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and a lot, a lot, of web sites aren't able to be patched.
Annegret Hilse/Reuters
France, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands took government websites offline Wednesday after web developers used AI to identify a bug affecting up to 70% of the world’s websites. The exploit is “the most severe AI vulnerability… ever found,” the co-founder of Google’s Wiz cybersecurity team told The Wall Street Journal, adding that humans probably couldn’t have discovered it without AI. Japan’s prime minister also urged “everyone to take action tonight” to apply the newly-released fixes. But AI will enable hackers to reverse engineer the bug in a “race to exploit” the public fix, a cybersecurity researcher told Reuters, with their next step being the “mass compromise of every vulnerable web server on the internet.”
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Biologists seek justice for forgotten kingdom of fungi | CBC News
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I ordered a meal with sautéed mushrooms today. Does that count? I scraped them off but I still ordered it. Should count.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/scientists-discovered-a-snake-that-cartwheels-away-from-danger-and-its-hilarious/
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The main determinant in data-center construction models isn’t physical capacity or power, he argued. Instead, it’s the actual price users are willing to pay for compute.
But companies will only pay a high price if it translates to higher revenue growth, bigger profits, or substantial savings—and there its little sign any of those exist at scale, Slok wrote.
“Maybe that will come in the future. Maybe not,” he warned.
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Odd that the hallucinations are just humans and not other things or creatures moving around,
This mysterious mushroom makes people see hundreds of tiny humans
Date:October 25, 2026Source:University of UtahSummary:For nearly a century, people in distant parts of the world have reported a bizarre experience after eating certain wild mushrooms: seeing dozens or even hundreds of tiny, colorful humans moving through the real world. Now, scientists have identified a mushroom species, Lanmaoa asiatica, responsible for these extraordinary hallucinations in China and the Philippines.
https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-causes-fairytale-hallucinations
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Reading about PANDAS, pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcus
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/25/metro/pandas-pans-mgb-clinic-closure/
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Sounds like The Teachings of Don Juan..
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Inflammaging, taurine, and the innate immune system
https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/amino-acid-diminishes-age-related-inflammation/
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GM’s patent that was recently filed for a new inline 6
Another great example of things being way over complicated.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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If I am seeing that right, the pistons don't turn a crankshaft directly, rather they reciprocate, and the rocker arm they are attached to turns a separate shaft, which in turn rotates a third shaft via gears, which then rotates the original (main) crankshaft through a separate set of gears. I wondered why, but then I realized the gearing creates a speed-up of the third shaft, i.e. the main crankshaft output is actually faster than the piston RPMs. In other words, it seems the gearbox is in the engine. I still wonder why.
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Yeah, that’s what you’re seeing. The extra gears are for adjusting the compression during different types of driving. That way it uses more of the fuel instead of passing it through the exhaust, supposedly making it more fuel efficient. All I see is them adding more weight, more friction, and more shìt to tear up….instead of just adding a turbo.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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I see. Knowing the intent helps with deciphering the mechanics, and clears up the graph a bit, too. The gearing somehow retards or advances the position of the piston relative to the firing point. When you mentioned compression, at first I though the gears were being used to vary the distance between the rocker center and the center of the secondary shaft (which it might do), but the point is to change height of the piston at TDC, while the engine is running. Just guessing, but retarding or advancing the timing electronically won't accomplish the same thing because that won't change the compression.
Regardless, you surely right about the complexity, and it will probably quadruple (at least) the cost of manufacturing the engine.
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Thanks for a trip down the rabbit hole, launched me into the history of nu.here
https://grokipedia.com/page/Nu_(letter)
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"Hinton, 78, said that within a decade and possibly sooner, humanity will know whether it can manage the technology’s risks and enable what he called “radical abundance” or whether “we fail to manage the risks and … have a huge gap between rich and poor, huge cultural problems, massive unemployment, just society being torn apart”.
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Wellllllll duhhhhhhh
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If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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"For now, keep an eye on your teenager and ask yourself: Are they acting like a divorced 45-year-old accountant more than usual? Because that might be the rapid biological aging at work."
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Theory predicting an older universe without dark matter or dark energy passes key cosmological tests
https://phys.org/news/2026-11-theory-older-universe-dark-energy.html
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Gee, I didn't see this coming.
FBI flash alert says Artex tool automating cyberattacks at ‘machine speed’ | The Record from Recorded Future News https://share.google/EXqYbMArU7u50W92e
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It’s well documented that extreme wealth melts one’s brain. As Helen Riess and Liz Neporent write in “The Empathy Effect”: “Scientific studies have shown there is an inverse relationship between power and empathy. This distance often insulates the rich and powerful from the suffering of the everyday person.”
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