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The data and puzzling history behind California's new red food dye ban
Bay Area restaurants institute penalty for brunch vomiters

dealing with patrons who lose their brunch is a reality for Bay Area restaurants offering the popular perk of bottomless mimosas. Particularly since the pandemic, they’re finding that diners, often ones in their early to mid-20s, are drinking too much and vomiting in the bathrooms — or even right on their tables.
53% of U.S. dog owners hesitant about the rabies vaccine
- HN comments

Curl 8.4.0
- How I made a heap overflow in curl | daniel.haxx.se
Reading the code now it is impossible not to see the bug. Yes, it truly aches having to accept the fact that I did this mistake without noticing and that the flaw then remained undiscovered in code for 1315 days. I apologize. I am but a human.

In hindsight, shipping a heap overflow in code installed in over twenty billion instances is not an experience I would recommend.
- HN comments
Starlink Direct to Cell | Hacker News
CSS relative color syntax
Vulkan Documentation | Hacker News
Jumperless: Breadboard Without Jumper | Hacker News
AVX10/128 is a silly idea and should be removed from the specification | Hacker News
CD-indexing cue files are the core of a serious Linux remote code exploit | Ars Technica

If a user was compelled to download a cue sheet that took advantage of libcue's vulnerability, GNOME's indexing tracker would read the cue sheet, and code in that sheet could be executed.
Microsoft to kill off VBScript in Windows to block malware delivery
mjg59 | Defending abuse does not defend free software

Cameras, cops and paranoia: How Amazons surveillance alters neighborhoods
A Detective Sabotaged His Own Cases Because He Didn't Like the Prosecutor
Family of Josh Kruger's alleged killer says the 19-year-old and the journalist shared sex and drugs

The family of Robert Davis, 19, who is accused of killing local journalist Josh Kruger, said that Davis was just 15 when he and Kruger began a years-long relationship involving drugs — and that Davis told them Kruger was threatening to post sexually explicit videos of him online before, police say, Davis shot Kruger.
NYPD orders all officers to duty after Hamas call for global protests

Was Biden’s Speech as Pro-Israel as You Think? - Tablet Magazine

Biden’s glaring omission of Iran, the chief sponsor, funder, and weapons supplier of Hamas, and the intended beneficiary of its monstrous suicide attack, was an affirmation that his administration’s policies remain unchanged after a weekend of unprecedented horror in Israel. Namely, Biden still fully intends to continue providing cover for the Iranian regime, to whom he released $16 billion of held funds before the attack—in addition to the tens of billions more that the administration has gifted Iran by not enforcing sanctions on its oil sales.
Are we heading for World War Three?