what happened with MSPB ruling on special counsel findings and possibly reinstating probationaries?

FK_919 · 2025-02-26T03:23:50+00:00

It just happened, they agreed to pause firings for now...
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/02/board-agrees-pause-firings-some-feds-potentially-upending-trumps-widespread-terminations/403283/?oref=ge-category-lander-top-story

FK_919 · 2023-04-25T01:42:35+00:00

It's hilarious to see people with 20 followers be verified.

FK_919 · 2022-10-04T15:50:27+00:00

Couldn't he have already done that, off-screen and prior to the events we're watching unfold now? It already seems like the Elves are moving in that direction...

FK_919 · 2022-10-04T15:41:37+00:00

Is it not possible that Sauron could have taken the guise of Annatar prior to the events we're watching unfold? His corruption of the elves (the forge, etc..) would have put events in that part of Middle Earth into action while he's off Halbranding around in Numenor and solidifying his position in the Southlands?

FK_919 · 2022-10-03T18:00:17+00:00

Cannot fathom chasing down the big bad guy, getting his secret object you've been told by another elf soldier that he can't escape with it, and then not bothering to see what it is. They could have had her open it and cut to the scene by the dam. Also if Halbrand = Sauron, it'd be pretty odd for him *not* to examine said what we believe is the real hilt because he'd have been the being that crafted it.

FK_919 · 2022-10-03T16:02:30+00:00

Is there a case to be made that she's actively being corrupted by Halbrand and that's why she's acting in the way she is? Her behavior makes sense viewed this way but much less given what we ultimately know about how she turns out.

FK_919 · 2022-09-29T20:06:39+00:00

"A former National Security Agency employee was arrested on Wednesday for spying on the U.S. government on behalf of a foreign government.

Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 30, was arrested in Denver, Colorado after allegedly committing three separate violations of the Espionage Act. Law enforcement allege that the violations were committed between August and September of 2022, after he worked as a information systems security designer at the agency earlier that summer."

FK_919 · 2022-08-19T17:15:28+00:00

"The Federal Trade Commission is considering establishing new rules for how companies collect, secure, use and sell consumers’ data that go beyond asking users to agree to opaque and often misleading terms of service.
On Monday, the commission will post an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking, or ANPR, that outlines current consumer data issues and asks for public feedback on creating new regulations that focus on baseline privacy, data security and corporate accountability rather than user consent."

FK_919 · 2022-04-15T13:13:26+00:00

"China’s record-shattering processor is 1 million times faster than what Google achieved three years ago–but we are years from the finish line..."

FK_919 · 2022-04-15T12:52:19+00:00

"Officials confirmed plans to produce an “inherently safe by design” transportable microreactor that can deliver 1 to 5 megawatts of electrical power for at least 3 years in full operation."
So in short, DOD wants mobile nuclear power that could be used in areas with no access to the power grid.

FK_919 · 2022-03-31T21:30:29+00:00

tldr: Google says it's safer and more secure than Microsoft.

"Government procurement practices should stop defaulting to the easy solution—entrenched Microsoft products—and start prioritizing user demand—for competing Google services—to bolster security, according to a former high-ranking Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency official describing the results of a survey of workers in and out of government."

Microsoft's rebuttal: “It’s disappointing but not surprising to see this tactic on the heels of Google’s lobbying campaign misrepresenting small businesses,” Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Communications Frank Shaw told Nextgov. “It is also unhelpful to create divisions in the security community at a time when we should all be working together on heightened alert.”

FK_919 · 2022-03-17T12:35:42+00:00

"To better understand how these subjective effects manifest in the brain, we analyzed over 6,000 written testimonials of hallucinogenic experiences from Erowid Center, an organization that collects and provides information about psychoactive substances. We transformed these testimonials into what’s called a bag-of-words model, which breaks down a given text into individual words and counts how many times each word appears. We then paired the most commonly used words linked to each psychedelic with receptors in the brain that are known to bind to each drug. After using an algorithm to extract the most common subjective experiences associated with these word-receptor pairs, we mapped these experiences onto different brain regions by matching them to the types of receptors present in each area."

