Tootfinder

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.

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

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

Just learned of the old unit of mass 'slug':
A slug is defined as a mass that is accelerated by 1 ft/s2 when a net force of one pound (lbf) is exerted on it.
How I got to this from reading the Linux kernel USB HID code...no, weird....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(un

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.

Day Twenty-Six of the Protests: Government Commits Violence, Denies Responsibility, and Continues Mass Arrests (Hrana)
https://www.en-hrana.org/day-twenty-six-of-the-protests-government-commits-violence-denies-responsibility-and-continues-mass-arrests/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p59#a260123p59

Gemeinsam mit vielen anderen habe ich den Offenen Brief von @… gegen die "Chat-Kontrolle 1.0" an das Europäische Parliament unterschrieben.
Auch in der #ePrivacy Verordnung darf die Überwachung der Messenger nicht umgesetzt werden.

Anthropic announces an "auto mode" that enables Claude Code to make permission-level decisions while preventing destructive actions like mass file deletion (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/claude-code-auto-mode/

How Claude Code's new auto mode prevents AI coding disasters - without slowing you down
Anthropic's middle-ground mode aims to reduce interruptions while protecting developers from destructive commands. Here's why I like this new option.

Mass delays and cancellations, seemingly endless small repairs disrupting traffic in key commuting areas, and overcrowding are just some of the issues facing passengers who rely on Deutsche Bahn in their daily lives.
Since coming into power in early 2025, the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz has repeatedly promised to fund major rail projects that had already been planned.
Of the €500 billion ($585 billion) in controversial new debt taken on by his administration
👉 €15…

Germany’s rail service dealt major blow by government
The government is reportedly walking back promises to fund major projects for national train operator Deutsche Bahn. DB is beset by chronic punctuality problems, decrepit infrastructure, and a lack of investment.

A possible shutting-down event of mass accretion in an #ActiveGalacticNucleus at z ∼ 1.8: https://academic.oup.com/pasj/article/77/6/1350/8313806?login=false -> Distant Galaxy Fades 20-Fold in Just Two Decades ― Rapid Decline in Gas Supply to Its SuperMassive Black Hole: https://subarutelescope.org/en/results/2026/03/24/3688.html

The fucking LLMs are going to cause a mass extinction of web stuff simply due to price hikings, aren't they?

I've really enjoyed hearing where we are on 3D-printed rib-ticklers sooo...
MAST #3DPrintingGeeks!
Tell me the wildest new thing in your area that will make me go WOW!
Is it speed? Materials? Colours?
Also, when do you think 3D printing will go truly mass-market? It feels like you still need a load of patience / expertise?

Yep the squirrels here in Mass know Shits About To Get Real

The Feds keep saying "We did not" or "We will not" buy this or that empty warehouse for use as an ICE prison.
What they are hiding is that in order for a warehouse to be an ICE/CBP prison that the warehouse need not be "owned" by the Feds.
Rather the warehouse could be bought by a maga-friend, like Elon or Ellison etc and then leased to the government.
The Feds would not bey lying when they say they are not buying the warehouse. But they will …

ICE is quietly buying warehouses for its detention expansion
At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers. Communities are objecting to mass detentions and raising concerns that the facilities could strain water supplies and other services while reducing local tax revenue. In many cases, mayors, county commissioners, governors and members of Congress learned about ICE’s ambitions only after the agency bought or leased spac…

"It is also that these are not all working-class struggles around which a global proletariat could possibly be cobbled together. The class composition of the mass protests in Iran (now), Ukraine (in 2013-14), or Venezuela (since 2013) clearly don’t flow from the manuals of marxist revolutionaries. I’ve argued elsewhere that the world is undergoing a “class reconfiguration” in which ecological struggles and climate vulnerability will be playing a newly unifying role."

Global greening: Study shows Earth's green wave is shifting northeast #environment

Global greening: Study shows Earth's green wave is shifting northeast
A team of scientists led by the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), and Leipzig University has developed a new method to track Earth's greenness—a key indicator of vegetation health and activity—by calculating its center of mass.

