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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

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.

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

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

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 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. […]

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

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 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 …

Surprise, surprise!
https://electrek.co/2026/04/17/donut-labs-miracle-solid-state-battery-is-fraud-says-insider-donut-lab-denies/

So what are the top murdertech companies at the moment? (The ones enabling mass murder of civilians through AI, surveillance,
etc.)
• Palantir
• Google
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Anthropic
• IBM
• …
… did I forget any? Feel free to reply and add to the list.
#murdertech

Just finished "Song of A Blackbird" by Maria van Lieshout. It's an excellent and extremely timely historical fiction graphic novel about rediscovering a family connection that was severed by war, and the Dutch Resistance figures under Nazi occupation who saved many lives, in some cases at the cost of their own.
Despite being fiction, it's very closely grounded in historical facts, and the inclusion of photographs within the illustrations is really cool.
Now is an interesting time to be thinking about the fates of Nazis, collaborators, their victims, and the resistance, as well as how we remember them all. I especially liked the section at the end about the real historical figures and their fates. So "fascinating" that none of the Nazis were executed or died in prison (mostly they did serve long terms before their release), even those who oversaw mass killings and deportations to concentration camps. I'm a prison abolitionist and not a fan of state capital punishment, so on *some* level this seems like an outcome I should be happy about, but I somehow doubt that the state was this lenient for all prisoners during this time period...
#AmReading #ReadingNow

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/…

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

1 killed, 25 injured across Ukraine as Russia launches latest mass missile, drone attack: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/killed-injured-across-ukraine-as.html

One of my pet peeves of recent years has been the mainstream press:
(1) adopting “populism” as a euphemism for fascism (e.g. “Trump’s populist rhetoric”), which is at best a blurring of the word’s actual meaning (yes, fascists can use populist language, but populism is not their defining feature), and then
(2) applying the word in its original meaning (i.e. mass appeal to ordinary people) to leftists in direct comparison to fascists as if this constitutes a useful insight (e.g. “politicians with a populist message, such as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders”).

“Britain’s failure to meet its legal obligations has contributed to the mass killing of Palestinian civilians and the wholesale destruction of civilian objects, the desecration of international law and the further erosion of Britain’s status as a nation committed to the rule of law in the international arena.”
#Corbyn would have done much better to have NOT led this tribunal; his presence wil…

Judge Voids Ruling Backing Trump Mass Detention Policy | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-administration-immigration-detention/2026/02/18/id/1246638/

Continuing our student investigations on "unknown" materials for analytical chemistry lab. Here: LC-MS (liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry). (We're finding some impurities...) We previously carried out NMR, FTIR and UV-Vis. Next week: combustion elemental analysis.

SO if we have a President stating his "official acts" are based on corrupt intent, then ....? - Thanks, #JohnRoberts #SCOTUS
Trump reportedly says he’ll issue mass pardons at end of his presidential term

SO if we have a President stating his "official acts" are based on corrupt intent, then ....? - Thanks, #JohnRoberts #SCOTUS
Trump reportedly says he’ll issue mass pardons at end of his presidential term

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 …

Hackers target supporters of Iran protests in new espionage campaign https://therecord.media/hackers-target-iran-protest-supporters-cyber-campaign

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

Mesh, founded by ex-SpaceX staff to mass produce optical transceivers that convert optical signals to electrical signals, raised a $50M Series A led by Thrive (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

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

H5N1 bird flu kills more than 50 skuas in first Antarctica wildlife die off #Antarctica

H5N1 bird flu kills more than 50 skuas in first Antarctica wildlife die off
For the first time, deadly H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed as the cause of a wildlife die-off in Antarctica, killing more than 50 skuas during the 2023–2024 summers. Researchers on an Antarctic expedition found the virus ravaging these powerful seabirds, with some suffering severe neurological symptoms—twisted necks, circling behavior, and even falling from the sky. While penguins and fur seals were examined, skuas emerged as the primary victims, especially on Beak Island, where a mass die…

Last week, far-right streamer
Nick Fuentes openly called for the mass criminalization of women
and girls.
During an episode of his America First livestream on Rumble,
Fuentes declared,
“Just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists
— all of his political rivals
— we have to do the same thing with women …
They go to the gulag first.
They go to the breeding gulags.”

