Tootfinder

Hegseth ignored military officials when he slashed offices that limit risk to civilians (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/13/military-leaders-warned-hegseth-not-to-gut-offices-that-limit-risk-to-civilians-00827722
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p81#a260313p81

Red Lines under the EU AI Act: Unpacking the Prohibition of Individual Risk Assessment for the Prediction of Criminal Offences
https://fpf.org/blog/red-lines-under-the-eu-ai-act-unpacking-the-p…

What do we risk when we undervalue the weather forecast? The dismantling of NCAR brought to mind this old #Radiolab piece on the Weather Report
Radiolab: The Weather Report
http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/weather-report/

Sinking land drives coastal flood risk on densely populated Java Island #JavaIsland

Sinking land drives coastal flood risk on densely populated Java Island
A new study published in Science Advances reveals that sinking land—not just rising oceans alone—will be the main cause of future coastal flooding along Indonesia's densely populated Java Island, putting millions at risk sooner than expected.

WithCoverage, which replaces traditional insurance brokers with its AI-based flat-fee risk management model, raised a $42M Series B led by Sequoia and Khosla (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/01/13/withcoverage-flat-fee-insura…

Exclusive: WithCoverage raises $42M to replace insurance brokers
Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures co-led the round

Just that you know ... "Greater consumption of caffeinated #coffee and tea was associated with lower risk of dementia and modestly better cognitive function, with the most pronounced association at moderate intake levels" - so says the new study https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2844764?guestAccessKey=b5f53c96-c7a8-47fa-b807-8b464361c4d8 -> Daily cups of caffeinated coffee or mugs of tea may lower dementia risk: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/daily-coffee-tea-lower-dementia-risk -
a long-term observational study tracked self-reported coffee and tea consumption.

Nice article, about a serious problem/risk with AI models. AI poisoning.
"Part of the problem is that AI models can offer wildly different results depending on exactly what is asked and what kind of information they are drawing on. Search for “bixonimania”, and Google’s AI overview might treat it as a legitimate condition. Ask it “Is bixonimania real?” and the same AI overview might confirm that it isn’t legitimate."

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

Record heat 🔥 has caused an early snowmelt in the West, setting the stage for a potentially brutal fire season.
🔥 Mamas, it’s time to advocate for clean air filters in schools
and resilient local infrastructure.
#FireSeason #ClimateResilience

A snowy, rainy storm is hitting California. Will it curb the coming fire risk?
This storm is the main precipitation expected in the foreseeable future. The weather pattern may allow for occasional rain, but more storms are unlikely to change the trajectory.

File Under FML: I went to the hospital for my procedure today and during check-in I mentioned how my finger was swollen, which just started last night.
They then canceled my procedure due to risk of infection since my finger appears to be infected.
Then they told me to go to Urgent Care where I got a prescription for antibiotics, and UG told me if it gets worse I need to go to the ER.
Also, procedure is rescheduled for two weeks from now. So, two more weeks of pain.
2…

The IRS erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, as part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the US.
https://

Taxpayer data wrongly shared with DHS, court filing says
The IRS has erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, according to a new court filing. It was part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S. A declaration filed Wednesday by IRS Chief Risk and Control Officer Dottie Romo stated that the IRS was only able to verify roughly 47,000 of the 1.28 million names requested by U.S…

Most major book publishers lack clear rules on AI use, frustrating authors and readers and raising fears that AI-generated books will slip past editors (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/books/shy-girl-ai-publishing.html

How Authors and Readers Feel About the ‘Shy Girl’ Cancellation
Major publishing houses risk unwittingly putting out books generated with A.I. tools. Authors and readers are frustrated, nervous and grasping for solutions.

Systemic Risk: A 12-Order Cascading Analysis of a Zero-Flow Strait of Hormuz Closure
#war

Systemic Risk: A 12-Order Cascading Analysis of a Zero-Flow Strait of Hormuz Closure
Executive Summary

"Dangerous droughts triggered by heatwaves are accelerating at an alarming rate, study shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange

‘Flash droughts’ driven by heatwaves are on the rise, study finds
Heatwaves, drought, wildfire risk and El Niño are compounding to create a dangerous cocktail of climate change.

