This Week in Matrix 2026-06-05

🔗Matrix Live S12E11 - Relay, macOS client

Today's Matrix Live:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LjciGuYBx-M

🔗Dept of Events and Talks 🗣️

🔗Re-opening Conference Merch Pre-Orders

Thib announces

By popular demand: we have reopened the pre-orders for the conference merch, since we managed to push back the production deadline with our partner!

You now have until the end of…

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How to Shut Down an Immigrant Detention Camp

For more than two weeks, around 300 immigrants locked up at Delaney Hall, an immigrant detention camp in Newark, New Jersey, have been on a hunger and labor strike, refusing to eat and refusing to work maintaining the prison for its operators, the GEO Group. They are not alone: Outside the camp’s chain-link fence, in an industrial area, their family members, loved ones, and a broader community of…

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FAQ: What you need to know about expiring Windows Secure Boot certificates

Microsoft is preparing to make a significant change to the Secure Boot system in Windows that will impact operations for both clients and servers.

In a nutshell: The Secure Boot certificates that Microsoft issued 15 years ago are being replaced by newer ones, with the older certificates set to expire beginning in June. To continue to receive the most up-to-date security protections for the…

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FlowerStorm phishing gang adopts virtual-machine obfuscation to evade email defenses

A widely active phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation known as FlowerStorm has begun using a browser-based virtual machine to conceal credential theft code, marking what researchers say is an escalation in phishing-kit sophistication that could make attacks harder for traditional email and static-analysis tools to detect.

Researchers at Sublime Security said in April that they identified the…

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weeklyOSM 824

30/04/2026-06/05/2026

[1] | Cast-iron Street Map of the City Centre in the Ukrainian City of Poltava

Mapping

  • Comments are requested on this proposal:
    • name:<language>-Latn to consistently tag transliterations in Latin script worldwide following BCP 47.
  • The following proposal is up for a vote until Tuesday 12 May:
    • route=safari to map safari routes as dedicated…
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Instagram censorship crackdown sparks alarm among LGBTQ+ creators

Meta is defending itself against claims of overzealous censorship of LGBTQ+ and sexual health-related content on its platforms.

The company faced renewed criticism after Instagram banned the account of sex toy retailer Bellesa Boutique, the latest in a string of controversies involving the moderation of queer and sexual wellness content, _Mashable_ reports. In response, a Meta spokesperson…

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weeklyOSM 823

23/04/2026-29/04/2026

[1] A new national pastime in Australia: the sport of Payphone Tag | © Alex Allchin | map data © by OpenStreetMap Contributors.

Mapping

  • Comments are requested on this proposal:
    • terminal=yes to consistently map goods terminals and better describe connected transport modes and handled cargo.
  • The following proposal is up for a vote:
    • highway=service
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Grindr’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner pre-party is the hottest ticket in Washington

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has long anchored Washington's spring social calendar, drawing journalists, lawmakers, celebrities, and power brokers to the capital for a week of networking, spectacle, and celebration of the press. But this year, one of the most coveted invitations isn't to the dinner itself — it’s to a party the night before.

The invitation arrived in early April…

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Speeding up access to vector tiles

The problem

I’ve been creating and serving web-based maps such as this one for some time. That’s based on raster tiles, and an osm2pgsql database is used to store the data that the tiles are created from, on demand as a request to view a tile is made.

For various reasons I wanted to also create a similar map using vector tiles. With vector tiles what is sent to the client (such as a web…

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Signal No. 35 · Unhealthy Co-Dependence, Inverted · 9 April 2026

Großwald Signal · No. 35

Thursday · 9 April 2026

DIP DPL Rutte at the Reagan Institute: Europe's posture described as recovery from "unhealthy co-dependence"

NATO transcript 9 Apr · Reuters 9 Apr · Reuters 9 Apr · State Department readout 8 Apr · FPRI "The Mine Gap" · USNI Proceedings Apr 2026 "Crisis in Mine Countermeasures" · CBS News (Reed, Senate Armed Services) ·…

Transgender woman defies Kansas bathroom law inside state Capitol

A transgender woman in Kansas has staged an act of civil disobedience inside the state Capitol, using a restroom that state law bars her from accessing based on sex assigned at birth.

Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter.

Trans Liberty Executive Director Samantha Boucher entered a second-floor restroom in the Kansas State…

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Canada Is Redefining Who Can Seek Asylum

Forty-one years after the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed the right of every refugee in the country to fundamental justice, Canada’s federal government is denying certain classes of refugees the right to an oral hearing.


An officer speaks to migrants as they arrive at the Roxham Road border crossing in Roxham, Quebec, Canada, on March 3, 2023. (Sebastien St-Jean / AFP via Getty…

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Summary of changes for March 2026

Hey everyone!

This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.

  • Wiki , documented the replacement of Pino's backstay, and created a project page for No Bears, None.
  • Hakum , completed page 10 of Sabotage Study.
  • Rabbit Waves , added a comic page.
  • Grimgrains , updated lactofermentation section about jars.
  • Oquonie ,…
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Summary of changes for March 2026

Hey everyone!

This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.

