Governments worldwide turn to age-based access control to Internet services to protect children. More than 370 scientists call for a moratorium until there is a good understanding of their feasibility, effectiveness, and societal impact:
csa-scientist-open-letter.org/ageverif-Feb...
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
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In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.
When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.
It was so cool to go to this townhall in @senbillferg.bsky.social's district, see just how many university workers live there, and learn that, after stopping ICE, the top issue was union rights for USM workers. A million thanks to brilliant videographer Josh Davidsburg for capturing it all on film.
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to wake up at 5 am and don 30 lbs of tactical gear you bought off amazon to sit in a chevy tahoe in the parking lot of the elementary school where you kidnapped a five year old kid to intimidate his teachers. good luck soldier
Hadn't realised that the third party review of Twitter's chat protocol had been published and wow github.com/trailofbits/...
Message from "Signal Support" Dear User, this is Signal Security Support ChatBot. Our system has detected a recent login attempt to your account from an unrecognized device or location. As a security measure, we have blocked this attempt and sent a verification code via SMS to your registered phone number. If this was NOT you: To secure your account and block this unauthorized access, please reply to this message with the verification code you just received. If this WAS you: You can safely ignore this message. The login attempt will be automatically approved shortly. Thank you for helping us keep your account secure.
Signal will never message you like this.
If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL.
DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.
UMD's College of Information is hiring lecturers in five areas: networking fundamentals, information design, security, programming and databases, and experiential learning. 3-3 load, $95k-$102k. I love working here. Asshole-free environment. Spread the word! Not on the committee but happy to talk.
The latest evidence that broadcasting people’s movements and intimate data in the Real-Time Bidding online advertising system is truly dangerous.
www.wired.com/story/ice-as...
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
We will live to see justice.
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article.
Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.
Photographer @mostafabassim1 photographed this boy walking home alone with a snack being "randomly" approached by DHS. "After he was unable to produce documentation proving his citizenship, agents informed him that he was under arrest." He said, "Can I just go home?" Answer: No.
Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader
Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.
Two-page proposal -> a great excuse to attend one of my favorite events of the year!
The extended deadline for the Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (#conpro26) is in just under a week (Jan. 21), so there's still time to draft a short (two-page) proposal. We're looking forward to this year's submissions!
conpro26.ieee-security.org
Meanwhile those of us still employed in US higher education have to do required trainings about how collaborating with scientists from China is bad.
Fully agree: the budget is a huge win AND things are definitively not OK. An entire generation of early career scientists has been severely affected, many more senior scientists have been pushed out of jobs, and there’s a lingering air of uncertainty that will affect decision-making for *years*.
Wallace Shawn cackles in The Princess Bride. Caption: haha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. He’s about to die.
1. Never get into a land war in Asia
2. Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line
3. Above all, never play 3 on 3 against Chelsea Gray in Miami
#UnrivaledWBB
Today, like every day, is a good day to support Food Justice DMV. www.foodjusticedmv.org/what-we-do
An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
When she is not writing, reading, or talking about writing, she has movie marathons and makes messy art with her daughter and two sons."
Here is her winning poem:
www.porkopolis.org/pig_poet/ren...
Senior academic roles in Cyber Security at De Montfort University Leicester (ACE-CSE Gold; 20+ academics in cyber; great facilities; research links with AI and with social responsibility), professor and associate professor. Closing 18 Jan.
Here's a tragedy of DOGE that most people will never know about, even though it has big consequences: no one is left to coordinate the transition to memory safe systems code. 🧵
Whoever wins Eagles-Bills should get to throw their offensive coordinator into an active volcano as a reward
Bring me the prestige-TV Vorkosigan adaptation! (cc: @kyleor.land )
