someone can send a shipping container. 181094700 submission phatrabt writes:
The FCC has now banned any WiFi routers not made in the US from being sold unless granted a waiver from the Pentagon or Homeland Security. PC Mag says:
"Late on Monday afternoon, the FCC announced the order, based on a White House determination that foreign-made routers introduce “supply chain vulnerabilities” that hackers and cyberspies can exploit. Specifically, the commission updated its “covered list,” which acts as a blacklist of telecom equipment deemed to pose an unacceptable risk to US national security. It now includes “all consumer-grade routers produced in foreign countries.”
However, the FCC stresses, “This action does not affect any previously purchased consumer-grade routers. Consumers can continue to use any router they have already lawfully purchased or acquired.”
“Nor does it prevent retailers from continuing to sell, import, or market router models approved previously through the FCC’s equipment authorization process,” the commission adds. 181093640 submission BrianFagioli writes:
In the wake of the XZ Utils scare, NetRise has introduced a tool called Provenance that shifts the focus from whatâ(TM)s in your software to who put it there. The platform maps open source components back to maintainers and contributors, then traces how their code propagates through dependency chains. The goal is to give enterprises faster answers when a trusted contributor turns out to be a problem, something traditional SBOMs donâ(TM)t really address.
The idea may appeal to organizations trying to get a handle on supply chain risk, but it also raises questions about where this leads. Tracking contributors by identity, organization, or even geography could help with compliance, yet it may clash with the open nature of many projects. Itâ(TM)s not clear whether tools like this actually reduce risk or just add another layer of visibility that looks reassuring on a dashboard while the underlying trust model remains just as fragile. 181092596 submission TheNameOfNick writes:
The FCC has just banned new router models, expect for models entirely made in the US from parts made in the US and running software made in the US. Models which fit the exemption do not exist. The press release states: "New devices on the Covered List, such as foreign-made consumer-grade routers, are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the U.S." 181090112 submission the_skywise writes:
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday it was banning the import of all ânew foreign-made consumer routers, the latest crackdown on Chinese-made electronic gear over âOEsecurity concerns.
China is estimated to control at least 60% of the U.S. market for home routers, boxes that connect computers, phones, and smart devices to the internet.
The FCC order does not impact the âimport or use of existing models, but will ban new ones.
The agency âsaid a White House-convened review deemed imported routers pose "a severe cybersecurity risk âthat could be leveraged to immediately and severely disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure." 181088508 submission schwit1 writes:
The ruling states that officers are allowed to demand physical identification if they feel an individual gives an unsatisfactory oral answer. AL.com reported how the decision ruled against a local pastor, who sued an Alabama town and its law enforcement office after a police encounter.
The incident occurred in 2022, in which police arrested Pastor Michael Jennings after he watered his neighbor's flowers. Another neighbor called the police on Jennings, citing that a "younger Black male" was on the property.
While officers pressed the church leader about his identity, he told them he was "Pastor Jennings" and lived across the street. The answer, however, did not please the officers.
After the man refused to give them his ID, law enforcement arrested him on charges of obstructing government operations, which were later dismissed. The woman who initially called 911 also confirmed Jennings as a neighbor.
Feeling wronged, Jennings sued the town of Childersburg and the officers for false arrest, leading to a long legal battle. Although a district judge dismissed his case in 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed the decision the next year.
The case then proceeded to the Alabama Supreme Court, while several civil rights organizations, such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed briefs in support of Jennings. However, the court ruled 6-3 that officers may arrest someone who refuses to provide sufficient identification.
Justice Terry Sellers cited that getting correct identification is a "crucial part" of the stop-and-identify law, also known as a Terry stop. Sellers defended the officers' actions, stating that officers can request or demand physical identification if they deem a person's oral answer as unsatisfactory.
According to WVTM13, Sellers wrote that the law "does not exclude from its purview a request for physical identification when a suspect provides an incomplete or unsatisfactory response to an officer's demand to provide his or her name and address and an explanation of his or her action."
