Who could have ever imagined that quantum computing is another money making scam?
Cheating on Quantum Computing Benchmarks
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/cheating-on-quantum-computing-benchmarks.html
Cheating on Quantum Computing Benchmarks
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/cheating-on-quantum-computing-benchmarks.html
Schneier on Security
Cheating on Quantum Computing Benchmarks - Schneier on Security
Peter Gutmann and Stephan Neuhaus have a new paper—I think it’s new, even though it has a March 2025 date—that makes the argument that we shouldn’t trust any of the quantum factorization benchmarks, because everyone has been cooking the books: Similarly,…
EVERYDAY PRIVACY: The Guide
This guide is for you, not a spy, not a criminal, not even a tech nerd, just a regular person living an ordinary life, like most people.
https://liberlion3.wordpress.com/privacy/
This guide is for you, not a spy, not a criminal, not even a tech nerd, just a regular person living an ordinary life, like most people.
https://liberlion3.wordpress.com/privacy/
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Privacy
EVERYDAY PRIVACY: The Guide To understand the basics of privacy, I recommend reading my article, Everyday Privacy: The Fundamentals This guide is for you, not a spy, not a criminal, not even a tech…
DARPA Generative Optogenetics (GO) program gathers biosecurity, regulatory advisers for commercializing programmable biology tech
DARPA GO could be used for human performance enhancement & bioengineered super-soldiers, along with the ability for total mind control by reading, writing into the brain: perspective
https://sociable.co/military-technology/darpa-generative-optogenetics-go-biosecurity-regulatory-advisers-commercializing-programmable-biology/
DARPA GO could be used for human performance enhancement & bioengineered super-soldiers, along with the ability for total mind control by reading, writing into the brain: perspective
https://sociable.co/military-technology/darpa-generative-optogenetics-go-biosecurity-regulatory-advisers-commercializing-programmable-biology/
Mined in America Act Would Put Bitcoin Network at Risk
...introduced by Senator Cassidy of Louisiana and Senator Lummis of Wyoming is the first instance of the United States Federal Government addressing Bitcoin mining from a national security perspective.
The bill establishes a certification program requiring a phase out of foreign adversary produced mining hardware and barring foreign ownership in order to receive government grants, loans, and capital gains exemptions. It also seeks to explicitly codify a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve in legislation following the Executive Order signed by Trump last year, introducing financial incentives for miners to sell their coins to the United States government.
This would establish a subsidy and incentive framework that disproportionately benefits “certified” miners in the United States, distorting the overall economic incentives of the Bitcoin network, and captures U.S. based miners in a situation where dependence on associated loan or grant programs makes it economically non-viable for them to deny government demands for further information or monitoring.
https://www.therage.co/mined-in-america-act-bitcoin-at-risk/
...introduced by Senator Cassidy of Louisiana and Senator Lummis of Wyoming is the first instance of the United States Federal Government addressing Bitcoin mining from a national security perspective.
The bill establishes a certification program requiring a phase out of foreign adversary produced mining hardware and barring foreign ownership in order to receive government grants, loans, and capital gains exemptions. It also seeks to explicitly codify a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve in legislation following the Executive Order signed by Trump last year, introducing financial incentives for miners to sell their coins to the United States government.
This would establish a subsidy and incentive framework that disproportionately benefits “certified” miners in the United States, distorting the overall economic incentives of the Bitcoin network, and captures U.S. based miners in a situation where dependence on associated loan or grant programs makes it economically non-viable for them to deny government demands for further information or monitoring.
https://www.therage.co/mined-in-america-act-bitcoin-at-risk/
The Rage
Mined in America Act Would Put Bitcoin Network at Risk
The bill would effectively turn miners into their own surveillance teams, collecting and reporting information to the government in exchange for economic favoritism.
If you invested $10,000 in Bitcoin, Trump meme coin, and gold when Trump took office, here's what you'd have today
Bitcoin: $10,000 becomes $5,880
Gold: $10,000 becomes $15,248
Trump Coin: $10,000 becomes $430
https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/if-you-invested-10000-in-bitcoin-trump-meme-coin-and-gold-when-trump-took-office-heres-what-youd-have-today
Bitcoin: $10,000 becomes $5,880
Gold: $10,000 becomes $15,248
Trump Coin: $10,000 becomes $430
https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/if-you-invested-10000-in-bitcoin-trump-meme-coin-and-gold-when-trump-took-office-heres-what-youd-have-today
TheStreet Crypto: Bitcoin and cryptocurrency news, advice, analysis and more
If you invested $10,000 in Bitcoin, Trump meme coin, and gold when Trump took office, here's what you'd have today
One man's presidency. Three very different investment outcomes. The numbers tell a story nobody predicted quite right.
Dissent Is Not Disloyalty: The Right and Duty to Criticize the Government
...In Trump’s America, the president is free to call other nations bad actors, label his opponents dangerous, and treat disagreement as betrayal.
