Cyber Shen

I ❤️ cybersecurity!
Learning about consciousness, hidden physics, and connected car technologies.

[Mo @atmoio]

Once the bubble pops, Anthropic and OpenAI will become the Coinbase and Block of the AI world. Mundane companies that ship narrative wrappers on mundane bytes.

That the bubble will pop isn’t some apocalyptic doomsday prophecy. It’s not that complicated: AI is freakishly expensive to serve. If the returns on the other end are not justified, the bubble pops. And thus begins the decades long buildout to actually economically justifiable AI.

It’s amusing how resistant reality is to our fictions and fantasies. In the peak of the crypto bubble we thought reality was going to be transformed into financial liberty and democratization for all, and network states and decentralized reserve currencies. Coinbase stood to be a multi-trillion dollar company and is now just a mundane tech startup.

Today we spin similar narratives about the intellectual upheaval of AI, about the new democratization of intelligence and how everything will soon begin to orbit this new technology.

At the end, Anthropic and OpenAI will be mundane IT providers with an insanely grim research outlook to make AI economically sensible and useful, no different from Google’s position in trying to make quantum commercially viable.

Reality is, fortunately, pretty hardened against our delusions.

[Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard]

My husband Abraham was diagnosed with a very rare sacral chordoma. The surgery to remove bone and surrounding tissue lasted almost seven hours and was successful. He had a rough night and is in a lot of pain but is finally home resting. Now recovery begins. We’re so grateful for the outpouring of prayers and kind messages from all of you. Our hearts are full. ❤️

[Harshi Peiris, Ph.D. @Neuroscope_mp]

🚨 BREAKING Scientists may have just cracked the code on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's — WITH ONE PILL.

A drug called Buntanetap was just published in a peer-reviewed journal with Phase 3 data.
Phase 3 means that we are on the verge of FDA approval.

It targets the ROOT CAUSE of both diseases simultaneously.

Here's what you need to know 🧵👇
#Alzheimers #Parkinsons

[Interstellar @InterstellarUAP]

This woman just shattered everything I thought I knew about quantum physics in 60 seconds 😱

"Quantum physics isn’t just science, it’s logical spirituality. You don’t attract what you want. You align with what you already are."

Every version of you already exists in the quantum field - The wealthy you, the happy you, the successful you.

"The quantum field doesn’t respond to begging. It responds to certainty."

Your most powerful tool is visualization.

‘Our minds don’t know the difference between imagination and reality.’

Time isn’t linear, you can pull your future into the now & re-code your past.

You are not a person inside the universe.

You ARE the universe experiencing itself through you.

"Go live like the miracle you are.”

[Billy Carson II @4biddnKnowledge]

They removed this from your education ON PURPOSE!

Ancient civilizations had mapped the human body, the cosmos, and consciousness itself thousands of years before modern science had the instruments to catch up.

Here are 7 things they knew that most people will never be told:

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX has almost finished writing V1.0 of an in-house AI training stack in C that exact-maps to 220k GB300s with 800G NICs, making heavy use of pipeline parallelism and getting as close to bare metal as possible.

The potential speed improvement vs JAX for large training runs is over an order of magnitude.

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Golden retriever puppy heals rescued kitten in just three days..🐕🐾🐈😊

[Cyber Shen @CyberShen]

55515 Quantum Code

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 WOMAN SAYS REPEATING THIS 5-DIGIT “QUANTUM CODE” SHUTS OFF PHYSICAL PAIN — AND PEOPLE ARE FREAKING OUT AFTER TRYING IT

A woman is going viral after claiming physical pain can be reduced without medication… simply by repeating a mysterious number sequence:

“55515.”

According to her, the sequence acts like a “quantum code” that sends a signal from the brain directly into the area of pain to calm the body naturally.

Her instructions:
• sit with the pain
• focus on where it’s coming from
• repeat the code over and over
• allow the body to “receive the signal”

But the internet immediately took the video down a much deeper rabbit hole.

