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

Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff Before Leaving Office (Josh Dawsey/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-promises-mass-pardons-to-staff-before-leaving-office-d7274d32?st=8iABpV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p92#a260410p92

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.

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

Scoop: White House tells House Republicans to stop talking about mass deportations (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/white-house-house-republicans-mass-deportations
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p78#a260310p78

OpenAI backs an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from liability even for "critical harms," like 100 deaths or $1B damage, if safety reports were published (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backs-bill-exempt-ai-firms-model-ha…

OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”

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

I’m delighted to hear more people talking about data poisoning in the context of mass surveillance.
This video has YouTube Syndrome (overlong to reach 10 min, filler, spends too long teasing the actual info), but starts getting into the heart of it around 3:45.
I was hoping for more actionable advice about active poisoning toward the end, and not just “like nicer stuff on social media,” but…good start, glad people are talking.
https://chaos.social/@afelia/116048491771210434

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

Mass layoffs at Washington Post: Dimming democracy's light
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5729864-democracy-dies-in-darkness/

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.

🇺🇦 #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

“President Trump has repeatedly promised his top administration officials pardons before he leaves office, according to people who have heard his comments.”
But w/Epstein he likely broke state/territory law. Staffers may’ve obstructed in those jurisdictions too. Potus can’t pardon those.
…

https://resist.bot/petitions/PUOZIA

Two Judges Just Authorized Mass Incarceration—Congress Must Stop It
Text SIGN PUOZIA to 50409 to send this to your officials.

🚄 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
…

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.

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.

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…

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,

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-…

Florida's AG launches a probe into OpenAI and ChatGPT, saying its data could fall "into the hands of America's enemies" and citing a mass shooter's ChatGPT use (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/florida-ag-probe-openai-chat…

A mass hacking campaign targeting iPhone users in Ukraine and China
used tools that were likely designed by U.S. military contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned.
The tools, which were intended for Western spies, wound up in the hands of various hacking groups,
including Russian government spooks and Chinese cybercriminals.
Last week, Google revealed that over the course of 2025, it discovered that a sophisticated iPhone-hacking toolkit had been used in a series …

A suite of government hacking tools targeting iPhones is now being used by cybercriminals | TechCrunch
Security researchers say exploits used by governments to hack into iPhones have been found to be used by cybercriminals. They warned of an emerging market for "secondhand" exploits.

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

Mass killings reported as security forces use live fire on Iran protesters | Iran International
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601103903?source=share-link

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…

Donald Trump announces mass murder for tonight.

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

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

🚨Special Lecture! 🚨 Origin and Evolution of Early Solar System Organic Materials! Dr. John Eiler, Caltech.
Monday, April 27, 5:45 p.m. Central time. Zoom option available!
In honor of mass spectrometry giant, A.O. Nier, who taught and researched at U #Minnesota for decades.

2026 A.O.C. Nier lecture
Dr. John Eiler, Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology and Geochemistry, and Ted and Ginger Jenkins Leadership Chair of Geological and Planetary Sciences, CaltechExploring the organic chemistry of the early solar system using molecular isotopic structureAbstractOrganic chemistry is ubiquitous across all extraterrestrial environments — stellar envelopes, nebulae and protoplanetary disks, the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) — and dominates the processing and delivery of volatiles to planetary…

To execute its mass deportation campaign,
the Trump administration has big plans for small-town America.
In the rural town of Williamsport, Maryland, just next to Hagerstown,
the Department of Homeland Security recently purchased a massive shipping warehouse for over $100 million
and plans to convert the facility into an immigrant detention center
that will hold upwards of 1,500 human beings per day.
In this on-the-ground report, TRNN takes you to the si…

‘A black site concentration camp’: Residents fight ICE detention warehouse in rural Maryland
“A warehouse is meant to be an economic hub… Turning it into a jail and housing humans inside is ... well, it's gross. It's wrong.”

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

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

Trump promised mass pardons for his top aides before he leaves office: report | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-pardons-top-aides-b2955583.html

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.

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.

10 dead, including suspect, in mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. (CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/active-shooter-alert-tumbler-ridge-secondary-school-bc-live-updates-9.7083740
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p183#a260210p183

…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/

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

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

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

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics00sForever
Layo & Bushwacka!:
🎵 Love Story
#Layo #Bushwacka!
https://massdigital.bandcamp.com/track/layo-bushwacka-love-story-mass-digital-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3SdXO2B5AVG6BDHiS7dOH6

More Immigrants Than Ever Are Challenging Detention
An analysis of habeas cases since 2009 shows that
immigrants have filed more challenges to their detention in the first 13 months of Trump’s second term
than in the last three administrations combined
— and the number keeps rising.
The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 challenges in federal court
from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal,
mor…

Immigrants Who Say Their Detention Is Illegal Have Filed More Than 18,000 Cases. It’s a Historic High.
Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court. This total is more than were filed under the last three administrations combined — including Trump’s first term.

White House tells House GOP to avoid mass deportation talk ahead of midterms (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/10/trump-gop-deportations-midterms/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p107#a260310p107

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/

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?

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

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.

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.

🔊 #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

Judges may have found a way to bypass 5th Circuit ruling upholding Trump's mass detention policy (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/10/texas-immigration-detention-rulings-00774124
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p102#a260210p102

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

#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

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.

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.

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…

🔊 #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

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

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.

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

'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

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. […]

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

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

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

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.

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…

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…

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.