But dare to criticize Trump, his administration, ICE, the police state, the war machine, the surveillance state, or the government’s steady assault on the Constitution, and you may find yourself treated as the threat.
This is the hypocrisy of the moment: those in power claim an unlimited right to criticize everyone else, while increasingly denying the people the right to criticize them.
Criticize the government, question the police state, object to ICE raids, oppose war, challenge corruption, reject propaganda, refuse to salute the party line, or insist that public officials obey the Constitution, and you may find yourself accused of being anti-American, extremist, subversive, ungrateful, communist, terrorist-adjacent or worse.
This is how free speech dies: not all at once, but by redefining dissent as disloyalty...
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/dissent_is_not_disloyalty_the_right_and_duty_to_criticize_the_government
...In Trump’s America, the president is free to call other nations bad actors, label his opponents dangerous, and treat disagreement as betrayal.
But dare to criticize Trump, his administration, ICE, the police state, the war machine, the surveillance state, or the government’s steady assault on the Constitution, and you may find yourself treated as the threat.
This is the hypocrisy of the moment: those in power claim an unlimited right to criticize everyone else, while increasingly denying the people the right to criticize them.
Criticize the government, question the police state, object to ICE raids, oppose war, challenge corruption, reject propaganda, refuse to salute the party line, or insist that public officials obey the Constitution, and you may find yourself accused of being anti-American, extremist, subversive, ungrateful, communist, terrorist-adjacent or worse.
This is how free speech dies: not all at once, but by redefining dissent as disloyalty...
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/dissent_is_not_disloyalty_the_right_and_duty_to_criticize_the_government
www.rutherford.org
Dissent Is Not Disloyalty: The Right and Duty to Criticize the Government | By John & Nisha Whitehead
Criticizing the government is not a crime. It is the right—and duty—of a free people.
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ShinyHunters published 45GB of Madison Square Garden data, including facial recognition surveillance records
The leaked data includes internal risk profiles of celebrities, customer emails about facial recognition concerns, and biometric surveillance logs from up to 26 million visitors
https://thenextweb.com/news/shinyhunters-madison-square-garden-45gb-data-leak-facial-recognition
ShinyHunters published 45GB of Madison Square Garden data, including facial recognition surveillance records
The leaked data includes internal risk profiles of celebrities, customer emails about facial recognition concerns, and biometric surveillance logs from up to 26 million visitors
https://thenextweb.com/news/shinyhunters-madison-square-garden-45gb-data-leak-facial-recognition
TNW
ShinyHunters published 45GB of Madison Square Garden data, including facial recognition surveillance records
ShinyHunters leaked 45GB of MSG data after a missed ransom deadline, exposing biometric surveillance records and triggering a class action lawsuit.
Its never ending and will only get worse
AI company’s breached biometrics, ID document images make deepfake fraud easier
Mercor, an AI company valued at $10 billion, has been the victim of a major data breach which appears to include ID documents along with user face and voice biometrics.
The highly valued startup supplies training data to major artificial intelligence companies including Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta. The three‑year‑old firm said the breach was tied to a wider supply chain attack on the open‑source library LiteLLM.
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/ai-companys-breached-biometrics-id-document-images-make-deepfake-fraud-easier
AI company’s breached biometrics, ID document images make deepfake fraud easier
Mercor, an AI company valued at $10 billion, has been the victim of a major data breach which appears to include ID documents along with user face and voice biometrics.
The highly valued startup supplies training data to major artificial intelligence companies including Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta. The three‑year‑old firm said the breach was tied to a wider supply chain attack on the open‑source library LiteLLM.
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/ai-companys-breached-biometrics-id-document-images-make-deepfake-fraud-easier
Biometric Update
AI company’s breached biometrics, ID document images make deepfake fraud easier
Mercor, an AI company valued at $10B, has fallen victim of a major data breach which appears to include ID documents along with user face and voice biometrics.
The Lunduke Computer Operating System
The Lunduke Computer Operating System (LCOS) adheres to a core set of ideas:
No Age or ID Verification.
No Online Accounts Needed.
No AI.
No Weird Politics.
No Systemd.
No Forced Rust Clones.
Modern Tech. 90s UI.
LCOS is built on top of Devuan (a high quality fork of Debian, which removes Systemd), and includes carefully selected software to adhere to those core ideals (including the stripped-down Brave Origin as the default web browser).
https://github.com/BryanLunduke/LCOS
The Lunduke Computer Operating System (LCOS) adheres to a core set of ideas:
No Age or ID Verification.
No Online Accounts Needed.
No AI.
No Weird Politics.
No Systemd.
No Forced Rust Clones.
Modern Tech. 90s UI.
LCOS is built on top of Devuan (a high quality fork of Debian, which removes Systemd), and includes carefully selected software to adhere to those core ideals (including the stripped-down Brave Origin as the default web browser).
https://github.com/BryanLunduke/LCOS