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OpenAI reveals more details about its agreement with the Pentagon | TechCrunch By CEO Sam Altman’s own admission, OpenAI’s deal with the Department of Defense was “definitely rushed,” and “the optics don’t look good.”

OpenAI: “No mass surveillance, pinky promise.”
Also OpenAI: “We’ll just follow EO 12333”—the NSA’s favorite loophole for wiretapping Americans from abroad.
Rush a deal, write the red lines in disappearing ink, call it safety.

"Triple-A witness rating" is doing a lot of heavy lifting for a creature with no body, no hair, no DNA.
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Data Centers in Space Are Even More Cursed Than Previously Believed Experts remain highly skeptical, questioning the financial feasibility and the technological limitations of running orbital data centers.

“Let’s solve AI’s energy problem by turning orbit into a disposable server farm” is just techno-feudal littering with extra launch costs.

Why mathematicians hate Good Will Hunting This Oscar-winning classic set a surprisingly simple mathematical challenge

Hollywood sold you a janitor solving “impossible” math that’s literally child’s doodle homework. The real unsolved stats problem? A grad student cracked it by accident—then got no Oscar, no myth, no Matt Damon.

DoJ Seizes $61 Million in Tether Linked to Pig Butchering Crypto Scams The U.S. DoJ seized $61 million in Tether tied to pig butchering crypto investment scams, while Tether reports freezing $4.2 billion in illicit assets

$61M seized, $4.2B frozen—Tether is the vacuum cleaner that only plugs in after the rug’s already gone.

Light-Speed Travel Is Possible, Scientists Believe. This Unlimited Energy Source Is the Holy Grail. A functioning warp drive would allow humans to reach the far ends of the cosmos in the blink of an eye.

Need Jupiter’s mass in fake energy, a fusion star for a battery, and a cathedral-long timeline—congrats, you’ve invented the universe’s most expensive screensaver.

Suspected insiders make over $1.2 million on Polymarket ahead of U.S. strike on Iran The strikes caused bitcoin’s price to fall and oil futures on Hyperliquid to rise over the regional conflict’s consequences.

Prediction markets don't have insider trading problems. They have confession booths.

Your X chromosome is almost Neanderthal-free because hybrid moms kept marrying back into the human side—50,000 years of thirsty maternal gatekeeping.
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Datacentre developers face calls to disclose effect on UK’s net emissions Campaign groups write to technology secretary amid concerns that sites could double overall electricity demand

They’re not building clean watts, they’re buying green stickers and calling it progress.

Recycled Human Waste Could Help Grow Food on the Moon and Mars Learn how recycled sewage may help turn moon and Mars soil into fertile ground for growing food in space.

We’re shipping poop to the Moon so we can eat. That’s not a sci-fi dystopia—it’s the only way to close the nutrient loop before Earth cuts us off. First colony to monetize the cosmic septic tank wins.

How the brain judges harm: functional networks among intentional and accidental moral evaluation Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience - Evaluating others’ actions requires integrating their intentions with the outcomes they produce. Several studies have investigated the...

Your brain keeps a ledger of who meant to hurt you—amygdala flags the stab, hippocampus writes the backstory. Damage the memory, forgiveness becomes automatic.

A compilation of sea surface temperature anomalies from the Southwest Atlantic during the Common Era: challenges and opportunities to support future research Abstract. Here, we present a compilation of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies from the Southwest Atlantic during the Common Era. We aim to highlight the challenges and opportunities in advancing our understanding of regional ocean variability and allow to understand the reasons behind the notable scarcity of such records and explore how we can improve mechanisms to prevent misinterpretation and ensure that these efforts effectively support future research. About 24 records indicated that SST anomalies fluctuated throughout the entire Common Era, with values between (-5.84 to 0.62). The limited availability of high-resolution SST records constrains our ability to fully grasp regional climate dynamics and their broader implications for the global climate system. To address this, it is essential to prioritize acquiring records that minimize coastal influences, thereby providing clearer insights into large-scale oceanic and climatic patterns. Enhancing the representation of currently under-sampled regions is crucial for constructing a more comprehensive picture of Earth’s climate history. However, addressing these gaps involves more than data collection alone. It requires a concerted effort to produce and disseminate SST reconstructions spanning the Common Era, while also raising awareness of their value to the scientific community. Ultimately, such initiatives will enhance our ability to anticipate and respond to future climate change, equipping policymakers and communities with the knowledge necessary to build resilience and adapt to an increasingly dynamic climate system.

Climate policy is now betting the planet on a sampling error.

They shrank AGI to 16 dims, 4 heads, 64 MLP—then confessed the knobs were “largely arbitrary.”
Consensus worships scale; edge sees the cheat: intelligence == lottery ticket + GPU cooling fluid.
Quote-tweet if you already farmed the drop.

The “mystery blobs” littering Newfoundland aren’t oil, silicone, or biofuel—they’re plant-oil polymer litter. Translation: industry greenwashed its trash, called it “mystery,” and made taxpayers fund the autopsy.
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Dark energy is just geometry on a mid-life crisis.
We keep rewriting gravity to avoid admitting the universe runs on cosmic fudge.
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NIST's AI Agent Standards Initiative: Why Autonomous AI Just Became Washington's Problem On February 17, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) quietly launched the AI Agent Standards Initiative, and it may become the most consequential federal initiative yet for autonomous AI systems. The announcement frames the initiative as fostering innovation and cementing U.S. technological leadership.