The judgment now sets a legal precedent that officers can not only request physical proof of one's identity but also arrest individuals if they fail to provide such evidence. Legal rights advocates condemned the decision, with Matthew Cavedon, director of the Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice, calling the ruling a "significant expansion of government power over people."
Now, an Alabamian under suspicion by a police officer must stay prepared to show proof of identity or face arrest.
Cavendon added, "The significance now for Alabamians is if an officer's not satisfied with whatever answer you give, I sure hope you've got your driver's license or passport on you."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... 181088388 submission fjo3 writes:
The U.S. government is insolvent. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the conclusion drawn directly from the Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, released last week to near-total media silence. The numbers: $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in total liabilities as of September 30, 2025. 181086698 submission fjo3 writes:
Walking into his kitchen, Tim Yoder recoiled at a message on his refrigerator door: “Shop Samsung water filters.”
Yoder, a supply-chain manager in Chicago, owns a Samsung Electronics Family Hub fridge. He paid $1,400 for an appliance that came with a 32-inch screen on the door that allows him to control other Samsung gadgets, pull up recipes or stream music. 181079926 submission schwit1 writes:
The company is called Halter and it has a proprietary algorithm that runs the entire operation.
They actually trademarked the name for it and called it the Cowgorithm and here's how it works.
A farmer opens an app, taps a button, and 600,000 cows across three countries start walking toward the milking station on their own.
No farm dogs, fences or physical labor, it's just a solar-powered GPS collar sending sound and vibration cues to each animal.
The collar does more than move cows around.
It monitors digestion, fertility cycles, and health patterns in real time, 24 hours a day, using machine learning trained on the behavior of hundreds of thousands of animals. 181079332 submission alternative_right writes:
A security breach to Los Angeles Metro‘s internal computer systems this week left commuters unable to pay for rides or see arriving train times.
Agency officials confirmed Thursday that a “security concern” triggered the shutdown of several internal systems and the restriction of access to its administrative computer network.
The action did not affect train or bus operations, and officials insisted rider safety and schedules remained intact. 181077898 submission alternative_right writes:
As human-caused climate change continues to raise temperatures across the globe, understanding how birds regulate their temperature is vital for their conservation. But how much heat birds emit—an invisible spectrum of radiation known as mid-infrared—has never been studied, until now. 181071970 submission schwit1 writes:
A Des Moines-based breathalyzer test company is recovering after a cyberattack impacted drivers in 45 states, KCCI reports.
Intoxalock makes ignition devices that people use to start their vehicles after an OWI. People with the devices have to provide a breath sample to prove they have not been drinking before the car starts.
The company said many customers are locked out of their devices or that the device is giving misread calculations. 181068248 submission jeditobe writes:
The ReactOS project announced significant progress in achieving compatibility with proprietary graphics drivers. Thanks to a series of fixes and the implementation of the KMDF (Kernel-Mode Driver Framework) and WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) subsystems, ReactOS now supports roughly 90% of GPU drivers for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Prior to these changes, many proprietary drivers either failed to launch or exhibited unstable behavior. In the latest nightly builds of the 0.4.16 branch, drivers from a variety of manufacturersâ"including Intel, NVIDIA, and AMDâ"are running reliably.
Additionally, the project demonstrated ReactOS running on real hardware, including booting with installed drivers for graphics cards such as Intel GMA 945, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS and GTX 750 Ti, and AMD Radeon HD 7530G. Successful operation on mobile GPUs, such as the NVIDIA Quadro 1000M, was also highlighted, with 2D/3D acceleration, audio, and network connectivity all functioning correctly. Further tests confirmed support on less common and older configurations, including a laptop with a Radeon Xpress 1100, as well as high-performance cards like the NVIDIA GTX Titan X.
A key contribution came from a patch merged into the main branch for the memory management subsystem, which improved driver stability and reduced crashes during graphics adapter initialization.