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Submission + - Sniffing your own farts could boost brain power, fend off Alzheimer's: new study (nypost.com)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have found that hydrogen sulfide — the rotten egg-smelling chemical compound expelled when one breaks wind — could protect aging brain cells from cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s, which is diagnosed in roughly 500,000 new patients each year in the US.

Previous research has shown that female flatulence actually has a “significantly higher concentration” of hydrogen sulfide than farts from men — meaning women’s gas tends to have “greater odor intensity” than men’s.

Submission + - Scientology ransomware data breach

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Qilin ransomware claims Scientology data breach, leaks internal documents

“The Church of Scientology has been listed on the dark web leak site of the Qilin ransomware group, which claims responsibility for a data breach and has published 22 screenshots as proof of access. The group has not disclosed the amount of data allegedly stolen or the method of the breach, according to a recent report by HackRead.”

Submission + - US To Mandate AI Vendors Measure Political Bias For Federal Sales (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. government will require artificial intelligence vendors to measure political "bias" to sell their chatbots to federal agencies, according to a Trump administration statement (PDF) released on Thursday. The requirement will apply to all large language models bought by federal agencies, with the exception of national security systems, according to the statement.

President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies in July to avoid buying large language models that he labeled as "woke." Thursday's statement gives more detail to that directive, saying that developers should not "intentionally encode partisan or ideological judgments" into a chatbot's outputs.

Submission + - Startup discovers hidden abundant, clean energy and did it in an unusual way (cnn.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: It’s a “classic needle in the haystack problem,” said Joel Edwards, co-founder and CTO of Zanskar. “There’s no one type of data that tells you that a system is below you, even if you’re right on top of it.” Instead, there are multiple indicators which are really hard for humans to put together to figure out if a system exists.

That’s where AI comes in.

The AI models Zanskar uses are fed information on where blind systems already exist. This data is plentiful as, over the last century and more, humans have accidentally stumbled on many around the world while drilling for other resources such as oil and gas.

The models then scour huge amounts of data — everything from rock composition to magnetic fields — to find patterns that point to the existence of geothermal reserves. AI models have “gotten really good over the last 10 years at being able to pull those types of signals out of noise,” Hoiland said.

Once a potential location has been found, the next step for the company is to drill down to confirm the reserve exists and is hot enough to produce utility-scale power.

That’s exactly what they did at Big Blind over the summer, drilling wells to depths of around 2,700 feet where they found porous rock at 250 degrees Fahrenheit. They know the site is at least the minimum size needed to support a power plant, but don’t yet have a sense of how big it could be.

There is also work to be done to navigate permitting processes and grid interconnection, but the company estimates the first electricity could be produced here in three to five years’ time.

Submission + - Germany covers nearly 56 percent of 2025 electricity use with renewables (cleanenergywire.org)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Renewable energy sources covered nearly 56 percent of Germany’s gross electricity consumption in 2025, according to preliminary figures by energy industry group BDEW and research institute ZSW. Despite a “historically weak” first quarter of the year for wind power production and a significant drop in hydropower output, the share of renewables grew by 0.7 percentage points compared to the previous year thanks to an increase in installed solar power capacity.

Solar power output increased by 18.7 percent over the whole year, while the strong growth in installed capacity from previous years could be sustained, with more than 17 gigawatts (GW) added to the system. With March being the least windy month in Germany since records began in 1950, wind power output, on the other hand, faced a drop of 5.2 percent compared to 2024.

Submission + - Ask HN: Has Bank of America been hacked? 1

Submitted by TempestRose
TempestRose writes: Tried to log in to Bank of America login today, both mobile on Android and web, and get asked for:
ACCOUNT # ?
SS#
PIN

WTH?
I've recieved physical mail letters saying
"WE will NEVER ask you for Account, SSN, or PIN"
, and yet here we are.

Obviously, I have used a login and password for BoA for years.
I do not remember the last time I logged in, but I'm sure it was in November 2025

I'd REALLY like to hear from the general HN populace on this, please.

Submission + - TerraUSD Creator Do Kwon Sentenced To 15 Years Over $40 Billion Crypto Collapse

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, was sentenced in New York federal court on Thursday to 15 years in prison for fraud and conspiracy. Kwon, 34, who co-founded Singapore-based Terraform Labs and developed the TerraUSD and Luna currencies, previously pleaded guilty and admitted to misleading investors about a coin that was supposed to maintain a steady price during periods of crypto market volatility.

Kwon was one of several cryptocurrency moguls to face federal charges after a slump in digital token prices in 2022 prompted the collapse of a number of companies. [...] Kwon was accused of misleading investors in 2021 about TerraUSD, a so-called stablecoin designed to maintain a value of $1. Prosecutors alleged that when TerraUSD slipped below its $1 peg in May 2021, Kwon told investors a computer algorithm known as "Terra Protocol" had restored the coin's value. Instead, Kwon arranged for a high-frequency trading firm to secretly buy millions of dollars of the token to artificially prop up its price, according to charging documents.

Comment Size (Score 4, Insightful) 199

by JBMcB (#65851297) Attached to: Why Switzerland Is Weighing a 10 Million Population Limit
Ever been to Switzerland? It's small. It's roughly the size of New Jersey. Most of it is mountains. They farm and raise livestock on their slopes as there is literally nowhere else to put them. There isn't a whole lot of space for cities, which is why living in one is incredibly expensive there.

So, yeah, putting a hard limit on immigration makes a lot of sense. There are lots of other places to live in Europe. Finland has nothing but room.

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