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Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s reservations about his country’s interim peace deal with the United States
have emboldened the country’s hardline political grouping, which opposes any concessions with Washington.
Iran’s new supreme leader appears to have handed responsibility for the deal over to President Masoud Pezeshkian, a relative moderate,
who is now under fire from a more hardline camp that believes war with the US could restart soon.
Supporters of Khamen…

Where do Iran’s political factions stand on the US peace deal?
Iran’s rival political camps are locking horns over a memorandum of understanding with the US.

It feels like Friday, but it’s only Wednesday — so don’t miss today’s Metacurity, covering the most important infosec developments you need to know, including
--GitHub says malicious VS Code extension compromised 3,800 internal repositories,
--White House release of EO on cyber and AI safety is imminent,
--Microsoft took down malware service Fox Tempest,
--A bug in a Huawei enterprise router caused Luxembourg telecoms outage last year,
--Mini Shai-Hulud malware r…

GitHub says malicious VS Code extension compromised 3,800 internal repositories
White House release of EO on cyber and AI safety is imminent, Microsoft took down malware service Fox Tempest, A bug in a Huawei enterprise router caused Luxembourg telecoms outage last year, Mini Shai-Hulud malware resurfaces across hundreds of npm packages, much more

Starlink erhöht Preise in Deutschland
Sämtliche Satelliten-Internet-Tarife des US-Anbieters Starlink werden in Deutschland teurer.
https://www.heise.de/news/Starlink-erhoeht

Satelliten-Internet: Starlink hebt die Preise an
Sämtliche Satelliten-Internet-Tarife des US-Anbieters Starlink werden in Deutschland teurer.

Some of these are pretty reasonable! If you allow them for anyone, you probably make it so to compete at all requires everyone to follow suit. That's bad when those things have life-altering health implications.
But all of these things ultimately shape who is allowed to compete at the peak levels.
it's not always good! Honestly baseball is way less interesting to watch in the majors because everyone's great, all the plays are maximal capability, and it's kinda predictable. You don't end up with many of those "holy shit what just happened? that was awesome!" plays that are so much fun to watch. So as a spectator, these rules aren't always great. Sometimes you want to nerf the peak performance until the game is interesting. Sometimes you don't.
In F1, a huge part of the game is the nerding out about the rules and how to evade them cleverly to get peak performance. And the inside baseball on that is way more fun to watch than the race. The race is just cars going zoom and occasionally crashing, interrupted by amazing choreography in the pits.
There's a reason women's soccer is so much more fun for me to watch than men's. It's not been optimized so hard that the game isn't predictable in kind if not outcome. Plus the camaraderie shown is great.
But looking at all this, we gotta ask, what's sport's function in our societies? Why do we do this?

Block launches Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace on Nostr protocol for humans and AI agents to share messages, code repositories, workflows, and more (Block)
https://block.xyz/inside/introducing-buzz-where-humans-and-agents-work-together

Introducing Buzz: where humans and agents work together
Today we're releasing Buzz, a free, open source collaboration platform where humans and AI agents work together in a shared workspace. It's available now at buzz.xyz. Buzz is a collaboration workspace built on the Nostr protocol. It has channels, threads, direct messages, voice, media sharing, code repositories, and automated workflows. The interface will feel familiar to anyone who's used a modern team communication tool.

“9to5Mac’s Take: Data brokers are a form of business which quite simply shouldn’t be allowed to exist.”
https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/20/ai-companies-and-data-brokers-even-resort-to-fake-forms-to-keep-selling-our-data/…

Trump’s fragile agreement with Iran has introduced a new variable into this year’s midterm elections.
Democratic candidates have assailed the agreement,
arguing that the president accepted unfavorable terms to try to end an unnecessary war that hurt the economy.
Republicans have been more divided.
Some, eager to turn the page on the unpopular war, are hailing falling gas prices and praising Trump for weakening Iran’s military capabilities,
while others are expr…

How Trump’s Fragile Agreement With Iran Is Shaping the Midterms
Democrats say the president started an economically painful war that resulted in nothing positive. Republicans are more divided, even as they show some signs of relief at falling gas prices.

Studie mit Zebrafischen: So bereitet sich das Gehirn auf soziale Interaktion vor
In einer Studie mit Zebrafischen beobachteten Forscher eine veränderte Gehirnaktivität, noch vor sozialer Interaktion. Dies ist auch bei Menschen möglich.

Studie mit Zebrafischen: So bereitet sich das Gehirn auf soziale Interaktion vor
In einer Studie mit Zebrafischen beobachteten Forscher eine veränderte Gehirnaktivität, noch vor sozialer Interaktion. Dies ist auch bei Menschen möglich.

Survey after survey has shown that the United States’ international popularity has steadily declined in recent years.
That trend now appears appears to be accelerating during U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term.
The American chattering classes tend to discuss the dangers of the country’s worsening image in terms of geopolitics and waning “soft power”
—and they’re not wrong.
Washington’s globe-spanning alliances have long been one of its major strengths.
If …

Donald Trump’s War on Tourism
Turned off by U.S. policies and border practices, foreign visitors are going elsewhere.

For Elizabeth Arif-Fear, there was no single moment when she realised she wanted to be Jewish.
“It was just a journey over time,” she says.
The 37-year-old interfaith activist was born Christian, then converted to Islam and was Muslim for 14 years, before realising that that faith was also not the right fit.
Eventually, she found the answer she had been searching for in Judaism.
“I feel I’ve finally found God without all the extras,” she says.
-- “Without Jesus, …