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[Loompee @loompee01]

OpenAI spends billions building AI. Chinese companies are learning from its answers — and could turn its own advantage into a weapon against it.

According to The Information, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI used outputs from GPT-6 Astra to train their own models.

It’s called distillation. And it could change the game.

OpenAI pays for breakthroughs.
Its competitors are looking for shortcuts.

What if OpenAI’s biggest threat isn’t another AI model, but its own?

[Loompee @loompee01]

DO YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS?

Videos are spreading everywhere claiming “Claude Code found 200k+ long-deleted photos” while the phone shows a green terminal with a progress bar “recovering” everything.

All I see are typical AI-generated clips. The creators say “I plugged in the phone and the code found the files,” but the interface looks staged, not like a real process.

Yes, thumbnail caches on Android and iOS sometimes stick around, but these dramatic “scanning” videos with progress bars are pure clickbait.

Has anyone actually tried this themselves and recovered something real, or is everyone just watching and reposting? 🤔

[Zagread @Zagread0]

@cerencanimyaa 48?

[Zagread @Zagread0]

@usludurkizim 72?

[Loompee @loompee01]

Scattered minds: what research says about living in "everything at once" mode

A game, music in your earbuds, and Reels on a second screen.

Researchers call this media multitasking, and short-form video (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) is now studied as a separate factor.

What the data shows
The largest review so far was published in Psychological Bulletin. It covered 71 studies and 98,299 participants.

More frequent short-form video use was linked to poorer cognitive performance (r = −0.34), most strongly for attention (r = −0.38) and inhibitory control (r = −0.41).

Inhibitory control is the ability to ignore distractions and stay on task.

The link with mental health is weaker (r = −0.21), but the clearest correlations are with stress (−0.34) and anxiety (−0.33). The authors also recorded a link with sleep disturbances.

No consistent link with self-esteem or body image was found overall.

A possible mechanism
The most common explanation is that the brain adapts to rapid context switches and instant reward.

This puts more load on the prefrontal cortex, which handles sustained attention. Sleep loss, often tied to late-night scrolling, further weakens self-control. The result is a loop: a scattered brain reaches for fast content, and that content further wrecks sleep and recovery.

What about multitasking?
Here the picture is more complicated. Ophir's pioneering 2009 study showed that frequent multitaskers filter out irrelevant stimuli worse.

Later checks were less clear-cut. A 2017 meta-analysis found only a weak link with distractibility, which became statistically nonsignificant after correcting for small-study bias.

A later three-level meta-analysis of 43 studies did confirm worse inhibitory control and working memory in heavy multitaskers, with no difference in cognitive flexibility.

Important caveats
These are correlations, not proven causation. Impulsive people may simply spend more time on short videos.

Many studies rely on self-reported usage, and few accounted for overall social media time.

The authors call for experimental and longitudinal studies. This is also not a diagnosis: ADHD or an anxiety disorder is diagnosed by a doctor, not by hours spent on Instagram.

Consequences already described in the literature

1Weaker sustained attention and self-control.
2Higher stress and anxiety scores among heavy users.
3Worse sleep.
4Lower academic performance and more procrastination.

A review of research from 2019 to 2025 describes a dose-response pattern: the more time spent on short videos, the more pronounced the attention problems.

Conclusion
The evidence doesn't say a phone breaks your brain. It says that the more fragmented content you consume, the worse the average outcome for attention, stress, and sleep. If you notice you can't finish reading a text, never feel rested, or are constantly anxious, talk to a doctor or psychologist rather than just setting app timers.

[Zagread @Zagread0]

I thought those files were gone forever.
I deleted them long ago. Forgot about them. Moved on.

Then I gave Claude Code access and one task: find what's left.
A few minutes later, there was a list on my screen.

The files never went anywhere. When you hit "delete", the system just marks the space as free. The data stays there until something new overwrites it.
It used to take paid software, forums and half a day of nerves.

Now it's one task for an AI agent.
You don't delete data. You just stop seeing it.

[Zagread @Zagread0]

I thought those files were gone forever.
I deleted them long ago. Forgot about them. Moved on.

Then I gave Claude Code access and one task: find what's left.
A few minutes later, there was a list on my screen.

The files never went anywhere. When you hit "delete", the system just marks the space as free. The data stays there until something new overwrites it.
It used to take paid software, forums and half a day of nerves.

Now it's one task for an AI agent.
You don't delete data. You just stop seeing it.