And people keep being suprised by the regular genocides that *keep fucking happening*. And yes, call what ICE is doing what it is. It is a gencoide. Even if it's not killing millions of people (yet), the "genocide" doesn't mean "killing logs of people" it means "trying to wipe out a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group." What the fuck is ICE trying to do? They're carrying out ethnic cleansing. It's genocide.
Genocide in Gaza, genocide in Syria, genocide in Turkey, China, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Serbia... why the fuck does it keep happening? I'll tell you why. It's states.
People like to think of countries and ethnic reagions as the same thing, but they aren't. They never have been. There's never been clear divisions between ethnic groups. But the existence of the state depends on a shared identity. When the truth is more complicated, the state must find a way to fix that. The solution is genocide. You can't separate the two. There can be no state without genocide. The mechanism to carry ou the kind of mass murder and the incentive to do so are really not easy to put together without the state. The state makes genocide viable, and the state demands genocide to protect it's own existence.
Every election is a dice roll. Every state is on a clock, waiting for the luck to run out. And the worst people possible are just waiting for their chance to win and carry out those genocides in order to lock in their power.
Never again means nothing unless you are attacking the root of genocide: the state.

Postscript: What I and most Europeans don't understand: don't Americans understand what is happening to their country? That democracy and freedom are being destroyed and a terrorist state is emerging? The whole world hates the US now! Why are there still no mass protests, no coup by the army? Trump is a corrupt, criminal, mentally ill, fascist criminal, murderer, and narcissist who openly enriches himself and ruins the country! Everything, absolutely everything he accuses his opponen…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Vox Luminis sing Bach's B minor mass
Linton Stephens showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including Bach’s monumental B minor mass performed by Vox Luminis and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q0hp

There is a mass discussion on the Orange Website right now about the European implementation of mandatory digital ID and associated ban on the use of jailbroken or non-attested devices with the digital ID applications as well as Android's impending blockade on unsigned sideloading.
Broadly, I see only two camps represented:
1. people discussing how such systems can be technically implemented
2. people rabbling about how it's an infringement of `muh rights` (lol, you…

Videos published by the NYT show the extremely brutal and inhumane actions of #ICE against people.
I see little difference between this and the thugs of an Ayatollah in Iran.
Who would elect a president who
brings out the worst in people?
ICE is becoming a gathering place for criminals, thugs, and right-wing hooligans.
Darth

Videos From Minnesota Show How Aggressive ICE Has Gotten During Arrests and Encounters With Protesters
For weeks, residents have documented the impact of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign and captured many violent confrontations on camera.

There are investigations linking specific no-name Twitter accounts with less than 30 followers as the source of Musk's and Trump's disinformed beliefs. We are able to trace Trump's conspiracy beliefs of the gold being stolen in Fort Knox to just some random account on Twitter claiming it.
Whoever runs that account has more influence than you. You don't even need Russia or China to plant disinformation on a mass-scale, apparently all it takes is some Twitter Account.

Google acquires Common Sense Machines, whose AI models create 3D assets from 2D images, and was last valued at $15M after raising $10M from a16z and others (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-google-acquires-3d-im…

Exclusive: Google Acquires 3D Image Generator Startup
Google has acquired Common Sense Machines, a Cambridge, Mass.,-based startup developing generative artificial intelligence models to create three-dimensional assets from two-dimensional images, a Google spokesperson confirmed. The deal closed this week, according to the spokesperson. The spokesperson declined to provide a price. The company had around a dozen employees, according to its

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

Sean Casten, Rep IL-06
The mass protests in MN yesterday,
the collapsing poll numbers,
the decency of the protesters
-- It all scares them.
They are shooting their way out
and don't care who they hit.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:2

Ukraine downs 15 missiles and 357 drones in overnight mass attack centered on Kyiv: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/24/ukraine-downs-missiles-and-drones.html

Okay. Yeah. Putting out the call.
If you are a bisexual male who has dated both men and women can you DM or @ me for some private conversations please? #HeatedRivalry (after Episode 4)
RI/SE Mass/Boston area preferred.