Managing AI is as simple as that: Use it at your risk, and be transparent about it
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linu

Lily Cheng in #Willowdale is again advocating against new housing next to a subway station
According to her, adding 2000 new residents to the neighborhood would be a risk to lose the Costco (???). As if adding new people to the neighborhood would make Costco leave.
Yes some "essential local retail shops" (aka Starbucks) would leave... But there's no shortage i…

I am so, so tired of having to vet every one of my choices around a technology. Which platform? Which settings? What's a privacy risk? What has downstream negative social consequences? How do I compensate for the functionality I lose when I make a conscious choice to limit or refuse?
1/n
#rant

Cowboys' Proposed 2026 Draft Trade For David Bailey Comes With Major Risk https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/dallas-cowboys-proposed-2026-nfl-draft-trade-david-bailey-major-risk

NFL players' Olympic flag football dreams face another hurdle — the injury risk https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7181726/2026/04/09/nfl-olympics-flag-football-injury-risk-rosters/

"Resultaten visar att ofarliga extra hjärtslag var vanliga vid båda typerna av kallvattenexponering. Vid ansiktsdopp förekom även mer uttalade hjärtrytmrubbningar, samtidigt som pulssänkning var större än vid helkroppsdopp.
Forskarna bedömer dock att risken för allvarliga arytmier är låg vid mycket kortvariga dopp i isvak, under förutsättning att individen är frisk och inte doppar huvudet."
Bad i isvak innebär låg risk för allvarlig arytmi bland unga

Ny studie visar: Bad i isvak innebär låg risk för allvarlig arytmi bland unga

Vegetarians Have ‘Substantially Lower’ Risk Of Developing 5 Types Of Cancer, Says Study https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/health/vegetarians-lower-risk-of-cancer-study/

Vegetarians Have ‘Substantially Lower' Risk Of Developing 5 Types Of Cancer, Says Study
Vegetarians have “substantially lower” risk of five common types of cancer, according to a landmark new study

Zelensky warns of 'risk' US, Russia could strike bilateral deals on Ukraine without Kyiv: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/zelensky-warns-of-risk-us.html

Filing: Anthropic hired Ballard Partners, a lobbying firm with strong ties to Trump administration, days after DOD designated the company a supply chain risk (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-13/anthropi…

The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory: #Climate May Go from Greenhouse to Hothouse: https://eos.org/articles/earths-climate-may-go-from-greenhouse-to-hothouse - uncertainty in climate models could mean Earth systems are perilously close to their tipping points, scientists warn.

The Trump administration, spooked by possible preparations by Iran to mine the strait,
Carried out strikes against 16 mine-laying vessels near the strait on Tuesday.
US Central Command posted a video showing munitions hitting nine vessels, most of which were moored as they were struck.
But the more potent threat remains the risk of a direct attack by Iran at scale
– for instance, a swarm of one-way attack drones or a series of shore-to-ship ballistic missiles, accordi…

🤦‍♂️ Tipping points and ecosystem collapse are the real geopolitical risk (commentary)
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/tipping-points-and-ecosystem-collapse-are-the-real-geopolitical-risk-commentary/

Tipping points and ecosystem collapse are the real geopolitical risk (commentary)
The focus of experts in global security tends to orbit familiar threats. War in Europe and the Middle East. Trade disruption and financial volatility. Technology shocks and threats to information integrity. But the most consequential driver of instability is unfolding under our feet and over our heads. The world’s climate system is edging toward tipping points and nature is […]

Trump Knew the Risk of Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz. He Still Went to War. (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/iran-oil-hormuz-blockade-trump-f96bdd53?st=FmQfMm&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p124#a260313p124

Ugh 🤦🤦🤦
Starmer attacks Greens, saying vote for Labour rivals puts new workers’ rights at risk
When politicians start attacking the parties closest to them, instead of the ones that are far away (and to the right) is when you know for sure that they're in it not for the ideas, but just for themselv…

