Cool acrobatics aside, I want a robot that can do my laundry. I don't even mind the washing part (I can understand reluctance to get wet) - I want a robot that can iron, fold or hang, and put away my clean clothes, towels, linens, etc. That's actually a pretty tall order, what with recognizing how to untangle and lay flat a complex, multi-color shape, not burn or rip a delicate fabric, applying packing theory with flexible, compressible shapes, and more. Screw a better mousetrap - the world will reward the first person to make an automatic closet: Throw your clothes at it when going to bed, and they're washed, dried, and stored by morning, quietly.

This guy better be in a non-extraditing country. He's quickly made many enemies, some of whom are rich.

This doesn't make sense to me. I use firefox under a few flavors of linux, including right now. All of them have adblock+, privacy badger, and ublock origin. I have no problem with cloudflare at all. I used to when I lived in Brazil, but that was years ago and a different problem. Do you actually update firefox? I suspect its just javascript. Have you tried noscript?

It's a shame that I had to read & scroll this far down to get to the easy technical solution. I use firefox under linux mint, running adblock+, ublock origin, and privacy badger extensions. Youtube has never even mentioned my adblockers, and I watch at least a few videos every day. Slashdot has lost its technical insight.

I use firefox under linux mint. I run adblock+, ublock origin, and privacy badger. Youtube has never even mentioned my adblockers, and I watch at least a few videos every day.

This is a targeted attack. Its pretty hard to troll a "mercenary group" hard enough to get them to target a fake persona with this level of spyware. This phone is an already known target, they can watch it happening.

Stick your phone in a foil bag, get your data off it with USB, then sell it to a security research firm. They'd love to have a good honeypot for this.

Why did this guy do it in the first place? And then why continue to double down on such a flimsy base? I'd like to say I read the article, but ...wait a minute, the "summary" pretty much WAS the article, just no reason given.

They should have measured how much data each site uploads.

I did Pick support in the late '80s. Was seriously impressed when I saw an office with 6 terminals, 4 printers, 2 modems, and a tape unit, all running concurrently, with no lag. On a 286. Pick is awesome not only for speed but also how simple it is to program. The logical structure is far easier to understand than the endless tables of most databases. So yeah, I too love PICK.

Maybe this was an attempt to make the building resistant to remote eavesdropping but it went sideways. They'd never admit to it if that were the case.

I use my TVs for many hours, every day. As a monitor, while I sit 6 feet away on my couch with a wireless mouse and keyboard. The rare "show" from the media you assumed is in a window while I concentrate on other things, much like music in the background doesn't require focused attention to be appreciated. Most of those shows are science documentaries, so at least a bit less misinformation and spin than in general drivel. So TVs can serve a good purpose without being a complete idiot box.

This is so not true that you have it backwards. Current versions of Linux support far more hardware than Win 11 does. The only devices windows 11 supports that most Linuxes don't are the bleeding edge newest on the market. Medical devices may be an exception...

They do a bunch of hand waving misdirection without really explaining what's going on. I suspect they'd rather not postulate yet.

Allow me to armchair amateur an explanation: At these scales, everything is in motion, mostly random but with some currents (river or stream-like, not electrical). In water, the aqueous solution part, there are relatively free electrons hanging around in the mildly ionic solvent. With alcohols, the molecules have a relatively positive localized spot, more concentrated than the diffused negative charge from their electrons. Moving charges make magnetic fields. moving charges also tend to spiral around magnetic lines, reinforcing the local magnetic field. So a stronger charge in motion may set off an entire cluster of magnetic lines that then cause lesser charges to spiral around them, extending the effect further than expected. The particles are traveling away or towards the initiating charge according to the direction of the magnetic field lines.

Mind you, that was all talking out my a$$, but it doesn't smell too bad on a re-read.

Hellstrom's Hive by Frank Herbert (author of Dune and many other excellent books) is a portrayal of a human society based on insect behavior. First published in the 1970s. I think it would make a fantastic horror movie. Its full of controversial stuff, like applied eugenics and behavior modification with pheromones and hormones. There's even a scene where the hive members take off the limbs and head of a woman but keep her torso alive for breeding. Side note: Just like Clark predicted comm satellites in his stories, Herbert predicted using a laser through a window as a discrete, remote microphone for surreptitious listening in this story.