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This Week in Sports Trivia: March 19, 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7128550/2026/03/19/this-week-in-sports-trivia-march-19-2026/

#ThursDeath this week is this absolute BANGER of a sophomore record Whittier, California deathgrind freaks CASKET MUSH just put out, 'Evocation of Paranoia'. This fucker grinds and churns and smashes at your skull in the best ways. HUGE contender for me this year. Gonna be listening to this one a lot.

US EPA plans to loosen mercury rules for coal plants this week, NYT reports (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-epa-plans-loosen-mercury-rules-coal-plants-this-week-nyt-reports-2026-02-18/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p85#a260218p85

This Week in Sports Trivia: February 19, 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7055593/2026/02/19/this-week-in-sports-trivia-february-19-2026/

I'll go with the band name for #TuneTuesday; this week's theme is #ImplodeOrExplode. I'd also like the the things the band wants.
This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, "This is What I Want" (2002)

This is how you do it. Take an example #Bulgaria
Between 200,000 and 400,000 people are expected to attend this week-end's anti-government protest in Letnš, organizers have announced, with the fickle weather being one of the main variables. Taking place this Saturday between 3 pm and 5 pm, the demonstration wants to draw attention to the illiberal turn and oligarchic tendencies of the cur…

The US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady for the second time this year,
a widely expected move amid turmoil in the Middle East and rising energy prices.
Fed officials faced a confluence of issues to consider in their meeting this week:
soaring oil and gas prices,
fluctuating inflation that still remains above the Fed’s target of 2%,
and a weakened job market that unexpectedly saw 92,000 losses last month.
All but one of the 12 voting members of th…

#potd A week ago I was cycling over sandy piste in Senegal, now this. After de-icing the bike cycling to the office worked quite well, because the city of Vienna is very good at removing snow from bike paths and streets. The pavements are in a worse state, because removing the snow there is the job of each house owner.

First strong direct observational evidence that AMOC has already been weakening for the past 20 years. The bad news keeps coming. Need I add that we should reduce emissions asap?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pall-gunnar

Today I feel afraid. Two AMOC papers published in the last week have, in my mind, crossed a threshold I wasn't sure we would cross this decade. Xing et al. (Science Advances, 8 April) used four… | Páll Gunnarsson | 15 comments
Today I feel afraid. Two AMOC papers published in the last week have, in my mind, crossed a threshold I wasn't sure we would cross this decade. Xing et al. (Science Advances, 8 April) used four independent mooring arrays in the North Atlantic to show a consistent decline in western boundary overturning over the past two decades. This is the first strong direct observational evidence of AMOC weakening beyond natural variability — not inferred from fingerprints or proxies, but measured. Port…

Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M lines of code across 1,000 files (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/scaling-long-running-a…

Scaling long-running autonomous coding
Wilson Lin at Cursor has been doing some experiments to see how far you can push a large fleet of "autonomous" coding agents: This post describes what we've learned from …

Metacurity is changing things up with this week's infosec long-reads issue. Full access to our curated infosec long reads moves behind a subscriber paywall, although free subscribers still get highlights.
Check out this week's selection of good reads that cover
--Why Anthropic decided to keep Mythos under wraps,
-- Iran adopted locally resonant narratives to exploit Irish political tensions,
--Sexual deepfakes are the scourge of schools,
--How insider ris…

Best infosec long-reads 4/18: The gap between capability and accountability is widening
Why Anthropic decided to keep Mythos under wraps, Iran adopted locally resonant narratives to exploit Irish political tensions, Sexual deepfakes are the scourge of schools, How insider risk and supply chain compromise afflicted twenty-something billionaires, MSG's owner is obsessed with surveillance

Peru’s voters cast ballots for their ninth president in ten years on Sunday; and now with their next president, after this one, they can look forward to getting a free medium latte.
See news like this in This Week This Week tonight in LA.
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This week brought an EF-1 tornado through town—but also some good news: a new house for my youngest son, a successful surgery for Athena, and even a few newly discovered cousins thanks to genealogy research.
A little chaos, a little gratitude.
#blogging #family

Storms, New Homes, and Newly Found Cousins – Bob Mueller
A week of storms and milestones: an EF-1 tornado hits town, a son buys his first home, a dog recovers from surgery, and new cousins emerge.

