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Boston-based CircuitHub, which manufactures circuit boards based on customers' requirements, raised a $28M Series A led by Plural (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/05/19/circuithub-series-a-electronics-manufact…

Exclusive: CircuitHub raises $28M to scale electronics manufacturing
The company can ship fully assembled circuit boards in a matter of days.

Global cybercrime crackdown: over 373 000 dark web sites shut down
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/global-cybercrime-crackdown-over-373-000-dark-web-sites-shut-down

Global cybercrime crackdown: over 373 000 dark web sites shut down – Authorities from 23 countries participate in the operation | Europol
On 9 March 2026, a global operation led by German authorities and supported by Europol was launched against one of the largest networks of fraudulent platforms in the dark web. The investigation began in mid-2021 against the dark web platform “Alice with Violence CP”. During the investigation, authorities discovered that the platform’s operator was running more than 373 000 fraudulent websites advertising child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) offerings.

The co-founder of Super Micro Computer and two others
were charged with diverting $2.5 billion worth of servers with Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips to China,
in violation of US laws barring exports to that country without a license.
Yih-Shyan Liaw, known as Wally;
Ruei-Tsang Chang, known as Steven;
and Ting-Wei Sun, known as Willy,
were charged with conspiring to violate export control laws,
smuggling goods from the US and conspiring to defra…

Co-founder of tech company charged with diverting $2.5 billion in Nvidia AI chips to China in violation of export laws
The co-founder of Super Micro Computer and two others were charged with diverting $2.5 billion worth of servers with Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips to China, in violation of US laws barring exports to that country without a license.

‘Astonishing” New Scimitar-Shaped Crested Dinosaur Discovered in Sahara Desert: ‘You might uncover a lost world’ https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/astonishing-new-scimitar-shaped-crested-dinosaur-discovered-in-sahara-desert/

‘Astonishing” New Scimitar-Shaped Crested Dinosaur Discovered in Sahara Desert: ‘You might just uncover a lost world’
Scientists were “astonished” to find a new species of Spinosaurus with a scimitar-shaped bony crest—uncovered in the Sahara Desert.

Diverse organic molecules on #Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70656-0 -> NASA’s Curiosity Finds Organic Molecules Never Seen Before on Mars: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curiosity-rover/nasas-curiosity-finds-organic-molecules-never-seen-before-on-mars/

A post from the archive 📫:
Curiosity unbounded
#musings

Motor imagery affects both cortical and spinal circuitry: a transcranial and trans-spinal magnetic stimulation study https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neural-circuits/articles/10.3389/fncir.2026.1809125/abstract

Frontiers | Motor Imagery Affects Both Cortical and Spinal Circuitry: A Transcranial and Trans-spinal Magnetic Stimulation Study
Introduction: Motor imagery (MI), the mental rehearsal of movement without physical execution, is a key technique in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), known ...

Is Trump about to attack Cuba? - by Christina Pagel
https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/is-trump-about-to-attack-cuba

Is Trump about to attack Cuba?
A recent spate of actions, including sanctions and military build up feels ominous

game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

"Henderson noted that the statue cited by the government in its determination was specifically crafted to address risks from hostile nations and other bad actors, none of which seemed to apply to Anthropic."
https://www.courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-

DC Circuit slams Pentagon blacklisting of Anthropic as overreach
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took issue with the AI company's refusal to remove two narrow contractual restrictions on Claude’s use for lethal autonomous warfare and the mass surveillance of Americans.