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[LOCATEFUN @LOCATEFUN]

@Bober_smart @Apple

[Bober_smart @Bober_smart]

It is becoming f*cking dangerous: The Claude Code tool found absolutely every shot that I considered permanently deleted from my iPhone. Data spanning 4 years of photos and videos was continuously stored in a disguised system cache. Every application with permissions to the file system had direct access to them

I synced my smartphone with a MacBook to create a backup. Then I ran the Claude Code vulnerability scan mentioned in my previous post. The scanner unexpectedly flagged a folder that I had not even asked it to check, a system directory named PhotoData/Thumbnails containing over 183,000 items. Pictures, video clips, screenshots, absolutely everything I had gotten rid of

Archives for 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Shots I deleted instantly after taking them. Photos for which I manually cleared the Recently Deleted section. Originals that I double checked and erased a second time just to be safe. All of it was still stored there

What exactly was found in that cache:

A random photo of a recipe from a cookbook from 2023

Screenshots of shopping lists and notes with daily chores

Failed takes and blurry landscape shots deleted right during a walk

A screenshot of a bus schedule from 2022 captured for just a few seconds

Photos of price tags and store labels deleted right at the checkout

A saved meme image from social media that I deleted back in 2024

A total of 173,521 files. Some of them in original resolution. Everything neatly sorted chronologically starting from 2021

When you delete media on an iPhone, iOS simply removes it from your gallery and trash. In reality, iOS keeps compressed copies in the Spotlight search index directory. That is precisely how fast keyphrase search works on your phone. Apple never clears this area, not after a month, not after a year. Claims of permanent deletion are simply untrue

I decided to check the list of software that has permission to access Files and Folders. It turned out there were 19 of them: weather utilities, QR code scanners, PDF readers, and even an old flashlight app installed in 2021. Any of these applications could freely read the data I considered destroyed all this time

I cut down the list of these applications from 19 to 5 in just a couple of clicks

The beauty of modern technology is that it allows us to recall what we have long forgotten

[LOCATEFUN @LOCATEFUN]

The Truth About Elon Musk and the Ukraine Starlink Timeline https://t.co/F6XtEOdwI5 via @YouTube

[Herbert Ong @herbertong]

Where does SpaceX find $400 billion?

That's the puzzle @TeslaLarry raises, and it's a big one.

The forecasts came in so fast that his own numbers had to be redone, and he says SpaceX could be $300–400B in the hole before that money comes back.

No one person can pledge that, not even Elon. It's underwriting at the highest level, with the top banks looking through to the committed customers and their cash flow.

But if anybody can swing it, Elon can.

$SPCX

[LOCATEFUN @LOCATEFUN]

@pbeisel

[phil beisel @pbeisel]

You can now track FSD supervised+unsupervised miles in one place.

https://t.co/YGqT0fLN9c

The page updates exactly at the rate of the Tesla pages, includes a forecast and will show the rate of change over time.

As the rate changes, the week-over-week calculation will be displayed.

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

From India to Canada to the Middle East to Europe, countries no longer know whether they can trust America.

The consequences could be disastrous.

My take:

[codila @0xCodila]

While I reverse engineering my Wi-Fi router, Claude found f*cking scary privacy problem...

Internet provider sees every site I open and can change anything in my router without asking me

here's what else it found and 5 steps to fix yours:

what Claude found:

• my router keeps a list of 29 devices that ever touched my Wi-Fi and see when new connects

• my provider can reach into my router any time, Claude found channel hiding in my connection name, and I have no way to turn it off

• every site I opened was looked up though my provider in plain text

• my provider's app on my TV box kept sending data while TV was off

• and much more...

and it's not just me:

- about 1 billion devices have this remote channel (University of Innsbruck)
- researhers pulled 2 billion+ router locations from Apple's Wi-Fi database, accurate to meters (University of Maryland)

how to fix yours:

1. install repo below (It also helps improve Wi-Fi speed) and send Claude Code a photo of your router
2. change admin password from the one on the sticker
3. turn on encrypted DNS, your provider stops seeing your lookups
4. turn on Private Wi-Fi Address, your phone stops showing its real ID to every router
5. add _normal to your Wi-Fi name, Apple and Google stop adding it to their location maps

Do it as soon as possible. Then read article below on how to find these problems in other tech:

[AleXandra Merz @TeslaBoomerMama]

Yes, we are at 11.3 million shares signed.
Freaking unbelievable.

Please keep signing, we need to send this out on Monday, so time is short:
->
https://t.co/DCV2jIj3eI

[Herbert Ong @herbertong]

Can SpaceX really put up 25% of all new US compute next year?

@altcap's Brad Gerstner broke down the numbers from the call:

- 200,000 GB300s stood up every month
- 3 GW by year end
- 10 GW next year, out of about 43 GW for the whole US

And the payback? @TeslaLarry says it's roughly one year of revenue, and SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen says it's getting down to 6 months.

Elon even says there's a path to 20 GW.

