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In a universe with only baryons and hardly any anti-baryons it's bizarre that we don't find any #CPasymmetry in #BaryonDecay .

Now we do. 👏

Wonderful work @lhcb.bsky.social team.

🗓️ 🔗 indico.cern.ch/event/142368...
Google just dealt a major blow to shadowy infrastructures: a sprawling residential proxy network known as IPIDEA that quietly turned millions of smartphones, PCs, and connected devices into a proxy army bad actors could rent to hide and scale attacks.

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Google takes down an invisible network that was secretly using your phone's internet
Google wipes out IPIDEA botnet that hijacked millions of home routers.
www.androidcentral.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Drones could achieve 'infinite flight' after engineers create laser-based wireless power system that charges them from the ground.

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Drones could achieve 'infinite flight' after engineers create laser-based wireless power system that charges them from the ground
A new system will enable operators to use laser beams to top off batteries while drones are in midflight.
www.livescience.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands

Source:
techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/b...
Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands | TechCrunch
Bluesky's first transparency reports tackles moderation, regulatory compliance, account takedowns and more. The number of government legal requests went up by fivefold.
techcrunch.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Russian government hackers were able to break into parts of Poland's energy infrastructure thanks to default usernames and passwords and no multi-factor authentication, the Polish government said in a report.

🔗 techcrunch.com/2026/...
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Russian hackers breached Polish power grid thanks to bad security, report says | TechCrunch
The Polish government accused a Russian government hacking group of hacking into energy facilities taking advantage of default usernames and passwords.
techcrunch.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Shinzo Abe’s assassin, Tetsya Yamagami, was motivated by his hatred of the Unification Church, a cult that has exerted significant influence in Japan since the 1960s—and that Yamagami’s mother joined when he was just 10.

Who caused it & why?

🔗 newyorkermag.visitli...
January 30, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel must build a strong and independent arms industry, end its dependence on American military aid, and pursue joint defence production with partners such as India.

#Israël #America #India #Defence #Military
January 30, 2026 at 12:19 PM
What is happening in Minnesota, USA is proof that racist ideas lead to racist policies – and it produces bad, dangerous governance.... Yet such politics are on the rise globally, only shows the bad health of our societies.

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Minneapolis is in a state of chaos. Racist governance is to blame | Jamil Smith
What is happening in Minnesota is proof that racist ideas lead to racist policies – and it produces bad, dangerous governance
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Poland signs deals for ‘Europe’s most modern’ anti-drone system: The total cost of the entire air defence shield is estimated at over $ 60 billion, according to their defence ministry...

🔗 dlvr.it/TQfXJQ
Poland signs deals for 'Europe's most modern' anti-drone system | Euractiv
The total cost of the entire air defence shield is estimated at over $ 60 billion, according to the defence ministry
dlvr.it
January 30, 2026 at 11:57 AM
A rift is brewing between Pentagon & AI giants #Anthropic over requirement to remove certain safeguards so as to allow the Trump administration to use its technology to target autonomously & also to conduct domestic surveillance, according to 3 source.

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Exclusive: Pentagon clashes with Anthropic over military AI use, sources say
The Pentagon is at odds with artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic over safeguards that would prevent the government from deploying its technology to target weapons autonomously and conduct U.S. domestic surveillance, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Russell Vought’s updated memo using a common attestation form voluntary. A critic told CyberScoop it’s the “first major policy step back” on cybersecurity under Trump.

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OMB drops Biden’s secure software attestation rule for federal purchases
Trump administration rescinds Biden’s OMB secure software memo M-22-18, ending the federal attestation form and shifting agencies to risk-based validation of software supply-chain security.
cyberscoop.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Trump’s acting cybersecurity chief who heads CISA uploaded sensitive government contracting documents marked “For Official Use Only” to public ChatGPT.

Mr. Gottumukkala triggered insider threat alerts, prompting an internal investigation.

🔗 www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT
The interim director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency triggered an internal cybersecurity warning with the uploads — and a DHS-level damage assessment.
www.politico.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Google on Tuesday announced a significant update to its Android theft-protection arsenal, introducing new tools and settings aimed at making stolen smartphones harder for criminals to access and exploit.
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January 28, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Gladys West, a mathematician at the U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory whose modeling of the Earth’s shape played a critical role in the development of GPS, the global satellite mapping system that pilots, firefighters and drivers use, has died at 95.
Gladys West, Unsung Figure in Development of GPS, Dies at 95
As a Navy mathematician in the 1950s and beyond, she played an unheralded but foundational role in making possible the global satellite-based mapping system.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Japan doubles down on Trump's Genesis AI supercomputing effort... RIKEN links up with Argonne, Fujitsu, and Nvidia to build next-gen infrastructure.

