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Letter To The Editor: Remembrance During Kite Festival

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By ADELAIDE JACOBSON
White Rock

The children and adults of Los Alamos will be celebrating our 30th annual Kite Festival this weekend. The following is a poem written by Refaat Alareer (1979-2023), an acclaimed Palestinian professor and poet who, in a targeted killing by the Israeli military, was killed in December 2023, along with his brother, sister, and four nephews.

IF I MUST DIE

If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who Read More

Catch Of The Week: Roblox Cheat Codes Lead To Breach

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Fun new game: guess which link in a chain of events caused a major cloud platform breach this week.

A. Was it a sophisticated zero-day?
B. A nation-state attack on critical infrastructure?
C. A hard-to-detect supply chain implant buried in open source code?

Nope. Someone at a small AI startup was looking for Roblox cheats. Yikes!

Not even joking here! Researchers at Hudson Rock traced the Vercel breach that came to light this weekend all the way back to February, when an employee at Context.ai downloaded Lumma Stealer malware while Read More

FBI: Felon Charged In Alleged Plot To Help Inmate Escape

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Screenshots of Crisantos ‘Ventex’ Garcia taken from a music video titled ‘Streets’. Courtesy/FBI

FBI News:

ALBUQUERQUE — An Albuquerque man has been charged with federal drug trafficking and firearms offenses following an FBI investigation into an alleged plan to arm an inmate for an escape from custody.

According to court documents, on Feb. 13, 2025, law enforcement agents executed search warrants at three residences in northwest Albuquerque associated with Crisantos “Ventex” Garcia, 34, a suspected West Side Locos gang member and convicted felon. Garcia allegedly attempted to flee Read More

Los Alamos Tennis Advances To Finals Week In District Tournament, JV Tennis Wins In Albuquerque

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Group Champion Los Alamos boys team in Taos, left to right, Coach Timur Khazratkulov, Zachary Gibson,
Cullen McLean, Mike Witkowski, Luke Gibson, Aditya Viswanathan, Logan Swickley, Levi Gibson, Coach
Travis Gibson. Courtesy/LAPS

SPORTS News:

The Los Alamos High School tennis team advanced to the finals round of the district tournament this weekend with the boys finishing first and girls second in the group stage. The Los Alamos boys’ team won every match over the weekend with 9-0 wins over both Espanola Valley HS and Taos HS without dropping a set. The Los Alamos girls team beat Taos Read More

Letter To The Editor: Vote The Moat

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By GORBIN LARS
Los Alamos

In 1978 HB25 was introduced on the floor of the New Mexico House of Representatives. The objective of the legislation was to build a moat around New Mexico to “keep them friggen Texans out.” The bill was revenue neutral as funding for the moat construction was to come through confiscation of all Texan ski equipment found in the state.

The bill of course was a joke. It was introduced during the YMCA model legislative session that year. While it was introduced in jest, it illuminated a fascinating and very real difference in perspective depending on where people lived in NM. Read More

Wildlife Law Violation Checkpoints Begin Throughout State

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NMDGF News: 

SANTA FE — The Department of Wildlife is conducting checkpoints throughout the state this hunting and fishing season to collect biological data and to detect wildlife law violations.

As a result, the public may encounter minor delays. Department officers may be assisted by other law enforcement agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Police or county sheriff’s offices.

Please report any wildlife crime or suspected crime that you may observe while enjoying New Mexico’s great outdoors. To report a wildlife crime, please Read More

House Speaker Javier Martinez: Haaland The Best Choice To Support Our Kids, Build A Bright Future For New Mexico

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Gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland

From the campaign of Deb Haaland:

ALBUQUERQUE — Speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives Javier Martinez announced his endorsement of Deb Haaland in the race for governor. 

“New Mexico is rebuilding the village it takes to raise a child with every dollar we invest and every policy we pass. We’ve made life better and more affordable for working families across the state by lowering costs, improving access to healthcare and housing, and launching a first-of-its-kind universal childcare program,” Speaker Martínez said. “Right now, as federal Read More