Tootfinder

‘I want to thank President Putin’,
Trump says after agreeing to
lift sanctions on Russian diesel
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2

‘I want to thank President Putin’, Trump says after agreeing to lift sanctions on Russian diesel – US politics live
Prominent Republicans join Democrats to condemn president for lifting sanctions on Russian diesel and administration’s plan to livestream execution of Fort Hood attacker

Well, I'm going to say that this has been quite a good day's work on the new workshop. Two more roof trusses made and assembled; all three trusses lifted onto the roof and erected; two purlins fitted. I need four more purlins, but I haven't yet cut them, and I cannot lift a log that size onto the sawmill by myself.
I'm exhausted now — my stamina is still really poor — but quite pleased.

Maven Robotics, whose wheeled robots travel up to 10 mph and lift up to 30kg using two arms, emerges from stealth after raising $100M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/maven-robotics-wants-to-steal-your-robot-deployment-de…

Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal | TechCrunch
Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.

#WordWeavers 11 Oct: Share a passage from your WIP where the setting is doing as much storytelling as the characters.
This is a passage from 'Management Apologises for the Inconvenience':
#thementalmansion

There's been a DARPA 'heavy lift' drone competition on over the last few days; some of them are a bit wacky; this inflatable one is quite neat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVLZIDdFa6U

So Iran and Oman will not ask for tolls/fees and lift the blockade of Hormuz apparently, then the US can lift it's blockade, Trump can claim "victory". Forgetting that Iran controls Hormuz, the regime is still there, nuclear issue remains and the regime will re-arm itself with drones/missiles etc.
#Iran #Oman

In Scott Bessent’s speech at yesterday’s Republican "convention",
he warned that the progressive left is relentless in trying to turn America into a “socialist hellscape.”
Bessent added that their “version of equality would drag everyone down instead of lift everyone up”
and urged attendees to continue the political fight to push back against socialism.
Bad enough that this is just demented Cold War communist witch-hunt crap.
Worse, it’s coming from…

Bessent (and his boss) have lost all credibility on the economy
It’s becoming a problem for all of us

Scripps' CEO says the company is adopting a streaming news model enabled by AI, including cutting 12% of staff, and praises the FCC's lift of the ownership cap (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/ew-scripps-layoffs-ai-local-tv-1237028507/…

E.W. Scripps CEO Briefs Wall Street On Major Layoffs, Touts AI “Revolution” In Local TV News
E.W. Scripps CEO Adam Symson briefed Wall Street analysts Friday on the company's AI "transformation plan" and the layoff of 12% of its workforce in 2026.

Caleb Rogers elevating his game is just one part of the collective O-line lift https://www.raiders.com/news/caleb-rogers-elevating-his-game-is-just-one-part-of-the-collective-o-line-lift

How can you build a new security habit?
There's no magic formula or number of days, but there are simple steps you can take: pick one habit, attach it to something you already do, and leave yourself a reminder.
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Global PC shipments dropped 20.1% YoY in Q3 to 62.7M units due to higher prices and supply issues; Lenovo dropped 22.6% YoY, HP 30.9%, Dell 25%, and Apple 11.3% (IDC)
https://www.idc.com/resource-center/press-releases/idc-pc-tracker-3q26/

PC Market Woes Continue: Shipments Fall 20.1% in Q3 2026 as Pull-In Hangover and Supply Constraints Bite
Seasonal third quarter lift fails to materialize after vendors and channels front-loaded inventory ahead of price hikes

It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground.
-- Daniel B. Luten

Time to lift Palestine Action proscription | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/time-lift-palestine-action-proscription

#WordWeavers 10/9: Share a description from your WIP that establishes atmosphere without explicitly naming the emotion.
This is a passage from my upcoming book, “The Management Apologises for the Inconvenience”.
Welcome to #TheMentalMansion

Pulled a muscle in my arm overnight two nights ago. Couldn't lift my right (strong) arm at all yesterday, wasn't able to do much of anything... amazingly, after a good sleep, feel almost back to normal today - yay!

