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ch0k1 6 months ago
OpenAI’s New Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and Worse) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/technology/openai-sora-video-app.html This week, we — the two authors of this article — spent hours scrolling through a feed of short-form videos that featured ourselves in different scenarios. In one hyper-realistic nine-second video, we were shown skydiving (and grinning) with pizzas as parachutes.
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OpenAI’s New Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and Worse) \ stacker news
This week, we — the two authors of this article — spent hours scrolling through a feed of short-form videos that featured ourselves in differen...
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ch0k1 6 months ago
A wormhole from another universe? Scientists revisit the puzzling GW190521
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A wormhole from another universe? Scientists revisit the puzzling black hole GW190521
In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a gravitational wave that la...
 In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a gravitational wave that lasted just one-tenth of a second. The signal, known as GW190521, was unusual straight away because it didn’t look like the normal “chirps” usually produced when two black holes orbit one another before colliding. Instead, it sounded like a cosmic crack.
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A wormhole from another universe? Scientists revisit the puzzling GW190521 \ stacker news
In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a gravitational wave that la...
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ch0k1 6 months ago
Harvard hires drag queen named ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ as visiting professor
Harvard hires drag queen named 'LaWhore Vagistan' as visiting professor
 Harvard University hired a drag performer as a new professor — who is expected to teach a class on TV show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” in the spring semester, the Ivy League school announced over the summer.
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Harvard hires drag queen named ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ as visiting professor \ stacker news
Harvard University hired a drag performer as a new professor — who is expected to teach a class on TV show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” in the spri...
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ch0k1 6 months ago
Rogue planet caught behaving like a star in unprecedented observation https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/science/rogue-planet-growth-spurt Astronomers have observed a planet that in some ways behaves more like a star — including a massive growth spurt unlike anything witnessed before in a free-floating planet.
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Rogue planet caught behaving like a star in unprecedented observation \ stacker news
Astronomers have observed a planet that in some ways behaves more like a star — including a massive growth spurt unlike anything witnessed before...
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ch0k1 6 months ago
Nick Szabo joins fray as controversial Bitcoin Core update nears release
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Bitcoin Core V30.0 Sparks Controversy Over Data Limits
Cypherpunk Nick Szabo warns of legal risks in a heated debate about an upcoming Bitcoin Core upgrade that will expand arbitrary data limits.
 Cypherpunk Nick Szabo has posted on X after five years of silence, adding his views to a fierce debate between Bitcoin purists and maximalists.
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Nick Szabo joins fray as controversial Bitcoin Core update nears release \ stacker news
Cypherpunk Nick Szabo has posted on X after five years of silence, adding his views to a fierce debate between Bitcoin purists and maximalists.
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ch0k1 6 months ago
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway set to make its biggest deal in three years https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/business/warren-buffett-oxychem-acquisition Berkshire Hathaway, the Warren Buffett-owned conglomerate, has announced its biggest deal in three years with the planned acquisition of OxyChem for $9.7 billion. This will be Buffett’s biggest deal since he paid $11.6 billion for Alleghany, an insurance company, in 2022. Buffett, 95, recently announced he was stepping down as CEO at the end of the year.
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway set to make its biggest deal in three years \ stacker news
Berkshire Hathaway, the Warren Buffett-owned conglomerate, has announced its biggest deal in three years with the planned acquisition of OxyChem fo...
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ch0k1 6 months ago
SVG Security Analysis Toolkit to Detect Malicious Scripts Hidden in SVG Files
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SVG Security Analysis Toolkit to Detect Malicious Scripts Hidden in SVG Files
As attackers increasingly leverage Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for stealthy code injection, security researchers face mounting challenges in det...
 As attackers increasingly leverage Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for stealthy code injection, security researchers face mounting challenges in detecting obfuscated payloads embedded within SVG assets. The SVG Security Analysis Toolkit by HackingLZ offers a comprehensive solution: a suite of four Python-based tools designed to reveal hidden scripts, decode obfuscated URLs, and verify protection mechanisms, all without exposing analysts to unsafe execution environments.
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SVG Security Analysis Toolkit to Detect Malicious Scripts Hidden in SVG Files \ stacker news
As attackers increasingly leverage Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for stealthy code injection, security researchers face mounting challenges in det...
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ch0k1 6 months ago
OpenAI Valuation Soars to $500 Billion, Topping Musk’s SpaceX https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-completes-share-sale-record-043148719.html OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell shares in the company at a $500 billion valuation, propelling the ChatGPT owner past Elon Musk’s SpaceX to become the world’s largest startup.
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OpenAI Valuation Soars to $500 Billion, Topping Musk’s SpaceX \ stacker news
OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell shares in the company at a $500 billion valuation, propelling the ChatGPT owner past Elon Musk...
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ch0k1 6 months ago
Apple halts Vision Pro overhaul to focus on AI glasses, Bloomberg News reports
Apple halts Vision Pro overhaul to focus on AI glasses, Bloomberg News reports
 Apple has halted a planned overhaul of its Vision Pro mixed-reality headset to shift resources to smart glasses that would rival products from Meta Platforms, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Apple halts Vision Pro overhaul to focus on AI glasses, Bloomberg News reports \ stacker news
Apple has halted a planned overhaul of its Vision Pro mixed-reality headset to shift resources to smart glasses that would rival products from Meta...
