Katie Zacharia's husband worked alongside her in China for years, making major loans as large as $1M to North Korean companies facing U.S. sanctions.
Pete Hegseth's talk has been interrupted by at least 5 anti-war protesters
Pete Hegseth's event is interrupted by protesters
Katie Zacharia on the Epstein files: "It doesn't matter to me"
Katie Zacharia: The abortion pill has the same chemicals that they used in the extermination camps in Nazi Germany
Could Body Cameras Prevent Prison Abuse?
Idaho prisons are in the midst of a three-year pilot program that some believe could curtail abuse and promote accountability.
https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/03/19/do-prison-guards-use-body-cameras/
The San Francisco Standard
• Ezra Wallach
SFUSD board votes for neighborhood school plan
Students will be guaranteed a place at a school in their neighborhood as the SFUSD ends its lottery system.
NEW: Officials in New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, spent millions of dollars drafting separate plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Neither plan took into account how the construction of three new data centers could upend climate goals in both places.
https://www.propublica.org/article/data-centers-texas-new-mexico-greenhouse-gas-emissions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NewMexico #ElPaso #Texas #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #DataCenters #Energy #Pollution
SCOTUSblog
• Josh Blackman, Randy Barnett
Witnessing a reorientation of the First and Second Amendments on the Roberts court
Racket
• Em Cassel
Do Twin Cities Food Content Creators Have a ‘Disclosure Issue’?
The law requires influencers to disclose when they receive money or free meals from restaurants. As for whether they do…
Schneier on Security
• Bruce Schneier
The Future of AI Cryptanalysis
Matthew Green has been writing a rather pessimistic series of posts about the potential for AI systems to vastly outperform humans in cryptanalysis of both symmetric and public-key ciphers.
I am more optimistic than he is. That is, I have stronger faith in the over-engineering cryptographers tend to do. I am trying to write this up in more detail.
Schneier on Security
• Bruce Schneier
Cyberattack on Connected Fridges in France
Another IoT cyberattack, this one in France:
Hackers gained control of the software that regulates the temperatures of the refrigeration units, forcing some to warm to 50C (120F) overnight, according to one supermarket chain affected.
[…]
Normally, supermarket freezers go through a short period of defrosting overnight, in which temperatures rise slightly. But the hackers ordered the units to heat up and stay hot, although Danfoss did not confirm any reports about just how warm the fridges and freezers could become in that process.
Danfoss said the affected cold units were older models whose security software could not be updated to ward off a risk they had identified...
Open Channels FM Podcast Network
• Bob Dunn
Rethinking Access and Dependence in Tech From AI Outages to Open Source Lifelines
Who maintains education AI, the backbone of software infrastructure, and a new open source document tool.
Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
• John Amato
MAGNIFICENT FAILURE: Musk And MAGA Influencers' Talarico Smear
TorrentFreak
• Ernesto Van der Sar
Publishers Seek $19.5m From Pirate Library WeLib, Recycle Anna’s Archive Claims
A group of major publishers has asked a New York federal court to issue a $19.5 million default judgment against pirate library WeLib. The site allegedly copied its code and most of its collection from Anna's Archive, which lost a nearly identical case in May. Ironically, the publishers' brief appears to 'copy' from Anna's Archive as well, or at least from their own lawsuit against the shadow library.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
WIRED
• Brian Kahn
Earth’s Condition Is ‘Serious and Getting Worse’ as Climate Change Intensifies
Seven of 16 planetary vital signs are in their most extreme state ever recorded, and El Niño is here to make matters even worse.
Ars Technica
• Christopher Miller
Ukraine blindsided by Starlink throttling restrictions and intelligence gaps
Kyiv’s forces experience connectivity problems on Elon Musk’s satellite network.
Electrek
• Peter Johnson
Ford opens preorder invites for the $30,000 Fathom EV pickup
Host: We just hit a new record for gas prices. The national average is above $4 a gallon for the most days ever in one year. The typical household has now paid an extra $1,043 in fuel expenses since the start of the Iran war.
Fox: No one should be surprised with the high inflation data because of energy prices
