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Submission + - California high-speed rail costs jump to $231B, nearly seven times 2008 estimate (kmph.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Senator Strickland pointed to comments from Lou Thompson, former chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority peer review group, who recently criticized the latest draft business plan.

Thompson wrote that the 2026 draft plan “has reached a dead end,” arguing that the project has drifted far from its original vision due to escalating costs, delays, and unfunded gaps.

Under current projections, assuming funding and construction proceed as planned, service between San Francisco and Bakersfield could begin around 2033, while the full Los Angeles to San Francisco connection could extend to 2040.

Submission + - DOJ just sues Cloudera for rigging high-paying tech jobs against Americans (x.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: We just sued Cloudera for discriminating against U.S. workers in favor of foreign visa holders for high-paying tech jobs. This is a violation of the Immigration & Nationality Act, & @CivilRights will not hesitate to sue employers for discriminating against U.S. workers! You are on notice! AAG Harmeet Dhillon

Cloudera created a fake internal email that bounced every U.S. applicant’s resume then claimed “no qualified Americans applied” to fast-track foreign visa holders for green cards.

Comment Re:The summary said they have a warrant (Score 2) 37

The issue is whether the (geofence)warrant was valid.

The defendant's position is geofence warrants violate the 4th amendment. The 4th Amendment requires that warrants "particularly describe the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Geofence warrants are "reverse searches." Instead of identifying a suspect and searching their location, police identify a location and search for every "suspect" (device) inside it.

Privacy advocates and several high-ranking judges argue that geofence warrants are modern-day "General Warrants"—the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to ban. They argue that sweeping up the data of 500 innocent bystanders to find one criminal is an "unreasonable" search.

Submission + - The H-1B visa explorer (layoffhedge.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Every filing. Every county. Filter by zip to zoom into the heat map over 11 fiscal years.

Every employer is cross-referenced against our layoff tracker.

Submission + - California 'Lost' $425 BILLION, and the Audit Starts... Never

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: While California lawmakers were busy pushing a totally unconstitutional "Stop Nick Shirley Act" to make his style of investigative journalism punishable by big fines and even jail time, you might have missed out on the story about the state's missing $425 billion that nobody will bother auditing.

Or as Barth's report put it: "Obando conceded that required audits are falling by the wayside because 'instead of funding us they cut us they keep cutting our auditing teams.' He added that agencies 'none of them want us to go in there.' When pressed on the Controller’s Office’s ability to perform its core oversight function, Obando stated plainly: 'We just can’t conduct the audits.'"

Watching where the money goes is literally Controller Cohen's only job. If she isn't allowed to do it, that means that the system is performing as designed. If she isn't screaming to high heaven about it, that means she's in on it. No other conclusion fits — particularly when the state's real concern seems to be stopping independent reporters like Nick Shirley from doing even part of Cohen's job for her.

Here's the unconstututional "Stop Nick Shirley Act" that Victoria Taft reported on last week:

California Attorney General Rob Bonta's wife, Mia, a leftist state assembly member, has introduced AB 2624. The bill would fulfill a need that no one needs or asked for except for the professional grifters receiving big dollars from their buddies in government who want to hide it from the media. They want to hide the identities of the people running the programs under the guise of protecting illegal immigrants.

Under the bill, the press would be prevented from any meaningful reporting on the grift through fines, jail time, and orders to remove the content from media outlets.

"It sounds like the actions of tyrants," Victoria added — or like thieves covering their tracks.

Submission + - AST Spacemobile BlueBird 7 Satellite Lost (substack.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: "ASTS admits the satellite is too low and cannot be saved. Based on what the orbit appears to be. 20kg of fuel they can only raise it part of the way. During the New Glenn 3 mission, BlueBird 7 was placed into a lower than planned orbit by the upper stage of the launch vehicle. While the satellite separated from the launch vehicle and powered on, the altitude is too low to sustain operations with its on-board thruster technology and will de-orbited. The cost of the satellite is expected to be recovered under the company’s insurance policy."

Submission + - Trump Admin To Stop Taxpayer Funding Of Worthless College Degrees (thefederalist.com) 1

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The U.S. Department of Education announced Friday it will be stripping federal student loan funding from any college program that does not yield a high salary after the student graduates.

Stereotypically worthless degrees in areas like "women's and gender studies" have become the standing joke that jabs at how unserious college has become. But under new proposed rulemaking from the Education Department, if schools want to offer degrees that bury students in debt while giving them poor job prospects, the institutions will have to fund those programs themselves.

“The Trump Administration’s proposed accountability framework is grounded in common sense: if postsecondary education programs do not leave graduates better off, taxpayers should not subsidize them,” Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent said in a press release. “This consensus-backed framework will drive meaningful change in postsecondary education, ending years of regulatory whiplash and addressing student debt that has left too many students worse off.”

Under the proposed rule, undergraduate programs will have to prove that degree recipients earn at least as much as a high school graduate before being eligible for student loan funding. Similarly, graduate school programs will need to prove higher earnings than an average bachelor's degree. The average high school graduate is estimated to earn about $40,000, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

The new rule “will better protect students and taxpayers by requiring institutions to sunset programs that do not deliver a strong financial return or to seek funding outside the federal financial aid system,” the department said.

The rule will be open for a public comment period for 30 days before becoming finalized, and is planned to take effect in July.

Comment Set Android advertising ID to all zeros (Score 5, Informative) 62

by schwit1 (#66101476) Attached to: Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant

This should foil fogs data?

On stock systems, the UUID you are seeing is almost certainly the **Advertising ID** (Android) or **IDFA** (iPhone). Here is how to manage them:

1. **To Reset the ID:** Go to **Settings > Privacy > Ads** (or **Settings > Google > Ads**). Tap **Reset advertising ID**. This generates a completely new random UUID.
2. **To Delete the ID:** In the same menu, tap **Delete advertising ID**.
        * *Result:* Instead of a random string, apps will see a string of zeros (`00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000`). This is effectively "randomizing" it by making it useless for tracking.
3. **Automatic Randomization:** Stock Android does **not** have a native setting to rotate this ID automatically (e.g., daily). Only privacy-focused ROMs like CalyxOS or GrapheneOS offer that "shuffle" behavior.

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