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Re:Seedance AI video demo debunked on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @08:17PM (#47068712)
Re:OpenAI-backed firm to use ultrasound to read minds on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @09:40PM (#46880764)
"Ultrasound can also be used to stimulate neurons. When multiple beams are focused on one spot, the waves change the pressure around the neurons, altering their firing rate."

Reminds me of the Expanse where a magnets were used to inhibit empathy in humans...

Reminds me of these two short stories: - "I Always Do What Teddy Says" by Harry Harrison - "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury
Here is the technical data of what is really going on - it is not sinister, rather these are files needed by the GPS chipset: https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/tag/qualcomm/
Key point: “It’s a voluntary program,” Emmett Romine, vice president of customer solutions and innovation at Xcel, told local news station KMGH-TV. “Let’s remember that this is something that customers choose to be a part of based on the incentives.”

This is fairly common with other utilities as well, my local utility did the same thing a few years ago.

Re:Possible FBI Network Investigative Technique (Nit) Found on Sunday September 26, 2021 @01:26PM (#28662715)
In other words, there is nothing to see here
Re:Possible FBI Network Investigative Technique (Nit) Found on Sunday September 26, 2021 @01:26PM (#28662712)
The SHA-256 hashes don't match up - the hash of the CDN-hosted socket.io JS files is different than the ones in the blog post here.

The results the author is seeing are artifacts of the hybrid-analysis.com service - you can see the same results on a text file with "Hello, World!": https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/c98c24b677eff44860afe...

For context, the author is a known antivaxer, and the journal this article was published in, isn't entirely legit.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Bart_Classen

This article addresses the actual science: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/can-mrna-based-covid-19-vac...

Re:Security.txt on Sunday March 14, 2021 @03:54PM (#26458374)
Re:Security.txt on Sunday March 14, 2021 @01:17PM (#26456930)
(One of the authors here)

Make sure you read through the actual latest draft (especially section 6): https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-foudil-securitytxt-11

Also, we are in the end stages of the IETF approval process so this should be official later this year (if all goes well): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-foudil-securitytxt/

This quote from the "The Expanse / Caliban's War" comes to mind:

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/17606541-caliban-s-war...

"The binder for what we do if something comes up from Venus? It’s three pages long, and it begins Step One: Find God.”"

One major factor that may be contributing to this: Instacart doesn't offer 2-factor authentication (2FA)

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