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W3C Developers📢 @w3c Breakouts Day 2026!
🗓️ Join us tomorrow - 25 March 2026, 13:00–14:00 UTC
The #ActivityPub specification defines a social API and a federation protocol. Mastodon and compatible platforms implement the latter but not the former.
Join @evan's session to discuss the social #API, its value in the distributed social ecosystem, and the efforts to revive its use.
▶️ https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/fd048dc6-4486-4e21-a639-545523e4ca60/
Alexander KarnFor me, the most objectionable part of this is the monarchical PRONOUNCEMENT of historical truth and the attempt to short-circuit debate and dialogue. This is an authoritarian approach to knowledge that flies in the face of democratic principles.
When history and historical actors are put into a frozen pose and nothing new can be introduced to deepen our understanding of the past, that’s when you know that you’re in the grip of an oppressive regime.
Josh Grossman (tghosthđź‘») 
Be the first to attend my new training course at @owasp Global AppSec Vienna!
"Repeatable, Scalable and Valuable Code Security Scanning" is a deep dive into the newest ways to validate code security with a strong emphasis on AI acceleration.
Register:
https://owaspglobalappseceuvienna20.sched.com/event/2EB8l
BSidesCharmWe would like to send out a big THANK YOU to a returning sponsor - Black Hills information Security - #BSidesCharm 2026 Gold sponsor!
Chuck DarwinIn the six days that followed the US and Israel’s joint attack on Iran on 28 February,
$11.3 billion was spent on American taxpayer-funded bombs that hit the country and caused hundreds of deaths,
the Pentagon has told lawmakers.
This figure does not capture the full cost of the conflict,
such as deployment of forces,
and will now be far higher given the ongoing nature of the war.
But even the limited snapshot of the financial cost of the war has underscored the enormous disparity between the amount spent by the US on its military compared with the budgets of agencies tasked to keep Americans’ air clean, help find new cures for cancer and devise new scientific innovations.
The cost of the first week of the Iran war would be more than enough to fully fund the Environmental Protection Agency this year (at $8.8bn),
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ($9.2bn)
or the National Cancer Institute ($7.4bn).
The $11.3bn is also more than the total amount allocated this year for federal scientific research funding, via the National Science Foundation.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/us-spending-iran-war-priorities?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Roger A. GrimesThe best article on Google's push to Merkle tree certificates for post-quantum handling I've seen. I was going to write an article on this, but this one is better than what I would have written. If you don't know what's going on in the PKI world, how Google is upending traditional PKI certificate handling in the post-quantum world, or what Merkle tree certificate is, this is the article to read.
https://postquantum.com/security-pqc/googles-merkle-tree-mtc-https/
Google’s Merkle Tree (MTC) Gambit to Quantum-Proof HTTPS
Google will not put post-quantum signatures into traditional X.509 certificates for Chrome. Instead, the company announced in February 2026 a fundamentally different architecture - Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) - that shrinks quantum-resistant TLS authentication data from roughly 14,700 bytes down to as little as 736 bytes, making post-quantum HTTPS potentially smaller than today's classical certificate chains. The approach, developed jointly with Cloudflare and now being standardized through the IETF's newly formed PLANTS working group, integrates Certificate Transparency directly into the issuance process, replaces per-certificate signatures with compact hash-based inclusion proofs, and proposes an entirely new Chrome Quantum-resistant Root Store (CQRS)
The Zeek Network Security MonitorRE: https://infosec.exchange/@zeek/116178696196522235
Zeek 8.2 development is underway and our team is actively seeking community feedback before the road to 9.0 continues.
Give us a shout! February newsletter has the details:
BSides312Meet the humans behind #BSides312: Mike “Shecky” Kavka (Director) 🚆đźŽđź›ˇď¸Ź
Shecky’s been behind the scenes for years herding the coolest cats + cultivating the welcoming vibes BSides312 is known for.
Senior Security Engineer by day. Volunteer: BSides312, Blue Team Con, Hak4Kidz. BurbSec regular, BHIS “Talkin’ About [infosec] News” panelist. Legend.
⚠️ FOMO: tickets will run out—grab yours today!
âś… https://bsides312.org/
đź“… May 16, 2026
🎤 CFP closes Feb 28, 2026
As always, we will be offering several training classes this year - more details and sign-up instructions will be released in mid-March - you will need a ticket first
