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While preparing #ArtemisII for flight, NASA engineers are reviewing data after a confidence test Feb. 12, in which operators partially filled the SLS (Space Launch System) core stage liquid hydrogen tank to assess newly replaced seals in an area used to fill the rocket with propellant: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/13/following-confidence-test-nasa-continues-artemis-ii-data-review/ - during the test, "teams encountered an issue with ground support equipment that reduced the flow of liquid hydrogen into the rocket. [...] Engineers will examine findings before setting a timeline for the next test, a second wet dress rehearsal this month. March remains the earliest potential launch window for Artemis II."

„20 years from now we'll be inundated with documentaries more honestly detailing what a gargantuan bullshit artist Elon Musk was. Until then we appear stuck in a press-enabled purgatorial innovation mythology comically detached from anything resembling factual reality.“
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I've been enjoying living with my record collection again (my parents decided a few decades of dust from their house was enough). While I bought most of my LPs at the Salvation Army, almost all my 7 inches - except for one I recall very clearly buying at record show at Serb Hall (a story for another day) - came from Atomic Records, #Milwaukee's much regretted mecca for underground music. This o…

“I know that thousands of gay men in Russia watched Heated Rivalry—on pirate sites, of course, because they have no legal way to watch the series. The Russian authorities would undoubtedly ban the show as LGBTQ propaganda, but most Western platforms don’t function in Russia either. As a result, Russian queer people have to break every possible law simply to live in the same world as members of their own community.”

In Putin’s Homophobic Russia, Watching ‘Heated Rivalry’ Is an Act of Rebellion and Hope
The explicit hockey romance is an enormous hit there—perhaps because its closeted Russian hero feels surprisingly true to life.

Meta's auditor Ernst & Young raised a red flag over the financial engineering Meta used to keep its $27B Hyperion data center project off its balance sheet (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
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Polymarket partners with Singapore-based Kaito AI to launch "attention markets", letting users bet on "mindshare" and "sentiment" metrics from social media (Alicia Park/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/20

Polymarket To Offer Attention Markets In Partnership With Kaito AI
The prediction market is partnering with an AI engine that tracks social media data to create markets about cultural relevance.

Each week, Metacurity offers our subscribers a run-down of the best infosec-related long reads we couldn't get to properly amid the onslaught of daily news.
This week's selection covers,
--Sam Altman is no fan of AI safety,
--Quantum computing cryptography is now an engineering emergency,
--How a Mexican contractor became a surveillance powerhouse,
--Software is produced too fast to secure it,
--AI is more likely to empower cyber defense than offense,…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 4/4/26
Sam Altman is no fan of AI safety, Quantum computing cryptography is now an engineering emergency, How a Mexican contractor became a surveillance powerhouse, Software is produced too fast to secure it, AI is more likely to empower cyber defense than offense, The eternal search for Satoshi Nakamoto

Emil Michael, a high-profile US defense department official who oversees the agency’s artificial intelligenceefforts,
made a profit of up to $24m selling a private investment he held in Elon Musk’s AI company earlier this year,
according to government ethics records released this month.
The value of his stake totaled a maximum of a million dollars when he joined the department.
Emil Michael, who is the Pentagon’s under secretary for research and engineering under the …

Polymarket partners with Singapore-based Kaito AI to launch "attention markets", letting users bet on "mindshare" and "sentiment" metrics from social media (Alicia Park/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/20

Polymarket To Offer Attention Markets In Partnership With Kaito AI
The prediction market is partnering with an AI engine that tracks social media data to create markets about cultural relevance.

ReveaLLAGN 1 - JWST Emission-Line Spectra Reveal Low-Luminosity #AGN with UV-Deficient SEDs and Warm Molecular Gas: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16977 -> James Webb Space Telescope uncovers secret supermassive black holes that escape traditional detection: https://www.space.com/astronomy/james-webb-space-telescope/james-webb-space-telescope-uncovers-secret-supermassive-black-holes-that-escape-traditional-detection