Tootfinder

Report: Goalhanger is the UK's fastest-growing business, with £37.9M in 2025 sales, a 321% average annual rate of growth over the past three years, and 80 staff (Lauren Almeida/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun

Pentagon Sees Growing Espionage Threat From Israel (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/us/politics/pentagon-sees-growing-espionage-threat-from-israel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oFA.Jg8d.VjwUr1tgzUuD&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260606/p38#a260606p38

Internet age verification proposals restrict the fundamental rights of young people to speak to each other and to access information.
They also force all internet users,
not just those under a certain age,
to upload private data
—like a face scan or passport
—in order to access a website or service.
In considering the vast scope of privacy issues pertaining to the collection, storage, and sharing of this personal information,
the problems of age veri…

Internet Age-Gates Are a Growing Global Threat
The internet is an essential resource for young people and adults to access information, explore community, and find themselves—both inside countries and across continents. Yet governments around the world continue to introduce and implement legislation requiring all online users to verify their ages before accessing the digital space.

New Hampshire GOP bans student IDs for voting, adds to growing restrictions (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/new-hampshire-gop-bans-student-ids-for-voting-adds-to-growing-restrictions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p87#a260406p87

How advanced chip packaging became one of Intel's fast-growing businesses; sources: Intel is in talks with Google and Amazon for its advanced packaging services (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/why-chip-packaging-could-decide-the…

The Ridiculously Nerdy Intel Bet That Could Rake in Billions
Advanced chip packaging is suddenly at the center of the AI boom. Intel is going all in.

Deaths in ICE Custody Are Growing. ‘They Let Him Rot in There.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/us/ice-detention-deaths-immigrants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YVA.teBh.4RHWhZr2B1dx&…

Deaths in ICE Custody Are Growing. ‘They Let Him Rot in There.’
As immigrant detainee deaths have increased, conditions in detention facilities nationwide are coming under more scrutiny.

Not that we should *ever* want war for oil (or anything else) but perhaps there can be a positive outcome?
“Jacinta Peperkamp is among a growing cohort of people who are relying on their bike due to eye-watering fuel costs. “We haven’t used our car since fuel prices went crazy,” the single mother of two says.”

Cars make way for bikes as Sydney commuters saddle up to circumvent ‘crazy’ fuel costs
The shock of the oil crisis is playing out on Australian streets, where bike shop sales are up and cycle lanes are busier

I had a dream that I invented a wearable fungus clothing line
At first, I wasn't sure it would be practical or comfortable, but it's growing on me

Tianmen Mountain national Park. We heard it's magnificent. But the weather didn't really let us verify the claims.

Chihuly in the Aroid House at the Garfield Park Conservatory, #Chicago. #SilentSunday

I gave the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness crew the significant challenge of trying to make me sound coherent in this interview with Inmn Neruin. I was managing some pretty significant sleep deprivation and a mild cold, but I think it turned out pretty good (despite my best efforts).
But I did talk a lot about my trauma related to some of my experience living in #rural areas, and in doing that I was definitely not as careful as I could have been to talk about that as a trauma experience rather than as reality. Some people get trapped in rural areas, but other folks live there because they find beautiful things.
Not only is #RuralOrganizing critical (Trumpism grew out of areas neglected by "the left"), but rural living can be beautiful and rewarding. I briefly mentioned growing up throwing knives. A friend of mine lived way out in the woods, and there's something special about having a playground that spans several square miles. Intertwined with the old settler colonialism, antisemitism, *phobias, and isolation, that is at the heart of a lot of my personal rural misery, there's also a joyous and feral thing that taught me a lot and, I think, helped me organize more fearlessly. That thing is both individualist and collectivist, in different ways, and I don't think it's well understood without experiencing it. There's far more nuance than I was able to offer (and I definitely could have been more careful not to play into anti-rural stereotypes).
I think I said, "no one wants to live there." People do. You do. So let me try to fix that by giving you a chance to talk about that. I also talked about how slow things move, how nothing changes, but there are also sometimes opportunities to change things in huge ways specifically because structures don't exist to stop those changes. So while I'm bumping this zine and interview, also I want to use this as an opportunity to welcome my rural comrades to help fill in the gaps:
What draws you to where you are?
Do you choose to live in a rural area vs urban, and why?
Is there any other thing I've said that you would like to correct?
What other things should folks know?
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/features/near-death

some mushrooms we found on some rotting tree stump at water-break-its-neck last week.
#fungiFriday

I'm reading an Evelyn Anthony book, The Defector, and I'm gripped. This specific copy used to be on the bookshelf along with many others by her in the room I stayed at in my grandparents's house, and I used to think, aged eight or so, that they looked the most boring books on earth. Now decades later I'm really enjoying them. I think this change in perspective and growing appreciation of things is one the aspects of getting older that I really treasure.

