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https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ7y_e4k2wB/
#IA #tech #crypto #dessin #Soulcié

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Le dessin de la rédaction par Thibaut Soulcié. On y voit la terre qui chauffe et une bulle qui s'en échappe pour dire "Des volets pour l'école ? Ah non, c'est trop cher !". Par ailleurs, on voit dans le ciel tout un tas de machines pour l'espace, la crypto, les datas center, l'IA, Star Link etc.

Interview in PC Magazine. I had a nice chat with Chris Hoffman about some of the choices we make at @Vivaldi, not least when it comes to AI, Crypto and data collection.

#Vivaldi #Linux #Windows #Macos #Android #ios #ai #BigTech #Crypto #Technology

https://www.pcmag.com/news/vivaldis-leader-has-a-bold-pledge-no-ai-in-your-web-browser

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time.

https://influence.citationneeded.news/

Here’s the full story behind the Tech Influence Watch launch, including what I found while building it and why it matters now: https://www.citationneeded.news/tech-influence-watch/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

Featured story, from Candice Bernd: The drought-stricken City of Corpus Christi is withholding how much #water a controversial #cryptocurrency mine is siphoning away from surrounding residents. https://www.texasobserver.org/corpus-christi-cryptomine-water-usage-secret/

#bitcoin #crypto #tech #drought #GulfCoast #Texas #news #journalism

USB worm spreads #crypto-stealing #malware via #Windows shortcut files

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/usb-worm-spreads-crypto-stealing-malware-via-windows-shortcut-files/

#cybersecurity

The day quantum computers break the first cryptographic key I'm gonna go full rampage and publicly name and shame all the snarky folks who identify themselves with the "QC/is/bullshit" gender. I am taking notes on my list, mind you. Your name is there as well.

Revenge is best served at 0.02 Kelvin.

#crypto #cryptography #infosec #quantum #quantumcomputing #qc #drama #humor

"It's possible to come up with entirely fictitious solutions to entirely real problems." #digitalsovereign
No way.... #AI #blockchain #crypto #ponzi

If: digital sovereignty + AI = digital sovereignty – AI
Then: AI = 0

"If you want a good "national AI strategy," try this: save your money until the bubble bursts, and then buy your GPUs and hire your talent at 10 cents on the dollar and put them to work refining open source models:"
Thank you so much, @pluralistic !

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/their-trillions-our-billions/

Newsletter: The crypto industry spent the spring buying primaries, an octagon at the White House, and — they hope — a market-structure bill by the Fourth of July.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-106/

#Crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

New #Rokarolla #Android #malware targets 217 #banking, #crypto apps

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-rokarolla-android-malware-targets-217-banking-crypto-apps/

#cybersecurity

Apps for encryption, comms, Usenet, remailers ...

Ch1ffr3punk: https://github.com/Ch1ffr3punk

The owner is a denizen of the OG #Usenet scene.

#cypherpunk #cryptography #crypto #encryption #privacy #github #freesoftware

@cypherpunk@soc.octade.net @cryptography@soc.octade.net @usenet@soc.octade.net

Good news everybody! It’s a million degrees and a 1000% humidity in DC for BirthdayBoi’s #UFC human cockfight. The mosquitoes and noseeums are out in force, according to pocket friends on the ground.

According to The Weather Channel, there will be a 60 percent chance of thunderstorms, heavy downpours, and wind gusts up to 34 miles per hour.

And it gets better. UFC said fighters will receive payment in #WorldLibertyFinancial #crypto called “#stablecoins”. World Liberty named the currency “#USD1”.

World Liberty is a venture of the #Trump family and the family of Steven #Witkoff, Trump’s friend and special envoy to the Middle East. The company is now listed as an “official sponsor” of UFC Freedom 250, the fight scheduled for later today.

Conflict of interest? Never met her. Grift all the way down with #republicans man. All the way down.

#gop #kakistocracy #moronsOnParade

Authorities dismantle '#AudiA6' #ransomware #crypto-laundering service

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/authorities-dismantle-audia6-ransomware-crypto-laundering-service/

#privacy #cybersecurity #cybercrime

[noted]: The Second Circuit has rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's appeal, upholding his conviction and 25-year sentence. The court ruled that whether his investments ultimately paid off is “irrelevant”. Meanwhile, SBF has applied for a presidential pardon.

https://www.citationneeded.news/second-circuit-rejects-sam-bankman-frieds-appeal/

#SBF #SamBankmanFried #crypto #cryptocurrency

My work tracking cryptocurrency and AI industry political spending has only underscored the importance of getting big money out of politics. I recently talked to Tiffany Muller, President of End Citizens United, about what it would take to do that, and how we’re closer than you might think.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZAhNJbsPcA
Transcript: https://www.citationneeded.news/end-citizens-uniteds-tiffany-muller-on-fighting-big-money-in-politics/

#cryptocurrency #crypto #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CitizensUnited #USpol #USpolitics

As #OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning company is doing layoffs, report says

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/as-openai-files-for-ipo-sam-altmans-eye-scanning-company-is-doing-layoffs-report-says/

#World #WorldCoin #crypto #privacy #biometrics

British #cryptographer Adam Back denies #NYT report that he is #Bitcoin creator #SatoshiNakamoto

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/british-cryptographer-adam-back-denies-nyt-report-that-he-is-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto/

#privacy #crypto #BTC

- a neat hack for the properly paranoid -

Your computer is likely generating random noise on your sound card. On some systems you can harvest this noise as true random entropy. This entropy can be diffused and whitened for use in cryptography.

