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Just over a month before the midterm elections in November, Texas has a backlog of voter registrations thanks to an error by the state Department of Public Safety.

Votebeat reports that an unknown number of voter registration applications have yet to be processed in Texas due to DPS failing to send the applications that came from the agency’s online driver’s license portal to county officials.

State officials told the news outlet that they would begin delivering the applications to counties overnight. They said that many of the voter registrations were incomplete, but didn’t say exactly what information was missing, how many voters were affected, or when the problem started. The secretary of state’s office said it only discovered the problem last week.

Texas has an October 5 voter registration deadline this year, and depending on the scale of the problem, counties could be backed up with processing voter registrations for the next two weeks. If a voter’s registration is not processed before then, the Texas secretary of state’s office says they can still vote as long as they turned in their application before the deadline.

“A voter who registered through DPS online services but does not appear on the rolls can cast a provisional ballot,” Alicia Pierce, an office spokesperson, said in an email to Votebeat. “Election officials have an established method with DPS to check the transaction. If that voter did register, the provisional vote will be counted.”

From 2020 through 2024, nearly six million Texans used the DPS website to register to vote, according to testimony DPS officials gave to the Texas legislature in 2025. The state has over 18 million registered voters overall. This is only the latest bad news for Texas voters, as Texas’s third largest county, Tarrant County, is closing one-third of its polling stations.

South Korean researchers have published details of how their four-legged robot completed a marathon on a single battery charge – nearly two years after it crossed the finish line. RAIBO2 covered the 42.195 km (26.2 mile) course of the Sangju Dried Persimmon Marathon in November 2024 in 4 hours, 19 minutes, and 52 seconds. As The Register reported at the time, its developers described it as the first quadruped robot to complete a full marathon at an official event. The new paper published in Nature this week explains how the team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), led by associate professor Jemin Hwangbo, squeezed more than three times the range per battery charge from RAIBO2 than recent comparable quadrupeds. Humans remain quicker. Kenya's Sabastian Sawe set the official world record of 1 hour, 59 minutes, and 30 seconds at the London Marathon in April, becoming the first person to break two hours in a competitive marathon. Wheels are more efficient on smooth ground, but legs allow robots to cross stairs, rubble, slopes, and other uneven terrain. That makes quadrupeds potentially useful in mountainous areas and disaster zones. Robot dogs have already been deployed to help with the nuclear clean-up at the UK's Sellafield facility, while military applications are considerably less cuddly. The trade-off is range. The researchers say recent quadrupeds generally manage about 20 km per charge because their joints expend energy supporting the machine's weight, while repeated contact between foot and ground introduces further losses. Hwangbo's team combined lightweight mechanical hardware, low-loss motor-driving circuitry, and an energy-optimized locomotion policy trained through reinforcement learning. RAIBO2 completed the course at an average speed of 2.64 metres per second, negotiating 286 m of elevation change and slopes reaching 18.4 degrees. RAIBO2 consumed 1,280 watt-hours from a battery with 2,016 Wh of capacity. Its total cost of transport – the energy required to move a given weight over a given distance – was 0.25, compared with the researchers' human benchmark of 0.37. They say it is the first quadruped robot to beat that figure. The researchers said: "Compared with existing quadrupeds, RAIBO2 offers more than three times the travel range per battery charge. This breakthrough in energy efficiency paves the way for extended outdoor applications in which prolonged battery life is critical." The efficiency record does not make RAIBO2 autonomous, however. Stairs or mountainous terrain might require variations in the energy loss models and constrained robot postures, and require a more environment-aware strategy. "In addition, our study assumes human operation, yet autonomous navigation requires planners that can identify energy-optimal paths based on global map understanding. The loss models developed in this study provide a valuable foundation for addressing these challenges," the paper said. The researchers believe their work could extend the range of future legged robots. Whether those machines spend the extra mileage inspecting disaster zones, carrying deliveries, or chasing humans is a matter for whoever buys them. ®

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The architect for President Donald Trump’s much-derided White House ballroom warned him that the project was in violation of safety standards and that could lead to significant harm in an emergency, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Citing multiple sources with knowledge of the inner workings of the construction project, the Post reported that Trump’s designs for the ballroom did not…

