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[cypherscope.eth @thecypherscope]

the appetite for destruction is often greater than the appetite for discourse, yet the taste of destruction is often less filling.

[Kala Elizabeth #SaveMassEffect @kalaelizabeth]

A BioWare dev on reddit leaked a Mass Effect 5 trailer... it's called MASS EFFECT UNIVERSE and it's fucking gorgeous. I'm crying. This is everything I wanted. They were a lot farther than we thought. FUCK EA

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history.

"Black October" they're calling it

It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year*

SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS:

YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical year, these would be among the biggest incidents of the year):

1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.
2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4.
3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status
4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers
5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.
6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014
8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies
9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline
10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan

MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents):

11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites
13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested
14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers
15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations
16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls
17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline
18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen
19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites
20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor
21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets
22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins
23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached

Also serious:

24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach
25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool
26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware
27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea

[@jackbutcher @jackbutcher]

any amount of balance in your wallet will create a soulbound artwork

the balance inside it is tradable

[Jake Stevens @stake_jevens]

I had a few people mention they wanted a repo to point their agent at to reproduce my TizenOS workarounds. Enjoy!

https://t.co/HoS4uPKO3z

[Samir @samiirr_0]

40+ classic games you can play right in your browser

no steam
no epic games
no downloads

shooters

- black ops 1 zombies: https://t.co/8LDFx3jv4k
- black ops 2: https://t.co/5gdZWvZv3m
- bo3 cheese cube: https://t.co/yv1MNfrfQu
- waw zombies: https://t.co/w9UXJxUCgJ
- kino der toten: https://t.co/mgizNH3wUa
- moon zombies: https://t.co/og1WDMxbBU
- modern warfare 2: https://t.co/yhCark1AcW
- counter-strike 1.6: https://t.co/lEQmz9ajLx
- cs surf: https://t.co/BW9k33i0w2
- half-life: https://t.co/vvu0gO5vlx
- halo ce: https://t.co/uWmRWyWQXd
- halo ce mobile: https://t.co/Cpq8g3SCV4
- quake 1: https://t.co/2lGNZAJMLU
- quake 2: https://t.co/LcAhXEXCve
- quake 3: https://t.co/wq1otYeHz5
- return to castle wolfenstein: https://t.co/M1m63ZC5tM
- urban terror: https://t.co/mSUVwPbd8I

open world

- gta 5 (archived): https://t.co/k1KRDGV6rx
- gta iii: https://t.co/ql7LpsUCVr
- gta vice city: https://t.co/MlFUGi2Twv
- gta chinatown wars: https://t.co/GYrwif48oq
- simpsons hit & run: https://t.co/dAzTA78W1O

strategy

- red alert 2: https://t.co/K4uBkvraJh
- generals zero hour: https://t.co/tNDef9NDkm
- hedgewars: https://t.co/HnyKAToydl

others

- diablo: https://t.co/RCLUVDrAM0
- lego island: https://t.co/9tGhXDlARK
- pes 6: https://t.co/pZo6dCLdhq
- skate 3: https://t.co/Bj18rIfShg
- skate rust: https://t.co/jeQFtXz59u
- minecraft 1.8.8: https://t.co/yCPdrDDh29
- crash bash online: https://t.co/E5xXVQ4qfd
- pepsiman: https://t.co/jPQzTMHpXs
- binding of isaac: repentance+: https://t.co/nR8P1v109y

bookmark this before the links disappear.

[beeple @beeple]

NO CHURCH IN THE WILD

[༺ཧคlคฝคཊ༻ @rybinfx]

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[Steven 💎 @StevenxTCG]

These were the streets that raised me

[ア @yuruyurau]

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[Crypto Jargon @Crypto_Jargon]

THIS IS INSANE. 🤯

India gave GitHub THREE HOURS to delete BitChat.

By the time the deadline hit, the app was already back. On a network with no company to send the order to.

Here's what happened:

• India orders GitHub to remove BitChat, citing "unlawful communication"
• GitHub has 3 hours to comply or face legal action
• Within hours, a developer mirrors the entire codebase on Radicle
• Radicle has no central server. No company. No CEO to subpoena. No app store to pressure.
• The instructions go out: clone it, seed it, keep it alive
• Every person who seeds it becomes another copy the government can't touch

The part nobody's saying out loud: this is the exact scenario BitChat was built for.

It runs on pure Bluetooth. No internet. No SIM. No phone number. It was already unkillable at the app layer, that's why protesters in Nepal, Iran, and Madagascar used it to route around government shutdowns.

Now the SOURCE CODE is unkillable too.

India didn't delete BitChat. It just handed the entire internet a live demo of why decentralized infrastructure exists.

You can order a company to take something down. You can't order a network that isn't owned by anyone.

Command to mirror it yourself is already public. People are seeding it right now.

[Brian @Inspector_9]

𝚂𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚖 𝚅𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 • @PERFECTL00P

[Figure31 @figure31]

New work: fully on-chain fluid animations fueled by live blockchain data.

Coming next week.

[Terence Michael @ProofOfMoney]

1. You generate Seed Words (12 or 24 words).

These are your backup DNA.
Never ever enter them online or into any app.

2. Your Bitcoin wallet turns these words into a Master Seed that is 512 bits of 1s and 0s.

12 or 24 words makes no difference (other than more entropy).

Either set ultimately produces the same 512-bit Master Seed.

But words are much easier to write down and backup than 512 random digits.

3. That 512-bit Master Seed is run through one more secure hash using the standard fixed phrase "Bitcoin seed".

Yes... really!

The exact phrase "Bitcoin seed" (along with the space) is part of the algorithm that every Bitcoin wallet uses.

This creates a new set of 512 bits of 1s and 0s, which are split right down the middle:

First half - 256-bit Master Private Key
Last half - 256 bit Master Chain Code

4. Chain Code?

The chain code lets you generate as many addresses as you want so you can receive or deposit Bitcoin.

5. These two halves together make your:

- Master Extended Private Key (xprv),
which then generates your...

- Extended Public Key (xpub).

Math makes this one-way.

You can go from private to public, but never the other way around.

6. Your xpub generates unlimited addresses and child public keys to go with them.

So every Bitcoin address has its own child public key (and thus its own matching child private key as well).

7. Your Bitcoin wallet ONLY uses your public keys and addresses to display the balance.

You don't have to memorize all of this (obviously). But the flow of what creates what is important as you see that the SEED WORDS sit at the tippy-top.

They make everything!
And thus can re-create everything.

*******

TAKEAWAY:
The original seed words and all private keys (master and derived child keys) are the hidden 1s-and-0s that control your money.

They are your private and secret signature that no one else should ever be able to access. Otherwise they can just sign for your Bitcoin.

Your hardware device (Coldcard, Trezor, Ledger, etc.) prevents these private keys from ever leaving it.

That's why we call them "signing devices."

They hold the secret, magical pen you use to sign transactions. You don't want anyone else to impersonate you.

The xpub and public addresses are the only safe parts to put online or into software (privacy aside).

If a malicious actor or fake app gets your seed words, it gets everything.

If it only sees your public addresses or xpub, it gets nothing.

[░ perfectloop ░ @PERFECTL00P]

𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 🌎🌐

[cypherscope.eth @thecypherscope]

@Inspector_9 @PERFECTL00P Brilliant

[Brian @Inspector_9]

Minerunner II - @PERFECTL00P

[1mposter @_1mposter]

Brutal week, glad its almost over 🥵

[░ perfectloop ░ @PERFECTL00P]

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[Natived @natived_]

'Floppy Risk' x @Gogolitus ✨

[░ perfectloop ░ @PERFECTL00P]

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