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The federal agency says it will temporarily schedule the drug, which has been called “gas station heroin,” as a controlled substance—a boon for MAHA and the mainstream kratom industry.

Digital Signatures: Format, Certificate, and Validation Policy Are Not the Same Thing The right move when a digital signature fails validation is don't look at the cryptography first . I know that sounds backwards. If the algorithm is RSA-2048 and the certificate chain is intact, why would validation fail? Because a signature can be cryptographically perfect and still get rejected by the validator. The problem isn't the hash or the private key — it's the format, the wrong certificate, or the validation policy the system is applying. My thesis is simple: most errors that look cryptographic in digital signatures are actually upper-layer errors — incompatible format, a certificate that doesn't meet the required profile, or a validation policy that the issuer and receiver never aligned on. And confusing those three layers has a real cost: debugging time wasted in the wrong place. The Real Mess: Three Layers People Keep Mixing Up When a digital signature fails validation, the typical mental sequence is: "Is the algorithm correct? Does the private key match the public one? Did the certificate expire?" Those are reasonable questions, but they're all in the same layer. The problem is there are three distinct layers, and each one can fail independently. Layer 1 — Signature Format The format defines how the signature is packaged together with the signed data. CMS/PKCS#7 is not the same as XAdES, PAdES, or JAdES. Each has variants: BASELINE-B , BASELINE-T , BASELINE-LT , BASELINE-LTA . Choosing CAdES-BASELINE-B when the receiver expects XAdES-BASELINE-LT produces a rejection that has nothing to do with the cryptographic algorithm. The public documentation for DSS (Digital Signature Service) from the European Commission describes these variants in detail. DSS is the reference library for eIDAS-compliant signatures, and its documentation is one of the most complete and verifiable resources publicly available. Layer 2 — Certificate The certificate is the signer's identity, but it

New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech.

Touted as a less-hookup-focused Grindr, Goose is an invite-only space for gay men. The problem is the people promoting it don’t seem real.

Drone shows are the new fireworks—and possibly a new kind of religion. I traveled to Texas to be converted.

As the billionaire class gets richer, the growing online community is offering tips on how to survive with very little.

A scuffle between stan account Club Chalamet and another Heated Rivalry die-hard shines a light on how parasocial fans are a publicist’s greatest asset—and liability.

Porn music videos have circulated on the fringes of the internet for years. Featuring everything from narrative-driven stories to hypnosis, they are proliferating across X as “bate fuel” for gooners.

For young people, the trend removes the stigma of being unmarried and alone, and recasts it as something to aim for, not avoid.

The crypto platform claims you can “pay anyone to do anything,” from quitting a job on camera to getting a memecoin-themed tattoo. But it mostly seems like people trying to scam each other.

Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey—from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and personal growth—Brown wants to help others do the same. Kē offers […]

The commercial was submitted by the Freedom of the Press Foundation to run during Donald Trump’s UFC event. It criticized the $111 billion merger as a threat to the First Amendment.

Both kratom and one of its active components, 7-OH, have opioid-like effects and are widely available across the US. As health secretary RFK Jr. aims to get 7-OH banned, proponents of both are fighting.

In recent months hackers have attempted to extort money from porn stars with big followings, in some cases filling their feeds with pro-MAGA and crypto content.

A Monster Energy–sponsored MMA show on the White House’s South Lawn was never going to be the height of dignity. But UFC Freedom 250 is failing to clear even the lowest bar.

A quick note on the links below. The DigitalOcean and Vultr links in this article are referral links. If you sign up via them, you get a free credit on your new account (currently $200 over 60 days for DigitalOcean and up to $300 for Vultr) and the author of this article gets a small referral credit too, at no extra cost to you. AWS does not run an equivalent referral program, so the AWS links are normal links. The review below is the author's own evaluation; the credits do not change the recommendations. If you have ever spent a workday watching your website refuse to load, you are not alone. In a recent outage , a single building in Northern Virginia hosting one of Amazon's availability zones (the cloud-industry term for one campus's worth of servers in one region ) got too hot. The hardware shut itself down. AWS calls this a thermal event. Customers around the world have other names for it. Big enterprises ride out outages like this. They have multi-region setups, dedicated SRE teams, and SLA credits that will refund a small fraction of their monthly bill. Small and mid-size businesses do not. They lose a day of revenue, scramble to reassure customers, and then read a post-mortem in a few weeks that explains what went wrong in language that does not help them recover the lost revenue. The cloud was supposed to make small businesses look big. After each new outage, it is fair to ask: is AWS actually the right cloud for small businesses at all? Two providers worth a serious look, DigitalOcean and Vultr , are simpler, cheaper at the entry level, and built around use cases that more closely match what a small business actually needs. Here is what each one does, where AWS is still the right answer, and how to decide. Why AWS hits small businesses harder than big ones When a giant company has an AWS outage, three teams kick into gear. There is the engineering team that fails workloads over to a backup region. There is the customer-success team that updates the status p

Even in blue states, nonreligious tech entrepreneurs and CEOs are increasingly asking for “traditional” and “conservative” women, matchmakers tell WIRED.

FIFA announced agreements with platforms such as TikTok and YouTube that include the participation of dozens of international influencers to generate content in the three host countries.

Moms are outsourcing tedious household tasks to ChatGPT and selling courses teaching others to do the same. Where are all the dads?

AI companies are using serif to project humanity. Critics are calling it “tasteslop.”