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AMD's Venice Epycs mark the chipmaker's biggest architectural shift in CPU design since Rome made its debut all the way back in 2019. What's more, AMD's Zen 6-based product stack is shaping up to be the broadest CPU portfolio ever, spanning general purpose, HPC, AI, and eventually consumer platforms. AMD isn't quite ready to spill all the beans on its 6th-gen Zen cores, but at this point there's less we don't know about Venice than we do. Late last week, AMD gave us a bit more to chew on with a whitepaper [PDF] clearly aimed at quashing marketing juggernaut Nvidia's narrative around its Vera CPUs. We'll dive into the performance claims raised in the white paper in a bit, but given the piecemeal release of info on Venice up to this point, we figured it was time to take a closer look at the CPU architecture that will underpin AMD's roadmap for the next few years. A little bit of everything Broadly speaking, AMD's 6th-gen lineup can be broken down into four buckets — high-performance, enterprise, HPC, and AI — each with its own quirks. We'll kick things off with AMD's performance-optimized parts because those are the ones that will actually ship in 2026. Pretty much everything else will be rolling out over the course of 2027. The Epyc 9006 SP7 platform is what AMD has really been talking about for the past year. It's the one that'll offer up to 256 cores, 16 channels of DDR5, and 128 lanes of speedy CXL 3.1-compatible PCIe 6.0 connectivity. But those are just the headline specs and just like last year's Turin parts, Venice will actually come in two distinct flavors: density-optimized and frequency-optimized parts. The 256-core version, if you hadn't already guessed, is the density optimized part. Alongside it, AMD has a 96-core part capable of boosting to 5 GHz in the works. Peeling back the heat spreader, we see how AMD has managed this. Both chips feature a pair of I/O dies surrounded by eight core-complex dies (CCDs). That's twice the I/O but half as much compute silicon as we saw in Turin, yet core counts are up. But depending on the chip, these CCDs are wildly different. For this generation, AMD has doubled the number of compute cores per chiplet to 32 and quadrupled the shared L3 from 32 MB per chip to 128 MB. That means AMD's fully loaded Venice CPUs now boast a gigabyte of L3 onboard. For the frequency-optimized parts, AMD has played things a little safer. Core counts and L3 caches are only up about 50 percent over last gen at 12 cores and 48 MB of L3 per chiplet. The higher core counts afforded by AMD's new chiplets are neat, but arguably the more interesting change is the cache hierarchy — there is no longer any difference between a Zen 6C core and a Zen 6 core aside from clock speeds. In prior generations, AMD's ZenC CCDs shared the same 32 MB pool of L3 as its standard Zen CCDs, which meant its top spec parts had half as much L3 per core as its higher clocking, but lower core-count parts. This is no longer the case with Venice. Regardless of which CCD is being used, there is at least 4 MB of shared L3 per core feeding it. The only difference now, it seems, is a choice between core count and core density. This is about the time we have to remind folks that AMD's compact Zen cores are not the same as Intel's efficiency cores. Intel uses completely different microarchitectures with different feature sets and cache hierarchies for its P and E cores; AMD simply trades clock speed for a more compact form factor — the ISA is identical. With that out of the way, let's talk I/O dies because this is another change. As we mentioned earlier, there are now two of them. If we had to guess, the reason for this comes down to the interconnect used to connect the CCDs to the I/O subsystem. If you hadn't noticed, the dies are butted right up against each other this time around. In any case, the I/O itself is largely unchanged. We get 128 lanes of PCIe connectivity — the same as the last few generations of Epyc. Those lanes are, however, twice as fast thanks to the bump from 5.0 to 6.0 connectivity. The chips also add support for CXL 3.1 connectivity, which means customers will now be able to take advantage of memory god boxes to pool and share memory between them. We discussed this tech at length here if you are curious about how these network-attached memory appliances work. Along with faster I/O, the dies add support for 16 channels of DDR5 8000 MT/s or 12,800 MT/s memory using MRDIMMs. This gives Venice a whopping 1.6 TB/s of memory bandwidth, nearly 3x that of Turin, and in real world testing, AMD says it can hit roughly 1.3 TB/s in STREAM Triad, a time tested benchmark for evaluating bandwidth. We still don't have all the details on AMD's Zen 6 microarchitecture, but we do have a largely complete list of its SP7 lineup, which we've included below. AMD's Epyc X-chips are back Before we move on to AMD's more mainstream Epyc offerings, we should talk a bit more about its HPC centric Venice-X parts, which share the SP7 socket, but push L3 cache per core to 12 MB or 1,152 MB per socket. As with past X chips, AMD achieves this by stacking SRAM on top of its CCDs using its 3D V-Cache packaging tech. This is the same tech used in consumer parts like the venerable 5800X3D and 7800X3D. For Venice-X, AMD is sandwiching up to eight 96 MB SRAM tiles between its 12-core CCDs and the package for a total of 144 MB of L3 each. This added cache makes these chips particularly attractive for HPC-centric workloads like computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, electronic design automation, and other scientific and engineering workloads. The chip is a return to form in many ways for AMD, which had skipped the X variant for the Turin generation. With that said, compared to its last Epyc X-chip, the new one won't offer any higher L3 cache capacity or core count. What Venice X will do is offer substantially higher clock speed, reaching as high as 5.15 GHz thanks in part to putting the SRAM tile under the CCD instead of on top of it. Enterprise Everything we've talked about up to this point has been aimed at high-performance and HPC applications — not what most enterprises will end up buying. For the more mainstream use cases, like storage, database, or virtualization servers, AMD will offer a cut down version of its Venice Epycs with anywhere from eight to 128 cores and eight channels of DDR5 memory. While memory bandwidth is a major bottleneck for AI and HPC, it's not nearly as important for most enterprise applications, so it makes sense to cut back here. In fact, Intel did the same thing with its Xeon 6 6700P series parts, which also topped out at 8 channels. From the die renders we've seen, AMD appears to be using a slightly different I/O die, which makes sense considering it doesn't need to deal with nearly as much data. They will also use a different SP8 socket, but will use the same CCDs used in the SP7 parts. The eight core part is a curious decision considering that the minimum core count per CCD is now 12, but it wouldn't be the first time that we've seen AMD bin silicon to offer greater segmentation by fusing off cores. Meanwhile the 128 core part will use four 32 core CCDs to hit its core count target. As you might expect, AMD's 9006 SP8 lineup is quite a bit bigger, spanning more than 20 SKUs with clock speeds up to 5 GHz, so while you may give up some memory channels opting for the parts, you aren't necessarily giving up any compute performance. Here's a full rundown: AMD puts Vera in its crosshairs Venice won't be the only chip AMD launches with its Zen 6 cores under the hood. While its first-gen Helios racks will use a 96-core Venice part and standard DDR5 DIMMs, future designs will use a very different CPU that more closely resembles Nvidia's Vera. Codenamed Verano, the chip will feature up to 72 cores (presumably spread across six 12-core chiplets) clocking to 5 GHz, but instead of DDR5 it'll feature 24 channels of LPDDR5x memory along with speedier 112 GT/s xGMI links, which AMD says should help with CPU-to-GPU connectivity. Vera for reference has 88 cores and packs up to 1.5 TB of LPDDR5x good for 1.2 TB/s of bandwidth. AMD is positioning the part, which is set to launch in the second half of 2027, as an ideal host processor for GPU servers. From what we gather, the decision to go with LPDDR5x over DDR5 RDIMMs largely comes down to power. The LP there does stand for low power. AMD hasn't said much about the chip's I/O die, but we suspect the real magic will actually lie here. Perhaps we'll see a stripped down I/O die with only what's necessary to support two to four GPUs? By cutting the power consumed by the CPU, AMD can free up capacity for more or faster, hotter GPUs allowing it to compete more aggressively with Nvidia on value. Venice vs Vera In AMD's most recent whitepaper, the company offered a counterpoint to Nvidia's own performance claims, which had shown Vera's Olympus core delivering a 1.7-1.8x uplift in per-core performance over Turin, a part we'll remind folks launched nearly two years ago. According to AMD, across the same four SPEC 2026 benchmarks, its 96-core Venice delivered between one and 12 percent higher performance than Vera, while in SPECrate 2026's Integer bench, its Zen 6 supposedly pulled ahead with a 20 percent lead. Finally in terms of throughput, what we assume was AMD's 256-core part predictably trounced the 88-core Vera, delivering a 2.24x advantage. No real surprise here. More cores usually equate to higher throughput. Take these claims with a grain of salt. — vendor supplied benchmarks are notoriously easy to cherry pick — but our takeaway is actually quite simple, and probably not the one AMD might have hoped for. AMD's own benchmarks show Vera's Olympus cores to be surprisingly competent in at least some benchmarks — AMD just has more of them per socket and more SKUs to address a broader range of use cases. CPUs are rarely a winner in all scenarios. We have little doubt that Vera will excel in some workloads and Venice others. We'll say it again, but there has never been one CPU to rule them all in the datacenter and there never will be. Of course, Nvidia isn't AMD's biggest rival in the datacenter CPU space. That would be Intel. Lucky for the House of Zen, it won't have much competition from Chipzilla this time around, at least not in the volume enterprise market. As we discussed last month, Intel's Diamond Rapids Xeon 7 processors will offer surprisingly comparable specs with up to 256 cores and 16 channels of speedy DDR5 and MRDIMM capacity. But unlike prior generations, they are entirely HPC-centric parts — no SP SKUs this time around. So, while Intel could pose a challenge on the very high end, AMD will have the volume advantage through much of 2027. What Venice tells us about Zen on the desktop With all of that out of the way, let's take a look at what AMD's latest Epycs tell us about its next generation of Ryzen and Threadripper products. Historically, AMD's Ryzen desktop processors have recycled CCDs from Epycs or vice versa. Assuming this doesn't change and AMD manages to cram two CCDs into an AM5 socket, we're likely looking at between eight and 24 cores on the desktop platform. That's assuming AMD only uses its frequency-optimized chiplets. It could push core counts to 32 if it opted for a single density-optimized CCD, though we have our doubts. Clock speeds are the open question, but with Zen 5 topping out at around 5.7 GHz, 6 GHz boost clocks shouldn't surprise anyone. AMD's Ryzen processors have traditionally used different I/O dies and there's no reason to think its 10,000-series — or whatever they end up calling them — will be any different. We can only speculate on PCIe lanes and chipset features, but it's safe to assume DDR5 8000 MT/s should be stable. With that said, given the current memory shortage, memory that fast may be a bit of a white whale for enthusiasts. Again, we're only speculating. AMD could go in an entirely different direction with its next Ryzen release. It would just be highly unusual. Threadripper is a bit easier to pin down. The parts historically have been unlocked Epycs, usually with higher boost clocks out of the box. AMD's next Threadripper refresh will undoubtedly deliver 96 Zen 6 cores clocking in excess of 5 GHz, more PCIe than you could ever hope to consume, and memory capacities that would require taking out a second mortgage even to entertain. The question it seems will be whether we'll see AMD deploy its Zen 6C cores on Threadripper for the first time. They'd easily put 128 cores within reach of desktop users for the first time, but it would also mean making concessions on per core performance and outside of a handful of occupations, the number of users that actually need that compute on their desk is likely pretty small. Nonetheless it'd be a sight to behold. Still questions left unanswered As Epyc release cycles go, Venice has been a rather unusual one. We still don't have a clear picture of the architectural changes that underpin the Zen 6 core or CCDs, nor has AMD spilled the beans on why the packaging looks so much different than prior generations of Epyc processors. Yet, we have comprehensive SKU lists, deep insights into the chip's composition, clock speeds, and preliminary performance figures relative to AMD's main competition this time around. We're hoping for more information on the Zen 6 core later this year, closer to when the first Venice CPUs begin shipping out to customers. ®