Starmer attacks Greens, saying vote for Labour rivals puts new workers’ rights at risk
PM also criticises business figures and opponents of changes, many of which come into force on Monday

Anthropic sues Trump administration over Pentagon blacklist
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/anthropic-trump-claude-ai-supply-chain-risk.html

Nations not on track to meet UN 2030 pesticide risk reduction targets: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/nations-not-on-track-to-meet-un-2030-pesticide-risk-reduction-targets-study/

Nations not on track to meet UN 2030 pesticide risk reduction targets: Study
The world’s nations committed to halving overall threats to biodiversity from pesticides and other highly hazardous chemicals by 2030 at the 15th United Nations Biodiversity Conference in 2022. But new research finds most countries are trending in the wrong direction when it comes to ecological risks from pesticides, with the U.N.’s global risk reduction target […]

Filing: Anthropic says it had $5B in all-time revenue since 2023 and could lose billions after clients paused deal talks due to supply-chain risk designation (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-claims-business-is-…

Anthropic Claims Pentagon Feud Could Cost It Billions
Executives at the AI startup say companies paused deal talks after the Trump administration labeled it a supply-chain risk, warning that the fallout could cause a major revenue hit.

Every time leftists talk about escalating against Trump, liberals point out that Trump is looking for an excuse to invoke the insurrection act. This is true. But they don't notice that he's the least popular president in history and the military has largely already made it clear that they won't be used against civilians. That risk assessment completely lacks context.
Trump could not possibly win against an insurgency because the only thing he could possibly offer to end it would be his own resignation. If Trump tried to escalate to civil war he would either lose or be removed.
More importantly, Trump compulsively escalates. He will continue to start wars because he thinks he's doing a good job and he's a hero. When he gets frustrated at some foreign enemy because he's actually completely incompetent and only able to win against incompetent and wildly unpopular opponents, he threatens war crimes.
I am familiar enough with history to fully believe that he ordered a nuclear strike last night and people said "no." Humanity has been saved multiple times by people refusing to follow orders, and you don't find out until years later. (This is also not the first story of a president dangerously deep in mental decline. Reagan lost the nuclear football.)
The longer this goes on, the greater the risk that eventually someone will actually let him do something unthinkable. But that's significantly less likely if he's trying to fight within the US border.
Just looking at things from a risk perspective, "he's going to invoke the insurrection act" is not nearly as big of a threat as democrats think it is, and it's about time they think realistically about this fact.

It’s official: The Pentagon has labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/its-official-the-pentagon-has-labeled-anthropic-a-supply-chain-risk/

It’s official: The Pentagon has labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense has officially labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk, making the AI firm the first American company with the label. Meanwhile, the DOD continues to use Anthropic's AI in Iran.

Helemaal terecht natuurlijk om AI een supply chain risk te noemen
https://www.theverge.com/policy/886632/pentagon-designates-anthropic-supply-chain-risk-ai-standoff

A spate of big developments emerged yesterday regarding Anthropic, its status as a "supply chain threat," and what that means for organizations that have deployed the company's tech as well as what it means for the company.
Don't miss today's Metacurity for a précis on these critical developments and other top infosec news you should know, including
--FBI warns of phishing campaigns impersonating city and county officials,
--TX governor warns health ag…

Pentagon-Anthropic standoff escalates, putting contracts and AI deployments at risk
FBI warns of phishing campaigns impersonating city and county officials, TX governor warns health agencies and universities of Chinese-manufactured devices, A big bank in S. Africa was hit by a ransomware attack, Hackers are selling Windows exploit for $220k, much more

"The sea is higher than we thought putting millions more are at risk of extreme flooding"
#Oceans #Climate #ClimateChange

Sea levels are higher than thought – putting millions more are at risk
A new study highlights a 'methodological blind spot' in the way sea level rise is measured.

college_freshmen: Dutch college freshman (1995)
A small network of friendships among freshmen at Dutch College in 1994-1995. Friendship ties were surveyed at 7 different times over the year, and each edge is timestamped. The direction of an edge indicates that person i named person j, and the edge weight represents their level of friendship, ranging from -1 (risk of conflict) to 3 (best friend).
This network has 32 nodes and 3062 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Tim…

