Tootfinder

Mass stranding of whales on Scottish beach caused by loyalty to their pod, report finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/mass-stranding-whales-scottish-beach-report

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/08/us-iran-ceasefire-mass-exodus-ships-strait-hormuz-analysts

Russia launches mass attack on Ukraine, triggers emergency power outages: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/russia-launches-mass-attack-on.html

Intelligence agencies of Viktor Orbšn’s government have been secretly using Webloc
— a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data
— making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR.
Further investigation confirms the existence of “homegrown” OSINT and spyware tools.

Orbán’s Spying Kit Revealed: Israeli Surveillance Tool Combined with Hungarian Technology - VSquare.org
Intelligence agencies of Viktor Orbán's government have been secretly using Webloc — a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data — making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR. Moreover, our investigation confirms the existence of "homegrown" OSINT and spyware tools.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Gang Starr:
🎵 Mass Appeal (radio version)
#GangStarr
https://polymathics.bandcamp.com/track/gang-starrs-mass-appeal-polymathic-tribute-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3lGBvPUgO7MJltUnBlOpe9

"Is tyre pollution causing mass deaths in vulnerable salmon populations?"
#Cars #Vehicles

The Ambassador for #Iran, Ardeshir Zahedi, hosted a party at the Iranian embassy 50 years ago, April, 1976. Sen. Edward Brooks (Mass) danced "The Hustle" w Elizabeth Taylor; Sen. Humphrey (Minnesota) and Sec. State Kissinger visited with Polly Bergen. Fargo Forum Newspaper. "It's Party Time" (AP)

When Anthropic’s AI isn’t being used to mass murder schoolgirls in Iran, it’s helping Mozilla improve Firefox.
So it’s not all bad, surely.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/hardening-firefox-anthropic-red-team/

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic’s Red Team  | The Mozilla Blog
For more than two decades, Firefox has been one of the most scrutinized and security-hardened codebases on the web. Open source means our code is visible,

…if we’re watching for a mass turn in popular sentiment against a would-be authoritarian, then it’s the vibes that matter. The guts lead and the facts follow later, if at all.
It’s significant that a mainstream (if salacious) news outlet is running this story at all. It’s significant that it’s making the rounds in my fairly fact-focused TL. I’m interested in who’s repeating this, who’s joking about it, whether it becomes an acceptable SNL gag, whether centrist pundits feel the need to start refuting it.
Vibes.
6/

Sources: Samsung Foundry has frequently delayed the timeline for its plant in Taylor, Texas, with its mass production plans moving from early 2026 to early 2027 (Lee Jae-Lim/Korea Joongang Daily)
https://koreajoongan…

Exclusive: Mass production at Samsung’s Taylor plant pushed back to next year
Mass production at Samsung Electronics’ Taylor plant, once expected as early as this year, has been pushed back to early next year, with the company appearing to distinguish between the start of production and full-scale mass production.

🚄 Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings
(could we drop our frames for a second and ask if the 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 problem with America is that we're not like that?)
https://aethermug.com/posts/culture-is-the-mass-synchronization-of-framings
…

Ah, the future is great.
A Waymo robotaxi blocked an ambulance from responding to the scene of a mass shooting in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, EMS and Waymo officials confirmed.
“A driverless vehicle was stopped in the area while our crews were responding to this morning’s shooting, and it did briefly interfere with access for one ambulance,” Austin-Tr…

Waymo Says It Has Nothing to Say After Its Self-Driving Taxi Blocked an Ambulance Responding to a Mass Shooting
Footage shows a Waymo robotaxi blocking an ambulance with its lights flashing as it tried to reach the scene of a deadly shooting.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pir…

Judge Voids Mass Layoffs at Voice of America - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/us/politics/judge-kari-lake-voa-layoffs.html

Marty Baron says "I firmly believe" Jeff Bezos prioritizes his other interests over WaPo; Jim VandeHei says "I have no clue what their strategy was or is" (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/05/mass-layoffs-wash…

APT36: A Nightmare of Vibeware.
The TL;DR: A threat actor generates high-volume, mediocre mass of implants using niche languages like Nim, Zig, and Crystal, generated by AIs.
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/businessinsights/apt36-nightmare-vibewa…

APT36: A Nightmare of Vibeware
I'd like to thank my coauthors Adrian Schipor, Victor Vrabie, Marius Baciu, and Martin Zugec for their invaluable contributions to this research.