Far Right Streamer Nick Fuentes Says Women Should Be Put in “Breeding Gulags”
Fuentes is the “more energetic and undiluted voice of the American right,” writer Shane Burley says.

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

During an event in Auburn, Mass., Saturday commemorating the 100th anniversary of Robert #Goddard launching the first liquid-fueled rocket, a speaker mentioned that in addition to the four people involved in the experiment it was also accidentally witnessed by several local children - including this father aged 10 at the time: in the recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxYYXWYLzHs#t=1h15m30s he recounts his vivid story from 1:15:30.

🚄 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
…

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…

Crypto VC firm Dragonfly closes a $650M fund, its fourth, as the crypto VCs go through a "mass extinction event"; Dragonfly backed Polymarket's Series B (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/dragonfly-fou…

Exclusive: Crypto venture firm Dragonfly closes $650 million fourth fund—even as blockchain VCs face ‘mass extinction’
An inside look at the fast-rising firm, from its early Polymarket bet to its mysterious founding partner.

Carceral Nation: Twenty Years from Blog Post to Book
In December 2006, I published an article on this blog about mass incarceration, racial disparities in the American prison system, and a concept I was trying to name: the carceral citizen, the person whose freedom exists in a state of permanent conditional revocation. The article was one entry among many in the Boles Blogs Network, which at its peak ran fourteen blogs across a range of subjects.

Carceral Nation: Twenty Years from Blog Post to Book | David Boles, Blogs
In December 2006, I published an article on this blog about mass incarceration, racial disparities in the American prison system, and a concept I was trying to name: the carceral citizen, the perso…

Legacy IRC Botnet Leverages Automated SSH Exploit Pipeline to Mass-Enroll Linux Hosts
Identified through data captured by our SSH honeypots over two months, this campaign represents a sophisticated blend of eras. It merges “old-school” Internet Relay Chat (IRC) botnet tactics from the late 2000s with modern, automated mass-compromise techniques.
🖥️ htt…

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

Minab: When the world’s most precise missile chose a classroom | US-Israel war on Iran | @…
#Iran #US

The American right wing has forgiven Donald Trump for his affairs, impeachments, mass deportations and the platforming of JD Vance.
But having stuck with him through all that unpleasantness,
it seems that we may have discovered the one thing that is capable of splitting some Maga conservatives from Trump:
starting a war in the Middle East.
On Tuesday Joe Kent, the US counter-terrorism chief
who previously ran for office as an ultra-Maga, white nationalist-endors…

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Probing keV mass QCD axions with the SACLA X-ray free electron laser
Charles Heaton, et al.

Murderers…. Republicans support mass murder https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/116070247114186766

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-…

Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff Before Leaving Office - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-promises-mass-pardons-to-staff-before-leaving-office-d7274d32?st=5NvGzs&reflink=des…

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

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/

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

You may have come across the I-have-nothing-to-hide argument as a response to concerns about digital mass surveillance. It's a red herring; the real argument is about who gets to choose what to share.
https://theprivacydad.com/i-have-nothing-but-red-herring-to-hide/

A new analysis finds that tech giant Palantir Technologies paid no federal income taxes last year,
despite raking in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build out a mass network to surveil Americans
in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Palantir, which has landed multiple massive contracts under the Trump administration,
made $1.6 billion in net income last year.
It grew so much last year that it joined the list of the 20 most valua…

Palantir Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax in 2025 While Raking in Taxpayer Funds to Surveil Americans
Its $0 tax bill comes despite the company raking in $1.6 billion and landing a $10 billion military contract last year.

🇺🇦 #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

Am I cheering on a big AI company?
“Anthropic insists that two areas remain off limits: the mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weaponry.”
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/claude-…

Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
Anthropic has not agreed to the Pentagon's terms and defense officials are getting fed up after months of difficult negotiations.

Zelensky orders air defenses readied as Russia plans mass strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/zelensky-orders-air-defenses-readied.html

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

A Republican-appointed federal judge has ordered that more than 1,000 Voice of America (VOA) employees be reinstated
after a Trump administration order effectively dismantled the radio network, triggering mass layoffs.
In two separate rulings made Tuesday, the US district judge Royce Lamberth said that attempts to shut down operations of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an independent federal agency that oversees VOA, are illegal
-- and mandated that employees return…

"Leeds is the biggest city in Europe without a mass transit system. It had trams, once: doubledeckers that ran through city centre streets and up leafy tracks, [shut down] in 1959."
Once you could go from Leeds city centre to Manchester city centre by tram, with just a short connecting walk somewhere in the Pennines.
Destroyed by private motoring and cheap oil
‘Field of Dreams stuff’: will Leeds finally get its trams after decades of promises? | Transport | The Gua…

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.

