Tootfinder

View public domain films for free. No ads, no login, no algorithms, just movies. Maintained by wikimedia folks.
https://boingboing.net/2026/01/27/wikiflix-is-like-netflix-for-public-domain-films-with-no-ads-n…

from my link log —
Naming the Net: The Domain Name System, 1983-1990.
https://gade.us/thesis/
saved 2025-11-25 https://dotat.at/:/RHHY8.html

Naming the Net: The Domain Name System, 1983-1990
An early history of the Internet's Domain Name System

interactome_pdz: PDZ-domain interactome (2005)
A network of PDZ-domain-mediated protein–protein binding interactions, extracted from the PDZBase database. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents a binding interaction between two proteins.
This network has 212 nodes and 244 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Niemand vertraut einer Domain. Man vertraut einer Marke. 🤝
​Im SEO starren alle auf Domain-Metriken (DR, DA). Aber Google denkt anders.
E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trust) hängt nicht an der URL, sondern an der Entity dahinter.
​Wenn der ADAC einen Artikel über Reifen schreibt, vertraut man dem. Egal ob auf adac.de oder einer Subdomain.
Wenn billig-reifen-test-24.de das schreibt, eher nicht.
​SEO ist heute Markenaufbau. Starke Marke = Vertra…

is thinking about letting a domain that I have had around for decades expire.

Leaseweb's annual service price increase will be 3.9% in 2026. Outside of domain registrations and big contracts, not many basic #hosting providers do this on such a consistent basis.
It is not unreasonable to charge more to account for inflation on salaries, rent, energy, etc. However, as we all know, hardware gets cheaper and better all the time. Are these customers getting more …

Domain Name Stat: the number of .ai domains has surpassed 1M; data suggests Anguilla, the UK territory managing the domain, made ~$70M in fees in the past year (Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/now-more-on…

There are now more than 1 million “.ai” websites, contributing an estimated $70 million to Anguilla’s government revenue last year
Data from Domain Name Stat reveals that the top-level domain originally assigned to the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla passed the milestone in early January.

A few technical issues with our Chinese web domain http://seeingwithsound.cn/?hl=cn have been resolved. Welcoming working with Chinese scientists now that many US scientists are in a difficult position. We work globally, nothing less, and we are well ahead of Musk's Neuralink Blindsight.
In case of …

Heute vor 39 Jahren: Am 29. November 1986 wurde der 131. B52-Bomber mit atomar bestückten Marschflugkörpern von den USA in den Dienst gestellt, was zu einer Aufhebung der Waffengrenzen des SALT-II-Vertrags führte.

All I want is a new Cookie attribute added to the spec, so that when a website tries to set a cookie, along with the name and expiry date and domain and httponly flags, there is a "type".
Valid values for type are "preference", "storage", "login", "session", "analytics", "tracking" and "evil".

Evidence that AI is normal technology include AI systems that are good enough to be useful but not good enough to be trusted, continuing to require human oversight that limits productivity gains;
prompt injection and security vulnerabilities remain unsolved, constraining what agents can be trusted to do;
domain complexity continues to defeat generalization, and what works in coding doesn’t transfer to medicine, law, science;
regulatory and liability barriers prove high enou…

What If? AI in 2026 and Beyond
The market is betting that AI is an unprecedented technology breakthrough, valuing Sam Altman and Jensen Huang like demigods already astride the world. The

@… @… It’s not vanity. It is a kind of identity verification - since in order to use a domain name as an ID you have to have access for the domains DNS records. Which means you have an ICANN registration.

#ReleaseThursday #OpenSourceXmas A little present (to some of you)... Been meaning to release these recent additions before the holidays, but only getting around to it now. The most important new things are these:

"Rabbit Recipes," US dept of Ag 1930. (We are looking for things to cook to celebrate public domain day Jan 21st 2026 re: 1930!)
Not so sure about Rabbit Recipes, but nice layout. Thank you US Dept of Ag for digitizing this (I love my job).
What will you cook to celebrate public domain day?
http…

malaria_genes: Malaria var DBLa HVR networks
Networks of recombinant antigen genes from the human malaria parasite P. falciparum. Each of the 9 networks shares the same set of vertices but has different edges, corresponding to the 9 highly variable regions (HVRs) in the DBLa domain of the var protein. Nodes are var genes, and two genes are connected if they share a substring whose length is statistically significant. Metadata includes two types of node labels, both based on sequence st…