The Trump administration is backing off a rule aimed at stopping commercial space companies from leaving rocket bodies in Earth’s orbit,
a practice that experts say could threaten public safety and telecommunications.
The Federal Aviation Administration first proposed the measure in 2023, under the Biden administration,
in hopes of curbing the growing junkyard of debris circling the planet.
It would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to safely remove suc…

Amid Crowded Skies, FAA Kills Rule Aimed at Regulating Space Junk
The agency once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk,” but the Trump administration has backed off a rule that would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to remove rocket parts from orbit within 25 years of launch.

What happens if you offer generous subsidies💰 for Carbon Capture and Storage💨 - but you demand that projects deliver on time⏰?
In recent years, Denmark🇩🇰 has started a fast rollout of CCS technology. Unlike previous attempts, which were met with substantial resistance, this one happened without much opposition. A wide range of political parties supported the plans. 🧵

Denmark's CCS Strategy: Deliver or Pay
In recent years, Denmark pushed CCS technology and ran multiple tenders handing out substantial subsidies. But they came with a catch: either deliver on time or risk hefty penalties. What can be learned from the experiences in Denmark?

High Risk Area declared by ITF and JNG. Seafarers have to be informed and can refuse sailing to Strait of Hormuz
Hochrisikogebiet; Seeleute müssen informiert werden und können sich weigern in Region zu fahren - Tarifpartner zu Straße von Hormus.
ITF ist der internationale Verband der Gewerkschaften für Transportarbeiter und JNG vertritt die Seite der Arbeitgeber

Joint ITF–JNG statement: Designation of High Risk Area in the Strait of Hormuz | ITF Global
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the Joint Negotiating Group (JNG), as social partners of the International Bargaining Forum (IBF), have today designated the Strait of Horm

In our latest Computing research we look at developments in quantum computing and cryptography, whether UK IT leaders believe the risk is real and what actions they are taking.
https://www.computing.co.u…

Is Q-day really nigh? Perceptions of the quantum risk
In our latest Computing research we look at developments in quantum computing and cryptography, whether UK IT leaders believe the risk is real and what ...

More fallout from the chardet AI licensing kerfuffle.
#AI

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
: Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk

Risk of Drafting Players With Injury History? | The Draft Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDx5Ldph6Zc

Lite mycket hype här kan jag tycka. Den högsta träffsäkerheten kom bara efter att man adderat till blodprover med bla fasteblodsocker. Så 🤷‍♂️
Men ändå coolt att datan kan bidra till högre träffsäkerhet.
Smartwatch data can be used to assess early diabetes risk https://www.sciencenews.org/art…

Smartwatch data can be used to assess early diabetes risk
When combined with clinical markers, smartwatch data was able to help detect insulin resistance with nearly 90 percent accuracy.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
At-risk:
🎵 Eye of a fly
#Atrisk
https://at-risk.bandcamp.com/track/eye-of-a-fly

Assessing the Risk the Raiders Are Set to Take on Klint Kubiak https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-assessing-risk-are-set-to-take-klint-kubiak

A big reason why I'm AntiAI is explained here:
(Disclaimer: I can't tell you how much of this article is accurate.)
«Software — 43 comment bubble on white
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens:
Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk.
In doing so, he may have killed "copyleft."»
🪦

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
: Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk

This is an odd characterisation of ecological economics. I'd put that first line, 'Green capitalists', (and at some part of the Keynes fans) under traditional Environmental Economics - where the deleterious impacts of capital accumulation/GDP growth are bunged under 'externalities'.
Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian

“Security for LLM Agents” has now been published in @…: https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2026/305/Securing-LLM-Agents

Safer Assistance » Linux Magazine
Agentic LLM systems are susceptible to attack. We'll show you some steps you can take to mitigate the risk.

from my link log —
Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: electrical grid operating policies left Spain at risk.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/final-analysis-of-2025-iberian-blackout-policies-left-spain-at-risk/…

Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
Too much hardware was allowed to disconnect right at the edge of normal conditions.