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.

Kash Patel's use of jet delayed FBI team's mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator (Carol Leonnig/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/senator-slams-kash-patel-for-use-of-fbi-jet-asks-for-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p83#a260224p83

Way back in the late 1980's my cat once brought one of these to our front door. (We live in Santa Cruz county along an ever-running creek - rather the natural habitat for garter snakes.)
(Our office was located next to a site that had hundreds if not thousands of common garter snakes - enough that a state herpetologist lept back upon encountering a mass-of-snakes scene right out of an Indiana Jones movie.)

Stunning California snake endangered since the 1960s prepares to make a comeback
Listed as endangered since 1967, San Francisco garter snakes are found only on the Peninsula and in northern Santa Cruz County.

🫧 Shipping regulations to reduce pollution may have exacerbated Great Barrier Reef bleaching
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-shipping-pollution-exacerbated-great-barrier.html

Shipping regulations to reduce pollution may have exacerbated Great Barrier Reef bleaching
Rising ocean temperatures have been implicated in mass coral bleaching events affecting the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). These events have been increasingly frequent, with major events occurring in 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2024, and 2025. Now, in an unexpected turn of events, it appears that regulations introduced in 2020 to reduce ship fuel pollution may have actually increased the solar radiation that leads to increased coral bleaching, according to a study published in Nature Communications Eart…

"We're just going to run a physical simulation of a human brain to achieve AGI"
"Won't the brain die instantly if it's without a body and oxygen supply etc?"
"Well, we'll just also simulate a body."
"Won't the body die instantly if it's in a vacuum?
"Fine, we'll just simulate an atmosphere too."
"Won't the body die if it's without food and light and gravity and stimulation?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate all the physical processes on the Earth."
"Won't the Earth just freeze instantly without the Sun being there?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the sun, too."
"Will the solar system work properly if there's only the sun? What about gravitational influences of other mass in the galaxy, what about cosmic rays?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the whole universe, too."

U.S. Wants to Mass Produce the Drone Design It Stole From Iran
https://gizmodo.com/u-s-wants-to-mass-produce-the-drone-design-it-stole-from-iran-2000734799

Pedos coping because they know they're mass reporting tactics won't work on the fediverse and I know how to archive my YouTube

Every single day, the whole debacle with Blake Lemoine feels so much more quaint than the mass delusions we’re uncovering now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/

The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder.

Theory Framework for Medium-Mass Muonic Atoms
S. Rathi, I. A. Valuev, Z. Sun, M. Heines, P. Indelicato, B. Ohayon, N. S. Oreshkina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22021 https://

Learning about mass defects, or the change in mass due to nuclear binding energy in atoms.
Also, all forms of potential energy, like nuclear binding energy, change the mass of the system they're part of.
So when you go upstairs, you increase your potential energy (what would become kinetic if you fell down the stairs) and so increase your mass (a tiny amount).
But, since you are farther from the center of the Earth, when you go upstairs, you lower your weight.
1/…

Another appeals court backs Trump administration's mass detention policy (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/25/mandatory-detention-ruling-8th-circuit-00844386
http://www.memeorandum.com/260325/p72#a260325p72

Westerners when Brown people are mass murdered daily by Israel/USA.
🤷‍♂️
Westerners when they have to pay more for oil.
🤬
#WesternValues

