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Las Vegas Raiders say Baltimore Ravens have backed out of trade agreement for edge rusher Maxx Crosby https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/las-vegas-raiders-say-baltimore-ravens-have-backed-out-of-trade-…

Ukraine secures agreements for 250 new Gripen and Rafale fighter jets to bolster air power: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/09/ukraine-secures-agreements-for-new.html

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The Verification Theater: When Formal Methods Create False Assurance in Cryptographic Libraries
Formal verification of cryptographic implementations is frequently presented as providing "the highest level of assurance" against implementation defects. We examine this claim through a case study of Cryspen's libcrux and hpke-rs, two cryptographic libraries that are marketed as formally verified and high-assurance. We examine five vulnerabilities across these libraries. The first, a platform-dependent cryptographic output failure in SHA-3 intrinsics discovered by an independent researcher in…

Ravens back out of Maxx Crosby trade after agreeing to send two first-round picks to Raiders

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ravens-back-out-of-maxx-crosby-trade-raiders/

Discord, the online communication platform beloved of gamers and chat groups around the world, is experiencing a severe backlash over its rollout of age assurance tech.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/security/discord-faces-backlash-over-age-…

Discord faces backlash over age verification
Discord, the online communication platform beloved of gamers and chat groups around the world, is experiencing a severe backlash over its rollout of age assurance ...

The US SEC and CFTC announce an agreement to coordinate operations where their duties overlap, including building a combined crypto oversight framework (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/03/11

SEC, CFTC end years of rivalry with deal that will mean combined crypto oversight
The two agencies sealed their memorandum of understanding to link the parts of their work that overlap, and coordinated crypto oversight is among the top goals.

I’m reading Civilization Before Greece and Rome, by H.W.F. Saggs. The old saw about how if history doesn’t repeat itself, it certainly rhymes, comes out quite clearly. Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians and hosts of other kingdoms and tribes, were pulling all the same gags 3 and 4 and 5 thousand years ago that Putin and Trump and the rest are doing now, especially the bits about how god’s on their side. Plus ça change, plus c’est le même chose. It’d be funny, if it wasn’t depressing…

Source: Lions to sign ex-Panthers center Mays https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48154578/source-lions-center-cade-mays-reach-agreement

Russia is not following the agreements: what next? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/10/russia-is-not-following-the.html

"Security guarantees agreement with America is, we believe, ready for signing," – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/ampquotsecurity-guaran…