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Some fun with interfaces and protocols: I have a ThinkCentre m910q which has a single NVMe M.2 interface. I want to connect a PCIe M.2 device. I know that SATA M.2 only supports the SATA protocol. Will a PCIe device work on an NVMe M.2 interface? Or is the answer to that question "it depends"?
Bonus question: I have an OCuLink M.2 adapter with NVMe interface. I want to connect an OCuLink to NVMe adapter at the other end of the OCuLink cable. So far I wouldn't expect any …

At an undetermined point in the future, the Commission intends to establish requirements that align uni- bidirectional charging capabilities with relevant grid codes and communication protocols, as is already required for charging infrastructure.
https://single-market-economy.ec.e…

I just updated the introduction of the Open Contributions Descriptor (OCD):
https://ossbase.org/initiatives/open-contributions-descriptor/
OCD is an open, machine-readable JSON format that lets organizations publish a single, structured description …

From the always interesting http://wordsmith.org:
You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. -A.K. Ramanujan, poet (16 Mar 1929-1993)

Hegseth and Rubio to brief members of Congress on boat strikes as questions mount – live
US military says eight killed in strikes on three boats in eastern Pacific
On Monday night, the US military said it attacked three more boats believed to have been smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing eight people

Docs: Binance investigators found accounts, including those of VIP Chinese traders and a suspected Iranian gold smuggler, helped move $1B to Iran-linked groups (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/12/binance-accounts-iranian-entities-sa…

Inside the Binance accounts internal investigators say helped transfer more than $1 billion to Iran-linked entities: A 79-year-old VIP Chinese trader and a suspected Iranian gold smuggler
Compliance experts expressed surprise that Binance did not immediately restrict the accounts, most of which have since been offboarded.

"This instinct—to ignore existing borders, laws, and treaties; to treat other countries as artificial; to break up trade links and destroy friendships, all because the Leader wants to look powerful—is one that Trump shares with imperialists of the past."

Trump Triggers a Crisis in Denmark—And Europe
What a single phone call from the president-elect did to an unswerving American ally

The security company LayerX has found a critical vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Desktop Extensions (DXT). A manipulated Google Calendar entry can execute arbitrary code on the computer without any user interaction. Although the vulnerability received the highest possible severity rating of 10 out of 10 on the common CVSS, Anthropic does not intend to fix the problem for the time being:

Claude Desktop Extensions Exposes Over 10,000 Users to Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - LayerX
  Summary: LayerX discovered a zero-click remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Claude Desktop Extensions (DXT), in which a single Google Calendar event can silently compromise a system running Claude Desktop Extensions. The flaw impacts more than 10,000 active users and 50 DXT extensions.  Unlike traditional browser extensions, Claude Desktop Extensions run unsandboxed with full […]

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

How smuggled Starlink receivers and customized software let some Iranians evade a near-total internet blackout as the regime brutally cracked down on protesters (Financial Times)