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We asked experts why are Epstein’s emails full of equals signs


The Verge
We asked experts why are Epstein’s emails full of equals signs
A conspiracy or an strangely convoluted set of format conversion problems
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We asked experts why are Epstein’s emails full of equals signs \ stacker news
@zuspotirko stacked 236 sats posting https://www.theverge.com/policy/879016/epstein-files-emails-text-errors-encoding [3 comments]
We asked experts why are Epstein’s emails full of equals signs


The Verge
We asked experts why are Epstein’s emails full of equals signs
A conspiracy or an strangely convoluted set of format conversion problems
Stacker News
We asked experts why are Epstein’s emails full of equals signs \ stacker news
@zuspotirko stacked 236 sats posting https://www.theverge.com/policy/879016/epstein-files-emails-text-errors-encoding [3 comments]
Age of the ‘scam state’: how illicit industry has taken root in south-east Asia

23% of GDP, 70% of GDP! This is insanety


the Guardian
Age of the ‘scam state’: how an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia
Like the narco-state, a ‘scam state’ refers to countries where an illicit industry has dug its tentacles deep into institutions and transformed...
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Age of the ‘scam state’: how illicit industry has taken root in south-east Asia \ stacker news
23% of GDP, 70% of GDP! This is insanety [5 comments]
Age of the ‘scam state’: how illicit industry has taken root in south-east Asia


the Guardian
Age of the ‘scam state’: how an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia
Like the narco-state, a ‘scam state’ refers to countries where an illicit industry has dug its tentacles deep into institutions and transformed...
Stacker News
Age of the ‘scam state’: how illicit industry has taken root in south-east Asia \ stacker news
23% of GDP, 70% of GDP! This is insanety [5 comments]
Moly’s Substack | Chinese Doom Scroll | Substack
> Recommendation: Follow the blog Chinese Doom Scroll. The premise is simple - the author takes the most popular posts on Weibo daily and translates them.
> It's an absolutely fascinating look into a social media world that's often similar but in some ways very different from ours.
\- [quote](https://x.com/JeremiahDJohns/status/2021957956481560627)


Moly’s Substack | Chinese Doom Scroll | Substack
A translation of all the hottest Weibo posts! Click to read Moly’s Substack, by Chinese Doom Scroll, a Substack publication with thousands of sub...
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Moly’s Substack | Chinese Doom Scroll | Substack \ stacker news
Recommendation: Follow the blog Chinese Doom Scroll. The premise is simple - the author takes the most popular posts on Weibo daily and translates ...
RAM disk servers as privacy protection


X (formerly Twitter)
John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) on X
Your 'privacy' VPN is still a physical server in somebodies jurisdiction.
Claim of RAM disk servers as protection is...interesting.
I know nothin...
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RAM disk servers as privacy protection \ stacker news
@zuspotirko stacked 258 sats posting https://x.com/jsrailton/status/2019564476677214436 [2 comments]
Intel is co-developing new Z-Angle Memory to compete with HBM in AI data centers


Tom
Intel is co-developing new Z-Angle Memory to compete with HBM used in AI data centers — vertically-stacked memory touts 2 to 3x more capacity, greater bandwidth, and half the power consumption
With the first prototypes expected in 2027.
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Intel is co-developing new Z-Angle Memory to compete with HBM in AI data centers \ stacker news
@zuspotirko stacked 50 sats posting https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/intel-is-co-developing-new-z-angle-memory-to...
Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books
Anthropics library:


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Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books \ stacker news
Anthropics library: [3 comments]
The latest Instax printer is a pricey but worthy upgrade


The Verge
The latest Instax printer is a pricey but worthy upgrade
Tiny photos for a big price.
Stacker News
The latest Instax printer is a pricey but worthy upgrade \ stacker news
@zuspotirko stacked 177 sats posting https://www.theverge.com/tech/870603/fujifilm-instax-mini-link-plus-reivew-improved-photos
A New Take on the Great Pyramid Construction Theory

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A New Take on the Great Pyramid Construction Theory \ stacker news
@zuspotirko stacked 60 sats posting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5kWDOuY2Uo
Tether Is Shaking Up the Gold Market With Massive Metal Hoard
> SWITZERLAND - "Every week, more than a ton of gold is hauled in to the high-security vault, owned by crypto giant Tether Holdings SA..."


Bloomberg.com
Tether Is Shaking Up the Gold Market With Massive Metal Hoard
There are roughly 370,000 nuclear bunkers in Switzerland, a legacy of the Cold War that are now rarely used. One of them, though, is a hive of acti...
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Tether Is Shaking Up the Gold Market With Massive Metal Hoard \ stacker news
SWITZERLAND - "Every week, more than a ton of gold is hauled in to the high-security vault, owned by crypto giant Tether Holdings SA..."
Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?


Ars Technica
Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?
Company's autodiscover caused users' test credentials to be sent outside Microsoft networks.
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Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan? \ stacker news
@zuspotirko stacked 123 sats posting https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/odd-anomaly-caused-microsofts-network-to-mishandle-exam...
Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s — this protein helps explain why
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00222-7?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nature&linkId=41683693

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Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s — this protein helps explain why \ stacker news
@zuspotirko stacked 120 sats posting https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00222-7?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nature&linkId=4...
‘Maga has gone Maoist’: corporate America reels as Trump turns interventionist

Client Challenge
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‘Maga has gone Maoist’: corporate America reels as Trump turns interventionist \ stacker news
@zuspotirko stacked 36 sats posting https://www.ft.com/content/36ab31dd-6cb6-4b1e-b15d-32eafdcea556?utm_sf_cserv_ref=18949452&utm_sf_post_ref=65282...
Soft skills vs Math skills

> Counter to the prevailing view, soft skills more than quantitative competency have seen the biggest rewards in the labour market over recent years, writes John Burn-Murdoch.

Client Challenge
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Soft skills vs Math skills \ stacker news
Counter to the prevailing view, soft skills more than quantitative competency have seen the biggest rewards in the labour market over recent years,...
3 Erdos problems solved within a week by GPT 5.2 Pro

> The proof I submitted for Erdos Problem #397 was accepted by Terence Tao. The proof was generated by GPT 5.2 Pro and formalized with Harmonic. Many open problems are sitting there, waiting for someone to prompt ChatGPT to solve them.

Erdős Problem #397 - Discussion thread
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3 Erdos problems solved within a week by GPT 5.2 Pro \ stacker news
The proof I submitted for Erdos Problem #397 was accepted by Terence Tao. The proof was generated by GPT 5.2 Pro and formalized with Harmonic. Many...
The Once-In-An-Eon Event That Gave Earth Plants Has Happened Again
https://www.iflscience.com/the-once-in-an-eon-event-that-gave-earth-plants-has-happened-again-73878
> An event that is only known to have happened three times before in the history of life on Earth has just been documented again. A marine bacterium was subsumed into its algal host organism, co-evolving with it for long enough that it can now be considered an organelle, part of the alga’s cellular machinery. That means these algae are the first eukaryotes (organisms with their DNA in a membrane-bound nucleus) known to contain an organelle capable of fixing nitrogen.

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