Pope Leo statements on Iran war and mass deportations inspire American cardinals to speak out (Norah O'Donnell/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-leo-iran-war-mass-deportation-statements-inspire-american-cardinals-60-minutes-transcript/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260412/p61#a260412p61

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/

In a dramatic middle-of-the-night stand off, a bipartisan set of lawmakers pushing for true reform and privacy protections for Americans bought us some more time to fight!
They are holding out for, at a minimum,
the requirement of an actual probable cause warrant for FBI access to information collected under the mass spying program known as 702.

A reauthorization with virtually no changes was defeated because a core group of lawmakers held strong;
they know that peopl…

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702
In a dramatic middle-of-the-night stand off, a bipartisan set of lawmakers pushing for true reform and privacy protections for Americans bought us some more time to fight! They are holding out for, at a minimum, the requirement of an actual probable cause warrant for FBI access to information...

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.

Also interesting: #Goddard and the Invention of the Liquid Fueled Rocket" from 10 days ago, stressing his (non-)interaction with the public and colleagues. Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnNIMT1RBGs = the "Robert Goddard First Launch Space Centennial Kick-Off Announcement" by the city of Worcester, Mass., from February and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJp6DHhfkKw = the video "Beyond Rockets" mostly on futuristic ideas.

Trump and the Republicans are the Weapon of Mass Destruction all our enemies wish they had (or probably do have) https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/116070445902900077

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

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

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

Back-to-back Amazon droughts trigger record forest stress #Amazon

Back-to-back Amazon droughts trigger record forest stress
Two back-to-back droughts in 2023 and 2024 caused the most severe decline in forest moisture and biomass (the total mass of living vegetation such as leaves, trunks and branches) in the Amazon since 1992, according to a study published in the journal PNAS. And many of the hardest hit areas are unlikely to recover before the next major drought arrives.

Florida GOP sheriffs revolt against Trump and DeSantis’s mass deportation efforts - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-desantis-2676243529/

If I’m guessing, I expect them to go hard on strategies that are much less visible: snatching people from jails instead of streets, mass detention camps that nobody can see inside, that sort of thing. They need to sustain the terror, but they can’t afford to keep looking so bad in videos while they do it.

Marines, this ain’t a park in Los Angeles you’re trying to invade this time.
Iran is over half a million square miles (1.6 million square kilometers) and over 92 million Iranians, with mountains and terrain so fierce even the Romans avoided invading it, but 2,500 USMC soldiers (with planning by kegsbreath and the geriatric bone spur) are gonna move the needle. Right.
Building a graveyard isn’t good for anyone.

Blast near pro-government demonstration in Iran after Israeli warning
A large explosion rocked an area of Iran’s capital where thousands were gathered for an annual state-organized rally to support the Palestinians and call for Israel’s demise. Israel had warned earlier Friday that it would operate in the area in central Tehran. There were no immediate reports of casualties. But the decision to proceed with the mass demonstrations, and Israel’s threat to target the area, underscored the fierce determination on both sides nearly two weeks into a war that has…

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.

X-ray Evolution of Young Stars - Early Dimming and Coronal Softening in Solar-Mass Stars with Implications for Planetary Atmospheres: #YoungStars Dim in X-rays Surprisingly Quickly: https://chandra.si.edu/press/26_releases/press_041426.html and https://chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/photo/2026/dimming/

MAGA allies say Trump is going soft on deportations (Brittany Gibson/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/republicans-trump-immigration-mass-deportations
http://www.memeorandum.com/260413/p96#a260413p96

Seabirds ingest large quantities of pollutants—some of which have been banned for decades—liver analyses reveal https://phys.org/news/2026-02-seabirds-ingest-large-quantities-pollutants.html

Seabirds ingest large quantities of pollutants—some of which have been banned for decades—liver analyses reveal
In her 1962 book, "Silent Spring," American biologist Rachel Carson revealed that DDT, a widely used pesticide at the time, was responsible for the mass death of birds, including the iconic bald eagle. One reason was that the pesticide made eggshells thinner, causing mothers to break them when sitting on them to incubate. Silent Spring is considered the founding work of the modern environmental movement.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Glaciers rapidly declining, with extreme losses in 2025 #environment

Glaciers rapidly declining, with extreme losses in 2025
Earth's glaciers are continuing to shrink at alarming rates, with new international research revealing that 2025 was among the worst years on record for global ice loss. Published in the Climate Chronicles collection of Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, the study provides the latest global assessment of glacier mass change, showing an accelerating trend driven by rising temperatures.

