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Thursday, February 5, 2026
NYTimes: How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Mark your Calendars for These Astronomical Events in 2026
Monday, January 19, 2026
Cloudflare Zero-Day Vulnerability Enables Any Host Access Bypassing Protections | Post by Cyber Security News
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A critical zero-day vulnerability in Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall (WAF)allowed attackers to bypass security controls and directly access protected origin servers through a certificate validation path.
Security researchers from FearsOff discovered that requests targeting the /.well-known/acme-challenge/ directory could reach origins even when customer-configured WAF rules explicitly blocked all other traffic.
The Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol automates SSL/TLS certificate validation by requiring Certificate Authorities (CAs) to verify domain ownership.
Friday, January 16, 2026
Want to see an eclipse next year? Here’s where to go.
The biggest astronomical events of 2026, including solar and lunar eclipses, planet parades and the Artemis II mission to the moon.
By Andrea Sachs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/12/26/2026-solar-eclipse-viewing/
Friday, January 2, 2026
Saturday, December 27, 2025
Monday, December 22, 2025
Sunday, December 21, 2025
Trump Told To Provide His Medical Records In Pulitzer Lawsuit | BP Daily
The request, lodged in a Florida state court on December 11, seeks years of personal documents from the president, as well as his tax returns, within 30 days.
The documents being sought include medical and psychological records, information on any prescription medications Trump has taken, and details of his annual physical examinations, if he is claiming physical or emotional harm in his lawsuit.
Friday, December 12, 2025
FedRAMP at the center of DoJ’s latest cyber fraud allegations
"As previously disclosed in our public filings, we proactively brought this matter to the government's attention following an internal review. We have cooperated extensively with the government's investigation and continue to do so," an Accenture spokeswoman told Federal News Network. "We remain dedicated to operating with the highest ethical standards as we serve all our clients, including the federal government."
In an Oct. 12, 2023, filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Accenture referenced how it made a voluntary disclosure to the government that initiated a DoJ investigation "concerning whether one or more employees provided inaccurate submissions to an assessor who was evaluating on behalf of the U.S. government an AFS service offering and whether the service offering fully implemented required federal security controls."
Monday, November 24, 2025
Monday, November 10, 2025
Actual Dale Partridge Quotes - Christian Nationalist
- Is it good that women can vote in America? I don't think so.
- Abortion and Homosexuality would likely still be illegal if not for the female vote.
- The 19th Amendment has been a moral and political tragedy for America.
- Women were not made to lead, but to follow and to feel.
- We should return to the household vote, where women share their thoughts with their fathers or their husbands and the men in their life make the final decision.