LINKS 08 – 2023 15 — 31
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Neues Gesetz in Frankreich will Browser zur Zensur verpflichten
Die französische Regierung will Zensurmechanismen auf Browser-Ebene einführen. Mozilla, bekannt für seinen Firefox-Browser, fürchtet eine dystopische Technik, die autoritären Regimen die Zensur erleichtert.
FBI makes a massive botnet infecting more than 700,000 computers uninstall itself
The US government just helped dismantle a massive network of computers infected with one of the world’s most notorious pieces of malware. According to the FBI, a multinational effort led by the US took down Qakbot, a malware that made its way into over 700,000 computers around the globe.
Scientists use quantum device to slow down simulated chemical reaction 100 billion times
Joint lead researcher and Ph.D. student, Vanessa Olaya Agudelo, said, “It is by understanding these basic processes inside and between molecules that we can open up a new world of possibilities in materials science, drug design, or solar energy harvesting.
DNSWatch — DNS Traffic Sniffer and Analyzer
DNSWatch is a Python-based tool that allows you to sniff and analyze DNS (Domain Name System) traffic on your network. It listens to DNS requests and responses and provides insights into the DNS activity.
Google tests watermark to identify AI images
Developed by DeepMind, Google’s AI arm, SynthID will identify images generated by machines.
It works by embedding changes to individual pixels in images so watermarks are invisible to the human eye, but detectable by computers.
NASA to Demonstrate Laser Communications from Space Station
In 2023, NASA is sending a technology demonstration known as the Integrated LCRD Low Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal (ILLUMA‑T) to the space station. Together, ILLUMA‑T and the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD), which launched in December 2021, will complete NASA’s first two-way, end-to-end laser relay system.
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Kokain unter Wasser: Diese Schmuggeltechnik ist so einfach wie lebensgefährlich
Im Mai 2022 trieb der leblose Körper von Bruno Borges im Industriehafen von Newcastle, Australien. Er trug einen Neoprenanzug und eine hochspezialisierte Tauchausrüstung. Um den 31-jährigen Brasilianer herum schwammen Kokainziegel. Insgesamt 54 Kilo, wie sich später herausstellte. Der Straßenwert in Australien: umgerechnet etwa 13 Millionen Euro.
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The first observation of neutrinos at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
Neutrinos are tiny and neutrally charged particles accounted for by the Standard Model of particle physics. While they are estimated to be some of the most abundant particles in the universe, observing them has so far proved to be highly challenging, as the probability that they will interact with other matter is low.
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Lidar on a Chip Puts Self-Driving Cars in the Fast Lane
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Taylor Swift Fan Found a Clever Way to Bypass Eras Tour Camera Rules
Most smartphones are not well-suited to long-distance telephoto photography, but some feature reasonably powerful zooms, instigating another chapter in the classic Apple versus Samsung smartphone debate.
When an iPhone 14 Pro Max owner touted their phone’s ability to zoom in on Swift on stage, some commenters replied that they went out and bought new iPhones because of the TikTok video.
MXene-Related Stocks Soar After Korean Scientists Claim ‘Breakthrough’ In New Mass Production Technique
OpenAI opens GPT‑3.5 Turbo up for custom tuning
OpenAI has announced that businesses can now fine-tune GPT‑3.5 Turbo using their own data — OpenAI claims the resulting custom model can match or exceed the abilities of GPT‑4 for certain tasks. Later this fall, the company says it will open up the arguably more advanced GPT‑4 for the same purpose this fall.
Fifty minutes to hack ChatGPT: Inside the DEF CON competition to break AI
More than 2,000 hackers attacked cutting-edge chatbots to discover vulnerabilities — and demonstrated the challenges for red-teaming AI.
The Untold Story of How Rupert Murdoch Ruined MySpace
In 2003, UCLA dropout and former punk singer Tom Anderson and marketing executive Chris DeWolfe co-founded MySpace, the best social media website ever. By 2005, MySpace had overcome Google to become the most popular website in the world, and was purchased by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp for $580 million.
Murdoch immediately struck an advertising partnership with Google for $900 million over three years. But the site began to buckle under the weight of the deal, as well as underlying infrastructure that badly needed an update. As the website became slow to load and filled with spam, users began to flee and Murdoch’s predictions that the site would generate $1 billion in revenue proved to be incorrect. Facebook overtook MySpace in 2008, and DeWolfe and Anderson left the following year.