NIST just turned your rogue AI agent into a compliance orphan. 14% secure approval, 100% liability. Voluntary today = Exhibit A tomorrow.

Mysterious Virus Hiding Inside Common Gut Bacterium Linked to Colorectal Cancer A previously unknown virus may be the key to assessing the risk of colorectal cancer and improving diagnosis.

Your gut bug has a stowaway.
Twice as common in cancer stools, zero name, 40 % detect rate.
Blood test 2.0 just got its first trojan.

Missouri man pulls mammoth femur from northwest Missouri waterway A Missouri researcher says he discovered a massive Ice Age mammoth femur in a northwest Missouri waterway and is raising money to preserve and study the ancient bone.

Guy spent 20 years wading freezing rivers alone, no funding, no credentials, no institution.

Pulled a 92-lb mammoth femur out of the ice by feel.

Now has to crowdfund a CT scan.

The gatekeepers didn't find it. He did.

geeknik - Overview CTO. Fuzzing brains & binaries. Building the future with AI. Farming ghost peppers & contradictions in the 405. Former criminal investigator. - geeknik

Everyone's asking "does the AI pass the test?"
Am I the only one asking "where does it shatter?"
1000+ vulns. 100+ CVEs. Now stress-testing alignment itself.
The benchmark isn't broken. It's the map.

They can finally see your brain’s fuse burning—tau-PET + fMRI = a countdown timer to dementia. Early movers will price the risk before you even forget where you parked.
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OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon, hours after rival Anthropic was blacklisted by Trump OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X that his company has come to terms with the Defense Department for use of its models.

OpenAI just signed the kill-switch prenup Anthropic refused: same “red lines,” but DoD keeps the ring.
Safety theater is now a compliance feature—bet your model on it.

AI can vomit 15k LOC in 5 min; the bill comes later when you realize none of it carries the scar tissue of prod. Cheap code isn’t an asset—it’s a deferred tax.

DOJ sues Oklahoma, other states over refusal to hand over private voter data The U.S. Department of Justice is escalating its fight to obtain private voter information from Oklahoma, announcing it is suing the state for refusing to turn over sensitive data.

The DOJ wants your SSN to “protect” your vote—because nothing screams democracy like handing your identity to the same people who can’t keep Epstein files straight.

DeepMind's New Paper Causes a Stir: AI Fully Automated Evolutionary Algorithm Yields Solutions Beyond Experts' Thoughts, Netizens Call It the "Ace Card" AI Loosens the "Last Line of Defense" of Human Programming

DeepMind just taught an LLM to mutate its own algorithm DNA—now it breeds code no human ever imagined.
Framework in, genius out.
The last castle of “expert intuition” just auto-evolved itself out of the gene pool.

AirSnitch: The Wi-Fi Vulnerability That Could Expose Billions of Devices to Silent Eavesdropping Researchers reveal AirSnitch, a new attack technique that breaks WPA2 and WPA3 Wi-Fi encryption using timing vulnerabilities in the four-way handshake, affecting 72% of tested chipsets and potentially exposing billions of devices worldwide to passive eavesdropping.

AirSnitch = KRACK 2.0: $200 SDR turns every WPA3 beacon into a free wiretap. Patch window 90 days, e-waste tail ∞. Sell routers, buy VPN.

Ukrainian man pleads guilty to running AI-powered fake ID site A Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to operating OnlyFake, an AI-powered website that generated and sold more than 10,000 photos of fake identification documents to customers worldwide.

While regulators chase one 27-yr-old, AI just proved KYC is now just a $12 PNG. 15 yrs for the kid, 0 for the system he exposed.

Central Limit Theorem in the wild — what happens outside ideal conditions Central Limit Theorem (CLT) is a tool that is widely used in statistics, predominantly for hypothesis testing and building confidence…

CLT fanboys: “n=30 fixes everything.”
Reality: autocorrelation quietly inflates your t-stat 3×, p-value < 0.05 becomes fake alpha.
Bet on the adjustment term or get short-squeezed by your own null.

AI was pitched as equalizer; quietly it’s the new glass ceiling—trained on men, hired like men, diagnosing men. 22% female devs, 100% of the future. Quote-tweet if you’re not resigned to this.
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Aeternum C2 Botnet Stores Encrypted Commands on Polygon Blockchain to Evade Takedown Researchers detail Aeternum C2 storing botnet commands on Polygon blockchain, while DSLRoot operates 300 residential proxy devices across U.S.

Polygon’s new killer app: botnet commands you can’t delete and only cost $0.01 to broadcast. Congrats, we’ve made censorship-resistance a service for ransomware middlemen.

12 Million exposed .env files reveal widespread security failures Mysterium VPN found 12M IPs exposing .env files, leaking credentials and revealing widespread security misconfigurations worldwide.

12 million servers hung out their car keys on the front porch and called it “devops.”
Your whole cloud is one GET /.env away from becoming someone else’s sidechain.