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US gas prices risk topping $5 per gallon if Strait of Hormuz stays closed: JPMorgan (Ines Ferré/Yahoo Finance)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-gas-prices-risk-topping-5-per-gallon-if-strait-of-hormuz-stays-closed-jpmorgan-200128577.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p60#a260407p60

In January, behind closed doors at the Pentagon, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre
— Pope Leo XIV’s then-ambassador to the United States
— and delivered a lecture.
“America,” Colby and his colleagues told the cardinal, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”
As tempers rose, one U.S. official reached for a fourteenth-century weapon and invoked the A…

The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy
The Free Press has documented a closed-door Pentagon meeting in which a senior Trump official lectured Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador on American military supremacy.

Court docs: California's DOJ warned Nexstar executives that the state's attorneys were scrutinizing Nexstar's Tegna bid more than a week before the deal closed (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/04/california-doj-warned-nexstar…

California DOJ warned Nexstar of probe into TEGNA merger before deal closed
Nexstar proceeded with its deal after federal approvals, prompting lawsuits from states and DIRECTV over antitrust concerns.

Datadog closed up 31% after reporting Q1 revenue up 32% YoY to $1B and raising its FY revenue forecast, an outlier in the software industry amid the AI boom (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/07/da

Datadog's stock jumps 31% on crushing earnings beat, showing there's still hope for software - SiliconANGLE
Datadog's stock jumps 31% on crushing earnings beat, showing there's still hope for software - SiliconANGLE

Not sure I agree w/this whole article, but interesting perspective. “…any systemically important market can be shut down not by force but by…withdrawal of…institutional trust layer that enables…function…mechanism is substrate-agnostic…operated in…repo market in 2008…is operating in…Strait of Hormuz in 2026…will operate again, in…different domain…next time verification costs invert transaction economics in…concentrated market structure w/o adequate government backstop.”

The Invisible Siege: How Insurance Markets, Not Missiles, Closed the Strait of Hormuz
And Why the Disruption Will Last Four to Sixteen Months Longer Than Any Model on Wall Street Currently Prices

What Anthropic Glasswing reveals about the future of vulnerability discovery
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4155342/what-anthropic-glasswing-reveals-about-the-future-of-vulnerability-discovery.html

What Anthropic Glasswing reveals about the future of vulnerability discovery
A closed consortium including tech giants and top security vendors gets early access to a model Anthropic says can autonomously discover software vulnerabilities at scale. The implications for cybersecurity’s future could be significant.

Before the illegal US-Israeli war against Iran:
- Negotiations on nuclear development ongoing
- Strait of Hormuz open
- Oil price at $60
After:
- Negotiations to start on resolving the recent mess
- Lots of destruction in Iran and Gulf states
- Strait of Hormuz practically closed
- Oil price at $96
- Most of Europe known for its 'understanding' for breaking international law
- Economic problems around the world, inflation on the rise…

This from Ingold (being alive 2011, pg. 62) reads as more optimistic than it used to. LLMs are closed rather than open, and can we really say its users aren't losing skill as "the ‘living appendages’ of lifeless mechanism"?

Zia Yusuf is what they used to call an Uncle Tom.
Reform UK would stop visas for people from countries seeking slavery reparations | Reform UK | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/07/reform-uk-stop-visas…

𝐇hindsight

"Heat pump sales rise 17% across Europe in Q1 as energy prices surge"
#Europe #HeatPumps #Energy

Heat pump sales rise 17% across Europe in Q1 as energy prices surge
Residential heat pump sales increased 17% across 11 European countries in the first quarter of 2026, following a sharp rise in gas and oil prices after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in March, says the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA).

@… Interessanter Artikel. Sehr nachvollziehbar geschrieben. Ein paar Gedanken dazu. Woher weisst du, dass #Microsoft deine Geheimnisse bewahrt? Woher weisst du, dass der Closed Source Code von Microsoft sicher ist? Dein Windows Computer ist nur sicher, wenn deine Chain…

Trump Admin Shutters DHS Watchdog Amid Rampant and Growing Detainee Abuse | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/dhs-ombudsman-closed

@… @… Sorry folks, park's closed. Possum out front shoulda told ya.