Orbšn’s Spying Kit Revealed: Israeli Surveillance Tool Combined with Hungarian Technology
https://vsquare.org/orban-spying-toolkit-cobwebs-webloc-hungary-spyware-citizen-lab/

Orbán’s Spying Kit Revealed: Israeli Surveillance Tool Combined with Hungarian Technology - VSquare.org
Intelligence agencies of Viktor Orbán's government have been secretly using Webloc — a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data — making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR. Moreover, our investigation confirms the existence of "homegrown" OSINT and spyware tools.

Judge Voids Mass Layoffs at Voice of America (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/us/politics/judge-kari-lake-voa-layoffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260307/p72#a260307p72

Revoke their license.
Emergency Responders Say They're Now Unpaid "Roadside Assistance" for Confused Waymos https://share.google/yGTL3WVyQYFfoFDS4

on the reality of the covid pandemic : that never ended
🔁 https://brennan.day/the-pandemic-never-ended-we-only-pretend-it-did/

The Pandemic Never Ended. We Only Pretend it Did
Six years into COVID-19, the world has moved on while the virus continues to disable millions. An examination of the ongoing pandemic, long COVID, and our collective failure to prevent a mass disabling event.

Another app to delete
"Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan" | Spain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/spain-hits-back-at-pavel-…

Donald Trump announces mass murder for tonight.

Confession moment: I really like Mass Effect, but the design of the Citadel was kind of hugly.

Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/spain-hits-back-at-pavel-durov-over-mass-telegram-post-on-social-media-ban-plan

learned today that mass market paperbacks sometimes had full color advertising in the middle. #books

By combining retinal imaging, genetics, and big data,
physician-researchers from Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
have found that they can estimate how likely a person is to develop eye and systemic diseases in the future.
⭐️They found significant associations between the thinning of different retinal layers and increased risk of developing ocular, cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, and neuropsy…

Two judges on the Fifth Circuit gave Trump exactly what he wants to enact mass detentions
https://www.lawdork.com/p/fifth-circuit-immigration-detention-ruling

Radially symmetric transition-layer solutions in mass-conserving reaction-diffusion systems with bistable nonlinearity
Xiaoqing He, Quan-Xing Liu, Dong Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06779

Massive Israeli Assault on Lebanon Threatens U.S.-Iran Ceasefire (Lylla Younes/Drop Site News)
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-massive-airstrikes-lebanon-beirut-us-iran-ceasefire
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p109#a260408p109

So USA citizens can mass-demonstrate, riot in the streets if you must…. and depose #theAmericanFascist. For god sakes, what will it take for you to force him to resign along with his whole crew?
any day now..
Really.
That would be great.
Signed,
The rest of the normal-people world.
#usa

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Juliet:
🎵 Avalon
#NowPlaying #Juliet
https://massdigital.bandcamp.com/track/juliet-avalon-mass-digital-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1FJy9Yy3HmJpE0znPlbYh7

Trump’s mass deportation plan has broken the quiet of small US towns: ‘We have to take care of each other’ | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/05/trump-deportation-rural-towns-wisconsin

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement pulled all of its detainees out of the Cumberland County Jail,
many of them were moved to a field office in Burlington, Massachusetts,
about 100 miles from Portland, Maine.
The facility is designed for administrative processing,
but immigration attorneys say it has been holding some people for more than 10 days
-- raising concerns about due process and access to legal counsel.
Lisa Parisio,
policy director at…

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

UK government wastes police time. Repeat offender
Mass arrests at UK protest in support of hunger-striking detainee | Protests | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/1/25/mass-ar…

Mass arrests at UK protest in support of hunger-striking detainee
Police carried out mass arrests after a peaceful protest outside a London prison in support of hunger-striking detainee.