Heute vor 75 Jahren: Am 27. Januar 1951 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Ranger die 1. Atombombe "Able". Ranger war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1951 insgesamt 5 Bomben von B-50-Bombern über dem Testgebiet in

⚡ Escape hatch exists: #[AllowDynamicProperties] attribute opts into old behavior. Use ONLY for legacy vendor code or gradual migration with a removal plan. Never use for new code.
📊 Timeline: PHP 8.1 = allowed | PHP 8.2 = deprecated warning | PHP 9.0 = fatal error. Start fixing now!
🎯 Migration strategy: Run PHPStan/Psalm analysis, fix domain models first (critical), then controllers/services, then DTOs. Add static analysis to CI pipeline to prevent regression.

Unsealed docs: Spotify and labels sued Anna's Archive over plans to release scraped Spotify data; US court grants a temporary order taking down some domains (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/unsealed-spotify-law…

Für nur 9€ im Jahr einen eigenen E-Mail-Alias-Dienst haben? Geht ganz leicht. Hier ist eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung:
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/e-mail-alias-dienst-selbst-gebaut-mail-aliasse-teil-2/

E-Mail-Alias-Dienst selbst gebaut – Mail-Aliasse Teil 2
DIY-E-Mail-Aliasse mit eigener Domain: Catch-All plus Sieve-Filter erlauben unbegrenzte Alias-Adressen, günstig bei kleinen Hostern, inkl. Antwort-Tipps.

Because it's populated by cheshire cats.
https://qoto.org/@bibliolater/115600269765129742

Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 (@bibliolater@qoto.org)
Attached: 1 image 🇳🇿 **Why does New Zealand keep disappearing from world maps?** _Cooper-Jones points out that even a New Zealand government 404 error page once displayed a world map missing the country entirely, with a cheeky message: "We’re sorry, something’s missing…"_ 🔗 https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/why-does-new-zealand-keep-disappearing-from-world-maps. #NewZealand #NZ #Maps #Cartography #Image attribution: See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Common…

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@worldwatch_ocd/115605281408605932
Unless your org uses Bubble.io and their low-code developer platform, you can likely block their app-hosting domain bubbleapps.io. Put in an allow list for vetted BubbleApps URLs if yo…

I’m about to finally get my act together and move my little-used Google Workspace account elsewhere. Is there anyone who would recommend something other than Protonmail for mail? I have file storage covered and don’t need calendars. I want to use a custom domain and a way to use IMAP clients is just about a must. #askfedi

interactome_pdz: PDZ-domain interactome (2005)
A network of PDZ-domain-mediated protein–protein binding interactions, extracted from the PDZBase database. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents a binding interaction between two proteins.
This network has 212 nodes and 244 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Heute vor 74 Jahren: Am 28. Oktober 1951 wurde mit dem atmosphärischen #Atomtest "Baker" die Operation Buster–Jangle fortgeführt. Erstmals arbeitete das US-Verteidigungsministerium mit dem Los Alamos Labor zusammen.

Just added Web Reachability API (at least that’s what I’m calling it) support to https://ip.small-web.org.
It’s for testing the reachability of your Small Web servers (using a domain or, more importantly, an IPv4/IPv6 address). I’m using it to implement Web Numbers¹ support in Auto Encrypt² and Kitten³.
…

Public Domain Day short film contest by @… on NPR!
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-56777

Unsealed docs: Spotify and labels sued Anna's Archive over plans to release scraped Spotify data; a US court grants a temporary order taking down some domains (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/unsealed-spotify-l…

Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…

Ab sofort ist die PixelFed Instanz auf der Top-Level Domain
➡️ #pixelfed

PixelGalaxy.NET
Pixelfed is an image sharing platform, an ethical alternative to centralized platforms.