Following the success of its small-lift vehicle, Electron,
Rocket Lab is developing its partially reusable Neutron vehicle.
The medium-lift rocket features a radical design on its fairing halves, which are usually expended or collected by vessels with other launchers.
The company’s innovative “Hungry Hippo” fairings are permanently attached to the first stage of Neutron,
and open during flight to deploy the second stage.  
This concept completely removes the need…

Caleb Rogers elevating his game is just one part of the collective O-line lift https://www.raiders.com/news/caleb-rogers-elevating-his-game-is-just-one-part-of-the-collective-o-line-lift

Thinking of going vegetarian.
Trump importing beef from same country as deadly beef scandal:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/business/economy/trump-beef-prices.html
Also sending protected wild horses to slaughter:

Trump Announces Move to Lift Ground Beef Tariffs in Bid to Lower Prices
Cattle ranchers have trimmed their herds in response to drought and low margins, helping push up the cost of another American staple food.

Mieter „gefangen“ - Lift defekt – Techniker kam erst drei Tage später #News #Nachrichten

Successfully returned from our rescue & retrieval mission of my son's Apple Pencil which fell through the decking at a café yesterday. He made some wire hooks to lift it back out through the gap between the boards, like a pro... Result: E-waste avoided and 149 Euro saved (what an absolute rip off)!

Quantum Lifts of Noninteger Power Law Field Theories
Jarah Evslin, Hengyuan Guo, Stefano Bolognesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06282 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.06282 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.06282
arXiv:2608.06282v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Field theories whose potentials have noninteger power laws $\alpha$ have found many applications, but are often claimed to have no lift to quantum field theory except as effective models. We define quantum lifts by expanding the classical potential in Hermite polynomials and then normal ordering at a mass scale shifted by a parameter $\beta$. We find that when $\alpha>2$, for sufficiently large $\beta$, the vacuum state can be perturbatively expanded in usual Fock states. We apply this to the following problem. The $\sigma=4$ P\"oschl-Teller model has a $\phi^{5/2}$ potential. As the third derivative of the potential diverges in each vacuum, one expects the three point interactions to diverge in the vacuum. The model's kink has three shape modes and the least bound mode extends so far into the vacuum that its probability of being excited by radiation apparently diverges. We show that a deformation $\beta$ of order the meson mass or larger is sufficient to tame this divergence, although it nonetheless results in an excitation probability which is enhanced by a $\beta$-dependent fractional power of the inverse coupling.
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Justice Department asks Supreme Court to lift block on USPS mail voting restrictions (Brentin Mock/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/justice-department-asks-supreme-court-to-lift-block-on-usps-mail-voting-restrictions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260906/p37#a260906p37

Deshaun Watson cements himself as QB1 as Browns top Steelers, take AFC North lead https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7651055/2026/10/01/steelers-browns-score-results-deshaun-watson-aaron-rodgers/

Can't wait to see the results once this starts operating
Nasa space telescope set to launch after surviving Trump budget cuts
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/29/nasa-telescope-launch-nancy-grace-roman?CM…

Nasa space telescope set to launch after surviving Trump budget cuts
Searching for exoplanets and clues on planet formation, the Roman telescope will lift off Sunday morning in Florida

Can't wait to see the results once this starts operating
Nasa space telescope set to launch after surviving Trump budget cuts
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/29/nasa-telescope-launch-nancy-grace-roman?CM…

Nasa space telescope set to launch after surviving Trump budget cuts
Searching for exoplanets and clues on planet formation, the Roman telescope will lift off Sunday morning in Florida

CNN and MS Now journalists returned to the White House about noon Thursday, hours after a judge ordered the Trump administration to lift a ban on the outlets (Meg Kinnard/@megkinnardap)
https://x.com/megkinnardap/status/2103156562055303333

Meg Kinnard (@MegKinnardAP) on X
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN and MS NOW journalists are now back at the White House, hours after federal judge orders Trump to lift ban.

