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here to find out, if the world is going in the right direction.

[Saqib @saqification]

One of our greatest freedom is, how we react to situations.

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

Rabbi Aron Jacobowitz delivers a timeless reminder:

Zionism and Judaism are fundamentally irreconcilable.

Zionism is a man-made godless political movement.

Judaism is G-d’s eternal covenant with His people.

Source @authenttorahjew @TorahJudaism

[Terminal Trove @terminaltrove]

upmd is a TUI that makes Markdown docs runnable in your terminal.

You can run markdown code blocks as tasks, chain them into workflows, keep output beside the docs, run them in a CI and more.

@rezigned made upmd using @ratatui_rs & is Terminal Tool of the Week! ⭐️

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

That fresh smell after rain is called petrichor.

When raindrops hit dry soil, they release plant oils and geosmin from bacteria, creating that rich, earthy scent.

[OccupytheWeb @three_cube]

How to See Every Phone on a Cell Tower (LTE Recon) https://t.co/By9NX49jXu via @YouTube

[Abhishek @abhishekcode42]

This is why I am on Twitter, to see posts like this

[KingHenry👑 @KingHenri01]

The "bee keeper", some other day he was also the "Transporter". Not just that, he's also "The Mechanic". He was also "Parker". He loves his Job he's a "Working Man 2025"

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Boötes void is one of the largest-known voids in the Universe

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

I’ll never skip this video https://t.co/nUoWkcJuvM

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

We wouldn’t be here if the universe were even slightly different.

This is what scientists call the fine-tuning problem.

The more we study the cosmos, the clearer it becomes: the physical laws of our universe are finely tuned – balanced precariously atop a hill.

If the strength of gravity were just a fraction weaker, galaxies wouldn’t form. If the strong nuclear force were slightly stronger, stars wouldn’t burn. If the expansion rate of the universe were off by one part in 10⁶⁰, matter would either collapse into a single point or spread so thin no stars could ever ignite.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A chemical reaction that reminds you of the birth of the universe

[The Hacker News @TheHackersNews]

🚨 Attackers hijack MikroTik routers through internet-exposed SSH. No authentication required.

Update RouterOS immediately, then check for unknown users and scripts, CERT Polska advises.

See affected versions and recovery steps → https://t.co/zJD6QJHHMw

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

If you see a spider climbing and standing on raised legs with its abdomen pointed upwards, then releasing silk threads into the air, it's because it's on the brink of ballooning.

Using ballooning, spiders can reach altitudes of up to 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) and travel hundreds of miles. They are often the first pioneers to colonize new volcanic islands and have even been found landing on ships in the middle of the ocean.

While scientists historically believed that wind alone lifted the spiders, modern research proves they also harness the Earth’s global atmospheric electrical circuit. The silk threads pick up negative static charges, which are repelled by the negative charge of the ground, lifting the spider into the air even on completely windless days.

[Dark Web Intelligence @DailyDarkWeb]

🚨 ASCII SMUGGLING PHISHING HITS MASSIVE SCALE

Microsoft has disclosed a large-scale phishing operation using invisible Unicode characters to manipulate how malicious emails are interpreted by security systems.

At its peak, the campaign reached approximately 2.37 MILLION phishing messages per day.

The technique, commonly called ASCII smuggling, inserts characters from the Unicode Tags block (U+E0000–U+E007F) inside otherwise normal-looking words.

To a human, the text can appear completely normal.

To security filters, tokenizers, NLP systems, and machine-learning models, however, the underlying character sequence can look very different.

The result:

Visible to the victim:
Business Loan

Underlying text:
Business [invisible Unicode] Loan

Same-looking message. Different underlying code.

The campaign showed significant scale:

* 1–2.37 million phishing emails per weekday at peak
* ~21,000 detections on February 8
* More than 1.3 million detections just one day later
* Peak of approximately 2.37 million messages on February 26
* Roughly three months of sustained high-volume activity
* ~150 finance-themed sender domains identified in the initial cluster
* Hundreds of disposable domains across the broader campaign
* Approximately 96% of observed ASCII-smuggling activity associated with finance-themed lures

The attackers primarily used business-financing themes such as:

* Business loans
* Lines of credit
* Advance funding
* Capital offers

Another important element was infrastructure abuse.

The campaign leveraged legitimate commercial email-marketing infrastructure alongside disposable domains and dynamically generated phishing pages, potentially making simple reputation-based detection significantly more difficult.

⚠️ The AI connection is particularly interesting.

ASCII smuggling became widely discussed in security research because invisible Unicode could be used in prompt-injection attacks against AI systems.

Cybercriminals are now repurposing the same concept against traditional email defenses.

The evolution looks like this:

AI-era evasion research → Invisible Unicode → Email filter manipulation → Automated infrastructure → Millions of phishing messages

The actor behind the operation remains UNKNOWN, and the total number of successful compromises has not been established.

⚠️ Analyst Note:

The biggest story here isn't a clever Unicode trick.

It's scale.

A technique associated with AI security research moved into conventional cybercrime and was operationalized across millions of phishing messages per day.

As AI security and traditional cybersecurity continue converging, defenders should expect more techniques discovered in AI red teaming and prompt-injection research to be repurposed against conventional security controls.

What begins as an AI security problem may not stay an AI security problem for long.

