New York City has adopted a new rule that bans companies from using deceptive subscriptions to trap customers into paying for gym memberships, streaming services and other recurring charges, the city’s consumer protection office said.

These two adorable little monsters were left in a box out front of my wife’s pet store, they purred so much when I was holding them. Don’t worry they already have a foster, they will get well taken care of.

https://heyokyay.com/reflex/

As it says in the title, he crawled out from under the house while I was out on my stoop, having a cigarette break. I knew I couldn’t just let him run around, and he couldn’t go back under there and get lost.

Infineon Technologies has opened its Smart Power Fab in Dresden, Germany, months ahead of schedule, bringing the world’s largest manufacturing facility for intelligent power semiconductors and analog/mixed-signal technologies into operation.

Federal agents did not have body-worn cameras when a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a Mexican homebuilder who was driving a work van they were trying to pull over in Houston, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Thursday.

The neighbor said emergency responders worked quickly – but they did not seem panicked.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered private prison company GEO Group to admit Washington Department of Health inspectors to the Tacoma detention center it operates under contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Senior U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle granted Washington’s request for a preliminary injunction barring GEO Group from refusing state inspectors access to the Northwest ICE Processing Center, where ICE detains individuals awaiting immigration proceedings.

After a federal agent killed an undocumented Mexican man in his van during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday, the government rushed to follow a familiar template. Just as it has after other shootings, the Department of Homeland Security released a statement insisting that the man, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, had “weaponized his vehicle” against the officer, who then justifiably opened fire. DHS offered no evidence of this.

He’s so sweet tho. It’s good there’s still daylight 😊

From Doc’s Veterinary Wildlife

What a bunch of incompetent idiots.

https://heyokyay.com/hooray/

https://t.me/exilenova_plus/25077

Fifteen of the 45 immigration detention facilities holding 500 or more people hadn’t been inspected in over 12 months as of late June, while five had no inspection on record, a CBS News analysis of inspection reports found. 

A trans teen withdrew from the girls’ division of an Irish Dance contest in Florida after the organizers were pressured by state officials to kick her out. However, it is unclear whether the girl’s participation in the competition would have actually violated any law.

From WKYC

old.news now but still funny

Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing secrets about products still in development, setting up a legal face-off between two of the world’s biggest tech companies.

cross-posted from: https://libretechni.ca/post/1812743

I almost had a heart attack… but found out it’s just a wooden cut out from when it was a show mine 40 years ago.

My partners cat is so good at sitting still for a picture. I wish the others would sit so well.

I was out for like three days and Ukraine just about shut off the Sea of Azov. I mean this looked like a turkey shoot. Fuel tankers trying to reach the besieged Crimean peninsula were easy targets and in four days, 35 ships were hit.

“Trying to protect children with suspicionless mass surveillance is like frantically mopping the floor while the faucet is still running. Blanket chat control is just as unacceptable as indiscriminately opening everyone’s physical mail. For five years, this failed system has served as a smokescreen to delay real action, all while overwhelming the police with false alarms. We need more child protection, not less—but we need effective protection, not the illusion of security.”

New first-hand accounts collected by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) confirm that Ukrainian media professionals Yevhenii Ilchenko and Anastasia Hlukhovska are being held in Detention Centre No. 3 in Kizel, in Russia’s Ural region, providing the first proof in years that they are alive. The accounts also shed light on the inner workings of the prison, where Ukrainian detainees are subjected to a system of institutionalised violence.

DS9 s5e12 “The Begotten”

Schüsse aus Polizeiwaffen gelten in Frankreich künftig als Notwehr. Opfer müssen beweisen, dass der Beamte die Waffe regelwidrig benutzt hat. Kritiker sind entsetzt und fürchten Straflosigkeit.

How many lives would have been saved if European cities had taken urban forestry seriously over the past few decades?

A bit of coffee history for today:

July 9, 2026

Weeks before introducing a bill to streamline data center development across Pennsylvania, [Republican] State Sen. Greg Rothman’s real estate firm quietly collected a fee from the $30 million sale of land now hosting the state’s largest proposed data center. Whether that sequence amounts to a conflict of interest — or simply an uncomfortable overlap — depends entirely on who you ask and what standard you think elected officials should be held to.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced on Saturday a major research partnership with a prominent European nanoelectronics research institute. The collaboration will focus on developing advanced 3D integrated circuit (IC) packaging technologies to meet the demands of next-generation high-performance computing and artificial intelligence chips.

Torum is a self-hosted, Tor-native discussion forum modeled after Hacker News. It runs entirely as a Tor hidden service, accessible only through the Tor network via a .onion address. All data is stored locally in an SQLite database, and the entire application is managed through a single interactive shell script. Designed for operators who want to run a private or semi-private community forum with no reliance on clearnet infrastructure, third-party services, or cloud hosting.

Detainees at the Delaney Hall center in Newark have complained for months about dirty, unhealthy living conditions. Documents echo their claims.

It sounds like science fiction: collecting a person’s blood cells, engineering them so they eventually transform into immature sperm, and then incubating them in a tiny pouch grown on a mouse’s kidney.

European Parliament supports the setting up of an EU centre for democratic resilience. This centre should include existing cooperation systems and crisis management capacity, and be adaptable to evolving threats.

We are currently in Beta, but the core features are built and ready for testing!

Torum is a self-hosted, Tor-native discussion forum modeled after Hacker News. It runs entirely as a Tor hidden service, accessible only through the Tor network via a .onion address. All data is stored locally in an SQLite database, and the entire application is managed through a single interactive shell script. Designed for operators who want to run a private or semi-private community forum with no reliance on clearnet infrastructure, third-party services, or cloud hosting.

A resolution adopted by Terrasse-Vaudreuil city council on June 9 declares that trees are worthy of protection, “including the right to life, to natural growth, to integrity and to regeneration.”

We need this magazine to make a come back. I remember it was basically “Consumer Reports” for kids, but it had articles in it that taught kids to be critical of businesses practices such as calling out “new and improved” language on products and to think through how you’re being sold to.

New research on Cyprus’s parliamentary election identifies serious vulnerabilities in Europe’s new political advertising regulatory framework ahead of crucial elections in France, Spain, Italy and Poland.

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Lucy isn’t nearly as social as her orange sisters or her orange mom. But unlike them she has a full length tail.

“I told the boss, this was not in my job description. They didn’t train me for this.”