Archive for the 'Technology' Category
France Runs Fusion Reactor for Record 22 Minutes
March 28th, 2025Via: Interesting Engineering: France has set a new milestone in fusion energy, sustaining a plasma reaction for over 22 minutes. The record-breaking achievement occured at the WEST Tokamak reactor, operated by the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA). CEA’s WEST Tokamak achieved a record 1,337-second plasma run—beating China’s 1,066-second benchmark by 25% […]
“The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming”
March 26th, 2025Via: Wired: One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets. Your secrets. Cybersecurity analysts call this Q-Day—the day someone builds a quantum computer that can crack the most widely used forms of encryption. […]
The Stablecoin Trap: The Backdoor to Total Financial Control
March 25th, 2025Via: Peak Prosperity: While the debate rages over the future threat of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), a far more insidious reality has already taken hold: our existing financial system already functions as a digital control grid, monitoring transactions, restricting choices, and enforcing compliance through programmable money. For over two years, my wife and I […]
Journalist Included in Private Trump Administration Signal Chat About Military Attacks Against Houthis
March 25th, 2025How did they get classified information onto Signal? Or, how did Signal get installed on classified systems? Why was the journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, included? Hmm… Via: Daily Mail: MPs voiced fury today after an extraordinary security bungle revealed some of President Donald Trump’s most senior team condemning Europe as ‘pathetic freeloaders’. A bombshell exchange on […]
French Scientist Denied U.S. Entry After Phone Messages Critical of Trump Found
March 20th, 2025Via: Guardian: France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration. “I learned with concern that a French researcher” on assignment for the French National Center for […]
In Case You’re Rage Quitting Firefox Because Everything Is Broken…
March 19th, 2025tldr: It’s MetaMask. Disable MetaMask and Firefox will work normally again. — I’ve been using Firefox for about two decades. I’ve had a few rage quits over that time. The latest was yesterday when many sites that I use were broken—just in Firefox. Without investigation, I used this latest Firefox snafu as an excuse to […]
Boston Dynamics Atlas: Walk, Run, Crawl, Reinforcement Learning Fun
March 19th, 2025Uh… Via: Boston Dynamics:
And That’s The Truth
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VR Headsets for Inmates in Solitary Confinement
March 15th, 2025Via: Futurism: Right now in the US, the total population held in prison is nearly 2 million people, which is over 20 percent of the world’s prisoners. Of that massive number, over 122,000 US citizens are forced to endure solitary confinement for at least 22 hours a day. Solitary confinement is the brutal practice of […]
In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying
March 12th, 2025Via: EFF: EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans. Mark didn’t set out to change the world. For 22 years, he was a telecommunications […]
