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Clifford Stoll refused to ignore a 75-cent error—nine seconds of computer time. Ten months later he'd traced a hacker who hit 450 systems and sold codes to the KGB. https://t.co/9IAb4YCTg4 #CyberEspionage #Cybersecurity #History

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Developers are sharing raw stories of losing work to AI. Yet the best AI tested finished just 4.17% of real multi-day freelance projects to human standard, and Block still cut nearly 4,000 jobs. Why firms automate too early: https://t.co/fRYS1NQPev #AI #FutureOfWork #Layoffs

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Lead in baby food is back in the headlines. Clair Patterson, who traced our lead pollution, found modern bones held 700 to 1,200 times more lead than 1,600-year-old skeletons. How his cleanroom helped end leaded gas: https://t.co/OzTPGDzYa8 #LeadPoisoning #BabyFood #Science

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Boats get sunk, cocaine just finds new routes. 30% of cocaine detected in shipping containers worldwide in 2023-24 was loaded in Ecuador, often hidden among bananas. How Europe's ports absorb the shock: https://t.co/knqbtnz43D #Cocaine #Ecuador #DrugTrafficking

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Starlink's trending for a reason: one operator already runs 9,900+ satellites in low Earth orbit—more than anyone else in a sky nobody owns. https://t.co/lEbZa5kFyC #Starlink #SpaceDebris #Orbit

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September CPI ran hot at 3.7%. For perspective: in Weimar Germany, one egg in late 1923 cost what 500 billion eggs did in 1918. When money fails, people trade gold watches for potatoes. https://t.co/62QLBMW8a3 #HotCPI #Inflation

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ASML just beat and raised on AI chip demand. Its machines print features nearing the width of atoms, but the next wall is power. As Pat Gelsinger warns, "energy capacity is economic capacity." How far can Moore's law go? https://t.co/t3vWncj1wB #ASML #MooresLaw #AI

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A Soviet engineer watched his screens confirm five American missiles inbound — and chose not to believe the machine.

How one night of imperfect human judgment may have stopped a nuclear catastrophe:
https://t.co/xkfCwRB8WC
#ColdWar #StanislavPetrov #NuclearHistory

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Barça, Bayern, and the rest of Europe are buzzing — remember when football's elite tried to break away and it lasted less than three days? https://t.co/fd4zp5ZTVS #Football #Barca #Soccer

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Twenty seconds on the wall. Verstappen cuts a corner at Monza—and an experimental AI tells Red Bull to give up track position against every racing instinct.

https://t.co/Ka6xY7RuSx

#F1 #AI #Motorsport

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Voyager 1 started sending gibberish from 15 billion miles away. Suzanne Dodd had to fix a 1970s computer with a two-day radio echo. 🛰️

Listen to "Scattering the Code" on Angle:
https://t.co/mehVrBRXSc

#Voyager1 #NASA #Space

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When Priscilla Moriuchi spotted a surge of Bitcoin traffic out of North Korea, the numbers hid a much stranger truth.
#northkorea #bitcoin

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Journalist Kunda Dixit sought an explanation when a Himalayan flood hit, questioning whether any place on Earth is truly disaster-free.
#himalayanflood
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Rony Abovitz raised billions on promises of a consumer computing revolution, only to see optical reality collide with secretive hype. #magicleap
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When John Ternus took over Apple, he inherited a trillion-dollar empire obsessed with cloud AI while remaining a factory-floor builder at heart. #apple #johnternus
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When John J. Ray III took over FTX at 4 a.m., he faced a mess nothing like Enron. #enron
https://t.co/6P2AdQ8aWD

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Peter Thiel looked for the flying cars promised fifty years ago, finding only the glowing screens futurists had already mapped out. #flyingcars #peterthiel
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Under constant sniper fire, eighteen-year-old Edis Kolar saw his family home transformed into the secret entrance of a subterranean lifeline.
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After building a cybersecurity fortune on media panic, John McAfee claimed he would never die by his own hand.
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Statistician Anthony Davison sees extreme old age as an annual coin toss, challenging the belief that human biology imposes a hard ceiling.
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