Trolling DHS 🤣
#resist

US House candidate buys nazis.us domain to redirect visitors to homeland security
Mark Davis, running in Florida, says he bought domain because Republican party had gone ‘full fascist’

So i've been trying to move away from an American domain registrar (name.com)
My first try is with WHC (Web Hosting Canada)... so far i'm really really not impressed. Customer support is just awful.
Glad i just tried to transfer a single domain and not all of them.. will have to keep looking for alternatives
#buycanadian

Heute vor 63 Jahren: Am 27. November 1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Storax die Atombombe "Wolverine". Storax war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 62/63 insgesamt 47 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Hmhm… Mails von der Domain digikeyinfo.com an Adressen, die beim "echten" #digikey hinterlegt sind. Kein direktes Impressum, domain anonym registriert, Seite in der Microsoft-Cloud statt dem Digikey-AS. Entweder hatte da irgendwer viel Lack und denkt das wäre eine gute Kommunikationsinfra, oder da gab es ein Datenleck und jemand phished rum.

ICANN nimmt 2026 wieder Anträge für neue generische Top-Level-Domains entgegen
Nach rund 14 Jahren vergibt die ICANN erneut gTLD für spezielle Domain-Endungen wie .bielefeld oder .pc. Das wird aber nicht billig für die Antragsteller.

From the excellent Standard Ebooks, “Read 20 of the best books entering the public domain in 2026”. Seriously, check ’em out.
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026

I'd really like to find a way to migrate a domain (and existing account & posts) between two pieces Fediverse server software, keeping all post urls.
Not the existing Move feature - that assumes new & old servers are running in parallel at different urls.
I want to take a backup from Mastodon, stop the server, convert all the toots to some common format, start up GoToSocial, and import. Without losing reply glue on old toots or spamming.
#mastodon #gotosocial #fediverse #migration #software

For Now.
There’s a glitch in the model here because Disney or whoever can easily mix original work with AI-created work in such a way that the amalgamated works are protected. AI isn’t copylefted: it doesn’t infect works that it is linked to. @…

High-Resolution Optical Correlation-Domain Reflectometry with 100-km Measurement Range
Takaki Kiyozumi, Soshi Yoshida, Yuta Higa, Keisuke Motoda, Sze Yun Set, Shinji Yamashita, Yosuke Mizuno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18400 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18400 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18400
arXiv:2511.18400v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In the maintenance of optical fiber networks, there is a growing demand for high-precision measurement of optical loss distribution and fault locations over long distances. In this study, we propose an OCDR method incorporating periodic pseudo-random modulation (PPRM), and demonstrate that it enables the acquisition of loss distribution based on Rayleigh scattering and the positions of reflection points in an approximately 100-km optical fiber, with a spatial resolution of about 19 cm and a measurement time of about 20 seconds.
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Cool - I wonder how long before ICE tries to shut this down?
I see that the domain name is under the country code for Iceland - which is good and reasonably beyond the reach of the US.
"ICE List Launches Wiki to Expose Enforcement Network"
https://migrantinsider.com/p/news-ice-

NEWS: ICE List Launches Wiki to Expose Enforcement Network
The Europe-based volunteer-built database links raids, agents, vehicles, and legal structures, aiming to break the cycle of official secrecy.

"The Value of Public Domain Day"
a thoughtful piece on the economics and the loss by our overzealous locking up of our culture.
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/01/01/the-value-of-public-domain-day/
but please celebra…

As usual, STMicro makes silicon I mostly like, but I don't like their packages.
Here's the STM32MP257 TFBGA436 package with balls color coded (somewhat roughly) by power domain/function. I grouped some similar rails together e.g. all low voltage digital core balls are the same color (orange) even though there's multiple 0.8 / 0.82 / 0.9V domains there. All IO power (except dedicated PHY rails) is magenta regardless of which bank(s) it's for.
Things of note:
…

I've been getting and ignoring loads of this spam - always mentioning a family office, always a dodgy .help domain name, always loads of follow ups - but it occurs to me to wonder - what is the payoff for them here? Are they just trying a 419?

There's a tool named #WinSlop that gets rid of any and all unpleasantries #microslop seems to shovel upon us. Alas, there is a notice on the github page of the project that the domain winslop.com is not owned or operated by the creator of WinSlop.

Who do you like for domain name registration that supports giving multiple accounts admin access for the same domain?
I usually use Hover, but I think (?) they’re strictly one domain name = one admin account. And we can just share a password securely between admins, but…I always like to reduce that bus factor when I can!

