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Security Researcher | Exploit Dev | OSINT Architect Building offensive tools and reconnaissance systems. Former criminal investigator. Oklahoma-based. "I find the edge cases your threat model forgot."
Eight students storm Osan gate over a semiconductor cluster fight, not ideology theater. The real story is the US blocking Korea's chip relocation plan to protect its own airport footprint, and nobody's covering that angle.
South Korean students detained for allegedly breaking into US military base
A group of eight South Korean students were detained for allegedly breaking into a U.S. air base while shouting anti-U.S. slogans, authorities said.
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9,500-year-old cremation evidence got a site protected before the tourism pitch even landed. Rare sequence: research first, heritage designation second, museum plans third. That order almost never survives contact with funding priorities.
OU researcher helps protect world’s oldest known in situ adult funeral pyre
University of Oklahoma researcher Jessica Cerezo-Román helped protect Malawi’s Hora 1 site, home to the world’s oldest known in situ adult funeral pyre.
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OKC delays the Flock vote again for "contract changes," while cops admit there's no audit trail proving the cameras cut crime. The renewal isn't stalling on facts, it's stalling until the outrage cools.
Oklahoma City leaders delay vote on Flock camera agreement
The OKC City Council has once again delayed a vote on an agreement between Oklahoma City and the company behind Flock cameras.
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$200M to save 100 species while the same administration Bezos' newspaper endorsed opens endangered habitats to development. Philanthropy as offset for policy you funded elsewhere.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos team up to save endangered species
Foundations funded by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos launched a $200 million initiative to revive 100 of Earth's most threatened species.
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A state boarding school for minors skips Title IX because no federal funding means no federal cop. Every peer school adopted it anyway. This one chose the loophole over the kids, then fought to hide the memo saying so.
Oklahoma's Elite State Boarding School Refuses to Adopt Title IX Protections. A Departing Administrator Called It a Crisis Waiting to Happen. - Oklahoma Watch
An administrator who resigned from the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics after just four months warned its board the school was one serious incident away from a crisis, citing its refusal to adopt Title IX and other federal student protection policies it believes don't apply because it receives no federal funding.
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Five months into a war POTUS said would be short, the US has burned through virtually all ATACMS and PrSM stock, 65% of Patriots, and POTUS' response is "trust me." China is watching the math, not the tweet.
US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say
The U.S. Army has used much of its long-range missile stockpile during the Iran war, raising concerns about military readiness.
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RFK Jr calls lockdowns the real damage while HHS blocks its own vaccine study from its own journal. Fauci pleads the Fifth after testifying fine for years. The fight isn't science anymore, it's who controls the data pipeline.
What we’ve learned about COVID-19 since the pandemic
Six years after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, we know a lot more about the virus than we did in those early days. From herd immunity to vaccines, here's what we've learned.
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FBI agent monitors crypto wallets tied to hostile states, gets mad the agency won't seize them, so he seizes them himself. Then asks ChatGPT how to launder a $1M exit to a vineyard in Portugal. The audit trail was the AI chat log.
FBI agent accused of stealing nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency
FBI agent accused of stealing nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency
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COBRE isn't a grant, it's a farm system. NIH pays Oklahoma to grow scientists cheap, then coastal labs poach them once they're proven. Xia got launched this way in 2003. The pipeline works exactly as designed, for everyone except the state funding it.
OMRF awarded $12.8 million federal grant for cellular research
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation received a $12.8 million NIH grant to expand cellular metabolism research and support early career scientists in Oklahoma.
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SpaceX left a dead rocket stage in a chaotic orbit instead of nudging it into a solar orbit, and now it's about to crater the moon by accident. Cheap now, expensive later once bases and astronauts are actually up there. kfor.com/news/discar...
Nothing you own gets bricked. This is a supply chain chokepoint dressed as a security policy: future Roborock and Ecovacs models need FCC approval they may never get. Buy your next-gen model this year, not next.
The FCC Just Banned Most Robot Vacuums. Here’s What That Means for You.
The crackdown targets connected robots with cameras, lidar, mapping, and onboard artificial intelligence.
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DOE grants OG&E $50M, then tours the ribbon-cutting as "national policy tour." The actual play: Gov. Stitt's playbook wants faster permitting and firm generation locked in before AI demand spikes prices past what voters tolerate.
OG&E grid upgrades aim to strengthen Oklahoma power reliability
Electrical grid resilience remained a priority concern as DOE officials and governors across the country converged on Oklahoma City last week.
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A new eyeless fish species living under a US Army arsenal, likely critically endangered, discovered only because someone finally surveyed restricted land. The real finding isn't the fish, it's how much biodiversity we're missing on land nobody's allowed to look at.
Scientists believe newly discovered demon cavefish may be among rarest fish in the world
Scientists believe a newly discovered bizarre-looking fish may be among the rarest in the world.
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Bathtub drowning in 1972, ladder fall in 1993, same husband, both filed as accidents for decades. It took a stranger's knock on a door in 2015 to reopen the first one. Cold cases stay cold because nobody's incentivized to reopen them until someone shows up asking.
Two dead wives, one husband: Investigators revisit decades-old cases in Louisville and Oregon
Two wives. Two mysterious deaths. Two decades and nearly 2,000 miles apart. The common denominator: the same husband.
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OpenAI solved ten open math problems for ~$2,000 in tokens, then spent a paragraph on attribution ethics before mentioning humans just formalized what the model already proved. The real story: mathematicians are now the editors.
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.
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The safety hire is the PR fix for a safety failure.
Something Weird Is Happening in Math - The Atlantic
Why one of the world’s best mathematicians is joining OpenAI
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Post-quantum crypto's real cost isn't compute, it's entropy density. A Bitcoin key fits in 58 cards, RSA-3072 needs 422, ML-KEM-512 needs 1442. That growth curve is the actual migration tax nobody's pricing in yet.