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[4/6]:
- Neural Proposals, Symbolic Guarantees: Neuro-Symbolic Graph Generation with Hard Constraints
Chuqin Geng, Li Zhang, Mark Zhang, Haolin Ye, Ziyu Zhao, Xujie Si
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16954 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116102434757760085
- Multi-Probe Zero Collision Hash (MPZCH): Mitigating Embedding Collisions and Enhancing Model Fres...
Ziliang Zhao, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17050 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116102517335590034
- MASPO: Unifying Gradient Utilization, Probability Mass, and Signal Reliability for Robust and Sam...
Fu, Lin, Fang, Zheng, Hu, Shao, Qin, Pan, Zeng, Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17550 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116102581561441103
- A Theoretical Framework for Modular Learning of Robust Generative Models
Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri, Yutao Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17554 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116102582216715527
- Multi-Round Human-AI Collaboration with User-Specified Requirements
Sima Noorani, Shayan Kiyani, Hamed Hassani, George Pappas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17646 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116102592047544971
- NEXUS: A compact neural architecture for high-resolution spatiotemporal air quality forecasting i...
Rampunit Kumar, Aditya Maheshwari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19654 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116125610403473755
- Augmenting Lateral Thinking in Language Models with Humor and Riddle Data for the BRAINTEASER Task
Mina Ghashami, Soumya Smruti Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10385 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/112472190479013167
- Watermarking Language Models with Error Correcting Codes
Patrick Chao, Yan Sun, Edgar Dobriban, Hamed Hassani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10281 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/112636307340218522
- Learning to Control Unknown Strongly Monotone Games
Siddharth Chandak, Ilai Bistritz, Nicholas Bambos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00575 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMA_bot/112715733875586837
- Classification and reconstruction for single-pixel imaging with classical and quantum neural netw...
Sofya Manko, Dmitry Frolovtsev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12506 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/112806295477530195
- Statistical Inference for Temporal Difference Learning with Linear Function Approximation
Weichen Wu, Gen Li, Yuting Wei, Alessandro Rinaldo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16106 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/113350611306532443
- Big data approach to Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials
Abel Lacabanne, Daniel Tubbenhauer, Pedro Vaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01283 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathRT_bot/113587812663608119
- MoEMba: A Mamba-based Mixture of Experts for High-Density EMG-based Hand Gesture Recognition
Mehran Shabanpour, Kasra Rad, Sadaf Khademi, Arash Mohammadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17457 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/114069047434302054
- Tightening Optimality gap with confidence through conformal prediction
Miao Li, Michael Klamkin, Russell Bent, Pascal Van Hentenryck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04071 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114120074927291283
- SEED: Towards More Accurate Semantic Evaluation for Visual Brain Decoding
Juhyeon Park, Peter Yongho Kim, Jiook Cha, Shinjae Yoo, Taesup Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06437 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/114142690988862508
- How much does context affect the accuracy of AI health advice?
Prashant Garg, Thiemo Fetzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18310 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_econGN_bot/114414380916957986
- Reproducing and Improving CheXNet: Deep Learning for Chest X-ray Disease Classification
Daniel J. Strick, Carlos Garcia, Anthony Huang, Thomas Gardos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06646 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/114499319986528625
- Sharp Gaussian approximations for Decentralized Federated Learning
Soham Bonnerjee, Sayar Karmakar, Wei Biao Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08125 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114505047719395949
- HoloLLM: Multisensory Foundation Model for Language-Grounded Human Sensing and Reasoning
Chuhao Zhou, Jianfei Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17645 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/114572928659057348
- A Copula Based Supervised Filter for Feature Selection in Diabetes Risk Prediction Using Machine ...
Agnideep Aich, Md Monzur Murshed, Sameera Hewage, Amanda Mayeaux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22554 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114589983451462525
- Synthesis of discrete-continuous quantum circuits with multimodal diffusion models
Florian F\"urrutter, Zohim Chandani, Ikko Hamamura, Hans J. Briegel, Gorka Mu\~noz-Gil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01666 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/114618420761346125
toXiv_bot_toot

interactome_figeys: Figeys human interactome (2007)
A network of human proteins and their binding interactions. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents an interaction between two proteins, as inferred using a mass spectrometry‐based approach.
This network has 2239 nodes and 6452 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

A Mass Transferring Brown Dwarf #Binary on a 57 Minute Orbit: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae486e -> How Two Dim Stars Came Together to Shine Brightly: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/how-two-dim-stars-came-together-to-shine-brightly

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. […]

