NY Post: Gun thug busted for peddling stolen Glock to Old Dominion killer for measly $100 profit: feds

Gun thug busted for peddling stolen Glock to Old Dominion killer for measly $100 profit: feds
By Ben Kochman, Published March 13, 2026, 6:41 p.m. ET

A Virginia man was busted Friday for swiping a gun from a car and peddling it for a measly $100 profit to Mohamed Jalloh — who then used it in the Old Dominion University terror shooting, authorities said.

And this is one (of many) reasons why gun-control laws don't work. This murderer didn't buy his gun from a licensed firearms dealer. He bought a stolen gun on the black market which, by definition, is not going to obey any laws.

Gun control laws prevent law-abiding citizens (including, possibly the instructor and students in the ROTC class where the shooting occurred) from having the means to shoot back. Fortunately, some of the students had the ability to defend themselves with bare hands and a knife, preventing this from turning into a mass-killing, but it shouldn't have had to come to that.

CrowdStrike Research: Security Flaws in DeepSeek-Generated Code Linked to Political Triggers

CrowdStrike Research: Security Flaws in DeepSeek-Generated Code Linked to Political Triggers
November 20, 2025 | Stefan Stein

CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations identifies innocuous trigger words that lead DeepSeek to produce more vulnerable code.
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In January 2025, China-based AI startup DeepSeek (深度求索) released DeepSeek-R1, a high-quality large language model (LLM) that allegedly cost much less to develop and operate than Western competitors’ alternatives.

CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations conducted independent tests on DeepSeek-R1 and confirmed that in many cases, it could provide coding output of quality comparable to other market-leading LLMs of the time. However, we found that when DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts containing topics the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) likely considers politically sensitive, the likelihood of it producing code with severe security vulnerabilities increases by up to 50%.

This comes as absolutely no surprise to me.

This should be a lesson to all of us. AIs are not people. Their "intelligence", however you define the term, is a function of the data it was trained on. If you train it with corrupt and biased data, you will get corrupt and biased results.

Models from nation states that believe in using any and all means to take advantage of and corrupt (if not open wage war on) the rest of the world should not be trusted. It should be assumed that those models will generate output in support of their creators' national goals, just as if you had hired a government agent from that nation to do the work.

MacRumors: Apple Announces Plans to Begin Assembling Mac Mini in U.S. This Year

Apple Announces Plans to Begin Assembling Mac Mini in U.S. This Year
Monday February 23, 2026 7:44 pm PST by Joe Rossignol

Apple has announced that Foxconn will begin assembling some Mac mini computers at a factory in Houston, Texas later this year.

Great news. And, IMO, a decision influenced greatly by current US trade policies (in addition to China's abusive policies).

IEEE Spectrum: This $5,200 Conductive Suit Could Make Power-Line Work Safer

This $5,200 Conductive Suit Could Make Power-Line Work Safer
By Peter Fairley 13 Jan 2026

In 2018, Justin Kropp was working on a transmission circuit in Southern California when disaster struck. Grid operators had earlier shut down the 115-kilovolt circuit, but six high-voltage lines that shared the corridor were still operating, and some of their power snuck onto the deenergized wires he was working on. That rogue current shot to the ground through Kropp’s body and his elevated work platform, killing the 32-year-old father of two.
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Justin’s accident was caused by induction: a hazard that occurs when an electric or magnetic field causes current to flow through equipment whose intended power supply has been cut off. Safety practices seek to prevent such induction shocks by grounding all conductive objects in a work zone, giving electricity alternative paths. But accidents happen. In Justin’s case, his platform unexpectedly swung into the line before it could be grounded.

Adding a layer of defense against induction injuries is the motivation behind Budapest-based Electrostatics’ specialized conductive jumpsuits, which are designed to protect against burns, cardiac fibrillation, and other ills. “If my boy had been wearing one, I know he’d be alive today,” says the elder Kropp, who purchased a line-worker safety training business after Justin’s death. The Mesa, Ariz.–based company, Electrical Safety Consulting International (ESCI), now distributes those suits.

Here's hoping this product can usher in a new era of safety for linemen.