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Oracle warns customers of a critical PeopleSoft flaw after ShinyHunters claimed breaches of 100 organizations using PeopleSoft; Oracle has not issued a patch (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/orac

Oracle warns of security bug that hackers abused to breach 100+ companies | TechCrunch
The tech giant warned of a security flaw that a cybercrime gang said it's exploiting as part of a mass-hacking campaign. Google said it notified more than 100 organizations that had potentially vulnerable servers.

We were wrong about what electrical stimulation can do https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/we-were-wrong-about-what-electrical It is also about time that neuroscientists start rethinking what it really means to "restore vision" to the blind.

⚡ We Were Wrong About What Electrical Stimulation Can Do
Why BCIs Fail Series: Post 7

The Genius of Getting It Wrong: What Hawking Teaches Us About Knowing
In 2004, at a physics conference in Dublin, Stephen Hawking stood before his peers and announced he had been wrong for nearly thirty years. The specific error concerned whether black holes permanently destroy the information they consume, a claim Hawking had championed since 1976 against some of the sharpest minds in theoretical physics. He paid off a bet with Caltech physicist John Preskill, handing…

The Genius of Getting It Wrong: What Hawking Teaches Us About Knowing | David Boles, Blogs
In 2004, at a physics conference in Dublin, Stephen Hawking stood before his peers and announced he had been wrong for nearly thirty years. The specific error concerned whether black holes permanen…

"Polanski is right that the consensus assignment has run its course, and the Greens are asking the right questions about who bears the costs of austerity and inflation. But adopting the language of MMT to suggest those costs can be wished away does the left no favours."
Zack Polanski gets economics wrong | LSE British Politics

Zack Polanski gets economics wrong | LSE British Politics
Zack Polanski is pushing some new ideas about economics, inspired by Modern Monetary Theory. But MMT is not a credible basis for a progressive left agenda.

UN fact-finding mission warns of continued human rights abuses in Venezuela | Human Rights News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/12/un-fact-finding-mission-warns-of-continued-human-rights-abuses-in-venezuela

Respecting Reform Voters Means Telling Them They're Wrong and Immoral (Toby Buckle/Liberal Currents)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-reform-voters-means-telling-them-theyre-wrong-and-immoral/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p23#a260512p23

“In Bombay Beach, everything that can go wrong in the world has gone wrong;
that’s why people most describe it as apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic,” said Tao Ruspoli.
“You have climate change, environmental collapse, severe poverty and contaminated water.
The beauty of the apocalypse is that it exposes all the problems of our culture and then asks the question, what’s next?
What do you do once the end has happened?”

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Ken Pomeroy:
🎵 Wrango
#KenPomeroy
https://kenpomeroy.bandcamp.com/track/wrango
https://open.spotify.com/track/6yev0L4M2x4bUW5zcw8Us2

Elon Musk says xAI "was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up" (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2026/03/13/elon-musk-admits-xai-built-wrong-rebuild-tesla-spacex-investment/…

Musk admits xAI ‘not built right’ — weeks after Tesla invested $2 billion
Elon Musk admitted today that xAI, his artificial intelligence venture, “was not built right first time around” and “is being...

Isn’t it time we had a back-up plan ‘just in case’ things do go catastrophically wrong?…. - resilience.
Rupert Read
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-03-13/isnt-it-time-we-had-a-back-up-plan-just-in-…

Isn’t it time we had a back-up plan ‘just in case’ things do go catastrophically wrong?….
We need a plan B. In case society starts to, erm, collapse… We need to be prepared…It won’t do to plan to WAIT til we win intellectual debates such as that around growth/degrowth before we get together to prepare…Theo Cox, Liam Kavanagh and Rupert Read outline their new OSF-funded report, just launched this week…