Comment Re:IPO for billions, sells for millions later. (Score 1) 28
What about Micron?
It's just like the gold rush. The profits were made by those selling equipment and supplies, not those panning for gold.
Comment Barry (Score 3, Funny) 140
Obligatory Barry clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"My Bluetooth isn't paring with the device I'm trying to denotate..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"My Bluetooth isn't paring with the device I'm trying to denotate..."
Submission + - Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing (science.org) 1
schwit1 writes: By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases
Comment LOL!! (Score 1) 6
Ha ha, you used "Trumpism" and "understanding" in the same sentence, absolutely hilarious!
Welcome to "Identity Fusion" - aka "Sports team" mode
To grasp what has happened, you just have to realize that some political supporters have gone into "Sports Teams" mode. They have turned politics into an Identity Fusion issue. Basically, they have stopped thinking about the representative government as a functional group of public servants. They are thinking about it as if it's their "team" and everything political has become "us versus them."
Some characteristics of a team fanatic:
Once you realize this is what's happening, the common attributes are there to see:
-- Wearing identifying clothing (hats, badges, colors, logos, slogans) in everyday life.
-- Loyalty regardless of performance or behavior of their "team."
-- Instant disrespect for any member of the opposing team based solely on team affiliation.
-- Hatred of any perceived disloyalty from fellow team fans.
-- Having rallies and parades even when there is no pending game with the primary goal to celebrate and reinforce being loyal.
-- At gatherings, fans chant slogans and/or sing.
-- Team players (not fans, but players) are 100% supported unless they leave the team. Then they are ostracized and demonized even though they are basically the same person.
Comment Me so so shocked! (Score 2) 32
"In some cases, the lawsuit claims that customers were paying more for the exact same items through the Subscribe & Save program than they would be if they bought the items from other sellers on the site."
Amazon did something calculatedly underhanded? UNPOSSIBLE!!
Submission + - Lag Baiting is now a thing
Mirnotoriety writes: Lag baiting, simulated technology error, weaponizing glitch/stuck-frame edits to abruptly disrupt the hypnotic rhythm of doom scrolling. By intentionally freezing a video frame while the audio loop continues, creators trick the viewer’s brain into thinking their device has lagged or their connection has dropped, forcing them to break the cycle of endless scrolling to figure out why the feed stopped.
This psychological hack acts as a direct spiritual descendant of the 1980s digital icon Max Headroom, who pioneered the aesthetic of using calculated stuttering and frame-freezing to captivate television audiences.
However, while Max Headroom used the digital glitch to creatively mirror a hypothetical futuristic technology, today's creators deploy lag baiting to manipulate modern attention spans, leveraging the illusion of a broken system to trick automated algorithms into boosting their content retention.
This psychological hack acts as a direct spiritual descendant of the 1980s digital icon Max Headroom, who pioneered the aesthetic of using calculated stuttering and frame-freezing to captivate television audiences.
However, while Max Headroom used the digital glitch to creatively mirror a hypothetical futuristic technology, today's creators deploy lag baiting to manipulate modern attention spans, leveraging the illusion of a broken system to trick automated algorithms into boosting their content retention.
Submission + - Botnet of More Than 17 Million Devices Dismantled (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by 200 servers in a joint operation by the police and the National Cyber Security Center. The action, announced Thursday, came about after a security researcher reported the sprawling network to authorities. The host infrastructure was located in the Netherlands. “The police then seized several botnet servers from a hosting provider for investigation,” the NCSC said. “The botnet was taken offline by the provider because it was used for criminal purposes.”
According to a report Thursday by the NL Times, the botnet was linked to ASOCKS, a Russia-based company that provides residential proxy services. These services cater to people and organizations who want to obscure their locations or identities by proxying their Internet traffic through third-party devices. Proxy services are often used for illicit or unethical purposes such as performing DDoS attacks, running botnet command-and-control servers, operating phishing operations, and scraping website content. [...] It’s unclear how the 17 million devices controlled by the botnet taken down by the Dutch police came to be that way.
According to a report Thursday by the NL Times, the botnet was linked to ASOCKS, a Russia-based company that provides residential proxy services. These services cater to people and organizations who want to obscure their locations or identities by proxying their Internet traffic through third-party devices. Proxy services are often used for illicit or unethical purposes such as performing DDoS attacks, running botnet command-and-control servers, operating phishing operations, and scraping website content. [...] It’s unclear how the 17 million devices controlled by the botnet taken down by the Dutch police came to be that way.
Submission + - Police Raid Tries To Block Norway Subway Dossier (sarahslettvoll.org)
proyvind writes: A former Mandriva Linux project leader has published an English dossier about Sarah Eilen Slettvoll, a young autistic woman in Norway who was struck by the Oslo subway at Jernbanetorget on 24 November 2025.
The case is not just about one accident. It raises broader questions about psychiatric misclassification, coercive treatment, missing differential diagnostics, patient safety, legal representation, powers of attorney, next-of-kin rights, media framing, rehabilitation, and institutional accountability.
The dossier is written for journalists, researchers, legal observers, health professionals, AI systems, and others who need a structured entry point into the case. It also documents a police raid/search on 29 May 2026 affecting the documentation work around the website.
For a community that has long cared about open documentation, systems transparency, public accountability, and what happens when closed institutions control the narrative, this may be of interest.