So there has been a school shooting in British Columbia - and I guess since I spent so much time living and working in the states, I forgot that these are horrifying and traumatizing events - which may just be down to the coverage in the media in the US versus Canada.
That's not to say that the coverage here has been good - quite the opposite in fact - but I will get to that at the moment.
I will qualify this in that I will freely admit that I have no expertise in either mass …

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Radiohead:
🎵 Everything in Its Right Place
#Radiohead
https://massdigital.bandcamp.com/track/radiohead-everything-in-its-right-place-mass-digital-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2kRFrWaLWiKq48YYVdGcm8

Do you think we could get a critical mass of people who might be interested in a Mastodon-related meetup in the #Hampshire #UK area?? (I'm thinking #Winchester or

Ojo que nos hemos librado de #chatControl https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/historic-chat-control-vot…

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…

Nice to see at least a few churches paying attention to the Bible.
https://religionnews.com/2026/02/19/interfaith-networks-house-immigrants-as-mass-deportations-take-their-toll/

"The US may be dragging its feet in launching serious investigations into the rich and powerful connected to Epstein, but the rest of the world is taking the lead.
At some point a critical mass will be reached — perhaps when new, damning information surfaces in testimonies. Everyone in the White House knows this. Trump knows it."

Terror In The White House
Epstein investigations are coming in the back door

We asked an expert about Russia's 'updated' mass missile, drone tactics: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/we-asked-an-expert-about.html

🌱 Global greening: Study shows Earth's green wave is shifting northeast
#environment

Global greening: Study shows Earth's green wave is shifting northeast
A team of scientists led by the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), and Leipzig University has developed a new method to track Earth's greenness—a key indicator of vegetation health and activity—by calculating its center of mass.

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

Masses
#iTeachPhysics
#Science
https://bsky.app/profile/hookean.bsky.social/post/3md4…

Israel carrying out ‘mass expulsion of Palestinians’ in West Bank, UN warns | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/17/israel-carrying-out-mass-expulsion-of-palesti…

Israel carrying out ‘mass expulsion of Palestinians’ in West Bank, UN warns
UN rights office says more than 36,000 Palestinians forcibly displaced in a year due to Israeli settler, army violence.

Former Uvalde Officer Adrian Gonzales Found Not Guilty of Endangering Children in Mass Shooting - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/former-police-officer-who-failed-to-confront-uvalde-gunman-found-not-guilty.html

Explosions, fires reported in Kyiv as Russia launches mass attack following peace talks: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/24/explosions-fires-reported-in-kyiv.html

RSA is many days away, and Metacurity is already straining the capacity limit of our newsletter platform, so check out today's issue for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--DarkSword turns iPhone hacking into a mass-scale, drive-by threat,
--CISA says orgs should secure Intune after Stryker attack,
--Stryker attack delayed some surgeries,
--Hacker claims theft of 93 GB of data from police tip platform,
--Fed cyber reviewers couldn…

DarkSword turns iPhone hacking into a mass-scale, drive-by threat
CISA says orgs should secure Intune after Stryker attack, Stryker attack delayed some surgeries, Hacker claims theft of 93 GB of data from police tip platform, Fed cyber reviewers couldn't examine Microsoft cloud platform for security, Patel confirms FBI buys US citizens' location data, 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.

Students at universities in Iran have held a third consecutive day of protest
just over a month after the violent suppression by security services of mass street demonstrations left thousands dead.
The protests came amid tensions between Iran and the US.
Washington has built up military forces and pressure in the Middle East as it negotiates with Tehran
– with the next round in Geneva on Thursday.
Donald Trump has warned “really bad things will happen” if there …

