I have no context for this video--it's from Reddit--but one of the commenters adds some context: > Hey everyone, squid biologist here! Wanted to a...
The promise of personal AI assistants rests on a dangerous assumption: that we can trust systems we haven’t made trustworthy. We can’t. And today’s...
I have long maintained that smart contracts are a dumb idea: that a human process is actually a security feature. Here's some interesting research...
The FBI is warning of AI-assisted fake kidnapping scams: > Criminal actors typically will contact their victims through text message claiming they...
Two competing arguments are making the rounds. The first is by a neurosurgeon in the _New York Times_. In an op-ed that honestly sounds like it was...
Here's a fun paper: "The Naibbe cipher: a substitution cipher that encrypts Latin and Italian as Voynich Manuscript-like ciphertext": > **Abstract...
The vampire squid (_Vampyroteuthis infernalis_) has the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced: more than 11 billion base pairs. That's more than...
A new anonymous phone service allows you to sign up with just a zip code.
In his 2020 book, "Future Politics _,_ " British barrister Jamie Susskind wrote that the dominant question of the 20th century was "How much of our...
This is crazy. Lawmakers in several US states are contemplating banning VPNs, because…think of the children! > As of this writing, Wisconsin lawma...
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