Politics
Opinion | Marjorie Taylor Greene is winning my respect. Here’s why.
She became the only Republican in the House of Representatives to condemn her colleague, Rep. Randy Fine (R-Florida), for telling Israel it should “starve away” in Gaza, whose population includes more than 1 million children.
“It’s the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct 7th in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned,” she wrote on X, a sentiment that 100 percent of her colleagues would agree with. Not so, the rest of that sentence: “but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis, and starvation happening in Gaza.”
The American Revolution - OverSimplified (Part 1)
Wonderful Youtube series, great learning tool
America is going through its every-80-year reinvention
Great historical perspective
THE $21.7 BILLION BLUNDER
Analyzing the Waste
Generated by DOGE
Bizarre DHS Social-Media Strategy: Something to White Home About
Tweet from the official DHS account contains a slightly-obfuscated Nazi message.
UCLA research grants suspended after Trump administration faulted campus for antisemitism
The Trump administration is suspending hundreds of science research grants at UCLA, saying that the pro-Palestinian encampments that hundreds of students and faculty erected last spring to protest Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza are leading to harassment of Jewish students.
RIP Corporation for Public Broadcasting: 1967–2026
The White House deemed NPR and PBS a "grift" and pushed for a Senate vote that eliminated its entire budget.
Infosec
Global study of more than 100,000 young people latest to link early smartphone ownership with poorer mental health in young adults
They used the Mind Health Quotient (MHQ)—a self-assessment tool that measures social, emotional, cognitive, and physical wellbeing—to generate an overall ‘mind health’ score.
The specific symptoms most strongly linked with earlier smartphone ownership include suicidal thoughts, aggression, detachment from reality, and hallucinations.
Young adults who received their first smartphone before age 13 had lower MHQ scores, with scores progressively declining the younger the age of first ownership. For example, those who owned a smartphone at age 13 scored an average of 30, dropping to just 1 for those who had one at age five.
“Based on these findings, and with the age of first smartphones now well under age 13 across the world, we urge policymakers to adopt a precautionary approach, similar to regulations on alcohol and tobacco, by restricting smartphone access for under 13s, mandating digital literacy education and enforcing corporate accountability.”
Hacker still holds $14 billion in stolen Bitcoin from massive 2020 LuBian attack: Arkham
It is not only the biggest crypto heist in history but also one of the longest-concealed cases.
Microsoft CEO sends a surprising message on quantum computing
On Microsoft’s latest earnings call, Nadella hailed quantum as “the next big accelerator in the cloud.”
Quantum is heating up just like the AI arms race.
Microsoft is building Magne, a robust neutral-atom quantum system with Atom Computing. Construction begins in fall 2025, with early workloads targeted for 2027.
Severe turbulence on Delta flight forces emergency landing and sends more than two dozen on board to hospitals
The flight climbed by more than 1,000 feet in less than 30 seconds roughly 40 minutes after its departure. It then descended approximately 1,350 feet over the next 30 seconds.
Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike
It was a really big drone, and it took three tries.
Radioactive wasp nest found at old US nuclear weapons site
The gov't assures us that everything is fine. Nothing to see here, just move along.
AI-powered Cursor IDE vulnerable to prompt-injection attacks
A vulnerability that researchers call CurXecute is present in almost all versions of the AI-powered code editor Cursor, and can be exploited to execute remote code with developer privileges. Cursor IDE has support for the MCP open-standard framework, which extends an agent’s capabilities and context by allowing it to connect to external data sources and tools. This can compromise the agent as it is exposed to external, untrusted data that can affect its control flow.
Microsoft's Azure AI Speech needs just seconds of audio to spit out a convincing deepfake
The system, which was already pretty good, is now even more worryingly accurate.
The Untold Impact of Cancellation
A developer lost everything after accusations of misconduct.
ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results
OpenAI scrambles to remove personal ChatGPT conversations from Google results.
"When users clicked 'Share,' they were presented with an option to tick a box labeled 'Make this chat discoverable.' Beneath that, in smaller, lighter text, was a caveat explaining that the chat could then appear in search engine results." This confusing interface caused many users to share private chats.
SRAM Has No Chill: Exploiting Power Domain Separation to Steal On-Chip Secrets
This seems useless in practice.
Basically, you apply external power so the chip never really shuts off. If you can do that, you already have access to the memory anyway.
AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says
Sites that block crawling with robots.txt or WAF rules are crawled anyway, using over 10,000 domains and millions of requests.
Proton fixes Authenticator bug leaking TOTP secrets in logs
Proton fixed a bug in its new Authenticator app for iOS that logged users' sensitive TOTP secrets in plaintext, potentially exposing multi-factor authentication codes if the logs were shared. The debug logs can be found under Settings > Logs.
Google says its AI-based bug hunter found 20 security vulnerabilities
Details are not available yet.
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