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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

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.

Nice Time: Hero Of Australian Mass Shooting Thanked With Great Big $1.65 Million Check
https://www.wonkette.com/p/nice-time-hero-of-australian-mass

Russia's mass missile attack targets Kyiv ahead of upcoming Trump-Zelensky meeting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/27/russias-mass-missile-attack-targets.html

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.

Heute gab's trotz dem am Mittwoch kaputt gegangenen G-Line mehrere freudige Dinge in Sachen #Fahrrad: Hab's nach mehreren Monaten Abstinenz wegen Terminkonflikten endlich mal wieder zur #CriticalMass #Zürich

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.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/116141244443558638
If you’re not a US citizen, Anthropic supports your mass surveillance by the US regime. Thought you might want to know in case you find yourself funding your own future demise from a drone strike or something.

The Japanese government plans to invest ~$1.6B in Rapidus over the next two fiscal years to help it mass-produce 2nm logic chips and potentially challenge TSMC (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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

The mass distribution in and around the Local Group: #MilkyWay is embedded in a ‘large-scale sheet’ and this explains the motions of nearby galaxies: https://www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/a-flat-surrounding-of-the-milky-way-explains-the-motion-of-nearby-galaxies-4796

From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
How effective is protesting❓
According to historians and political scientists: ⭐️VERY ⭐️
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

Good to see employees from Google and OpenAI speaking out.
"The Pentagon is negotiating with Google and OpenAI to try to get them to agree to what Anthropic has refused."
#AI

We Will Not Be Divided
Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

„As the state imposed a sweeping information blackout and advanced claims blaming foreign agents for the violence, this brutality has nonetheless been met with a striking absence of sustained outrage in spaces that otherwise position themselves as opponents of state violence. Among Western progressives, the response has largely been silence.“

Regarding the Erasure of Iranian Uprising - TripleAmpersand Journal (&&&)
The most recent state crackdown on Iranian protesters stands among the most violent suppressions of public dissent in Iran’s modern history. Protesters have been killed, blinded, and mass-arrested. As the state imposed a sweeping information blackout and advanced claims blaming foreign agents for the violence, this brutality has nonetheless been met with a striking absence… Read More »

Ich würde es mir anschauen, das Rhinozeros im Raum von Itamar Gov in #Magdeburg
Ist leider nur ein bisschen weit weg.
https://www.itamargov.com/projects/the-rhi

The Rhinoceros in the Room. Or: A Tale of Banality and Evil | itamar gov
Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist play 'Rhinoceros' from 1959 depicts a sleepy French town whose inhabitants gradually metamorphose into rhinoceroses and come to peacefully accept the destruction and violence that this collective transformation entails. The piece was a response to the rise of authoritarian ideologies in the period leading up to WWII, and it explored broader themes of conformity, collective and individual responsibility, mass movements, mob mentality, and morality. The concept of �…

Flooding the zone.
From: @…
https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/politics-9rga37brz/-/a-vpaFI0T_Sg-…

My friend’s band Friday; “The Memory of Water” at Burbage Saturday; shoveling and hot dish for Pats/Broncs with neighbors yesterday. Today, Marie’s Mass cornbread, egg and bacon, tea and coffee, and Arkham Horror tonight! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/uJiaNu5tgDJNWZf66

🧲 Low-field MRI is safe, feasible and more comfortable for breast screening, finds study
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-field-mri-safe-feasible-comfortable.html

Low-field MRI is safe, feasible and more comfortable for breast screening, finds study
Researchers at Mass General Brigham have demonstrated the technical feasibility of using ultra-low field (ULF) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for breast imaging. With further refinement and evaluation, the technology could offer an alternative to existing breast cancer screening methods and may reduce barriers to screening. Results are published in Scientific Reports.

Ob alle Schweizer*innen Storchenbeine haben? Für meine Radl-Waden waren die beheizbaren Socken noch nie geeignet. Und vielleicht ist auch das Runterschieben schuld, dass die scheißteuren Dinger dauernd kaputtgehen. Nun habe ich zwei kaputte Strümpfe zerschnitten und in zwei intakte innen Keile eingenäht. Gar nicht so leicht mit einer normalen Nähmaschine.
Zumindest die Anfahrt zur Critical Mass werde ich heute wohl überstehen ;))

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Joseph Haydn, Hilde Haraldsen Sveen, Marianne Beate Kielland, Jonas Degerfeldt, Gabriel Suovanen, Oslo Philharmonic Choir, Oslo Philharmonic & Manfred Honeck:
🎵 Mass in C major, Missa in tempore belli 'Paukenmesse' H.22.9