A Waymo robotaxi stopped in the middle of a road and blocked an ambulance near a mass shooting site in Austin; Waymo confirms it was en route for rider pickup (Nicole Cobler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2026/03/02/waymo-vehicle-blocks-…

Waymo robotaxi blocks EMS responding to Austin mass shooting
The incident raises questions about whether the cars are equipped to operate near emergency situations.

Mass drone attack hits Russia's Krasnodar region, causing Sochi flight delays and a fire at the Novorossiysk oil terminal: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/mass-drone-attack-hits-russias.html

This lunatic… this idiot son of modern-day barbarians is proclaiming that his morally-vacuous plastic-trinket empire is going to commit genocide and what’s the rest of the world doing? Anything? Where are the condemnations? Where are the sanctions? Where’s the mass mobilisation against this Fourth Reich?

My joke last week, at the suggestion Anthropic relocate to the UK, was that it would be contingent on its objection to mass-surveillance not being extended to UK citizens. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx7915nn8qo

Sir Sadiq invites embattled AI firm Anthropic to expand in London
The letter from London's mayor came as the US moved to designate the company a supply chain risk.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Utah Saints:
🎵 What Can You Do For Me
#UtahSaints
https://utahsaints.bandcamp.com/album/what-can-you-do-for-me-soul-mass-transit-system-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5G760aZ3umyQclyaU3mxd5

@… ohh, your profile banner pix
At 1st glance "a parking lot"
See in detail "oOo a mass grave"

25% of Kyiv's homes are without heating due to Russia's terror. And it's -17°C (1.4°F)
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-hit-by-mass-blackouts-after-grid-disruption/

Following an attack on several Wikimedia projects that comprised a large number of accounts, Wikis are now back to read and write access. Compromised accounts made automated mass edits across pages with the edit summary "Закрываем проект", among potentially other edits.
The issue was identified and fixed. Many functions have gone back to normal.

Wikis in read only mode
Wikimedia's Status Page - Wikis in read only mode.

https://ground.news/article/new-animal-species-that-survived-mass-extinction-event-half-a-billion-years-ago-found-in-a-quarry-in-china_a5e5fb

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--CISA's year-long turmoil under Gottumukkala,
--Meta smart glasses expose underpaid annotators to intimate data,
--Border Patrol surveils SoCal civilians,
--DHS nominee faces ethics allegations,
-- LLMs enable deanonymization,
--Tile s…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 2/28/26
CISA's year-long turmoil under Gottumukkala, Meta smart glasses expose underpaid annotators to intimate data, Border Patrol surveils SoCal civilians, DHS nominee faces ethics allegations, LLMs enable deanonymization, Tile server flaws enable mass tracking

Consider three of the biggest developments in our politics right now:
🔸We just learned that the economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, a capstone to a terrible year in terms of job creation.
🔸Trump has fired widely despised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a key architect of his mass deportations.
🔸And reports are indicating that the killing of scores of Iranian schoolchildren might have been the handiwork of the United States.
What links all these things?

Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall
Republicans typically lead on the economy, national security, and immigration. Trump is squandering the GOP’s traditional strength on all three.

All across the earth snow is melting and millions of dead snow angels are being buried in mass graves

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace from Germany
Al Ryan with concert recordings of distinctive settings of the church mass, today with music by Karl Jenkins, plus music from the recent Belfast International Chamber Music Festival.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rtgk

@…
Can you explain why we should compare environmental problems like AI data centres with intentional civilisational mass killings?

collins_yeast: Collins yeast interactome (2007)
Network of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), measured by co-complex associations identified by high-throughput affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP/MS).
This network has 1622 nodes and 9070 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Under normal conditions, American police can legally murder practically anyone for almost any reason. This is not hyperbole, the understanding of this fact was one of the reasons for the George Floyd uprising. Police regularly get away with murder unless there are mass uprisings. That is how America worked *before Trump*.
We have seen federal paramilitary execute multiple people in the street. Federal paramilitary were kidnaping people, putting black bags over the heads, interrogating them, and dropping them off in other places *in 2020*. The level of state terror has escalated wildly.
Against anyone but an officer, Song's response to the radical escalation of drawing a gun on non-violent protectors would be legally recognized as self-defense. Officers are trained to only draw a gun if they intend to shoot. The officer clearly intended to execute unarmed people. It is extremely unlikely the officer would have been charged even if someone had been killed.
But the criminalization of legitimate self-defense has been standard in the US for decades. What is new here is the ciriminalization and suppression of entirely non-violent protest.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
7th Wonder:
🎵 Daisy Lady
#7thWonder
https://mthomas.bandcamp.com/track/7th-wonder-daisy-lady-mass-thomas-edit