$SPCX

[LOCATEFUN @LOCATEFUN]

@realDonaldTrump @SecScottBessent @SecRubio

[𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚𝒏𝒆 𝑳 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @TKouilou]

🇷🇺 Aveu rare d'un propagandiste Poutine : la Russie ne peut plus attaquer !

Le Z-blogueur Mikhaïl Zvintchouk (« Rybar »), en direct sur « Soloviev Live » : l'offensive russe en Ukraine est paralysée par les drones ukrainiens.
Et pas question de régler ça avec une mobilisation en plus.

- 120 km : la profondeur à laquelle les drones ukrainiens pulvérisent les camions logistiques russes, un par un.

- Plus de 100 km : la logistique russe détruite en profondeur pendant la contre-offensive ukrainienne "Vivaldi".

Ses mots, c'est presque de la poésie :

« Maintenant, d'abord, il n'y a pas de gens. Pour une grande offensive, il manque les forces et les moyens. (...) Si d'énormes colonnes avancent, il n'y aura aucune possibilité d'assurer leur contrôle et leur sécurité. (...) Ce sont des véhicules isolés qui sont éliminés à 120 km de profondeur. Imaginez si c'étaient de grandes colonnes. »

Traduction : même l'armée russe reconnaît que se regrouper au front, c'est suicidaire.
Et se disperser aussi.

https://t.co/tcieAobFQm

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

US General Curtis Buzzard: It's this velocity of learning that the Ukrainians demonstrate from observing to learning to adapting to then fighting it again.

They didn't have enough mid-range strike capabilities, so they invented their own — CSIS. 1/

[Garrett Wright @garrxttt]

Palmer Luckey warns that the Pentagon’s reliance on Chinese-owned Lenovo laptops would have been unimaginable during the Cold War: “It wouldn’t have even been believable as fiction.” 🇺🇸🇨🇳

“It would’ve been unthinkable. It wouldn’t have been believable as fiction. And yet that’s what happens today.

Our largest laptop manufacturer for the Pentagon is Lenovo, which is owned by China.

Their headquarters has a flagpole with the Chinese Communist Party flag, and then the Lenovo logo underneath it.

It’s nuts.

I’d say one more thing about why we’re not beating China.”

Who would’ve thought in 2026 we’d still be pressing an issue of overreliance on strategic adversaries for critical technology used in our most defensible sector.

[Herbert Ong @herbertong]

Can a delay actually make a company worth more?

@CernBasher ran the numbers, and the answer is a big YES!

In his example, a one-year delay drops a new business from $574 to $513 in present value, about 11%.

But if that extra year shows the market is bigger and growth jumps from 50% to 60%, the value soars to $1,480.

That's how Tesla's safety-first approach plays out. The P/E looks nutty, but the odds keep rising.

$TSLA

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped.
https://t.co/u7wZhmidz9

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

The @GOP must be thrilled that 11 days before elections, we learn that the Trump family secretly orchestrated a deal to allow Russians to drill Alaska in exchange for a $25 billion "investment" funneled through their proxies.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE
https://t.co/rO3P7aJa8h

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Ukrainian drones have reached deep into Siberia in a spectacular another long-range operation, targeting Russia’s massive Omsky Kauchuk chemical plant in Omsk, approximately 2,500 kilometers from Ukraine.

Established in 1962, the Soviet-era industrial giant is one of Russia’s most important petrochemical producers, with several significant national distinctions:

- Russia’s largest single-unit MTBE production capacity, producing a critical additive used in high-octane gasoline.

- Russia’s largest isopropyl alcohol production facility, with an annual capacity of 60,000 tonnes.

- Russia’s second-largest MTBE producer, accounting for approximately 16% of national production in 2026.

- One of Russia’s leading phenol producers, accounting for approximately 18% of national production in 2021.

- A top synthetic rubber manufacturer, supplying materials used in tires, industrial equipment, hoses, and other civilian and military applications.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska.

According to investigations by The New York Times and Financial Times, Russia's Novatek allegedly concealed its financial involvement in the American project through a UAE-linked intermediary.

Gentry Beach, a longtime Trump ally and close friend of Donald Trump Jr., signed an agreement with Novatek to pursue natural gas development in Alaska. Reuters documented the arrangement in February.

Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine.

The controversy deepened when Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, raised concerns about concealed Russian financing and possible sanctions violations. He departed in September, followed by other senior executives.

The Financial Times also described discussions about a potential arrangement under which Novatek would provide technology for the Alaska project in exchange for sanctions relief benefiting its Arctic LNG 2 development in Siberia.

According to The New York Times, Riddle and two other departing executives warned the Trump administration about the Russian financing and urged officials to investigate.

The White House maintains that the project was mentioned only briefly and that no detailed discussions took place. There is no established evidence that Kushner or Witkoff knew about the allegedly concealed financing. Polar Train LNG denies wrongdoing.

The central question is how a sanctioned Russian energy company became involved in a major American energy venture while Putin was discussing potential economic cooperation with Trump's representatives and a longtime Trump family associate was pursuing a separate agreement with the same Russian company.

Selling Alaska to the Russians or selling Ukraine to the Russians - to the Trump family it's all the same.

https://t.co/qZqYXCYSyX