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Senator Mitch McConnell is still refusing to speak publicly after a monthslong absence from the Senate, raising concerns about whether he is still fit for office.

A video posted on X Tuesday by Desiree Townsend, the conservative journalist who first reported on McConnell’s health emergency, showed the longtime Kentucky Republican being wheeled into a large black car ahead of a Senate vote.

As Townsend questioned McConnell on his weekend and whether he felt ready to return to work, the Republican offered only a weak wave. “Do you want to be at work, sir? Would you rather be home?” Townsend asked, but still McConnell did not reply. As the car door slowly closed, McConnell held up a peace sign.

Senator McConnell was just wheeled out a little after 4 p.m. to head to his office ahead of the 5:30 p.m. roll call vote. He appeared somewhat confused by the rain and showed a delayed response, but still gave no verbal acknowledgment. pic.twitter.com/00FKRpDWE3

— Desirée Townsend (@DesireeReports) September 22, 2026

In her post, Townsend wrote that McConnell “appeared somewhat confused by the rain and showed a delayed response, but still gave no verbal acknowledgment.”

This isn’t the only alarming development in McConnell’s ongoing health saga. This past weekend, his wife, Elaine Chao, stood in for McConnell at an event at the University of Louisiana’s McConnell Center.

In June, McConnell was found unconscious in his Washington, D.C., home and rushed to the hospital. His office spent weeks refusing to explain his extended hospitalization or elaborate on his eventual return to Capitol Hill. Since returning, McConnell has not appeared lucid or aware, and has remained eerily silent to the public. When the Republican finally did break his silence, he voted incorrectly on a Senate bill and had to be instructed on how to vote.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian used his United Nations General Assembly speech to call out President Trump and Israel, challenging narratives about Iran as a terrorist threat, shedding light on the aggressions committed against the Iranian population, and doubling down on Iran’s hold on the Strait of Hormuz.

“The United States president described us as terrorists. We have been the victims of terrorism. I come from an Iran in which our esteemed Supreme Leader was assassinated without any legal framework or reason,” Pezeshkian said, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled for 37 years until his assassination in February. “I come from an Iran where in truth, they bombed a school … with weapons used by the United States and Israel. They were innocent.... Those who are terrorists … describe us as such.”

It was at this point in Pezeshkian’s speech that the U.S. delegate to the U.N. walked out—as the Cuban and Iranian delegations had done during Trump’s speech the day before.

“We responded, but we did not hit civilian populations,” he continued. “They came into surrounding territories and targeted our universities, our health care centers, our schools, our hospitals.”

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

We responded, but we did not hit civilian populations.