Was out of town all week - so didn't get to enjoy this arriving at home on Monday - until now

Hardly any updates in the last week. We are celebrating the start of a Lunar New Year, the Year of the Horse.
This time around I was invited to join my girlfriend's family in Buon Ma Thuot for the celebrations. They already knew me from last year's coffee festival (which we visited) and were very excited to have me over. As was I, Tet in the countryside is really something different. It was an inspiring week, with lots of family, friends and fun. And no computers (hardly any), n…

Executives don’t want to just sell juice. They want to empower you with an agentic, customizable, and seamless juice experience.
But no one has stopped to think about what any of that actually means. Before designing a "solution," you need a good, *shared* problem definition. If the beautiful clarity within the design team shatters on contact with any handoff, you didn't finish the job.
Read more in this week's Product Picnic:

Your problem framing is sabotaging your strategy
Skipping to designing the solution before you have adequately designed the problem is not speeding you up, but slowing you down.

Q&A with Josh Sternberg, executive editor at Morning Brew, about leading Morning Brew's editorial strategy, the ever-changing media landscape, and more (Meredith Klein/Meredith & The Media)
https://meredithandthemedia.substack.com/p/an-interview-jos…

An Interview: Josh Sternberg, Morning Brew
This week, I sat down with Josh Sternberg, executive editor at Morning Brew.

I remember how childish Trek fans raged over S1-2 of TNG & S1-4 of DS9. Then yawned at Voyager & all of Enterprise.
Anyhoo... see you #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy S2!
▶️ Paramount ’s unexpected sci-fi hit officially wraps season 2 very soon [exclusive]

Paramount+’s Unexpected Sci-Fi Hit Officially Wraps Season 2 Very Soon [Exclusive]
Star Trek's unexpected hit, Starfleet Academy, is set to officially wrap filming on Season 2 very soon, according to George Hawkins. Get the details.

8 minutes in and this is a different game versus the previous meeting last week.
I hope I didn't jinx them...

NFL Free Agency: Run on WRs entering week 2 but strong talent remains https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/03/17/nfl-free-agency-run-on-wrs-entering-week-2-but-strong-ta…

Kennt ihr eigentlich die Fernsehserie „Halt and Catch Fire“? Falls nein: unbedingte Empfehlung, insbesondere auch für Menschen, die sich für Computer- und Hackergeschichte interessieren: https://www.sceneandheardnu.com/content/halt-and-catch-fire

TV’s Best Drama You’ve Probably Never Heard Of — Scene+Heard
This piece contains spoilers for Halt and Catch Fire. Halt and Catch Fire is one of my favorite TV shows of all time. During quarantine, I binged all four seasons in a week and was immediately struck by its themes of human connection — the desire for it, the difficulty that inevitably comes wi

I was reading the most recent @… WIP Wednesday and saw:
There are 2 release blockers for v1.1 currently, down by 2 from last week.
If I read those two release bl…

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

Our pick this week is a nice bit of crunchy psychedelic stoner metal from ASG .. and well ... if this one's new to you, buckle up, you're in for a treat.
Give it a listen and check out what we had to say about the band and the track, and don't forget to follow us as we showcase and blog about one handpicked tune from across the epic world of #rock and

ASG - Dream Song
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

#ThursDeath this week is a classic. This is 'Ritual of Infinity', the only full length released by Middletown, New York's MORPHEUS DESCENDS, in 1992.
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.co

Next week is 10 years since we lost Prince. Since then, the community of Prince scholars has come together regularly for academic symposia on his legacy and works; you can watch for free this weekend if you'd like to join us online or in person at NYU. This year's focus is Prince & the Revolution's 1986 album "Parade" & the movie it accompanied, Under the Cherry Moon. Register for free, and come join us!