PSA: Use the "accounturi" feature of Let's Encrypt CAA!
If you're hosting a safety/security-critical service, there's a way too unknown feature called "accounturi", that allows you to restrict TLS certificate issuance to a single Let's Encrypt account (and account private key).
You simply create a CAA record on your domain and put your LE account ID into it.
This means that attackers cannot issue TLS certificates and pull man-in-the-middle…

Certificate Authority Authorization (CAA)
CAA is a type of DNS record that allows site owners to specify which Certificate Authorities (CAs) are allowed to issue certificates containing their domain names. It was first standardized in 2013, and the version we use today was standardized in 2019 by RFC 8659 and RFC 8657. By default, every public CA is allowed to issue certificates for any domain name in the public DNS, provided they validate control of that domain name. That means that if there’s a bug in any one of the many public CAs…

I've been messing with wget and HTTrack for archiving web sites... An artist friend of mine passed away last year and I have this fear his web site might disappear some day, and I want a copy of it.
The images are not hosted on his domain though, they are on a SquareSpace domain, but I think I've got HTTrack working to grab them all.
Still need to figure out the exact formula, so it'll take a bit of testing.

The Sky: A Film Lesson in “Nature Study” (1928) — The Public Domain Review
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-sky-a-film-lesson-in-nature-study-1928/

German ministry renames itself, domain expires, is bought by SEO-spammer, expires again, is bought by domain grabber, then later bought by itsec company who now learns that apparently plenty of internal systems of the ministry still try to connect to the domain...
I don't even know where to start how terrible that is and what it tells us about government IT security practices...

Bundesdomain im Blindflug: DNS-Leaks und ein Jahrzehnt IT-Nachlässigkeit
Der Artikel zeigt, wie die vergessene Bundesdomain bafl.de weiterhin von Behörden-Systemen genutzt wird und DNS-Logs ausgewertet wurden.

https://defend612.com has been blocked at the domain name level for me and at least two other people over T-Mobile networks (which includes GoogleFi, MetroPCS, and… wait for it… Trump Mobile). For at least all day today.
Seems unlikely to be a technical problem but instead to be Actual Censorship (unless its not …

malaria_genes: Malaria var DBLa HVR networks
Networks of recombinant antigen genes from the human malaria parasite P. falciparum. Each of the 9 networks shares the same set of vertices but has different edges, corresponding to the 9 highly variable regions (HVRs) in the DBLa domain of the var protein. Nodes are var genes, and two genes are connected if they share a substring whose length is statistically significant. Metadata includes two types of node labels, both based on sequence st…

The new level of scam hit me today. Got an e-mail: "Do you have a bounty program?" This would be fun, thought I, and I answered, "Yes!" The vulnerability they'd "found" was that you can use my domain in the FROM header of the email. How cool is that! So much spoofing!
After I described that that's how email works and the reason we have DKIM, DMARK, SPF, and all of those things, they asked for $20 for a heads-up as appreciation.

from my link log —
“Ptolemaic Code”: software that appears functional but is based on a fundamentally incorrect model.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115883067614348534
saved 2026-01-20

Today I had this brilliant idea for a domain name. I'm surprised that no one else has thought of it yet and that the domain was still available: cloudflare.com #joking

Hope whoever wanted copies of that scrape Anna's Archive did of Spotify (reminder: Spotify began with pirated files, pays artists little to nothing, and funds military tech) has grabbed it already or is grabbing it now.
https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-court-ord

Revamped my domain name site #indieweb using

Ricardo Mendes - DevOps / Wanna be Solution Architect
Ricardo Mendes is a DevOps engineer sharing experiences in infrastructure, automation, and solution architecture.

I find it really amuzing that IT-departments around the world is just plainly copying the example DNS-records in my blog-posts about DMARC.
Resulting in me getting reports about their domain to my inbox
#dmarc #email

PLEASE SHARE: Folks, I need *public domain* or *purchasable stock imagery* photos of especially older women holding signs in protests that essentially say "I can't believe I still have to protest this shit". They *cannot* be CC-licensed - they either have to be public domain or licensed for royalty-based purchase since they'll be in an e-book.
This is an excellent example from Shutterstock:

I think I've found my favourite german hosting company, a vps for €1/m a .nl domain for €7/y
#vps

Legacy Python Bootstrap Scripts Create Domain-Takeover Risk in Multiple PyPI Packages
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered vulnerable code in legacy Python packages that could potentially pave the way for a supply chain compromise on the Python Package Index (PyPI) via a domain takeover attack.
:python: https:/…

Legacy Python Bootstrap Scripts Create Domain-Takeover Risk in Multiple PyPI Packages
Old Python bootstrap scripts and a malicious PyPI package expose developers to domain takeover and RAT risks.