They came into surrounding territories and targeted our universities, our healthcare centers, our schools, our hospitals. pic.twitter.com/X7NWqaruKF

— Clash Report (@clashreport) September 23, 2026

The Iranian president also refused to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, an issue that has caused prices to rise in the U.S. and one that Trump claimed would be resolved months ago.

“In the waters of the Strait of Hormuz … we cannot let some have free access and gain their interest from a waterway, while at the same time using that waterway to impose their aggressions upon us, to impose insecurity upon us, to forbid us access to our own waterways,” he said. “They close access for us to our own waterway, yet they keep supplying missiles and deadly military technologies to bring insecurity to all of the lands surrounding that waterway.”

He also reaffirmed Iran’s commitment to pursuing “peaceful nuclear technology”—which Trump has long claimed to be an existential threat to the entire world.

“Iran does not accept for nuclear technology to be at the exclusive disposal of some, of a handful. We will not bow our head and give up the right that is inherently ours,” Pezeshkian said. “We say it clearly: no nuclear weapons, and no limitations to peaceful nuclear technology.”

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

We will not bow our head and give up the right that is inherently ours.

We say it clearly: no nuclear weapons, and no limitations to peaceful nuclear technology. pic.twitter.com/YsMSrKNuw0

— Clash Report (@clashreport) September 23, 2026

This speech comes the day after Trump asked the U.N. audience—in front of the Iranian delegation—if he should “annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly” or “drive them into hell with no chance of survival.” It comes almost seven months into a war that has resulted in at least 3,000 Iranian deaths, 19 American deaths, and virtually none of the Trump administration’s initial goals to be accomplished.

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The only present U.S. representative walked out of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday.

The quiet protest came immediately after Pezeshkian mentioned two airstrikes by American forces in February that killed 178 civilians, most of them children.

Pezeshkian showed images of the sites to the international delegation, holding up posterboards and books that contained photographs before and after the devastation of Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab.

“You see these children? These children perished under bombs with weapons used by the United States and Israel,” Pezeshkian said. “They were innocent, had committed no crimes.”

He then displayed pictures of the second attack site, a sports complex in Lamerd.

“A sports hall, where children were busy playing,” Pezeshkian said. “The United States, by using weapons with multiple warheads, targeted that sports hall. They martyred, assassinated, our scientists, our men, women, and children.”

“Those who are terrorists, and train and protect terrorists, describe us as such,” Pezeshkian continued as the U.S. representative stood up from his desk and walked out. “We have only defended ourselves. We are not terrorists.”

🚨 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 The U.S. delegation leaves the UN General Assembly hall during the Iranian president’s speech 👇👇 pic.twitter.com/ZwV3J5Jjxk

— ToniMrad (@murat_toni) September 23, 2026

At the time of the strikes, U.S. military officials denied that they were behind the attack. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted that the U.S. “never” targets civilians during foreign conflicts. Early reports indicated that outdated Pentagon intel had led them to believe that the school was actually an Iranian base.

But a report by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, submitted earlier this month to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, found that the U.S. had, unequivocally, perpetrated the bloodshed. The independent group found “reasonable grounds” to believe that the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran because American military officials had failed to do basic due diligence on the proposed attack site, such as analyzing publicly available information that would have revealed the site was a children’s school and not a military base.

The group confirmed that the U.S. was behind the attacks by analyzing the damage the strikes inflicted on the surrounding area, as well as to the victims bodies. The group said the distinctive pockmarking left behind by a wide spray of tungsten bullets suggested that the weapon of choice was Lockheed Martin’s Precision Strike missiles, also identified as “PRsM.” The U.S., the independent body concluded, is the only nation in the conflict that possessed such weapons.

Raspberry Pi OS has gained a new desktop layout, while surging memory prices have revived a row over firmware that restricts RAM upgrades. Although Raspberry Pi doesn't emphasize version numbers in its materials, the updated operating system's splash screen identifies it as version 6.3, dated September 2026. Its long-running release notes document details the changes. This time around, the desktop GUI gets a visible revamp. In place of the vintage-Windows-style taskbar, users can now choose a dock centered at the bottom of the screen and a full-screen app launcher. There are three options: just a dock, just a taskbar, or both at once – in which case the panel goes transparent and disappears from view except for the status indicators at the right end. We tried all three configurations, but missed the option to position the dock vertically. We strongly prefer that arrangement. If you too wish to conserve your vertical pixels, then use the raspi-config command to switch to X11 instead of Wayland. You lose the Raspberry Pi Connect feature, but in return you get a vertical LXDE taskbar. It looks pretty good. We suspect the design is intended to be less intimidating to children more familiar with smartphones than desktop Windows – still an important audience for the Pi. Under the hood, the Pi OS Wayland desktop components have been updated – the release notes say "labwc and wlroots updated to version 0.20." That is slightly behind version 0.20.2 of the labwc compositor, and The Reg FOSS desk still feels some concern when confronted with pre-1.0 version numbers. We thought Wayland was meant to be mature and ready for enterprise production by now. The underlying Linux kernel remains at version 6.18, which arrived in the previous update we reported on back in June. Pi OS remains fairly lightweight and fast, although it is not as svelte as it once was. While looking at the SpacemiT K3 in June, we noted that an 8 GB Raspberry Pi 5 cost a whopping £168 in the UK or $175 in the US. Things have not improved. As we write, the 16 GB model costs £292.80 in the UK or $305 in the US. RAM upgrades encounter a firmware check Earlier this month, this prompted Mike Thompson, the original creator of Raspbian, to tweet: "When I created Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi, I was excited to help bring low-cost compute into the hands of a next generation of tinkerers and programmers. "However, I now despair that a Raspberry Pi can cost upwards of $300 because AI shortages are making personal computing unaffordable. Furthermore, bright young people are being discouraged from learning programming because they are being told it is now a commodity skill that AI will do. "I have to ask myself what it was all for. Is this the future we were promised? If so, I'm starting to regret my part in it." He has a point. Prices like these provide a strong incentive to repair a dead Pi or upgrade a low-spec model using RAM harvested from another device. You need to be both skilled and determined to even try – it means desoldering the Pi's ball-grid-array system-on-a-chip and the RAM underneath, and then resoldering it. This is not trivial stuff. As Pi OS 6.3 appeared, attention returned to a forum comment posted in June by Raspberry Pi Senior Principal Software Engineer Phil Elwell. He confirmed that newer firmware locks devices to their original RAM capacity. "We therefore remove the commercial incentive by locking devices to their original RAM size," he wrote. "And for improved compatibility with a variety of suppliers, we now also program in some other device attributes, meaning that switching parts of the same size may not work. I don't see RAM being swapped between authorised devices of different sizes as a likely use case, but don't waste your time trying – it won't work." Several stories have covered the issue this week, but our favorite comes from hardware-hacking website Hackaday, whose Arya Voronova points out that anyone capable of replacing the RAM should also be capable of downgrading to an older bootloader that does not enforce the check. Some unscrupulous resellers appear to be buying low-memory Pi boards, upgrading them, and selling them as higher-capacity models. Voronova found 15 GitHub reports from people apparently affected – she highlights one case where a board with 8 GB of working, usable RAM describes itself as a 2 GB board, and another case where the vendor denied it. The check was added two years ago. Voronova observes that the release notes for that bootloader omit the change entirely. You might think a new check capable of preventing modified hardware from booting was worth mentioning. We can't fault her summary: "Don't lament Raspberry Pi RAM upgrades, especially given they're only slightly harder to perform now. Very few hackers ever performed them, the main audience for them turned out to be dodgy hardware resellers online, and in most cases, repair doesn't seem to be impeded at all, either." ®