Warum die Modedroge “Blue Punisher” gefährlich ist
Was in den blauen Pillen enthalten ist, weiß ohne chemische Analyse niemand, heißt es bei der Beratungsstelle Checkit!. Rattengift oder Strychnin werden in Analysen nicht gefunden
Europe Braces For $3 A Pill ‘Poor Man’s Cocaine’ To Flood Streets After Gulf Crackdown
Bloomberg has described that what’s been dubbed “poor man’s cocaine” at as little as $3 a pill is threatening to proliferate across the Middle East and into Europe. It’s long been part of the underground party scene in what are otherwise strict Sharia law Arab Gulf countries, but that’s poised to change after authorities have prioritized its eradication.
Why quantum genius Werner Heisenberg was nowhere near beating Oppenheimer to the bomb
Toward the end of World War Two, teams of Allied soldiers and scientists — aka the Alsos Mission — were tasked with gathering intelligence on the Nazi atomic program. Danish physicist Niels Bohr, among other sources, revealed that quantum mechanics pioneer Werner Heisenberg was leading Germany’s nuclear research. Heisenberg, fresh from a 200-mile bicycle ride, was finally tracked down high in the Bavarian Alps, a long way shy of his atomic goals.
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25 Countries, Housing One-quarter of the Population, Face Extremely High Water Stress
New data from WRI’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas show that 25 countries — housing one-quarter of the global population — face extremely high water stress each year, regularly using up almost their entire available water supply. And at least 50% of the world’s population — around 4 billion people — live under highly water-stressed conditions for at least one month of the year.
We’ve Teamed Up With Mullvad VPN to Launch the Mullvad Browser
Mullvad and the Tor Project have been part of the same community that is dedicated to developing technology that prioritizes protecting people’s right to privacy for many years now. Mullvad contributes to the Tor Project at the highest level of membership, Shallot, and were a founding member of the Tor Project’s Membership Program.
WDR versieht Otto-Waalkes-Shows mit Warnhinweis
Komiker Otto Waalkes feierte im Juli seinen 75. Geburtstag. Der WDR feiert mit und zeigt Otto-Shows aus den 70er-Jahren und zwei Programme aus den 80ern in der Mediathek, “ungekürzt und friesisch-derb, holladihiti!”, wie der Sender dort schreibt. Versehen werden Shows aus den Jahren 1973 und 1974 jedoch mit einem Warnhinweis. Vor Beginn der Sendungen ist dort zu lesen: “Das folgende Programm wird, als Bestandteil der Fernsehgeschichte, in seiner ursprünglichen Form gezeigt. Es enthält Passagen, die heute als diskriminierend betrachtet werden.”
Entrüstung über Razzia bei US-Zeitung in Kansas
Beamte hatten die Räumlichkeiten des “Marion County Record” und das Haus des Herausgebers durchsucht. Der Vorfall löste eine Debatte über Pressefreiheit im Land aus
Warrant for Kansas newspaper raid withdrawn by prosecutor for ‘insufficient evidence’
The prosecutor in Marion County has withdrawn the search warrant executed at a small-town Kansas newspaper that police raided Friday, the paper’s lawyer said Wednesday, which the Kansas Bureau of Investigation soon confirmed.
Someone bought 52,000 acres in the Bay Area. No one knows who they are.
“Kolosseum” voller Dinosaurier-Fußabdrücke in Alaska entdeckt
Auf fast senkrechten Felswänden sind im US-amerikanischen Denali-Nationalpark Spuren von Tyrannosauriern und zahlreichen anderen Dinos zu sehen
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The Maya coveted mercury. It may have hastened their downfall.
Over the past few decades, evidence has built that the Maya of Central America extensively used a mercury-containing compound for decoration and art. Mercury was so prevalent that archaeological sites are still heavily contaminated today. Tellingly, scientists reported that two water reservoirs in the heart of the ancient city of Tikal contained toxic levels of mercury, raising the possibility that the Maya suffered adverse health effects.
Österreichische Wissenschaft in Zeiten des “Dritten Manns”
Österreich war nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs eine wissenschaftliche Wüste und blieb es für mehrere Jahrzehnte. Oasen wie die Mathematik, deren Geschichte unlängst gründlich aufgearbeitet wurde, blieben die Ausnahme. Von der einstigen wissenschaftlichen Größe um 1900 war vor allem nach der rassistischen und politischen Vertreibung hunderter Forschender durch die Nazis kaum mehr etwas übrig geblieben. Und bei Kriegsende 1945 war die Mehrheit der Wissenschafterinnen und Wissenschafter an Österreichs Hochschulen entweder NSDAP-Mitglied oder zumindest Parteianwärter, was einen Neustart auch nicht gerade erleichterte.
