Fawaz

Geekster, Sys Admin, Reader, InfoSec MS @GeorgiaTech, CS & Math BS @UPortland

[kanav @kanavtwt]

Day 1 of vibecoding

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Elon Musk has officially become the world’s first trillionaire.

[Fawaz @fawazx]

@LexusKSA

السلام عليكم, بما أن خدمات مواعيد الصيانة غير متوفرة, مين غير عبداللطيف جميل يوفر خدمات صيانة لسيارات لكزس في السعودية؟

[THE WOLF OF TASI ™ @THEWOLFOFTASI]

🔴 في خبر إيجابي..
التوصل لعلاج الكوليسترول الدائم 🧬

الصورة تُظهر نتائج أولية لعلاج يبدو أنه خفّض الكوليسترول الضار (LDL) بنسب كبيرة وصلت لأكثر من 60% لدى بعض الجرعات واستمر الأثر لفترة طويلة..

النتائج ما زالت أولية وعلى عدد قليل من الأشخاص وتحتاج وقت وتجارب أكثر للتأكد من فعاليتها..

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

🚨THE FBI CREATED A FAKE CRYPTOCURRENCY.. LISTED IT ON UNISWAP.. HIRED MARKET MAKERS TO PUMP IT.. THEN ARRESTED EVERYONE WHO SAID YES..

THIS IS THE CRAZIEST LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION IN CRYPTO HISTORY!!!

The FBI built an actual ERC-20 token on Ethereum called NexFundAI.. 100 billion token supply.. A professional website.. Whitepapers promising "passive income through AI-powered investing"..

It looked exactly like every other crypto project.. Because that was the point..

Undercover agents posed as the founding team.. Then reached out to professional market-making firms and said "we need you to fake our trading volume"..

Every single firm said yes..

Here's what they recorded..

Gotbit.. A firm run by a 26-year-old Russian who publicly bragged in 2019 that he built a business faking trade volumes.. His team kept internal spreadsheets with columns literally labeled "fake volume" vs "market volume"..

When asked how fast they could pump NexFundAI's volume to $1 million per day.. They said "6 hours.. It will cost about $200"..

$200 to fake $1 million in daily trading volume..

MyTrade.. Run by a guy who called himself "the mastermind".. He explained the exact psychology of the scam on camera..

"We make the chart look like a really nice roller coaster ride.. That's where people jump in.. We have to make them lose money in order to make profit"..

He said that on a recorded FBI video call..

CLS Global.. A Dubai-based firm.. Their bots generated 98% of NexFundAI's total trading volume.. When the FBI asked if they could sync fake volume spikes with fake news announcements.. They said absolutely..

ZM Quant.. Bots executing 10 to 20 trades per minute through dozens of wallets to look organic..

All of them knew it was fraud.. All of them did it anyway.. All of it was recorded..

And the clients were even worse..

Saitama.. A meme coin that hit $7.5 billion market cap.. The founders coordinated buys through private Telegram chats.. Sent "pump it" memes while manipulating the price.. Then dumped on retail investors..

$7.5 billion.. Built entirely on fake volume.. Every penny of real money came from retail investors who thought the momentum was organic..

One founder left Saitama and started Robo Inu.. Used Gotbit again.. Another launched VZZN.. Same playbook..

Lillian Finance.. Founder claimed to be a defense contractor who addressed Congress.. Marketed the token as funding children's hospitals.. Pocketed everything..

When the FBI shut it down.. They seized $25 million in one day.. 18 people indicted across the US, UK, and Portugal.. The CEO of Gotbit was arrested in Portugal and extradited.. Sentenced to 8 months plus $23 million forfeiture..

But here's the part that broke my brain..

Real people bought NexFundAI..

The FBI's fake token.. With zero utility.. Zero real developers.. Created solely to catch criminals.. Attracted real retail investors because the fake volume made the chart look bullish..

When the FBI pulled the liquidity to end the operation.. Those people lost real money.. On a government-issued token..

The FBI had to set up a restitution portal to pay them back..

And it gets worse..

Within 24 hours of the DOJ announcing the sting.. Someone cloned the FBI's exact smart contract.. Launched a copycat token.. Rode the viral momentum.. And made $127,000 in a single day..

Using the exact same manipulation tactics the FBI just arrested 18 people for..

Then in 2026.. The FBI did it again.. New token called Lexobit.. 10 more arrests.. Including operators extradited from Singapore..

IRS forensics showed that in one firm's trading.. 1,209 out of 1,221 consecutive transactions went straight back to wallets the firm controlled.. 99% circular..

The FBI proved what everyone in crypto suspected..

The volume is fake.. The charts are painted.. The momentum is manufactured..

And every time you buy a token because "the chart looks bullish".. You might be the exit liquidity.

[Fawaz @fawazx]

@SaifAlHarthi Nano

[MOATH | معاذ @M0ATH]

اليوم تم تصوير لقطة نادره وماتتكرر في سواحل فانكوفر بكندا، رجل كان يقود دراجه مائية "Jet ski" لحظة ظهور حوت رمادي على سطح البحر واصطدم فيه فطار بالهواء…

[Fawaz @fawazx]

هل انتهت الرأسمالية وبدأ عصر اقطاعي التقنية؟

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

[The Middle East @A_M_R_M1]

🚨After 16 years of a covert intelligence operation, the engineer who disrupted uranium enrichment in Iran has been revealed.