I wouldn't normally post a link to LinkedIn, but this is an important republished piece on AMOC collapse from Johan Rockström.
Climate risk becomes a matter of security
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/climate-risk-becomes-matter-sec…

Climate risk becomes a matter of security
The destabilisation of the #AMOC is no longer a distant scenario - it’s a national and global security risk. Iceland’s Climate Minister Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson and I outline actions to tackle this threat in this article first published in Dagens Nyheter and Vísir.

A new law in Argentina, approved on Wednesday by 137 votes to 111, with three abstentions,
will enable provincial authorities to decide which glaciers are protected and which are open for development based on whether they represent a “relevant water function”
“What is at stake is the protection of key water reserves in Argentina,”
says Andrés Nšpoli, a lawyer and executive director of the Foundation of Environment and Natural Resources (Farn), an environmental and human rig…

Anthropic sues Pentagon over rare "supply chain risk" label (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/09/anthropic-sues-pentagon-supply-chain-risk-label
http://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p52#a260309p52

"Scientists sound alarm over Europe's forests as 216,000 hectares at risk - even if warming halts"
#Europe #Environment #Nature

‘Unprecedented’: Scientists sound climate alarm over Europe’s forests
More than 200,000 hectares of European forests could be disturbed annually by 2100, according to a new study.

The Sun EIC Victoria Newton told staff that the paper plans to merge its features desk with the Fabulous celebrity and lifestyle team, placing some jobs at risk (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Jobs at risk as Sun set to merge features desk and Fabulous team
The Sun has proposed merging its features team with the Fabulous celebrity and lifestyle desk.

Filing: Microsoft files an amicus brief in support of Anthropic and advocates for a temporary restraining order to block the DOD's supply chain risk designation (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/microsoft-says-c…

Microsoft says court should temporarily block Pentagon's blacklist of Anthropic
Microsoft threw its support behind Anthropic and advocated for a temporary restraining order to the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation.

Tailings dams
– repositories of mining waste that is often toxic and stored under water
– litter landscapes around the world.
Often, they hold huge quantities of poisonous, harmful material .
While tailings dams are theoretically built to last for ever, more extreme weather driven by the climate crisis has changed the risk profile of many structures.
Flooding, intense rainfall and other weather extremes mean that many of them are more unstable, according to ex…

Tech workers urge DOD, Congress to withdraw Anthropic label as a supply chain risk
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/tech-workers-urge-dod-congress-to-withdraw-anthropic-label-as-a-supply-chain-risk/

Tech workers urge DOD, Congress to withdraw Anthropic label as a supply chain risk | TechCrunch
Tech workers have signed an open letter urging the Department of War to withdraw its designation of Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" and instead to settle the matter quietly.

Eating Organic: Can It Lower Your Cancer Risk? #nutrition

Eating Organic: Can It Lower Your Cancer Risk? | NutritionFacts.org

I wanna jump one more time on the whole "distraction" framing, because this is a point that needs to be hammered home (and I need a reminder to write something longer).
Attacks on trans youth are not a distraction from other types of coercion, they are central to it. Attacks on trans youth come from a conceptualization of children as property, which is literally patriarchy in the Roman sense of the legal objectification all people who share a household as belonging to a man. This legal structure, Roman slave law, continues to be the root of property rights and therefore the foundation of capitalism.
But colonialism also extends from it through the infantalization of colonized people as a justification for oppression. This can also be turned inward again manifesting as the justification for police (that is, some people "can't handle themselves and need external authority to act right").
The #Epstein stuff isn't some weird thing that rich people get away with, it's core to how wealth works. Money isn't useful by itself, it's a proxy for power. One manifestation of power is being able to violate laws that constrain others (this is the "freedom of the monarch" that Graeber talks about in Dawn of Everything). The war in Iran, especially the threats of nuclear weapons and genocide is not a distraction from the #EpsteinFiles, but rather a manifestation of the same thing.
Power must be demonstrated to affirm that it is real. War is a demonstration power. Violating the law without consequences is a demonstration of power. The most taboo things are using nuclear weapons and child sexual abuse. He has already done one of those, and he is going to do everything he can to do the other.
These are not distractions, these are all manifestations of the underlying thing that we need to fight. But we need to make sure we're fighting it as a single thing. We have to tie these things together, because if we do not then we risk reproducing the same thing again but worse.

