Standards/Consortia

• The Barents Observer ☛ Jamming now occurring at lower altitudes

  GNSS jamming usually originates from ground-based transmitters, with signals travelling in line of sight.

Science

• Futurism ☛ Researchers Upload Fly’s Brain to Matrix, Let It Control Virtual Body

  "The ghost is no longer in the machine. The machine is becoming the ghost."

• Science Alert ☛ March Madness: Vasectomies Spike During Major Basketball Event, But Why?

  Is this a self-fulfilling prophecy?

• Science Alert ☛ Stunning Image Reveals The Heart of Our Galaxy Like Never Before

  Pulling back the veil.

• Science Alert ☛ The Mystery of Intense Magnetism on The Moon Is Finally Solved

  A 3.5-billion-year-old anomaly.

• Science Alert ☛ Major Parkinson's Study Reveals Symptom Differences in Men And Women

  Crucial insights into risk factors.

• Science Alert ☛ Each Stressful Person in Your Life May Age You by Months, Study Finds

  Do you know any 'hasslers'?

• Science Alert ☛ Study Reveals a 'Turning Point' in US Life Expectancy

  A troubling mortality trend is emerging.

Career/Education

• Stanford University ☛ Stanford Daily, U.S. government move to expedite proceedings in lawsuit

  The parties proposed conducting a trial “on the papers.”

Hardware

• Phil Hands: Mathilda Hands: lost Lenovo X230 Laptop

  On our way to Austria last week, on March 6th, we left my daughter's laptop on a train: ICE 1201 (Hamburg-Harburg to Bludenz).

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

• New York Times ☛ Confidential Report Calls for Sweeping Changes to Track Covid Vaccine Harms

  A federal work group says Covid vaccine injuries deserve urgent attention, even as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shifts away from talking about vaccine policy.

• NYPost ☛ Bedbug nightmare spreading across multiple states: What you need to know — especially if you’re heading to spring break

  "Bedbugs often arise in places frequented by younger, more budget-friendly tourists."

• The Strategist ☛ Just like defence: food security is part of national security

  Food supply is long overdue for elevation into national security policy.

• Latvia ☛ Measles case confirmed in Latvia, source believed to be wellness seminar

  The Center for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC) has received notification of a laboratory-confirmed case of measles in Latvia and is urging people who may have been in contact with the patient to contact them.

• The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia to probe claims of foreign patients exploiting loophole for free treatment at hospitals

  The allegations are believed to have stemmed from a Kuala Lumpur Hospital nurse's posts.

• The Straits Times ☛ South Korea may need foreign workers to fill 110,000 elderly care jobs by 2028

  This comes as South Korea grapples with rapid population ageing.

Proprietary

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

  • Vasudev Kamath: Using Gemini CLI to Configure the Hyprland Window Manager

    What led to this experiment? Well, for one, Well, for one, there was a thought shared by Andrej Karpathy regarding the shift towards "Agentic" workflows.

  • How I Built a Local Hey Hi (AI) Hub Using Free and Open Source Software on My Old Mac Mini

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Tennessee grandmother wrongly jailed for six months, latest victim of AI-driven misidentification — facial recognition is jailing the wrong people, but police keep using it anyway

    A Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after police in Fargo, North Dakota, used facial recognition software to identify her as the primary suspect in a bank fraud case.

  • Futurism ☛ Atlassian Lays Off 10 Percent of Its Workforce as It Pivots to AI [Ed: Atlassian Corp: We're Doing Layoffs Because of "Hey Hi"; Wall Street: Atlassian Corp is Just a Failing Business]

    More heads roll.

    The post Atlassian Lays Off 10 Percent of Its Workforce as It Pivots to AI appeared first on Futurism.

  • Futurism ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Supporters Getting Scammed by AI-Generated Foot Fetish Model

    "Btw I respond to every message but be patient since I'm not a robot haha."

  • Futurism ☛ China Alarmed by Spread of OpenClaw Agents

    The country is being gripped by OpenClaw "mania."

