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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 26/09/2026

⚛️ Superconductors' true current limit In niobium nitride hit with picosecond pulses, the electron pairs behind superconductivity broke apart at about 2.2 times the usual current limit. That could help magnet design. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41567-026-03469-z #Physics #Superconductors #Materials 🧪

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Probing picosecond depairing currents in type-II superconductors - Nature Physics

Vortex motion and heating prevent direct-current measurements from reaching the intrinsic depairing limit of type-II superconductors. Picosecond pulses bypass these effects and reveal a sharp threshol...

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kurt baumgartner @kurtisj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

amazing reporting. it's too bad, i love the freedom and the thrill of the service. but cmon there has to be consequences for this kind of predatory crap.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If we are talking about Peter Thiel—the nuttier version of Roy Cohn, only out—don't speculate about the young model Thiel was cheating on his husband with, who made a rather Russian departure from life, off a high-rise balcony, after crashing Mr. & Mr. Thiel's party and causing a row between them.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pissedmagistus @pissedmagistus.bsky.social linktr.ee/pissedmagistus The trial of Peter Thiel.

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kurt baumgartner @kurtisj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

stack overflow in dlink DIR-822A routers

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.

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kurt baumgartner @kurtisj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"a network of individuals working for... the "RIS Network"...conspired to conduct... attacks and murder around the world" "DURRUTHY, among other things and while in Russia, transferred over $1,000 in cryptocurrency to Associate-I in advance of the attack;" www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/me...

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kurt baumgartner @kurtisj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

China Primer: The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) hmmm, one full line about cyber "Sophisticated cyber espionage and attack forces..." couple mentions "Cyberspace Force, Information Support Force" and nothing about TRB. www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I want to be surprised. I am not surprised. This was absolutely foreseeable. That there wasn't a system of checks here to uncover this before we were nearly at war is a failure of leadership.

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Saher @saffronsec.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Back by popular demand, it's time for Volume II of State of Statecraft @what-is-sos.bsky.social! Come check out the latest in state-sponsored operations across espionage, cyber/physical sabotage, disruption, attribution, and all the -INTs you could dream of - Oct 22 www.stateofstatecraft.com/agenda

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Agenda - State of Statecraft

The purpose of SOS is to discuss state-sponsored operations and drive understanding of geopolitical risk and impact through study of the actors or systems that facilitate them.

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State of Statecraft Conference @what-is-sos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

BEHOLD: the 🆘 AGENDA is OUT! VOLUME II features numerous discussions on developments in state-sponsored operations covering digital espionage, cyber/physical sabotage, economic tradecraft, disruption, attribution and dare we say, more? Agenda 👉 stateofstatecraft.com/agenda 🧵

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kurt baumgartner @kurtisj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Likely with Chinese government awareness, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI extracted billions of tokens across millions of exchanges/requests from U.S. frontier AI models, including variants of Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok..." www.cisa.gov/news-events/...

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China-Based Artificial Intelligence Companies Conducting Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaigns Against U.S. AI Companies | CISA

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Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Heard about the [un]prompted AI security conference but can’t afford the conference fee? There’s a scholarship program that covers the cost of the registration! Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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[Un]prompted Scholarship Program Application

The [un]prompted conference is one of the most important gatherings of AI security researchers and practitioners. The Decibel Scholarship Program was created to provide financial assistance to attende...

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is an excellent way to put it.

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Greg Otto @gregotto.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is such a good story

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kurt baumgartner @kurtisj.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Bfv alerts on active measures to divide germans and disrupt elections. "posts consisted of a series of staged or fake AI-generated content" Campaign attribution... "The observed tactics are attributed to the information manipulation campaign MATRIOSHKA" www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/k...

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Pete Hegseth was the lone member of Trump’s cabinet allowed to ride in the airport catering container. Below are the list of people who went with Trump (left) and those who were left aboard Air Force One (right). HOT 🔥 NOT 👎🏻

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Oh look, it took 11 years for me to get nothing. We need to fix the Freedom of Information Act now! #FOIAfail

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kurt baumgartner @kurtisj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

heya wise guy, trousers imports are really on the move in graph 3. why, maybe stompers and cake baskets are on their way back too, don't you see www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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The US Supply Chain Shakeup After Tariffs, in Five Charts | Working Knowledge

Laura Alfaro documents how US imports have shifted away from China and toward other top partners.

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Michael Thomas @michael-thomas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This week I found permits and satellite photos suggesting Amazon is backing what could be the largest gas power plant ever built in the US. I just got off the phone with the company and confirmed they're behind it. Full story here: newsletter.cleanview.co/p/scoop-amaz...

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Scoop: Amazon Is Behind One of the Largest Planned Gas Power Plants in the US

The company confirmed to Cleanview that it acquired the GW Ranch site in West Texas, where a 7.65 GW gas plant will power its first off-grid AI data center

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kurt baumgartner @kurtisj.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

the conflicts are fantastic... that same vendor first day keynoted blackhat

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

EA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest

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kurt baumgartner @kurtisj.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Ollama, vLLM, all the homegrown agent stuff people are exposing without thinking too hard about it - are a genuinely new kind of thing to attack" tlpblack.net/blog/2026080...

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Someone attempted hacking my fake AI server, entailing a five hour tragedy

Recap of an attack against local AI server. How criminals try to take over hosted inference and AI agent systems

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Cisco Talos Intelligence Group @talosintelligence.com · 04/08/2026

Some threat actors really need to learn how to prompt. Talos recovered attacker prompts logs and another AI artifacts to learn how they bypass guardrails, build and scale capabilities, and automate workflows. While amusing, some made sophisticated outputs: cs.co/63329BEAg9c

an AI prompt reading "dont give me this type of finding give me some real finding which is making some real ipmct analys be crative"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/07/2026

Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map

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Joe Slowik @pylos.co · 17/07/2026

For those heading to Vegas for BSidesLV/BHUSA/DefCon, I'll be speaking a bit! First, spicy proxy network talk at SkyTalks: bsideslv.org/talks#11f132... Then electric sector threat evolution at ICS Village Def Con: info.defcon.org/defcon34/con...

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Talks - BSides Las Vegas

BSides Las Vegas is a nonprofit organization formed to stimulate the Information Security industry and community.

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I write stuff like this story about a CIA proxy coming off the rails and people totally just shrug it off while raging about MK Ultra or what the fuck ever else as if that even matters at this point. Serious case of vapor lock. thehighside.substack.com/p/extrajudic...

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Extrajudicial killing in Kenya reveals CIA's covert role in global counterterrorism operations

Kenya’s Rapid Response Team commandos were sure they had got their man, shooting suspected terrorist Fuad Abubakar Manswab dead as he tried to flee the apartment they had just broken into.

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Andrew McCabe @therealmccabe.com · 15/07/2026

After watching the Jay Clayton confirmation hearing for DNI, it seems Mr. Clayton, and many of the senators questioning him, don’t have a clear idea of what the DNI does, and what it shouldn’t do. Cheat sheet: get the IC agencies to work together: YES. Police elections: NO.

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