Academic publishing giant Elsevier confirmed a compromise this week after students found its platform redirecting users to a cybercriminal crew's leak page. One Reddit user, a self-described nursing student, highlighted the issue on September 22, posting a screenshot of LAPSUS$’s leak site after trying to access “homework and textbooks.” “Every time I try to open the Elsevier website, I am met with this,” they wrote. “Anyone know anything or have any explanation? Totally creepy.” Amsterdam-based Elsevier told The Register it was briefly compromised following an attack Monday, but played down the wider impact. “On September 21, Elsevier identified that visitors to select platforms were being redirected to a third-party page,” a spokesperson said. “Our cybersecurity team responded immediately, resolving the issue and restoring normal service. “Our investigation indicates that this was a narrowly scoped, limited-duration event involving the temporary redirection of traffic for certain web properties. There is no indication that core platforms, customer data, research content, or operational systems were compromised.” Elsevier did not respond to additional questions related to the specific platforms that were affected or for how long LAPSUS$’ redirect was in place. The company is best known for its ScienceDirect platform, which hosts scientific, technical, and medical journal articles. It is also behind ClinicalKey, an AI-powered platform designed to provide medical professionals fast answers to care queries, and LeapSpace – an AI-assisted workspace for academic researchers. LAPSUS$, meanwhile, is better known for its criminal enterprises, namely big-name cyberattacks on the likes of Rockstar Games, which led to the earliest high-profile Grand Theft Auto VI leaks, and more recently, attacks on Adidas and GitHub. The online assault on Rockstar Games was part of a wider spree of crimes carried out when the group was in its pomp between 2020 and 2022. Other victims included BT, Microsoft, Okta, Samsung, and Vodafone, which in turn stoked a concentrated law enforcement operation to disrupt the teenage criminals behind it. After a protracted break, the LAPSUS$ name returned in 2025, partnering with Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters in another string of cyberattacks affecting household names, before splitting up and activity dropping to a modest six attacks per month, according to SOCRadar. ®

As President Donald Trump puts pressure on reluctant Republican Congress members to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, known as the SAVE Act, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pushing back with a bill of her own to protect young voters. The Youth Voting Rights Act hit Capitol Hill Wednesday morning, Daily Kos can exclusively reveal, challenging provisions the president is trying to…