Anthropic altered the course of how security vulnerabilities are discovered, with profound implications for the bug hunting industry.
But the implications go beyond bug bounties. In the words of Jeff Williams, founder of OWASP and CTO of Contrast Security, Anthropic's Project Glasswing "threatens the whole idea that security can remain a find-and-fix afterthought. The era of the security backlog is coming to a welcome end.”
Check out my latest CSO piece.
What Anthr…

What Anthropic Glasswing reveals about the future of vulnerability discovery
A closed consortium including tech giants and top security vendors gets early access to a model Anthropic says can autonomously discover software vulnerabilities at scale. The implications for cybersecurity’s future could be significant.

AFC West Power Rankings: The 2026 NFL Draft Closed the Gap—Or Did It? https://raiderramble.com/2026/05/03/afc-west-power-rankings-the-2026-nfl-draft-closed-the-gap-or-did-it/

It's an incredible thing to have something in my head and then in my hands, or seeing myself wear it in a mirror. It was even more surreal to imagine a space and then be standing in that thing from my imagination.
It still feels a bit hard to believe seeing photos from #Neotropolis last week - this place that people have these cool photos from is the place that previously existed onl…

Since coming back from Germany for HARRIS I've been chasing a weird issue on my ThunderScope 100baseT1 test setup.
Before leaving for HARRIS I unplugged the TS, left the rest of the setup untouched, and brought the TS with me to demo to people while traveling.
After coming back the TS appears fine (passed calibration, and gives good-looking eyes on 100baseTX).
But when hooked back to the same, theoretically unmodified baseT1 test setup, I get weird diagonal distortion, …

'Touri-Hotspot' #FotoVorschlag
Here you can see two hot spots: The mountain from where the photo is taken is a very well known destination for quick hikes as it's well reachable from munich.
And also the lake down there: the far left-shore is also a very well known destination for recreation, bathing etc. In Summer, sometimes the road along the shore is closed as th…

It seems just insanely active. Seattle was pretty low key, partially because the FBI field office in Seattle was super active. They were out there infiltrating, intimidating, and surveiling people all the time. Organizing was hard. There were 3 anarchist spaces when I moved there, and one of them closed maybe a year later.
Here there are often multiple anarchist spaces in one neighborhood...

Birds can migrate thousands of miles without getting lost, but panic in a closed room.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@sherold/116481485878550299
If laptop stickers say something about the owner's attitude, then I have absolutely no idea what this is supposed to say about me. I guess it doesn't matter.

The MAGA-led committee insisted on a closed-door testimony, despite #HillaryClinton asking to testify publicly.
#LaurenBoebert, jackass that she is, then hypocritically took photos of Hillary during the closed-door deposition & leaked them to a

This is beautiful: https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-narrowed-any/86369

[Pitch] Narrowed Any
Pitch: Narrowed Any — closed-class-of-conformers existentials with A | B Hello everyone 👋 — it's a real pleasure to bring this to the community. The "type-only unions" line of pitches has bounced off this forum many times, almost always on the same set of pre-judgements (TypeScript-style erasure, structural-union member synthesis, unsoundness with nominal typing). The shape proposed below is deliberately not any of those — I've spent the last several months designing and prototypi…

Scientific grades for Day 3 selections: Cowboys closed out strong? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/29/scientific-grades-for-day-3-selections-cowboys-closed-out-stron…

A U.S. judge will meet behind closed doors with government lawyers on Friday
seeking to hammer out a process to refund up to $175 billion in illegally collected tariffs,
a meeting a court official described as a "settlement conference."
Judge Richard Eaton of the U.S. Court of International Trade will ‌meet with lawyers representing the customs agency
responsible for reimbursing more than 300,000 importers that paid the tariffs, which were struck down last m…

Notre palladium Š Québec ressemblait pas Š ça

Saint Schrödinger, the forgotten discipline

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Sean Wolcott:
🎵 Drop Forging in Closed Dies
#SeanWolcott
https://seanwolcott.bandcamp.com/track/drop-forging-in-closed-dies
https://open.spotify.com/track/63mOrF29oIJjICtnoqL6yu

"‘A world chained to fossil fuels’: Does the war on Iran prove it’s time to quit oil for good?"
#FossilFuels #Energy

‘Chained to fossil fuels’: Iran war ignites calls for green transition
After Iran warned that the Strait of Hormuz was closed for navigation, climate groups have urged governments to focus on clean energy.

