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Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers, and cops have gone viral, with thousands appearing to believe they are real (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

Thousands have swooned over this MAGA dream girl. She’s made with AI.
Jessica Foster’s posts place her beside fighter jets, world leaders and Trump iconography. Experts say her rise shows how AI-generated women can capture attention.

Russia hits American sweets factory with missile in northeastern Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/22/russia-hits-american-sweets-factory.html

Anthropic's Mythos AI model sparks fears of turbocharged hacking:
Cyberdefenses could be exposed faster than fixes could be deployed.
Anthropic’s new Mythos AI model is raising concern among governments and companies that it could outpace current cyber security defenses, turbocharge hacking, and expose weaknesses faster than they can be fixed.
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Anthropic's Mythos AI model sparks fears of turbocharged hacking
Cyberdefenses could be exposed faster than fixes could be deployed.

Popular Sugar Substitutes Linked to Faster Cognitive Decline
https://scitechdaily.com/popular-sugar-substitutes-linked-to-faster-cognitive-decline/

The US-Israel war on Iran is a disaster for the climate, according to an analysis that finds it is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined.
As warplanes, drones and missiles kill thousands of people, level infrastructure and turn the Middle East into a gigantic environmental sacrifice zone, the first analysis of the climate cost has found the conflict led to
5 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in its first 14 days.
“Every missile strike …

from my link log —
Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on arm64 and x86.
https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2022/08/20/faster-zlib-deflate-decompression-on-the-apple-m1-and-x86/
saved 2022-08-20

Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on the Apple M1 (and x86)
DEFLATE is a relatively slow compression algorithm from 1991, which (along with its wrapper format, zlib) is incredibly widely used, for example in the PNG, Zip and Gzip file formats and the HTTP, …

The RPi that runs #yulbbs crashed and wouldn't reconnect early on Thursday (overnight).
This morning I managed to get it running again by playing Apollo 13 and moving devices between USB busses and gently pushing the power supply/consumption until it would init everything safely.
Really bummed that I missed the CF-18s/F-16s escorting the passenger jets on Thursday, though.

Fighter jets escort Montreal-bound flights after ‘security incident’; 2 men arrested
Norad said fighter jets, including CF-18s, escorted two international flights bound for Montreal on Wednesday due to a 'security incident' that prompted a police response at the Trudeau International airport.

Navy bets $900M on automated factories to boost submarine production - Defense One
https://www.defenseone.com/defense-systems/2026/03/navy-bets-900m-automated-factories-boost-submarine-production/412290/

The Hidden Backdoor to 200 Airports: A Supply Chain Failure in Aviation
A single leaked credential from a fourth-party vendor recently exposed the digital infrastructure of 200 global airports. This security failure highlights how a lack of Multi-Factor Authentication can jeopardize critical systems, including baggage reconciliation and passenger kiosks. Discover how SVigil identified this backdoor before it cost the industry billions.
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The Hidden Backdoor to 200 Airports: A Supply Chain Failure in Aviation | CloudSEK
A single leaked credential from a fourth-party vendor recently exposed the digital infrastructure of 200 global airports. This security failure highlights how a lack of Multi-Factor Authentication can jeopardize critical systems, including baggage reconciliation and passenger kiosks. Discover how SVigil identified this backdoor before it cost the industry billions.