A spacecraft slowed the orbit of a pair of asteroids around the sun by more than 10 micrometers per second — the first time human activity has altered the orbit of a celestial object, researchers report.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/spacecraft-changed-asteroid-orbit-nasa
as a constant-yet-fluctuating disaster, which for most people mostly happens in the news, but if you work in a related field it's changed everything, and at any time the effects can randomly devastate someone you know or somewhere you live,
this presidential administration is weirdly like COVID
One cannot help but wonder if the Pentagon used an AI system to pick the targets.
⚡️ Zelenskyy: More Patriot missiles were fired in the Middle East in three days than Ukraine’s entire supply.
Never forget that this what The Washington Post said when Noem was nominated.
Pyramidion of the royal scribe Ramose (Deir el-Medina, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II (1275-1240 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
Pyramidion of the royal scribe Ramose (Deir el-Medina, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II (1275-1240 BCE))
Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
An interesting analysis of top vulnerabilities in web-facing applications by Chris Wallis (he's on LinkedIn if you want to follow him, but doesn't seem to be here on BlueSky).
awasp.org
It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for.
Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.
People who believe in an imminent Rapture/Armageddon don't have anything invested in what happens to you here on Earth. You are irrelevant to them and will be treated accordingly.
The global campaign marks the second series of multiple actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco edge technology since last spring. The similarities don’t end there. via @mattkapko.com cyberscoop.com/cisco-zero-d...
Seeing the lengthy list of changes/cutbacks to CISA catalogued in this one piece makes it clear there is little left of it. The agency is less than a decade old and struggled for years to find its footing before it started to make progress. But all advances it made have been gutted in last 12 months
In this episode of Safe Mode, @gregotto.bsky.social dives in with @timstarks.bsky.social to unpack what’s happened inside CISA—and what it could mean for the country’s ability to withstand the next major cyber crisis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUDX... | cyberscoop.com/cisa-personn...
AI security company Fallen Angel Systems red-teamed their own AI agent and found it would casually leak infrastructure, creds, and personal details with simple questions - No jailbreaks, no prompt injection, no encoding tricks. Really interesting read - fallenangelsystems.com/blog/we-red-...
[Europol… described LeakBase as a “central hub in the cybercrime ecosystem” that specialized in leaked databases and stealer logs. The English-language site, which has been active since 2021, contained more than 32,000 posts and more than 215,000 private messages.]
cyberscoop.com/leakbase-cyb...
My photo shows part of a limestone wall panel carved in bas relief from the Fifth Dynasty mortuary temple of king Userkaf at Saqqara, Old Kingdom, 2465-2458 BC. It shows a Hoopoe, a crested bird with black and white wing pattern, and an ibis, with long curved beak, amongst papyrus plants in the marshes of the river Nile. My photo was taken in 2022 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Lovely naturalistic relief of a Hoopoe and Ibis, carved by an Egyptian artisan some 4,500 years ago!
Limestone wall relief from the 5th Dynasty mortuary temple of Userkaf at Saqqara. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me
#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology
Reminder: the TikTok algorithm is weaponized.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
At least 111 substances of unknown safety have been added to foods, drinks and supplements sold in the United States without alerting the US Food and Drug Administration, a new investigation found.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/h...
so Iran has apparently knocked out and destroyed / disabled to some extent two U.S. THAAD batteries
This is a massive deal. Aside from the expense, this is not a weapon system we just have a ton of lying around. You don't replace these easily.
defencesecurityasia.com/en/irgc-dest...
WATCH — @senpeterwelch walks through a no-bid $143,000,000 contract that went to @KristiNoem’s spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin’s husband’s company that had just been formed.
She should be impeached for this outrageous scandal alone.
Yet it’s barely a blip in this corrupt regime.
Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
Americans who aren’t in the cult struggle to understand that they believe the crazy things they say they believe.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Consolidation prize: Moonrise in Hellgate Canyon, Missoula, Montana
Two pied cormorants on a uniquely New Zealand moss- and treescape of Ulva (Rakiura National Park) at twilight.
My best bird photographs often require a lot of planning and forethought. Happenstance images work for eBird but...
E.g. this single uncropped frame from a moving boat off Ulva. I love the trees, vignetting, even the lens distortion. But the damn shags looking down!
I need to go back. By kayak.
🤣
If you're an attorney, journalist, political activist, politician, or someone who works in the defense sector or the financial sector or the health care sector, and you use Apple devices, have you upgraded to iOS 26 (macOS 26, iPadOS 26, etc.) yet?
www.wired.com/story/coruna...
In a study of lucid dreamers, playing soundtracks linked with unsolved puzzles helped the sleepers solve the problems the next day, researchers report.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sleep-problem-solving-tool-lucid-dream
ICE and its agents broke so many laws in Minnesota, including the laws against murder and kidnapping. They think they're immune—but maybe not. Here's a prosecutor doing her job.
(Developments largely being ignored in the US press.)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