"Trump, I think, is sort of nearing, you know, Bush 43 numbers on approval; he left office at 32%. Two serious polls have [Trump] at 33%. This is the third. The country has sort of logged back in, taken the measure of the second term, and said, thank you, no."
On Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone discusses Trump's growing unpopularity among right-wing radio callers | Media Matters for America
https://www.mediamatters.org/ms-now-msnbc/deadline-white-house-angelo-carusone-discusses-trumps-growing-unpopularity-among-right

Marvell and Flex, a contract manufacturer for electronics, will join the S&P 500; MRVL jumps 6% after hours after closing down 16.74% amid a broader sell-off (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/marvell-technology-flex-sp-500-campbells-po…

Marvell Technology and Flex to join S&P 500 index, replacing Pool and Campbell's
The move highlights the growing importance of the technology sector to the stock market.

New Bills WR DJ Moore admits to 'growing pains' in Buffalo, confident 'it's gonna be perfect later' https://www.nfl.com/news/new-bills-wr-dj-moore-admits-to-growing-pains-in-buffalo-confident-it-s-gonna-be-…

Q&A with BBC's Matt Brittin on the necessity of YouTube, growing the BBC's role in education and skills, streamers helping pay for public broadcasting, and more (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2a83ece5-6174-4f62-9669-0aa89ab355bb

Artificial intelligence has a supply problem.
As the world gorges on tokens,
-- the snippets of text by which the output of a large language model is counted,
-- it is running short of them.
Weekly token consumption quadrupled between January and March, according to OpenRouter, a marketplace for ai models,
-- partly because of the growing use of coding tools.
The industry cannot keep up

Marjane Satrapi, the brave and talented creator of the wonderful and honest graphic novel Persepolis, has died. Her magnum opus is an autobiography, telling of her young years growing up during the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the Iran-Iraq war of 1980, and then moving to Austria, for safety and to study. But Vienna isn't the safe space her family was hoping for, she's having a difficult time, and returns to Iran. The difference between the two worlds really show. Back home, she can…

"Elephants adjust what they eat in altered habitats, signaling growing pressure"
#Elephants #Environment #Food

Elephants adjust what they eat in altered habitats, signaling growing pressure
Asian elephants are adapting to rapidly changing landscapes by diversifying their diets — a sign of resilience, but also a warning about the pressures reshaping their habitats, according to a recent study from Malaysia. Researchers collected feces from wild Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) across two distinct landscapes in Peninsular Malaysia: one with primary and secondary […]

Now having sounded that note of caution not to tether generous individuals to the growing weight of what they offered as a gift, not to turn systemic rot into individual shame…
…then yes, I completely agree with the sentiment here: if you are trying to help people, you need to actually pay attention to, understand, and prioritize •their• needs. “Here, I am helping you, let me mess everything up for you” is not actually a form of helping.
https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116686742908478264

#silentSunday

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Garnet Silk:
🎵 It's Growing
#GarnetSilk
https://open.spotify.com/track/10WzihaZhGPaWBjJIEd2cf

I’ve got a piece coming out on how there has never been a better time to ask for more cyber budget and although it’s not central to my piece, every one i spoke to said security hiring will pick up.
One Job That Is Growing in the A.I. Era? Cybersecurity Experts.
https://www.

One Job That Is Growing in the A.I. Era? Cybersecurity Experts.
Demand for security engineers has surged as artificial intelligence generates a glut of new code and models like Anthropic’s Mythos create new concerns.