Sources: Apple is facing issues in the test phase of its foldable iPhone that are taking longer than expected to resolve, potentially delaying mass production (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/supply-chain/f…

Foldable iPhone hits engineering snags, shipment delays possible: sources
April-May 'extremely critical' period for Apple to resolve issues in time

@… whilst I endorse the wish for members to follow the guidelines and rules, I believe that the mass acceptance of casual rule-breaking has too long a history for some of the rules to be truly effective.
My comment here should in no way reflect upon the efforts of moderators there. They do extraordinarily good work in situations t…

#today - the joys of being on campus at uni: watching my friend give a practice run of the talk he will be giving in Canada very soon summarising much of what he has been doing for the 3 years that I have known him, then topping up my coffee and catching ~1.5 talks on mass spectrometry!

'It's like the Day of Judgment out here.' New England residents trapped in Middle East as war escalates. (Nick Stoico/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/06/metro/mass-residents-trapped-in-middle-east-as-war-widens/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260306/p107#a260306p107

Artificial intelligence could become “a weapon of mass destruction of jobs” without proper controls, London mayor Sadiq Khan has warned.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/london-mayor-ai-mass-destroyer-of-jobs

London Mayor warns AI could become ‘mass destroyer of jobs’ in the capital
Artificial intelligence could become “a weapon of mass destruction of jobs” without proper controls, London mayor Sadiq Khan has warned.

Ukraine hit by mass blackouts after grid disruption: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/31/ukraine-hit-by-mass-blackouts.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Utah Saints:
🎵 What Can You Do For Me
#UtahSaints
https://utahsaints.bandcamp.com/album/what-can-you-do-for-me-soul-mass-transit-system-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5G760aZ3umyQclyaU3mxd5

Now that I remember it, I got better pictures of daffodils towards the end of the season last year because the strident yellow threw off my exposure
#photo #photography #flowers

A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried until now #UnitedKingdom

A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried until now
Last autumn, a UK government report warned that climate-driven ecosystem collapse could lead to food shortages, mass migration, political extremism and even nuclear conflict. The report was never officially launched.

#CMOM Since the Canada/Finland women's hockey game was postponed due to mass 🤮 on the Fin team (hope they recover soon!) I'm into mixed doubles Curling.
Canada currently up 5-1 on the home team!
#Olympics #Canada
https://gem.cbc.ca/curling-canada-vs-italy-mixed-doubles-round-robin-30048?autoplay=1

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Beethoven's Missa Solemnis from Milan
Al Ryan reaches the climax of his week focused on performances of distinctive settings of the mass with Beethoven, and he also casts an eye on festive chamber music from Belfast.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rssk

Getting serious about data breaches in Kazakhstan
January 23: Kazakhstan Moves to Criminalize Mass Data Breaches
https://meyka.com/blog/january-23-kazakhstan-moves-to-criminalize-mass-data-breaches-2301/

January 23: Kazakhstan Moves to Criminalize Mass Data Breaches | Meyka
Australia-focused take on Kazakhstan data breach law, criminal penalties and $42,500 fines, risks for banks and fintechs, and clear compliance steps for investors.

Thinking about the US war on "misguided religion" and remembering that half the political support for Israel in the US is from people who believe that jews will, necessarily, mass-convert to Christianity at some future point.
Get ready for seven years of this.

In the wake of immigration agents’ killings of three US citizens within a matter of weeks,
the Department of Homeland Security is quietly moving forward with a plan to
expand its capacity for mass detention by using a military contract to create
what Pablo Manríquez, the author of the immigration news site Migrant Insider calls 
“a nationwide ‘ghost network’ of concentration camps.”
On Sunday, Manríquez reported that “a massive Navy contract vehicle,
once v…

US military helping Trump to build massive network of ‘concentration camps,’ Navy contract reveals
The Department of Homeland Security is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert warehouses into makeshift jails and plan sprawling tent cities in remote areas.

