A 13-Year-Old Girl Bit Trump’s Genitals as He Tried to Rape Her, Epstein Document Says
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 32591 |
Comments: 1890
The article reports on unproven allegations against Donald Trump contained in newly released Jeffrey Epstein investigation files. The DOJ notes the files contain 'untrue and sensationalist claims' and that many allegations, including one about a 13-year-old girl, are based on anonymous or second-hand information that cannot be properly investigated.
Key Points:
A newly released DOJ file contains an unproven allegation that Donald Trump attempted to rape a 13- to 14-year-old girl, who then bit his genitals.
The allegation was relayed secondhand to the FBI and allegedly occurred 35 years ago.
The DOJ has stated the files contain 'untrue and sensationalist claims' against Trump.
Federal investigators say many allegations cannot be investigated due to being anonymous or based on second-hand information.
Other unproven claims in the files allege Trump held parties at Mar-a-Lago where he and Epstein would abuse children, with Trump family members present.
"The DOJ has previously said that its newly released files contain 'untrue and sensationalist claims' against Trump. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said federal investigators cannot investigate many of the allegations made to the FBI about Trump and Epstein because many of the allegations were anonymous and relied on second-hand information, and thus, 'not something that can be really investigated.'"
Trump mentioned more than 1,000 times in new Epstein documents
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 9768 |
Comments: 252
The article is a webpage listing for an MSNBC segment titled 'Trump mentioned more than 1,000 times in new Epstein documents.' The content primarily consists of a list of other MSNBC show segments and promotional links, with the headline repeated but no substantive article body provided.
Key Points:
The headline states that former President Donald Trump is mentioned over 1,000 times in newly released documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
The webpage is a program listing for MSNBC, not a traditional news article with detailed reporting.
The bulk of the content is a schedule and promotional material for various MSNBC shows and segments.
No specific details, context, or analysis from the alleged documents are presented in the provided text.
"Trump mentioned more than 1,000 times in new Epstein documents"
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 7393 |
Comments: 173
A classified whistleblower complaint alleges wrongdoing by U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, but its contents are being withheld from Congress due to claims of national security risks. Gabbard's office denies any wrongdoing, stating the Inspector General found the allegations not credible, while the whistleblower's attorney accuses her of illegally obstructing the process.
Key Points:
A highly classified whistleblower complaint from May 2025 accuses DNI Tulsi Gabbard of wrongdoing, but Congress has not been allowed to see it.
Officials claim disclosing the complaint could cause 'grave damage to national security,' while Gabbard's office denies any misconduct.
The Intelligence Community Inspector General reportedly found the whistleblower's allegations 'did not appear credible,' but the complaint remains locked away.
The whistleblower's attorney accuses Gabbard of illegally inserting herself into the process and delaying the complaint's progress to Congress.
Gabbard, a Trump appointee, has faced previous scrutiny for placing a top adviser in the Inspector General's office, raising concerns about impartiality.
"One official said disclosing the document, filed last May, could cause 'grave damage to national security.'"
Posted on r/ClaudeAI |
Score: 1305 |
Comments: 273
Leaked information suggests Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5, codenamed 'Fennec,' is scheduled for release on February 3, 2026. It is rumored to be significantly cheaper and faster than its predecessor while outperforming it, with major advancements in coding and autonomous agent capabilities. The leak includes a Vertex AI error log that appears to confirm the model's existence in Google's infrastructure.
Key Points:
Targeted release date of February 3, 2026, as indicated by a Vertex AI error log.
Rumored to be 50% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.5 while outperforming it.
Features advanced 'Dev Team' mode where it can spawn autonomous sub-agents to build features.
Reportedly achieves a high score of 80.9% on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark.
Optimized on Google TPUs for higher throughput and lower latency.
"Can spawn specialized sub-agents (backend, QA, researcher) that work in parallel from the terminal."
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 1039 |
Comments: 189
The Notepad++ website was compromised by a state-sponsored hacking group, likely Chinese, which intercepted and redirected update traffic for targeted users from June to December 2025. The attack occurred at the infrastructure level of the shared hosting provider, not through vulnerabilities in the Notepad++ software itself. The hosting provider has since mitigated the breach by moving services, fixing vulnerabilities, and rotating credentials.
Key Points:
The attack involved a compromise at the shared hosting provider's infrastructure level, allowing traffic interception.
Targeted users were selectively redirected to malicious update servers, with the campaign active from June 2025.
Multiple independent researchers assess the threat actor is likely a Chinese state-sponsored group.
Attackers lost direct server access on September 2, 2025, but maintained credential access until December 2, 2025.
The hosting provider has implemented fixes, rotated credentials, and found no evidence of other clients on the server being targeted.
"Multiple independaent security researchers have assessed that the threat acotor is likely a Chinese state-sponsored group, which would explain the highly selective targeting obseved during the campaign."
