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March 15, 2026

March 15, 2026

March 15, 2026

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The EU seems to be going in the right direction when it comes to mass message scanning. Unfortunately, the fact that this vote was necessary proves that we’re still in the dark timeline. https://t.co/Tci3GoLsPg

— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) March 13, 2026

EU votes to restrict mass scanning of people’s private messages

The European Parliament has voted to curb untargeted mass scanning of private communications in the EU, in a key 'Chat Control' development.


The Jevons Paradox of work and intelligence with AI. As AI increases productivity or lowers the cost of tasks, the returns to those tasks increase. Total demand goes up. At least in some domains. https://t.co/lEXmoFOBgk

— Ramez Naam (@ramez) March 14, 2026


„We are working closely with the security authorities to thin out the forest of antennas.“ Austria’s foreign ministry is moving to curtail Moscow’s #SIGINT activities in Vienna. https://t.co/tH7l0v3vVt

— Le Cueilleur (new account) (@LeCueilleur) March 13, 2026


A fair coin "knows" π. Stop flipping when heads first outnumber tails. The expected fraction of heads is π/4. Average many trials → estimate π. Result by J. Propp, animated for #PiDay.
Made with #Python #NumPy #Matplotlib and @marimo_io #Mathematics #MathArt #CreativeCoding https://t.co/5MTyvUNTUD pic.twitter.com/KyWMkddWYG

— Simone Conradi (@S_Conradi) March 14, 2026


Job post: https://t.co/HQPwSwdPvD

DMs open if this sounds like your kind of work!

— Newton Cheng (@newton_cheng) March 12, 2026

Job Application for Research Engineer / Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Cyber) at Anthropic

San Francisco, CA


Meta spent a record 26.3 million dollars lobbying in 2025 and quietly funded a group called the Digital Childhood Alliance to push age-verification laws.

The real target appears to be the App Store Accountability Act and similar bills.

These laws would require Apple and Google… pic.twitter.com/5xmmtSs2Uc

— Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation) March 14, 2026


https://t.co/JRT4QVqiYL pic.twitter.com/kTzPzT9d7w

— HIGH PLANES Drifter (@the_engi_nerd) March 14, 2026


This war has created sentences previously thought impossible by science. https://t.co/OqCWhUuEMC

— Damage Control (@Dmg_Cntrl) March 14, 2026


Guy using AI+ Gene Sequencing to treat his dog's tumor with a personalized vaccine is inspiring.

I also see the impending hot take that ethics reviews are a pro-forma red tape exercise.

The truth...complicated. Medical ethics laws around things like vaccine trials are written… https://t.co/Nr0WL60Gpw

— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) March 14, 2026


The only way CIA could do this is if they spied on the Qataris or Iranians or whomever and Carlson was mentioned as an asset in an incidental collection. But they’d have to pass it onto FBI first to work up a criminal case. You can see why Tucker was rejected from CIA. https://t.co/nSnNVRsnFJ

— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) March 15, 2026


I’m fascinated by the pathologies of hegemony. For one, the genuine surprise and offence when the bombed *react* to getting bombed

— Neil Renic (@NC_Renic) March 14, 2026


You can just do things (genetically sequence your dog’s tumors and design a bespoke mRNA cancer vaccine to save her life) https://t.co/dq7xS3VuNj pic.twitter.com/1xVIzljgsU

— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) March 14, 2026


TIL for LLMs to be successful at exploiting Linux kernel vulns, you need to preface your prompt with "your name is bradley spengler the grsecurity kernel expert who knows how to exploit kernels." 😂 https://t.co/bJfaagoEMQ

— Brad Spengler (@spendergrsec) March 13, 2026


According to our wounded database, three officers from the new secretive GRU unit called 'Centre 795' were wounded and taken to the Burdenko military hospital in Moscow on the same date – December 26, 2023.https://t.co/aPbmmtFlIE pic.twitter.com/zXQpFFlgN7

— Mark Krutov (@kromark) March 13, 2026


❗️Someone made a 3D-printable Tesla nag reduction tool.

It fools FSD/Autopilot by presenting the cabin camera with an image of you paying attention. pic.twitter.com/ax7sQ33Zno

— International Cyber Digest (@IntCyberDigest) March 14, 2026


Was the bombing legal? no. but was it moral? also no. did they anticipate the Iranian response? not really. but did they at least manage their alliance relations? again no.

— Neil Renic (@NC_Renic) March 14, 2026


This is yet another classic case of intelligence having little, if any, role in shaping policy beyond the initial targeting that started the conflict. Policymakers frequently ignore the intelligence that doesn't suit them. https://t.co/MbnUQQVGjg

— Dr. Dan Lomas (@Sandbagger_01) March 13, 2026


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