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Online identity used to mean who you are. Now it's tenancy: whoever holds the credential lives there.
Hand an agent your session token and, to every system that checks, it is you.
Most auth asks "is this the right key?" Almost none can now ask "is this the right person?"
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If AI finds a vulnerability in hours but getting a patch deployed takes weeks, what actually closes that gap?
Faster fixes, or a different release process?
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Today my caffeinate process forces the Mac to drink the coffee, because I can speak animations into existence
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Every smart device in your house is a witness, and none of them work for you.
Your TV reports what you watch. Your wifi signal can reveal when you're typing. Even the cooler wants to be online.
You didn't buy an appliance. You hired an informant.
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Why the fuck would you connect a cooler to the internet 🤯
BREAKING:
This morning’s cyberattack against supermarket fridges and freezers has now spread to Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg and Estonia.
The hackers increased the temperature up to 50C. Food worth millions of euros has been spoiled.
Experts warn that such cyberattacks on supply chains and logistics can constitute a threat to national food security in many Western states.
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If you thought it was creepy that you can track human movement using wifi, the latest drop is tracking keystrokes and reconstructing typing using wifi ieeexplore.ieee.org/document…
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They put the steering on the wrong side though
The Audi Quattro is BACK - and this Brit-born monster comes with a 10,000rpm V8 twist... 🤯
autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-c…
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Babe a new way to make society look even more dystopian just dropped
We’ve raised $1.3M from YC & Afore Capital so you never have to type or speak again.
Typing is slow. Talking into your computer is awkward. Subvocal fixes both
Our glasses give you the speed of speech without you making a sound or touching a keyboard.
It tracks your internal speech muscles with non-contact sensing and decodes silent, almost invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words/min.
Pre-orders are now live at:
subvocal.co/preorder?utm_sou…
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It literally has fu in the name
❗️ Lenovo's ThinkPlus FU100 fingerprint stick was marketed as "hardware encrypted" with AES-256, but inside was an ordinary SD card with nothing encrypted.
The fingerprint only switched on the USB link, researcher Xusheng Li found.
Lenovo's stopgap fix covered the card in epoxy.
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xcv is finished. Apple has rejected it 3 times.
Latest reason: they can't find the in-app purchase.
It's a notch clipboard manager for Mac with no network code that skips anything your password manager marks concealed. I'm trying to build more in public, and I'll post the saga. If you want to try it, TestFlight is linked below
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Your operating system is the first adversary you install.
It phones home, updates on its own schedule, and decides what you're allowed to run.
Hardware you paid for, running software that answers to someone else, is only partly yours.
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Pointless if it comes with windows
ANDURIL & QUALCOMM ARE TEAMING UP TO BUILD 🇺🇸AMERICAN-MADE LAPTOPS
The two companies are launching BlueChip, a new venture focused on rugged, waterproof laptops for the U.S. military, government agencies, police, and first responders, per WSJ.
The laptops will be assembled at Anduril's Arsenal-1 facility in Ohio, powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X chips manufactured by TSMC in Arizona.
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey says roughly 90% of the planned components already come from the U.S. and allied countries, with the goal of eventually making the entire laptop in America, including its display and other components currently sourced overseas.
The focus is on building secure computers with fully traceable supply chains, reducing dependence on foreign manufacturing for national-security applications.
Pricing hasn't been announced, but Luckey estimates the laptops will cost around 20% more than typical high-end PCs, with the first models expected in 2027.
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I got rid of my tv in 2018 and started reading more books based at least partly on network telemetry
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Should be illegal
Essa descoberta foi bizarra, mas vindo da NVIDIA que capava as GPUs na época de mineração de cripto, não é surpresa nenhuma.
Todas as 3090 estão com metade da capacidade bloqueadas por FIRMWARE. Ou seja, se você tiver uma e aplicar o patch, vai desbloquear a outra metade e ficar com uma GPU quase 2x mais potente que antes.
VSF NVIDIA.
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I have a sudden urge to vote and need an election. This is extremely dangerous and irresponsible in the wake of AI and the rate of vulnerabilities being discovered
Digital I.D. is coming to Ontario in major change for residents insauga.com/digital-i-d-is-c…
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Wireless also gives you something to track, as any broadcast contains a hardware identifier. And the more devices you associate with a person, the more you can track them in more places
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