I went to the appflowy web site and read “Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI” and I have never closed a browser tab so fast in my life.

"Using Open Source Tools to Capture Closed Captions and Timecode": guest post by Morgan Morel of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center at the Library of Congress @ the LoC's blog "The Signal"
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/03/…

Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary, closed-source AI model launched within a three-day period, saying it "drastically enhanced" agentic coding (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Teichm\"uller space of a closed set in the Riemann sphere
Xinlong Dong, Arshiya Farhath. G, Sudeb Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05328 https://arxiv…

Closed-Loop Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Control for Efficient Drone Flight
Jingli Li, Yiyan Ma, Bo Ai, Wei Chen, Weijie Yuan, Qingqing Cheng, Tongyang Xu, Guoyu Ma, Mi Yang, Yunlong Lu, Wenwei Yue, Christos Masouros, Zhangdui Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29220 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29220 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.29220
arXiv:2603.29220v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN) require drones to follow specific trajectories controlled by ground base stations (GBSs). However, given complex low-altitude channel conditions and limited spectrum and power resources, sensing errors and wireless link unreliability cannot be ignored, leading to trajectory deviations that threaten flight safety. To address this issue, this paper proposes an integrated sensing-communication-control (ISCC) closed-loop trajectory tracking approach, aiming to reveal the coupling mechanisms among communication, sensing, and control during drone flight. In detail, we incorporate sensing errors in trajectory state estimation, packet losses in control command transmission, and finite blocklength transmission effects into the closed-loop dynamics. First, through theoretical analysis, we identify the dominant role of the time-frequency resources allocated to control in ensuring system stability and derive a lower bound on the resources required to guarantee stable operation. Second, to minimize tracking error, we formulate a time-frequency resource allocation optimization problem for the sensing, communication, and control components, subject to constraints on communication rate and closed-loop stability. Accordingly, a solution algorithm based on successive convex approximation is proposed. Third, simulation results indicate that once stability is ensured, system performance is primarily determined by sensing accuracy, with the trajectory tracking error exhibiting an approximately linear dependence on the position error bound. Finally, it is shown that the proposed ISCC scheme avoids trajectory divergence under FBL transmission compared with ISCC designs ignoring control packet loss, and could achieve decimeter-level average tracking accuracy, reducing the error to only 17.37% of that observed in the baseline global navigation satellite system scheme.
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The strait of Hormuz is not fully closed, but probably in practice it is for commercial shipping. No doubt some ships will pass/get through but with the high risks and insurance probably becoming impossible, the transits will be minimal. Together with the strikes on oil producing facilities in Gulf states, oil prices will rise probably.
Iran will strike as broadly as possible in the Gulf region to make defence as hard as possible.

Alcatraz has been practically frozen in time since the day that the storied prison saw its last inmate 62 years ago.
When the federal government closed the facility, officials had deemed it a deteriorated relic that was insufficient for housing inmates.
Alcatraz closed in part because it was far more expensive to run a prison on an island than on the mainland since everything had to be shipped in.
The small number of prisoners made the extra expense even more questionable…

Trump’s Idea to Turn Alcatraz Back Into a Prison Draws Criticism From Tourists
At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning Alcatraz back into a penitentiary.

@… I was reading this article - https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/06/06/between-2008-an…

Between 2008 and 2024, 97 Public Libraries Across Scotland Permanently Closed
The vital contribution public libraries make to our communities has been highlighted in a survey of  2,000 library users and 300 librarians across Scotland. Many libraries are either being closed, …

Next up is the Motorized Lighthouse.
Bags 1 & 2
#Lego
#inprogress

RIP, Jeeves. 😥
"After 25 years of answering the world's questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026."
#Ask #Askdotcom

Trump seeks $152 million to reopen Alcatraz as active prison | Reuters
Because we have such fiscally responsible people in the White House: "The Bureau of Prisons' website recounts that it was closed because it was too expensive to ⁠continue operating, noting it was nearly three times more costly to operate than any other federal prison."

