GitHub expands Security Tools after 39 Million Secrets leaked in 2024.
GitHub announced updates to its Advanced Security platform after it detected over 39 million leaked secrets in repositories during 2024 [including API keys and credentials], exposing users and organizations to serious security risks.
https://github.blog/security/application-security/next-evolution-github-advanced-security/
![The GitHub Advanced Security changes are summarized as follows:
• Standalone Secret Protection and Code Security – Now available as separate products, these tools no longer require a full GitHub Advanced Security license, making them more affordable for smaller teams.
• Free organization-wide secret risk assessment – A point-in-time scan that checks all repositories [public, private, internal & archived] for exposed secrets, free for all GitHub organizations.
• Push protection with delegated bypass controls – Enhanced push protection scans for secrets before code is pushed and allows organizations to define who can bypass the protection, adding policy-level control.
• Copilot-powered secret detection – GitHub now uses AI via Copilot to detect unstructured secrets like passwords, improving accuracy & lowering false positives.
• Improved detection via cloud provider partnerships – GitHub works with providers like AWS, Google Cloud & OpenAI to build more accurate secret detectors and respond faster to leaks.](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/381/642/432/437/863/original/4496e3fb7f323773.jpeg)
#save : to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life
- French: sauve
- German: speichern, sparen, retten
- Portuguese: salvar
- Spanish: salvar, guardar
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The proposed
Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or #SAVE #Act,
now considered a priority for Republicans in the House,
will make it harder, if not practically impossible, for millions of women to vote.
The SAVE Act would require documentation, such as a passport or birth certificate matching your current legal name to allow a person to register to vote.
These requirements would pose a challenge to broad swaths of the country, but would fall especially hard on women.
Eight in 10 married women in opposite-sex marriages took their spouse’s last name,
and the bill could exclude over 69 millionmarried American women whose names do not match their birth certificate.
One Brennan Center for Justice study found that one third of American women do not have access to any documents with their current legal name.
About half of Americans do not have a passport, a costly process that adds a financial burden for those who have had any name change throughout their lives.
The SAVE Act pretends to create guardrails against noncitizen voter fraud -- a vanishingly small problem that the nonpartisan Brennan Center found in only 0.0001 percent of jurisdictions surveyed after the 2016 election.
Even The Heritage Foundation, which promotes the phantom crisis of noncitizen voting and Donald Trump’s lie that Democrats were purposely letting migrants into the country so they could vote,
can’t fudge the numbers to back up its claims.
The Heritage Foundation has tracked election fraud cases for decades,
finding only 85 cases of alleged noncitizen voting between 2002–2023.
The SAVE Act is also unnecessary as it is already quite illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections.
So the law, which won’t help solve an already nearly nonexistent problem, makes very little sense
—unless, of course, disenfranchising millions of women is the point.
https://newrepublic.com/article/191420/christian-nationalism-save-act-voter-suppression
readeck/readeck: Readeck is a simple web application that lets you save the precious readable content of web pages you like and want to keep forever. - Codeberg.org https://codeberg.org/readeck/readeck #read-it-later #OpenSource #codeberg #archive #article #golang #read #save
How often do you backup your files?
"It’s called the #SAVE Act. It would require all citizens to produce a document like a passport or birth certificate each time they register to #vote — even when they re-register if they move...
Most #Americans simply don’t have a passport. (How do they summer in France without it?) Millions more have a birth certificate but don’t know where it is or have easy access to it. (In a box in my mother’s closet? I know I saw it somewhere.)"
https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/restricting-the-freedom-to-vote
@paulboeck If you don't mind, let me shorten your awesome post to emphasise the main point?
The wave of 200+ executive orders by Trump has a large variety of different issues that matter to people of varying importance to divide people. Pick 2-3 that matter to you most and demonstrate your displeasure publicly and constantly. This is a deliberate strategy to:
1. Divide you
2. Conquer you
The path to authoritarianism, don't let them take power away from you. It's real. #save #usa
The war has ended, and it is time to remove the rubble and rebuild the home that unites the family. We kindly ask for your support and for staying with us through this journey. Thank you!
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My fellow #conservatives, we have to #splittheticket to #save the #US #Constitution
I am an #Army #veteran sworn to uphold the #Constitution and a #conservative who reveres the #institutions of our #democratic #republic. Trump tried to overthrow our 250-year-old system of #government on Jan. 6, 2021. I am also a #Christian an #EagleScout and a #husband. #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump is everything I stand against.
https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article294546054.html
US supreme court will not reinstate Biden’s student loan repayment plan
The US supreme court decided on Wednesday that it will not reinstate the Biden administration’s multibillion-dollar student loan repayment plan, #Save, which aims to lower monthly payments for millions of borrowers.
The plan was blocked by a federal appeals court earlier this summer as a result of a legal challenge led by several Republican states.
In an unsigned order with no noted dissents, the court said that it “expects that the court of appeals will render its decision with appropriate dispatch”.
#Biden introduced the program, Saving on a Valuable #Education, last fall as millions of Americans resumed #StudentLoan payments following a hiatus of >3 yrs because of the pandemic. The plan, commonly known as #SAVE, offered lower monthly payments & a faster path to #LoanCancellation. It was announced months after #SCOTUS justices divided along ideological lines…invalidate[d] a separate, $400B Biden admin program to forgive #StudentLoanDebt.
