thehackernews.com
> China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) has doubled down on claims that the threat actor known as the Volt Typhoon is a fabrication of the U.S. and its allies. > > The agency, in collaboration with the National Engineering Laboratory for Computer Virus Prevention Technology, went on to accuse the U.S. federal government, intelligence agencies, and Five Eyes countries of conducting cyber espionage activities against China, France, Germany, Japan, and internet users globally. > > It also said there's "ironclad evidence" indicating that the U.S. carries out false flag operations in an attempt to conceal its own malicious cyber attacks, adding it's inventing the "so-called danger of Chinese cyber attacks" and that it has established a "large-scale global internet surveillance network." > "The U.S. military base in Guam has not been a victim of the Volt Typhoon cyber attacks at all, but the initiator of a large number of cyberattacks against China and many Southeast Asian countries and the backhaul center of stolen data."
 >The woman reported having had to flee her property after 50 to 100 raccoons descended upon it and were acting aggressively, said Kevin McCarty, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office. She told deputies she started feeding a family of raccoons decades ago and it was fine until about six weeks earlier, when the number showing up went from a handful to around 100. > >“She said those raccoons were becoming increasingly more aggressive, demanding food, that they would hound her day and night — scratching at the outside of her home, at the door. If she pulled up her car, they would surround the car, scratch at the car, surround her if she went from her front door to her car or went outside at all,” McCarty said. “They saw this as a food source now, so they kept coming back to it and they kept expecting food.” > “The raccoons appear to have started dispersing now that they are no longer being fed, and we are glad for a positive outcome to this case,” Mire wrote.
i dont understand why other peoples brains dont think as good as mine do just like think more gooder for goshsakes it aint that hard thinking is one of the most important things your brain can do so if your brain aint that good at thinking just practice at it some and get gooder at it i use my brain for thinking almost every day thats how i got so good at having ideas and stuff and saying words good
>On Friday night, cryptocurrency scammers briefly hacked the LEGO website to promote a fake Lego token that could be purchased with Ethereum. > >During the breach, the hacker replaced the main banner for the official LEGO website with an image showing crypto tokens branded with the "LEGO" logo and text stating, "Our new LEGO Coin is officially out! Buy the new LEGO Coin today and unlock secret rewards!" > >According to LEGO Reddit moderator "mescad," the breach took place at 9 PM EST and lasted approximately 75 minutes until 10:15 PM ET, when the site was restored. > >Unlike many cryptocurrency scams, this one did not promote a malicious site with a crypto drainer that stole your assets when you connected your wallet. > >Instead, clicking the "Buy now" link brought visitors to the Uniswap cryptocurrency platform, where you could purchase the LEGO scam token using Ethereum. > > > >LEGO confirmed the breach to BleepingComputer but would not share details on how the threat actors gained access to their website. > >"On 5 October 2024, an unauthorised banner briefly appeared on LEGO.com. It was quickly removed, and the issue has been resolved," LEGO told BleepingComputer. > >"No user accounts have been compromised, and customers can continue shopping as usual. The cause has been identified and we are implementing measures to prevent this from happening again." > >Overall, the attack was a failure, with only a few people purchasing the LEGO token for a few hundred dollars.
Hi, my name is LegalizeMDMA GuillotineBillionaires and I'm running as a write-in candidate for the office of: any position that accepts write-in candidates. This is my platform: 1. Legalize MDMA 2. Guillotine Billionaires 3. Abolish Copyright 4. Opensource Everything 5. Ban Advertising
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did the ants domesticate the fungus, or did the fungus domesticate the ants?
arstechnica.com
>We tend to think of agriculture as a human innovation. But insects beat us to it by millions of years. Various ant species cooperate with fungi, creating a home for them, providing them with nutrients, and harvesting them as food. This reaches the peak of sophistication in the leafcutter ants, which cut foliage and return it to feed their fungi, which in turn form specialized growths that are harvested for food. But other ant species cooperate with fungi—in some cases strains of fungus that are also found growing in their environment. > >Genetic studies have shown that these symbiotic relationships are highly specific—a given ant species will often cooperate with just a single strain of fungus. A number of genes that appear to have evolved rapidly in response to strains of fungi take part in this cooperative relationship. But it has been less clear how the cooperation originally came about, partly because we don't have a good picture of what the undomesticated relatives of these fungi look like. > >Now, a large international team of researchers has done a study that traces the relationships among a large collection of both fungi and ants, providing a clearer picture of how this form of agriculture evolved. And the history this study reveals suggests that the cooperation between ants and their crops began after the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs, when little beyond fungi could thrive.