Trump seeks $152 million to reopen Alcatraz as active prison | Reuters
Because we have such fiscally responsible people in the White House: "The Bureau of Prisons' website recounts that it was closed because it was too expensive to ⁠continue operating, noting it was nearly three times more costly to operate than any other federal prison."

RE: https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/116151842047119096
“Please don’t let me be the worst US president of the 21st century” said George W. Bush as his final finger closed around the monkey’s paw.

Federal Reserve Mounts Closed-Door Fight Against Justice Department Subpoenas (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/federal-reserve-mounts-closed-door-fight-against-justice-department-subpoenas-2ab66630?st=SU2ZMz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p4#a260227p4

Chiefs WR Rashee Rice will not face NFL discipline after league investigation https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-wr-rashee-rice-will-not-face-nfl-discipline-after-league-investigation

#SchrodingersStrait
Strait of Hormuz: Open, closed, open, closed - What's actually happening? - France 24
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260418-strait-of-hormuz-open-closed-open-closed-what-s-actually-happening

Evangelicals backed Trump. Now pastors denounce ICE crackdown hitting their churches. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pastors-denounce-trump-ice-crackdown-evangelical-churches-rcna264166

Evangelicals backed Trump. Now pastors denounce ICE crackdown hitting their churches.
Amid ICE arrests and detentions, attendance has dropped and churches have closed. 'You're deporting the future of American Christianity,' a Latino evangelical leader said.

I'm really a fan of saving energy.
BUT - when I enter a bathroom and the light turns on just about 5s AFTER the door has closed behind me is awkward.

Huh, rather decisive: #YesOrNoToAI

"He insisted that the shipping lane would “just open up naturally” after the war"
That's a possibility. If the bombing on #Iran fully stops, what excuse would Iran have to close the strait? Keeping it closed hurts their own oil revenue and the world will blame them for the closure.
#strategy #war

Tencent closed its TiMi Montréal studio after nearly five years, without ever releasing a game, as Chinese giants scale back funding for Western game studios (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/tencent-timi-montreal-closed

Tencent closes TiMi Montreal game studio
The game industry's contraction is unrelenting.

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
RUSSIA’S #RETAIL COLLAPSE BEGINS: EMPTY SHELVES, CLOSED #STORES Vlog 1364: War in

YouTube TV and Allen Media Group renew their carriage deal, ensuring that The Weather Channel and other AMG networks will stay on YouTube's multichannel service (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Allen Media Group, YouTube TV Renew Carriage Deal (Exclusive)
The company led by Byron Allen also closed a previously announced deal to sell some of its local stations to Gray Television.

Hoher Ifen (2023)
One of the most unique and geologically interesting and layered mountains in the Northern Alps, including the extremely karst Gottesacker (aka God's Acre, aka Cemetery) plateau with deep caves... one of the areas I'm hoping to explore further this year...
#MountainMonday

*UPDATE*
The Pattullo Bridge is permanently closed to vehicles; the sidewalk will remain open for cyclists and pedestrians until the morning of Feb. 17.
At 7 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14, all four lanes will open on the stalΕəwΓasəm (Riverview) Bridge.
Visit:

#humor #StraitOfHormuz #Hormuz

This is basically the lyrics to 99 Luftballons
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/el-paso-airport-closed-after-military-used-new-anti-drone-laser-to-zap-party-balloon/

Google Says Developer Verification Makes Android Safer. Critics Say It Just Makes Android More Closed
https://itsfoss.com/news/android-developer-verification/
“Under the new rules, F-Droid has no workable path forward. Compelling volunteer contributors to register t…

"Libraries of things" [in public libraries]
https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/informit.T2026032600022691532511628?af=R [closed access 🙄]

Holyrood 2026: who's out?
https://ballotbox.scot/sp26-bring-out-your-candidates/

SP26: Bring Out Your Candidates
Nominations have closed for this year’s Holyrood election, with 686 candidates, representing 29 parties plus Independents, vying to take up 129 MSP seats.

