Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Survived Extinction Events
Science news:
Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced genomes alongside global datasets. The research reveals that these bizarre, intelligent creatures likely originated deep in the ocean over 100 million years ago, surviving mass extinction events by retreating into oxygen-rich deep-sea refuges. For millions of years, their evolution barely changed—until a dramatic post-extinction boom sparked rapid diversification as they moved into new shallow-water habitats.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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Jan van Prooijen • April 24, 2026 5:44 PM
In a news show on French radio this morning the following story:
On Polymarket there was a bet if the temperature in Paris would be above 20˚C on a specific day a week ago. On that day the registered temperature at the airport of Paris raise from 15˚ to 21˚ within a couple of seconds.
They didn’t know how they did it. So it could be a digital or a physical hack.
So you can make money too.