People are now connecting it to the CIA’s declassified Gateway Process documents, the controversial research program that explored consciousness, frequencies, altered states, and the hidden potential of the human mind.

Now the comments are completely spiraling:

• “Why did this actually calm my migraine??”
• “The human brain is way more powerful than we’ve been taught.”
• “Why was the CIA researching consciousness in the first place?”
• “This sounded insane… until I tried it!”

What exactly did the CIA discover about the human mind… and why does it feel like the public still only knows a fraction of it?

📹: TikTok/aviaamber_

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Fewer than 100 people worldwide are known to have this extraordinary condition.

A rare instance of hyperthymesia—also called highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM)—offers a striking glimpse into how the human brain can construct a vivid, structured, and navigable mental landscape of a lifetime's experiences.

Picture entering a mental "white room" where every personal moment is meticulously archived: memories filed in binders by theme, chronology, and emotional tone, or visualized as photographs and text messages on shelves. For a 17-year-old French high-school student referred to as TL, this is her everyday experience—not a metaphor, but a controlled cognitive reality.

TL, one of the fewer than 100 documented cases of hyperthymesia, can voluntarily "re-experience" past events with full sensory detail, often from multiple perspectives, and even choose to compartmentalize difficult memories (such as sealing painful ones away in a mental chest) while shifting focus to calmer "rooms" to regulate emotions like anger.

What sets TL apart is her ability to also "pre-experience" future scenarios with comparable vividness and emotional richness—a capacity known as episodic future thinking. This allows her to mentally simulate upcoming personal events as if they are already unfolding.

Researchers describe her memory system as a sophisticated, self-organized architecture that she accesses at will, providing exceptional voluntary control over autobiographical recall—unlike many others with hyperthymesia who find their memories intrusive or overwhelming.

By studying TL's unique case, scientists gain valuable insight into the neural mechanisms of mental time travel: the ability to flexibly revisit the past and project into the future. This reveals memory not merely as passive storage, but as a dynamic, spatially and emotionally structured framework that shapes personal identity and our sense of continuity across time.

The findings, detailed in a 2025 case study, highlight how such exceptional cognitive organization may deepen our understanding of human consciousness and autobiographical memory.

[La Corte, V., Piolino, P., & Cohen, L. (2025). Autobiographical hypermnesia as a particular form of mental time travel. Neurocase. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2025.2537950]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A 77 year old Russian grandma shocked the gaming world after solo-wiping a full enemy team on Dust2 in Counter-Strike 2, a squad of teens who had no idea what was coming.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

❗️🚨 BREAKING: Researchers used Mythos Preview to find the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple's M5 silicon, they give a glimpse into Mythos say it’s really powerful.

Apple spent five years and an estimated several billion dollars building Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), the hardware-assisted memory safety system built around ARM's MTE. It was the flagship security feature of the M5 and A19, designed specifically to kill the entire memory corruption bug class.

Researchers from Calif built a working exploit in five days.

According to Apple's own research, MIE disrupts every public exploit chain against modern iOS, including the recently leaked Coruna and Darksword kits. Calif walked into Apple Park this week and handed over the report in person.

Full 55-page technical report drops after Apple patches the vulnerability.

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

Tibetan monks sit upright in meditation for days even after clinical death.

And their dead bodies refuse to decay which breaks every rule of medicine.

How?

Thukdam

It completely breaks the medical model of death.

Tibetan monks enter this meditative state during the dying process. Their bodies remain fresh, upright, warm to the touch. No rigor mortis. No decomposition. No putrid smell. For up to 17 days after every cardiac monitor, EEG, and respiratory sensor confirms they are clinically dead.

Western medicine defines death as the irreversible cessation of brain and cardiovascular function. The moment electrical activity in the brain stops, consciousness is gone. The body begins immediate decay. Cells start breaking down within minutes. The temperature drops. Muscles stiffen.