Sam Altman says rushing the DOD deal was wrong as "the issues are super complex, and demand clear communication" but we were "trying to de-escalate things" (Katherine Li/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-ame

Sam Altman says OpenAI will tweak its Pentagon deal after surveillance backlash
Sam Altman posted an internal memo that OpenAI is working with the Pentagon to "make some additions" to their agreement.

How Jeff Bezos has forced WaPo into severe decline in Trump's second term, including today's mass layoffs that seem to transform it into a kind of Politico-lite (Ruth Marcus/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-c…

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
Ruth Marcus on the latest round of layoffs at the Washington Post and what the impact has been on the newspaper and its staff since it was bought by Jeff Bezos in 2013.

"The dark side of the balloon boom – is it time they were banned?"
#Balloons #Pollution

Austin mass shooter Ndiaga Diagne entered US during Clinton admin., became citizen under Obama -- despite string of busts (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/01/us-news/austin-mass-shooter-ndiaga-diagne-became-citizen-despite-string-of-busts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p97#a260301p97

Mass Russian drone strike on Odesa kills 1, injures 27, more may be under rubble: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/mass-russian-drone-strike-on.html

Old Railroad bed converted to trail by Massabesic Lake east of Manchester, NH where I wandered as a cub
#photo #photography #landscape

Even if you're gearing up for a monster winter storm, take the time to check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Acting CISA head got grilled on mass firings at the agency,
--EU's CIRCL launches GCVE system,
--DeFi project EVM was exploited for $6m,
--Attackers exploit patch bypass for FortiGate flaw,
--Cisco fixes Unified Communications and Webex Calling RCE flaw,
--Mass spam wave …

Acting CISA head got grilled on mass firings at the agency
EU's CIRCL launches GCVE system, DeFi project EVM was exploited for $6m, Attackers exploit patch bypass for FortiGate flaw, Cisco fixes Unified Communications and Webex Calling RCE flaw, Mass spam wave emanates from unsecured Zendesk support systems, much more

Mass pilot whale stranding in Indonesia raises questions about ocean health https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/mass-pilot-whale-stranding-in-indonesia-raises-questions-about-ocean-health/

Mass pilot whale stranding in Indonesia raises questions about ocean health
Villagers in central Indonesia rescued 34 short-finned pilot whales following a mass stranding on March 9, but despite their overnight efforts were unable to save 21 others. Mongabay Indonesia’s Ebed De Rosary reports that residents first discovered the pod in the shallow waters off Deranitan village, in East Nusa Tenggara province, at approximately 3:30 p.m. […]

FBI investigating Austin mass shooting as potential terrorism (Nicole Cobler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2026/03/01/austin-mass-shooting-west-sixth-street
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p56#a260301p56

The missile hit during the school’s morning session.
In Iran, the school week runs from Saturday to Thursday, so when US and Israeli bombs began falling at around 10am on Saturday, classes were under way.
At a point between 10am and 10.45am, a missile directly hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school, in Minab, southern Iran, demolishing its concrete building and killing dozens of seven to 12-year-old girls.
Photographs and verified videos from the site, which the Guardian has not publ…

Folks, this is a general Gaza Verified message.
Please note that while we know the unconscionable situation people in Gaza are having to go through, we are also seeing a rise (from a small number of people) of mass tagging of people in messages and unsolicited direct messages.
To our friends and families in Gaza Verified: this is against the rules of almost every server, including the one your account is on and it will get your account limited or suspended. It is also against our…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Sources: OpenAI is negotiating more safeguards with the DOD intended to prevent domestic mass surveillance using its AI, as it prepares to implement the deal (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f8592f27-a1be-4299-8c76-6e1947d5beb6

US AI giants OpenAI and Anthropic appear untroubled by their technologies being used for mass surveillance of non-Americans, including Europeans, according to recent public statements.
https://www.euract…

Mass attack that plunged Kyiv into darkness cost Russia over $130 million, Ukrainian intelligence says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/23/mass-attack-that-plunged-kyiv.html

