Motorola Announces a Partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation
March 1st, 2026This is mildly good news. It would be excellent news if baseband firmware is also going to be open source, but I doubt that will happen.
Via: Motorola:
Motorola, a Lenovo Company, announced the addition of new consumer and enterprise solutions to its portfolio today at Mobile World Congress. The company unveiled a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation, to bring cutting-edge security to everyday users across the globe. In addition, Motorola introduced a new Moto Secure feature and Moto Analytics, to expand Motorola’s B2B ecosystem with advanced security and deeper operational insights for organizations across industries. These announcements reinforce Motorola’s commitment to delivering intelligent, and highly capable technology with enhanced security for customers worldwide.
Motorola is introducing a new era of smartphone security through a long?term partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation, the leading nonprofit in advanced mobile security and creators of a hardened, operating system based on the Android Open Source Project. Together, Motorola and the GrapheneOS Foundation will work to strengthen smartphone security and collaborate on future devices engineered with GrapheneOS compatibility.
Just One in Four Americans Supports U.S. Strikes on Iran
March 1st, 2026Perhaps Americans need a reminder of why they need to fight for Israel:
The FBI has issued a chilling warning to Americans as fears grow Iran will strike the US through its terrorist proxies.
FBI counterterrorism and counterintelligence teams are on elevated alert across the country, according to an agency official.
Terrorism fears are surging in the wake of Donald Trump’s military strikes on Iran, as reports circulate that the Islamic regime’s supreme leader was killed.
Iran uses a network of proxy militant groups around the globe to carry out violent attacks against Western countries.
The FBI did not say how long the terror alert will remain in effect. Meanwhile, Kristi Noem said Homeland Security is ‘in direct coordination with our federal intelligence and law enforcement partners as we continue to closely monitor and thwart any potential threats to the homeland.’
Via: Reuters:
Only one in four Americans approves of the U.S. strikes that killed Iran’s leader, while about half — including one in four Republicans — believe President Donald Trump is too willing to use military force, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Sunday.
Some 27% of respondents said they approved of the strikes, while 43% disapproved and 29% were not sure.
Who Domesticated Humans?
March 1st, 2026Via: The 5th Kind:
Lab-Grown Brains Growing More Powerful
March 1st, 2026Via: Futurism:
In a remarkable breakthrough published in the journal Cell Reports, researchers were able to effectively coach lab-grown brains into solving the “cart-pole” problem. The cart-pole problem is an engineering benchmark used in robotics, artificial intelligence — and now cognitive science — to measure how effective systems are at processing information.
The test basically involves balancing a broomstick upright on your palm. Gravity forces you to constantly adjust your position — move too much or not enough, and the broom falls. Every human needs to solve this problem in order to stand and walk upright. Luckily for us, we have our animal instincts (and more importantly, our inner ears) to guide us through; brain organoids have no such advantage.
Yet by coaxing their mini-brains with electrical signals guided by a reinforcement learning algorithm, the UCSC researchers were able to “coach” the organoids from a cart-pole “win” rate of just 4.5 percent to a whopping 46 percent.
“You could think of it like an artificial coach that says, ‘you’re doing it wrong, tweak it a little bit in this way,’” Ash Robbins, the study’s lead author said in a press release. “We’re learning how to best give it these coaching signals.”
In essence, their success proves that brain organoids are capable of goal-directed learning, similar to the kind of trial-and-error a toddler goes through as they learn to walk.
Related: A Petri Dish Of Human Brain Neurons Just Learned How To Play Doom
Why The World Is Suddenly Running Out Of RAM
February 28th, 2026Via: Cold Fusion:
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Has Been Killed
February 28th, 2026Via: The War Zone:
U.S. President Donald Trump says that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed. Khamenei was among a number of senior Iranian officials targeted in the initial wave of U.S.-Israeli strikes earlier today.
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“Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead. This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei and his gang of bloodthirsty THUGS,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social social media network. “He was unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems and, working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been killed along with him, could do.”
IRAN UNDER ATTACK FROM U.S. AND ISRAEL
February 28th, 2026Live Coverage
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Via: The War Zone:
The U.S. and Israel have began a major military operation that is aimed directly at the regime, its nuclear ambitions and its ability to wage war in the future.
Epstein and the Hijacking of Bitcoin
February 27th, 2026Via: Brownstone Institute:
The original vision for Bitcoin was simple: peer-to-peer digital cash, free from banks and government. However, the document argues that this vision was deliberately “hijacked,” as Bitcoin is now pushed as “digital gold,” a scarce asset for Wall Street, with slow and expensive transactions for everyday use.
This shift began with the 2015-2017 Block Size Fight, where a group won the argument to keep transaction blocks small, making the main network costly. The promoted “fix,” the Lightning Network, is a faster system but relies on middlemen (hubs), fundamentally changing it from true P2P cash.
The funding for this change is linked to Jeffrey Epstein. After the Bitcoin Foundation collapsed, his money flowed through MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) to pay the core developers who favored the small-block path. Epstein also invested in Blockstream, a company started by those same developers.
More: How Epstein Hijacked Bitcoin with Aaron Day
Bohemian Grove Attendance List from 2023 Summer Encampment
February 27th, 2026Via: Dan Boguslaw:
U.S. Establishes Task Force to Employ One-Way-Attack Drones in Middle East
February 27th, 2026Via: The Aviationist:
The U.S. military will employ Shahed-like One-Way-Attack (OWA) drones in the Middle East with the establishment of a new task force. On Dec. 3, 2025, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) launched Task Force Scorpion Strike (TFSS), which will oversee the U.S. military’s first OWA drone squadron.
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The unnamed squadron assigned to TFSS, which will operate the Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones, is currently based in the Middle East at an undisclosed location. CENTCOM says the drones have an extensive range and are designed to operate autonomously.
The command further adds they can be launched with different mechanisms to include catapults, rocket-assisted takeoff, and mobile ground and vehicle systems. This capability removes the dependency on runways normally associated to unmanned aircraft like the MQ-9 Reaper.
