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FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall

FDA linked Raw Farm's raw cheddar cheese (unpasteurized milk) to a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin–producing E. coli, with seven cases across California (5), Florida (1), and Texas (1); four are children ≤3; two hospitalizations; onset Sept–Feb. Genetic testing suggests a common source. Three interviewed reported consuming Raw Farm cheese. FDA urged voluntary removal; Raw Farm declined, saying they disagree and defend their testing. Raw Farm has a history of outbreaks tied to unpasteurized dairy, including a 2024 Salmonella outbreak. Pasteurization kills germs; Raw Farm disputes FDA findings.

Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild

A new iPhone-hacking toolkit, DarkSword, has been found used by Russian spies on infected websites to hack iPhones that visit the pages. It targets iOS 18 devices (not the latest) and uses fileless, non-persistent techniques to steal data within minutes, including passwords, messages, photos, browser history, health data, and crypto wallets. The openly accessible DarkSword code on hacked sites invites reuse. Linked to Coruna, it was likely sold by a broker such as Operation Zero, signaling a growing, commodity-like market for iPhone exploits.

A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source

Rustunnel is an open-source ngrok-style tunnel service written in Rust. It lets local services behind NAT/firewalls be exposed to the public internet via a self-hosted relay or a managed edge. It includes a Rust server, a client, a dashboard, TLS termination, HTTP/TCP proxying, Prometheus metrics, and audit logs, with a REST API and WebSocket control plane. Features: hosted edge at edge.rustunnel.com, token-based auth, optional Let’s Encrypt/Cloudflare TLS, SQLite database, and MCP/OpenClaw AI integration. Comprehensive setup guides, Docker/build deployment, and extensive config options.

A Tiny Camera Revealed a Hidden Passage in the Great Pyramid

Using muography, researchers scanned the Great Pyramid of Khufu and found a sealed corridor about 9 meters long and 2.1 meters wide, about 7 meters above the entrance, hidden behind chevron masonry for ~4,500 years. They confirmed with ultrasound, ground-penetrating radar, and a 6 mm Japanese endoscope that revealed an empty passage with a vaulted ceiling, suggesting a finished space rather than a void. The corridor may help redirect weight or relate to a deeper, unmapped space. This builds on earlier muon-detection finds and highlights internal design choices in the pyramid.

Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud "A Pile of Shit", yet Approved It

ProPublica reveals that in late 2024 FedRAMP authorized Microsoft GCC High to handle highly sensitive government data despite chronic security doubts. Reviewers cited missing data-flow diagrams and encryption details, calling the process security theater. Third‑party assessors admitted they could not get a complete picture; back-channel communications raised integrity concerns. DOJ officials lobbied to push the process, while White House pressure and staff cuts left FedRAMP understaffed. GCC High spread across agencies and defense contractors; Microsoft’s China-based engineers controversy loomed. FedRAMP granted a conditional authorization with unknown risks, signaling gaps between security claims and reality.

Using calculus to do number theory

Using calculus ideas in number theory, the article shows solving a cubic congruence modulo 3000 via Hensel's lemma. It factors 3000=2^3·3·5^3 and solves mod 8 (x≡0 or 4) and mod 3 (x≡1), then lifts modulo 125 via Hensel from mod 5: x≡2 mod5 → x≡22 mod25 → x≡72 mod125. Combining with CRT gives two solutions modulo 3000. The piece also links this lifting to Langlands and abelian/nonabelian Galois theory.

Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts

Tech hobbyist Alisher Khojayev built a shoulder-mounted, 3D-printed guided missile prototype for about $96, shown in a short video. The system includes a launcher, a 3D-printed missile, and an optional tracking camera. The launcher uses an ESP32 with GPS, barometer, and compass; the missile adds another ESP32 with an MPU-6050 IMU to steer canards. A Wi-Fi link to a control computer carries ballistic calculations to both launcher and missile. Tom's Hardware notes it’s not a practical weapon and highlights the huge cost gap to real MANPADS, illustrating 3D‑printing democratization.

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Pardoned for Fraud, a CEO Mounts His Comeback: 'We Can Trust You Now'

Wall Street Journal 404 error page stating the requested page isn’t found, with a prompt to check the URL or contact support. It highlights popular articles on Russia sharing satellite imagery with Iran, Israel hunting Iranian regime members, Banksy’s identity and higher art prices, and recent podcasts on Gulf states, Iran, and Israel-related topics.

Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis (Interactive)

An interactive course hub from Machine Learning Plus promoting “101 Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis.” It offers browser-based, hands-on pandas practice covering Series/DataFrame creation, indexing, merging, grouping, time series, statistics, and plotting, with solution blocks included. The page also bundles related courses and practice sets (NumPy, PySpark, Python, SQL, NLP) and provides time‑series templates, cheatsheets, and project templates for broader data‑science practice.

Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework

Google DeepMind proposes a cognitive taxonomy to measure progress toward AGI, outlining 10 cognitive abilities (perception, generation, attention, learning, memory, reasoning, metacognition, executive functions, problem solving, social cognition) and a three-stage evaluation: broad task benchmarking with held-out data, human baselines, and mapping AI performance to human ranges. They launch a Kaggle hackathon—“Measuring progress toward AGI: Cognitive abilities”—to develop evaluations for five abilities (learning, metacognition, attention, executive functions, social cognition) with a $200k prize pool. Submissions open Mar 17–Apr 16; winners announced Jun 1. Authors: Ryan Burnell, Oran Kelly.

