Thursday, September 24, 2026
ArchiveStarlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack
Someone torched the ground station south of Warsaw that helps carry Starlink traffic into Ukraine. Poland's deputy PM says the modus operandi is 'clearly Russian,' one more front in a hybrid war.
There's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen before
Forging an RSA signature was supposed to require factoring the key first. This attack skips that step and beat 1024-bit keys in months on a university cluster. Modern keys are safe; the old assumption isn't.
How the Smithsonian Became the Latest Front in Trump’s Culture War
It starts with a 2021 exhibit suggesting Benjamin Franklin may have used enslaved people in his electrical experiments, one of the details a 162-page White House report cited to allege 'ideological capture.'
Before the Hindenburg there was R101 – Britain’s ill-fated airship
An engineering professor takes apart the airship Britain designed to fly a scheduled route to India, and the 1930 crash that ended the country's airship dream seven years before the Hindenburg.
Why is the human body so crap except for the liver?
Give away half your liver and it regrows in months; kidneys and gums just quietly quit. A cheerful, well-sourced case that most of the body may be fragile on purpose.