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Moderna and Merck released Phase 3 trial data showing that their personalized
✅ mRNA cancer vaccine,
#intismeran #autogene (mRNA-4157),
combined with the immunotherapy Keytruda,
⭐️cut the risk of melanoma recurrence or death by 42%
⭐️and the risk of cancer spread by 38%.

Cancer Vaccine Cuts the Risk of Melanoma Recurrence, Merck and Moderna Report
Merck and Moderna released detailed results on an experimental vaccine to treat the skin cancer.

Video game ownership bill introduced in Congress https://www.theverge.com/policy/1013521/video-game-ownership-bill-congress-power-to-the-players-act

US Treasury proposes rules tightening restrictions on US investments in areas including AI and supercomputing in China, Russia, and other "countries of concern" (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/treasury-china-tech-invest…

Quad9 is retracting from France by 2026-11-24 to avoid having to censor DNS.
(They will continue to fight in court in the meantime.)
"Quad9 is a Swiss public-benefit, nonprofit foundation established for the explicit purpose of protecting the cybersecurity of internet users" and operates a public DNS resolver at 9.9.9.9
#Quad9

Given today's patches, we probably all need a lot of tacos and community. If you're in Austin next Tuesday evening, show up for exactly that. Details at https://www.meetup.com/austinphp/events/317076918/.

Beverage Subgroup: TacoPHPocalypse Edition, Tue, Oct 27, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup
It's been a week, and all eyes are on PHP. Seems like a good time to get the local community together and commiserate...and maybe start back up the tradition of the AustinP

Burton Tower in the fog

Top Democrats in Congress have joined a California immigrant and the Nevada State Democratic Party in
suing the Trump administration over its unprecedented voter fraud probes in both states
and broader efforts to meddle in state-run elections nationwide
— alleging they are a
“pretext to seize control over elections.”

A California immigrant and a Nevada group, joined by top Democrats, sue over federal election probes
The lawsuit accuses Trump and his administration of using “shoddily compiled lists of supposed noncitizens” and “coercive threats" against state officials to assert federal control over the midterms.

Israel elects its parliament through nationwide proportional representation.
Citizens aged eighteen and older vote for a party, not a candidate,
and the number of seats in the Knesset that a party gets corresponds to the percentage of votes they receive.
Before the election, parties submit lists of prospective members of the Knesset.
To enter the Knesset, a party must receive at least 3.25 percent of the national vote, which is equivalent to four seats.

Israel’s Election: Who’s Who and What’s at Stake? | Council on Foreign Relations
Israel’s October 27 election could reshape the country’s political landscape, but neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s allies nor the opposition has a clear path to a governing majority. The outcome of the vote could determine not only who leads Israel, but how the country contends with various domestic and foreign policy concerns.

In my series on how venture capital has evolved into something unrecognizable and too-often toxic, I switch from the big-picture view to a practical question: How does this affect founders? Well surprise — it's not good! Here, I break down how the deck gets stacked against founders by the increasingly-centralized power of the Cancer Capital firms, how smaller VC firms factor into the market, and what founders can try to do to fight back.

When we start outsourcing thinking to AI and allow to lose accountability, bad things happen.
On July 14, 2025, Angela Lipps was babysitting in her Tennessee home when police arrested her for fraud. She was held in a local county jail until October, then moved to a Fargo jail until December 24, when a judge dismissed the charges. She was released into a frigid North Dakota winter with only the summer clothing she had been wearing when arrested in Tennessee.
It turned out she had …

AI Agnotology, Cognitive Surrender, and Policing Accountability | Stanford Law Review
Law enforcement agencies have increasingly employed artificial intelligence (AI) in their investigatory methods and technology. This usage, however, raises critical concerns regarding the accuracy and fairness of such practices. Additionally, this issue highlights the urgent need to identify accountability mechanisms and guardrails to protect against misuse and bias. In this Essay, Professor Jeffrey L.