A Ukrainian MiG-29 pilot had no ammunition left, so jet wash it is. They flew dangerously close to a Russian Shahed drone, used the jet’s thurst to destabilize it and send the drone to the ground. Eat wake drone.
h/t @nickmelnick.bsky.social
#Ukraine #russia

Me holding Clove up over my head as I sing to her, and she responds with what I'm 100% certain is the equivalent of "fuuuuuuuck you" in cat meows.
🎶 Clove lift us up where we belonnnnnnggggg, where the eagles cry on a mountain hiiiiiiiiigh 🎶

Falls es noch eines Beweises bedurft hätte, dass Schlaf politisch ist, wie die @… sagen: https://beige.party/@MamaLake/117115542439540667

A $4.3bn space telescope
that Donald Trump tried to kill
is set to lift off from Florida early on Sunday
as Nasa embarks on the next stage of its quest to unlock the secrets of the universe.
The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope survived two rounds of proposed White House budget cuts,
and will embark on a million-mile journey into deep space from a launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center at 7.26am ET,
barring late technical issues or intervention from Florid…

Nasa space telescope set to launch after surviving Trump budget cuts
Searching for exoplanets and clues on planet formation, the Roman telescope will lift off Sunday morning in Florida

They say you shouldn't let a drowning swimmer grab you.
Well a heli-rescue of a hiker down a cliff had this exchange as they were starting to lift off the face
Hiker: Screams
Rescue: Just grab on to me
Hiker: more screams
Rescue: No. Not my ears.
LOL
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Zhmfs5eDMeY

Da ist mensch brav und geht die 8 Etagen zu seiner Endokrinie-Praxis die Treppen hoch, um sich körperlich zu betätigen, und dann kommt man vom Treppenhaus nicht einmal in die Praxis rein. 🤬🤌 (Symbolbild: Zugang zu einer anderen Arztpraxis im selben Treppenhaus 🙄)
Bin dann durch die Nachbarpraxis — die hatten an der Treppenhaustür wenigstens eine Funkklingel, wohl als Providurium — und von dort dann zu den Aufzügen und dann gegenüber in die Praxis, in die ich eigentlich wollte.

Always on My Mind:
Delicate nose with an expressive, tangy red-fruit bouquet of cherry and raspberry. Medium-bodied, dry, and beautifully precise, the palate reveals mouthwatering acidity, subtle earthy spice, and well-integrated tannins. Sappy persistence carries the finish, giving it lift and refinement. It pairs perfectly with grilled or seared salmon.

Strikes killing 17 are Russia's 'thanks' for US diesel sanctions lift, Zelenskyy says (Marianne Gros/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-strike-eastern-ukraine-kills-11-regional-authorities-state/
http://www.memeorandum.com/261010/p31#a261010p31

CXMT is poised for a debut pop that could lift its market cap several times above its initial ~$85B after raising $9.8B in a hugely oversubscribed Shanghai IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-26/memory…

They use different words for things in America.
For instance they say elevator and we say lift.
They say drapes and we say curtains.
They say president and we say brain damaged git.
-- Alexie Sayle

A federal appeals court on Saturday declined to allow Donald Trump’s administration to implement in 23 states his executive order
that aims to tighten rules for mail-in voting before the November elections that ⁠will decide control of Congress.
The Boston-based ⁠first US circuit court of appeals rejected the administration’s request to lift an injunction several Democratic-led states secured on 25 June from a lower-court judge
who concluded that key parts of the Republican …

Appeals court rejects Trump bid to curb mail-in voting in 23 states
Judge rejects administration’s request to lift injunction secured by several Democratic-led states on 25 June

Deformation algorithm: Deforming (2 1)-dimensional integrable systems to higher dimensional ones
Wang Fa-Ren, Jia Man, Lou S Y
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01293 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.01293 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.01293
arXiv:2608.01293v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The deformation algorithm based on conservation laws can lift (1 1)-dimensional integrable systems to higher-dimensional counterparts while preserving Lax integrability, yet its generalization to (2 1)-dimensional models has remained an open problem. This paper establishes a unified deformation framework for two (2 1)-dimensional integrable equations: the anisotropic Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation and the isotropic Nizhnik-Novikov-Veselov (NNV) equation. By introducing a set of mutually commuting field-dependent deformation operators, we systematically construct infinite families of ($m 3$)-dimensional integrable KP and NNV hierarchies, derive their closed-form Lax pairs, and rigorously verify integrability via the vanishing commutator condition of Lax operators. For each high-dimensional hierarchy, concrete finite-dimensional master systems are obtained by truncating auxiliary spatial variables: a (3 1)-dimensional KP system and a (4 1)-dimensional generalized NNV system. Further symmetry reductions recover the original (2 1)-dimensional KP and NNV equations, and more importantly produce two distinct Harry-Dym (HD)-type reciprocal integrable systems. The KP reduction yields an anisotropic (2 1)-dimensional HD model, while the NNV reduction generates the first spatially isotropic two-space-dimensional HD system reported so far, filling a notable gap in existing literature. Parallel comparison of the KP and NNV branches reveals that the spatial symmetry of the original two-dimensional parent equation directly governs the symmetry properties of its high-dimensional deformations and HD dual subsystems. Our work not only extends the conservation-law deformation conjecture beyond (1 1)-dimensions to accommodate both strong Lax and weak Lax structures, but also provides a universal route to construct reciprocal links for multi-dimensional integrable systems.
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NFL defensive rookies: Best/worst-case scenarios for 13 first-round picks in 2026 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-defensive-rookies-best-worst-case-scenarios-for-13-first-round-picks-in-2026