🎧 Here's a short excerpt from this week's #podcast, where I use my own example of addressing procrastination- finally taking action on a task that's been on my list for weeks!
https://youtu.be/KJSaXw4CUEs…

Friday Links 26-13
I caught up with my YouTube, two good videos from NotJustBikes about cars and oil being bad.
I really liked all the links in leadership this week, all highly recommended.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/04/friday-links-26-13.html

Firstly, I am aware that sizing of women's clothing is at *least* this bad.
I've had two pairs of Keen "Men's Hiking Shoes", specifically their "Targhee" brand.
I bought the first pair in person, so fitted the size in person. Those claim "EU 44, US 10.5, UK 9.5, CM 28.5"
When those wore out I ordered a pair of the third version of that shoe in the same UK 9.5 size. After a week it was clear they were too big. My big toes were get…

Trump suggested this week that news organizations could be charged with treason for,
as he baselessly sees it,
spreading false information and thus helping America’s enemies.
He’s getting plenty of help from his top loyalists.
The chair of the Federal Communications Commission,
Brendan Carr, threatened that media companies could lose their licenses if they didn’t get in line.
Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News host who is now the secretary of defense, is dem…

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TP-Link, alleging it deceptively markets its products as secure while allowing the CCP to hack into consumers' devices (The Record)
https://therecord.media/texas-sues-tp-link-china-allegations

Texas sues TP-Link, alleging it allows China to hack into routers
Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the lawsuit on Monday and said it is the first of several that will be filed this week against companies affiliated with China's government.

The Claim I Filed in 2006
This week I published The Claimed Body: How American Institutions Divided the Human Organism Among Themselves. Fifteen chapters, 559 pages in paperback, 349 in the web edition, a Kindle ebook, and a wraparound cover that took the shape of a parcel map of the body. The book is out on Amazon and through BolesBooks.com. Readers who have followed the constellation for any length of time will recognize the argument before they finish the first…

The Claim I Filed in 2006 | David Boles, Blogs
This week I published The Claimed Body: How American Institutions Divided the Human Organism Among Themselves. Fifteen chapters, 559 pages in paperback, 349 in the web edition, a Kindle ebook, and …

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest #25!! 💖🌊✨
https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-25/?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome Day and night meet as equals this week. The light feels freshly washed. In low marshes, spring peepers try out their first chorus, small notes that somehow fill the cold air. So much of our selection shares that feeling of beginnings that are also completions. Two East Coast wind

NFL Draft Rumors: Steelers shut door on QB, Cowboys trade confusion and more https://fansided.com/nfl/nfl-draft-rumors-steelers-shut-door-on-qb-cowboys-trade-confusion-and-more

“A country might justify that position if it used the proceeds to build something (anything!) like world-class public services, extraordinary infrastructure, or a society so well-functioning that the trade-off had a visible return. Ireland did… None of this. It extracted from others and failed to build anything for itself. That is the uniquely disgraceful aspect of the Irish model; not the extraction alone, but the total nothingnessthat followed it. The nothingness we live in.”
This is…

Mind the Gap
Ireland is the second richest country in Europe, and this week a single protest shut it down. Here's why.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Black Flag:
🎵 Annihilate This Week
#BlackFlag
https://convergecult.bandcamp.com/track/annihilate-this-week-black-flag-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/7laqUQr9aQamWSoU7Km85q

I'm very excited about the Affordable Housing Guarantee Act, filed this week for the November ballot in SF.
The AHGA will bring in an estimated $500m a year over the next five years for affordable housing and homelessness prevention, of which between 30% and 55% will go to social housing models.
And with no new tax! It only continues an existing tax on rich real estate investors that Mayor Lurie and Supervisors Dorsey, Mahmood, and Sauter are trying to repeal.

Behind the Blog: Marathon and the Metaverse https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-marathon-and-the-metaverse/

Look like this week's Tune Tuesday is about unexpected whiplash - songs that flip between genres, beats, tunes, etc seemingly mid-song.
This call for BBTS!!
Broken By The Scream - 追憶のナスカ - (Official Music Video)

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追憶のナスカ - Tsuioku no Nazca by Broken By The Scream
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

Storms, New Homes, and Newly Found Cousins
An EF-1 tornado tears through town, but the bigger story this week might be closer to home—family milestones, new beginnings, and a surprising discovery of more cousins branching out on the family tree.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/storms-ne

Storms, New Homes, and Newly Found Cousins – Bob Mueller
A week of storms and milestones: an EF-1 tornado hits town, a son buys his first home, a dog recovers from surgery, and new cousins emerge.