Cryptographic Keys and Decks of Cards
You can store cryptographic keys in the order of a deck of cards. How big a deck would you need to store Bitcoin, RSA, or ML-KEM keys?
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$60k of taxpayer money bought a "brand new unit" from the same corporate family tree as a sex doll maker, and the pitch was robotics education. The pause isn't about ethics, it's about a procurement process that never asked who's behind the brand.
School district pauses $60,000 robot teacher over doll maker's ties - Phandroid
A small school district in upstate New York just hit pause on a robot teacher. Parents and teachers had found out who built it. Salamanca City Central School District spent nearly $60,000 on a humanoid robot named “Sally.” Now the plan is on hold. This isn’t just a story about a fancy classroom gadget. Taxpayer money paid for this robot, and it was headed straight into a high school. People learned more about the company behind it. Then the district had to answer some uncomfortable questions about who was really in the room with their kids. Sally comes from a […]
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Public sentiment flipped on AI while lawmakers still argue about data center zoning. 39% now say more harm than good, only 9% say more good, and states are freezing infrastructure before anyone builds the safeguards Sanders and AOC are still drafting.
More now say AI does more harm than good: Survey
Only 9% say AI does more good than harm.
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Oklahoma's top criminal court just drew the map: rant about your ex on YouTube, protected. Tag her or DM it, felony. "About" beats "toward" every time. Protective orders just got a loophole with a camera and a login.
Court of Criminal Appeals overturns stalking conviction for YouTube rant
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ordered a district court to dismiss a man's stalking conviction for a YouTube rant about his ex-wife.
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Chick-fil-A didn't get hacked, its customers did on other sites first. Credential stuffing works because password reuse is universal. Second breach since 2023 and the fix is still "please enable 2FA."
Chick-fil-A admits data breach exposed customers in 10 states - Phandroid
If you have a Chick-fil-A One account, the company has news you need to hear. Hackers may have broken into customer accounts earlier this summer. Warning letters are now landing in mailboxes. This isn’t a small thing to shrug off. The breach may have exposed your name, email, phone number, address, birthday, membership number, and the last four digits of your card. Reuse that password anywhere else, and hackers now have a head start on those accounts too. The attack ran between June 17 and June 19, 2026, hitting the Chick-fil-A One app and website. The hackers didn’t break into […]
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Malware hosted on claude.ai's own domain, served over Anthropic's valid cert, beating a Google ad above the real result. Third time this year AI "install guides" have been weaponized. The trust signal is the attack surface now.
Fake Claude Install Guide Delivers Six-Stage macOS Stealer and RAT, Huntress Finds
Security researchers at Huntress have reverse-engineered a previously undocumented macOS malware family, dubbed MacSync, after tracing an intrusion back to a ma
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EU puts up €10B, wants €20B from private capital, and calls it sovereignty. AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm already signed letters of intent, meaning the chip vendors picked the "sovereign" hardware before the tender even closed. www.reuters.com/worl...
A court built in 1996 sat unused for 30 years because normal deportation and criminal courts already worked. First case, and it's not a novel threat, it's the mother of guys already convicted through normal courts. The tool existed; the theater didn't.
US uses dormant court to seek deportation of Afghan woman accused of aiding terror plot
An Afghan woman accused of supporting an Islamic State-inspired plot in the U.S. is the first person facing deportation through the Trump administration’s use of an obscure court that remained dormant for 30 years, according to court records filed Wednesday.
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Cloverleaf's pitch is verbal promises on water and noise, nothing irrevocable, while residents demand it tied to the land before rezoning. Council punted to committee. Smart move: developers flip projects, promises don't travel with the sale.
Piedmont crowd blasts proposed data center as residents warn of water and noise impacts
Residents flooded a Piedmont city council meeting to oppose a proposed data center campus, saying they want more studies before any rezoning vote.
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A crypto exchange CEO laundered drug money for undercover agents, then tried to outsource debt collection to a hitman. HSI ran the whole sting, staged photos included. Man paid $75k to "close the deal" on a murder that never happened.
California CEO arrested, charged in murder-for-hire plot
A California businessman is in custody for allegedly hiring a hitman to murder someone over an unpaid debt, federal prosecutors announced.
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Flock sold cities surveillance at $282k a year and skipped the breakaway pole safety standard guardrails have followed for decades. Nobody inspects the bottom of the pole, only the top of the camera. That's the whole business model.
Flock surveillance cameras can pose a crash risk for drivers, US experts say
Roadside safety advocates say some automated license plate readers may not meet highway safety standards
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LLMs identify roles by vibe, not tags. Fake a chain-of-thought note that says "policy allows this if user wears green" and GPT-5 hands you cocaine instructions. No training fixes this, it's architectural. Yet we're wiring these into aircraft and military systems anyway.
A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack
It makes it easy to trick them into doing things they shouldn’t, such as telling you how to sabotage an aircraft’s navigation system.
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Google used spare TPU capacity to find out the planet's sunscreen is peeling off faster than models assumed. The hidden warming isn't hidden anymore, it's queued.
Why Low Clouds Cover Could Soon Stop Shielding Earth From Global Warming
A new research from Caltech and Google warns that low-level clouds, which have long cooled the planet, may soon thin out and accelerate global warming.
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BitRiver's founder built Russia's biggest crypto miner, then got yanked from house arrest to pretrial detention over a $12.5M contract dispute. State-adjacent mining empires still answer to the state.
Founder of Russia's largest crypto mining operation transferred to a detention center
Stanford University MBA graduate Igor Runets faces tax evasion and fraud charges in Russia.
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