Trump Taps Amy Coney Barrett — Memo Lays Out Tactics for Opposition The Intercept

Sep 262020
 

President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, setting up a ferocious confirmation battle as votes are already being cast for the November 3 election. Barrett, who was previously named to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals by Trump, is an outspoken social conservative, broadly hostile to abortion rights, and a strong supporter of corporate rights. Her confirmation would give conservatives a 6-3 majority…

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Not Particularly Mortifying: IEEE eggheads probe npm registry, say JavaScript libs not as insecure as feared The Register

Sep 262020
 

Oh sure, there are plenty of flaws in those packages though not even one in ten are anything to worry about For the past few years, the security of JavaScript software packages available through the Node Package Manager, or npm, has been the subject of skepticism as a result of blunders, brouhahas, and tepid countermeasures.…

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Rare case of black licorice poisoning kills man in Massachusetts Ars Technica

Sep 262020
 

Enlarge / Bulk black licorice candy. (credit: Getty | Andia) Because 2020 hasn’t provided enough extraordinary ways to die, the universe offers a grim reminder that eating too much licorice candy can be deadly. A 54-year-old construction worker died in Massachusetts recently after eating an excessive amount of black licorice—which naturally contains a toxin called glycyrrhizin, aka glycyrrhizic acid. Doctors published a case study of his poisoning in the New England Journal of Medicine this…

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