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A school shooting in Grants Pass, Oregon has left three children and a teacher dead, and now a Sacramento mother is calling her son a hero. She says he acted on instinct when he confronted and fatally shot the gunman, potentially preventing further casualties. The incident is drawing renewed attention to how communities respond in the moments before law enforcement arrives.
On the infrastructure side of the tech world, a new open-source project called The Bastion from OVH is gaining quiet attention among systems engineers. It tackles a problem that sounds unglamorous but matters enormously — controlling, logging, and auditing who gets SSH access to what, and when. In an era of increasingly complex cloud environments, that kind of traceability is less a luxury and more a requirement.
And rounding out today's stories, a Chinese state-owned construction equipment giant called XCMG is facing lawsuits in British Columbia alleging it defrauded Canadian equipment dealers. Veteran dealer Ryan Martin says the relationship started promisingly back in two thousand seventeen but deteriorated sharply around two thousand twenty one. The case raises broader questions about supply chain trust and the risks dealers take when partnering with overseas manufacturers.
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