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In the final days of the US Senate campaign in Michigan, Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed is leading in polls, winning praise for taking Donald Trump and his Republican opponent to task with incisive humor, and providing a clear closing message in evocative ads.

But his former Democratic primary opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), said Friday that while she reiterated this week her decision to support El-Sayed in next Tuesday’s election—a plan not shared by her fiancé, who publicly announced he would vote for Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers—she was demanding concessions from the Democratic candidate, in a statement that sought to tie him to a recent online ad by an outside group.

So you can tell which witch is which!

A federal immigration agent who drove into and seriously injured a Texas man on 10 October after a botched traffic stop was indicted Friday on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Mario Alberto Morales, 33, an agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), deliberately veered his SUV into Miguel Parra Hernandez, 48, causing multiple leg fractures and a hip injury, journalists at a news conference in Houstonwere told.

In announcing the charge against Morales, Harris county district attorney Sean Teare questioned the training that Morales, a recent appointment by ICE, had received – and denounced the activities and conduct of the agency in support of the frequently violent immigration crackdown during Donald Trump’s second presidency.

Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.

The FBI on Friday began reaching out to donors of Dan J. Sullivan asking about potential deception, as federal authorities ramped up their investigation over the U.S. Senate candidate in Alaska who shares a name with the Republican incumbent.

An Anchorage-based FBI agent visited a boat dealership in Petersburg, a small fishing community accessible only by air or water where the candidate lives. The agent left a business card for Charles Flint, who told The Associated Press he has known Dan J. Sullivan for years as a respected teacher and musician.

The FBI visit came after federal officials confirmed the existence of a criminal probe over the candidate. The U.S. Department of Justice also pushed Friday for a court order to isolate certain Alaska ballots to investigate potential voter confusion.

This research machine is why the US has had new industries spring up to partly replace old ones, instead of being a pure backwater.

Archived copy of the article — missing the decorative animated intro.

Finnish police opened a criminal investigation Thursday into Google’s work on a planned data center in northern Finland after the company cleared hundreds of acres of forest without completing required environmental reviews. The investigation adds to mounting scrutiny of Google’s $1.5 billion investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure in Finland, where the company’s expansion plans have...

Sam Altman Absolutely Hates the Idea of People Running Their Own AI Models at Home, Argues They Shouldn’t Own Computers

Goddamn. Imagine being so creatively bankrupt that you can't even write a simple birthday message for a child without Robot Daddy's help. I'm so glad the AI bubble is coming crashing down, it couldn't have come sooner.

Footprint numbers on other comparison pages had no reproducible method, so I read the releases and docs for all three on September 26, 2026 (Beszel v0.20.0, Netdata v2.11.1, Glances v4.5.7).

Only Netdata publishes one. Beszel's README says it's less resource-intensive than leading solutions and stops there. Glances says nothing. Netdata's resource-utilization page says 100-200 MB of RAM on an empty system and 250-350 MB in typical production, while its README says about 150 MiB and 5% CPU on production systems. Two pages, two answers.

History with nothing added differs a lot. Beszel keeps 1-minute points for an hour and averages up to 30 days. Netdata keeps per-second data up to 14 days, per-minute up to 3 months and per-hour up to 2 years, about 4 GiB of disk. Glances holds 1,200 values per stat in memory, about an hour.

Gotchas. Beszel v0.19.0 made agents verify the hub's HTTPS certificate, so a self-signed hub now needs CA_CERT_FILE. Issue #176 reports Beszel agents inside LXC showing the host's RAM. Netdata Cloud dashboards give access to 5 nodes without a paid plan (streaming to a Parent isn't capped), and Homelab was $90 a year when I read it.

I'd run a Beszel agent on every host and Uptime Kuma outside the network, with Netdata only on the box I'm debugging.

Every footprint figure here is the project's own claim, not my measurement. The page has a pidstat recipe for measuring your own: https://techfuelhq.com/homelab/beszel-vs-netdata-vs-glances-2026/

I've been increasingly concerned (to put it mildly) with anything mentioning Canada from the states in the past few months. Between this and articles like Canada is in the U.S. midterm spotlight. Will the results be a blessing or a curse?, I'm not putting it past the yanks to anul their midterms because of "Canadian interference" (which is pure projection)

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This year, however, Henderson is among the US cities reviving public Day of the Dead celebrations after canceling last year. Meanwhile, some places that held events last year canceled because, in at least one case, of fears of ICE ramping up raids in their area.

The decisions over whether to hold a public Day of the Dead celebration reveal that while in some parts of the country, ICE does not incite the same worries as a year ago, the agency’s ongoing deportation efforts still unnerve many Latino immigrants across the US, and that is having a serious impact on community life.