Don’t use VPN services
No, seriously, don’t. You’re probably reading this because you’ve asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.
Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party “VPN provider” does.
https://tilde.club/wiki/vpnwhy.html
US Ambassador Says White House Open to Assange Plea Deal
The U.S. ambassador to Australia believes a plea bargain could free imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, allowing him to serve a shortened sentence for a lesser crime in his home country.
Caroline Kennedy told The Sydney Morning Herald in a front-page interview published Monday that the decision on a plea deal was up to the U.S. Justice Department. “So it’s not really a diplomatic issue, but I think that there absolutely could be a resolution,” she told the newspaper.
The Mystery of an Abandoned Cabinet Full of Kodachrome Slides in San Francisco
The 920 Kodachrome slides shows San Francisco in the 1960s undergoing changes as the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system was built, the subway beneath Market Street was constructed, as well as fascinating photos of daily life in the Californian municipality.
‘Melania has had her fill’: Ex-senator unloads on Trump family’s distance
Schumann resonances: Amazing physics, sham medicine
Earth, in many ways, is a layer cake, with an atmospheric layer known as the ionosphere interacting with Earth’s surface to behave like a closed, conducting waveguide. Driven primarily by lightning activity, standing electromagnetic waves encircle the globe in an omnipresent fashion, causing Earth to resonate in a series of Schumann resonances. Other worlds and planets may possess these Schumann resonances too, and this resonant phenomenon may help us understand many properties of planetary atmospheres in general.
Deutsche Regierung beschließt Teillegalisierung von Cannabis
Der Besitz von 25 Gramm Cannabis soll für Privatpersonen straffrei sein. Sie sollen auch bis zu drei Pflanzen selbst anbauen dürfen
RTL-SDR Blog V4 Dongle Initial Release!
Moment is upgrading its entire line of lenses for the latest phone cameras
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Welcome to the all new MP3 Scene, a historical record of the early mp3 warez scene
GPU-Accelerated LLM on a $100 Orange Pi
This post shows GPU-accelerated LLM running smoothly on an embedded device at a reasonable speed. More specifically, on a $100 Orange Pi 5 with Mali GPU, we achieve 2.5 tok/sec for Llama2-7b and 5 tok/sec for RedPajama-3b through Machine Learning Compilation (MLC) techniques. Additionally, we are able to run a Llama‑2 13b model at 1.5 tok/sec on a 16GB version of the Orange Pi 5+ under $150.
Julian Assange: Wikileaks-Gründer könnte Auslieferung durch Deal noch entgehen
Die US-Botschafterin in Australien hat angedeutet, dass ihre Regierung einer außergerichtlichen Einigung zustimmen könnte, die Wikileaks-Gründer Julian Assange eine Rückkehr nach Australien ermöglicht. “Das ist nicht wirklich eine diplomatische Angelegenheit, aber ich denke, dass es absolut eine Lösung geben kann”, zitiert der Sydney Morning Herald Botschafterin Caroline Kennedy.
The 13 scales that define our physical Universe
The visible Universe extends 46.1 billion light-years from us, while we’ve probed scales down to as small as ~10^-19 meters.
The Evidence That Convicts The CIA Of The JFK Assassination
Longtime readers of my work on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy know that I point to the evidence establishing the fraudulent autopsy that was conducted on JFK’s body to convict the U.S. military establishment of criminal complicity in the assassination itself. That’s because there is no innocent explanation for a fraudulent autopsy. Once one concludes that the autopsy that the military conducted on JFK’s body was fraudulent, one has automatically concluded that the military establishment was criminally complicit in the assassination itself. There is no way around that.
Why the map-busting American Revolution was also the “first” First World War
The American Revolution — sparked by skirmishes in Massachusetts — was one theater in a global conflict. The Second Hundred Years’ War (1689 – 1815), primarily fought between France and England, was actually a series of eight wars: Americans fought in every one of those wars. The Declaration of Independence, on July 4, 1776, was effectively an invitation to France and Spain to join the Americans in battle.
Fiber-Optic Cables Are Natural Earthquake Detectors
Fiber-optic cables make up the vast underground nervous system that meets our growing demand for high-speed Internet and communication services. However, signals in the cables can occasionally suffer vibrations from cars driving overhead, nearby construction, or even earthquakes. Researchers have previously proposed harnessing those perturbations to convert the thousands of kilometers of underground cable into sensitive seismic arrays.
