Politicians are reducing public funding for science and dismantling scientific institutions for ideological reasons in Argentina and the United States. It appeared as if something similar could happen in the Netherlands, but the collapse of a coalition government led to a reprieve. How should the scientific community respond to such crises?
Sterilization Services of Virginia last year received a presidential exemption from EPA rules that would have required the company to update its equipment and use a continuous emissions monitoring system. In April, a faulty valve on the roof of its facility in Henrico County emitted more than 500 pounds of carcinogenic ethylene oxide. Residents say they weren’t notified of the release.
When you save passwords in Edge, the browser decrypts every credential at startup and keeps them resident in process memory. This happens even if you never visit a site that uses those credentials.
At the same time, Edge requires you to re‑authenticate before showing those same passwords in the Password Manager UI — yet the browser process already has them all in plaintext.
Edge is the only Chromium‑based browser I’ve tested that behaves this way. By contrast, Chrome uses a design that makes it far harder for attackers to extract saved passwords by simply reading process memory.
It decrypts credentials only when needed, instead of keeping all passwords in memory at all times. App‑Bound Encryption (ABE) adds another layer by binding decryption to an authenticated Chrome process, preventing other processes from reusing Chrome’s encryption keys.
Because of these controls, plaintext passwords appear only briefly during autofill or when the user views them, making broad memory scraping far less effective. The risk of keeping the passwords in cleartext in memory becomes evident in shared environments.
If an attacker gains administrative access on a terminal server, they can access the memory of all logged‑on user processes. In the video the attacker has compromised a user account with administrative rights and is able to view stored credentials for two other logged on
(or even disconnected) users with Edge running. I reported this to Microsoft, and the official response was that the behavior is “by design”. They have been informed that I would be sharing this as a responsible disclosure so users and organizations can make informed decisions
about how they manage credentials. Last wednesday (April 29th) I disclosed this on BigBiteOfTech by Norway
Simple, educational proof of concept, to show that the passwords are stored in cleartext in memory.
A group of 80 South Texas plaintiffs are suing Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX, alleging its rocket testing caused “massive” sonic booms that damaged their houses repeatedly over a two-year period.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Southern District of Texas Court on Thursday, accusing the company of gross negligence and trespassing for loud blasts caused by 11 rocket tests from April 2023 to October 2025. Because some of SpaceX’s tests involve 400-foot, two-stage rockets, with both stages capable of landing, tests sometimes subjected residents’ homes to multiple prolonged periods of damaging noise, according to the suit.
During the Starship rocket’s initial launch in 2023, the force of the 33-engine booster destroyed the launch pad and flung debris three quarters of a mile away, which the lawsuit said “violently illustrated” the rocket’s destructive power.
People shamed and ordered to leave shops after being misidentified then ‘given no help’ to investigate verdicts
A woman with stage IV cancer said: I’ve already sent you an invitation to my funeral… I can’t afford it.
Why are cuts hitting us citizens… but not politicians?
Merz, visibly irritated, shot back:
At no point… was it ever considered to raise government salaries.
I would be grateful if you would not repeat that unchecked.
Discovered via Have I Been Flocked RSS feed.
There were two sets of promises made about Flock Safety’s cameras in Dunwoody. One was made to a private community center. One was made to the public. Both were broken by the same two parties.
In September 2024, Dunwoody PD Major Patrick Krieg requested access to the private security cameras at a community center on behalf of the department. When the community center pushed back and demanded to know what the access would be used for, Krieg was unambiguous: “This is solely for real-time critical incident response.” The community center agreed to share their cameras, including cameras in gymnastics rooms, pools, and fitness studios, with Dunwoody PD for emergencies.
To the broader public, the City made the same promise in a different form: Flock is a public safety tool that catches criminals and keeps your community safe. It’s only used for law enforcement purposes. When citizens raised concerns, we were given three minutes at a podium, requests for open meetings were ignored, and we were silenced by a unanimous vote.
Both promises had the same problem: while the city was making them, Flock employees were inside Dunwoody’s camera network, including a private community center’s cameras (the ones shared solely for emergencies) to allegedly pitch their product to other law enforcement agencies.
From 2023 through April 2026, Flock employees viewed live and recorded cameras in Dunwoody over 1,000 times. In 2025 alone, they searched Dunwoody citizens’ data over 400 times. No one in Dunwoody consented to this.
When I asked the City of Dunwoody to produce any agreement authorizing this, their answer was simple: “The City of Dunwoody found no records that are responsive to your request.”
There was no authorization or explicit permission. Just a promise to a community center, a promise to the public, and a company that treated both like an open door.