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Japan doubles down on US Genesis AI supercomputing effort
: RIKEN links up with Argonne, Fujitsu, and Nvidia to build next-gen infrastructure
www.theregister.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:04 PM
U.S. politicians are shaping the country’s relationship with China, while their spouses and children are buying and selling stocks in TSMC, Alibaba, and Tencent

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While politicians shape U.S.-China relations, their families turn to the stock market
Politicians' spouses and children are buying and selling stocks in TSMC, Alibaba, and Tencent.
restofworld.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Germany will strike back against cyberattackers, including abroad, enabling countermeasures with a low threshold for activation.

A new defense center against hybrid threats will consolidate intelligence along with defense strategies.

🔗 www.sueddeutsche.de/...
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„Wir werden zurückschlagen, auch im Ausland“
Cyberattacken, Sabotage, Staatsterror: Deutschland ist das Ziel hybrider Angriffe – und Innenminister Alexander Dobrindt verrät, was er dagegen tun will. Auch für die Syrer im Land, die AfD und den Umgang mit Trump hat er einen Plan.
www.sueddeutsche.de
January 27, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Internal Slack messages reveal growing frustration within Palantir over its relationship with the DHS, in particular, ICE’s enforcement & investigations teams.

In response, Palantir updated its internal wiki detailing its work with ICE.

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Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:03 AM
China hacked the mobile phones of senior officials in Downing Street for several years, in a spying operation understood to have exposing private communications to Beijing, The Telegraph can disclose.

Read more here ⬇️
China hacked Downing Street phones for years
Spying operation targeted senior government members, including aides to Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 2:41 AM
People in Denmark are using an app to identify & avoid goods made in USA, in protest to Trump administration policies on Greenland.

🔗 cybernews.com/tech/danish-...
Danish app UdenUSA helps shoppers to boycott US goods
Danish barcode-scanning tool UdenUSA helps users identify the origin of goods and find alternatives to products from the United States as part of a boycott.
cybernews.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:12 PM
#ESET Research: #Russian cyber actor #Sandworm behind #cyberattack on NATO member #Poland’s power grid in late 2025. The attack involved data-wiping malware #DynoWiper. Coincidentally on the 10th anniversary of #Ukraine power grid.

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ESET Research: Sandworm behind cyberattack on Poland’s power grid in late 2025
The attack involved data-wiping malware that ESET researchers have now analyzed and named DynoWiper.
www.welivesecurity.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:13 PM
The booming #CyberSecurity job market hasn’t just opened doors for veterans, it’s turned them into one of the industry’s most reliable and valued highly skilled talent pipelines. In context to a skilled manpoe shortage in the larger market.

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Inside Microsoft’s veteran-to-tech workforce pipeline - Help Net Security
Microsoft’s veteran tech workforce pipeline shows how military experience is translating into in-demand cybersecurity and cloud careers.
www.helpnetsecurity.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.

wapo.st/49Zqv1L
January 25, 2026 at 6:11 PM
LEAK: 🤯 Ted Cruz told his donors about "battling" the White House to accept a trade deal with India.... So when a donor asks Cruz who's resistant to a trade deal with India, Cruz mention 3 names:

1. Peter Navarro,

2. J. D. Vance, &

3. Donald Trump (sometimes).

🔗 www.axios.com/2026/01/25/c...
Exclusive: In secret recordings, Cruz trashes Trump tariffs, Vance
The comments to donors last year are some of the harshest criticisms of Trump and Vance by a fellow Republican.
www.axios.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:46 PM
The United States is demanding access to the biometric data of millions of Europeans from the EU to maintain their visa waiver, and the Commission does not have much time to reach an agreement. #SurveillanceCapitalism #PrivacyMatters #CyberSecurity

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Les Etats-Unis exigent de l’UE l’accès aux données biométriques de millions d’Européens pour maintenir leur exemption de visa, et la Commission n’a plus beaucoup de temps pour trouver un accord
Pour continuer à exempter les citoyens européens de visa, les Etats-Unis exigent d'accéder à certaines bases de données biométriques. Des données sensibles dont le partage avec les Etats-Unis pose de nombreuses questions... La Commission européenne a été chargée de négocier un accord.
www.bfmtv.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:43 AM