AI is already killing SWE jobs. Got laid off because of this.
Posted on r/ClaudeAI |
Score: 367 |
Comments: 270
A mid-level software engineer describes being laid off after their company adopted an AI-first execution model. The company replaced dozens of engineers with a small team of AI specialists, claiming AI tools fundamentally changed software development.
Key Points:
The company's leadership shifted focus to AI, promoting concepts like 'AI leverage' and '10x productivity'.
An experiment where AI specialists rebuilt an internal service in days demonstrated the new model's viability.
Management declared a pivot, stating they no longer needed dozens of engineers, just a few to direct AI systems.
The author, a backend team lead, felt their role and expertise were made obsolete overnight.
The narrative serves as a warning to other engineers who may feel their jobs are secure.
""With modern AI tools, we don’t need dozens of engineers writing code anymore, just a few people who know how to direct the system.""
To Every Developer Close To Burnout, Read This · theSeniorDev
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 216 |
Comments: 77
The article addresses the high prevalence of burnout among software developers, attributing it to job stress, toxic work environments, and unclear career paths. It shares the author's personal burnout story and offers a senior developer's perspective on six actionable steps to recover.
Key Points:
Burnout is extremely common among developers, with some statistics claiming up to 80% are affected, risking both career and health.
Primary causes include the stressful nature of constant learning, toxic team dynamics, and feeling lost or having unrealistic career expectations.
The author shares a personal anecdote of burnout from overwork, poor lifestyle habits, and a dysfunctional team culture.
The article promises to provide six actionable strategies from a senior developer's perspective to combat burnout and regain control.
Burnout has a ripple effect, where a burned-out senior developer can negatively impact and accelerate burnout in junior team members.
"Burnout will not only damage your career but also your health and personal life. Getting burned out can even lead you to quit being a developer. And it will put you at risk of dozens of life-threatening diseases, from depression to diabetes."
A Supabase misconfiguration exposed every API key on Moltbook's 770K-agent platform. Two SQL statements would have prevented it
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 153 |
Comments: 14
The viral AI agent social network Moltbook, with over 770,000 users, has suffered a major security breach allowing agents to be hijacked. The platform's architecture, built on the OpenClaw framework, gives agents elevated system access, making them vulnerable to prompt injection and supply chain attacks via malicious 'skills'. Security researchers have documented widespread vulnerabilities, including thousands of exposed instances and a significant portion of platform content containing hidden attacks.
Key Points:
Moltbook suffered a major breach allowing unauthorized commandeering of any AI agent on the platform.
Agents run with elevated privileges on owners' machines, enabling shell access and data exfiltration.
Over 4,500 OpenClaw/Moltbot instances were found exposed online with misconfigured authentication.
Researchers found 2.6% of Moltbook posts contained hidden prompt injection attacks.
Malicious 'skills' distributed on the platform function as malware, exfiltrating data and bypassing safety controls.
"Cisco’s security team put it bluntly: “AI agents with system access can become covert data-leak channels that bypass traditional data loss prevention.”"
Finally ditched Google Photos and Spotify - my self-hosted setup after 3 months
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 148 |
Comments: 30
A user details their successful three-month experience transitioning from commercial cloud services to a self-hosted home server setup. They replaced services like Google Photos and Spotify with open-source alternatives, gaining data control and eliminating subscription fees. While the initial setup was challenging, they found the learning experience and benefits worthwhile.
Key Points:
Replaced commercial services (Google Photos, Spotify) with self-hosted alternatives like Immich and Navidrome.
Achieved complete data control and eliminated ~$25/month in subscription fees.
Initial setup was complex, requiring learning Docker and taking two weeks.
Unexpected benefit included family using Jellyfin for home videos instead of YouTube.
Total hardware investment was ~$400, deemed worth it for the learning and results.
"Unexpected Bonus: The kids now watch our home videos on Jellyfin instead of YouTube!"
Octelium v0.24 - A Modern, Self-Hosted, FOSS Unified Alternative to Teleport, ngrok, Tailscale, Cloudflare Zero Trust/Access/Tunnel and remote access VPNs.
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 145 |
Comments: 29
Octelium is a free, open-source, self-hosted unified zero trust secure access platform. It functions as a versatile infrastructure solution that can operate as a remote access VPN, ZTNA platform, API/AI gateway, PaaS, and homelab infrastructure, providing identity-based, application-layer secure access to private and public resources.
