AI is making CEOs delusional

Rock out again brothers. Legends never die. Even when they are killed by death. ♠️

We cannot believe we’re saying this… with profound sadness we share that Philip Anthony Campbell has passed. Motörhead’s guitarist for 31 years, Phil later formed @PCATBS with his sons Todd, Dane, and Tyla. A brilliant guitarist with a huge heart and unstoppable humor. RIP Phil.

Terrible news. I'd heard was undergoing some kind of treatment. Unfortunately, it didn't go well. Motörhead's members are continuing to go. Lemmy, the Philty Animal, Fast Eddie, Wurzel and now Phil. Only Mikkey Dee is left of the long time members plus a few shorter time members.

China is testing a vacuum high-speed train that can travel over 1,000 km/h. This ultra-fast vacuum tube magnetic levitation system could reduce the travel time between Shanghai and Hangzhou (distance: 200 km) to just 9 minutes.

Japan has a new stationmaster cat. The Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line is famous for its feline stationmasters. A new cat, Rokutama, has been appointed trainee stationmaster of 2 stations. Other cats received promotions. This is serious stuff.

holy shit it’s real

BREAKING: MongoDB Introduces Surprise Holiday Feature FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PALO ALTO, CA — MongoDB is thrilled to announce MongoBleed™, an innovative new feature that proactively shares your database contents with the broader internet community. "For years, customers asked us: 'How can we make our sensitive data more accessible?'" said a spokesperson we definitely didn't make up. "MongoBleed answers that call. No authentication required. No consent needed. Just pure, frictionless data liberation." Key Features: - Zero-Click Sharing: Your passwords share themselves! - Decade of Trust: We've been quietly beta-testing this since 2015 - Holiday Launch: Because nothing says "Merry Christmas" like your production secrets on GitHub - Elastic Integration: Built by someone who definitely understood the assignment Customer Testimonial: "I was enjoying Christmas dinner when I got paged. My database was sharing our user credentials with the world. It really brought the family together—around my laptop, watching me cry." — Definitely a real IT admin What's Next? We're excited to announce our 2026 roadmap includes: - Automatic password broadcasting to Shodan - AI-powered secret harvesting (we're pivoting to AI!) - A Slack integration that just posts your .env files directly to #general About MongoDB: MongoDB is the database that believes data wants to be free. Very, very free. doublepulsar.com/merry-chris…

Dear Bitcoin people: quantum computers aren’t coming tomorrow, you’re going to be just fine.

I feel like if I was still using Windows I would just be mad all the time

My CISO called me at 3 AM last Tuesday. "We caught someone." I asked, "Caught them doing what?" He said, "Typing." Let me explain. We have an employee in IT. Great worker. Always online. Never complained. Perfect Slack etiquette. One problem. His keystrokes were arriving 110 milliseconds late. One hundred and ten milliseconds. That's 0.11 seconds. The average American remote worker has 20-40ms of latency. This guy? 110ms. Every. Single. Keystroke. My security team ran the numbers. That latency doesn't come from a bad router in Ohio. That latency comes from Pyongyang. Our "Senior DevOps Engineer" was a North Korean operative. Running his work laptop through a laptop farm. In America. While he worked from a government building. In North Korea. He passed the interview. He passed the background check. He passed the vibe check. He did not pass the speed of light. Here's what people don't understand about physics: Light travels 186,000 miles per second. But it still has to go through China. And China adds latency. Since April, Amazon has caught 1,800 of these attempts. Eighteen hundred. I called an emergency meeting with my board. I said, "We need to implement Keystroke Velocity Auditing across all remote employees." They said, "That sounds invasive." I said, "You know what else is invasive? The Democratic People's Republic of Korea in your Jira tickets." They approved the budget. We now monitor keystroke timing to the microsecond. If your latency exceeds 60ms, you get a call from HR. If it exceeds 100ms, you get a call from the FBI. We've already flagged 47 employees. Turns out 44 of them just have bad Wi-Fi. 3 of them are "still under investigation." The lesson? You can fake a resume. You can fake a background check. You can fake an American accent on Zoom. But you cannot fake the speed of light. Physics is the ultimate background check. Hire accordingly.

The Signal developers are now hostile actors against the UK. As if they needed more of an ego boost.

A new organ has been found behind your nose. For centuries, every anatomy textbook swore there were only three pairs of major salivary glands. Turns out the books were wrong — and the missing ones were hiding in plain sight. In 2020, Dutch researchers scanning head-and-neck cancer patients with a cutting-edge PET/CT technique (PSMA PET-CT) noticed an unexpected glow deep in the nasopharynx, right where the nasal cavity drains into the throat. No textbook had ever marked a salivary gland there. They double-checked: 100 consecutive patients → same structure in every single one. Then they dissected two fresh cadavers and there they were: a previously unknown pair of macroscopic salivary glands, roughly 3.9 cm long, draped over the tubarium (the cartilage of the Eustachian tube). The team named them the tubarial glands. Their job? Keep the upper throat and the back of the nose moist during talking, swallowing, and breathing — an area that gets painfully dry after radiation. Here’s why this matters: radiation oncologists had never been told to spare this spot. The researchers re-analyzed treatment plans from 723 patients and found the more radiation the tubarial region received, the worse the toxicity — more trouble swallowing, thicker saliva, constant dry mouth. A simple anatomical blind spot had been quietly worsening outcomes for years. Now that we know these glands exist, new radiation protocols can shield them, giving thousands of head-and-neck cancer patients an easier road to recovery. [Valstar, de Bakker, et al., “Discovery of the tubarial salivary glands: a new organ at risk in radiotherapy for head and neck cancer,” Radiotherapy and Oncology 2021, DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2020.09.034]

2022 seems a long time ago and it is just 3 years

Femke Kok wint met baanrecord wéér op 500 meter, Schulting ten val in Hamar ift.tt/sdkKfzy

Archaeologists, have any of you seen these in person?? This is really grave news.