Along the lake, the first of the year.
#BloomScrolling

Dunno how your week is going but I’m listening to this actual song.
#IYKYK #SitcomTheme #80s

As Long as We Got Each Other (with Dusty Springfield) [Theme from 'Growing Pains'] (feat. Dusty Springfield)
B.J. Thomas

Decades Of Biopatina
Layers upon layers, signs/patterns of struggle, opportunism, reaction diffusion, on the walls of a 150 year old building complex in the mountains...
#TextureTuesday #NaturePhotography

Cowboys a ‘Suitor’ for Myles Garrett Amid Growing Trade Talk https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-a-suitor-for-myles-garrett-amid-growing-trade-talk/

Lakes forming next to Greenland's melting ice sheet are speeding up glacier flow #Greenland

Lakes forming next to Greenland's melting ice sheet are speeding up glacier flow
A growing network of meltwater lakes at the edge of the Greenland ice sheet is accelerating the flow of major glaciers, potentially increasing the pace of global sea-level rise. Warmer air and sea temperatures have led to the loss of around 264 gigatons of ice every year in Greenland since 2002, causing sea levels to rise by 0.8 millimeters annually. But a new study by the University of Leeds examining glacier behavior across the entire ice sheet has highlighted a lesser-known feature that is a…

The #Kreutz comet MAPS is now also in the field of view of the coronagraph CCOR-1: help yourself to the latest images at https://ccor.nrl.navy.mil/ccor_realtime/last_image_MinBckgnd.png (15 minute cadence). What SOHO's LASCO C3 and PUNCH's NFI see and what it all means I've just summarized the bottom of https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/artemis-ii-vor-dem-start-maps-vor-dem-perihel/ with the still growing thread https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/118640744 as the major source - in a nutshell there is still some life in this sungrazer (25 hours til perihelion!) and no evidence that it's beginning to fall apart which it will certainly do at one point.

De geschiedenis van 'Yankee, go home'
'Yankee, Go Home'! What Lies Beneath The Growing Anti-American Sentiments In Turkey?
https://www.eurasiantimes.com/yankee-go-home-rallying-cry-turkiyes/ (sep 2024)
Nooit geweten dat de basis er van in het Berlijn van Oost-Duitland lag.

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

I will return to Paris and now I am wondering what has changed in the past 4 years? Any new cycle lanes to visit? Ghost town like roads where trees are growing and parking was banned?

In response to the growing global kerosene shortage, German government now plans to lower the taxes on air tickets 🤦🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️
Fortunately, the taxes are ridiculously low, so this won't do much direct harm. But it's of course totally the wrong signal to give.
https://www.tag…

Bundesregierung will Luftverkehrssteuer wegen teurer Flüge senken
Für Flüge aus Deutschland soll von Juli an eine niedrigere Ticketsteuer gelten. CDU, CSU und SPD lösen damit ein Versprechen aus ihrem Koalitionsvertrag ein. Die Preise dürften allerdings kaum fallen.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is "growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time" (Mark Tyson/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.

‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year
Bot (automated) vs. human HTTP requests are split 57.5 vs. 42.5 percent, according to the firm’s latest data.

When I was growing up, human cloning technology was still quite primitive. The idea of having a romantic dinner with your clone would've been unthinkable. But now I'm dating myself.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/116339342385952200
Interest in second-hand electric cars is growing in many markets, including Romania, Portugal and other countries. And interest in, results in…

Art can improve your mental health. The state of Georgia (our home state) just passed a surprising resolution affirming its benefits.
https://stateoftheartist.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-arts-prescribing-from

Growing
Your handbook for birth, babies and beyond brought to you by midwives and mums Beth Ryan and Lilly Claxton...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/growing/

Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?
By @MargaMediavulla
"In this article I propose a Systemic Analysis of growth and use some System Dynamics diagrams to analyse the problem."
It's an excellent piece.
https://degrowthuk.org/2026/04/16/deb…

Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?
Editors’ note We are delighted to publish this article by Marga Mediavilla on a systems approach to degrowth. It serves to summarise a number of the issues in the Prospects for Degrowth serie…

Computing’s new deep dive finds that the explosive build‑out of AI infrastructure is driving a sharp rise in datacentre energy, water and waste use. It investigates opaque ESG reporting, creative accounting on renewable energy, and growing reliance on gas generation. AI is being built at any cost, and the environmental trade‑offs are increasingly hard to ignore.

Built at any cost: How AI infrastructure is rewriting the cloud sustainability rulebook
The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure by hyperscalers is dramatically increasing global datacentre electricity consumption, outpacing sustainability commitments and creating new challenges in transparency and ...