#SCOTUS refuses to allow Biden’s #StudentLoan plan
The #Biden admin plan, known as #SAVE, offers lower monthly #student #loan payments & a faster path to #LoanCancellation for millions of borrowers.
SCOTUS refused to clear the way for the Biden’s new student loan repayment plan, adding to uncertainty about the future of a program that would affect millions.
#Education #StudentLoanDebt #debts #Republican #law #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #AffordableEducation #racket
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/28/supreme-court-blocks-biden-student-loan-repayment-save-plan/
A data hoarder’s dream come true: bundle any web page into a single HTML file. 
monolith: CLI tool for saving complete web pages.
Written in Rust!
GitHub: https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
Solltet ihr den Sommer nicht am, im oder auf dem Wasser verbringen, sondern beispielsweise auf Omas Dachboden stöbern, dann haltet mal nach alten Filmdosen Ausschau. Wenn ihr fündig werdet, dann bitte sofort PN an uns! Denn SAVE sichert alte Film- und Tondokumente mit sächsischem Bezug und macht sie für die Öffentlichkeit zugänglich.
Mehr Infos über SAVE:
https://www.slubdd.de/save
#SLUB #SLUBdresden #filmverbandsachsen #SAVE #FVS #audiovisual #heritage #summertime
A key piece of president Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan can move forward, a federal appellate court has ruled.
The move allows millions of borrowers to see their loan payments cut in half,
but stops short of outright erasing debts for now.
After the US supreme court last year struck down the president’s original, ambitious initiative to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loans
for each individual borrower earning less than $125,000 annually, or $250,000 for married couples filing taxes jointly,
the Biden administration implemented a new loan forgiveness scheme:
Saving on a Valuable Education ( #Save ).
Like other income-based student loan payment options of the past,
Save calculates a borrower’s monthly payment amount based on their income and family size.
But unlike previous plans, Save is based on a smaller portion of a borrower’s adjusted gross income (AGI), making the monthly payments even lower.
A turbulent ride through the US court system, however, left this back-up plan in legal limbo
after two federal judges in Kansas and Missouri temporarily blocked parts of it last week.
As a result, many borrowers were expecting their monthly payments to be halved from 1 July,
but the pending litigation against the plan prevented that from happening.
The latest ruling from a three-judge panel on the US court of appeals for the 10th circuit in Denver, Colorado, allows the Biden administration to move forward and fulfill that promise,
slashing lower monthly payments from 10% of borrowers’ discretionary income to 5%.
Borrowers unsure of where they stand should first log into studentaid.gov to see whether they’re enrolled in the SAVE plan.
If they are, the next step would be to ask their loan servicer
— whose contact information should also be available at studentaid.gov
— when their next payment is due and how much they owe.
#SAVE
Student loan borrowers can slash their monthly payments — for now. Here’s what to know
SAVE allows borrowers to make monthly payments based on their income, not on the amount they borrowed.
In exchange, most borrowers have to continue paying considerably longer than they would under a standard plan, in which debts are paid off over 10 years.
Under #SAVE, the typical borrower makes payments for 20 years on undergraduate loans and for 25 years on graduate school loans.
Then, any unpaid balance is forgiven.
As of July 1, monthly payments on undergraduate loans for those enrolled in the SAVE plan were scheduled to be cut in half, dropping from 10% of their discretionary income to 5%.
But in early June, the Education Department informed borrowers whose next payments were due in the first half of July that they would be put into forbearance for one month while their monthly bills were recalculated.
Their next payment would be due in August and, for undergraduate loans, based on 5% of their discretionary income.
Last week a federal judge in Kansas issued a temporary injunction, barring the Education Department from cutting the repayment rate to 5%.
The department responded by telling 3 million additional SAVE participants that they, too, would be put into forbearance until August while their monthly payments were re-recalculated.
Unlike the other borrowers in forbearance, though, these borrowers would have their repayment periods extended by a month, according to Natalia Abrams, president and founder of the Student Debt Crisis Center.
Then on Sunday, a divided three-judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals put the injunction on hold pending the department’s appeal.
It’s impossible to predict how long the relief will last because even if the department wins on appeal, the case could move on to the U.S. Supreme Court for possible reversal.
In a separate ruling in #Missouri, US Dist Judge John A. Ross #enjoined the #Education Dept from forgiving more #loans thru #SAVE. The decision is a win for MO #Republican AG #AndrewBailey, who led 6 states in filing the lawsuit….
Bailey argued the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, a quasi-state agency that services federal #StudentLoans & funds state #scholarships, loses revenue from servicing direct loans — those made & owned by the federal govt — when loans are wiped away.
The coalition of 11 #Republican-led states, headed by #Kansas AG #KrisKobach, alleged in their lawsuit that the president overstepped his authority in creating the repayment program — claims that mirror the case that last year toppled #Biden’s initial effort to forgive up to $20k in federal #StudentLoans. The states say Biden’s new repayment plan is an attempt to sidestep a #SCOTUS ruling that struck down his #DebtForgiveness program.