Un appello ai legislatori dell'UE: proteggere i diritti e respingere la richiesta di eliminare la garanzia della trasparenza nel #AIAct

«Noi, organizzazioni e individui sottoscritti, vi esortiamo con la massima fermezza a respingere l'eliminazione della garanzia di trasparenza di cui all'articolo 49(2) per i sistemi di IA ad alto rischio, proposta nell'AI Omnibus.»…

"‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how climate crisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk" https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/31/climate-crisis-flood-risk-britain?CMP=share_btn_url

‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how climate crisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk
As rivers swell and homes are cut off, scientists say UK winter rainfall is already 20 years ahead of predictions

We asked 100 UK IT leaders what one question they’d like answered about the quantum threat. Here are some pointers.
https://www.computing.co.uk/research/2026/a-post-quantum-q-a-yo…

A quantum risk Q&A - your questions answered
Quantum computing’s threat to encryption is - conceptually at least – very simple. One day, perhaps quite soon, a quantum computer may be able to ...

War on Iran and the metabolic rift. Another argument for agroecology rather than high (fossil fuel) input industrial agriculture. Of course such a transition can't be done overnight.
How the Iran war could create a ‘fertiliser shock’ – an often ignored global risk to food prices and farming

How the Iran war could create a ‘fertiliser shock’ – an often ignored global risk to food prices and farming
Without this form of fertiliser, crops will not produce yields on which the world’s population depends, leaving people starving.

college_freshmen: Dutch college freshman (1995)
A small network of friendships among freshmen at Dutch College in 1994-1995. Friendship ties were surveyed at 7 different times over the year, and each edge is timestamped. The direction of an edge indicates that person i named person j, and the edge weight represents their level of friendship, ranging from -1 (risk of conflict) to 3 (best friend).
This network has 32 nodes and 3062 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Tim…

Drinking water at risk long after wildfires, study warns #environment

Drinking water at risk long after wildfires, study warns
Canada's drinking water can remain at risk long after wildfires burn out, according to a UBC-led global review that found water-quality impacts often emerge months or years later—not just immediately after a fire. Researchers analyzed 23 studies across 28 watersheds worldwide, comparing pre- and post-fire levels of sediment, nutrients, metals, organic carbon, ions and wildfire-fighting chemicals. Across climates, contamination often intensified over time, particularly when storms or snowmelt …

Relevant för de som tar en låg dos av testosteron som äldre. Det målas ofta upp som naturligt och säkert för att man "återställer" nivåer som man har i tonåren.
High levels of testosterone in the blood may raise risk of coronary artery disease https://…

High levels of testosterone in the blood may raise risk of coronary artery disease in men - MRC Epidemiology Unit
High levels of testosterone in the blood have been linked to a greater risk of coronary artery disease in men, according to new genetic research led by scientists at the […]

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-work-with-mercor-after-data-breach-puts-ai-industry-secrets-at-risk/

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.

Experts say water, not oil, is most at risk in the Persian Gulf during Iran war | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-war-oil-water-persian-gulf-b2934830.html

Private equity and private credit groups' big bets on SaaS companies, the biggest area of PE activity in the past decade, risk being derailed by the rise of AI (Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/d8dcf5d9-cf89…

By combining retinal imaging, genetics, and big data,
physician-researchers from Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
have found that they can estimate how likely a person is to develop eye and systemic diseases in the future.
⭐️They found significant associations between the thinning of different retinal layers and increased risk of developing ocular, cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, and neuropsy…

"Help a toad across the road – and five more ways to save these endangered amphibians"
#Amphibians #Toads #Animals

US gas prices risk topping $5 per gallon if Strait of Hormuz stays closed: JPMorgan (Ines Ferré/Yahoo Finance)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-gas-prices-risk-topping-5-per-gallon-if-strait-of-hormuz-stays-closed-jpmorgan-200128577.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p60#a260407p60

Insomnia and sleep apnea together dramatically raise heart disease risk #health

Insomnia and sleep apnea together dramatically raise heart disease risk
Struggling to fall asleep and stopping breathing at night may be a far riskier combo than previously thought. In a study of nearly a million veterans, researchers found that having both insomnia and sleep apnea dramatically raises the risk of hypertension and heart disease. The two conditions don’t just coexist—they interact in ways that intensify strain on the heart. Addressing sleep problems early could help prevent cardiovascular disease before it starts.