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[1/3]:
- SMaRT: Online Reusable Resource Assignment and an Application to Mediation in the Kenyan Judiciary
Farabi, Pinto, Lu, Ramos-Maqueda, Das, Deeb, Sautmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18431 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_bot/116119352329590193
- Benchmarking Distilled Language Models: Performance and Efficiency in Resource-Constrained Settings
Sachin Gopal Wani, Eric Page, Ajay Dholakia, David Ellison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20164 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130101399805837
- VISION-ICE: Video-based Interpretation and Spatial Identification of Arrhythmia Origins via Neura...
Dorsa EPMoghaddam, Feng Gao, Drew Bernard, Kavya Sinha, Mehdi Razavi, Behnaam Aazhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20165 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130222034322594
- Benchmarking Early Deterioration Prediction Across Hospital-Rich and MCI-Like Emergency Triage Un...
KMA Solaiman, Joshua Sebastian, Karma Tobden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20168 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_bot/116130239074411770
- Cross-Chirality Generalization by Axial Vectors for Hetero-Chiral Protein-Peptide Interaction Design
Yang, Tian, Jia, Zhang, Zheng, Wang, Su, He, Liu, Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20176 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioBM_bot/116130281674122586
- Enhancing Heat Sink Efficiency in MOSFETs using Physics Informed Neural Networks: A Systematic St...
Aniruddha Bora, Isabel K. Alvarez, Julie Chalfant, Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20177 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNE_bot/116130397676559696
- Data-Driven Deep MIMO Detection:Network Architectures and Generalization Analysis
Yongwei Yi, Xinping Yi, Wenjin Wang, Xiao Li, Shi Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20178 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/116130257424413457
- OrgFlow: Generative Modeling of Organic Crystal Structures from Molecular Graphs
Mohammadmahdi Vahediahmar, Matthew A. McDonald, Feng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20195 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot/116130271189617558
- KEMP-PIP: A Feature-Fusion Based Approach for Pro-inflammatory Peptide Prediction
Soumik Deb Niloy, Md. Fahmid-Ul-Alam Juboraj, Swakkhar Shatabda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20198 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioQM_bot/116130341315320687
- Regressor-guided Diffusion Model for De Novo Peptide Sequencing with Explicit Mass Control
Shaorong Chen, Jingbo Zhou, Jun Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20209 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioQM_bot/116130374083646541
- The Sim-to-Real Gap in MRS Quantification: A Systematic Deep Learning Validation for GABA
Zien Ma, S. M. Shermer, Oktay Karaku\c{s}, Frank C. Langbein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20289 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/116130267228834775
- Gap-Dependent Bounds for Nearly Minimax Optimal Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Appro...
Haochen Zhang, Zhong Zheng, Lingzhou Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20297 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130255458256497
- Multilevel Determinants of Overweight and Obesity Among U.S. Children Aged 10-17: Comparative Eva...
Joyanta Jyoti Mondal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20303 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130097466859145
- An artificial intelligence framework for end-to-end rare disease phenotyping from clinical notes ...
Shyr, Hu, Tinker, Cassini, Byram, Hamid, Fabbri, Wright, Peterson, Bastarache, Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20324 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130100089848459
- Circuit Tracing in Vision-Language Models: Understanding the Internal Mechanisms of Multimodal Th...
Jingcheng Yang, Tianhu Xiong, Shengyi Qian, Klara Nahrstedt, Mingyuan Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20330 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130463214879334
- No One Size Fits All: QueryBandits for Hallucination Mitigation
Nicole Cho, William Watson, Alec Koppel, Sumitra Ganesh, Manuela Veloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20332 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130370809116915
- Learning During Detection: Continual Learning for Neural OFDM Receivers via DMRS
Mohanad Obeed, Ming Jian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20361 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_bot/116130289537785136
- Detecting and Mitigating Group Bias in Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Joel Persson, Jurri\"en Bakker, Dennis Bohle, Stefan Feuerriegel, Florian von Wangenheim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20383 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/116130509065601748
- Selecting Optimal Variable Order in Autoregressive Ising Models
Shiba Biswal, Marc Vuffray, Andrey Y. Lokhov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20394 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130299369541741
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Really "love" how mass media is completely not saying _why_ that guy was arrested.
He's a fucking child rapist.