Somewhere out there is a shining young face that will help transform the world.
Take a moment today and help nurture the next generation in some way- even if it is just a moment of consideration.
Growing up in today's world seems like a very challenging ordeal.
Your gift of compassion and awareness can help soften an otherwise cold and complicated life.
:bd239:
#love

The increasingly growing idea of “Google Zero” has me thinking that LMGT or LMGTFY is now pretty outdated.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymeek/2026/05/25/google-search-ai-overhaul-leaves-publishers-bracing-for-google-zer…

Google Search AI Overhaul Leaves Publishers Bracing For ‘Google Zero’
Google’s new AI Search experience is triggering fears across the media industry that publishers could lose the traffic lifeline that’s sustained the web for decades.

The Raiders' Day Two Linebacker Options Keep Growing https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-day-two-linebacker-options-keep-growing

I hope you can embrace my big takeaways: Love yourself, love yourself, love yourself. Growing up doesn’t end when you become an adult. Outrage is the appropriate response to deception and betrayal.
The way out is through. Make peace with what hurts and head toward joy. Run with the people who love you, lift you, and make you laugh. Write your future with the ink of today. May you go farther sooner.
Xx Moon
-- From "Earth to Moon: A Memoir" by Moon Unit Zappa

Just finished "Skating Wilder" written by Brandon Dumais and illustrated by AJ Dungo. It's a really amazing graphic novel history of skateboarding, from the 1960s through to the present. It's got multiple threads from the commercial angle, to the magazines and music, to the individual tricks.
I've never skated myself (never taught myself to balance properly) but I loved Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 as a kid and I still like watching skate videos. I learned a lot of details from this book that I never knew growing up and the way it talks about skating surviving multiple waves of commercialization is inspiring.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Cisco agrees to acquire Astrix Security, which helps companies monitor and control the permissions granted to AI agents, a source says for approximately $400M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/dy5obf581

Cisco acquires AI security startup Astrix for $400 million
The Israeli startup, backed by Menlo Ventures and Anthropic, targets growing risks from non-human identities and autonomous AI agents.

We recently converted some of our infra-nodes to #meshcore , and now we have connected two (minor) cities in Sweden.
Message delivery is more consistent compared to meshtastic on our case.
The network is growing quite fast here in Sweden, and hopefully we will be able to connect with southern part later this year.

Bog excursion
The northern pre-Alps have vast areas of swamps, remnants from the melting glaciers after the last ice age. After draining 95% of these wetlands and peat bogs to create more arable land and pastures over the past 200-300 years, most of the remaining areas are protected now, with a rich, but fragile flora & fauna.
The frog in the third picture was in a group of five, all chilling in a small mud hole bearing the hot day (many of the smaller mud holes nearby were a…

Wildfires accelerate winter snowmelt in Oregon's western Cascades, study finds #Oregon

Wildfires accelerate winter snowmelt in Oregon's western Cascades, study finds
The Pacific Northwest has seen below-normal snow this season—and new research from Portland State University suggests that the region's snowmelt-dependent water resources could face growing challenges in the years ahead as forest fires and winter rainstorms become more frequent.

Urban Illusions and Fallacies - A Day In The Park ⛲️
城市的幻影和谬误 - 公园的一天 ⛲️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
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Cowboys’ decision to reassign No. 94 is already creating friction with former teammate https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-no-94-controversy-juanyeh-thomas/612c2d72b9308b22437e3c20

> The Commission copied and pasted an amendment suggested by Microsoft and the lobby group Digital Europe. The aim: To prevent NGOs from obtaining information on energy-hungry data centers in the face of growing resistance
https://algorithmwatch.org/en/copy-pas…

In #Guildford (UK) tomorrow evening? Come to my #PintOfScience talk!
https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/g…

Growing Power, Smarter Heat
Discover two innovative approaches to tackling the climate crisis and reducing the UK’s carbon footprint. Explore how cutting-edge vertical farming may acc…

I've got the growing feeling that DevOps/SRE Microservices was a surefire way to slow down any business almost to a halt.
If you followed that route you likely have many small teams that need to coordinate with each other for every change you make. Nobody can make decisions or talk authoritative on overall things anymore because everything has been decomposed and shifted left to the poor developer doing everything now.

A look at the growing trend of active NBA and WNBA players appearing as broadcast contributors and analysts, a practice common in tennis and the NFL previously (Danielle Lerner/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2026/06/02…

Inside the NBA and WNBA's booming player-to-broadcast pipeline
Using Draymond Green's blueprint, players like Tyrese Haliburton, Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark aren't waiting to retire to take on TV gigs.