@…
Findet gleich um 19:00 die nächste Critical Mass-Fahrt ab Domplatz statt?
#münster

chatcontrol e oscuramento: la guerra alla crittografia è in aumento. A causa di una losca collaborazione tra Stati Uniti e Unione Europea.
Sorveglianza di massa statale
Dopo la denuncia di Snowden nel 2013, ampie porzioni di Internet sono diventate crittografate, consentendo comunicazioni private e sicure. Non tutti hanno accolto con favore questo cambiamento. In particolare, l'FBI e altre agenzie governative statunitensi hanno combattuto quella che viene spesso definita la &q…

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

Anthropic says new DOD "contract language" made "virtually no progress" on preventing Claude's use for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/26/anthropic-rejects-pentagon-ai-terms

Anthropic says Pentagon's "final offer" is unacceptable
The company is facing a Friday night deadline to comply or face potentially huge consequences.

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

📣📣📣 LLM-powered coding mass-produces technical debt. 📣📣📣
The expectations around them are sky-high, but many organizations are falling behind because of them. 📉
WHY IT MATTERS? CTOs lament slowdowns and production issues traced to company-wide rollouts of LLM-powered coding assistants. The AI promise clashes with the reality of technical debt and security issues. 🐛
Read more:

How To Use LLM-Powered Coding Assistants Safely: Risks & Best Practices
Learn how to gain the productivity benefits of LLM-powered coding assistants without introducing technical debt or security risks. Discover real-world pitfalls, expert insights, and governance best practices from Xebia.

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 surveillance is gross. "AI-enhanced" mass surveillance is even worse, and Flock Safety (funded by Horowitz's a16z & Y Combinator) is exceptionally scummy, insecure, incompetent, and lying about it:
https://youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?t=442

Letter: 100 Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/tech…

Google Workers Seek ‘Red Lines’ on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic
More than 100 Google A.I. employees sent a letter to Jeff Dean, a chief scientist, opposing Gemini’s use for U.S. surveillance and some autonomous weapons.

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.

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

The GUARDIAN: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/25/protests-effective-history-impact

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history

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.

Gravitational forces from the pulsar have stretched the Jupiter-mass world into a bizarre lemon shape.
James Webb Space Telescope data reveals that its atmosphere contains He, C2 and C3, with little H, O or N.
Clouds of carbon soot likely condense and fall as diamonds.
https://

nearing the conclusion of an epic mass market sci-fi paperback & my nose is tragically just slightly too stuffed to smell it. #books

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.

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?

The Pentagon says it has offered compromises to Anthropic, including putting in writing that laws already bar the military from mass surveillance of Americans (Jennifer Jacobs/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-anthropic-feud-ai-militar…

🇺🇦 #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

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

On the spatial structure and intermittency of soot in a lab-scale gas turbine combustor: Insights from large-eddy simulations
Leonardo Pachano, Daniel Mira, Abhijit Kalbhor, Jeroen van Oijen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23155 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.23155 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.23155
arXiv:2602.23155v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work presents a numerical investigation of soot formation in the Cambridge lab-scale gas turbine combustor. Large-eddy simulations (LES) of a swirl-stabilized ethylene flame are performed using the flamelet generated manifold method coupled with a discrete sectional model to account for soot formation, growth, and oxidation. The study aims to elucidate the mechanism governing the spatial structure and intermittency of soot, supported by comparisons with experimental data. The predicted soot distribution agrees well with measurements, with peak concentrations near the bluff body. Flow recirculation is identified as the key mechanism driving soot accumulation in fuel-rich regions, where surface reactions dominate soot mass growth. Soot intermittency arises from fluctuations in the flow field driven by interactions between the flame front and the recirculation vortex. Two soot modeling approaches are evaluated, differing in their treatment of soot model quantities: the first approach employs on-the-fly computation of source terms (FGM-C), while the second uses fully pre-tabulated source terms (FGM-T). Their predictive performance and computational cost are compared in the context of unsteady, sooting flames in swirl-stabilized combustors.
toXiv_bot_toot

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."

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.

Mass Recall of U.S. Ambassadors Leaves Unprecedented Global Vacancies (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/mass-recall-of-u-s-ambassadors-leaves-unprecedented-global-vacancies-b031a9ac
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p108#a251222p108

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…

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…

"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."

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.

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

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

🔊 #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

Pope Leo decries 'distorted economy' in first Christmas Mass – DW – 12/25/2025
https://www.dw.com/en/world-celebrates-christmas-as-2025-draws-to-a-close/live-75292667

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

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.

Chinese automakers delay plans to mass-produce self-driving vehicles as Beijing becomes more cautious, after a fatal Xiaomi crash in March caused public concern (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/business/china-autonomous-cars-dr…

China Delays Plans for Mass Production of Self-Driving Cars After Accident
After years of planning for cars that would let drivers take their hands off the wheel and eyes off the road, China’s regulators have become more cautious.

