a desire for privacy is not an indication of wrong doing.

We have become aware of a privacy bug in the -privatebroadcast feature, newly introduced in Bitcoin Core 31.0, that may cause the originator’s IP address to be revealed to the receiving peer under certain network conditions. A fix is forthcoming and will be released with 31.1.

anthropic won't let you use fable for biology, chemistry, ai research, or anything that accelerates human progress. that makes it the perfect tool for developing blockchains

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky. When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit. We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted. In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation. H/T to colleagues that shared this with me socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hu…

The scary part about Anthorpic's Fable nerf is not that it refuses to answer biology or cryptography. It's that it foreshadows what's coming. A world where a couple companies decide what you can and cannot do. They're building a new ruling class and you're not in it...

🦔Leonardo is a $17 billion defense contractor. It built a system called SignalTrace that clips sensors onto the license plate readers already mounted on street poles, overpasses, and police cars across the US. Every time you drive past one, the sensor grabs the Bluetooth and WiFi signals from every device in your car, ties them to your plate, and logs the time and location. Your phone, your AirPods, your kid's tablet. All of it goes into the same file. A friend rides with you once and their devices are linked to your plate. Leonardo has sold this to police departments since at least 2023. There is no federal law covering it, no opt-out, and no warrant requirement. My Take None of the pieces here are new. Your phone has always broadcast a signal. The license plate cameras were already there. Leonardo just connected them and found a buyer. Nobody had to break a law or build anything from scratch. They assembled a surveillance system from parts already in place and sold it before anyone noticed. Most people found out this week from a 404 Media investigation. Leonardo received the patent in 2024. By the time you hear about something like this, the deals are done and the sensors are on the poles. That's how it works now. Hedgie🤗 404media.co/this-company-wil…

I encounter a lot of confusion about Sv2 from the open source mining community. I usually talk about encryption, efficiency, template submission. People's eyes glaze over and I lose them. Let's back it up. Perhaps the most important property of Sv2 is that there is a spec. 🧵

I advanced BIP 54 status to Complete.

Your almond milk latte uses like 1000x more water to produce than one AI-generated image fyi

More reason to support unlimited reliable dense nuclear energy or what some climate cultist and a degrowth/malthusian disciple referred to as 'giving an idiot child a machine gun'. We don't have to harm any tree.

What’s most fascinating about the water datacenter thing is that it requires you to misunderstand a lot of very fundamental things to get there. The average person just has an incredibly poor understanding of how the world works

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but data center usage is a VERY small percentage of electricity costs today. The surge in costs can be attributed to transmission and green energy mandates... Your utility bill should provide a breakdown of costs each month. If it doesn't, demand transparency...

Worth noting that the current datacenter backlash is what 40 years of anti-nuclear activism looks like in the present tense. The same movement that killed clean baseload is now mad that compute is straining the grid. Colossal self-own.

We must liberate humanity from the computer.

Everything MPU posts about data centers is complete garbage. They have zero respect for their audience. Literally no one here is losing power. This tweet is a complete lie. What's actually happening is that a supply contract between two utilities is ending, and the small one is just buying power from elsewhere, and this was all expected to happen since 2009. The company that serves homes on the California side of Lake Tahoe is a small utility called Liberty. Liberty buys about 75% of its electricity from a much larger utility, NV Energy in Nevada, and generates the other 25% itself from solar farms it owns. Liberty then sells that to 49,000 customers. NV Energy has told Liberty it will stop selling them wholesale power after May 2027. It's kind of like Liberty's a coffee shop that buys beans and sells coffee to customers. The customers are the homes, and the beans are the electricity it buys from NV Energy or makes itself. This is like your local coffee shop ending a contract with a specific bean company and started buying the beans from somewhere else. It doesn't stop you from buying coffee. Why is their contract ending with NV Energy? NV Energy selling to Liberty was understood as transitional since it started in 2009. Long story short, NV Energy was basically Liberty's only wholesale option, but a new transmission line opening in May 2027 gives Liberty access to a much wider Western market, with among other things a much larger share of solar and wind and hydro. That's the whole story here. Ending the contract with NV Energy and opening up this much wider pool with much more renewable energy was the plan here completely separate from data center demand. NV Energy is ending the contract right as the new high-voltage transmission line comes online, and is opting not to extend past that date. In its filing with California regulators, Liberty said NV Energy cited growing data center demand as one of several reasons it would not offer another extension. But the town will have the high-voltage transmission at that point. No one's losing power. This was always the plan. This is like if a local coffee shop were buying beans from Starbucks, and then started buying beans from somewhere else instead, and the headlines all saying "Nearly 50,000 people have been told that Starbucks will stop providing coffee to them, because it's redirecting it elsewhere." MPU just chooses to send out these unbelievable lies and gets millions of views every time.

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Pas besoin d'être complotiste pour constater que toutes les innovations à la con proposées par les tyrans mondialistes vont dans le même sens : lier identité biologique et identité numérique afin de se servir de la technologie pour vous fliquer en permanence. Si tout est lié, alors d'un coup ils peuvent savoir tout ce que vous faites, où vous allez, ce que vous dites. Par exemple, avant il suffisait d'acheter un ticket pour prendre le métro, maintenant vous payez directement par votre téléphone ou votre carte. Évidemment, il sera attendu de vous de vous connecter à internet grâce à votre identité biométrique. Jamais dans l'histoire de l'humanité un tel projet d'asservissement n'a été proposé que la vision de l'identité biologie et numérique.

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