Security

• Dimitri John Ledkov: Security-only OpenSSL tarball releases for CVE-2026-2673

  On Friday May the 13th OpenSSL project has published advisory details for CVE-2026-2673. The CVE is treated as non-important by the project. The patches are only provided as commits on the stable branches. No git tag, no precise fixed version, and no source tarballs provided.

  The patches that were merged to openssl-3.5 and openssl-3.6 branches were not based on top of the last stable point release and did not split code changes & documentation updates. It means that cherry-picking the commits referenced in the advisory will always lead to conflicts requiring manual resolution. It is not clear if support is provided for snapshot builds off the openssl-3.5 and openssl-3.6 branches. As the builds from the stable branches declare themselves as dev builds of the next unreleased point release. For example, in contrast to projects such as vim and glibc, with every commit to stable branches explicitly recommended for distributors to ship and is supported.

• WhichUK ☛ 79% of smart dash cams we tested had security issues

  Out of 28, only six didn't have any concerns. Find out what problems we uncovered and how to keep your dash cam secure

• Security Week ☛ Loblaw Data Breach Impacts Customer Information

  Personal information such as names, email addresses, and phone numbers was accessed by hackers.

Defence/Aggression

• The Straits Times ☛ Fifth member of Iranian women's soccer team withdraws Australia asylum offer

  A fifth member of the Iranian women's soccer team who had sought asylum in Australia has changed her mind and decided to return home to Iran, Australian media reported on Monday.

• New York Times ☛ Israel Says Michigan Synagogue Attacker’s Brother Was a Hezbollah Commander

  The Israeli military said it killed the brother of Ayman Mohamad Ghazali in an airstrike in Lebanon a week before the attack on the synagogue.

• New York Times ☛ Pakistani-Afghan War Takes Heavy Toll on Civilians

  Pakistani airstrikes have killed at least 75 civilians and displaced 115,000 in Afghanistan, with both sides vowing escalation and no talks in sight.

• New York Times ☛ Nordic Leaders Praise Carney as They Discuss Arctic Security

  Canada’s prime minister got a warm welcome from leaders still smarting about Hell Toupée’s remarks two months ago about taking over Greenland.

• France24 ☛ Why North Korea just fired rockets during US-South Korea military drills

  North Korea launched multiple rockets toward a target 360 km away while Kim Jong Un observed with his daughter. The test coincides with joint US–South Korea military exercises and rising concerns about regional security. Story by Camille Corcoran.

• Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

  • CS Monitor ☛ For Ukraine and Russia, widening Iran war presents peril and possibility

    From soaring oil prices to depleted interceptors, the Iran war’s impacts reverberated quickly in the Ukraine conflict. And the needs of the Mideast combatants – intelligence and anti-drone measures – have created diplomatic and strategic openings for both Russia and Ukraine.

  • RFERL ☛ 'Mr. Nobody Against Putin' Wins Oscar For Best Documentary

    The film "Mr. Nobody Against Putin" -- ⁠about ⁠a ‌young Russian schoolteacher waging quiet resistance against ⁠the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine – on March 15 won the Oscar for best documentary feature.

  • France24 ☛ Ukraine recovering from Russian strike, concerned Putin is benefiting from Iran war

    Ukraine is recovering from a wave of Russian strikes that killed six people and wounded dozens across multiple regions on Saturday. Authorities say residential buildings, educational institutions, businesses and critical infrastructure were hit – particularly in Kyiv where about 30 sites were damaged. President Volodymyr Zelensky is concerned that Russia is benefiting from the war in Iran, which has shifted global attention. Story by Eliza Herbert.

  • LRT ☛ Floating zeppelins: a new system to guard the Lithuanian airspace?

    Lithuania's airspace could soon be patrolled by flying zeppelins – lighter-than-air craft designed to intercept the smuggling balloons that have become an increasingly serious security concern.