Thukdam monks violate every part of that sequence.

Richard Davidson at the University of Wisconsin has been documenting these cases for over a decade. Brain scans of Thukdam practitioners show organized neural activity continuing long after clinical death. Organized. Coordinated. Purposeful electrical patterns that correlate with deep meditative states.

The implications shatter how we understand the relationship between mind and brain.

If consciousness can persist and even direct bodily processes after clinical death, the brain cannot be the generator of consciousness. At minimum, consciousness operates through biological systems in ways that transcend current neurological models. At maximum, consciousness exists independently of the brain and uses the nervous system as an interface, a control panel, rather than its source.

This connects to something neuroscientists have been quietly discovering for years: the hard problem of consciousness remains completely unsolved. We can map every neuron, track every chemical signal, stimulate every brain region with electromagnetic pulses. We still cannot explain how subjective experience arises from neural activity. Why there is an inner observer behind your eyes reading these words. Why you experience the color red as "redness" rather than just processing wavelengths of light.

Thukdam suggests the hard problem is unsolvable because we have the relationship backwards.

Instead of brain creating consciousness, consciousness might be using brain as a temporary biological vehicle.

Death removes the vehicle but the consciousness that was operating it continues in a transition state.

The monks who achieve Thukdam spend decades training their awareness through specific meditative practices. Shamatha, vipassana, and particularly the Tibetan practice of death meditation where practitioners repeatedly simulate the dying process to maintain conscious control as biological functions shut down. They are training to remain aware during the transition most humans experience as unconscious dissolution.

What makes this especially disturbing for materialist neuroscience is that Thukdam practitioners can be predicted. Teachers who spend 40+ years in intensive meditation often enter this state. Novices almost never do. This suggests conscious control over the death process is a learnable skill that develops with practice. The same way you can train your body to run marathons or perform complex physical skills, you can apparently train your consciousness to maintain coherence after biological death.

The preservation of the physical body during Thukdam implies consciousness was actively maintaining cellular integrity before death and continues to influence biological processes afterward. Decay is an active process involving bacterial growth, chemical breakdown, and loss of cellular organization. Something is preventing that cascade from beginning. Something operating outside normal biological control systems.

Traditional Tibetan Buddhism describes Thukdam as the consciousness slowly withdrawing from the body in stages rather than departing instantly at clinical death. The practitioner remains in meditation within the corpse, gradually releasing attachment to the physical form. This matches what researchers observe: bodies that look alive but show no vital signs, maintained in meditative postures for days.

Modern medicine treats death as a binary switch. Alive, then dead. Thukdam reveals death as a gradual process that consciousness can navigate deliberately. This opens therapeutic possibilities for end of life care that Western palliative medicine never considers. If consciousness persists during clinical death, dying patients might benefit from meditative guidance rather than just pain management.

The deeper implications reach into fundamental questions about the nature of reality itself. If individual consciousness can persist independently of biological function, the materialist assumption that mind emerges from brain becomes untenable. Something non physical is operating through physical systems and can continue operating after those systems shut down.

Thukdam forces us to consider that consciousness might be the fundamental substrate of reality, not an emergent property of complex matter arrangements. That every living being is consciousness temporarily expressing through biological form. That death is return to original nature rather than extinction of individual existence.

Most people encounter this possibility as religious speculation or metaphysical wishful thinking. Thukdam provides measurable, documented evidence that challenges every assumption about consciousness, death, and the relationship between mind and matter.

The monks sitting in meditation after clinical death are quietly conducting the most important consciousness research on Earth.

[Mo @atmoio]

The AI industry just invented a new job. Wait until you hear what it does.

[News from Google @NewsFromGoogle]

The Google Threat Intelligence Group has detected the first known instance of a threat actor using an AI-developed zero-day exploit in the wild. While the attackers planned a wide-scale strike, our proactive counter-discovery may have prevented that from happening. This finding is part of our new report on AI-powered threats.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Boom! Scientists Discovered a Hidden Superhighway Inside You That Might Finally Explain Why Acupuncture Actually Works!