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Two years on from Taliban takeover, Afghan women pay the price
Afghanistan’s Taliban government was set Tuesday to mark the second anniversary of their takeover of the country with a military parade in the movement’s birthplace, as well as other celebrations of their surge back to power, which has resulted in dramatic reversals on women’s rights.
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Not Much Time Left To Save Julian Assange From Extradition
Room temperature superconductivity is hard. LK-99 illustrates why
Ever since the phenomenon was first experimentally discovered back in 1911, superconductivity has been a potentially world-changing phenomenon. The possibility of transmitting electrical currents in a perfectly lossless fashion has countless applications, but unfortunately, all known materials only superconduct under extreme conditions. Although a few materials superconduct at relatively high temperatures, this phenomenon is very rare and requires a perfect alignment of physical circumstances. We unpack the reasons why here.
How the FBI goes after DDoS cyberattackers
Create and understand Automated Tests with ChatGPT
In this article, we’ll focus on using ChatGPT’s AI powers to generate effective test scripts. ChatGPT is a Generative AI tool, much like a virtual assistant. We’ll use this to create Selenium tests, Appium tests, Puppeteer and Playwright tests, all by simply specifying various prompts to the language model.
What is most likely going on in Area 51? A national security historian explains why you won’t find aliens there
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.
What is most likely going on in Area 51? – Griffin, age 10, South Lyon, Michigan
One of the reasons people can never be entirely sure about what is going on at Area 51 is that it is a highly classified secret military facility. It was not until 2013 that the U.S. government even acknowledged the existence and name “Area 51.”
Marco Buschmann und das staatliche Hacken
Justizminister Buschmann will staatliches Hacken einschränken, allerdings nur ein bisschen. Auch nach seinem aktuellen Gesetzentwurf dürften Staatstrojaner in vielen Fällen eingesetzt werden. Als Oppositionspolitiker sah Buschmann das Thema deutlich kritischer, legte gar Verfassungsbeschwerde ein. Wir veröffentlichen die Beschwerdeschrift.
Dieses Programm enthält Inhalte, die für Kinder, Jugendliche und empfindsame Zuschauer verstörend wirken können.
Nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs zerfiel das Kaiserreich Österreich-Ungarn. Österreich schrumpfte zu einer kleinen Republik. Die Folge: Groll und Enttäuschung in weiten Teilen der Bevölkerung – und ein Nährboden für den sogenannte Pangermanismus, das Streben nach der Einheit aller germanischen Völker. Eine Strömung, die mit Antisemitismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit gepaart war.
Die im Fahrwasser der deutschen NSDAP gegründete österreichische NS-Partei, die NSDAP-Hitlerbewegung, bekam immer mehr Zulauf. In einem instabilen politischen Umfeld verübte sie eine wachsende Zahl von Gewalttaten. Führende Köpfe waren Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Arthur Seyss-Inquart und Adolf Eichmann. Die später als Kriegsverbrecher verurteilten Männer machten Österreich zum Versuchslabor für den Unterdrückungsapparat der Nazis, bevor sie dessen Mechanismen nach dem „Anschluss“ voll übernahmen.
Unter dem Deckmantel der Euthanasie ermordeten sie Menschen mit körperlichen und geistigen Behinderungen in den Krankenhäusern und waren an der Errichtung des Konzentrationslagers Mauthausen beteiligt. Die österreichische Schwesterpartei der NSDAP wurde zur Vorreiterin bei der Verfolgung von Juden, ihrer systematischen Beraubung und der erzwungenen Emigration bis hin zu den allerersten Deportationen. Die von den Parteimitgliedern in ihrem Heimatland erworbene Erfahrung kam nach Kriegsausbruch im gesamten Deutschen Reich in den besetzten beziehungsweise annektierten Gebieten zum Einsatz.
Nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs jedoch sah sich Österreich unter Berufung auf den „Anschluss“ 1938 offiziell vor allem als erstes Opfer Adolf Hitlers und legte großen Wert darauf, die eigene Unschuld zu betonen. Mit dieser Mythenbildung weigerte sich das Land, seine Mitverantwortung für die Verbrechen des Dritten Reiches zuzugeben. Auch über die Beteiligung der österreichischen Bevölkerung am Vernichtungsapparat der Nazis wurde lieber geschwiegen. Erst 1991 erkannte der österreichische Staat offiziell an, dass Österreich eine Mitverantwortung an den bis dahin nur Deutschland zugeschriebenen Verbrechen trage.
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