Some CNN, Politico, and MS NOW reporters were denied access to the White House despite a judge's order; it is unclear when they will have access restored (Victoria Craw/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20…

News outlets request hearing, saying White House is defying order to lift ban
A judge ordered the White House to temporarily restore journalists’ credentials and said the ban was probably unconstitutional. But some were still denied access Thursday.

Cliff Branch's two TDs lift Raiders past Bears in 1976 https://www.raiders.com/video/cliff-branch-raiders-bears-1976-thrilling-moments

2nd time in 2 weeks I’ve injured my left arm picking up K last night. This time it was because he decided as I was lifting him that he didn’t want to get into his chair, so he let go mid-lift.
He was not injured. My bicep was still screaming at me a few minutes ago when I absentmindedly picked something up.
I’m getting less fit for this by the day...
#BadDad

SpaceX aborted the thirteenth mission of its heavy-lift Starship rocket on Thursday, moments before ignition on the launchpad.
The company stated it is currently unaware why its automated systems halted the launch sequence at zero countdown at Starbase, SpaceX’s launch facility on the eastern coast of Texas.
CEO Elon Musk noted in a post on X that
«Some of the engines didn’t start, triggering an automatic launch abort,»
though he did not specify the cause of the failure…

SpaceX aborts thirteenth test launch of Starship rocket - EFE
Aerospace giant SpaceX aborted the thirteenth mission of its heavy-lift Starship rocket on Thursday, moments before ignition on the launchpad

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayMorning
- A vibrant classical playlist to lift your morning
Sarah Walker with the perfect playlist to accompany your Sunday morning, including a brand new recording of Mozart’s 20th Piano Concerto.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00320x0

The White House readmitted journalists from MS Now, CNN, and Politico on Thursday after a judge ordered the WH to explain why it didn't restore access (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/24/judge-lifts-trumps-white-house-ban-on-cnn-ms-no…

Sources: China plans to soon lift a travel ban on Manus founders as the company unwinds its $2B acquisition by Meta; CEO Xiao Hong plans to return to Singapore (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fa479d50-7c79-4b6d-99c3-3830e37c1503

Sunday, August 23rd at 12:00 AM UTC Is Lift Off for China's Chang'e 7 mission which will explore the Moon's south pole, targeting the rim of Shackleton Crater. Its main goal is to search for water ice hidden inside permanently shadowed craters: #ChangE7 will include an orbiter, lander, rover and a unique hopping probe that can leap into dark craters no rover can reach.

Wow private spaceflight companies are so much more efficient than publicly owned state-run spaceflight.
It took SpaceX just 21 years to get their heavy lift rocket into (early aborted) orbit.