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

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

Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd M. Lyons submitted his resignation Thursday,
capping his leadership of one of the agency’s most tumultuous eras,
saying he wanted to spend more time with his family.

Lyons, a career ICE official, presided over the agency’s rapid expansion
to implement Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
ICE more than doubled its workforce and detention beds,
deported people to countries where they are not citizens, …

Acting ICE chief Todd Lyons resigns, a year into Trump’s deportation campaign
He presided over the agency’s rapid expansion and a dramatic uptick in immigration arrests that often led to violent clashes with protesters.

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

The First Quantitative Study of #Cometary Tail Regrowth following a Coronal Mass Ejection-driven Disconnection Event: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae3bdb -> Watching C/2023 P1 Regrow Its Tail: https://aasnova.org/2026/04/13/comets-are-lizards-watching-c-2023-p1-regrow-its-tail/

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

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

Sources: a Snap-Perplexity AI search deal calling for Perplexity to pay Snap $400M has fallen apart; Snap is set to announce significant layoffs on Wednesday (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/snap-crucible-moment

Snap's crucible moment
Mass layoffs land tomorrow, the Perplexity deal is dead, and Specs are launching soon. Also: OpenAI has a cyber model too, Apple can tell Elon what to do, and Anthropic expands its unusual board.

Repeated failures expose gaps in Indonesia’s nickel waste management https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/repeated-failures-expose-gaps-in-indonesias-nickel-waste-management/

Repeated failures expose gaps in Indonesia’s nickel waste management
JAKARTA — In February 2026, videos circulating on social media showed a mass of mining waste rushing downslope like thick mud, engulfing excavators and bulldozers within seconds as operators scrambled to escape. That landslide of mining waste, or tailings as it’s known in the industry, occurred on Feb. 18 at a storage area in Morowali […]

Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards; Anthropic says only mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons are off limits (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/claude-pentagon-anthropic-contract-maduro

Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
Anthropic has not agreed to the Pentagon's terms and defense officials are getting fed up after months of difficult negotiations.

When the Sun was born 4.6 billion years ago, the star was located more than 10,000 light-years closer to the center of the Milky Way from its current position.
Scientists know this based on the Sun’s composition of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium,
which is more consistent with the metals found within the inner regions of the galaxy.
The missing piece of the puzzle, however, was how the Sun managed to get past the Milky Way’s central bar
—a dense region that …

Our Sun Was Born in a Hellish Part of the Milky Way. New Research Explains How It Escaped
Without the mass stellar migration, life may not have been able to form on Earth.

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 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

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.

House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday
over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out mass deportations.
“These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country,
whether it’s in detention,
whether it’s in the streets
or even in the courts,”
says Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez,
who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department…

“De Facto Dictatorship”: Democrats Confront ICE, CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics
House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out mass deportations. “These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country, whether it’s in detention, whether it’s in the streets or even in the courts,” says Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez, who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republi…

Anthropic opposes an Illinois bill backed by OpenAI that would shield AI labs from liability, even for "critical harms" like 100 deaths or $1B in damage (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-opposes-the-extreme-…

Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed
Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing over a proposed Illinois law that would let AI labs largely off the hook for mass deaths and financial disasters.

TRUMP PROMISES MASS PARDONS TO STAFF BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE
https://bsky.app/profile/fintwitter.bsky.social/post/3mj626hcrfx23

FinTwitter (@fintwitter.bsky.social)
TRUMP PROMISES MASS PARDONS TO STAFF BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE

The suspect believed to be behind the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada made a Roblox game simulating a mall shooting; Roblox says it removed the account (404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/tumbler-ridge-shooter-created-mall-shooting-simulator-in…

Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox
Roblox said it’s “committed to fully supporting law enforcement in their investigation.”

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.

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.