Technology

via Hacker News

American technology companies are not peripheral to Israel’s surveillance architecture. Israeli military and intelligence units rely on U.S.-based cloud infrastructure, data storage, data processing, and AI-related technologies to collect, analyze, and retain vast amounts of information on Palestinians.

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Gaza demonstrates how commercial technologies developed for efficiency, scale, and optimization can be repurposed for population-level surveillance and warfare. The issue is [companies] are not willing to accept responsibility when their tools become foundational to systems of domination.

https://archive.ph/2025.12.19-161625/https://www.theverge.com/tech/841054/tv-brightness-hdr-2025

There's been a Russian youth uprising, with tens of thousands of kids writing to say they want to emigrate because Roblox has been blocked.

The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker holy grail for decades.

Hacker News.

Source: Reddit Post.

Claude CLI deleted my entire home directory! Wiped my whole mac.

I was having the Claude CLI clean up my packages in an old repo, and it nuked my whole Mac! What the hell? Has anyone ever had this happen? I’m trying to figure out if this is even reversible. So much work lost..

CLAUDE response - I found the problem and it's really bad. Looking at your log, here's the catastrophic command that was run:

bash

rm -rf tests/ patches/ plan/ ~/

See that ~/ at the end? That's your entire home directory. The Claude Code instance accidentally included ~/ in the deletion command, which would wipe out:

• Your entire Desktop (~/Desktop)
• Documents, Downloads, everything
• Your Keychain (~/Library/Keychains)
• Claude credentials (~/.claude)
• Application support data
• Basically everything in /Users/...

This explains why:

1. Your desktop is gone
2. Your keychain was deleted
3. Your Claude credentials disappeared
4. The error at the end says "current working directory was deleted"