Judge orders restoration of Voice of America

A federal judge ordered the restoration of Voice of America, giving the U.S. Agency for Global Media a week to plan VOA’s return and recall hundreds of workers sidelined after Trump’s shutdown order. Judge Royce C. Lamberth said Kari Lake lacked authority and effectively shelved about 1,042 of VOA’s 1,147 employees. Lake plans to appeal. Trump-nominee Sarah Rogers is waiting Senate approval to run USAGM. VOA has broadcast since WWII in 49 languages to hundreds of millions.

How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly

Eon Systems built an embodied virtual Drosophila by linking a connectome-constrained brain model (Shiu et al., ~140k neurons) to a NeuroMechFly body in MuJoCo, with a loop: sensory input maps to neurons, brain activity updates, descending signals drive motor commands, and movement feeds back to senses. It uses taste, olfaction, plus touch, with visual processing partly integrated. Descending neurons such as DNa01/DNa02 (steering), oDN1 (forward speed), and MN9 (feeding) serve as a small control interface rather than full motor hierarchies. This is a testbed with limitations and a path toward a fidelity framework and collaborations.

OpenAI Has New Focus (On the IPO)

OpenAI is focusing on an IPO, entering a high-stakes three-way race with Anthropic and SpaceX/xAI for public-market funding. The window is tight and bankers will decide the winner. Internally, leadership signals urgency amid scattered side projects and perceived chaos, a WSJ leak cast as a wake-up call. Anthropic is ahead in enterprise adoption, with Claude Code driving rapid revenue growth; OpenAI reports around $25B annualized revenue and broad user reach. The core message: focus and monetization to go public; money will decide the outcome.

Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier

Kagi is considering making Kagi Assistant a standalone subscription and changing how it's included in Starter/Professional Search plans. The proposal would replace monthly AI-cost allowances with a fixed one-time usage cap; once hit, users would need Ultimate or a separate Kagi Assistant subscription. The goal is simpler pricing and a clear upgrade path, but it raises questions about what counts as 'Assistant' (Quick or Research), cap resets, annual plans, and impact on current Pro users. No final decisions yet; user feedback and clarifications are being sought.

Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming

Rob Pike’s five rules: 1) you can’t predict where a program spends time; bottlenecks surprise—prove with measurement. 2) measure first; don’t tune for speed unless one part dominates. 3) fancy algorithms are slow for small n; n is usually small; they have big constants—don’t use them until you’ve measured. 4) fancy algorithms are buggy and hard; prefer simple algorithms and data structures. 5) data dominates; with the right data structures and organization, algorithms become self-evident. These echo Hoare, Thompson, and Brooks; rule 3–4 summarize KISS; 5 favors simple data structures.

Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer

Nightingale turns any library song into karaoke: vocals are separated, lyrics are transcribed and aligned, and playback shows highlighted lyrics with real-time pitch scoring. Stem separation uses UVR Karaoke or Demucs; lyrics from LRCLIB or WhisperX. Features: per-song scores, player profiles, video support with backgrounds, and gamepad control. Runs as a single binary with ffmpeg, Python, PyTorch and ML models bootstrapped on first launch, on Linux, macOS, Windows with GPU (CUDA/Metal) or CPU fallback.

Animation 10k Starlink Satellites

Spaceweather.com's Mar 18, 2026 page reports sunspot AR4392 with a beta-gamma field, an M2 flare, and a quiet geomagnetic index (Kp 1.7). Solar wind ~405 km/s; coronal holes imply Earth impact around Mar 22–23. NOAA forecasts a potential CME-driven G2 storm near the vernal equinox, with auroras at mid-latitudes. Starlink now exceeds 10,000 satellites, with many reentries and collision-avoidance maneuvers affecting the orbital environment. Cosmic-ray counts are at a 10-year low due to Solar Cycle 25 and Forbush decreases. The site also tracks near-Earth asteroids and starlink statistics.

(Media over QUIC) on a Boat

On a Boat discusses using MoQ for media on bandwidth-challenged platforms (boats) by using a pull-based, tracks-based model instead of traditional push protocols. Each viewer subscribes to relevant tracks (1080p, 360p, audio, captions, chat); moq-relay aggregates many subscribers into a single upstream. Renditions enable AI to decide which streams to fetch, prioritizing critical content (audio, kraken-detection) under congestion via a priority scheme; frames are queued rather than dropped, with latency controls to backfill VOD. QUIC path migration and multi-path bonding enable switching between Wi‑Fi, cellular, and satellite, or multiple connections/CDNs. Saronic has used MoQ for years; more docs coming.

Aggregated File System (AGFS), a modern tribute to the spirit of Plan 9

AGFS (Aggregated File System) unifies backend services (Redis, SQS, S3, SQL, etc.) as filesystem operations, enabling AI agents to read and write via standard file commands. Benefits: AI-friendly file semantics, a single interface, a nd an easier debugging. Quick start: curl install, or Docker, with optional FUSE mounting. It presents views like /kvfs, /queuefs, /sqlfs, /heartbeatfs, and supports cross‑FS transfers and an AGFS shell. Use case: AI agent task distribution and coordination through queues and shared state.

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