From Victorian voyages to vanishing maps: Books in brief
• Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X The Wake of HMSChallenger Gillen D’Arcy WoodPrinceton Univ. • Press(2025) Similar to the global voyage of naturalist Charles Dar
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CFTC claims exclusive federal authority over prediction markets in new brief, clashing with states
• The filing marks the latest move by the agency to assert federal jurisdiction over fast-growing prediction markets like Kalshi & Polymarket.
A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks
• Professor Lori Emerson looks at the history of of barbed wire fence telephone networks used in the US and Canada. • …the history of using barbed wire to communicate is surprisi
Threat Brief: MongoDB Vulnerability (CVE-2025-14847)
• Executive Summary On Dec. • 19, 2025, MongoDB publicly disclosed MongoBleed, a security vulnerability (CVE-2025-14847) that allows unauthenticated attackers to leak sensitive hea