Austin bar mass shooter possibly motivated by Iran attacks, Quran found in car as FBI eyes terrorism after 2 killed, 14 injured (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/01/us-news/austin-mass-shooter-possibly-motivated-by-iran-attacks-quran-found-in-car-as-fbi-eyes-terrorism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p55#a260301p55

OpenAI is amending its hastily arranged deal to supply artificial intelligence to the US Department of War (DoW) after the ChatGPT owner’s chief executive admitted it looked 🔸“opportunistic and sloppy”.
The contract prompted fears the San Francisco startup’s AI could be used for ♦️domestic mass surveillance but its boss, Sam Altman, said on Monday night the startup would explicitly bar its technology from being used for that purpose
or being deployed by defence department intelli…

⚡ Newly identified brain circuit and cells link prior experiences to appetite
#brain

Newly identified brain circuit and cells link prior experiences to appetite
Our past experiences shape how much we eat and where and what we choose to eat. Using preclinical models, researchers from Mass General Brigham and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have identified brain cells that translate contextual information into appetite control.

3 dead, 14 injured in Sixth Street mass shooting; FBI investigating potential terrorism (KEYE)
https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/multiple-people-injured-in-mass-shooting-on-6th-st-austin-police-investigating
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p60#a260301p60

Micron introduces the first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 SSDs, with read speeds up to 28GB/s, double that of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, optimized for AI/data center deployments (Aaron Klotz/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.

First PCIe 6.0 SSD enters mass production with 28GB/s speeds, 5.5 million IOPS, and liquid cooling — Micron 9650 Series SSDs support air and liquid cooling
Micron's new drive is so fast that it fully benefits from liquid cooling, but air cooling is still supported

3 dead, several injured in downtown Austin mass shooting (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5761330-3-dead-14-injured-in-downtown-austin-mass-shooting/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p9#a260301p9

'Mass obstruction' — Draft officers injured in Odesa following confrontation with 'civilian group': https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/16/mass-obstruction-draft-officers-injured.html

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
has threatened Antropic with blacklisting
if the AI company refuses to allow its tools to be used for autonomous drone attacks or mass surveillance
– a chilling show of the Pentagon’s priorities.
In a meeting with the company on Tuesday, Hegseth said that
the company must lift its demands for the safety restrictions by Friday at 5:01 pm.
Otherwise, officials warned, the Pentagon will declare the company a “supply chain ris…

Pentagon Threatens Retaliation If Anthropic Bars Use of AI for Mass Surveillance
Anthropic’s CEO has expressed concerns about the use of AI for autonomous drones and surveillance.

Guys, there is a ton of important infosec news in today's Metacurity -- some of it stupid or crazy -- that you won't want to miss, including
--Leaked DarkSword iPhone spyware lowers bar for mass exploitation,
--FCC bans import of all new foreign-made routers,
--Foster City officially declares state of emergency following attack,
--German federal police visited Windchill and FlexPLM users in the wee hours to warn them of a severe flaw,
--Scioto County emp…

Leaked DarkSword iPhone spyware lowers bar for mass exploitation
FCC bans import of all new foreign-made routers, Foster City officially declares state of emergency following attack, German federal police visited Windchill and FlexPLM users in the wee hours to warn them of a severe flaw, Scioto County employees fell victim to phishing, much more

Sensor Tower: TikTok's US DAUs are at ~95% of the week of Jan. 19, with engagement metrics showing little sign of a mass exodus since its Jan. 23 US takeover (Matthew Chin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/16/tiktok-us-

Much ado about nothing? TikTok's U.S. usership steadies after turbulent start
TikTok's U.S. joint venture seems to have survived a turbulent rollout relatively unscathed, as concerns of a mass user exodus now appear overstated.