For #GrindayFriday this week, a grind/powerviolence band from Germany/France, EASTWOOD. This is their record from 2021, 'Antibiose': https://eastwoodgrind.bandcamp.com/album/antibiose…

Tom's Hardware has a headline this week summarizing a Financial Times interview with a Microsoft #AI exec that begins thusly:
"Microsoft’s AI boss says AI can replace every white-collar job in 18 months".
If you watch the interview, that is not what was said. The statement is a bit more nuanced claim that AI can fully automate tasks of some white collar work.
But I…

This week, I reported a bug to the SQLite forum. The next day, the bug was fixed in the source repository.
As is often the case with mature projects, the fix was a one-liner and the tests added to prevent regressions were 40 lines long.
https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/8bfbaec40474a2e8

Doctors and parents are concerned that kids might try to use brake fluid as a recreational drug, but manufacturers say it’s OK because they can stop at any time.
See news like this in This Week This Week tonight in LA.
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I’m confused as to why Von der Leyen is referring to “an app” (3:05 min) in her Age Verification announcement this week (https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/stories/M-009975).
I doesn't read like there will be one app for all EU citizens:
“One common set of standar…

"Why is the UK so rainy this year and how is the climate crisis making matters worse?"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

from my link log —
Void in Haskell is a smell.
https://tech.freckle.com/2020/09/23/void-is-a-smell/
saved 2020-09-24 https://

Trump acknowledged this week that “most” NATO members have said they’ll stay out of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran.
So far, the only NATO members that have come out in support of the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran are the Czech Republic, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
Others, including Denmark, Finland and Luxembourg, have remained neutral in their opinions of the strikes, while issuing broad criticisms of the Iranian regime.

Trump's Only NATO Support On Iran Comes From These 6 Smaller Countries
Trump has raged at NATO for refusing his demands to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, making veiled threats of retaliation against the coalition of longtime U.S. allies.

Mythos is the cover story at The Economist this week.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/04/

This Week in Sports Trivia: April 16, 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7198771/2026/04/16/this-week-in-sports-trivia-april-16-2026/

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- One from BBC Introducing North East
Soweto welcomes back his 4/4 guest this week, Naïssam Jalal, who has another jazz album to share tonight.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002br8v

Indoor track run. Debated running outside, but the wind started to pick up, and rain was in the forecast (plus random ice and ICE). I figured out the foot pod, so the Garmin is tracking my track runs inside now, somewhat accurately it seems.
Hoping to get back to 5 days of running in a week (probably not this one, lol), my health is not doing so great; cholesterol and BP are high, and asthma and chronic pain have been a bit of a struggle. I weigh more than I have ever weighed in my lif…

With the eight week improv course ending last week, I timed it well to start a new group with a new set of eight sessions this week.
The Free Association seem more serious than Hoopla. They have 50% longer classes for a start. Three hours rather than two.
More instruction and notes rather than just positive encouragement. Clearer aim even from the early levels. More like a classroom than a playground.
First couple of sets of eight at Hoopla are just aimed at getting you to lose your decorum and allow yourself to be free and spontaneous. All really short form games, lightning rounds. Parlor games rather than theater.
But the Free Association's aim from the start is to get you building scenes and then stories. Their first set of lessons is titled "intro to long form". This one "Scene work".
Not so much the one minute parlor games, more focus on acting and characters and drama.
In vague terms at early stages that is. I mean, they have more in common than different. Plenty of short games in warm-up at FA and I just finished a whole set on drama and story with Hoopla.
Three hours is pretty long though. Starts half an hour earlier, ends half an hour later. Good thing it's also much much closer for me. Ten minute walk instead of 40 minutes on the bus.
We did lots and lots of first-scene head-to-head, mostly concentrating on trying to get specific. Check that after two minutes the audience knows where you are and who you are and how you know each other and what you're doing and none of the players are unsure either. Make it all specific as soon as possible, ambiguity is the enemy.
And everyone got that and exercised it pretty much flawlessly right away. So good group.
#theFreeAssociation #improv #london

The definitive chart for avocados. Especially when you're dumb enough to buy two bags worth. 🤦‍♂️

