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# ELECTORAL COLLEGE MATH: WHY 270 MATTERS MORE THAN POPULAR VOTE TOTALS The Electoral College requires 270 of 538 electoral votes to win the presidency—a threshold established by the 12th Amendment (1804) following the contested 1800 election between Jefferson and Burr. Since 1992, five U.S. presidents have won while losing the popular vote, with the two most recent cases (2000, 2016) occurring within 20 years, shifting how campaigns allocate resources and messaging. This structural reality means presidential strategy concentrates on 6-7 swing states containing roughly 80 million voters, while safe states' 150+ million voters receive minimal campaign attention. Understanding this geography explains why Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Arizona dominate election coverage while California and Texas campaigns remain skeletal—the math, not media bias, determines where democracy's actual persuasion happens.
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Cloud development platform Vercel has disclosed a security incident after threat actors claimed to have breached its systems and are attempting to sell stolen data. [...] Source: BleepingComputer
In 2024, compromised service accounts and forgotten API keys were behind 68% of cloud breaches. Not phishing. Not weak passwords. Unmanaged non-human identities that nobody was watching. For every employee in your org, there are 40 to 50 automated credentials: service accounts, API tokens, AI agent connections, and OAuth grants. Source: The Hacker News
The US argues that the waiver is meant to ease the energy supply crunch sparked by the US-Israel war with Iran. Source: BBC News
The threat actor gave itself plenty of options to support command and control, tapping Microsoft Outlook, Slack, Discord, and file.io for online espionage. Source: darkreading
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