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Von der Milchstraße verdeckt: Supercluster Vela deutlich größer als gedacht
Supergalaxienhaufen gehören zu den größten Strukturen im Universum. Nun wurde ein besonders großer vermessen, der hinter der Milchstraße vor uns versteckt ist.

Europol and international partners disrupt ‘SocksEscort’ proxy service
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/europol-and-international-partners-disrupt-socksescort-proxy-service

Europol and international partners disrupt ‘SocksEscort’ proxy service – Joint operation targeted malicious proxy service exploiting residential routers worldwide | Europol
On 11 March 2026, Europol in collaboration with law enforcement agencies from Austria, France, the Netherlands, and the United States, alongside Eurojust, executed Operation Lightning. This coordinated effort targeted the malicious proxy service ‘SocksEscort’, which allegedly compromised over 369 000 routers and Internet of Things devices in 163 countries, and offered ‘SocksEscort’ customers over 35 000 proxies in recent years.

Recall the case of Indiana University Bloomington computer science professor XiaoFeng Wang who was abruptly terminated from the university along with this wife, and had his two homes searched by the FBI. The case is ongoing.
He is a co-author of a recently submitted report dated January 23, 2026 entitled "Trojans in Artificial Intelligence", for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the depa…

Trojans in Artificial Intelligence (TrojAI) Final Report
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) launched the TrojAI program to confront an emerging vulnerability in modern artificial intelligence: the threat of AI Trojans. These AI trojans are malicious, hidden backdoors intentionally embedded within an AI model that can cause a system to fail in unexpected ways, or allow a malicious actor to hijack the AI model at will. This multi-year initiative helped to map out the complex nature of the threat, pioneered foundational detecti…

Seit 3,6 Millionen Jahren beispiellos: Klimawandel verlängert unsere Tage
Die Erdrotation verlangsamt sich schneller als jemals seit dem späten Pliozän. Tage werden deshalb pro 100 Jahren über eine Millisekunde länger – mit Folgen.

Nation-state hackers ramping up use of Gemini for target reconnaissance, malware coding, Google says https://therecord.media/nation-state-hackers-using-gemini-for-malicious-campaigns

If your AI agent doesn't need human-like rights, then it doesn't have human-like intentions. It might be "creative", but it isn't *conscientiously* creative. And that makes it indistinguishable from a malicious genie.
https://felix.dognebula.com/art/malicious-genie.…

Microsoft fixed a vulnerability in Notepad in Windows 11 allowing attackers to execute remote programs by tricking users into clicking malicious Markdown links (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

Astronomie: Mit Abstand ursprünglichster Stern in der Milchstraße entdeckt
Je früher ein Stern im Universum entstanden ist, desto weniger Elemente außer Wasserstoff und Helium enthält er. Nun wurde der bislang ursprünglichste gefunden.

most of Sunday got chewed up by my brain getting stuck on expanding "LLMs are malicious genies" into a blog post, which is irrelevant to my current goals in life, and now I can stop thinking about it
https://felix.dognebula.com/art/malicious-genies.html