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Submission + - Young hacker behind historic breach speaks out for 1st time (abcnews.com)

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alternative_right writes: On a recent Tuesday morning, as his parents were driving him to the federal prison in Connecticut where he'll be locked up for the foreseeable future, 20-year-old Matthew Lane sent a text message to ABC News.

"It's extremely sad, and I'm just scared," he wrote.

Barely a year earlier, while still a teenager, he helped launch what's been described as the biggest cyberattack in U.S. education history — a data breach that concerned authorities so much, it prompted briefings with senior government officials inside the White House Situation Room.

Submission + - Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out (404media.co)

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alternative_right writes: According to the audit from privacy search engine webXray, 55 percent of the sites it checked set ad cookies in a userâ(TM)s browser even if they opted out of tracking. Each company disputed or took issue with the research, with Google saying it was based on a âoefundamental misunderstandingâ of how its product works.
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Journal Journal: High Colonic of Raging Honesty Realism: Do not equalize source data 2

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Speaking of UFOs and why the USG is suppressing reports...

We tend to assume that everyone else is as reasonable as we are.

Quit doing that shit.

We have a century of UFO reports, no clear photos we can authenticate, and no artifacts.

We do however know that Roswell was designed to protect the TR-1 and similar projects.

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by alternative_right (#66093388) Attached to: Air Force Pushed Out UFO Investigator

We tend to assume that everyone else is as reasonable as we are.

Quit doing that shit.

We have a century of UFO reports, no clear photos we can authenticate, and no artifacts.

We do however know that Roswell was designed to protect the TR-1 and similar projects.

If alien civilizations exist, they either (1) have self-destructed like ours is currently doing or (2) have made it past that hump and do not want to contact us and receive our disease.

Submission + - Disrupted sleep is how social media makes you depressed (psypost.org)

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alternative_right writes: The researchers found that problematic social media use consistently predicted subsequent increases in depressive and anxiety symptoms. Specifically, when individuals reported social media habits that were harder to control than their usual baseline, they were likely to develop greater symptoms of mental distress later on. When comparing different people, those with higher average use also exhibited higher average distress.

The researchers found that poor sleep acts as a mediator in this relationship. In scientific terms, a mediator is a middle step or pathway that explains how one event causes another. The findings suggest that compulsive social media use leads to poor sleep, which then triggers increased depression and anxiety.

Insomnia symptoms proved to be a stronger mediating factor than general sleep quality. This suggests that specific, severe sleep disruptions play a larger role in mental health decline than just having an occasionally restless night. The researchers noted that delayed bedtimes driven by a fear of missing out likely trigger a cascade of neurobiological changes linked to negative moods.

Submission + - The secret, never-before-used CIA tool that helped find airman downed in Iran (nypost.com)

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alternative_right writes: The CIA used a futuristic new tool called âoeGhost Murmurâ to find and rescue the second American airman who was shot down in southern Iran, The Post has learned.

The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic fingerprint of a human heartbeat and pairs the data with artificial intelligence software to isolate the signature from background noise, two sources close to the breakthrough said.

Submission + - Scientists Engineered a Plant to Produce 5 Different Psychedelics at Once (sciencealert.com)

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alternative_right writes: What do plants, toads, and mushrooms have in common? They can all produce psychedelic substances â" and now their powers have been combined in one plant, like a trippier Captain Planet.

In a wild first, scientists have taken the genes these organisms use to make five natural psychedelics and introduced them into a tobacco plant (Nicotiana benthamiana), which then produced all five compounds simultaneously.

Submission + - World's smallest QR code, smaller than bacteria, could store data for centuries (sciencedaily.com)

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alternative_right writes: Scientists have created a microscopic QR code so tiny it can only be seen with an electron microscope—smaller than most bacteria and now officially a world record. But this isn’t just about size; it’s about durability. By engraving data into ultra-stable ceramic materials, the team has opened the door to storing information that could last for centuries or even millennia without needing power or maintenance.

Submission + - Why It's Good to [Masturbate] Frequently, According to Science (404media.co) 1

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alternative_right writes: Regular ejaculation — for example, by masturbation — produces higher quality sperm, a finding that has implications for fertility science and assisted reproductive technologies, according to a comprehensive new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

It’s well-established that sperm quality in many animals can deteriorate as males age, but less is known about how the age of sperm cells independently impacts reproductive outcomes. To fill in this gap, scientists co-led by Krish Sanghvi and Rebecca Dean of the University of Oxford conducted a meta-analysis of more than 115 studies about human sperm storage that cumulatively involved nearly 55,000 men, as well as 56 studies of 30 non-human species.

Submission + - Chandra resolves why black holes hit the brakes on growth (phys.org)

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alternative_right writes: Astronomers have an answer for a long-running mystery in astrophysics: why is the growth of supermassive black holes so much lower today than in the past? A study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray telescopes found that supermassive black holes are unable to consume material as rapidly as they did in the distant past. The results appeared in the December 2025 issue of The Astrophysical Journal.

Submission + - LA Metro computer hack causes commuter chaos (nypost.com)

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alternative_right writes: A security breach to Los Angeles Metro‘s internal computer systems this week left commuters unable to pay for rides or see arriving train times.

Agency officials confirmed Thursday that a “security concern” triggered the shutdown of several internal systems and the restriction of access to its administrative computer network.

The action did not affect train or bus operations, and officials insisted rider safety and schedules remained intact.

Submission + - How birds send heat into space (phys.org)

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alternative_right writes: As human-caused climate change continues to raise temperatures across the globe, understanding how birds regulate their temperature is vital for their conservation. But how much heat birds emit—an invisible spectrum of radiation known as mid-infrared—has never been studied, until now.

Submission + - Streamlining the kill chain: how AI is changing modern warfare (france24.com)

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alternative_right writes: In a video posted to X on March 11, Admiral Brad Cooper, head of US Central Command (CENTCOM), said that American forces had at the time hit more than 5,500 targets inside Iran. Cooper credited the success of at least part of those operations to advanced AI tools. “Humans will always make final decisions on what to shoot and what not to shoot and when to shoot. But advanced AI tools can turn processes that used to take hours and sometimes even days into seconds,” he said. The statement offered rare insight into how AI is used in modern warfare.

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