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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.

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

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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. […]

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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/…

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
MASS PROTEST IN MURMANSK: FURIOUS WORKERS AGAINST #KREMLIN Vlog 1354: War in #Ukraine
Thousands of

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

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

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

ICE is quietly buying warehouses for its detention expansion | AP News https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detention-centers-pushback-24e702da67281a672b0f77287aaa87ba

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

Another rabbithole: Add synced lyrics (*.lrc) to your local music library.
Or sync them up yourself, if they don't exist yet.
https://github.com/tranxuanthang/lrcget

GitHub - tranxuanthang/lrcget: Utility for mass-downloading LRC synced lyrics for your offline music library.
Utility for mass-downloading LRC synced lyrics for your offline music library. - tranxuanthang/lrcget

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Distinct Rotational Evolution of Giant Planets and Brown Dwarf Companions: #exoplanet spins confirms long-predicted relationship between planetary mass and rotation: https://keckobservatory.org/kpic-spin-survey/ with https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/w5f4ntav4pybpale8c6p6/ANbPpoQxnCEIG2i-0vL5Ll8?rlkey=cxblu3u2n3ovocew0qch46opt&e=1&st=fgpk8v3u&dl=0

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

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-…

Iran keeps hitting oil and energy infrastructure. This is how they got the US by the balls. Trump can't afford a forever war that brings gas price through the roof ahead of the midterms. He's in deep shit.
And that's the thing with drones.. easy to build in mass quantities and hard to defend against, there's no way they can have anti-drone protection in every country around Iran.

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

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
RUSSIA MASS #DEFAULTS: OLIGARCHS DON’T TRUST PUTIN ANYMORE Vlog 1326: War in #Ukraine
russian

Really "love" how mass media is completely not saying _why_ that guy was arrested.
He's a fucking child rapist.

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.

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

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

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

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

🚄 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…

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/

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A 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/

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.

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.

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.

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

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

How Trump Is Using Violent Tragedies to Divide America (Mark Follman/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/trump-violence-assassinations-mass-shootings-ice-lies/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p147#a260116p147

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

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.

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s hard to believe, but Ukrainian activists have had to write explainers for a global audience,
reminding them who the true dictator is,
that it was not Ukrainethat started the war with Russia
and that we are actually just trying to defend what is ours.
And, you know, to survive a little bit.
These past three years of our lives have been referred to in many ways:
Putin’s war,
the Russo-Ukrainian war,
the full-scale invasion,
the conflic…

Trump promised Iranians the U.S. would rescue them.
They were betrayed.
Reeling from a crackdown on protesters in Iran that left thousands dead,
Iranians are now grappling with feelings of betrayal, confusion and uncertainty
after Donald Trump repeatedly promised to intervene on their behalf
and then declined to do so.

Some Iranians said in interviews that Trump’s words of support had added to their determination to resist the Iranian government
aft…

Trump promised Iranians the U.S. would rescue them. Some feel betrayed.
In the midst of the mass uprising in Iran, President Trump vowed the U.S. would intervene if the Iranian government killed protesters. Thousands are dead.

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

One Tuesday morning last month, a 15-year-old Russian boy got ready for school by packing a paramilitary vest, a helmet, and a knife.
Before leaving his house, he sent a manifesto to his classmates denouncing gay people and Jews, and quoting a mass murderer along with a white-supremacist conspiracy theory.
When the boy, identified by prosecutors as Timofey K., arrived at his school, located outside Moscow, he went to the bathroom to put on his gear, which he’d branded with neo-Naz…

Something Is Wrong With Russia’s Children
As violence has come to surround Russian youth, many seem to have become more violent themselves.

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…

As the government continues to pursue mass deportations, Section 111 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code has become a favored tool of the Justice Department for painting opposition to immigration enforcement as a corrosive, lawless force.
The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security often describe these cases in exaggerated language, even referring to defendants as “domestic terrorists,”
though the law has nothing to do with terrorism.
Across the country, prosecutors have ch…

The Trump Administration’s Favorite Tool for Criminalizing Dissent
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 100 people with Section 111 violations. Was their crime anything more than opposing Trump’s immigration policies?

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.

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

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…

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

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.

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