The popular shadow library Anna’s Archive has lost yet another domain name. The site’s .pm domain was taken offline after international pressure on intermediaries continued to mount. That initially left the .li domain as the only option, but a Greenland-based backup was swiftly added.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu rejected a proposal to nominate her for the Nobel Peace Prize on Feb. 5, saying the honor belongs to Ukrainian prisoners of war and others who risk or give their lives for peace.

These two weren’t planned, but i thought you could enjoy this too. Never seen such healthy kittens.

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn’t built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.

Commentary of the other site I post on.

A growing number of Los Angeles-area politicians are calling on Olympics chief Casey Wasserman to step down after recently released files included a series of flirty emails between him and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell from 2003.

I’m building OpenWatch, an open-source self-hosted video platform as an alternative to YouTube. It’s designed for content creators who want to back up their content on their own infrastructure (in case of strikes) or for anyone who wants a personal video hosting solution.

For example, having Colin Mochrie aka Captain Hair use a tribble as a toupee:

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/35133068

Venice is being invaded by cannibalistic jellyfish from the Atlantic that are threatening the delicate balance of the lagoon's ecosystem.

Socialism for the elite but not for the masses?

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent cited Canada’s recent trade agreement with China that reduced tariffs on some Chinese EVs as a reason for not dropping tariffs on Canada.

The no-bid deal for arms internationally banned for high civilian death tolls is the biggest purchase from Israel in available government records.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260206200450/https://www.staradvertiser.com/2026/02/06/breaking-news/dhs-shutdown-looms-as-senate-immigration-talks-sputter/

Founding of diplomatic outposts in Nuuk comes after US made efforts to secure control of Arctic island

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If you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t.

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Federal immigration agents flooding U.S. streets are using a new surveillance tool kit whose increasing use on observers and bystanders is alarming civil liberties advocates, lawmakers and activists.

Measuring America’s slide toward democratic erosion.

Ohio voting advocates say the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has no authority to investigate voter fraud after the department’s visit to Ponitz Career Tech High School in Dayton to investigate alleged voter fraud Monday

The EU has told TikTok it must change its “addictive design” or face heavy fines, after it found the video sharing platform had breached its online safety rules.

hey, what the fuck!?

Canada posted the change on the website of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, stating that as of January 28, 2026, visa application centers in Russia “no longer accept passports or documents,” and telling applicants to choose a center outside Russia when asked to submit an application.

In fact, 99.999999% is an extremely low estimate. The number of ways that a deck of cards can be shuffled is 52! Which is equal to 8065817517094387857166063685640376697528950544088327782400000000000 possibilities.

A nice, overdue usability improvement is on the way for those using Apple Macs under Linux. Finally there will be the ability to preserve the same backlight brightness across reboots under Linux.

Is it really an offensive anymore if russia cannot dictate the nature, location and pace of conflict?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42753785