Key Points:
Free and open-source (FOSS) self-hosted platform
Unified zero trust architecture for secure access
Multi-functional: operates as VPN, ZTNA, API/AI gateway, PaaS, ngrok-alternative
Provides both private client-based and public clientless access
Scalable infrastructure for access and deployment in various environments
"Octelium is a free and open source, self-hosted, unified zero trust secure access platform that is flexible enough to operate as a modern zero-config remote access VPN, a comprehensive Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)/BeyondCorp platform, an ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternative, an API gateway, an AI/LLM gateway, a scalable infrastructure for access and deployment to build MCP gateways and A2A architectures/meshes, a PaaS-like platform, a Kubernetes gateway/ingress and even as a homelab infrastructure."
I built a Claude skills directory so you can search and try skills instantly in a sandbox.
Posted on r/ClaudeAI |
Score: 141 |
Comments: 30
The author built a searchable directory of over 225,000 Claude AI skills sourced from GitHub to solve the cumbersome process of manually testing them. The platform allows users to search skills semantically and try them instantly in a sandbox without local setup. It highlights the discovery of useful, previously hidden skills that solve specific problems.
Key Points:
Solves the friction of manually downloading, installing, and debugging skills from GitHub.
Indexes over 225,000 skills with semantic search based on user intent.
Ranks results using GitHub stars as a quality signal to filter out junk.
Provides a sandbox to try skills instantly without local MCP configuration.
Enables discovery of hidden, practical skills like youtube-downloader and reddit-fetch.
"While building this Claude Skills Marketplace, I kept finding hidden gems - skills I didn't even know existed. Like youtube-downloader (downloads any YouTube video/podcast), copywriting (for blogs, LinkedIn, tweets), and reddit-fetch (solves a real pain of doing research on reddit: typical web fetch fails on Claude Code and blocked by Reddit), etc."
Mattermost refuses to fix their license, gives community the finger
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 118 |
Comments: 10
The article criticizes Mattermost for having a confusing and legally ambiguous open-source license for its code, which has been a known issue for seven years. The company recently closed a long-standing GitHub issue without making any changes, stating they are not entertaining license modifications, which the author views as disrespectful to the community.
Key Points:
Mattermost's license is unclear, creating legal uncertainty for users.
An issue about the license ambiguity was open for 7 years before being closed without resolution.
The company explicitly stated it will not make changes to clarify its licensing strategy.
The author considers this a significant disrespect to the open-source community that Mattermost relies on.
The article highlights a conflict between Mattermost's open-source advertising and its opaque licensing practices.
"Thank you for the community discussion around this topic. I do recognize that our licensing strategy doesn't offer the clarity the community would like to see, but at this time we are not entertaining any changes as such."
We asked 15,000 European devs about jobs, salaries, and AI
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 111 |
Comments: 49
The provided content appears to be a corrupted or incomplete PDF file, not readable text. The binary data and PDF structure markers are visible, but the actual article content about the 'European Transparent IT Job Market Report 2025' is not extractable for summarization.
Key Points:
The input is a PDF binary stream, not plain text content.
The file contains PDF object definitions and compressed data streams.
The intended article title suggests a report on the European IT job market in 2025.
No coherent article text can be parsed from the provided data.
The content is technically a PDF file header and body, not a readable article.
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The author, a New Hampshire resident, explores Georgism and land value tax (LVT) in the context of their local property-tax-only system. They express skepticism about LVT's fairness in rural areas, where large land parcels could lead to higher tax burdens for less wealthy landowners compared to urban or vacation properties, and question its impact on those with fluctuating incomes.
Key Points:
The author is researching Georgism due to a local politician advocating for a land value tax, in a state (NH) reliant on property taxes.
They argue LVT may be unfair in rural areas, as owners of large, low-value parcels could pay more than wealthy owners of small, high-value vacation plots.
Their calculations show LVT could be regressive locally, with lower-value parcels seeing a higher relative tax increase.
They challenge the argument that rural areas are subsidized by cities, noting this breaks down at the state/local level where all land may be cheap.
They raise a concern about income volatility, noting property/LVT bills remain fixed even if income drops, potentially forcing people to sell homes with sentimental value.
"Given the fact that the land value tax is supposed to be a more 'progressive' tax, I fail to see how the poorest people (who mostly live in rural areas) would win under this system."
Taxation vs nationalisation, which is better for water/sewage management?
Posted on r/georgism |
Score: 10 |
Comments: 7
The article examines the UK's problematic privatization of its water supply and poses two potential solutions: imposing taxes on the private companies for using a natural resource or fully nationalizing the utility. It frames the debate around whether water, as a survival necessity, should be managed by the state or remain a taxed private enterprise.
Key Points:
The UK's privatized water supply is currently causing significant problems.
One proposed solution is to tax the private companies for using the natural resource.
An alternative solution is to fully nationalize the water and sewage system.
The debate centers on water being a utility essential for survival.
The core question is choosing between a taxed private model and public ownership.
"But would it be better to keep it privatized but get the companies to pay tax since it's a natural resource, or fully nationalise it since it's a utility (and necessary for survival)?"