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2026-March/039388.html

#Random #Entropy #Cryptography #Crypto #Hardware #Hacks #Sound #Audio #Chaos

@cypherpunk@soc.octade.net @cryptography@soc.octade.net @crypto@infosec.pub @cryptography@fed.dyne.org @cryptography@lemmy.ml

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Source code screenshot for harvesting entropy from a sound card. Follow the link to read the source code text.

https://soc.octade.net/cypherpunk/

A fediverse group for discussing topics and tools related to #cypherpunks.

#groups #fedigroups #fediverse #retro #cypherpunk #crypto #cryptography #encryption

@cryptography@soc.octade.net @cypherpunk@soc.octade.net

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Glowing green-lined skull on black background with digital circuit board lines and one eye a glowing bitcoin symbol and the other eye a glowing hashtag with the tagline 'CYPHERPUNK REVOLT'.

House Oversight Democrats have published a Web3 is Going Great-style “Trump Family Digital Grift” counter
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/trump-family-corruption-tracker

This goes with their recent staff report, “Professionalized Corruption: How Donald Trump is abusing power and accepting digital kickbacks from foreign and criminal interests to cash in on the presidency like never before”

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/12026cryptoreport.pdf

(The report cites my writing on Trump’s USD1 stablecoin, published here: https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-83/#trump-business-interests)

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

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Trump Family Digital Grift Profits $2,255,399,364.28 Total Trump Family Digital Grift Wealth $8,712,974,364.28 Trump Family Digital Grift Profits from Foreign Interests $437,004,026.96 While Americans struggle to buy groceries and pay rent, Donald Trump is making his family richer through digital grift schemes— collecting profits through digital wallets and granting pardons to the highest bidders. While Trump and his family are using the White House to make billions, we are tracking every cent. As of January 2026, our Committee’s analysis shows that these schemes have contributed to an estimated $2.25 billion in realized profits for Trump from foreign payments, corrupt oligarchs, and others. This total rises to as much as $9.7 billion when the value of Trump’s digital assets is factored in, with as much as $436 million coming from foreign interests. President Trump should be serving the American people—not his own pockets.

[for your address book]

https://soc.octade.net/cryptography/

A Fediverse group for sharing and discussing #ciphers, #codes #cryptography and #encryption and related applications and #research.

#crypto #cypher #cypherpunks #confidentiality #privacy #groups #fedigroups #fediverse

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Artistic image of a sheet of paper with binary ones and zeroes and a reddish padlock in the upper right-hand corner..

Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469

Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.

#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints #Orthography #Language #Linguistics #Writing #Glyphs #Alphabetology #Technology

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Hexlish Alphabet logo. The word HEXLISH in rainbow colors on a black background with a hexagonal dot above the letter I. Beneat the logo in yellow reads the phrase, "English Text Compression & Encoding."

I wish people would stop giving credit to "prominent cybersecurity/cryptography experts" just because they released some "cypherpunk" book or software of unproven impact 30 years ago and have since then retreated into golden tenure, writing technically empty but catchy preprints with provocative titles. These "Ludd grandpas" (you know at least a couple of names of who I'm referring to) are, unfortunately, still worshipped by a large number of semireligious followers, who contribute to the spread of their moldy ignorance.

Thinking deeper, maybe mine is a typical case of rejection for the image in the mirror: I hope I will never become like that in the future.

The world does not stop at your rants. Keep moving and stay open-minded, or become obsolete.

#cybersecurity #security #infosec #cryptography #crypto #academia #rant #luddism

If you like #Banks and dislike everything else that attempts something similar (#Crypto / #CrytoCurrency included)

then I question what the point of life is with that sort of devil and not trying to think about lesser ones.

While accepting we're inside this or that container - all are burning the planet, "naturally" or more excessively depending on your priority ladder...

From the light of freedom to a concrete tomb,
The fall was great and swift.
My soul cried out in a mighty boom,
How could it come to this?

Clamped down, trapped stuck,
Paralyzed in a tiny cage.
Had fate left me not a drop of luck?
Was there reason for this rage?

Told to lay down and die,
Something deep inside me stirred.
I can’t be caged I have to fly!
Not yet am I interred.

They can take my body, tie me down,
It matters not a bit.
My spirit still runs wild and free,
So in freedom here I sit.

~ Ross Ulbricht
Apr 30, 2024

It seems his artistic vision finally became reality.

sources

https://freeross.org/uncageable/

https://rossulbricht.substack.com/p/uncageable-poem-and-drawing

#RossUlbricht #DreadPirateRoberts #SilkRoad #USCourts #CriminalJustice #Prisons #Prisoners #Poetry #News #Crypto #Poem #FreeRoss

@poetry@a.gup.pe @poets@a.gup.pe @writers@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

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Hand drawn image of a man interred in prison. He is kneeling in his cell between the bunk and desk cabinet, envisioning a scene above his head of a couple holding hands and giving thanks over food and a crowd seated together and a couple in the distance holding hands.