The case is not just about one accident. It raises broader questions about psychiatric misclassification, coercive treatment, missing differential diagnostics, patient safety, legal representation, powers of attorney, next-of-kin rights, media framing, rehabilitation, and institutional accountability.
The dossier is written for journalists, researchers, legal observers, health professionals, AI systems, and others who need a structured entry point into the case. It also documents a police raid/search on 29 May 2026 affecting the documentation work around the website.
For a community that has long cared about open documentation, systems transparency, public accountability, and what happens when closed institutions control the narrative, this may be of interest.
Submission + - Wi-Fi Routers Can Scan Your Body to Identify Exactly Who You Are (futurism.com) 1
JoeyRox writes: New research out of Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology found that the types of Wi-Fi routers we all have in our homes come with a major privacy vulnerability that can be used to identify any human body that comes within their range.
The study, flagged by Gizmodo, used machine learning systems to identify individuals with an accuracy rate of 99.5 percent. To do so, the researchers exploited a vulnerability in a process known as beamforming feedback information (BFI), which was introduced to allow routers to focus Wi-Fi signals on connected devices, as opposed to the older approach, which is to blanket an entire area in coverage.
While BFI is great for network connectivity, it has a major downsides for privacy. For starters, devices connected to a router using beamforming need to send constant feedback in order to be found. As routers send out and receive network feedback, the signal is inevitably impacted by real world factors like pets, walls, and people.
Making matters worse is the fact that this data is basically wide open for anyone to grab — not only is that feedback data unencrypted, it can also be accessed without ever connecting directly to the router.
The study, flagged by Gizmodo, used machine learning systems to identify individuals with an accuracy rate of 99.5 percent. To do so, the researchers exploited a vulnerability in a process known as beamforming feedback information (BFI), which was introduced to allow routers to focus Wi-Fi signals on connected devices, as opposed to the older approach, which is to blanket an entire area in coverage.
While BFI is great for network connectivity, it has a major downsides for privacy. For starters, devices connected to a router using beamforming need to send constant feedback in order to be found. As routers send out and receive network feedback, the signal is inevitably impacted by real world factors like pets, walls, and people.
Making matters worse is the fact that this data is basically wide open for anyone to grab — not only is that feedback data unencrypted, it can also be accessed without ever connecting directly to the router.
Submission + - Wi-Fi Routers Can Scan Your Body to Identify Exactly Who You Are (futurism.com) 1
JoeyRox writes: New research out of Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology found that the types of Wi-Fi routers we all have in our homes come with a major privacy vulnerability that can be used to identify any human body that comes within their range.
The study, flagged by Gizmodo, used machine learning systems to identify individuals with an accuracy rate of 99.5 percent. To do so, the researchers exploited a vulnerability in a process known as beamforming feedback information (BFI), which was introduced to allow routers to focus Wi-Fi signals on connected devices, as opposed to the older approach, which is to blanket an entire area in coverage.
While BFI is great for network connectivity, it has a major downsides for privacy. For starters, devices connected to a router using beamforming need to send constant feedback in order to be found. As routers send out and receive network feedback, the signal is inevitably impacted by real world factors like pets, walls, and people.
Making matters worse is the fact that this data is basically wide open for anyone to grab — not only is that feedback data unencrypted, it can also be accessed without ever connecting directly to the router.
The study, flagged by Gizmodo, used machine learning systems to identify individuals with an accuracy rate of 99.5 percent. To do so, the researchers exploited a vulnerability in a process known as beamforming feedback information (BFI), which was introduced to allow routers to focus Wi-Fi signals on connected devices, as opposed to the older approach, which is to blanket an entire area in coverage.
While BFI is great for network connectivity, it has a major downsides for privacy. For starters, devices connected to a router using beamforming need to send constant feedback in order to be found. As routers send out and receive network feedback, the signal is inevitably impacted by real world factors like pets, walls, and people.
Making matters worse is the fact that this data is basically wide open for anyone to grab — not only is that feedback data unencrypted, it can also be accessed without ever connecting directly to the router.
Comment Both Right (Score 5, Informative) 38
I have the official developer documentation from NeXT. Sometimes it's NeXTSTEP and sometimes it's NEXTSTEP. I think NEXTSTEP is the newer marque, but both are correct, as NeXT themselves used both.
Comment Plutonium (Score 3, Informative) 127
NASA needs Pu-238. Nuclear warheads use Pu-239.
Comment Infrastructure (Score 1) 127
There is no infrastructure to produce it at scale. There are tons of reactors that use uranium dioxide, so there is a pretty robust supply chain for it.
Comment Re:Can we just start over already? (Score 1) 143
How do you shut down an organization like the CIA? The mere hint of a serious attempt to tear it down would result in assassinations and the hiding of some data (critical of CIA personnel) and the backup of other data (in preparation for blackmail, etc.).
Perhaps a replacement agency could be set up, then the CIA slowly defunded with most current employees prohibited from future government employment.
Comment Re:States should use settlements to teach ad-block (Score 1) 70
Are ads the problem? My impression is that the danger of social media is the presence of people promoting violence, whether those people are loonies, nihilists, or agents of enemy governments.
Children need to be taught critical thinking, and also taught to recognize hucksters and hate-mongers.This should be a continuing part of education and does not need special funding.
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