The size of #3I/ATLAS from non-gravitational acceleration: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18341 -> "we find diameters between 820 meters and 1050 meters [...] reliable estimates of the mass loss rate at other stages of the comet's trajectory will substantially reduce the systematic uncertainty in this estimate."

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

Sources: Samsung enters the final qualification phase to supply its HBM4 chips to Nvidia, and targets mass production in February; Samsung's shares jumped 3.2% (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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

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

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

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.

Here is yet another example of the maga-klan's goal of suppressing free speech and freedom of exercise of religion (except for speech and religion that conforms to maga-land.)
"ICE director demands Mass. church remove ‘ICE was here’ nativity scene"
https://www.

ICE director demands Mass. church remove ‘ICE was here’ nativity scene
ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons is calling for the removal of a nativity scene at a Catholic church in Mass. that protests U.S. immigration policies.

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

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/

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

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.

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

This is sick, evil, and a very intentional infliction of pain.
Especially so when it is noted that that El Cheato's mass pardons and commutations have cheated many victims (and the government) who are owed restitution by criminals.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/23/nx-s1-5653…

“I love A.I.”
For Donald Trump, there is no risk, only reward, posed by the dawning and disruptive new age of computing.
Over the past year, the president and his top aides have fully embraced A.I.,
and showered its leading corporate backers with money and regulatory support,
as the administration looks to supercharge one of the primary areas of growth in an otherwise precarious U.S. economy.
That optimism was on display on Tuesday, after the federal government …

Trump Administration Downplays A.I. Risks, Ignoring Economists’ Concerns
The administration has downplayed concerns — from mass job losses, to a potential financial bubble — as President Trump cheers soaring stock prices and faster growth.

The West's Embrace Of Mass Third-World Migration Is Civilizational Suicide (Shawn Fleetwood/The Federalist)
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/17/the-wests-embrace-of-mass-third-world-migration-is-civilizational-suicide/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p43#a251217p43

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.

So much is happening in infosec, so don't fall behind. Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--Cops take down alleged money-laundering operations E-Note,
--Google is suing mass texting operation Darcula,
--AI-generated social media firm Doublespeed was hacked,
--Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's messages were leaked,
--Korea launches massive probe of Coupang breach,
--Foreign pow…

Cops take down alleged money-laundering operations E-Note
Google is suing mass texting operation Darcula, AI-generated social media firm Doublespeed was hacked, Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's messages were leaked online, Korea launches massive probe of Coupang breach, Foreign power tried to install malware on Italian ferry, much more

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

Trump admin broke spending deal agreement to halt mass layoffs, judge says (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/government-mass-lawyoffs-hearing-00695923
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p117#a251217p117

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

South Korean prosecutors allege China's CXMT mass-produced 10nm-class DRAM using leaked Samsung tech, indicting 10 employees who previously worked for Samsung (Heo Kyungjun/아시아 ...)
https://cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2025122311034625685

Prosecutors Indict Former Samsung Executive and Others for Leaking ‘K-Semiconductor’ Technology to China’s CXMT
The prosecution has uncovered the full extent of a case involving the leak of Samsung Electronics’ state-designated core technology for 10-nanometer-c...

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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

Russian mass drone attack leaves Sumy without power: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/08/russian-mass-drone-attack-leaves.html

Zoe Weissman came to Brown from Parkland, Florida,
where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018.
“Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,”
says Weissman about surviving a second school shooting in her young life,
“my most predominant emotion right now is, honestly, anger …
because we are the only country where this happens, a…

“We’re Angry”: Brown Univ. Student & Parkland Survivor Zoe Weissman Demands Action on Gun Violence
The two victims in Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University have been identified: freshman Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and sophomore Ella Cook. We speak to another sophomore, Zoe Weissman, who came to Brown from Parkland, Florida, where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018. “Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,” says Weissman about surviving a second s…

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

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

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.

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

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.

Some Republican lawmakers call for mass expulsion of American Muslims (Matthew Choi/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/15/republicans-muslim-mass-expulsions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p130#a251215p130

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.

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

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 …

DESIGNATING FENTANYL AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/designating-fentanyl-as-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p103#a251215p103

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

Underground Legal Clinics Offer a Lifeline to Migrants Facing Mass Deportation (Hunter Walker/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/underground-legal-clinics-offer-a-lifeline-to-migrants-facing-mass-deportation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p105#a251215p105

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI.
After finding the document in the trove, I called her.
She broke down in tears.
“I’ve waited 30 years. I…

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Designates Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction (The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/12/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-designates-fentanyl-as-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p107#a251215p107