ReHacked vol. 319: The vocal effects of Daft Punk, Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball and more
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Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball - Privacy Guides #privacy #futurism #dystopia
Last week, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman announced in San Francisco that the World project he co-founded, formerly known as Worldcoin, is opening six stores across the United States, allowing users of the project's app to scan their eyeballs.
Simply put, the premise is this: scan your eyeball, get a biometric tag, verify yourself, buy our apps (and cryptocurrency). The scary part is the for-profit company developing the project has now gathered millions in venture capital investment, powerful partners, and is ready to expand and impose its Minority Report style technology everywhere. Welcome to Dystopialand.
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Ph 136 Applications of Classical Physics #books #physics
2012-2013 Version of Textbook by Roger D. Blandford and Kip S. Thorne
AI vulnerability/bug founds and reports is a huge problem. Curl has banned the use of AI-generated submissions via HackerOne because none of it made any sense, and is a waste of resources and time. "We are effectively being DDoSed. If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time". via TechLetters #security #ai
DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond Differently * TorrentFreak #internet #copyrights
TL;DR
OpenDNS says Farewell, Cloudflare Complies Using ‘Alternate Mechanisms’, Google blocks access.
Trump administration considering suspending habeas corpus #humanrights
Donald Trump's administration is "actively looking at" suspending habeas corpus - the right of a person to challenge their detention in court - one of the US president's top aides has said.
Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, told reporters on Friday that the US Constitution allowed for the legal liberty to be suspended in times of "rebellion or invasion".
His comments come as judges have sought to challenge some recent detentions made by the Trump administration in an effort to combat illegal immigration, as well as remove dissenting foreign students.
"A lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not," Miller said.
Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings #software #privacy
Microsoft is working on adding a new Teams feature that will prevent users from capturing screenshots of sensitive information shared during meetings.
Those joining from unsupported platforms will be automatically placed in audio-only mode to protect shared content. The company plans to start rolling out this new Teams feature to Android, desktop, iOS, and web users worldwide in July 2025.
Expectations | Seth's Blog #psychology
The simple life hack is to lower your expectations, regardless of what you’re entitled to. Create the conditions for the outcome you seek, but leave yourself room if it doesn’t arrive.
ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC | CERN #science
In a paper published in Physical Review Journals, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Huawei Technologies on Thursday unveiled its first laptop that runs the company’s self-developed operating system, HarmonyOS, following the expiration of its Microsoft Windows licence for personal computers (PCs) in March.
Stacked with artificial intelligence (AI) features, the laptop, which has not yet been named, operates HarmonyOS 5, also referred to as HarmonyOS Next, the latest iteration of the system. Most Huawei laptops in the market currently run Windows, although some models offer the option to use open-source Linux.
10 Untranslatable Japanese Words You Need To Know #culture
Tsundoku (noun): A pile of books resulting from over purchasing
This is a good example of an untranslatable word for a very specific situation. Tsundoku is a portmanteau describing a person who has collected a large library of unread literature. The word doku can be used as a verb to mean “reading,” while tsun originates from tsumu, the word for “piling up.”
Katy Cowan | Getting Older Isn’t What You Think #society #psychology
Getting old creeps up on you. It’s not sudden. There’s no dramatic moment where you wake up and realise you’re “not getting any younger”. No — it’s more like a slow progression. One day, you’re out at a bar, dancing with friends, living your best life, and the next, you’re peeking over your sunglasses in horror at someone calling 36 “old”.
Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD - Neuroscience News #health
Summary: A pioneering clinical study found that pairing vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) with traditional therapy eliminated PTSD diagnoses in all participants up to six months post-treatment. The trial combined prolonged exposure therapy with brief bursts of VNS via an implanted device, enhancing neuroplasticity and sustaining remission.
Prior research shows many PTSD patients fail to respond to standard treatments, making this approach especially promising. Future trials will explore the therapy further, aiming to offer new hope for those resistant to conventional methods.
Key Facts:
- 100% Remission: All participants were free from PTSD diagnosis six months after therapy paired with VNS.
- Neuroplasticity Boost: VNS enhances brain rewiring, improving outcomes for therapy-resistant PTSD patients.
- Next Steps: A double-blind Phase 2 trial is underway to confirm findings and move toward FDA approval.
Samsung is paying $350 million for audio brands Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Marantz and Polk #technology #economy
Harman International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung, is purchasing the audio business of health technology company Masimo for $350 million in cash. The deal is expected to finalized by the end of 2025, though it's still subject to regulatory approvals. Samsung purchased Harman International back in 2017 for $8 billion, though it allowed the company to operate as an independent subsidiary. Harman's brands include JBL, Harman Kardon, AKG, Mark Levinson, Arcam and Revel. If and when the acquisition pushes through, Masimo's audio brands under Sound United will be added to the list, including Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Marantz and Polk Audio.
TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials #software #security
The vocal effects of Daft Punk #music #history #longread
Daft Punk have used a wide variety of vocal effects in their songs. A May 2001 interview in Remix magazine provided a rare insight from Daft Punk themselves on the topic.
A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory | Electronics etc… #hardware #longread
Why are there no thunderstorms in the UK? > One-pot Science #nature
More theory inside the link, but let’s answer our question: why are there no thunderstorms in the UK? Could you make a guess? If thunderstorms form when it is warm in the surface, they can’t occur in the poles, for example, so it is required warm areas (or summer times). Apparently, lightning is rarely expected above 50º latitude.
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