Anthropic sues Trump administration over Pentagon blacklist
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/anthropic-trump-claude-ai-supply-chain-risk.html

Oslo-based Unleash, which develops tools that let enterprises manage risks in AI-accelerated software development, raised a $35M Series B led by One Peak (Paul Gillin/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/04/unleash-raises-35m-rein-ai-driven-soft…

Unleash raises $35M to rein in AI-driven software risk - SiliconANGLE
Unleash raises $35M to rein in AI-driven software risk - SiliconANGLE

college_freshmen: Dutch college freshman (1995)
A small network of friendships among freshmen at Dutch College in 1994-1995. Friendship ties were surveyed at 7 different times over the year, and each edge is timestamped. The direction of an edge indicates that person i named person j, and the edge weight represents their level of friendship, ranging from -1 (risk of conflict) to 3 (best friend).
This network has 32 nodes and 3062 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Tim…

Indonesia says it will ban "high-risk" platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, and Roblox, for children under 16 from March 28 (Edna Tarigan/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-social-medi…

Indonesia to ban social media for under-16s
Indonesia will ban social media for children under 16, the communication and digital affairs minister says. Meutya Hafid in a statement to media Friday said that she has signed a government regulation that will mean children under the age of 16 can no longer have accounts on high-risk digital platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, Bigo Live and Roblox. The implementation will start gradually from March 28. Hafid said the government was helping parents fight back …

FPF Releases Updated Infographic on Age Assurance Technologies, Emerging Standards, and Risk Management
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-updated-infographic-on-age-assurance-technologies-emerging-standards-and-risk-m…

"Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/27/vegetarians-have-substantially-lower-risk-of-five-types-of-cancer?CMP=share_btn_url…

Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer
Study shows lower risk for multiple myeloma as well as pancreatic, prostate, breast and kidney cancers

France will cut its reliance on extra-EU proprietary tech, favoring open-source and digital sovereignty.
DINUM orders ministries to map dependencies and plan exit from extra-European tech by fall.
France plans to replace Windows with Linux; EU open-source options include openSUSE
https://www.

France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, calling US tech dependence a strategic risk
The ministries have until the fall to find a solution.

A Downed Airman, a Mountain Hideout and a High-Risk Rescue in Iran (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/a-downed-airman-a-mountain-hideout-and-a-high-risk-rescue-in-iran-921aa8f6?st=iigrEF
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p58#a260406p58

"UK’s smallest bird of prey among 200 species at risk of extinction, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Birds

Bretton AI, formerly Greenlite, which uses GenAI to investigate suspicious transactions and verify internal risk policy compliance, raised a $75M Series B (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/10/bretton-ai-mone…

Bretton AI raises $75 million to use AI to combat financial crime
With new funding from Sapphire Ventures and Greylock Partners, the startup is upending anti-money laundering prevention at top financial firms.

Don't miss my latest CSO feature that examines how boards don't need more cyber metrics; they need risk signals so they can better understand the exposure, trajectory, and consequences of the threats their organizations face.
Thanks to Richard Bejtlich, Mike Hamilton, Wendy Nather, George Tsantes, and Bernard Brantley for their insights.

Boards don’t need cyber metrics — they need risk signals
Security teams have learned to measure activity. The harder task is turning those measurements into signals directors can use to govern risk.