Viele Websites und Shops hätten mehr Klicks & Besucher wenn man Seiten löschen würde 🗑️
Das klingt zwar kontraintuitiv aber funktioniert. 🤨
☝️Sehr oft gibt es viele dünne Seiten ohne Mehrwert. Diese verschwenden Ressourcen der Suchmaschinen und die Domain wird abgewertet. 📉
☝️Ausserdem teilt sich die Linkpower, die eine Domain durch Backlinks erhält, durch die Anzahl an Unterseiten. Mehr Seiten = weniger Power für jede einzelne.
Also einfach mal löschen, was weg k…

interactome_pdz: PDZ-domain interactome (2005)
A network of PDZ-domain-mediated protein–protein binding interactions, extracted from the PDZBase database. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents a binding interaction between two proteins.
This network has 212 nodes and 244 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 26. November 1958 geriet ein USAF B-47-Bomber mit einer #Atombombe an Bord auf der #Chennault Air Force Base in Louisiana in Brand. Eine nicht-nukleare Explosion kontaminierte das Gebiet mit radioaktivem Material.

1930 is going public domain on Jan 1.
Some say Chocolate Chip Cookies started in 1938 ( wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_chip_cookie )
BUT, we have a cook book with from 1930 with a recipe!

Happy Public Domain Day 2026. Here's a list of new entries:
#PublicDomain

2026 in public domain - Wikipedia

The United States is a global superpower,
and its military trains for war in every domain.
During my years as a military educator, I saw American officers wrestle with any number of scenarios designed to challenge their thinking and force them to adapt to surprises.
One case we never considered, however, was how to betray and attack our own allies.
We did not ask what to do if the president becomes a threatening megalomaniac who tells one of our oldest friends, Nor…

The U.S. Military Faces a Reckoning on Greenland
Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.

Books, movies, music, and works of art published in 1930, including William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and sound recordings from 1925 enter the US public domain (Duke University School of Law)
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/

Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.[2] On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925.

from my link log —
Why is CSS the way it is?
https://increment.com/frontend/ask-an-expert-why-is-css-the-way-it-is/
saved 2020-07-23

Ask an expert: Why is CSS . . . the way it is? – Increment: Frontend
A technical director of the W3C’s interaction domain unpacks the histories and mysteries.

Heute vor 29 Jahren: Am 26. November 1996 wurden im Rahmen des START I-Vertrags die letzten Atomsprengköpfe, die zuvor in Weißrussland, heute Belarus, stationiert waren, nach Russland abtransportiert.

Mesh of Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices with Programmable Intensity Nulls
Jinxin Wu, Dan Wang, Qingqing Liang, Jianhua Hu, Jiahao Dong, Jijun Feng, Yi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18087 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18087 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18087
arXiv:2511.18087v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Light carrying transverse orbital angular momentum (T-OAM) in the form of spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) is opening new degrees of freedom for structured light manipulation. Such spatiotemporal wavepackets hold significant potential for optical trapping, analog optical computing, studying photonic symmetry and topology, among others. Up to now, synthesizing of such vortices is limited in one dimension, either in temporal or spatial domain. In this work, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a two-dimensional flexible mesh of spatiotemporal optical vortices (M-STOV) with programmable intensity nulls, and analyze their diffraction patterns for detection. Furthermore, we extend the spectral range of M-STOV via second-harmonic generation while examining the transfer of OAM in this nonlinear process. This study establishes a foundational framework for designing higher dimensional spatiotemporal vortex fields and promises a high-capacity information carrier based on ST optical vortices.
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I'm looking at a bunch of open clipart icons and some of them have straightforward licenses like CC or public domain.
But others are using more software-oriented licenses like GPL or LGPL. I'm... not entirely sure how that is supposed to work.
If I load a GPL'd icon PNG into my application is that "dynamic linking" in a way that would require my entire application to be GPL? There's no code involved, no symbol manipulation, and the icon isn't compile…

