Matthew Robbins

I have spent a good part of my career just getting people to believe this was actually happening. Now we are here. With 15 drones, you can lose roughly 1/4 of the B-52 force as it sits idle on the ground. This was always the most concerning scenario. Time to move to hardening. Just a matter of time now till we learn the hard way.

🚨 LE PLUS GROS BRAQUAGE DE DONNÉES DE L'HISTOIRE S'APPELLE POKÉMON GO. Pendant 8 ans, 143 millions de personnes ont marché dans la rue pour attraper un Dracaufeu. La réalité ? Ils travaillaient gratuitement. Niantic vient d'avouer que les caméras des joueurs ont scanné les parcs, les vitrines et les trottoirs du monde entier sous tous les angles. Le butin ? Une base de données visuelle de 30 MILLIARDS d'images réelles. Ce n'était pas un jeu. C'était la construction secrète du plus grand dataset d'IA au monde. Aujourd'hui, Niantic utilise vos balades du dimanche pour vendre des systèmes de navigation visuelle aux robots de livraison (sans GPS). Aucune entreprise, même Google, n'aurait pu payer une flotte de véhicules pour faire ça. Vous pensiez jouer à un jeu vidéo, vous étiez le sous-traitant bénévole de la robotique mondiale.

The same idiots who think Trump, who dodged the draft five times, knows how to win a war also think Trump, who declared bankruptcy six times, knows how to run the economy. That’s what Trump Derangement Syndrome actually looks like.

Honda scraps 3 electric vehicle models planned for Ohio production, thanks at least in part to Donald Trump's tariffs, de-emphasis of electric vehicles The company had invested $1B-plus in its Ohio plants for the new vehicles; now will lose $15B overall dispatch.com/story/business…

The Shahed-136 is obviously a cheap weapon. But it’s much cheaper than most reports suggest. In this new analysis, I compare production costs in the US and Iran to come up with a better estimate for the price tag of a Shahed-136. That number is $7,000. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/cost-…

One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control: TikTok CBS CNN HBO Discovery Channel BET Cartoon Network Comedy Central DC Studios Fandango Miramax MTV Nickelodeon Paramount PlutoTV Showtime TBS The CW TNT Warner Bros. And more This is oligarchy.

Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems. The official framing is "part of normal business." The briefing note describes a trend of incidents with "high blast radius" caused by "Gen-AI assisted changes" for which "best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established." Translation to human language: we gave AI to engineers and things keep breaking? The response for now? Junior and mid-level engineers can no longer push AI-assisted code without a senior signing off. AWS spent 13 hours recovering after its own AI coding tool, asked to make some changes, decided instead to delete and recreate the environment (the software equivalent of fixing a leaky tap by knocking down the wall). Amazon called that an "extremely limited event" (the affected tool served customers in mainland China).

Everyone...there is no need to panic about mines. The US Navy has kept four mine countermeasure vessels in the Persian Gulf for the past 35 years. These ships and crews have trained for this very circumstance. WAIT...what is that? The minesweepers just arrived in Philadelphia yesterday to be decommissioned, but we have three Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs) that took their place.

🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once. The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time. Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight. The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate. What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field. Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal. We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain. The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours. This bird does 11 days. Without a runway.

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Doctor calmly, confidently, patiently and lovingly works to bring life back to a newborn - stunning to watch

I guarantee you won’t be able to watch this without a smile on your face.

This is how thieves can swipe your bag without you noticing. I lost my passport and my devices, so couldn't fly home. Later I'll share what happened next, including how I tracked down some of my possessions, how you remotely wipe your devices, how I got an emergency travel document, and how amazingly kind people were to me. Please share this video, and you might save someone else from going through the same thing. Thanks x #robbery #mugging #barcelona

Another key feature of Ukraine's air defense network is the ability to update civilians in real time about the threats they face. When an air raid alert sounds, the first thing you typically do is to check any one of a number of Telegram channels to see what kind of threat is inbound and how long you have to seek shelter — if you choose to. If it's a swarm of Shahed-type drones plodding across the country, you might have an hour or more to finish your workout or your grocery store run. Even when the drones are near, you can generally keep track of what neighborhood they're flying over. If it's a cruise missile attack, you've got less time to make a decision. If it's a ballistic missile, you only have a few minutes at most. These channels also let you know if the explosions you hear are from air defense intercepts or impacts on the ground. This knowledge allows Ukrainians to carry on with their daily lives in the face of Russia's attacks — a form of resistance in itself. Most importantly, you feel like you have a small amount of control over a situation in which you might otherwise feel powerless. Situational awareness is incredibly empowering, and it erodes the fear of not knowing, which is the worst part of any high-stress situation.

Make sure to update / check your voter registration several times throughout the year: Ohio: VoteOhio.gov All states: IWillVote.com And remember — If voting didn't matter, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop you from doing it

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🦔 Researchers found that tire pressure monitoring systems transmit unencrypted data with unique vehicle identifiers that can be picked up from 50 meters away using a $100 device built with a Raspberry Pi. Place receivers along known routes and you can track a specific vehicle's movements without cameras. Thieves could learn delivery schedules, estimate cargo weight from pressure readings, or even spoof flat-tire warnings to force a vehicle to stop. Toyota, Renault, Hyundai, and Mercedes all use the vulnerable systems, and there's no standard for fixing it. My Take These systems have been broadcasting unencrypted unique identifiers for years. The vulnerability isn't new, the attention is. And there's no easy fix because there's no standard and millions of cars are already on the road with these sensors installed. For most people, this probably isn't the biggest privacy risk you face. Your phone is a much more effective tracking device and you carry it everywhere voluntarily. But it's another example of systems designed for function without any thought about security or privacy. Smart TVs, age verification tools, tire pressure sensors, none of them were built to spy on you, but they all can. If you're genuinely concerned about being tracked, older vehicles without TPMS are an option, though you'd also need to leave your phone at home. For everyone else, this is mostly a reminder that the infrastructure for surveillance keeps expanding into places most people never think to look. Hedgie🤗

⚠️WARNING⚠️ I honestly think @nvidia is actually trying to slow peoples fan speeds down with this latest driver to cause premature failures and burnouts. Look at this bullshit (skip to 3:20 if you just want to see the difference)

They killed him.

Durante gerações, comunidades aborígenes do norte da Austrália relataram que algumas aves de rapina espalham fogo de forma deliberada para facilitar a caça. Durante muito tempo, esses relatos foram tratados apenas como conhecimento tradicional, mas passaram a ser investigados cientificamente. Em 2017, um estudo publicado no Journal of Ethnobiology, liderado pelo pesquisador Mark Bonta, reuniu múltiplas observações independentes feitas por bombeiros florestais, guardas ambientais, pesquisadores e moradores locais, documentando esse comportamento em três espécies: Milhafre-pret0 (Milvus migrans) Milhafre-assobiador (Haliastur sphenurus) Falcão-pardo (Falco berigora) Segundo o estudo, essas aves foram observadas carregando gravetos em chamas com o bico ou as garras e soltando-os em áreas secas, à frente de frentes ativas de incêndio, provocando novos focos de fogo. Esse comportamento faz com que pequenos animais fujam da vegetação, facilitando sua captura. Os pesquisadores destacam que o conhecimento tradicional dos povos indígenas australianos, que chamam essas aves de “falcões do fogo” (firehawks), foi fundamental para orientar as investigações científicas sobre o fenômeno.