We’ve chosen the paper for @… next week (February 23rd): “Hallucinating with AI: AI Psychosis as Distributed Delusions” by Lucy Osler.
(Is it this Lucy Osler: @…? We think so!)
We’ll have copies to give out tonight (6 PM, Vi…

This is literally how the Kremlin operates.
“Joe Kent, the former U.S. counterterrorism director who resigned this week over concerns about the Iran war, said Wednesday that he and other senior officials "were not allowed" to share their doubts about the airstrikes with U.S. President Donald Trump.”
Hello? USA? are you there? How long are you going to put up with your leader being this way?
#USA #Authoritarian #Cult #Russia #IranUSAIsraelWar #Dictatorship

In recent days, the White House has directed the Pentagon to ramp up preparations for possible military operations against Cuba because if you lose two wars at once they cancel each other out, right?
See news like this in This Week This Week tonight in LA.
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We go back to the 60s this week for a bit of bluesy rock as our spotlight falls on a track from Python Lee Jackson.
As always we invite you to give it a listen and see what we had to say about the track and the band behind it.
Don't forget to follow us for more from our weekly showcase, exploring great tracks from across the universe of #rock and

Python Lee Jackson - In A Broken Dream
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

Week in wildlife: an ostrich on the lam, a tortoise crossing a road and surfing seals
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2026/apr/10/week-in-wildlife-an-ostric…

In the six days that followed the US and Israel’s joint attack on Iran on 28 February,
$11.3 billion was spent on American taxpayer-funded bombs that hit the country and caused hundreds of deaths,
the Pentagon has told lawmakers.
This figure does not capture the full cost of the conflict,
such as deployment of forces,
and will now be far higher given the ongoing nature of the war.
But even the limited snapshot of the financial cost of the war has undersco…

This week's #ThursdayFiveList is #ForeignAffairs
Béton Armé - La Nuit
https://youtu.be/5A4XiwVbK7M
Lai…

US, Iranian teams could return to Islamabad for peace talks this week, multiple sources say (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-iranian-teams-could-return-islamabad-peace-talks-this-week-four-sources-say-2026-04-14/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p26#a260414p26

Texas sues TP-Link, alleging it allows China to hack into routers https://therecord.media/texas-sues-tp-link-china-allegations

Stephen Jones provides key insight before NFL Draft next week https://insidethestar.com/stephen-jones-provides-key-insight-before-nfl-draft-next-week

Nutria (a creature with the body of a small beaver, webbed feet like a platypus, and the tail of a rat) might have been deliberately reintroduced to California. Griffins, however (a creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle), are here to punish us for straying from the ways of Zeus and the guidance of Apollo.
See news like this in This Week This Week tonight in LA.

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sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

The Senate defeated legislation aimed at halting the U.S. military campaign against Iran,
-- the second unsuccessful attempt to rein in Donald Trump as the conflict nears the three-week mark.
The 47-53 vote Wednesday on the Democratic-led bid to require congressional approval to continue the military campaign is identical to a vote that failed earlier this month.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has tangled with the administration on Iran and other foreign interventions, was th…

What some leaders think of using universal income to mitigate AI-fueled layoffs: Musk calls it the "best way", OpenAI's policy doc mentions a Public Wealth Fund (Siladitya Ray/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/

Elon Musk Touts Universal Income As Remedy To AI-Driven Unemployment
Musk’s comments follow rival company OpenAI’s industrial policy proposal released earlier this week that calls for an AI-backed public wealth fund.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Richie’s 4/4
The explorative vocalist, trombonist and producer Richie is Zola Marcelle's Flowers guest this week.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f0dq

Why the NFL's flag football surge will lead a billion-dollar category: MoneyCall https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7055402/2026/02/18/nfl-flag-football-olympics-moneycall/

Bauer Media Group announced company-wide restructuring this week, citing traffic loss to AI Overviews; sources: 20%-30% of its publishing division will be cut (Ronan Shields/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/bauer-media-group-slashes-pub…

Bauer Media Group slashes publishing headcount in company-wide restructure 
Bauer Media Group's realignment of its business is estimated to have impacted up to 30% of publishing group headcount.

