California's Fair Investment Practices by Venture Capital Companies (FIPVCC) law takes effect March 1, 2026, requiring venture capital firms with California nexus to register with DFPI and file annual demographic reports on their portfolio company founders, collecting data on gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability status, LGBTQ+ status, and veteran status.
A foreign hacker breached an FBI New York field office server in February 2023 containing files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation after a special agent left it vulnerable. The hacker was apparently unaware they accessed law enforcement systems and was convinced to stand down via video chat where FBI agents displayed credentials.
A technical deep dive into optimizing sandpile identity computation, presenting analysis of the Difference and Iterated Burning methods and applying linear algebra (Reduced Laplacian matrices) to understand sandpiles as an abelian group structure, enabling computation of 16384×16384 sandpiles in ~1 hour.