A High-Order Flux Reconstruction Actuator-Line Framework for Rotating-Blade Aerodynamics on Fixed Cartesian Grids
Abdullah Al Imran, Meilin Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20347 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20347 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20347
arXiv:2607.20347v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work couples a high-order flux reconstruction/correction procedure via reconstruction (FR/CPR) solver with a rotating actuator-line model (ALM) to simulate rotating-blade aerodynamics on fixed Cartesian grids. Blade loading is represented by volumetric body force source terms projected through an isotropic Gaussian kernel in a blade-attached frame, eliminating the need to resolve blade geometry. Vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) serve as the demonstration configuration, with a modified Boeing-Vertol dynamic stall model incorporated to capture unsteady lift and drag. A mesh-resolution criterion for the Gaussian projection kernel on reasonably coarse meshes is derived. It shows that cost-effective coarse meshes can operate in a mesh-controlled regime with negligible induction feedback, motivating a Double Multiple Streamtube (DMST) correction to recover the physical inflow. Simulations are carried out over a range of tip-speed ratios at a chord-based Reynolds number of Re_c ~ 3.6 x 10^5. The framework is validated against experimental near-wake measurements and previously reported LES-ALM results, and the mean wake profile shows good agreement. The predicted power-coefficient curve matches high-fidelity three-dimensional LES-ALM data to within 6% around the optimal VAWT operation conditions. The framework also captures the regime-dependent influence of dynamic stall, azimuthal blade loading, lift hysteresis, and characteristic wake structures. These results demonstrate that the FR/CPR-ALM framework provides an accurate and computationally efficient geometry-free approach for VAWT analysis, making it well suited for parametric studies and large-scale wind energy applications.
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It’s been at least 75 days since Senator Mitch McConnell has been seen in public.
Yet on Thursday
—despite McConnell supposedly being weeks into an intensive rehabilitation routine
—his team blatantly refused to provide a progress report.
The last time his office shared details regarding the 84-year-old’s health status was three weeks ago on August 6,
when a press release purportedly penned by McConnell himself explained that he had been discharged from a rehabil…

Desirée Townsend (@Cheering4Change) on X
New video provided by Alysia McMillian gives us a glimpse into Senator Mitch McConnell’s health condition, with the appearance of two MCombo lift recliner chairs designed to help the elderly get in and out of a chair.

A federal appellate panel on Saturday rejected the Trump administration’s request
to lift a lower court’s injunction blocking the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing Donald Trump’s March executive order targeting mail-in ballots as part of Republicans’ broader attack on voting rights.
A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against a motion by the administration
seeking a pause on U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s June order blo…

In 'Win for Voters,' Another Federal Court Blocks Trump Attack on Mailed Ballots | Common Dreams
A majority of the three-judge appellate panel called part of the president's March executive order "an unprecedented federal incursion into states’ exclusive power to determine voter eligibility."

FCC votes to lift broadcast ownership cap (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/fcc-broadcast-ownership-cap-vote
http://www.memeorandum.com/260807/p6#a260807p6

Journalists from CNN and MS Now belatedly regain access to White House after judge ruling
US ⁠news ⁠outlets MS ⁠Now and ⁠CNN have once again been ‌granted access to the ⁠White House, Reuters has just reported.
The reinstated access was granted just hours after a federal judge ordered Trump to lift the ban.
CNN has also just confirmed that they have been allowed back inside the White House, with reporter Betsy Klein being allowed to reenter on Thursday.
She was previous…

Journalists from CNN, Politico, and MS Now belatedly regain access to White House after judge ruling – live
A federal judge had ruled Trump administration must immediately return the outlets’ press passes and said ban likely unconstitutional

Ramses must reach space by spring 2028 in order to rendezvous with the cruise-liner-sized Apophis asteroid as it passes Earth on Friday 13 April 2029, representing less than three and a half years from contract signing to lift-off.
The spacecraft’s Core Module, containing all its main electronics, is currently being assembled in the Milan cleanroom facility of OHB Italia. Key Ramses units have been mounted within the module’s U-shaped body, and then linked together via intricate cabling…

First switch on for ESA-JAXA Ramses asteroid mission
The European Space Agency’s and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Ramses planetary defence spacecraft has been turned on for the first time by its prime contractor – marking a major milestone in its time-critical development schedule.

Alito and Thomas dissented, of course.
Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to lift block on mail-in ballots rule
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/supreme-court-trump-mail-ballots-midterms.html