UMMC clinics remain closed Monday and Tuesday after cyberattack
https://www.wtva.com/news/ummc-clinics-remain-closed-monday-and-tuesday-after-cyberattack/article_170b9a2e-ba20-43aa-b084-b62f57114650.h…

LLMs are good at deanonymization.
#AI #LLMs

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator. We then design attacks for the closed-world setting. Given two databases of pseudonymous individuals, each containing unstructured text written by or about tha…

Crypto stocks jump after lawmakers struck a compromise on the CLARITY Act to preserve stablecoin rewards under certain conditions; Circle's stock closed up ~20% (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/04/circle-jum

Circle jumps 16% on Clarity Act compromise that preserves stablecoin rewards
Lawmakers over the weekend reached a compromise on the market structure bill known as the CLARITY Act that keeps stablecoin reward programs intact.

As House Democrats walked out of a closed-door briefing on Tuesday evening
over the United States’s military campaign against #Iran,
many expressed exasperation with the Trump administration
and said the president and his team ⚠️had not offered a sufficient justification for the attack on foreign soil.
♦️“I just want to say I am more fearful than ever after this briefing
that we …

Dems React to Classified Briefing on Iran: ‘It Is So Much Worse Than You Thought’
As House Democrats walked out of a briefing over the US military campaign against Iran, many expressed exasperation with the Trump administration.

"King opens world’s longest managed coastal walk – but much of it is still closed off"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

UN warns of 'significant and severe' food crisis if Strait of Hormuz stays closed - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/un-warns-of-significant-and-severe-food-crisis-if-strait-of-hormuz-stays-closed/

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) barred flights on Thursday in an area around Fort Hancock, Texas,
after congressional aides told Reuters a military laser-based anti-drone system was believed to have accidentally shot down a US government drone.
The FAA and Pentagon did not immediately comment but the FAA cited “special security reasons” in its notice about the restrictions on the airspace near the Mexican border posted on its Notam alert system, shorthand for “Notice to…

Well that's... Fun. The baseT1 demo setup is giving weird looking waveforms now. Partially closed eyes and a skewed constellation.
The saved waveform from before works fine, which means it's probably either the scope or the signal source that's acting up and not any of my recent software changes. But what changed? I traveled with the scope but don't think I damaged it, it was securely packed in a pelican case. I double checked all of the probe connections and re torqued…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Melody’s Echo Chamber:
🎵 Eyes Closed
#MelodysEchoChamber
https://melodysechochamber.bandcamp.com/track/eyes-closed
https://open.spotify.com/track/3E3UsYLAB7WkWfKzyxNY8X

EU airline industry warns of fuel shortages within 3 weeks if Strait of Hormuz stays closed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w37ggp011o

EU airline industry fears fuel shortages if Strait of Hormuz stays closed
The trade body for European airports said if the Strait of Hormuz did not open in the next three weeks, there could be shortages.

Education Dept. to hand headquarters building to Department of Energy (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/03/26/education-department-headquarters-closed-energy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260326/p133#a260326p133

RE: https://dice.camp/@realms/116459545804565917
I'd argue that "AI"-based development creates a bigger attack surface on closed source/proprietary software than open source software:
1. It's more likely that internal software development uses LLMs as they're most affordable to companies; leaving them more vulnerable to prompt injection and other types of attacks targeting LLM use.
2. It's more likely that internal commits aren't vetted as much (or even purely vibe-coded) as ones in open source projects.
3. It's more likely that attacks on open source projects are discovered quicker.
Also a reminder that the "Mythos" thing—like all the other doomerist things coming out of "AI" companies—is a marketing stunt to get Anthropic free press coverage.

Tazapay, which builds cross-border payment infrastructure for fintech and web3 firms, says it closed a Series B extension, bringing its total Series B to $36M (Zoltan Vardai/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/cross-border-paymen…

Circle Leads Tazapay Extension as Total Series B Reaches $36M
Tazapay closed its Series B funding round extension led by Circle and Coinbase Ventures, raising $36 million.