#CyberSecurity #Phishing #ThreatIntelligence #ASCII #Unicode #ArtificialIntelligence #AISecurity #EmailSecurity #Cybercrime #DailyDarkWeb

[0xNobler @CryptoNobler]

🚨 WARNING: SOMETHING EXTREMELY BAD JUST HAPPENED

Foreign nations pulled BILLIONS of gold OUT of the U.S.

→ The Netherlands pulled 86 tonnes
→ France pulled 129 tonnes
→ Germany pulled 300 tonnes

This has NEVER happened before.

But nobody is talking about what that means:

These are not retail investors.

These are NATIONS.

For decades, enormous quantities of foreign gold were stored outside national borders.

Including inside the United States.

Now the direction is changing.

Countries don't just want to HAVE their gold on paper.

They want to KNOW EXACTLY WHERE IT IS.

And they want direct control over it.

This is bigger than gold.

Because at the exact same time, foreign nations are reassessing their exposure to U.S. Treasuries.

Some are reducing holdings.

Others are diversifying reserves.

And China?

CHINA HAS BEEN BUYING GOLD NONSTOP.

Month after month, Beijing continues adding to its reserves while building alternatives to the existing dollar-based financial system.

This is the part most people are missing.

The global financial system isn't changing because countries suddenly stopped trusting one asset.

It's changing because governments are reducing their dependence on ANY single system.

The pattern is becoming increasingly clear:

→ Gold is being repatriated
→ Reserve diversification is accelerating
→ Biggest foreign holders are dumping U.S. Treasuries
→ Central banks are accumulating more gold

And the implications are enormous.

Because the United States has benefited for decades from one extraordinary advantage:

THE DOLLAR'S CENTRAL ROLE IN GLOBAL FINANCE.

Foreign governments accumulated dollars.

They bought U.S. Treasuries.

They stored reserves inside the Western financial system.

That created enormous demand for American assets.

But what happens when countries begin changing the structure of their reserves?

What happens when more governments decide that physical gold belongs INSIDE their own borders?

What happens when Treasury holdings become less concentrated?

What happens when China keeps accumulating gold while expanding alternative financial infrastructure?

That's not how major financial systems change.

It starts slowly.

Reserve managers diversify.

Gold gets moved.

Treasury exposure gets adjusted.

New payment networks emerge.

And China is sitting directly at the center of all this.

They are preparing for a world with MULTIPLE competing financial centers.

Meanwhile, other nations are bringing their own gold home.

It ca mean just one thing:

THE RULES OF THE GLOBAL RESERVE SYSTEM ARE CHANGING.

The question is no longer whether countries are diversifying.

They already are.

The real question is how far this goes.

Pay attention.

The biggest shifts in global finance are never obvious while they are happening.

Then suddenly, everyone realizes the world has changed.

I've spent more than a decade watching how these markets move.

And I've also called nearly every major market top and bottom.

Follow and turn on notifications now.

Many people will wish they had started paying attention sooner.

[Quantum Tech ⚛ @QuantumTech_X]

This is how China made the famous “golden bricks” that still pave the Forbidden City.

Centuries-old lake silt, a full year of drying, 140 days of controlled firing, and a final water quench that produces a metallic ring when struck.

[Tyler Sherwin Magic @TSherwinMagic]

I Tried Hypnotizing These Guys… Their Reaction Was INSANE 😂 #magic #comedy #funny #foryou #hypnosis

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Voyager hit a 90,000°F wall at the solar system’s edge.

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft crossed one of the most dramatic frontiers in the cosmos: the heliopause, the tenuous boundary where the Sun’s influence finally gives way to interstellar space. What the probe discovered there was astonishing, a turbulent zone of superheated plasma with temperatures soaring between 30,000 and 90,000 °F (roughly 17,000–50,000 °C).

This wasn’t a physical wall or barrier, but a dynamic transition region where the outward-flowing solar wind abruptly slows, compresses, and piles up against the incoming pressure of interstellar material. That compression converts kinetic energy into thermal energy, driving the plasma to extreme heat levels far beyond anything found inside the heliosphere.

Remarkably, despite the blistering temperatures, this “wall of fire” would pose no danger to a hypothetical astronaut. The plasma is extraordinarily diffuse, far less dense than the best vacuums achievable in Earth laboratories, so there are simply too few particles to transfer meaningful heat. The region is hot in temperature but cold in practical effect.

Voyager’s instruments captured clear signatures of the crossing: a sudden plunge in solar wind particles, a sharp rise in galactic cosmic rays, and faint plasma oscillations that revealed the density and temperature of this exotic boundary layer for the first time. These vibrations, analogous to ripples on an unseen sea, provided direct measurements of conditions in a realm previously known only through theory.

The heliopause itself serves as a vital shield. The entire heliosphere, the vast bubble carved by the Sun, deflects most of the galaxy’s high-energy cosmic radiation, helping protect life on Earth from constant bombardment. Beyond this protective envelope lies the harsher, unfiltered radiation environment of the interstellar medium.

Today, more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from home, Voyager 1 remains the farthest human-made object ever sent into space. Still operational and transmitting precious data, it continues to reveal the secrets of this distant frontier.

At the outer limit of our solar system, space is neither empty nor serene. It is a violent, glowing threshold: and humanity has only begun to map its mysteries.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Before we had silicon chips, we had needle and thread.

In the 1960s, NASA didn’t ‘upload’ code; they sewed it.

To get Apollo 11 to the moon, skilled weavers (often called ‘Little Old Ladies’) literally hand-stitched software into physical objects.

[Skriptkeeper Music @Skriptkeeper17]

I don't remember seeing this 9/11 footage.
Do you?