Judge orders James Comey case dismissed after finding top prosecutor was unlawfully appointed
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Score: 21882 |
Comments: 829
A federal judge dismissed criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that the interim U.S. attorney who secured their indictments, Lindsey Halligan, was unlawfully appointed. The judge found the appointment violated both a federal statute and the Constitution's Appointments Clause, ordering the indictments dismissed without prejudice. The Justice Department plans to appeal the decision.
Key Points:
Charges against James Comey and Letitia James were dismissed due to an invalid prosecutor appointment.
Judge Cameron Currie ruled Lindsey Halligan's appointment violated federal law and the Constitution's Appointments Clause.
The indictments were dismissed without prejudice, allowing for potential re-filing, though the statute of limitations may bar the Comey case.
Comey and James argued their prosecutions were politically motivated and retaliatory.
The Justice Department will appeal the ruling, asserting Halligan was legally appointed.
""I conclude that all actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment, including securing and signing Mr. Comey's indictment, constitute unlawful exercises of executive power and must be set aside," Currie wrote in her opinion in the Comey case, a line that she repeated in her ruling in the James case."
Furious House Republican Warns More ‘Explosive’ Resignations Are Coming After Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Score: 18283 |
Comments: 1369
A senior House Republican warns that Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation is just the beginning of deeper turmoil within the House GOP. The lawmaker describes historically low morale and blames both the White House team and Speaker Mike Johnson for treating members poorly. The article suggests more 'explosive' mid-term resignations are expected, potentially costing Republicans their majority.
Key Points:
Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her retirement with a sweeping indictment of President Trump's second term and House Republicans
A senior House Republican warns that Greene's resignation is only the start of a deeper implosion in the House GOP
Multiple GOP lawmakers are reportedly considering mid-term retirements due to low morale and dissatisfaction with leadership
The anonymous lawmaker accused the White House team of treating all members 'like garbage' and Mike Johnson of allowing it
If Republicans lose even one more member, their majority could flip as early as 2026
""More explosive early resignations are coming. It's a tinder box. Morale has never been lower. Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel, and they will lose the majority before this term is out.""
86 Democrats Join GOP in Voting for ‘Very, Very Stupid’ Resolution Condemning Socialism | “House Minority Leader Jeffries voting with the GOP in favor of this resolution is showing his ultrawealthy donors exactly who he fights for,” said one progressive leader. “It’s not the people.”
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Score: 6821 |
Comments: 719
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning socialism, with 86 Democrats joining Republicans in support. The resolution was widely criticized by progressive lawmakers and organizations as a politically motivated and simplistic attack that fails to distinguish between authoritarian regimes and democratic socialist policies popular with many Americans.
Key Points:
86 Democrats joined with Republicans to pass a House resolution condemning socialism
Progressive lawmakers and organizations criticized the resolution as politically motivated and misleading
The resolution conflates authoritarian regimes with democratic socialist policies
The vote highlights political divisions within the Democratic Party
Critics argue the resolution oversimplifies complex economic and political systems
"86 Democrats Join GOP in Voting for 'Very, Very Stupid' Resolution Condemning Socialism"
Pentagon says it’s investigating Sen. Mark Kelly for video urging troops to defy ‘illegal orders’
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Score: 5972 |
Comments: 462
The Pentagon has confirmed it is investigating Senator Mark Kelly. The investigation is reportedly related to a video in which the senator urged troops to defy what he characterized as 'illegal orders'.
Key Points:
The Pentagon is conducting an investigation into Senator Mark Kelly.
The probe is related to a video message from the senator.
In the video, Senator Kelly urged military personnel to defy 'illegal orders'.
The investigation highlights the sensitive relationship between military protocol and political speech.
"Pentagon says it's investigating Sen. Mark Kelly over video urging troops to defy 'illegal orders'"
Anthropic has announced Claude Opus 4.5, a new AI model that introduces significant improvements in reasoning, coding, and multilingual capabilities. It is designed to be more helpful and accurate, with enhanced performance on complex tasks and benchmarks.
Key Points:
Introduces the new Claude Opus 4.5 model with improved reasoning and coding abilities
Features enhanced multilingual performance across various tasks
Shows significant gains on academic and professional benchmarks
Designed to be more helpful, accurate, and reliable for users
"With Opus 4.5, we’ve made our largest leap in reasoning capabilities since Claude 3 Opus, with dramatic improvements on challenging tasks like complex reasoning, coding, and multilingual understanding."
Sha1-Hulud The Second Comming - Postman, Zapier, PostHog all compromised via NPM
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 222 |
Comments: 22
The malware campaign known as Shai Hulud has launched a second wave of supply-chain attacks, compromising popular platforms like Zapier and ENS domains. This self-replicating npm worm steals developer secrets and propagates by publishing new malicious packages, with the attack timed just before npm's deadline to revoke insecure classic tokens.
Key Points:
The Shai Hulud malware is a self-replicating npm worm that spreads through compromised developer environments.
It steals exposed secrets like API keys and tokens using tools like TruffleHog and exfiltrates the data.
