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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 2h

-California regulates AI
-UK Crypt-Key goes live
-Taiwan warns of "abnormal" social media accounts
-China offers reward for Taiwan's psychological warfare unit
-Australia, UK publish annual cyber threat reports
-SonicWall SSLVPN mass-compromise
-Another surveillance provider exposed (Cyber WAP)

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 4d

For the latest episode of Hacklab, we carried out one of the more fun and stressful hacking experiments of my career: We hacked a casino card shuffler to help me cheat in a game of poker against unsuspecting players in Vegas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ20...

I Cheated At Poker By Hacking A Casino Card Shuffling Machine | Hacklab | WIRED

YouTube video by WIRED

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of this data, such as the T-Mobile leak, is now encrypted thanks to the researchers' work. But all of it was obtained from a single dish on the roof of a building in San Diego. These findings are based on just 15% of geostationary satellite signals over the US and Mexico.

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Most striking to me was that the data included phone calls and text messages from several US and Mexican phone carriers. Remote cell towers connect to core carrier networks via satellite, relaying conversations via space—sometimes with no encryption.

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 7h

You can condemn threats and still defend speech. What’s dangerous is when those in power only remember the First Amendment when they’re out of office. That’s not principle — that’s convenience.

So many people only care about the First Amendment when they aren't in power.

܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 7h

The real test of a free society isn’t how it treats speech it likes — it’s how it handles speech it hates.

Protecting the First Amendment isn’t about defending cruelty or chaos; it’s about preventing whoever’s in charge from defining those terms to silence dissent.

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܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 7h

It’s not limited to one ideology. Across the spectrum, once power shifts hands, speech suddenly looks less like a right and more like a liability. That’s the hypocrisy of conditional principle — freedom for me, restraint for thee.

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܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 7h

People champion the First Amendment when it protects their dissent — and rediscover “reasonable limits” the moment they hold authority.

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܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 8h

no matter how well a constitution is constructed, It will not insure freedom and prosperity unless it is supported by a moral, virtuous population.

Politico @politico.com · 15h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 8h

It signals that they see morality as performance, not conviction.
That’s the essence of moral decay—when what’s right becomes negotiable, and what’s expedient becomes acceptable.

܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 8h

When political operatives — people entrusted with public authority — joke about genocide, rape, and racism, they’re normalizing cruelty and contempt.

Politico @politico.com · 15h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 9h

Not a single word about the true core.
It appears to be testing the intelligence of its peers.

܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 9h

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Phys.org on X: "#A compact laser-plasma accelerator now generates highly directional muon beams on demand, enabling rapid, high-resolution imaging of dense or concealed structures previously limited by cosmic ray sources. https://t.co/LzAt6ZH7CH https://t.co/gVMNe9sc6E" / X

#A compact laser-plasma accelerator now generates highly directional muon beams on demand, enabling rapid, high-resolution imaging of dense or concealed structures previously limited by cosmic ray sources. https://t.co/LzAt6ZH7CH https://t.co/gVMNe9sc6E

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܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 9h

This paper is highly controversial.

܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 9h

Geant4’s gamma→μ+μ implementation and the Bethe–Heitler modelling for muon pairs are known to require careful validation (and different physics lists / model choices can change rates). Which Geant4 version and physics models were used? Were alternate physics lists tested?

܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 9h

Their Geant4 model is central to interpretation (pair production vs meson-decay contributions, angular/energy spectra).

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܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 9h

Are claimed “orders-of-magnitude” imaging speedups driven by a best-case yield estimate,

or do they include realistic inefficiencies (detector acceptance, collimation losses)?

܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 9h

The paper quotes yields and directional fluxes — but I want the full uncertainty budget: statistical errors, systematic uncertainties (detector efficiencies, threshold effects, dead time), and uncertainties from background subtraction.

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܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 9h

@physorg_com Cosmic-ray muons form a non-negligible background. How was cosmic background measured/subtracted (control runs, off-beam windows, shielding comparisons)? Provide raw counts and statistical significance of the muon excess over background.

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܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 9h

and what are the residual misidentification rates?

܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 9h

The paper identifies muons via delayed scintillator events.But delayed signals can also come from neutrons, activation,or secondary showers induced in the shielding/target.How robust is the muon /neutron discrimination?What pulse-shape,time-of-flight,or energy-loss cuts were used

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܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 9h

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Politico @politico.com · 15h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 9h

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Jason Beeferman on X: "NEW: POLITICO obtained private group chat messages between leaders of Young Republican groups across the country. They talk about putting their opponents in gas chambers, raping their enemies and refer to Black people as “monkey” and “the watermelon people”https://t.co/Ba28MweLYa" / X

NEW: POLITICO obtained private group chat messages between leaders of Young Republican groups across the country. They talk about putting their opponents in gas chambers, raping their enemies and refer to Black people as “monkey” and “the watermelon people”https://t.co/Ba28MweLYa

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܀𓂃 Kaori Fujisawa ‎𓈒𓏸𑁍 @layla1988.bsky.social · 9h

What’s alarming isn’t only the racism—They’re already in the “there’s nothing wrong with it” phase so I’m not sure covering it will accomplish much at this point in terms of self-correction within the party. It’s up to an electorate that has next to zero sense for nascent authoritarianism.

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