  • Wiki , documented the replacement of Pino's backstay, and created a project page for No Bears, None.
  • Hakum , completed page 10 of Sabotage Study.
  • Rabbit Waves , added a comic page.
  • Grimgrains , updated lactofermentation section about jars.
  • Oquonie ,…
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Summary of changes for March 2026

Hey everyone!

This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.

  • Wiki , documented the replacement of Pino's backstay, and created a project page for No Bears, None.
  • Hakum , completed page 10 of Sabotage Study.
  • Rabbit Waves , added a comic page.
  • Grimgrains , updated lactofermentation section about jars.
  • Oquonie ,…
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Summary of changes for March 2026

Hey everyone!

This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.

  • Wiki , documented the replacement of Pino's backstay, and created a project page for No Bears, None.
  • Hakum , completed page 10 of Sabotage Study.
  • Rabbit Waves , added a comic page.
  • Grimgrains , updated lactofermentation section about jars.
  • Oquonie ,…
Read more →
Summary of changes for March 2026

Hey everyone!

This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.

  • Wiki , documented the replacement of Pino's backstay, and created a project page for No Bears, None.
  • Hakum , completed page 10 of Sabotage Study.
  • Rabbit Waves , added a comic page.
  • Grimgrains , updated lactofermentation section about jars.
  • Oquonie ,…
Read more →
Summary of changes for March 2026

Hey everyone!

This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.

  • Wiki , documented the replacement of Pino's backstay, and created a project page for No Bears, None.
  • Hakum , completed page 10 of Sabotage Study.
  • Rabbit Waves , added a comic page.
  • Grimgrains , updated lactofermentation section about jars.
  • Oquonie ,…
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Tennessee library board meets to weigh firing librarian who refused LGBTQ+ book purge

A Tennessee library board will meet Monday to consider firing a library director who refused to remove more than 100 LGBTQ+ books from circulation and who says she was asked to track the personal information of readers who checked them out.

Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ**+ news and politics.** Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter.

The Rutherford County Library Board is…

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Chicago City Council Just Stabbed Tipped Workers in the Back

After a blitz by restaurant industry lobbyists, Chicago’s city council voted last week to maintain the subminimum wage for service workers, keeping them stuck in precarity and poverty wages.


The subminimum wage for service workers creates a two-tiered labor system that intensifies the exploitation of precarious workers — and the Chicago city council voted last week to block an attempt…

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ICE Is Trying to Avoid Oversight by Buying Private Prisons

The Trump administration is considering purchasing a number of private immigrant detention centers across the US. Doing so may allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to bypass state laws geared at curbing abuses in the facilities.


By buying facilities currently owned by private prison companies, ICE could help shield those detention centers from state oversight and some lawsuits…

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Venezuelan Man Sues U.S. Over “Total Hell” He Endured in CECOT Prison

Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, a 28-year-old Venezuelan man deported by the Trump administration to CECOT prison in El Salvador, is trying to make sure what happened to him will never happen again.

CBS News confirmed Leon Rengel had filed a first-of-its-kind federal lawsuit on Tuesday against the U.S., seeking $1.3 million in damages for false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional…

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Maintaining a human web: human.json &amp; the ‘AI’ blacklist

My ~~dislike~~ strong opposition to engaging with “AI” generated things, be that texts, images, code or anything else is well-documented. But avoiding the mindless slop is still getting harder, as it seems that more and more developers, writers – and of course SEO-scum trying to make quick buck – can’t avoid the siren song of ‘removing friction’, all negative consequences be damned.1 Technical…

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This Pink Bug Is Not A “Rare Freak Mutant” After All

On March 27, 2025, somewhere in the Panamanian rainforest, the evolutionary biologist Zeke Rowe was looking for a snack. While walking outside the research station's cafeteria, Rowe noticed a strange insect summoned by a floodlight. The insect was a katydid, a close relative of crickets famous for their mimicry of leaves. Katydids have veined bodies that are often bright green like a new leaf or…

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How should we handle Proton's misleading marketing?

Proton_Team:

There are some mitigations against this in place - users are warned before switching servers that their VPN connection may be briefly interrupted

Where are they warned about this? @jonah made a video demonstrating the issue and I don’t see this warning anywhere. I have also been unable to find any documentation stating that the user’s IP would not be protected during server…

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Somali Immigrants Fled Climate Change. Now They’re Facing ICE.

In Somali culture, there is a famous adage: “ _Calaf waa labo cagood._ ” __ It translates to “Happiness is two feet,” and denotes deep-rooted traditions of movement and migration. Somalis have been caught in civil war and unrest for decades, and many have migrated to Kenya, Ethiopia, Europe, and the United States.

For months, Trump has denigrated Somalis, and Somalia. In December, he went on a…

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Strikes on Iran will test US cyber strategy abroad, and defenses at home

Smoke rises over Tehran after airstrikes on Iran on February 28, 2026. FATEMEH BAHRAMI/ANADOLU VIA GETTY IMAGES

The federal government’s cyber defense agency is short-staffed, and Tehran is known for its retaliatory cyberattacks.

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BY DAVID DIMOLFETTA](https://www.defenseone.com/voices/david-dimolfetta/25968/?oref=d1-post-author)
CYBERSECURITY REPORTER, NEXTGOV/FCW
FEBRUARY 28, 2026 06:14 PM…

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