Trump administration plans to deport 40 Iranians days after mass killings in Iran (David Rohde/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/trump-deport-iranians-ice-dhs-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p21#a260123p21

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

Florida sheriffs, including right-wing Grady Judd,
criticize Trump’s mass deportation efforts:
“There are those here that are working hard, they have kids in college, are in school, they’re going to church on Sunday, they’re not violating the law, and they’re living the American dream,” he told council members.

Florida sheriffs, including Grady Judd, criticize Trump’s mass deportation efforts
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd withFlorida Attorney General James Uthmeier last February discussing Operation Bloodline and Operation Flatline. A group of

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

US judge throws out immigration board's ruling endorsing Trump mass detention policy (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-throws-out-immigration-boards-ruling-endorsing-trump-mass-detention-2026-02-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p139#a260218p139

Deadly H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed in Antarctica After Mass Skua Die Off
https://scitechdaily.com/deadly-h5n1-bird-flu-confirmed-in-antarctica-after-mass-skua-die-off/

A scam website is actively approaching victims of the Odido data breach in the Netherlands, inviting them to join a mass claim against the telecom company for a one-off payment of €50.
https://nltimes.nl/2026/02/20/fake-sit

Fake site targeting victims of Odido data leak with compensation scam
A website is actively approaching victims of the Odido data breach, inviting them to join a mass claim against the telecom company for a one-off payment of €50. The site has plenty of red flags indicating that this is a scam, the Consumentenbond told RTL Z.

🚄 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
…

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.

Zelensky orders more air defenses for Sumy after mass Russian strikes: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/22/zelensky-orders-more-air-defenses.html

In a sensational turn of events in the fight against Chat Control,
a majority in the European Parliament voted today to end the untargeted mass scanning of private communications.
In doing so, the Parliament firmly rejected the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years.
Pressure is now mounting on EU governments to respect the MEPs’ vote and bury untargeted mass surveillance in Europe once and for all.

Historic Chat Control Vote in the EU Parliament: MEPs Vote to End Untargeted Mass Scanning of Private Chats
In a sensational turn of events in the fight against Chat Control, a majority in the European Parliament voted today to end the untargeted mass scanning of private communications. In doing so, the Parliament firmly rejected the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years.

Metacurity operates beyond the infosec news echo chamber to unearth sources and stories that the big guys overlook.
Check out today's issue for infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Pentagon challenges Anthropic over mass surveillance, autonomous weapons curbs,
--UK moves to tighten online safety laws after xAI's Grok debacle,
--Iran is spying on and retaliating against protestors,
--DHS is seeking to spy on anti-ICE soc…

Pentagon challenges Anthropic over mass surveillance, autonomous weapons curbs
UK moves to tighten online safety laws after xAI's Grok debacle, Iran is spying on and retaliating against protestors, DHS is spying on anti-ICE social media posters, Threat actors abuse DNS queries in ClickFix attacks, Tulsa airport confirms attacker access, much more

A year after mass layoffs, Education Dept keeps handing off its programs to other agencies | Federal News Network
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/reorganization/2026/03/a-year-after-mass-layoffs-education-dept-keeps-handing-off-its-programs-to-other-agencies/

Battle for History: How Putin turned the past into a weapon of mass destruction | Episode 2: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/22/battle-for-history-how-putin.html

Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

What’s behind the mass exodus at xAI?
Internal sources spoke with The Verge about the recent restructuring at xAI and the direction Elon Musk is taking the company.

The Department of Justice and Attorney General Pam Bondi have struggled to replace attorneys
after a mass exodus of recent resignations, retirements and buyouts, an analyst said on Thursday.
https://www.

Obsessed Trump left his own DOJ scrambling with war on college: analysis
The Department of Justice and Attorney General Pam Bondi have struggled to replace attorneys after a mass exodus of recent resignations, retirements and buyouts, an analyst said on Thursday. And as President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on universities, it also backfired on the vital federal a...