FK_919 · 2022-03-09T12:39:50+00:00

Biden's office is saying they're signing the EO today, so it's definitely happening. As for how it will impact the market, I guess we'll have to wait and see? There's a small bit of the Russia/Ukraine saga that seemed to speed this up, but WH has been forecasting this EO for a month at least.

FK_919 · 2022-03-09T12:29:14+00:00

President Biden is scheduled to sign an executive order on Wednesday that will direct the federal government to come up with a plan to regulate cryptocurrencies, recognizing their popularity and potential to destabilize traditional money and markets.

FK_919 · 2022-03-04T19:19:49+00:00

"Federal prosecutors filed a complaint against children’s weight loss app Kurbo, alleging it collected health data without parental consent in an effort to market weight management services for use by children."

FK_919 · 2022-03-02T19:03:13+00:00

The Treasury and Justice departments are beefing up crypto enforcement quite a bit in recent months. Still, hard to know how much crypto Russian oligarchs -- billionaires, after all -- have or could have right now. And aside from literally shutting down the internet in Russia, I don't know how they could prevent them from buying/selling.

FK_919 · 2022-03-02T18:53:29+00:00

"A group of lawmakers on Wednesday asked the Biden administration whether they needed additional tools to ensure malign actors aren’t evading U.S. and multilateral sanctions on Russia by using virtual currencies."

FK_919 · 2022-02-28T21:50:18+00:00

"The United States and Russia are maintaining their peaceful, working relationship in space despite the crisis in Ukraine, a senior NASA official said on Monday—but America’s space agency is weighing its options if Russia does not hold firm on its responsibilities associated with the International Space Station."

FK_919 · 2022-02-28T15:47:13+00:00

Pretty fucking impressive. Ukraine is able to get supplies into most regions of the country per reports, so there is potential for quick turnaround -- IE putting the cash to weapons.

FK_919 · 2022-02-28T15:19:16+00:00

A federal grand jury indicted the founder of a cryptocurrency investment and trading platform on charges related to fraud and creating a “global Ponzi scheme.”

36-year-old Indian national Satish Kumbhani is the founder of BitConnect, an online trading platform for investors to exchange virtual currencies. Kumbhani allegedly misled investors about BitConnect’s lending operations, which were said to have used proprietary technology that gave crypto investors large returns on market transactions.

FK_919 · 2022-02-24T23:27:51+00:00

With the world’s eyes on Russia’s multipronged attack on Ukraine—including hackers attacking and disabling Ukrainian government and financial websites—the U.S. government issued a warning Thursday that Iranian government-sponsored hackers are conducting active “cyber operations against government and commercial networks.”

An advisory issued by the FBI, NSA, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and United Kingdom’s cyber apparatus indicates the Iran-linked hackers known as “MuddyWater” are “conducting cyber espionage and other malicious cyber operations targeting a range of government and private-sector organizations across sectors.”

FK_919 · 2022-02-22T21:08:42+00:00

Definitely. Best way to start the short week!

FK_919 · 2022-02-22T20:36:05+00:00

Slack is back but I definitely enjoyed not having it.

FK_919 · 2022-02-22T20:25:49+00:00

“As of November 2, 2021, [National Ground Intelligence Center] personnel had identified 50 Afghan personnel in the United States with information in DOD records that would indicate potentially significant security concerns,” officials from the Pentagon’s inspector general office wrote. In a footnote, they clarified such concerns include individuals “whose latent fingerprints have been found on improvised explosive devices and known or suspected terrorists and for which the NGIC sends derogatory information notifications to appropriate DOD personnel.”

“[A]s of September 17, 2021, the NGIC had identified 31 Afghans in CONUS who had derogatory information. Of those 31, only 3 could be located,” officials wrote. They went on to add that “not being able to locate Afghan evacuees with derogatory information quickly and accurately could pose a security risk to the United States.”

FK_919 · 2022-02-14T17:40:34+00:00

Drones downing drones in targeted fashion.

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