[Cooler @coolerwave]

Claude Code found 145,763 photos I permanently deleted from my iPhone.

Three years of deleted photos and videos still sitting in a hidden cache. Any app with file access can read them.

I plugged my iPhone into my MacBook to run a backup. Claude Code was doing the security audit from my last post and flagged a directory I wasn't even looking for.

PhotoData/Thumbnails. Over 146,000 files. Photos, videos, screenshots. Every single one was something I deleted.

Photos from 2023, 2024 and 2025. The ones I deleted the second after taking them. The ones I cleared from Recently Deleted. The ones I deleted three separate times because I wanted to be sure they were gone. All still there.

Passport photo I took for a visa application in 2023.
Screenshots of my bank app with full account numbers visible.
Private photos I sent someone and immediately deleted after a breakup.
Screenshot of my crypto seed phrase I took temporarily in 2022.
Photo of my ID and credit card I took to remember the numbers and deleted 5 seconds later.
Screenshots of my ex's private Instagram stories I saved and permanently deleted in 2023.

Some were full resolution. All organized by date going back to 2021.

When you delete a photo on iPhone, iOS removes it from your camera roll and Recently Deleted. It keeps a compressed copy in a Spotlight search index cache so your phone can find things when you search. Apple never clears it. Not after 30 days. Not after a year. Never.

They told you it was permanently deleted. It wasn't.

I checked which apps on my phone had Files and Folders access. 23 apps. Weather apps. QR code scanners. PDF readers. A flashlight app I downloaded in 2022. Any one of them could have been reading every photo I ever deleted this entire time.

Went from 23 apps to 3 in about two minutes.

Full step by step below. Takes 2 minutes. Save it so you don't lose it and send it to anyone with an iPhone.

[Zagread @Zagread0]

⚠️ One USB at the airport — and your iPhone is no longer yours
The video shows what a “random” connection to an airport charger can actually look like.

An iPhone 15 Pro (iOS 17.4.1) had a profile called “Airport Free Wi-Fi” from “Airport Services LLC” installed. This is not Wi-Fi. It’s a full MDM:

• DeviceLock and RemoteWipe
• Silent app installation
• Access to camera, microphone, and screen recording
• Continuous location tracking
• Reading iMessage/SMS, photos, and contacts
• HTTPS interception (banking apps, passwords, 2FA)
The attackers’ server was located in Chisinau (Moldova). Over 19 days:
• 612 location pings (home, work, kids’ school, routes)
• 94 screenshots, 4,291 photos, 1,247 contacts, 2,840 URLs
• $12,400 stolen via Zelle and wire transfers — using intercepted 2FA codes
No notifications were shown to the user.
What to do if this has already happened
• Remove the MDM profile and all suspicious certificates
• Change all passwords (especially email, banks, and Apple ID)
• Freeze cards and dispute the transactions
• Check your devices for any other profiles
Main rule: Never use public USB chargers.

Bring your own cable + power bank, or plug into a wall outlet.
Full breakdown is in the video.

[Zagread @Zagread0]

⚠️ One USB at the airport — and your iPhone is no longer yours
The video shows what a “random” connection to an airport charger can actually look like.

An iPhone 15 Pro (iOS 17.4.1) had a profile called “Airport Free Wi-Fi” from “Airport Services LLC” installed. This is not Wi-Fi. It’s a full MDM:

• DeviceLock and RemoteWipe
• Silent app installation
• Access to camera, microphone, and screen recording
• Continuous location tracking
• Reading iMessage/SMS, photos, and contacts
• HTTPS interception (banking apps, passwords, 2FA)
The attackers’ server was located in Chisinau (Moldova). Over 19 days:
• 612 location pings (home, work, kids’ school, routes)
• 94 screenshots, 4,291 photos, 1,247 contacts, 2,840 URLs
• $12,400 stolen via Zelle and wire transfers — using intercepted 2FA codes
No notifications were shown to the user.
What to do if this has already happened
• Remove the MDM profile and all suspicious certificates
• Change all passwords (especially email, banks, and Apple ID)
• Freeze cards and dispute the transactions
• Check your devices for any other profiles
Main rule: Never use public USB chargers.

Bring your own cable + power bank, or plug into a wall outlet.
Full breakdown is in the video.

[Zagread @Zagread0]

@catmanyau Agreed. Thumbnails in PhotoData can linger after deletion (and in local backups). Empty Recently Deleted + encrypt/delete old backups is the practical fix. Sandboxed apps usually can’t touch that path anyway.