New emergency fund supports US journalists at risk (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2026/02/new-emergency-fund-supports-u-s-journalists-at-risk/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p109#a260205p109

Modeling finds old-growth wildfire risk highest where low-severity fires once burned #environment

Modeling finds old-growth wildfire risk highest where low-severity fires once burned
A new analysis shows that the Pacific Northwest's mature and old-growth forests are most at risk of severe wildfire in areas that historically burned frequently at lower severity. The study by scientists at Oregon State University and USDA Forest Service Research & Development is important because those forests are culturally, economically and ecologically significant, supporting biodiversity while storing vast amounts of carbon, and they are under increasing threat of stand-replacing wildfire.

The AI-assisted overhaul of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software relicensing and derivative versions of the original (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/
…

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
: Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk

Iran strikes risk more voter frustration on the economy with rising gas prices (Jonathan Allen/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/iran-strikes-risk-voter-frustration-economy-rising-gas-prices-rcna261346
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p40#a260304p40

It's finally Friday, so don't leave for the weekend without checking out today's Metacurity for the most crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--FBI's wiretap network hit by suspected hack, maybe by the Chinese spies it was watching
--US gov't contractor's son pleads guilty to stealing $46m in crypto,
--DoD officially labels Anthropic a supply chain risk,
--About half of zero-days target enterprises,
--Bing's AI-enhan…

FBI's wiretap network hit by suspected hack, maybe by the Chinese spies it was watching
US gov't contractor's son pleads guilty to stealing $46m in crypto, DoD officially labels Anthropic a supply chain risk, About half of zero-days target enterprises, Bing's AI-enhanced search pushed malicious OpenClaw installers, Ghanaian national pleads guilty to role in $100m fraud ring, much more

Sources: Meta has paused its work with Mercor while it investigates a security breach at the data vendor; OpenAI says it is investigating the security incident (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-work-with-mercor-after-…

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.

A cryptography engineer calls for urgent rollout of post-quantum cryptography schemes, saying the risk of inaction is now unacceptable, after Google's warning (Filippo Valsorda)
https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/

A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.

People with the highest daily intake of caffeinated coffee had an 18% lower risk of developing dementia compared to those with the lowest such intake, according to a study based on responses to questionnaires by 132,000 U.S. adults spanning four decades.

Anthropic's dispute with the DOD raises critical questions for US military partners like Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and Palantir, which work closely with Anthropic (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-supply-chain-risk-shockwaves-silicon-valley/…

Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a 'Supply Chain Risk'
Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.

President Trump calls Anthropic a "radical left, woke company" and says he is directing every federal agency in the US to stop using its products (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/anthropic-pentagon-supply-chain-risk-claude

Pentagon blacklists Anthropic, labels AI company "supply chain risk"
The penalty is usually reserved for companies from adversarial countries, like China's Huawei.

Anthropic sues to block the DOD from designating it a supply chain risk, says the designation is unlawful and violates its free speech and due process rights (Jack Queen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-sues-block-…

Indonesia says it will ban "high risk platforms", including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, and Roblox, for children under 16 from March 28 (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-social-media-children-85…

Indonesia to ban social media for under-16s
Indonesia will ban social media for children under 16, Communication and Digital Affairs Minister Meutya Hafid. Hafid in a statement to media Friday said that she just signed a government regulation that will mean children under the age of 16 can no longer have accounts on high-risk digital platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, Bigo Live and Roblox. The implementation will start gradually on March 28. Hafid said the government was helping parents fight back agai…

Microsoft plans to keep Anthropic's tools embedded in client products, after its lawyers determine the DOD's designation doesn't apply to non-defense projects (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/microsoft-…

Microsoft says Anthropic’s products remain available to customers after Pentagon blacklist
Microsoft is the first major company to say it will keep using Anthropic models in its products.

A senior defense official says Pentagon has formally notified Anthropic that the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-05/pentagon-s…

TSMC's conservative capex approach is resulting in supply-demand imbalances and foregone revenue, and hyperscalers must build up Samsung or Intel as its rivals (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/tsmc-risk/

TSMC Risk
If hyperscalers and chip companies don’t build up a TSMC competitor they are set to forego billions of dollars in revenue and stunt the AI revolution.

A DC appeals court denies Anthropic's bid to pause the DOD's supply chain risk designation, after a California judge granted a preliminary injunction in March (Jack Queen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-court-declines-b…