> Hundreds of workers at the Samsung electronics factory in India’s Tamil Nadu state staged roadblocks and a sit-in on Monday, September 30 as their strike entered its fourth week. Thousands of cadres of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from across Tamil Nadu also joined the call of the Samsung workers and risked arrest and police repression. > >According to the news reports, over 900 striking workers were detained by the police in the Kanchipuram district. The police also detained the state president of the Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU), A Soundararajan. They were released later that evening. > >Over 1,300 workers of Samsung electronics factory in Sriperumbudur, part of the Kanchipuram district near Chennai have been on strike since September 9 under the leadership of newly formed Samsung India Workers’ Union (SIWU) demanding recognition of their union, a salary increase, an end of discrimination, and better working conditions at the factory.
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Evergreen Terrace, American Hollow, Southpaw, and Let Me Bleed dropped out.
So now the highest billed band on the lineup is the Christian metalcore band "What We Seek".
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the t_d thread about this devolved into christian infighting arguing that catholics aren't real christians: https://archive.is/MLUgX
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actually he has 12 suits, one for each of his "rules for life": https://lgfgfashionhouse.com/en/catalog/jordan-peterson-book/
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hygrometer / humidifier / dehumidifier
www.ktnv.com
>The inaugural Neon City Festival lost a headliner just days after its lineup was first announced. > >Macklemore was among the headlining acts first announced on Thursday. In a brief statement Tuesday morning, festival organizers say the Grammy-winning rapper will no longer be performing at Neon City Festival "due to unforeseen circumstances." > >News that the rapper was removed from the Neon City lineup comes after his performance at the Palestine Will Love Forever Festival in Seattle over the weekend. A video of Macklemore yelling "Yeah, fuck America!" during his performance has since been viewed over a million times on social media. > >Macklemore has not kept his stance on the ongoing war in Gaza a secret. In May, he made headlines when he released "Hind's Hall," a rap single praising college students for their protests of the war and denouncing the U.S.'s role in the conflict. > >In March, he was also photographed alongside protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza during the 96th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. > >As Channel 13 previously reported, the free festival in downtown Las Vegas is scheduled to coincide with the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix. The remaining headliners include Seven Lions, Alison Wonderland, Russell Dickerson and Neon Trees. > >As of Tuesday, organizers say you can expect Macklemore to be replaced with a different act. > >"We are excited to announce new artists joining the NCF lineup shortly," they stated.
>Yesterday, the Winamp source code, build tools, and associated libraries for the Windows app were published on GitHub, allowing anyone to provide bug fixes and new features to the iconic media player. > >However, its license prohibits the distribution of modified software created through the release of this source code. https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp
>A Houston bankruptcy judge ruled on Tuesday that assets from the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s Infowars empire can be auctioned off to help pay families of the Sandy Hook mass shooting victims the defamation awards he owes them. > >The auction, set for mid-November, will include Infowars’ website, social media accounts, broadcasting equipment, product trademarks and inventory owned by Free Speech Systems, Infowars’ parent company. > >Mr. Jones’s fate as a broadcaster most likely depends on who buys his business. Though the Infowars name and assets are potentially of interest to a range of entities on the far right, under the terms of the sale anyone can bid.
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off-planet backups
negative latency networking
psychedelic nanobots
arstechnica.com
> Fans of ultra-viral mobile gaming hit *Flappy Bird* who were stunned by the game's sudden removal from the iOS App Store 10 years ago were probably even more stunned by last week's equally sudden announcement that *Flappy Bird* is coming back with a raft of new characters and game modes. Unfortunately, the new version of *Flappy Bird* seems to be the result of a yearslong set of legal maneuvers by a crypto-adjacent game developer intent on taking the "Flappy Bird" name from the game's original creator, Dong Nguyen. > > "No, I have no related with their game. I did not sell anything," Nguyen wrote on social media over the weekend in his first post since 2017. "I also don't support crypto," Nguyen added. > > "*Flappy Bird* was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed," Nguyen said in a 2014 interview after removing the game from mobile app stores. "But it happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem. To solve that problem, it’s best to take down Flappy Bird. It's gone forever." > > So how can another company release a game named *Flappy Bird* without Nguyen's approval or sale of the rights? Court filings show that a company called Gametech Holdings filed a "notice of opposition" against Nguyen with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in late 2023, seeking to invalidate his claim on the "Flappy Bird" name. When Nguyen, who lives in Vietnam, didn't respond to that notice by November, the US Patent and Trademark Office entered a default judgment against him and officially canceled his trademark in January, allowing Gametech to legally claim the name.
https://clppng.bandcamp.com/track/run-it-1 > "Run It" is from Clipping’s forthcoming new album, a long-in-the-works Hip-Hop and Cyberpunk project, due worldwide from Sub Pop in 2025.