The #TuneTuesday theme this week is #UnexpectedWhiplash - songs that start in one style before suddenly transforming into another.
How about a track that I doubt you've ever heard unless you were kicking around #Milwaukee

Each week, Metacurity is proud to offer our free and premium subscribers a digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Thai citizens are trafficked to unlock bank accounts with facial ID,
--Texas police deploy AI surveillance with little transparency,
--Bot swarms threaten democracy,
--Digital age checks erode privacy, security, and free speech,
-…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 2/7/26
Thai citizens are trafficked to unlock bank accounts with facial ID, Texas police deploy AI surveillance with little transparency, Bot swarms threaten democracy, Digital age checks erode privacy, security, and free speech, Promptware attacks could pose Stuxnet-scale cyber threats.

Microsoft's AI datacenters are now completely closed loop, liquid-cooled w/ zero evaporation loss.
At construction, they are filled with as much water as a golf course during the summertime ONCE, then never again.
✅ Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter - Microsoft
https://

Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter - The Official Microsoft Blog
This week we have introduced a wave of purpose-built datacenters and infrastructure investments we are making around the world to support the global adoption of cutting-edge AI workloads and cloud services. Today in Wisconsin we introduced Fairwater, our newest US AI datacenter, the largest and most sophisticated AI factory we’ve built yet. In addition to...

In disclosures due to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan's presence on the Meta board, Meta says it paid Broadcom $2.3B in 2025; Tan is leaving the board (Martin Peers/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/meta-paid-broadcom-2-3-billion-2025…

Meta Paid Broadcom $2.3 Billion in 2025
Meta Platforms paid Broadcom $2.3 billion in 2025, Meta disclosed in a securities filing, a rare disclosure of how much tech firms pay Broadcom for help designing their AI chips. Meta, like Google, uses Broadcom to help design special AI chips. Earlier this week, Meta and Broadcom announced an expansion of their relationship, under which Broadcom will co-develop Meta’s next generations of AI

Hollywood Brown has 'a lot left to prove' in Philly, looks forward to playing with Jalen Hurts, A.J. Brown https://www.nfl.com/news/hollywood-brown-a-lot-left-to-prove-eagles-jalen-hurts-aj-brown

Ex-Georgia WR Zachariah Branch, likely NFL Draft pick, arrested in Athens https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7210045/2026/04/19/zachariah-branch-arrest-georgia-nfl-draft/

#ThursDeath this week is just one song. PHANTASM covered the Yardbirds' 'For Your Love' on their 'The Abominable' demo in 1992. The rest of the demo I'm not into, but this is my #1 favorite metal cover of anything, and one of my overall favorite covers of all time.

Source: Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, as soon as this week (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive…

Exclusive: Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 Model, AI Design Tool
Anthropic is preparing its next flagship model, Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, according to a person with knowledge of the products. Those new products could be released as soon as this week, the person said. News of the upcoming AI design tool sent the share prices of Adobe, Wix and Figma down more than 2% in the house following

Happy Saturday! Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Trump's supposed cyber-first war strategy,
--How an OpenClaw agent attacked an open source project maintainer,
--Electronic warfare threatens maritime navigation,
--Trump's offensive cyber-based strategy,
--…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 3/7/26
Trump's supposed cyber-first war strategy, How an OpenClaw agent attacked an open source project maintainer, Electronic warfare threatens maritime navigation, Trump's offensive cyber-based strategy, Iridium satellite is not a secure system

‘Popesplaining’ Vance is out of his depth in the argument over whether Iran is a 'just war'
The contrast in experience between the two men disagreeing over war and theology was striking.
⭐️On the one side was Pope Leo XIV, the first North American to head the Catholic church and the first cleric from the Augustinian order,
who this week visited the modern Algerian city where Saint Augustine once lived.
For Leo, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine’s ideas…

This Week in Sports Trivia: March 12, 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7108528/2026/03/12/this-week-in-sports-trivia-march-12-202612-2026/

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

A new mortgage crisis is quietly hitting those who can least afford
This week, there was yet another warning that many homeowners might be headed for trouble.

💥The mortgage delinquency rates for lower-income households are surging,
according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data, which recently released its Household Debt and Credit report for the fourth quarter of 2025.​

🔥According to New York Fed data,
the 90-plus-day mortgag…

A new mortgage crisis is quietly hitting those who can least afford it
This week, there was yet another warning that many homeowners might be headed for trouble.