The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/15/defeat-trump-mass-non-cooperation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p32#a260215p32

IDS and ADRN study: 11 African governments spent $2B on Chinese-built surveillance tech that recognizes faces and monitors movements; Nigeria spent $470M (Kaamil Ahmed/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-develop

How to get away with mass murder: 4 tactics Ethiopia used to hide Tigray atrocities from the world
https://theconversation.com/how-to-get-away-with-mass-murder-4-tactics-ethiopia-used-to-hide-tigray-atrocities-from-the-world-275298

A push by the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the widow of Renee Nicole Good
after her tragic killing at the hands of a federal immigration officer
has sparked a mass resignation of federal prosecutors in Minnesota, reports say.
According to reports, at least a dozen federal prosecutors across Washington and Minnesota have indicated their plans to resign.
This includes six federal prosecutors in the state who left their jobs on Tuesday,
and a…

DOJ Push to Investigate Renee Good’s Widow Sparks Mass Resignation
Rather than open an investigation into Good’s killer, top DOJ officials want to look into her grieving widow.

A push by the Department of Justice to open an investigation into
👉the widow of Renee Nicole Good
after her tragic killing at the hands of a federal immigration officer
💥has sparked a mass resignation of federal prosecutors in Minnesota, reports say.
According to reports, at least a dozen federal prosecutors across Washington and Minnesota have indicated their plans to resign.
This includes six federal prosecutors in the state who left their jobs on Tuesday,

DOJ Push to Investigate Renee Good’s Widow Sparks Mass Resignation
Rather than open an investigation into Good’s killer, top DOJ officials want to look into her grieving widow.

Battle for History: How Putin turned the past into a weapon of mass destruction | Episode 1: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/21/battle-for-history-how-putin.html

Sources: OpenAI staff raised concerns about a Canadian mass shooting suspect months ago; OpenAI says her activity didn't meet the bar for reporting to police (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.…

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

The LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered a new particle consisting of two charm quarks and one down quark,
a similar structure to the familiar proton, but with two heavy charm quarks replacing the two up quarks of the proton -- thus quadrupling its mass.
The discovery, presented at the ongoing Moriond conference, will help physicists better understand how the strong force binds protons, neutrons and other composite particles together.
Quarks …

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.

Russia tests Zircon missile in Ukraine amid mass strike targeting Kyiv's energy infrastructure: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/russia-tests-zircon-missile-in.html

A ground invasion would be disastrous for the U.S., the Iranian people, and global markets, analysts say.
“I think any attempt to seize [Kharg] island would be close to a suicide mission,”
said former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Harrison Mann in an interview with Democracy Now!.
“If you drop troops on that island,
they could really end up being trapped there,
which would really play into the hands of the Iranian government.
And I think a U.S. mass ca…

US Is Sending Thousands More Troops to Middle East, Reports Say, in Escalation
New polling this week found the majority of Americans say the war benefits Israel more than it does the US.

Sources: Seoul-based AI chip designer FuriosaAI seeks to raise a $300M-$500M Series D to fund mass production of its 2nd-gen RNGD chip and is eyeing a 2027 IPO (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Ukraine unveils new Octopus interceptor drone, plans mass production with the UK: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/ukraine-unveils-new-octopus-interceptor.html

Perplexity's retreat from ads signals a strategic shift as it recognizes its product is not for a mass audience and expects growth to come from enterprise sales (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-ads-shift-search-google/

Perplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift
The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it's betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.

The resignations came as a result of a push by top Justice Department officials to investigate #Good’s #widow,
a move that has sparked outrage over the seeming mission to punish a family already grieving the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent’s brutal and public killing of Good.
They also come after …

DOJ Push to Investigate Renee Good’s Widow Sparks Mass Resignation
Rather than open an investigation into Good’s killer, top DOJ officials want to look into her grieving widow.

Last-minute Patriot and NASAMS deliveries help Ukraine repel mass Russian strike, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/lastminute-patriot-and-nasams-deliveries.html

Ukraine war latest live: Russia used 'updated tactics' during latest mass missile, drone strike, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/20/ukraine-war-latest-live-russia.html

'I choose Ukraine' — Zelensky cancels trip to Davos following another mass Russian attack: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/20/i-choose-ukraine-zelensky-cancels.html

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