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cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/comicstrips/p/954117/weird-wake

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People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, a witness and a senior police officer said, as fear and anger grow over a health crisis that doctors are struggling to contain.

The arson attack in Rwampara reflects the challenges of health workers trying to curb a rare Ebola virus by using stringent measures that might clash with local customs, such as burial rites. The disease has been spreading for weeks in a region lacking in health facilities and where armed conflict has displaced many people.

The dangerous work of burying suspected victims is being managed wherever possible by authorities because the bodies of those who die from Ebola can be highly contagious and lead to further spread when people prepare bodies for burial and gather for funerals.

That policy can be extremely unpopular with victims’ families and friends, who aren’t given the chance to bury their loved ones.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/46795143

Videos from a 30 October 2025 operation were disclosed in court as part of an ongoing class-action lawsuit challenging Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) arrest tactics and racial profiling by agents. Lawyers for one of the detained farm workers shared the footage with the Guardian.

The officers did not have warrants to detain the workers, and a federal judge later said the arrests appeared to be unlawful and unjustified.

The footage shows an agent using his phone to capture the face of one of the detained workers, and agents later admitted in court that they used a facial recognition app during the operation. The case provides a window into ICE’s expanding use of this surveillance technology across the US, which has raised significant privacy and civil liberties concerns, particularly since the app can yield inaccurate results.

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US judge Mustafa Kasubhai ruled against ICE in February in the class-action suit led by MJMA. He said officers had engaged in “misconduct” in Oregon and issued a preliminary decision broadly restricting agents in the state from arresting people without warrants.

Kasubhai noted that officers had made inaccurate statements in their reports about the Woodburn encounter, including falsely saying MJMA had entered the US unlawfully when she had arrived with a valid temporary visa. He said the claims of possible “smuggling” were “unfounded”, and noted that ICE’s reports inaccurately called the stop “consensual”.

The judge was also critical of the officers’ use of the facial recognition technology, saying it relied on data that “can be inaccurate and produce individuals who are here in accordance with immigration laws”.

The judge further said that in the Woodburn stop, officers “did not provide any meaningfully reasonable time for the driver to comply with his commands before shattering the driver side window”.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1140535/flipper-one-we-need-your-help

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With Flipper One, we're reimagining what a Linux cyberdeck can be — it's a huge project. We're opening up the development process and asking the community for help.

I don't know if this is because I live in the EU., but I did check that none of my services were linked

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/46795076

Reem Yassin, the watch group’s attorney, described the raids as “fishing expeditions” that used “baseless” search warrants. "These raids are nothing more than an intimidation tactic to suppress free speech,” he said at a Thursday press conference.

Yassin added that the incidents were part of a year-long pattern in which federal agents have targeted more than 50 people associated with the group with arrests, raids, car ramming, pepper-spraying, and following them home. VC Defensa, based in Ventura County, is one of many neighborhood groups across the U.S. known to record and monitor Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Immigration agents have been documented targeting observers with violence while they film immigration activities, most notably killing legal observers Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota this winter.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1140547/samsung-chip-workers-offered-a-340000-average-bonus-as-union-pushes-toward-1m-and-an-18

Leaked transcripts show memory-line staff offered up to 607% bonuses worth $477,000, while logic-chip employees get as little as 50%. The 45,000-person walkout, if it lands, would be the largest in semiconductor-industry history.

Workers are often even more vulnerable than consumers, the researchers say.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260521160405/https://www.theverge.com/policy/935299/bossware-employer-surveillance

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The Software Freedom Conservancy is looking into the situation.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/46795749

“There are many people suffering here. This is the only way we have to raise our voice, this is a call to stop the suffering and respect our dignity as human beings,” read a statement written by the strikers that was read during an press conference held online Wednesday morning. It was put on by a coalition of advocacy groups.

The immigrants at the Adelanto ICE detention complex have not eaten since Tuesday, organizers said. They are demanding “due process, bond reform, improved conditions, adequate medical and mental health care, nutritious food, accountability for deaths, and the right to organize and communicate” according to their statement.

The 20 men on strike are all being held in the facility’s Desert View Annex processing center, which is one of the three facilities in the Adelanto detention complex, where immigrants who are detained await deportation or release. There are also reports of a hunger strike at the Adelanto Processing Facility West that began last Friday, according to the Community Defense Coalition, a grassroots immigration advocacy group who is in touch with people being held there through their families.

The Adelanto ICE facility is California’s largest immigration detention facility and currently holds over 2,000 people, according to the California Department of Justice. It is owned by GEO Group, a private corporation contracted to operate immigration detention facilities, prisons and mental health facilities around the country.

Earlier this month, a former GEO Group executive was named the acting director of ICE, replacing Todd Lyons who will soon retire.

Four people have died in the Adelanto facility between September 2025 and March 2026, according to a report from the California Department of Justice.

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Oil markets will enter the “red zone” by July and August as stocks dwindle before the summer travel season amid a shortage of fresh oil exports from the Middle East, the executive director of the International Energy Agency warned on Thursday.

Fatih Birol added that the most important solution to the Iran war energy shock was a full and unconditional reopening of the strait of Hormuz.

Speaking to the London thinktank Chatham House, Birol said it was open to IEA members to release more strategic oil reserves as they had previously in March, and said the IEA stood ready to coordinate. As much as 80% of IEA’s collective reserves have not been released.