How tattooed skin biopsies proved something over 4,000 years old.

Buckle up…research just dropped a bombshell that is rewriting the human anatomy textbook and high fiving ancient healers at the same time!

Deep inside your body lies an enormous, previously overlooked network called the interstitium. It is a vast, fluid filled web that acts like a secret third circulatory system alongside your blood vessels and lymphatics. It is not just empty space between tissues.

It is a dynamic, interconnected superhighway made of collagen bundles suspended in a shimmering hyaluronic acid gel that soaks up water and lets fluids, cells, and molecules flow slowly but surely throughout your entire body, from skin to muscles to organs and back again.

For over a century, scientists saw these spaces as isolated little pockets. But groundbreaking work starting in 2018 by pathologists revealed the jaw dropping truth: it is one giant, continuous network.

When researchers examined tattooed skin biopsies, the ink particles had boldly marched from the skin deep into the fascia below, traveling through the interstitium in ways that made scientists say, That was not supposed to happen!
Here is where it gets truly electrifying.

This hidden highway might finally give Western medicine the biological proof it has been craving for acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

For 4000 years, TCM has described chi flowing along 12 specific meridians. Acupuncture needles target precise points along those lines.

Skeptics have long asked for hard science. Now they have it.

Studies, including tracer injections and dye experiments in living volunteers, show that when you inject dye into an acupuncture point, it does not just sit there or race through veins.

It flows exactly along the traditional meridian pathways through the interstitial spaces between muscles, heading straight toward the heart. The dye follows the interstitium like a GPS guided river.

Rebecca Wells, one of the lead scientists, sums it up perfectly:

“I actually do think that the interstitium could be the link between Eastern and Western medicine”.

The implications are massive and mind blowing.

Cancer cells may hitch rides on this network to metastasize.

It could explain autoimmune flare ups where gut particles travel to distant organs.

It might even unlock better treatments for Type 2 diabetes by revealing how interstitial cells influence healthy fat production during weight gain.

This is not just a cool anatomy fact. It is a paradigm shift that could reshape pain management, chronic disease treatment, and how we think about the body as a whole.
Evolutionarily speaking, similar fluid systems appear in ancient creatures going back hundreds of millions of years.

The interstitium is not new. It has been with us since the dawn of multicellular life. We are only now catching up.

This discovery is pure science magic: ancient wisdom validated by cutting edge research, turning what looked like disconnected puzzle pieces into one breathtaking picture of how our bodies really work.

When reading this, be sure to send condolences to the “debunkers” that stole this 4,000 year old empirical science from your health. They were wrong.

Dive into the actual research papers:

The groundbreaking discovery of the interstitium: https://t.co/cqX5kzcVDZ

The study on continuity of interstitial spaces across the body: https://t.co/MeW2ZzPm3z

Research visualizing fluorescent dye migration along acupuncture meridians: https://t.co/C8juE92PA0

Your body just got a whole lot more awesome. The future of medicine is flowing through the interstitium right now, and it is going to be legendary!

[Department of War 🇺🇸 @DeptofWar]

https://t.co/rzCVvUU3mu

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Here is the list of every school district, college, and university impacted by the ShinyHunter's Canvas compromise. It is nearly indeed over 9,000 schools because it includes entire school districts.

Here is a list of every place currently impacted:
https://t.co/E9wCXYGczw

[Cyber Shen @CyberShen]

This is no bueno…😬

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

ShinyHunters compromised Canvas (to a currently unknown extent) which resulted in a "this system has been compromised" to over 9,000 universities.

As ridiculous as that sounds, I'm not memeing. It has been speculated it is actually over 9,000 universities.

ShinyHunters is having their ALPHV moment. They're now going to get attention at a serious scale outside of the information security circle.