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Comment Bithumb (Score 0) 105

My guess of how the dominoes fell as worldwide BTC dropped from $80K -> $65K--

1) Bithumb, a South Korean company, screwed up by sending BTC instead of won to its accounts
      https://feed.bithumb.com/notic...
2) its users quickly sold 1,788 BTCs, which pushed the Korean bitcoin index down below $60K
3) IBIT then plummeted from the national selling
4) Blackrock had hedged IBIT
      https://bitrss.com/bitcoin-cra...
5) worldwide BTC dropped from Blackrock's loss

Submission + - new high-temp superconducting material (nature.com) 1

bobdevine writes: A Chinese group found superconductivity up to 96 K under high pressure in bilayer nickelate single crystals. The difference is that they synthesized the material at ambient pressure.

Comment we're all gonna die... (Score 1) 54

An important point is that the weight of the internet follows the daily usage pattern -- internet activity is much higher on the daylight hemisphere as many more people are awake so their internet traffic increases the weight.

This means: the ever-heavier daylight burdens will cause an unbalanced wobble in the planet as it rotates. Because the weight of the internet increases year by year, the wobble will worsen and the Earth will eventually escape its orbit. We're all gonna die...

Comment "negative day" attack on Microsoft CoPilot+ Recall (Score -1, Offtopic) 10

If a "zero-day" attack is when an attack comes on the same day a vulnerability is found, what is it called when an attack emerges before a product has even shipped?
Somebody has posted code to dump out the contents of a CoPilot+ Recall database:
      https://github.com/xaitax/Tota...

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