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  RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117352037172517356 This entire thread is just 🤌🤌🤌 Jonny is doing yeoman’s work here

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  #TIL that California passed a law allowing residents to submit a single request that requires *all* registered data brokers to delete personal info and stop selling it. will it work? for the ones who make a lot of money publicly, yes; for the criminals, probably not. But I’ll take it. https://privacy.ca.gov/drop

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  Excellent research (and very useful FAQ) out on a new RSA attack: forging 1024-bit signatures in “nearly SNFS time” (not polynomial, but somewhat faster than previous number field sieve approaches by a few orders of magnitude). Real-world risk is low because most RSA implementations in practice do not meet one of the attack requirements; however … more ammunition on the need to transition away from RSA (and protocols like TLS moved to elliptic curve quite a while ago, or are moving to ML-KEM and...

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  The problem with the convenient action button on the side of my watch is the irregular “do you want to end your workout?” prompts throughout the day because I inadvertently nudged the button. like … I did not even *begin* my workout but now I feel judged

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  RE: https://stranger.social/@DeniseG/117346320217276662 This is a good read, and also this from just a few months ago: automakers collectively threatened to stop selling cars in California entirely rather than comply with anti-tracking and customer privacy laws. https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/automakers-rather-quit-california-entirely-120800364.html

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  Chrysler, make a battery EV Pacifica minivan you COWARDS seriously it’s such a good vehicle design on every level, but boy do they need an EV version. Hybrid is insufficient.

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  Really been enjoying this new ambient album from Cephas Azariah lately; it’s lovely for meditation, prayer, background while working or thinking … he’s got a real gift. https://music.apple.com/us/album/conditions-for-observing-light/6776304162

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/117338761945628970 We need to go back to Uranus I will never not be 15, I guess

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  Rest is so important, and our society devalues it so much. It really saddens me.

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  Have noticed enormous chunks of my music library missing after iOS 27 was installed on my iPad (although am seeing it on my phone, which is still on iOS 26). If you use Apple Music, check “Recently Added” and see if things from the past several *years* are there. My recently added begins at like 5-6 years ago now, and things I added last week are missing. Can still play and re-add them but it’s irritating that a piece of my recent external brain history has gone missing.

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  @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt this is *gorgeous* and disturbing at the same time, I love it

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  I guess you’ve really arrived as a scientist or mathematician when the negation of your name is a whole field of inquiry non-Newtonian non-Euclidian etc.

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  “‘Sceptic’ comes from the Greek skeptikos, meaning enquirer, and has a long and serious pedigree in philosophy. Yet, since the 1990s, the term has been hijacked by science-denial movements, giving us oxymorons like ‘climate sceptic’, ‘vaccine sceptic’, and ‘evolution sceptic’. These movements understood that ‘sceptic’ has cultural prestige: it sounds rigorous, independent-minded, and anti-establishment, so they colonised it. The move was brilliant and corrosive, as it reframed denial as enquiry...

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  Have to admit when I first looked at this I thought it was … something else https://bird.makeup/users/rainmaker1973/statuses/2103016678829203635

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  @elebertus@eigenmagic.net the older we get the more of a back catalog we accumulate

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  Going through the screenshot archives and found this gem from Google search autocomplete like a decade ago

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  Modern computing problems: I have all these gorgeous desktop wallpapers and a remarkably good monitor, and almost no transparent applications (and if I had them, I probably couldn’t see well enough to use them without readers anymore). *sigh*

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  flippers up if you remember this hero of cryptanalysis

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  "Wrinkles and Magnetic Flux Trapping in Graphite Nanoflakes: A Possible Source and Manifestation of Room-Temperature Superconductivity" https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15712 Very interesting; one of the key signatures of superconductivity persists up to 390 K (116 C / 240 F) and above in this experiment with graphite nanoflakes. Metamaterials are going to continue to be one of the biggest sources of breakthroughs in fundamental tech for the next decade. #emergingtech

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  hey @Viss@mastodon.social this you? https://noc.social/@todayilearned/117306875456601366

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  always interesting how shibboleths evolve over time

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  This was pretty cool -- IBM and NASA have a new "multi-modal lunar model" that is a major improvement in our understanding of mapping the lunar surface, which will help significantly in future missions. Oh, and it's open sourced. :) https://research.ibm.com/blog/nasa-ibm-lunar-foundation-model #space #AIforGood #AI

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  #TIL about Simple English Wikipedia https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About#Simple_English

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  @Viss@mastodon.social it reminds me of Nova Prospekt in HL2, for some reason

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@bonitazarrillo_mp/117278875927335605 if there's anything more corrosive than power, it's profit.

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  I made a thing just now. You can get one too. https://sprd.co/PhN0zWm

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  Cartoon levels of villainy or incompetence, or both 🤦‍♂️ https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/epa-repeals-limits-emissions-power-plants-rcna597741

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  RE: https://beige.party/@ptoothfish/117277590260100357 today I found an awesome new hashtag to follow: #ferniverse

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  via Schneier on Security, great story in IEEE Spectrum about IBM's purpose-built code breaking supercomputer from the 1960s, designed for NSA https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa-ibm

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  RE: https://sfba.social/@twrling/117276071948929061 A “predictive surveillance system” has NOBODY acquainted themselves with the literature??