'The worst damage we have seen' — Ukraine's energy crisis deepens after latest mass Russian attack: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/04/the-worst-damage-we-have.html

Are you overwhelmed by the sheer mass of news stories surrounding the two biggest cyber-related stories of the day, OpenAI's deal with the Pentagon, and the cyber activity surrounding the Iran war?
Don't miss today's monster Metacurity that summarizes all the developments in these two arenas and more, including
--OpenAI, Pentagon revise AI deal's surveillance limits, but commitments may be hollow,
--Israel spent years hacking Tehran's traffic cameras and …

OpenAI, Pentagon revise AI deal's surveillance limits, but commitments may be hollow
Israel spent years hacking Tehran's traffic cameras and phone networks, Iranian hacking groups' efforts have been negligible and opportunistic, Internet collapse in Iran has cut off hackers, Gulf ships bombarded with GPS attacks, Starlink has sustained Iran's Handala hackers, much more

Communities have changed how resistance is conducted
— away from the myth of the solitary activist hero
and toward
shared capacity.
As Grace Lee Boggs taught us,
“Movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass.”
Political exhaustion took on new meaning.
It was no longer treated as a personal struggle, but as shared terrain
— produced by oppressive systems and requiring collective response.
The question shifted from…

Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based on Care
Rapid-response networks and mutual aid are not charity. They’re shared infrastructure for collective care and survival.

Sources: Huawei's Ascend 950PR chip, set for mass production soon, saw prices rise 20% after Chinese tech giants placed bulk orders to run DeepSeek's V4 model (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/deepseeks-new-ai-mode…

DeepSeek’s New AI Model Will Be a Victory for Huawei
When DeepSeek introduces its next-generation model, likely in the next few weeks, it will mark a milestone in China’s yearslong quest for semiconductor self-sufficiency. That’s because the new model, called V4, will be able to run on the latest chips designed by Huawei Technologies. And in ...

Two key things prompted previous U.S, presidents to opt for diplomacy over war with Iran:
the bloody violence certain to follow
and the stranglehold Iran has on the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps spent decades developing weapons and military capabilities aimed at halting commercial traffic in the strait in the time of crisis.
U.S. and Israeli warplanes have decimated Tehran’s ability to mass-produce weapons and menace neighbors’ capitals…

Opinion | On Iran, Trump Offers No Plan and No End in Sight
The president failed to provide any meaningful strategy on the two central issues that define the war on Iran: reopening the Strait of Hormuz and what to do about that country’s uranium.

Sources: OpenAI and the DOD have agreed to add more surveillance protections to a recent AI deal; Sam Altman approached DOD's Emil Michael to rework the deal (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/03/openai-pentagon-ai-surveillance

Scoop: OpenAI, Pentagon add more surveillance protections to AI deal
It follows widespread backlash that domestic mass surveillance was still a real risk under the old terms.

Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance
Amidst fallout from a dramatic standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a new contract with the Pentagon. But everything wasn’t what it seemed.

Pope Leo XIV condemned the “imperialist occupation of the world”
in a mass on Thursday, just days before Easter,
in a continuation of his anti-war preachings as the Catholic leader continues to advocate against the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran.
“The cross is part of the mission.
The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within;
the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked,”
the pope’s official X account posted on Thursday.
…

Pope Leo Condemns “Imperialist Occupation” as He Urges Trump to End War on Iran
“Neither in the pastoral sphere nor in the social and political spheres can good come from abuse of power,” he said.

A fun tactic of extremists is to argue that they don't hate out-groups, they just blah blah blah.
The pinnacle of this was the antebellum argument that enslaved people were happier and healthier enslaved,
and that enslavers were motivated bu their charitable natures.
It was BS then, and it's BS now.
https://<…

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Q: Pope Leo cited Matthew 25:35 to critique Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda. How would you respond to Pope Leo in scripture? MIKE JOHNSON: Sovereign borders are biblical and right and just. It's not because we hate the people on the outside. It's because we love the people on the inside.

'Fair Share' outpaces other revenues
The Fair Share surtax is a 4% tax on annual income above $1 million in Massachusetts,
which was approved by voters in 2022
The funds are dedicated to public education and transportation.
As of 2026, it has generated over $2.3 billion for these purposes.
The new forecast from the Executive Office of Administration and Finance anticipates that the Commonwealth will collect a total of $44.9 billion in revenue this year,…

'Fair Share' Millionaire Tax Continues to Exceed Expectations - Streetsblog Massachusetts
The Commonwealth's budget office expects that Fair Share tax collections will be $300 million higher in fiscal year 2027.