Heute vor 32 Jahren: Am 26. November 1993 näherte sich das #Kernkraftwerk #Krško, Slowenien dem Ende des Brennstoffkreislaufs. Ein Mitarbeiter schloss das Hauptdampfabsperrventil anstelle des Bypassventils, woraufhin die Sicherheitseinspritzung eine

AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation, and partners with Humain on a 2GW AI cluster in Saudi Arabia (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.i…

Video generation platform Luma AI raises $900 million, valued at $4 billion
The firm’s Indian-American CEO Amit Jain, an IITian who was formerly with Apple, told ET that the domain the company operated in is capital-intensive and requires sizable investments to scale. Sources close to the company pegged its valuation at around $4 billion.

Malware, Betrug & Co.: Riskantes Domain-Chaos der Bundesregierung enthüllt
Die Regierung hütet geheime Listen ihrer Webseiten, was die Sicherheit der Bürger gefährdet. Nun schafft die Veröffentlichung von über 2000 Domains Fakten.

Today I had this brilliant idea for a domain name. I'm surprised that no one else has thought of it yet and that the domain was still available: cloudflare.com #joking

Heute vor 58 Jahren: Am 26. Januar 1968 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von #Crosstie die 24. #Atombombe "Cabriolet" (Operation Plowshare, zivile Nutzbarmachung von Nuklearexplosionen). Crosstie war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 67/68 bei der insgesamt 48

This white paper provides a comprehensive analysis of modern warfare through five interconnected characteristics that have been prominently displayed throughout the Ukraine conflict:
- The rise of autonomous systems and their impact on force architecture
- The information domain as a critical battleground
- Electronic warfare and spectrum superiority
- The challenges of sustaining logistics in contested environments
- The evolution of air defense strategy
…

Lessons from the Ukraine Conflict: Modern Warfare in the Age of Autonomy, Information, and Resilience
As warfare evolves, the Ukraine conflict offers policymakers a blueprint for modern defense strategy—emphasizing autonomy, contested logistics, electromagnetic superiority, and adaptive organizational models.

I spent Friday trying to hack into a customer box in India. They need support but have "secured" the system beyond the reach of the access mechanisms they have offered. None of the 4 different VPN’s we operate for their US operations can reach the box directly, so I must RDP into a domain controller in Mumbai, which they replaced without telling us. After finally getting to the box, none of the dozen passwords they’ve provided over the years work.
Definitely billable hours. <…

Scattering in Time-Varying Drude-Lorentz Models
Bryce Dixon, Calvin M. Hooper, Ian R. Hooper, Simon A. R. Horsley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19322 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19322 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.19322
arXiv:2511.19322v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Motivated by recent experiments, the theoretical study of wave propagation in time varying materials is of current interest. Although significant in nearly all such experiments, material dispersion is commonly neglected in theoretical studies. Yet, as we show here, understanding the precise microscopic model for the material dispersion is crucial for predicting experimental outcomes. Here we study the temporal scattering coefficients of four different time-varying Drude-Lorentz models, exploring how an incident continuous wave splits into forward and backward waves due to an abrupt change in plasma frequency. The differences in the predicted scattering are unique to time-varying media, and arise from the exact way in which the time variation appears in the various model parameters. We verify our results using a custom finite difference time domain algorithm, concluding with a discussion of the limitations that arise from using these models with an abrupt change in plasma frequency.
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AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/funding/vide…

Video generation platform Luma AI raises $900 million, valued at $4 billion
The firm’s Indian-American CEO Amit Jain, an IITian who was formerly with Apple, told ET that the domain the company operated in is capital-intensive and requires sizable investments to scale. Sources close to the company pegged its valuation at around $4 billion.

interactome_pdz: PDZ-domain interactome (2005)
A network of PDZ-domain-mediated protein–protein binding interactions, extracted from the PDZBase database. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents a binding interaction between two proteins.
This network has 212 nodes and 244 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Heute vor 63 Jahren: Am 25. Dezember 1962 teste die #Sowjetunion im Atomtestgebiet Nowaja Semlja eine #Atombombe mit der Testnummer 221 (8.5 kt, atmosphärisch). Dies war gleichzeitig der letzte atmosphärische #Atomtest

Heute vor 63 Jahren: Am 25. Dezember 1962 teste die #Sowjetunion im Atomtestgebiet Nowaja Semlja eine #Atombombe mit der Testnummer 220 (3.1 Mt, atmosphärisch).