[Zagread @Zagread0]

How many of your "deleted" photos are still on your iPhone?

During a security check, Claude Code found PhotoData/Thumbnails.

Thousands of thumbnails: bank app screenshots, photos deleted seconds after being taken, even ones purged from Recently Deleted.

You clean the gallery. The phone keeps the archive.

When did you last check what it actually keeps?

[Damir Akaza @Damir_Akaza]

https://t.co/vtKnZ7qEZx

[Ackerman @Yarilo7brigada]

Nicki Minaj: “Grok Bot feels like a cheat code for life. God might have used it to save me”

At X Takeover she explained for the first time how she actually uses it.

She used to only ask regular Grok for facts. Then she stumbled on Grok Bot and realized she could create assistants and “employees” that actually do the work for her.

“This shouldn’t be this easy. I felt like I was cheating.
It changed my life. This is real.”

A regular chatbot answers questions.
An agent remembers context, calls tools on its own, and works in the background.
What used to take a team or a bunch of tools stitched together by hand now takes one person.

While everyone argued about context length and benchmarks, agents quietly solved a different problem: they gave one person the leverage that used to require hiring.

Nicki wasn’t breaking down the architecture.
She just caught the moment when AI stops only answering - and starts doing.

Want the same “cheat code,” or are you still scared it “shouldn’t be this easy”?

[Zagread @Zagread0]

@bb833dong 🤝

[Zagread @Zagread0]

@LeeWyattCorp Yeah, thousands of thumbnails left in PhotoData after deletion really stand out. Most people assume clearing the gallery + “Recently Deleted” handles everything, but there’s a separate archive the phone keeps on its own. Good that someone noticed it.

[Zagread @Zagread0]

@bb833dong Yeah, bank screenshots sitting in there after a full delete is the worst part. Most people assume Recently Deleted = gone, but the thumbnail cache is a separate thing.

[Zagread @Zagread0]

How many of your "deleted" photos are still on your iPhone?

During a security check, Claude Code found PhotoData/Thumbnails.

Thousands of thumbnails: bank app screenshots, photos deleted seconds after being taken, even ones purged from Recently Deleted.

You clean the gallery. The phone keeps the archive.

When did you last check what it actually keeps?

[Zagread @Zagread0]

OpenAI just released the most boring — and most useful — model of the year.

GPT-6.1 Terra isn’t “another AGI
breakthrough.” It’s a model that can finally actually work for you, instead of just sounding smart.

It sees the screen, clicks through interfaces itself, reads technical drawings, fills out forms, processes invoices, and writes text like it was done by someone who doesn’t hate their job.

And it costs half as much as the previous Terra ($1/$5 per million tokens) while being several times faster than the top-tier Sol and Astra.

Basically, OpenAI finally realized that most people don’t need a genius that solves olympiad problems. They need a fast, cheap coworker that doesn’t choke on routine work.

It’s already rolling out to Plus, Pro, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT Work and Codex.

Anyone who’s already compared it to what was there before — does it actually feel different, or is it just “a bit better and cheaper”?

[ChatGPT @ChatGPT]

GPT-6.1 Terra means business.

Our new fast, efficient model pairs sharper visual reasoning and precise computer use with clearer, more natural writing.

From decoding technical drawings to drafting proposals, filling forms to editing videos—it’s built for the whole workday.

GPT-6.1 Terra is rolling out today to Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex.

[Zagread @Zagread0]

OpenAI just dropped GPT-6.1 Terra and basically said: “your AI can now click around on its own and not eat all your money.”

It can actually see what’s on screen, take actions across apps, and write more naturally — while costing half as much as the previous version and finishing tasks over 3× faster than the bigger models.

Sounds like exactly what people need for automating daily work. Whether it actually works well enough yet, or it’s another “almost there,” we’ll find out soon.

[Zagread @Zagread0]

OpenAI just dropped GPT-6.1 Terra and basically said: “your AI can now click around on its own and not eat all your money.”

It can actually see what’s on screen, take actions across apps, and write more naturally — while costing half as much as the previous version and finishing tasks over 3× faster than the bigger models.

Sounds like exactly what people need for automating daily work. Whether it actually works well enough yet, or it’s another “almost there,” we’ll find out soon.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

GPT-6.1 Terra: delivering fast and capable computer use at a lower price.

GPT-6.1 Terra understands what’s on screen, takes action across apps, writes naturally, and is a more capable model for your whole workday with the efficiency to take on more of it.