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ch0k1 6 months ago
Jimmy Song slams Bitcoin Core devs for ‘fiat’ mentality on OP_Return
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'These Fiat Arguments Regarding OP_RETURN Need to Go' — Jimmy Song
Longtime Bitcoin developer and sound money advocate Jimmy Song voiced criticism against Bitcoin Core developers regarding non-monetary data limits.
 Song accused BTC Core developers of defecting and failing to address widespread community concerns about non-monetary data on the ledger.
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Jimmy Song slams Bitcoin Core devs for ‘fiat’ mentality on OP_Return \ stacker news
Song accused BTC Core developers of defecting and failing to address widespread community concerns about non-monetary data on the ledger.
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ch0k1 6 months ago
Satoshi comments on arbitrary data shows how old the OP_RETURN debate is
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OP_RETURN a Rehashed 2010 Arbitrary Data Debate
The Bitcoin community is torn as Core v30 aims to remove the 80-byte OP_RETURN ceiling, rekindling Satoshi Nakamoto’s original debate over storin...
 The Bitcoin community is split over Bitcoin Core v30’s plan to drop the 80-byte OP_RETURN limit, a dispute started by Nakamoto’s arbitrary data restrictions.
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Satoshi comments on arbitrary data shows how old the OP_RETURN debate is \ stacker news
The Bitcoin community is split over Bitcoin Core v30’s plan to drop the 80-byte OP_RETURN limit, a dispute started by Nakamoto’s arbitrary data...
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ch0k1 6 months ago
Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in The Lab, And It Then Began to Glow
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Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in The Lab, And It Then Began to Glow
A black hole analog could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing.
 A black hole analog could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing. Using a chain of atoms in single file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole, a team of physicists in 2022 observed the equivalent of what we call Hawking radiation – particles born from disturbances in the quantum fluctuations caused by the black hole's break in spacetime.
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Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in The Lab, And It Then Began to Glow \ stacker news
A black hole analog could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing. Using a chain of atoms in sing...
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ch0k1 6 months ago
Active Directory Hacked to Steal NTDS.dit That Leads to Full Domain Compromise
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Hackers Compromise Active Directory to Steal NTDS.dit that Leads to Full Domain Compromise
Active Directory (AD) remains the foundation of authentication and authorization in Windows environments. Threat actors targeting the NTDS.dit dat...
 Active Directory (AD) remains the foundation of authentication and authorization in Windows environments. Threat actors targeting the NTDS.dit database can harvest every domain credential, unlock lateral movement, and achieve full domain compromise.
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Active Directory Hacked to Steal NTDS.dit That Leads to Full Domain Compromise \ stacker news
Active Directory (AD) remains the foundation of authentication and authorization in Windows environments. Threat actors targeting the NTDS.dit data...
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ch0k1 8 months ago
Scientists Discovered a Way to Reverse Time—and Possibly Erase Mistakes
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Scientists Discovered a Way to Reverse Time—and Possibly Erase Mistakes
That changes things.
 In the subatomic universe of quantum physics, you can achieve things considered impossible in our flesh-and-blood physical world. Things like superposition, entanglement, and even teleportation all seem possible when things go quantum. Now, scientists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and University of Vienna are adding a kind of time travel to the list.
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Scientists Discovered a Way to Reverse Time—and Possibly Erase Mistakes \ stacker news
In the subatomic universe of quantum physics, you can achieve things considered impossible in our flesh-and-blood physical world. Things like super...
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ch0k1 9 months ago
China breaks RSA encryption with a quantum computer, threatening global security
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China breaks RSA encryption with a quantum computer, threatening global data security
Researchers in Shanghai break record by factoring 22-bit RSA key using quantum computing, threatening future cryptographic keys.
 If you logged onto your bank account this morning, the security protocols still seem secure – but things are changing quickly in the tech world. A team in China just showed that the math behind RSA encryption is starting to bend to the will of the quantum realm.
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China breaks RSA encryption with a quantum computer, threatening global security \ stacker news
If you logged onto your bank account this morning, the security protocols still seem secure – but things are changing quickly in the tech world. ...
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ch0k1 10 months ago
Archaeologists Found a Slab—With the Lord’s Prayer Carved in It
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Archaeologists Found a Slab in the Middle of Nowhere—With the Lord’s Prayer Carved in It
“It must have taken days and days of work.”
 In 2018, the toppling of a tree near the township of Wawa, Ontario, revealed a rectangular piece of bedrock (about four feet by nearly five feet) etched with 225 symbols alongside a depiction of a Viking longboat. Eventually, a local historian came across the odd finding—now known as the Wawa Runestone—and reported the find to the Ontario Centre for Archaeological Education (OCARE).
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Archaeologists Found a Slab—With the Lord’s Prayer Carved in It \ stacker news
In 2018, the toppling of a tree near the township of Wawa, Ontario, revealed a rectangular piece of bedrock (about four feet by nearly five feet) e...
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ch0k1 10 months ago
Sam Altman: We've reached the 'singularity' moment in artificial intelligence
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Sam Altman: We
According to Sam Altman, humanity may have entered the early stages of the "singularity" - the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses hum...
 According to Sam Altman, humanity may have entered the early stages of the "singularity" - the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence. Altman says humanity has crossed a critical turning point, an "event horizon" that marks the beginning of a new era of digital superintelligence.
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Sam Altman: We've reached the 'singularity' moment in artificial intelligence \ stacker news
According to Sam Altman, humanity may have entered the early stages of the "singularity" - the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses hum...
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