CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Sobeys, Loblaw under fire for maple washing, as Sobeys ditches maple leaf symbol in storeshttps://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/sobeys-loblaw-maple-washing-9.7196767

#OpenAI didn't respect Canadian privacy law when it trained #chatgpt https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/privacy-investigation-chatgpt-open-ai-9.7188538

Minister faces calls from MPs to amend lawful access bill to prevent compromising encryptionhttps://archive.ph/NCsWA#selection-2571.0-2584.0

The separatist call is coming from inside the househttps://www.hilltimes.com/2026/05/06/the-separatist-call-is-coming-from-inside-the-house/503008/

Canadian sues U.S. Homeland Security, which allegedly sought his Google data after critical social media postshttps://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-dhs-aclu-lawsuit-canadian-john-doe-9.7187851

Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartnerhttps://www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/gartner_state_of_mainframes/

Microsoft Edge: Passwords end up in memory as plaintexthttps://www.heise.de/en/news/Microsoft-Edge-Passwords-end-up-in-memory-as-plaintext-11281576.html

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays downhttps://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/canonical_confirms_ubuntu_infrastructure_under/

Former spy reveals how China hunts down targets in Canada and abroadhttps://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7180279

Ukraine overtakes US, 6 EU countries in Press Freedom Indexhttps://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-overtakes-united-states-on-press-freedom/

Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Serviceshttps://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/careful-adoption-agentic-ai-services

So last night I made homemade butter...1L of heavy cream + 20 mins of whisking in a mixing bowl = Almost a pound of butter and a cup and bit of buttermilk!

Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheethttps://www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/finance_company_stored_their_db_pwned_column/

Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/mitchell_hashimoto_ghostty_quitting_github/

I love how @ubiquiti ID's my MacMini's running #Ubuntu as "Red Hat"...

PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunchhttps://www.theregister.com/2026/04/27/who_me/

US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kithttps://www.theregister.com/2026/04/24/fcc_does_a_doubletake_adds/

Standing up to bullies: Lithuania’s playbook for surviving economic warfare, and what Canada can learnhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lithuania-canada-economic-warfare-trade-9.7176557

Arrests Made in Project Lighthouse, First-of-its-Kind SMS Blaster Investigation in Canadahttps://www.tps.ca/media-centre/news-releases/65760/

Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during warhttps://www.theregister.com/2026/04/21/iran_claims_us_used_backdoors/