Wally McKenzie

Ukrainian Armed Forces units carried out one of the boldest and smartest operations in recent times. Our fighters quickly captured two enemy armored columns, including modern T-72B3 and T-90M tanks. Instead of simply blowing them up, Ukrainian crews climbed inside and launched a deep raid behind enemy lines. Using Russian vehicles with Ukrainian crews inside, our soldiers broke straight into the headquarters of one of the Russian military groupings. At first, the Russians did not even understand what was happening — they thought it was one of their own columns. And by the time they realized the truth, it was already too late. The headquarters was completely overrun. The command of the grouping was either eliminated or taken prisoner. Documents, communications equipment, maps, and offensive plans all fell into Ukrainian hands.

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Have to admire people who can find humor in the periodic table

Universes. Cosmology. Curvature. Einstein and Beyond. Here is a page from the seemingly infinite notebook of Yuri Kovalenok, @jurijkovalenok1 -- a physics teacher who, through the years, jotted down his many thoughts and sketches for us to ponder. Artwork used with permission.

Amazing stats in WSJ article on prediction markets. wsj.com/finance/invest…

A WSJ analysis found 67% of Polymarket profits goes to just 0.1% of accounts, while most traders are in the red. Most Kalshi users also lose money. on.wsj.com/4td9UPy

A plane with a banner that says, “Fire Craig! Sell the team!” is flying over Fenway Park

People don't realize how absurd this view actually is. A camera. On a robot. On Mars. Built by humans on a planet 140 million miles away, launched on a rocket, landed using a sky crane, and now driving across an alien desert taking pictures so detailed you can count the rocks. 100 years ago, your great-grandparents thought airplanes were a miracle. You are scrolling past Mars on your phone.

I was there, still have ticket stub. Only 13,400 fans there. Great game. Seattle Mariners vs Boston Red Sox Box Score: April 29, 1986 | Baseball-Reference.com

Yesterday, I spoke with the CEO of a mega fleet, who said most of his truckload business was doing well, except for one segment: food & beverage. He called the lack of volume from this segment "unusual." I told him we believed GLP-1s were causing a significant slowdown in food and beverage shipments, as we had just completed a market study on GLP-1's impact on freight shipments. Our study, now published in a SONAR Sitrep, available online, estimates that 851k truckloads have been removed from the market due to GLP-1s, and this number could ramp to 1.95m by 2030. Not only are Americans getting skinnier. Their truckloads are as well.

Apple's newest patent turns your AirPods into an EEG device that also reads muscle movement, eye movement, and heart rate. Neuralink has performed four human brain implants. Apple has hundreds of millions of AirPods in active use. Steven Hotelling is on the inventor list for patent US20230225659A1. He's the engineer who productized multi-touch for the original iPhone. Apple puts Hotelling on things it plans to ship. The design packs 17 electrodes around a single ear tip. Ear-EEG has existed in academic research since 2011, and startups like NextSense (spun out of Alphabet X), Neurable, and IDUN already ship consumer ear-EEG products today. Apple's innovation is dynamic electrode selection. Here's the constraint that killed ear-EEG as a consumer product for 15 years. Every human ear canal is shaped differently. A fixed electrode placement that reads clean EEG from one person reads noise from the next. Your own ear canal changes shape across a day based on temperature, jaw position, and how the bud seated when you put it in. Every prior ear-EEG product required either custom molds or tolerance for garbage data. Apple's patent uses more electrodes than are ever needed simultaneously and runs an AI model that scores each one in real time on impedance, noise level, and skin contact quality. It picks the best subset for this person, in this ear, right now. Reference and active electrodes get reassigned on the fly. A weighted algorithm combines the surviving signals into one optimized waveform. Competitors tried to solve this with better electrodes. Apple solved it with redundancy and silicon. The roadmap is already visible. AirPods Pro 3 shipped a photoplethysmograph in the ear tip for heart rate. In November 2025, Apple Research published PARS, a self-supervised model that learns EEG patterns from unlabeled data and sidesteps the regulatory bottleneck of annotated clinical datasets. The PPG sensor is the dress rehearsal. The EEG sensor is the feature. Sleep staging. Seizure detection. Stress classification. Focus state. The clinical applications get through the FDA. The interface applications change computing. Neuralink needs a surgeon. Apple needs a firmware update.

Anthropic said Mythos was too dangerous to release. Then four random guys in a Discord gained access on day one by guessing the URL... This is pretty insane: → Group in a private Discord guessed the endpoint from Anthropic's naming conventions → They figured out the conventions from the leak in the Mercor breach three weeks ago → Used a contractor's legit eval credentials to walk in → Have been using it ever since to build simple websites The AI that finds zero-days in every operating system on earth was defeated by address bar autocomplete... big yikes

Italy is that country where, when you dig to replace the gas pipes, you find a mosaic from the IV century. Happened in Montorio, Verona.

A master chef transform simple ingredients into an elaborate dessert.

White smoke seen from Apple Park to signify a new CEO

@ColliePip The day will come when the memory of the loved one you lost will bring a smile before a tear in your eye...and that's when you know you're going to be okay

Thank you. You have no idea how much comfort it brings me to know you all loved Pippin too 😢🐾💔

Long term follow up of a phase 1 trial of an mRNA tumor vaccine shows that 7/8 patients with pancreatic cancer, who mounted an immune response to the vaccine, are still alive 6 years later. This is breathtaking data and shows the promise of mRNA vaccines. nbcnews.com/health/cancer/…

Tonight is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. If he were to make the same journey from Boston to Lexington today, he could stop at 7 Dunkin locations. (via Reddit)