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The modern enterprise is a digital enterprise. From the back office to the factory floor, connected systems and digital services form the operational backbone on which all else depends. So when disruption hits, it can have a huge financial, reputational, productivity, and even compliance impact. This has raised observability to a board-level issue. "For a public company, a material cyber incident is a disclosure obligation. You're on a four-business-day clock from the moment you determine its material," explains NETSCOUT director of enterprise strategy, Jack Callahan. "So when you have a disruption, whether that's a cyber-attack, a DDoS attack, or someone pushing a bad update to the network, the first executive problem is the same: figuring out whether it’s material." With each technical team pointing fingers at each other, observability becomes the single source of truth that organizations need to identify root cause, accelerate resolution, and improve reliability. Yet in many enterprises, it’s not having the desired impact. The long-established data foundation of metrics, events, logs, and traces (MELT) can’t by itself keep pace with the complexity and scale of today’s digital infrastructure. Organizations have defaulted to gathering more data, increasing sampling, and extending retention. But they’re not getting better insight. “Executives who would expect to have a lot of data in front of them with which to make a decision don't always find that that data is as conclusive as they'd want it to be,” Callahan continues. “And therefore, they’re trusting their gut more than they’d expect, given how much they’re spending.” The costs of this observability debt are building. One study by NETSCOUT reveals that 81 percent of organizations believe insufficient data increases incident resolution time. Over two-fifths (42 percent) estimate downtime at $500,000 to$999,000 per hour. These costs are unsustainable, both economically and otherwise. To harness the power of autonomous AI in operations, organizations need a data foundation they can trust implicitly. This demands a fresh approach; economically viable and grounded in observability data that’s consistent, comprehensive, enriched, and real time. And delivered in a way that complements rather than replaces existing observability investments — extending the value of the platforms already embedded in the enterprise stack. Where visibility fails MELT data is still essential to observability. But it wasn’t designed for today’s complex, distributed and dynamic operations. Metrics explain that something has changed over time. Events surface when something changed. Logs tell teams that something happened at a specific time. But they don’t provide the context that explains what actually happened on a network and why. Traces come closest, as distributed tracing is built to follow a request across services. But a trace only shows what has been instrumented, which leaves it blind at un-instrumented components, third-party dependencies, and the infrastructure in between. And those are exactly where things tend to break down, meaning the context of what actually happened and why isn’t captured. Context essentially means being able to reconstruct a single, complete and ordered chain of events across different systems — including what kick-started an event, how it propagated, and what happened at each step. This is where MELT-only observability techniques often fail. Timestamps can be inconsistent across different systems. Identifiers might not be preserved across architectural boundaries. Sampling and aggregation remove vital detail needed for reconstruction. And data may be stored across different tools with incompatible schemas. Research reveals that 96 percent of organizations use metrics and logs, yet 82 percent report visibility gaps, and nearly all (96 percent) lack sufficient data to determine root cause during incidents. They tend to lose visibility where systems meet, such as between on-premises and cloud (58 percent), the edge (51 percent), or in service-to-service interactions (39 percent). AI sharpens the challenge These issues become more serious in an AI context. Organizations are already embracing AI-driven operations to improve efficiency, decision making and customer experiences. But when systems start operating autonomously, making decisions and taking action at machine speed, they need forensic-grade data with high-fidelity context to produce reliable outcomes. That means continuous, unsampled records that preserve system interactions across environments. Higher levels of autonomy demand higher levels of confidence in network data. But telemetry can lose fidelity through sampling and abstraction — common techniques used in MELT to manage high data volumes. The resulting incomplete and fragmented data can lead to false correlation, ambiguity over root cause, inconsistent outputs, and overconfidence in partial signals. “An agent is not going to apply human intelligence to troubleshoot an issue. It's going to make a decision based on the data it has,” says Callahan. “So if you are feeding it partial, or periodic, or sampled data, you're at risk of scaling that uncertainty really quickly.” It’s a challenge that many organizations are just waking up to. According to NETSCOUT, only 41 percent describe AI-assisted insights as “very or extremely consistent.” A similar share (38 percent) admits to lacking forensic-grade data to validate automated actions. Some 29 percent say they don’t have real-time visibility across environments, and 28 percent don’t fully trust automation output. Closing the observability gap A better approach would be to build observability around MELT data enriched to provide the context that IT teams need, but without the bloat that adds unsustainable extra cost. This starts with packet data: the authoritative record of what actually traversed the network. It provides visibility into the transactions, dependencies and interactions (human and machine-based) across the IT ecosystem. Using deep packet inspection (DPI) techniques, this visibility can be distilled into metadata that, added to MELT, produces what NETSCOUT calls “MELT+”. “Digital services become observable through the exchanges among their components. NETSCOUT Smart Data transforms those observed interactions into transaction-level evidence: whether communication succeeded, how the transaction performed, where delay or failure appeared, which services were affected and, when identity context is available, which users experienced the impact. That gives operations teams and AI systems a more complete and trustworthy basis for understanding what actually happened,” explains NETSCOUT field marketing manager , Steve Horneman. “Most telemetry describes the state of individual components. NETSCOUT observes the interactions among those components and creates meaning from them as the activity occurs. By extracting context early, from independently observed traffic rather than relying only on what individual systems report, we give operations platforms and AI a more consistent account of how a digital service actually behaved. That is the difference between collecting more telemetry and creating evidence that can support a confident decision.” One case illustrates the advantage of this approach. A product manufacturer found that wireless connectivity issues were causing automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to fail in its global facilities, costing the company $500,000 per hour in lost productivity. Outages were occurring roughly every three weeks. Existing robotics telemetry failed to find the root cause. But once NETSCOUT was pulled in, the source of the issue was pinpointed, and a proactive monitoring model adopted which detects AGV failures within seconds. Troubleshooting fell from hours to minutes, saving the company tens of millions of dollars annually. The benefits of MELT+ expand beyond outages and operational incidents to cybersecurity, Horneman continues. “The strategic value extends beyond observability. The same independently observed interaction evidence can support operational assurance at the enterprise perimeter, expose service-to-service behavior and potential lateral movement internally, and give operations, security, and AI systems a common evidentiary foundation. Instead of each team interpreting a different version of events, they can reason from the same observed reality,” he says. NETSCOUT calculates that organizations treating network traffic data as authoritative are nearly three times more likely to report that visibility gaps occur infrequently (50 percent vs.18 percent). It is this level of insight into what’s happening on the network that makes the same packet-derived intelligence valuable to forensic analysis teams. “Once an attacker has privilege on a host, the telemetry that host generates about itself is within reach,,” says Callahan. “Sophisticated attackers hide lateral movement exactly that way. What they can't do is go back and change the packets that already crossed the network. That's a higher level of veracity, and a more complete view.” When metadata is Smart Data NETSCOUT’s approach uses DPI to observe live, unsampled packets directly from the network and then convert it into high-fidelity metadata using Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI). It’s designed to tackle the main challenges of traditional MELT: scale, efficiency, cost, and data richness. NETSCOUT observes traffic from strategic points in the network rather than monitoring each application or server, reducing telemetry volume, ingestion cost, and complexity. It analyzes and distills packet data into Smart Data, metadata generated at the point of capture, which reduces the volume that needs to be moved, stored or retained downstream. What customers get is an approach that is complementary to MELT but which is economically more sustainable, produces more complete, network-derived data, and which feeds into existing observability platforms to further reduce TCO. It also delivers what analyst firm Futurum describes as the critical foundation for autonomous AI operations. Data that captures verifiable network behavior and observed interactions rather than abstractions. Data that ensures comprehensive visibility regardless of whether individual applications have been instrumented, and a complete view without sampling gaps. And which is consistent across observability, security, and operations teams, while demonstrating sequence and causality across service boundaries. “MELT alone is not going to be a sufficient data foundation to run AIOps on,” says Callahan. “We're able to generate data with more of the context you need earlier in the process, and therefore richer data flows into your platforms.” Just getting started Despite the obvious benefits of MELT+ approaches, NETSCOUT data reveals that only 11 percent of organizations treat full-fidelity network data as authoritative. For CIOs keen to change that statistic, the first step is to evaluate their current observability data by five key criteria, as shared by NETSCOUT COO, Sanjay Munshi. It should be comprehensive; covering any cloud, service, app, network or vendor. It should be curated; with purpose-built feeds optimized for storage and cost. It must be credible in offering a verifiable chain of interactions showing how services, apps and users behave in context. It must be consistent across use cases. And it must provide continuous real-time insight into data in motion. “If you’ve been optimizing to reduce your MELT cost, what you’ve been doing is also reducing the context that your application teams and agents have. But you no longer have to sacrifice one in order to gain the other,” Callahan concludes. “If you’re worried about telemetry costs. If you're worried about having the data you need to make decisions in the moment or for compliance reporting. If you're trying to figure out how to move your AI pilots into production: we can strengthen what you are already doing in the platforms you use every day.” Sponsored by NETSCOUT

A former U.S. Postal Service mail carrier was indicted for throwing away hundreds of ballots in Utah, claiming that he did so because he felt lazy.