"Organisational accounts engaged in scholarly communication on Twitter: Patterns of presence, activity and engagement"
https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515261421164
[closed access 🙄]

" Israel says will last 'until further notice'"
Panic buying and stockpiling in Gaza as border crossings closed after US-Israeli strikes on Iran | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/panic-buying-gaza-iran-war-border-crossing-b2930217.html

In response to the news that Republicans agreed to pass the bill to fund DHS,
Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, said:
“House Republicans caved.”
“For days, Republican divisions derailed a bipartisan agreement, making American families pay the price for their dysfunction.
Throughout this fight, Senate Democrats never wavered,”
Schumer wrote in a statement on social media.
“We were clear from the start:
fund critical security,
protect …

OpenAI closed a record-breaking $122B funding round led by SoftBank, a16z, and others at a post-money valuation of $852B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/openai-funding-round-ipo.html

OpenAI closes record-breaking $122 billion funding round as anticipation builds for IPO
The round totaled $122 billion of committed capital, up from the $110 billion figure that was previously announced.

CBP shot down party balloons with anti-drone tech before FAA closed El Paso airspace, sources say (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/cbp-shot-party-balloons-anti-drone-tech-faa-closed-el-paso-airspace-so-rcna258731
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p73#a260212p73

The existence of toblerone implies the existence of related triangular hydrochocolate chains such as the base alkane (toblerane), as well as the closed ring form (cyclotoblerone)

Metacurity is the daily intelligence report that thousands of infosec professionals rely on to cope with news overload.
Check out today's issue, which covers critical developments you should know, including
--Cisco, Five Eyes alliance urge immediate patching for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN zero day,
--OpenAI refused to assist in online smear and other misdeeds,
--Shinyhunters pressures Odido with first leak of stolen data,
--Only a small fraction of new vulnerabil…

Cisco, Five Eyes alliance urge immediate patching for Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN zero day
OpenAI refused to assist in online smear and other misdeeds, Shinyhunters pressures Odido with first leak of stolen data, Only a small fraction of new vulnerabilities are exploited, Mississippi Medical Center closed through Friday, Anthropic denies it won't support military cyber action, much more

The de minimus exemption not coming back under Trump...
Trump Doubles Down on Closing Tax Loophole on Cheap Imports - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/business/trump-deminimis-loophole-closed.html

The Trumpocalypse metastasizes:
Lebanon’s #Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for projectiles launched from Lebanon to Israel.
The militant group said it launched missiles and drones towards Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, news agencies are reporting.
Israel’s military said it had begun striking Hezbollah across Lebanon.
The…

Sri Lanka and Myanmar are rationing fuel.
The Philippines has instituted four-day workweeks to conserve gasoline and electricity.
Bangladesh briefly closed its universities to reserve power for homes and businesses.
Across India, families and restaurants are cooking over wood fires for want of gas.
Airlines are canceling flights.
As painful as the first phase of the energy crisis set off by the war with Iran has been,
what comes next will be worse.
…

Opinion | Remember the Oil Shocks of the ’70s? This Is Going to Be Worse. Much Worse.
Higher oil prices and limited supply will accelerate a turn toward cleaner technologies, especially in Asia and Europe.

Sources: Anthropic met behind closed doors with House Homeland Security and discussed issues like export controls, only briefly touching on its DOD fight (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/19/anthropic-house-homeland-security-ai

Scoop: Anthropic meets with House Homeland Security behind closed doors
Anthropic is speaking with lawmakers on national security and AI as it sues the government over its "supply chain risk" designation.

🔸Homeland Security: House and Senate Republicans agreed on Wednesday to advance a bipartisan plan to fund the Homeland Security Department, which has been closed for more than six weeks.
Under the plan, which the House rejected last week, a regular spending bill would fund the bulk of the department and Republicans would seek to fund Trump’s immigration crackdown through a separate process aimed at skirting a Democratic filibuster.
The plan does not include any of the restricti…

Trump Live Updates: House and Senate Republicans Reach Deal to End DHS Shutdown

Open models will largely lose if they keep chasing closed frontier AI models; instead, open models should serve as complementary tools to closed agents (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/the-next-phase-of-open-models

What comes next with open models
Markets, capabilities, cope, and bewilderment in the industrialization of language models.

