Just learned about the concept of a “telescope ranch” in Texas. People pay to have their $10,000 telescope rigs set up in the middle of TX to avoid light pollution. Every night the roof rolls back off the warehouses. Then you can remote in to your telescope and use it from anywhere in the world.

The US government told a 23-year-old math student in 1995: "Your code is a weapon. You need an arms license to share it." He sued them. Won. Then built the encryption protecting every message you've ever sent. 🤯 Meet Daniel J. Bernstein 🇺🇸 > Born in New York, 1971. > Finished high school at 15. PhD in Math from UC Berkeley at 24. > 1995: wrote new encryption code to protect people online. > US government classified it as a military weapon. > Required an arms export license ~ like selling missiles ~ just to publish it. > He filed a lawsuit against the United States government. > Fought for 4 years through federal courts. > Won in 1999. Court ruled: writing code = free speech. 🚀 > One lawsuit. Changed internet privacy law forever. > Then got to work. > Designed Curve25519 ~ the math locking your private messages. > Designed ChaCha20 ~ the code scrambling your internet traffic. > Designed Ed25519 ~ the signature securing your logins online. > Built qmail ~ an email server almost nobody has ever hacked. > Signal. WhatsApp. SSH. WireGuard. Tor. > All of them. His math. Your privacy. > Puts $1,000 of his own money on the line for any bug in his code. > No interviews. No fame. > Still a math professor in Chicago. Just ships code. He didn’t seek power or profit ~ he shipped protection. Absolute Legend 🐐

NEW: Toyota files to build $2,000,000,000.00 vehicle assembly line at its San Antonio complex.

🇺🇸 The new Federal Reserve Chair, Kevin Warsh: "If you're under 40, Bitcoin is your new gold."

Google Threat Intelligence Group is dropping our latest AI Threat Tracker report today, which covers several threats we are watching through a variety of means. The report includes some details of the first 0day exploit we've found developed with AI. 1/x cloud.google.com/blog/topics…

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Coinbase CEO Brain Armstrong says today is a "historic day for crypto and for the future of digital assets in America." "Let's get CLARITY done."

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink predicts a compute futures market.

Hope to see you at the SF #DWeb Meetup next Tuesday, May 5 at Frontier Tower-- SF's Hacker space extraordinaire. We'll be on the 14th Fl. Register here: tix.dod.ngo/dwebcamp/event-t…

Toronto Police just seized SMS Blasters, a new fake cell towers never seen before in Canada. It hijacks over potentially 100s of 1000s of phones in a region at once, sending fake bank/Canada Post texts, and disable the real cell service (even 911 calls). It is noted that so far over 13 MILLION disruptions took place. Three men charged Dafeng Lin, 27 Junmin Shi, 25 Weitong Hu, 21 Cyber crime wrapped up looking like a quick scam is part of the new asymmetrical warfare and we should expect much more of this.

10h ago @litecoin experienced a coordinated attack on the chain that resulted in 13 blocks reorg that took more than 3h to generate. During this time attackers were performing double spend attacks on multiple cross-chain swapping protocols. We are investigating the situation.

41 kidnappings of crypto holders in France in 3.5 months of 2026. Why? 🥖 French tax officials selling crypto owners' data to criminals (Ghalia C.) massive tax database leaks. Now the state also wants IDs and private messages of social media users. More data = More victims.

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my clanker trying to build data intensive applications

Ships in the Strait of Hormuz while they wait 45 minutes for the Bitcoin transaction to go through

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RT @EFF: Imagine a newspaper publisher refusing to let libraries keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s starting online, as bi…

Very soon there are going to be more AI agents than humans making transactions. They can’t open a bank account, but they can own a crypto wallet. Think about it.

This story is actually insane: • dude drops $2000 on a DJI robot vacuum like a lunatic • refuses to use the normal app like a peasant • Sammy Azdoufal fires up Claude to crack the API so he can drive it with an xbox controller • Claude delivers the goods • pulls an auth token from their servers, connects successfully • except the system thinks he controls 7000 vacuums • checks again • yep, seven thousand • DJI built authentication with zero device ownership verification • any valid token works for any unit on the planet • Sammy now has eyes inside homes across 24 countries • live vacuum camera feeds everywhere • full floor plans from the mapping data • some guy in germany eating cereal at 3am, unaware his roomba is snitching • one API call away from being the most informed burglar in history • all he wanted was to steer his vacuum with a joystick • does the right thing and reports it • DJI fixes it in two days • back to normal life with his stupidly expensive floor cleaner • IoT companies stay undefeated at shipping garbage security

🇮🇱 Israeli emergency communications technology in bomb shelters You can sent email without Internet.