This week's #MusicWomenWednesday is this fantastic new rap record 'Baejing Ballad'. This one is straight fire. Vocals and lyrics (aside from a couple features) by the immensely talented emcee Chyna Baejing, and it's all carried along by the ridiculously great beats and samples of producer Boneweso. I've been playing this one constantly this year, as anyone who's seen my …

As India prepares to host its AI Impact Summit in New Delhi this week, the country is set to promote a frugal AI strategy focused on solving local issues (Tripti Lahiri/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/a…

This Week in Sports Trivia: April 9, 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7180135/2026/04/09/this-week-in-sports-trivia-april-9-2026/

An Afghan man who fought with U.S. forces and was legally evacuated to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul
died this week within a day of being arrested by federal immigration officers in Texas, according to his family.
The reported death would be at least the 24th in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody this fiscal year, which began in October.
The administration is on track for the deadliest year in ICE detention in more than two decades.

Afghan who fought with US special forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for deadliest year of detention in more than two decades
Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and legally evacuated the country, then died within a day of being taken into ICE custody, according to his family

Sources: Alibaba may unveil a Qwen-based AI agent for enterprises as soon as this week, and plans to gradually integrate the agent into its services like Alipay (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

The White House declined to estimate the cost of the war with Iran at a congressional hearing on Thursday,
prompting some Senate Democrats to criticize the Trump administration for its lack of transparency.
In a second appearance on Capitol Hill this week, Russell T. Vought, the White House budget director, sidestepped questions about the price tag of the U.S.- and Israel-led conflict.
He said the “fluctuating” nature of the war made it hard to calculate either the expense…

White House Declines to Offer Congress an Estimate of Iran War Cost
Russell T. Vought, the White House budget director, said the fluctuating nature of the U.S.-Israeli war made it difficult to pinpoint expenses.

Chiefs rework Mahomes' deal to create cap space https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47964323/chiefs-restructure-patrick-mahomes-deal-create-cap-space

“The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far,
so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,”
Donald Trump boasted last week on Truth Social.
Oil prices are, of course, going up
because Trump launched an illegal war of aggression against Iran
without considering the
(incredibly obvious) possibility that Iran might retaliate by closing the Strait of Hormuz.
Gas prices have spiked 60 cents this month as oil hit $100 a barrel,…

The real affordability hoax
Trump's vow to lower prices was always a lie.

10 teams with new head coaches kick off voluntary workouts this week https://www.nfl.com/news/10-teams-with-new-head-coaches-kick-off-voluntary-workouts-this-week

Ibogaine, a naturally occurring compound from a shrub native to Africa, is used to treat depression, anxiety, addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder and brain trauma. 
Because it's illegal in the United States, Americans have been traveling to unregulated clinics, often in Mexico or the Caribbean, to take the drug. 
Trump intends to sign the executive order as soon as this week, to allow its use in research
The administration doesn't plan to reclassify the drug …

Trump to sign executive order on psychedelic drug used abroad to treat PTSD
Ibogaine is used in Mexico and the Caribbean to treat depression, anxiety, addiction and brain trauma.

Hours after a temporary ceasefire deal between the US and Iran was announced last week,
Israel unleashed a massive, deadly bombing campaign on Lebanon.
In this episode Marc Steiner speaks with Iranian-Canadian journalist Samira Mohyeddin about Israel's pursuit of more war, rather than diplomacy or peace,
and assertions that the US-Israeli war on Iran was never about nuclear threats
but about weakening Iran’s economic and regional power, at devastating costs to ci…

Everyone knows Israel is sabotaging the Iran ceasefire—even the Trump administration
“It's really a bit of a clown show… I think the US administration is quite committed to brokering this ceasefire with Iran, but Israel will not allow for it”

New renderings released this week provide the most detailed vision yet of Donald Trump’s proposed $400m White House ballroom addition.
The renderings, submitted by the project’s architects and released on Friday by the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), depict a vast sprawling structure, expected to be around 90,000sq ft, from multiple angles.
In the images, the proposed building stands level with the White House mansion.
The renderings appear in a 28-page documen…