93 photos released from the Jeffrey Epstein estate (Dec. 12, 2025)
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Topics
Jeffrey Epstein
Item Size 63.6M
https://archive.org/details/house-oversight-034614
Photos originally hosted here:

93 photos released from the Jeffrey Epstein estate (Dec. 12, 2025) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Heute vor 31 Jahren: Am 25. Januar 1995 wurden Russische U-Boote mit ballistischen Raketen in Alarmbereitschaft versetzt, um sich auf einen möglichen #Vergeltungsschlag vorzubereiten. Auslöser war der Start einer norwegischen Black-Brant-XII-Forschungsrakete.

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner of the archiving site as part of a criminal investigation (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to-unmask-owner-of-infamous-archive-is-site…

FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

interactome_pdz: PDZ-domain interactome (2005)
A network of PDZ-domain-mediated protein–protein binding interactions, extracted from the PDZBase database. Nodes represent proteins and an edge represents a binding interaction between two proteins.
This network has 212 nodes and 244 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Heute vor 54 Jahren: Am 24.11.1971 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Grommet die 19. Atombombe "Diagonal Line". Grommet war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1971/72 insgesamt 39 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Heute vor 63 Jahren: Am 24. Dezember 1962 führte die #Sowjetunion Test 219 durch – eine der stärksten Atomexplosionen der Geschichte. Mit 24,4 Megatonnen Sprengkraft markierte dieser Test einer #Interkontinentalrakete eine weitere Eskalation im nuklearen Wettrüsten.

Heute vor 6 Jahren: Am 23. Januar 2020 stellte das "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" die #Weltuntergangsuhr auf 100 Sekunden vor 12 - so nah wie nie zuvor. Als Gründe nannten die beteiligten Wissenschaftler die politischen Lage sowie das Voranschreiten des Klimawandels.

Heute vor 33 Jahren: Am 23. Dezember 1992 kam es am #Kernkraftwerk #Belojarsk Reaktor 3 (BN-600) zu einem Austritt von radioaktivem Wasser aus der Speicheranlage für radioaktive Abfälle. Ursache: #Bedienfehler

Heute vor 68 Jahren: Am 23. Dezember 1957 erreicht das erste zivile #Kernkraftwerk #Shippingport in Pennsylvania seine volle Leistung. Der Reaktor wurde als Prototyp für die kommerzielle Stromerzeugung errichtet und blieb fast 25 Jahre ein Betrieb.

Heute vor 34 Jahren: Am 22. Januar 1992 stellte der Betreiber des französischen KKWs #Dampierre fest, dass der #Jodfilterkreislauf des Kontrollraumlüftungssystems nicht verfügbar war. Es stellte sich heraus, dass das seit eines Tests an der Filteranlage am 23.12.91 der Fall war.

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 22.12.1961 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 10. Atombombe "Feather". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 61/62 insgesamt 44 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Heute vor 19 Jahren: Am 22. Dezember 2006 endeten die Sechs-Parteien-Gespräche, die darauf abzielen sollten, #Nordkorea zum Verzicht auf sein #Atomwaffenprogramm zu bewegen, ohne Fortschritte.

Heute vor 74 Jahren: Am 20. Dezember 1951 erfolgte mit dem EBR-1-Reaktor die erste Produktion von nutzbarem Kernstrom durch das Argonne National Laboratory in Idaho, als vier Glühbirnen zum Leuchten gebracht wurden. EBR-1 gilt ebenfalls als der erste funktionierende #Brutreaktor.

Heute vor 74 Jahren: Am 19. November 1951 wurde mit dem atmosphärischen #Atomtest "Sugar" die Operation Buster–Jangle fortgeführt. Erstmals arbeitete das US-Verteidigungsministerium mit dem Los Alamos Labor zusammen.

Heute vor 26 Jahren: Am 19. November 1999 entdeckte man im #Kernkraftwerk #Dungeness-B (UK) bei der #Reparatur eines Kesselrohrs im Reaktor 21 einen ungeklärten