‘…Passing on the plane-crash candidate doesn’t mean ignoring the dangers of his rival…’

Source: NYTimes.com

‘…When did clowns become scary? It turns out that even asking that question is evidence of a short cultural memory. Dark clowns go back centuries before Stephen King. As Benjamin Radford, author of the recent book “Bad Clowns,” points out, “It’s misleading to ask when clowns turned bad, for they were never really good.” …’

Source: NYTimes

‘In theory, a sufficiently powerful energy event could push a tiny region of the universe into a true vacuum state. This would kickstart a domino effect, spawning a bubble of existential despair that could spread outwards at the speed of light and destroy the entire universe in the process…’

Source: Gizmodo

‘Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determine exactly how well these companies can defend themselves, and what would be required to take them down. We don’t know who is doing this, but it feels like a large nation state. China or Russia would be my first guesses…’

Source: Schneier on Security