The attacker timed this second wave to occur just before npm's deadline to revoke classic tokens on December 9.
The campaign has compromised high-profile platforms including Zapier, ENS, AsyncAPI, PostHog, and Postman.
This attack demonstrates the ongoing vulnerability of software supply chains even after previous campaigns were exposed.
"Once it infects a system, it searches for exposed secrets such as API keys and tokens using TruffleHog and publishes anything it finds to a public GitHub repository. It then attempts to push new copies of itself to npm, helping it propagate across the ecosystem, while exfiltrating data back to the attacker."
Anthropic has announced that its Opus 4.5 model will now be billed at the same token rate as the Sonnet 4.5 model, representing a significant and unexpected price reduction for users. This change makes the more powerful Opus model much more accessible for subscribers.
Key Points:
The Opus 4.5 model's usage is now billed at the Sonnet 4.5 token rate.
This is a substantial price reduction for the higher-tier Opus model.
The change is described as a very welcome and unexpected increase in value for subscribers.
It makes the powerful Opus model more cost-effective and accessible.
Domain Locker - An all-in-one tool to keep track of your domain name portfolio
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Score: 106 |
Comments: 7
Domain Locker is an all-in-one tool for managing a domain name portfolio by providing a central dashboard to track and monitor all owned domains. It automatically fetches and analyzes domain data like SSL certificates, registrars, and DNS records, while continuously monitoring for important changes and upcoming expirations. The tool aims to prevent users from losing track of domains or missing critical renewal dates.
Key Points:
Provides complete visibility of your domain name portfolio in one central place
Continuously monitors domains and notifies you of important changes or upcoming expirations
Automatically fetches and analyzes associated domain data (SSL certs, hosts, registrars, IPs, etc.)
Offers detailed domain analysis, security insights, change history, and performance data
Available both as a hosted service and for self-hosting
"The aim of Domain Locker, is to give you complete visibility of your domain name portfolio, in once central place. For each domain you add, we analyse it and fetch all associated data. We then continuously monitor your domains, and notify you (according to your preferences) when something important changes or when it's soon to expire."
Supply and Demand Are Broken in Programming Education
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Score: 29 |
Comments: 13
The article argues that the market for programming education is inefficient, as learner demand does not align with the most economically rational career paths. The author presents data showing high demand for roles like Data Analyst and AI Engineer, despite potentially better opportunities in other areas like Backend Development. He proposes a formula to score career paths based on job openings, search volume, and salary to identify these market inefficiencies.
Key Points:
The author believes the market for tech career education is inefficient, with learners not choosing paths based on the best risk/reward (job availability and salary).
A formula is proposed to score career paths: score = (job openings / search volume) * average salary.
Data from Google search volume shows disproportionately high interest in becoming a Data Analyst or AI Engineer compared to a Backend Developer.
The author's personal experience building Boot.dev to teach backend development was a direct response to this perceived market gap.
The data suggests online course supply, rather than pure career economics, heavily influences what learners choose to study.
"In theory the best career path for any individual is the one with the lowest competition for jobs, adjusted for salary. In other words, the one with the best combination of: The most job openings The fewest people trying to learn it The highest salary"
How many HTTP requests/second can a Single Machine handle?
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Score: 9 |
Comments: 27
This article investigates the performance limits of a simple, single-machine architecture by load testing a Java REST API with a PostgreSQL database. The tests measure HTTP requests per second under various loads on different machine sizes to challenge the assumption that complex microservices are always necessary for scalability.
Key Points:
Tests a single instance of a Java/Spring Boot REST API with a single PostgreSQL database on one machine.
Uses realistic load characteristics with 80% read and 20% write requests against a database with over one million rows.
Load tests are run in parallel from four separate machines to simulate multiple clients.
Examines performance on different machine sizes (1 CPU/2GB, 2 CPU/4GB, 4 CPU/8GB).
Aims to challenge the common justification for complex microservices architectures by demonstrating the capabilities of a simple setup.
"When designing systems and deciding on the architecture, I often hear justifying the use of microservices and other complex solutions because of the predicted performance and scalability needs. Out of curiosity then, let's test the limits of an extremely simple approach, the simplest possible one."
This article presents a five-project curriculum for building a compiler, based on a master's-level course. The projects guide learners from a Racket warm-up to compiling a language with functions, lambdas, and closures to x86-64 assembly, using Jeremy Siek's 'Essentials of Compilation' as a foundation.
Key Points:
The course is structured around five projects that incrementally build a compiler for increasingly complex languages.
The compiler targets x86-64 assembly and is implemented in the Racket programming language.
Key language features covered include variables, arithmetic, booleans, branching, vectors, heap allocation, mutation, loops, functions, and lambdas.
The approach prioritizes reaching an expressive language quickly, sacrificing features like type safety and garbage collection for simplicity.
The projects include comprehensive test suites and are designed for those with prior programming experience in C and some assembly.
"The projects are designed with one key principle in mind: get us to the most expressive/fun language possible, as fast as possible."