💬 Quoted…​​ “like so many other of my hacks this story starts with me being bored."

The US no-fly list was leaked late last week by a Swiss hacker known as "maia arson crimew," who discovered a copy from 2019 on a server run by US regional airline CommuteAir. 

• This version of the list contains more than 1.5 million names and birth dates of people unable to fly in the US due to suspected or known ties to terrorism, including notable figures like recently freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout and 16 of his potential aliases.

🏘️📉 Number of the Day: 5.03 million = the number of previously occupied homes sold in 2022, per new data from the National Association of Realtors; that figure marks the US housing market's slowest year since 2014, and biggest annual decline since 2008 (-17%).

🤯 Did You Know?... French toast was first invented in Ancient Rome, centuries before France ever existed.

📖 Worth a Read: NASA’s Mars Helicopter Opens the Door for Flight on Other Worlds → (WSJ)