"As heat pumps gain popularity, winter electricity demand is growing"
#HeatPumps #Energy

As heat pumps gain popularity, winter electricity demand is growing
But efficiency upgrades and ‘demand response’ programs can help keep costs down.

Got a diagonal panorama of this redwood tree growing sideways in Reinhardt Redwood Park, Oakland, CA. Turn your phone about 30 degrees left to experience it properly.

Wounds
(Some more entries from an ongoing series of photographs about the effects of climate change and increasing erosion in the Alps, here focused at very localized scales & occurrences to make them more concrete, communicable and less abstract...)
1) Exposed chunks of bedrock underneath the shrinking Langtauferer glacier
2) Heavily eroded forest in the Lechtal Alps
3) A dried out alpine lake in the Dolomites
4) Accumulated rock fall debris near Hahntennj…

The Brand Hunch
Where we explore ideas and hunches around how marketers are growing great brands...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-brand-hunch/

Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?
By @…
"In this article I propose a Systemic Analysis of growth and use some System Dynamics diagrams to analyse the problem."

Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?
Editors’ note We are delighted to publish this article by Marga Mediavilla on a systems approach to degrowth. It serves to summarise a number of the issues in the Prospects for Degrowth serie…

Nick Andersen said that CISA still isn’t legally allowed to carry out certain activities, such as outreach, despite ongoing threats to critical infrastructure systems.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2026/04/dh…

DHS officials warn about growing shutdown backlogs
The DHS shutdown is leading to unpaid utility bills at the Coast Guard, a vacuum of cyber planning activities at CISA, and grounded aircraft at CBP.

#silentSunday

Behind the public’s mounting worries is a growing sense that Trump isn’t mentally all there.
Physical and mental health aren’t easily separated, especially as one reaches 80. I often can’t remember where I put my wallet and keys or why I’ve entered a room. I also have less patience than I used to have. (I’m less tolerant of long lines, automated phone menus and Republicans.)
But if Trump can’t remember where he put, say, a top-secret memo or why he entered the Situation Room, or …

A Lunar-Mass #PrimordialBlackHole #Microlensing Candidate in the #MilkyWay Halo: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19375 -> StarXiv episode: https://starxiv.com/2026/05/25/episode-37-lunar-craters-primordial-black-holes-growing-galaxies/

"UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy #Renewables

Good summary/reality check:
Reality check 1: Economic disruption is already locked in and growing daily.
Reality check 2: There’s barely a peace process and the sides aren’t close.
Reality check 3: Events are mostly out of Trump’s control.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-iran-war-

3 reality checks about Trump’s Iran strategy
Nicholas Grossman: The president isn’t playing 4D chess and what his war has already broken in the global economy won’t be easily fixed — if it gets fixed at all.

#randomCrap #abandoned

Demand for security engineers is surging, with job postings up 11% YoY in Q1, driven by threats from AI-generated code and models like Mythos and GPT-5.4-Cyber (Kate Conger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/technol

One Job That Is Growing in the A.I. Era? Cybersecurity Experts.
Demand for security engineers has surged as artificial intelligence generates a glut of new code and models like Anthropic’s Mythos create new concerns.

Journalists may no longer enter the Pentagon’s press office,
which has been designated as a classified space amid growing moves to restrict press access to the defense department.
“This is the most transparent war department in history. No amount of spin from the Fake News media will change that,” 😂Jose Valdez, the acting defense department press secretary, said in a social media post.
“The Pentagon Press Office has been redesignated as a Sensitive Compartmented Information…

Rough Draft
Real conversations, unfiltered thoughts and the chaos that comes with growing up, figuring yourself out, learning new things and stepping into a new chapter...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/rough-draft/

Five things to know about heat waves in Europe #Europe #environment

Five things to know about heat waves in Europe
The scorching weather that has smashed temperature records across Europe this week shows the growing number and intensity of heat waves on the continent.

i'm bored. heres some more #randomCrap we happened across the other day. i will try to find a nicer photo to post next time 🚽
#abandoned

Sources: Eater has been central to Vox Media's divestiture talks as interest in food media grows, an uptick that began when Wonder bought Tastemade for $90M (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/feeding-frenzy-food-media-tasty-eater/

The Feeding Frenzy Fueling Food Media M&A
Eater and Tasty are the latest publishers looking to capitalize on a growing appetite for food and dining brands

Your weekend reading:
"We all know that our addiction to growth must stop because it is destroying the very foundations of our lives, but knowing that we must stop an addiction is one thing, and being able to do so is a different one. Capitalist growth is a complex and insidious dynamic that should be analysed through the lens of systems analysis and feedback in order to be addressed."
Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?

Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?
Editors’ note We are delighted to publish this article by Marga Mediavilla on a systems approach to degrowth. It serves to summarise a number of the issues in the Prospects for Degrowth serie…

Syria to join G7 finance talks in Paris in sign of growing status (Timour Azhari/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syria-join-g7-finance-talks-paris-sign-growing-status-2026-05-18/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p5#a260518p5

Dallas Cowboys-Keldric Faulk Rumors Growing Stronger Ahead of 2026 Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/dallas-cowboys-keldric-faulk-rumors-growing-stronger-2026-nfl-draft

Deaths in ICE Custody Are Growing. ‘They Let Him Rot in There.’ - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/Ev9iY

It's Saturday morning, and time for Metacurity's weekly round-up of the best infosec-related long reads we couldn't get to during the daily crush of news.
This week's selection covers
--Industrialized scam compounds pull out all the stops to impersonate police,
--How Switzerland's SCION aims to replace BGP,
--Grassroots local resistance to Flock surveillance is growing,
--Existing law is inadequate to govern commercial spyware,
--Russia…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 3/14/26
Industrialized scam compounds pull out all the stops to impersonate police, How Switzerland's SCION aims to replace BGP, Grassroots local resistance to Flock surveillance is growing, Existing law is inadequate to govern commercial spyware, Russia's sovereign internet is backfiring

It just never stops those Citrix vulnerabilities...
#citrix

CVE-2026-3055 Threatens Citrix NetScaler SAML IDP
CVE-2026-3055 impacts Citrix NetScaler SAML IDP setups, exposing memory overread risks. Active reconnaissance signals growing threat activity.

Artificial intelligence has triggered fierce competition for top talent and is also fueling tens of thousands of layoffs this year.
The class divide is widening in Silicon Valley as a tiny group of employees is landing unprecedented packages for AI skills,
while many others struggle to find work
The have-nots are doing everything that used to guarantee great jobs
— refreshing resumes, optimizing LinkedIn profiles and doing interviews
— but companies are much mo…

Treeline, which is building an AI and software-first alternative to legacy corporate IT systems, raised a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/31/treeline-it-investing-peter-doyle-andrees…

Exclusive: Treeline raises $25 million in  Andreessen Horowitz-led funding to streamline IT services with AI
The round reflects growing investor interest in AI‑native platforms to modernize legacy outsourced IT.

Exclusive: Starlink outage hit drone tests, exposing Pentagon's growing reliance on SpaceX (David Jeans/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/starlink-outage-hit-drone-tests-exposing-pentagons-growing-reliance-spacex-2026-04-16/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p26#a260416p26

Semafor announces a two-day conference, Silicon Valley & the World, in November in the Bay Area, with an advisory board including Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/30/semafor-silicon-valley-conf…

Media startup Semafor to launch Silicon Valley conference with star advisers
The company behind a growing economic gathering in D.C. is heading west, with an A-list advisory board that includes Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella.

Alphabet's stock climbed 10% on Thursday and 34% in April, its best month since 2004; Meta's stock plunged 8.5% on Thursday, its steepest drop since October (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/alphabet-meta-stock-ai-capex-spend.html

Meta tanks 9%, Alphabet climbs 7% as each company raises capex spend
Both Alphabet and Meta said they expect their capital expenditures to keep growing this year, but investors sent Alphabet's shares up, while Meta's stock slid.

Deaths in ICE Custody Are Growing. 'They Let Him Rot in There.' (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/us/ice-detention-deaths-immigrants.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260329/p32#a260329p32

Source: Google plans to release a screenless Fitbit band later this year; it will include basic features and require a paid subscription for more functionality (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The financialization of the American electoral process is well documented.
Now two key progressive legislators are proposing a new law to do something about it. 
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Democratic Rep. Summer Lee (PA-12) introduced the
"Abolish Super PACs Act" on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
It’s a measure they say will eliminate one the primary ways billionaires funnel cash into elections: super PACs.
The bill would limit donations to super PACs t…

Sanders, Lee move to rein in super PACs amid growing billionaire grip on US elections
The bill targets one of the central vehicles for unlimited outside spending, as progressives warn that billionaire money—and broader threats of voter intimidation—are putting democratic elections under strain.

