That proposed SEC rule on reporting stock lending to FINRA (second link in last paragraph above) is about naked short sales used to manipulate the market. It's not about investors borrowing against assets to avoid taxes.

Well, that is very good news indeed! All we need is one zero-cost threat to cancel out all the other threats!

Which Russia conspiracy turned out to be false? What are you even talking about?

Weren't all the 9/11 hijackers fully identified before they boarded? How will more identity tracking keep us safer? What exactly is the TSA supposedly protecting us from?

Isn't definition 3 pretty much the original meaning when the term originated in the 1930s(?)? Like, if you're black, you have to be aware of all the ways the system is stacked against you?

Is it funny because it's impossible to oppose, yet DeSantis opposes it anyway?

How can he be an "ex-founder"? Does he now no longer have founded the company, though he did have before? Can any time traveler help me out with these verb tenses?

Nobody's going to waste a zero-day on this kind of attack. They will use exploits that are years old and already well-known. It's only a risk for older or otherwise unpatched devices, which are actually very common in real life.

Bleet.

It is not.

Thirtyies ... Fiftyies

It's an attempt to make encryption failure seem more significant to people who think, "I have nothing to hide, why should I care?"

I can't see how that's a stupid question. It seems very important for AI and transhumanism, and the answer is neither obvious nor well-established. Is there some reason the question should not be asked?

Same idea, but a bit more gently

I compile my own kernels, you insensitive clod!

The science center will be in the town of Arecibo, not at the observatory site. I think it's probably an attempt to give something back to the town after using its name all these years.