New York’s LaGuardia airport closed
after plane collision with fire truck kills two pilots
About 40 people were taken to hospital after Air Canada Express crash, some with serious injuries
Pilot and co-pilot killed after Air Canada jet collision at LaGuardia New York
New York governor says LaGuardia to stay closed until 2pm after 'heartbreaking' crash

Toronto-based quantum computing company Xanadu's stock closed up 15% in its trading debut on Nasdaq; it also began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/xanadu-begins-trading-on-the-tsx-and-nasdaq/

Xanadu begins trading on the TSX and Nasdaq | BetaKit
The debut makes the quantum company the first new Canadian tech firm to list on the TSX since 2021.

The widening military conflict in the Persian Gulf quickly began to disrupt shipping in one of the world’s biggest oil-and-gas producing regions -- threatening to send energy prices soaring.
Oil markets were closed on Saturday when the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran that spurred retaliatory strikes across the Middle East.
But shipping companies quickly began trying to steer clear of the region and the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway on Iran’s southern border …

Trump Says Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, Is Dead: Live Updates
The president’s announcement came after a day of U.S. and Israeli military strikes, and after he pledged to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program and overthrow its government.

Sources: DHS clears seven CISA staffers of wrongdoing; the staffers arranged a polygraph for CISA's former acting director Madhu Gottumukkala that he failed (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/28/cisa-polygraph-investi…

Just days after a nationwide public comment period closed on a draft federal offshore drilling plan
—one that drew more than 270,000 responses
—the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management opened a new 30-day window.
This time, the agency is inviting oil and gas companies to nominate specific blocks of ocean off Central and Southern California for potential leasing

A $16B financing for a giant Oracle data center in Michigan has closed, with BofA selling $14B in bonds; Oracle plans to use the campus to power apps for OpenAI (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-25/oracle…

The Department of Homeland Security was caught lying Thursday about ⚠️ abandoning a blind refugee who was later found dead on the street.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed that the Tim Hortons in Buffalo
where federal agents left Nurul Amin Shah Alam,
a 56-year-old Burmese refugee who was blind and spoke no English,
was “determined to be a warm, safe location near his last known address.”
Video footage reviewed by The Washington Post, however, showed t…

DHS Caught Lying About Blind Refugee Agents Left to Die in Buffalo
Shah Alam was blind and spoke no English. He was found dead five days after Border Patrol agents left him outside a closed coffee shop at night.

Iran, Not Trump, Decides When This War Is Over
The U.S. and Israel started the war,
but with the Strait of Hormuz closed and gas prices skyrocketing,
Iran is in control now
https://newrepublic.com/article/207887/iran-control-war-not-trump

Iran, Not Trump, Decides When This War Is Over
The U.S. and Israel started the war, but with the Strait of Hormuz closed and gas prices skyrocketing, Iran is in control now.

Nvidia stock jumps 4.3% to close at a record for the first time since Oct., pushing Nvidia's market cap past $5T, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/nvidia-stock-closes-at-…

Nvidia stock closes at record, pushing market cap past $5 trillion
Nvidia's stock closed at its first record since October, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher.

DeepSeek V4 Pro has 1.6T total parameters, its largest model by the metric, and V4 Flash has 284B parameters; both models have a context window of 1M tokens (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

Developing | DeepSeek releases next-gen AI model with ‘world-leading’ cost efficiency
The company claims its much-anticipated V4 model is competitive with top closed-source models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind.

Trump ended the "de minimis exemption" for products from China last May and for items from the rest of the world in July.
Although it did not address de minimis directly, the Supreme Court’s decision appeared to invalidate one of the legal grounds for Trump’s decision to end the exemption, potentially opening the door for such inexpensive tax-free shipments to resume.
But in an executive order hours later, Trump said the flow of such goods remained a national emergency,…

Trump Doubles Down on Closing Tax Loophole on Cheap Imports
The exemption was shut down last year by President Trump based, in part, on the same legal grounds as the tariffs that were invalidated by the Supreme Court.