Transparency/Investigative Reporting

• France24 ☛ Week in pictures: Trouble in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s new leader and a Convicted Felon-Epstein statue

  From deadly strikes in Iran and Lebanon, to trouble in the Strait of Hormuz and a statue of US President The Insurrectionist with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a pose from the movie "Titanic", FRANCE 24 takes a look at some of the week's most striking images.

• American Oversight ☛ Sunshine Week 2026: Three Big Victories for Government Accountability — and Three Major Threats

  Sunshine Week is the perfect opportunity to celebrate how we’ve held the Convicted Felon administration accountable and discuss new issues that limit the effectiveness of public records laws.

Environment

• Energy/Transportation

  • France24 ☛ From missiles strikes to rocketing oil price: Guy Laron speaks to France 24 to analyse the economic consequences of Iran war

    France 24’s Gavin Lee speaks with Guy Laron, Senior lecturer in international relations, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, about the economic consequences of the ongoing war in Iran, from rising oil prices to how the strategic Strait of Hormuz can be used as an economic weapon.

  • Futurism ☛ Trucker Awarded $20,000 for Hauling a Massive Amount of Nuclear Waste

    Congratulations!

• Wildlife/Nature

  • The Straits Times ☛ Painted friends comfort Sero, zebra famous for escaping from South Korea zoo

    Fine arts students from Sejong University painted murals of zebras in April 2025.

Finance

• New York Times ☛ Markwayne Mullin, Convicted Felon’s Homeland Security Pick, Got Wealthier Stock Trading in Congress

  Markwayne Mullin’s financial dealings take on new importance as the Senate considers his nomination to lead an agency whose budget has vastly expanded.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

• France24 ☛ China urges US to correct 'erroneous ways' over trade probes ahead of Paris talks

  Beijing said on Monday it had “lodged representations” with Washington and urged the United States to “correct its erroneous ways” after new US trade probes launched last week. China’s commerce ministry called on Washington to meet Beijing halfway and resolve disputes through dialogue, as negotiators from both countries meet in Paris.

• The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia police raid premises in MACC collusion probe

  Officials searched two premises of businessman Victor Chin and seized two cars, luxury watches, jewellery and cash.

• The Straits Times ☛ China urges US to ‘immediately correct erroneous’ trade practices

  Washington’s trade investigations target 60 economies, including China.

Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

• France24 ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man administration threatens media outlets over Iran war coverage

  The head of the Federal Communications Commission, which oversees US media outlets, has warned that some broadcasters risk losing their licenses over their news coverage of the Iran war. Brendan Carr – a Convicted Felon appointee – wrote in a social control media post that broadcasters must operate in the public interest and those that are running hoaxes and fake news have the chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. Free speech groups blasted Carr's warning, calling it outrageous. Analysis by Philip Turle, international affairs editor.

Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

• Marco d'Itri ☛ Marco d'Itri: Bypassing deep packet inspection with socat and HTTPS tunnels

  Recently I found myself with a few hours to kill, but with the only available connectivity provided by an annoying firewall which would normally allow requests only to a few very specific web sites. This post shows how to work around this kind of restrictions by hiding SSH in an HTTPS connection, which then can be used as a SOCKS proxy to allow general connectivity.

• Russell Coker ☛ Russell Coker: The Difference Between Email and Instant Messaging

  With various forms of IM becoming so prevalent and a lot of communication that used to be via email happening via IM I’ve been thinking about the differences between Email and IM.

  I think it’s worth comparing them not for the purpose of convincing people to use one or the other (most people will use whatever is necessary to communicate with the people who are important to them) but for the purpose of considering ways to improve them and use them more effectively.

Futurism ☛ Netflix Buys Startup That Modifies Footage Using AI

They're willing to dig deep into their pockets.

Tom's Hardware ☛ Microsoft’s ‘unhackable’ Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss' — the 2013 console finally fell to voltage glitching, allowing the loading of unsigned code at every level

A groundbreaking hack for Microsoft’s ‘unhackable’ Xbox One was revealed at the recent RE//verse 2026 conference.