Fain attempted damage control over the UAW’s embrace of Trump under conditions of mounting rank-and-file anger over layoffs and attacks on democratic rights.
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On April 11, the North Carolina Supreme Court issued an opinion in Griffin v North Carolina State Board of Elections, 25-181 P25-104. This is the lawsuit filed by the losing Republican nominee for State Supreme Court Justice in the November 2024 election. The State Supreme Court allowed thousands of challenged votes to be counted, but disallowed thousands of others that had been cast by overseas and military voters.
Some of the invalidated ballots were cast by overseas voters who had “inherited” their connection to North Carolina. They were born overseas, to U.S. citizen-parents who had been domiciled in North Carolina before they took up residence in other countries. Even though the law has long recognized their ability…
Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does every three seconds.
When Recall was first introduced in May 2024, security practitioners roundly castigated it for creating a gold mine for malicious insiders, criminals, or nation-state spies if they managed to gain even brief administrative access to a Windows device. Privacy advocates warned that Recall was ripe for abuse in intimate partner violence settings. They also noted that there was nothing stopping Recall from preserving sensitive disappearing content sent through privacy-protecting messengers such as Signal.
Enshittification at a new scale
Following months of backlash, Microsoft later suspended…