VirtualSet: Typed Ontology Worlds as an LLM Generation Target for Grounded Queries and Guarded Decisions
Qunhui Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18821 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18821 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18821
arXiv:2607.18821v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models increasingly read and act on enterprise data, but SQL gives a late error signal: hallucinated fields or relations can execute and return plausible wrong answers, while incorrect writes cannot be safely assessed after execution. We present VirtualSet, a live, receiver-typed ontology-world interface and generation target for LLMs. Instead of SQL, the model emits set expressions over entity-edge worlds. Generic Constraint Projection (GCP) checks expressions before execution, while future this preserves concrete receiver types through collection chains, turning invalid fields, edges, receivers, and actions into token-anchored type errors. Type-clean reads use a SQL fast path or bounded stream interpretation, with a parity oracle checking both paths over the exercised operator space. The same substrate supports guarded decisions: actions run first in a simulated world, and world-change events require external approval before actualization. On BIRD, we lift relational schemas into typed worlds and compare VirtualSet with direct SQL while holding the model, evidence, values, zero-shot setting, timeout, glossary, repair/voting, and grader constant where possible. On a frozen 1,072-question split, VirtualSet achieves 67.5% accuracy versus 63.5% for glossary-matched direct SQL with repair and voting ( 4.0 points; McNemar exact p = 0.00117) using deepseek-reasoner. Full-corpus analysis finds no engine mis-computation of a type-clean expression; remaining errors arise from model semantics or gold defects. In a 30-body guard corpus, the write chain intercepts 20/20 hallucinated action bodies with zero false positives. VirtualSet thus remains competitive on SQL's home benchmark while providing pre-execution semantics for guarded decisions.
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As the tech world grapples with AI doomerism, AI safety has swiftly become Washington’s most combustible political snarl.
Check out today's Metacurity for more on this developing story and other critical infosec developments you should know, including
--South Korea drafts security rules for autonomous AI agents,
--Human contractors are reading sensitive ChatGPT conversations,
--Manhattan DA seizes 12 deepfake porn domains,
--Cops searched 19k Flock cameras “for the lols,”
--US to receive six Black Axe suspects accused of $6.2m fraud,
--Hackers hijack HBO Max Reddit account to spread malware,
--Telus customer accounts exposed in yearlong breach,
--Microsoft issues emergency fix for broken Windows updates,
--Cisco email gateway zero-day exploited for root access,
--Coupang forms security committee after $460m fine,
--Florida DMV hacked after breach claiming 160m IDs,
--CrowdStrike hits record high as AI fears lift cyber stocks,
--Exein raises $270m at $1.7B valuation,
--Supreme Court blocks Trump’s mail-ballot changes,
--Marks & Spencer rebounds from devastating cyberattack,
--Anthropic wants Claude connected to your bank account,
--UK pubs get biometric age checks
https://www.metacurity.com/ai-safety-has-swiftly-become-washingtons-most-combustible-political-snarl/

Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, is scheduled to lift off from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas today
— the 57th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Apollo 11 moon mission, by the way
— during a 90-minute widow that opens at 6:45 p.m. EDT.
It will be Starship's 13th flight overall and its second mission of 2026.
You can watch Starship Flight 13 live at Space.com,; coverage will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff.
S…

SpaceX will launch Starship, the world's largest rocket, on critical Flight 13 test today. Here's what to expect.
Liftoff is scheduled for 6:45 p.m. ET today (July 16).

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3Breakfast
Miles Davis:
🎵 Générique (from 'Lift to the Scaffold')
#MilesDavis
https://open.spotify.com/track/1hh6s2tQuxdnaHET2hlNSH

Brendan Carr sets a vote for bigger TV station mergers (John Hendel/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/15/brendan-carr-sets-a-vote-to-lift-tv-ownership-cap-00998803
http://www.memeorandum.com/260715/p49#a260715p49

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CerysMatthews
The Detonators:
🎵 Lift Off
#TheDetonators
https://open.spotify.com/track/1OwgnO8rqrXLyML3v63n23

Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to lift block on mail-in ballots rule (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/supreme-court-trump-mail-ballots-midterms.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260914/p130#a260914p130

RE: #PocketQubes from the #ERMINAZ series: #Transporter18 mission! Lift-off in Vandenberg at 18:18 UTC: https://www.spacex.com/launches/transporter18

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBBCIntroducingMixtape
Eva Lazarus:
🎵 Whole place lift
#EvaLazarus
https://open.spotify.com/track/5qBkr45TSiCMMsVrwicIFk

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #MusicMatters
George Frideric Handel, The English Concert Choir, The English Concert & Trevor Pinnock:
🎵 Lift up your heads [Messiah]
#GeorgeFridericHandel #TheEnglishConcertChoir #TheEnglishConcert #TrevorPinnock

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RecordReview
Miles Davis & Miles Davis Quintet:
🎵 Lift to the scaffold - music for the film Générique
#MilesDavis #MilesDavisQuintet