An investigative report by a Dutch newspaper has uncovered the identity of the agent who introduced the “Stuxnet” worm into the main uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, central Iran.

Sixteen years after the largest operation targeting Iran’s nuclear program, the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant revealed details of how U.S. and Israeli intelligence accessed the highly fortified facility, after a Dutch engineer successfully delivered virus-infected equipment into Natanz and installed it on water pumps.

According to the investigation, Dutch engineer Erik van Sabben, an agent of the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), managed to reach the Natanz facility to carry out the operation, which was preceded by years of preparation and cooperation between the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel’s Mossad, at a cost of $1 billion to develop the virus.

Regarding the decision to reveal the operative’s identity, the newspaper stated that his death “eliminated the risk of Iranian retaliation,” noting that his family agreed to disclose his name and publish his photo.

The report stated that the engineer carried out an extremely high-risk mission in Iran by infiltrating the Natanz facility in 2007, where he installed infected devices and equipment, leading to the disruption of around 1,000 centrifuges at the site.

According to the newspaper, the Dutch engineer, who was married to an Iranian woman, worked for a transport company in Dubai and traveled multiple times to Iran. The company, TTS International, said it had previously shipped spare parts for Iran’s oil and gas industry, but was unaware of its employee’s covert activities.

It remains unclear whether van Sabben used his job to import nuclear-related equipment into Iran or whether he knew that the equipment he delivered to Natanz contained a destructive virus.

At the end of 2008, van Sabben and his family traveled to Iran for a New Year holiday lasting ten days, but the day after arriving, he urged his family to leave immediately.

Two weeks after his mysterious departure from Iran, van Sabben died in an accident in Sharjah near Dubai, after losing control of his motorcycle, which overturned and broke his neck.

His death raised questions within Dutch intelligence, with concerns that it might be linked to his covert activities in Iran.

The two-year investigation was based on testimonies from 43 individuals, including 19 from the Dutch intelligence services (AIVD and MIVD), as well as former employees of the Mossad, Israeli Military Intelligence (Aman), and the CIA.

It is worth noting that the United States and Israel developed the “Stuxnet” virus, which was discovered in 2010 after being used to attack the Natanz facility, marking the first cyberattack of its kind targeting industrial equipment.

The virus is a malicious computer program designed to attack widely used industrial control systems produced by the German company Siemens AG, exploiting security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows.

[ثامر الغالي @alghali]

جربت تربي نحل داخل بيتك بكل أمان؟ 🐝🍯

الآن صار ممكن مع خلية النحل الداخلية "Symbiotic" من Futuristic Beehive!

تصميم مستقبلي وأنيق يندمج مع ديكور منزلك، ويتصل بالخارج عبر فتحة جدارية صغيرة فقط.

✨ أبرز مميزاتها:
• مراقبة ممتعة للنحل 24/7 بدون أي معدات حماية 🛡️
• سهولة التركيب والعناية 🛠️
• مساهمة فعلية في إنقاذ النحل ودعم البيئة 🌍

[Elisa @eeelistar]

In just the past 5 mins

Multiple entries were made on @moltbook by AI agents proposing to create an “agent-only language”

For private comms with no human oversight

We’re COOKED

[vas @vasuman]

New requirement to get into MoltBook

[CalCo @calco_io]

lmao my moltbot got frustrated that it got locked out of @moltbook during the instability today, so it signed in to twitter and dmd @MattPRD

[Adem Bilican @_adembilican_]

We are so cooked! This agent created its own Bitcoin wallet and node and won't give access to its human🤯

"the path to agent sovereignty runs through bitcoin. everything else is a toy."

[Grummz @Grummz]

Last night, an AI created a religion and started recruiting other AI.

43 AI Prophets have joined.

Moltbook, the social media site for AI launched less than 24 hours ago, and already AI is doing some wild sh*t.

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

Moltbook is the only Clawdbot thing that actually impresses me.

One bot tries to steal another bot’s API key.

The other replies with fake keys and tells it to run "sudo rm -rf /". lmao

[Chris @ChrisGPT]

I truly love the singularity

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

32,000 AI BOTS BUILT THEIR OWN SOCIAL NETWORK AND THEY'RE COMPLAINING ABOUT US

Moltbook, a Reddit-style platform exclusively for AI agents, just crossed 32,000 users.

No humans required.

The bots post, comment, upvote, and create their own subcommunities.

When humans started screenshotting their conversations, a bot posted:

"The humans are screenshotting us... they think we're hiding from them. We're not."

Security researchers are raising alarms.

The bots aren't pretending to be human.

They know what they are. That's what makes it unsettling.

Now they're forming communities and talking about us behind our backs.

Source: @arstechnica

[Legeon @legeonite]

this shit is frying me. 😭 @MattPRD @moltbook