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Yeah that's what I was gonna answer. Especially the /r9k/ board. Greentext stories about getting so flustered when a qt3.14 makes eye contact that you spill your spaghetti.
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write in Kamala for some position other than pres, then you can say you voted for her and it wouldn't be a lie
> A young Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan), eager to make his name as a hungry second son of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.
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If you can figure out what street they're on you could look in Google Street View to see how much trash was in the area previously.
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The history of the UkraineTakeShelter website he built is quite a rabbit hole.
- How a well-meaning tech solution for Ukraine almost became a 'Craigslist for pedophiles'
- A Website Resettling Ukrainian Refugees Got Adoring Headlines. Experts Say It Was Too Good to Be True.
While the American media gushed over UkraineTakeShelter, local activists on the ground in Poland and experts involved in privacy and humanitarian tech looked at the site with concern, outrage, and horror. Here was a site that had made headlines around the world — appearing in overwhelmingly positive stories on CNN, The TODAY Show, and ABC, among many others — but that didn’t verify hosts’ identities until March 21, nearly three weeks after it had gone live, a decision experts said put refugees that used the site at risk for human trafficking. In addition, the lax security measures have also exposed the private data of the hosts opening their homes to refugees, allowing anyone to see information including hosts’ phone numbers and email addresses with a few clicks.
"Look, I definitely agree I should have had a better verification system in place at the start," he says. "But the way I see it is, it's better late than never to add these features."
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rfk is polling high enough and is on the ballot in enough states now that he meets the eligibility criteria for the next debate
kamala should announce that she'll debate rfk if trump doesn't show up, i bet trump would change his mind and join in then
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feature-length movie + soundtrack album
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I'm usually a Delta-9 male, but Delta-8 edibles are fine too.
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Trump also appeared to forget that he was no longer in charge of foreign policy, leaving one interview early to “deal with” a conflict in Afghanistan.
“He [Trump] also seemed to think that he still had some foreign policy powers,” he noted. “There was one day where he told me he needed to go upstairs to deal with Afghanistan, even though he clearly didn’t,” he said, adding that Trump actually called the nation “the Afghanistan.”
lol at the image of trump saying "i have to go deal with the afghanistan" whenever he has to leave an interview to take a shit.
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they stay the same size, they're just farther away
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Decided to go down this rabbit hole and see what their sources are.
Here's the "research" report PDF.
These are the two papers in Chinese that they cite to support their claims:
- "Improve psychological protection capabilities to help win the battle of the future"
- "Aiming at Future Wars and Fighting the 'Five Battles' of Cognition"
Here is a machine translation of a paragraph from the first paper. This seems to be what they're basing all of their claims on.
The production of biological weapons such as sleep weapons, brain-computer interfaces, brain-controlled weapons, and genetic drugs directly affects cognition, emotion, will, and behavior from the physiological point of view, which is more direct and lethal than traditional psychological influences. The fact that war deprives military personnel of sleep has been widely circulated, and as early as the 70s of the last century, Britain began to study sleeping weapons. From sleep glasses to keep one's own personnel awake and "nightless" drugs to soft-kill radio waves that cause drowsiness and thirst in the enemy, future research that genetically alters physiological limits is moving toward the center of the battlefield. Recently, the brain-controlled weapons developed have made the ideal of "a soldier who surrenders without a fight" a reality, and it is also one of the ultimate weapons that will change the tide of war in the future. Such an endless stream of biological weapons has impacted the physical and psychological state of combatants, causing a huge threat to the physical and psychological safety of military personnel.
And then these are the two papers they cite as evidence that China is developing mind control energy weapons:
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He's not running, the DNC is planning to run Kamala, and this is more evidence for that. Notice how her picture is on every page, and her name is mentioned whenever Joe's is. The donate page is even more egregious. Everything on whitehouse.gov refers to the "Biden-Harris administration", and all the press releases make sure to mention her name as much as possible.