An Argentine court ruled Polymarket lacked approval to operate and directed ISPs and app stores to restrict it; Polymarket is now unavailable in 30 countries (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/03/17

Argentina joins growing list of countries blocking Polymarket access
The ruling directs internet providers to block access to the site, and Apple and Google to remove or restrict Polymarket's mobile apps.

GOP Rep Tom Kean Jr.’s whereabouts and condition have been a mystery in his New Jersey congressional district.
Now they are becoming a source of growing alarm for his party in Washington,
where Republicans fear his prolonged absence could cost them his swing seat
— and possibly their House majority.

Kean has not voted in the House since March 5.
His district, one of the most affluent in the nation, is also one of the country’s most competitive,
a seat Re…

He hasn’t been seen in Congress for months. Now Republicans are worried.
Rep. Tom Kean Jr.’s New Jersey district is among the country’s most competitive, and his absence from the House since March has sparked increasing alarm in his party.

China ordered the expulsion of NYT reporter Vivian Wang in February; a source says the US revoked the visa of a Chinese national working for Xinhua in response (Michael Crowley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/politics/china-expels-times-r…

After China Orders a Times Reporter to Leave the Country, the U.S. Reciprocates
The Trump administration ejected a Chinese journalist amid fresh concerns about Beijing’s growing pressure on foreign correspondents.

Many ICE detention facilities are run by large private companies,
such as CoreCivic and the GEO Group,
that also operate many prisons.
The companies say that they provide round-the-clock medical care and proper diets
and that they are subject to government oversight.
But a federal lawsuit and more than two dozen interviews with lawyers, detainees and their family members and elected officials
depict acute deficiencies that they believe contributed to the …

Deaths in ICE Custody Are Growing. ‘They Let Him Rot in There.’
As immigrant detainee deaths have increased, conditions in detention facilities nationwide are coming under more scrutiny.

South Korea's stock market value has surpassed the UK's, growing 45% this year to $4.04T after a surge in AI-linked tech stocks like Samsung and SK Hynix (Charlotte Yang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A growing contingent of House Republicans is voicing opposition to Donald Trump potentially deploying ground troops to the Persian Gulf,
Politico reported Friday.
As the deadline for Iran to respond to Trump’s 15-point peace plan approached Friday,
the president was reportedly leaning toward ordering a ground operation in Iran.
Some House Republicans urged the president to hold back.
Arizona Representative Eli Crane,
a former Navy Seal who served five deplo…

Republicans Panicking Over Trump Sending Ground Troops to Iran
Some of the president’s biggest supporters are publicly stating their concerns.

Asana acquires StackAI, a no-code platform for building AI agents, for $75M as part of Asana's broader AI pivot; PitchBook: StackAI raised ~$20M (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/asana-acquires-no-code-agent-builder-stack-ai/

Asana acquires no-code agent-builder Stack AI | TechCrunch
Asana will incorporate Stack AI into its growing suite of AI workflow tools.

Sources: ByteDance is developing its own CPUs to support growing AI infrastructure needs, as chip price hikes and supply shortages constrain expansion plans (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/bytedance-developing…

Shanghai-based Lightelligence, which makes photonics chips, surges by nearly 400% in its trading debut in Hong Kong after raising ~$310M in its IPO (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti

Photonics chipmaker Lightelligence surges 400% in Hong Kong debut amid AI frenzy
Shanghai-based firm’s IPO reflects mainland China’s push for photonics chips as a fast-growing alternative to conventional semiconductors.

OpenAI launches Codex plugins to standardize repeatable AI workflows, with 20 initial integrations such as Figma, Notion, Gmail, and Slack (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openai-codex-plugins-workflow-automation-upgrade/

OpenAI upgrades Codex to automate your workflows - and compete better with Claude Code
Codex's new plugins push it beyond coding and position it to challenge Claude Code's growing lead among developers.

Prediction market bets decided on linguistic technicalities expose how hard it is to turn language into a binary market, with payouts hinging on a single word (Christopher Beam/Bloomberg)

Sources: X let go of 20 staffers in nontechnical roles ahead of a SpaceX IPO; X staff have been told to focus on growing revenue since xAI brought on a CRO (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musks-x-restructures-ahead-of-spacex-ipo-6aab5673…