According to court documents, the mail carrier, Damon Matai Seei, said his June 3 mail load was too heavy, and in an effort to “lighten his workload,” he threw some of the mail into a dumpster in a church parking lot. The mail he threw away included advertisements and about 300 ballots he was supposed to deliver to voters in Eagle Mountain, Utah, for a June 23 primary election.

Thanks to Seei, those voters never got their ballots, and some of them were not able to vote in the election. Now Seei is being charged in the U.S. District Court in Utah for secretion, destruction, and delay of mail.

Court documents say Seei admitted to throwing out mail because he was “overwhelmed” by how much he had to deliver that day. He claimed in a written statement that the load felt “heavier” than usual that day, and that he chose to get “rid of advertisement mail” to focus on other deliveries, not realizing that he was throwing away ballots.

Seei denied a political motive, claiming that he didn’t have a political agenda, isn’t a “very political person, and did not intend to disrupt the “political process.” Instead, he said he made a “poor decision” based on “frustration” and “laziness.” But law enforcement officers, according to court records, said that Seei put aside the ballots at the beginning of his shift and didn’t deliver a single one, throwing them in a dumpster within about 90 minutes of beginning his route. He only worked six hours that day, leaving early at 3:15 p.m.

“The evidence does not suggest that Seei made any effort at all to deliver the approximately 300 mail-in ballots. Nor does it seem plausible that he could not have noticed them—even if he mixed them in with advertisements at some point,” the documents state.

We don’t know for sure if Seei actually was feeling lazy or had an ulterior motive, but President Trump did have his supporters pledge to “cheat like hell” at the Republican midterm convention earlier this month. Scores of ballots around the country have been thrown out for lateness, and a spacing issue nearly led to a Florida county’s ballots being blocked by the USPS. With an election less than two months away, more mail-in ballot chaos could be coming.

Quick Take

• Daredevil: Born Again is ending with its upcoming third season, but we highly doubt that’s the last we’ll see of Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock.
• As one of Stan Lee’s creations from Marvel’s foundational era, we don’t believe Marvel Studios plans on shelving Daredevil for very long.
• Whether it’s a fifth Spider-Man movie, a Marvel Special Presentation, or a final Disney+ limited series, we are confident Daredevil will protect NYC once again.

For the second time in live-action television, a Daredevil series has been canceled. The upcoming third season of Daredevil: Born Again, which continues the adventures of Charlie Cox as attorney/vigilante Matt Murdock, will be its last. No matter how good season two was, we honestly can’t really get too sad about it, because between his original Netflix series and Born Again, Daredevil has logged more hours of streaming content than any other Marvel hero. However, even with that in mind, we highly doubt this is the last we’ve seen of the character in the MCU.

It’s Unlikely Marvel Will Retire Charlie Cox as Daredevil for Good Just Yet Marvel Television

We’re convinced Daredevil will be back for a few reasons. For starters, whatever the viewership numbers may be, Daredevil remains an iconic character. He’s “A-tier” Marvel. Stan Lee co-created him back in the ’60s, along with Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men. That makes him one of Marvel’s foundational heroes. So Marvel won’t place him on a shelf forever. All this means is that his current series, Born Again, is ending. But there are several options for how Daredevil can return in a post-Secret Wars MCU. And here’s how we think he might pop up again.

Daredevil Could Appear in Spider-Man 5 Marvel Television/Sony

The most obvious answer for where we see Matt Murdock again in the MCU is in a fifth Spider-Man movie. No Marvel Comics hero has been as frequent an ally to Peter Parker as Daredevil has. They are both acrobatic street-level heroes who defend New York City. And most importantly, they share a major villain—Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin. But because of rights issues, Fisk has never appeared in a Spider-Man movie. But in recent months, Marvel’s Kevin Feige has suggested those rights issues are really not that complex anymore.

With Born Again ending, that leaves the character of Daredevil free and clear to use in Spider-Man 5. Fans have been waiting years to see Tom Holland’s Spidey come face-to-face with Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin. A grittier adventure, one with the Punisher as a featured character, proved to be massive at the box office for Brand New Day. So why not let Daredevil finally share the screen in a significant way with his old pal Spider-Man? For many fans, it’s been a long time coming.

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A lot of fans believed the inclusion of frequent Daredevil foes the Hand in Brand New Day meant we’d see Matt Murdock. Well, that obviously didn’t happen. But with Born Again ending, now is the perfect time. Besides, thanks to his cameo in No Way Home, we know Peter knows Matt already. Oh, and if it does happen, can we finally have Matt wear a truly comics-accurate costume for once? Look how much everyone loves seeing Spider-Man wear a “straight from the comics” Spidey suit in Brand New Day. It would be the same for Daredevil.

A One-Off Marvel Special Presentation for Daredevil Similar to Punisher: One Last Kill May Be Another Option Marvel Television

After a two-season run, Jon Bernthal got to return in his own Marvel Special Presentation recently with Punisher: One Last Kill. We could easily see a return for Charlie Cox as Daredevil in something very similar. Marvel could produce this in tandem with an appearance in a Spider-Man film. After all, Punisher: One Last Kill was released a mere few months before Brand New Day, possibly in order to remind audiences about him before his big-screen debut. We could see the same for Daredevil. But even if there’s no Matt Murdock in Spider-Man 5, we could see Daredevil return in his own Special Presentation.

One Final Daredevil Limited Series on Disney+ to Wrap Up Charlie Cox’s Time as the Character Barry Wetcher/Netflix

We think after three seasons of Daredevil, then three seasons of Born Again, we highly doubt we’re getting another three seasons again. We imagine Charlie Cox doesn’t want to be tied down to the character forever. But if they do a limited series designed to only last one season, we could see that happening. We could see Daredevil: Man Without Fear as one final long-form story for the character. Although, we think if such a thing were to happen, it would be several years away. But after six seasons on streaming, we could see one short season to close things out for the character. At least the Daredevil played by Cox.

In any event, we still have one full season of Daredevil: Born Again to look forward to on Disney+. And it’ll reunite the entire Netflix Defenders cast together with Matt Murdock. Maybe this is the end of the road for those characters, or maybe Marvel is cooking something up for all of them. We’ll all just have to wait and see.

Eric Diaz is a staff writer at Nerdist and a Swiss Army knife of fandoms. Eric loves DC, Marvel, horror movies, and even Star Wars and Star Trek equally.

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Did you know that the U.S. government has an agency called the “Office of Remigration”? In case you’re unfamiliar with the term “remigration,” it’s typically used by white nationalists to describe the mass expulsion of nonwhite immigrants, done in the quest to ethnically cleanse “Western” countries. It’s mostly a European term, but Trump himself employed the phrase “reverse migration” last year, mainstreaming “remigration” on the American right—and true to its name, the office now helps facilitate mass removals in some very dark and sordid ways.

So let’s lay down a marker: If Democrats take over the House and/or the Senate, they should make it their business next year to ensure that this agency faces truly withering scrutiny. As many Americans as possible should know what their government is doing in their name.

The Office of Remigration, after all, has mostly managed to remain a very low-profile, poorly understood affair. It’s housed inside the State Department, where its roughly 15 employees toil in anonymity inside a vast bureaucracy, unnoticed by just about all Americans.

But a blockbuster Washington Post investigation just flushed the Office of Remigration’s activities out into the light. Relying on a series of leaked documents, the Post reports that at Stephen Miller’s direction, the agency is effectively paying out huge sums of taxpayer money to some really nasty governments in exchange for their acceptance of third-country deportees who, for various reasons, cannot be returned to their countries of origin.

It’s really sleazy, ghoulish stuff. The administration has authorized or pledged over $400 million for such agreements with more than 30 countries, mostly in Africa and Latin America. As the Post reports, the deals place many migrants in countries to which they have no previous connections, and are structured to skirt “human rights safeguards” that typically are built into U.S. foreign assistance payments abroad.

Here’s the result, per the Post:

The contracts require minimal oversight over how the money is spent and how the migrants are treated, even though some of the third countries are ruled by authoritarian regimes.

Incredibly, some of these deals are made with governments that the State Department itself has called out for serious human rights abuses, and predictably enough, some migrants are already reporting that they’re experiencing terror themselves. Though a federal court just ruled for now that Trump’s third-country deportations unlawfully violate migrants’ due process rights, this will likely make its way to the Supreme Court, where anything can happen.

The truly vile kicker here? Also at Miller’s direction, this agency is turning the original purpose of the State Department’s refugee architecture on its head. The Office of Remigration is a part of the department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, which has historically been devoted to resettling people fleeing horrors abroad in the United States.

But now, civil servants who previously carried out that mission are leaking to the Post their dismay at being ordered to do the opposite. They’re now working to get other countries to agree to accept deportees who have no ties whatsoever to their new destinations, even as we pay these countries foreign assistance money to do so. As Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International, tells me: “It’s a perversion of the whole purpose of refugee assistance.”

All of which gives Democrats a big opening, should they win congressional power next year. According to sources on the House Appropriations Committee, Democrats are exploring ways to shed light on these activities and even constrain them entirely.

A Democratic House, for instance, could vote to simply bar all funding for the current Office of Remigration. While this might face serious legal obstacles—and Trump would veto such a measure if it somehow got through the Senate—it’s worth trying, to force Trump and Miller to publicly defend these vile activities.

“Removing individuals to countries where they have no ties is unconscionable,” Representative Lois Frankel, a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, told me. “Congress must use its power of the purse to end the practice of using foreign assistance to incentivize countries to take third-country nationals … under the banner of ‘remigration.’”

Another possibility might be to pass a bill that prohibits the use of government funds for deportations to third countries without the express consent of the deportee. This could be modeled on a recent amendment from Frankel that codified this constraint. Again, this might run into legal obstacles, but it’s worth a shot, if only to alert the public to what’s going on and who stands where.

Still another possibility: Require the State Department to fully disclose to Congress all information about these third-country deals, including precise details about the sums paid and the conditions surrounding the deportations being done in return. Right now this is mostly shrouded in darkness.

Finally, sources say, Democrats are discussing the need to haul in the officials running this program and question them vigorously about these arrangements. “Congress should demand answers from those responsible for diverting taxpayer funding intended to protect people from persecution to some of the world’s worst authoritarians, for purposes which clearly violate human rights,” Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council tells me.

It’s crucial to grasp that for ethnonationalists like Miller, the Office of Remigration isn’t just carrying out immigration policy. It’s doing something much more grandiose. As international relations scholar Leonard Schuette tells The New York Times’ John Guida, many on the New Right are acting out what they see as a “civilizational grand strategy,” which requires defending the “ethnoreligious” foundations of the West by fortifying the “Western hemisphere” against “alien cultures.”

So “remigrations” are understood as part of a civilizational rescue mission of sorts: Masses of human civilizational contaminants are rounded up, expelled from the West, and dumped outside our charmed hemisphere, into that geographic mass that Trump calls “shithole countries,” which is of course where they belong. If this is terrifying, so much the better. It’s all rooted in a series of delusions, not least delusions of world-historical grandeur.

The use of the term “remigration” to name a U.S. government agency broadcasts that this naked, undisguised ethno-nationalism is now the foundation for U.S. government policy. Indeed, this is very likely its deliberate purpose. Tellingly, the Post also reports that some senior State Department officials strongly objected to naming the agency this, due to the term’s white supremacist roots, with one official pointing out, correctly, that it denotes “ethnic cleansing.” They kept objecting, but the answer kept coming back from on high: The name will not change.

The conscious signaling here is the point:

Remigrate.

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) October 14, 2025

Want more confirmation of this? Note that virtually the only refugees that we do admit right now are white South Africans, on the made-up rationale that they’re suffering white genocide. Do you suppose Trump and Miller care deeply about those people’s plight? Of course not. The real purpose of this is to advertise that it’s now U.S. doctrine that the only humanitarian victims who merit our concern are the imagined victims of anti-white persecution.

The Office of Remigration announces all this to the world, right in its name, brashly and explicitly. It’s a travesty, and if they win power, Democrats should do all they can to expose and expunge it.

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