Guys, MAJOR update for PH4NTXM...
I've been working long for this one, using all the technical knowledge can be found offline/online, with specialized tools, automations and more.

PH4NTXM now is on v2.0.0

A lot of things changed, from UI, to fail-closed mechanisms, and strict boot verification pilot.

Philosophy remained as always THE SAME.

It's a big step, cause we filled so many gaps, and automated things to be adaptive, like the purpose of the Operating System.

Go try it, build it, break it, repeat.

Thank you, as usual, PH4NTXM.

#ph4ntxm #linux #debian #os #live #privacy #security #opsec #infosec #research #tech #technology

New #Paper published in Quantum: Non-Gaussian Noise Magnetometry Using Local Spin Qubits

https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2026-08-27-2197/

#OpenScience #Quantum #Research

OI is a buzzy idea, and it has drawn a lot of media attention. But practically, it’s a long-term goal. For now, organoids remain what they have always been—glorified lab rats."

Claire L. Evans for WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/organoids-lab-grown-brains-neural-networks

#Longreads #Science #Research #Biology #OI #Organoids

How to improve the healthcare system with AI? Monica Bertagnolli, President Elect of the National Academy of Medicine, shares her insights in a recent #ACMBytecast episode.

Check out the full conversation here: https://learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep83-monica-bertagnolli

#AI #healthcare #computing #research #podcast

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Reading: ama
Meaning: mother

#cuneiforms #assyriology #culture #Babylon #research

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ACM DL is 100% #OpenAccess.

What's the difference between DL Basic and DL Premium?

Find out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a0h21Gd7os

#tech #research #innovation

Congratulations to Dr. Lina Pu on receiving a prestigious NSF CAREER Award! Her project, Transforming Underwater Networking with Acoustic Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, will advance the future of underwater communications while creating new student research opportunities. #NSFCAREER #Research

New #Paper published in Quantum: On the relation between perspective-neutral, algebraic, and effective quantum reference frames

https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2026-08-20-2196/

#OpenScience #Quantum #Research

In August, #RFKJr’s #HHS followed up by announcing it would no longer fund #mRNA #research through the Biomedical Advanced Research & Development Authority. The latter move involved the cancellation of 22‼️ separate contracts.

After the #FDA initially declined to review #Moderna’s mRNA-based #flu #vaccine because of the design of the company’s clinical trial, the agency recently approved it.

#Melanoma #cancer #vaccine #PublicHealth #health #science #medicine #MedicalBreakthrough

New #Paper published in Quantum: Quantifying mixed-state entanglement via partial transpose and realignment moments

https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2026-08-19-2194/

#OpenScience #Quantum #Research

New #Paper published in Quantum: Quantum phase estimation with optimal confidence interval using three control qubits



https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2026-08-19-2193/

#OpenScience #Quantum #Research

"We want to be clear: Democrats and Republicans did not work together to appropriate funds for AHRQ as a gentle suggestion for the department to follow at their discretion or leisure," the senators noted. "We provided this money with the explicit instruction that the department faithfully support lifesaving research to improve access and health outcomes for Americans."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/122641

#healthcare #ARHQ #research #grants #funding #HHS #USpol

“The U.S. side,” the statement continued, “should abandon the Cold War mentality & foster an open, fair, & non-discriminatory environment for educational, scientific, & people-to-people exchanges between China & the United States.”

#Trump #law #education #racism #AcademicFreedom #AcademicPartnerships #research #China

…The #DOJ also is investigating whether #Harvard University is allowing #Chinese donors to create scholarships that exclude #US students 🙄, adding to the barrage of federal inquiries the #Trump admin has opened in its battle against the #university.

A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy said in a statement that the country opposes what it described as the politicization of “normal #scientific, #educational, & #academic exchanges.”

#Trump #law #education #racism #AcademicFreedom #research

If #schools don’t complete a review & terminate any arrangements deemed “problematic” in the next 2 weeks, they face losing #funding. The purported goal is to protect taxpayer-funded #research from theft & exploitation, the #Pentagon said.

“The Department of War has zero tolerance for academic partnerships that compromise our national security,” Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer, said in a news release.

#Trump #law #education #AcademicFreedom #AcademicPartnerships #China

#Trump doesn’t just love the uneducated, he hates the educated. Probably because their mere existence proves he’s a moron.

#Pentagon orders audit of 30 #universities' partnerships with foreign institutions

The #DoD has ordered 30 #US universities to audit their partnerships with mostly Chinese universities & military training institutions as the Trump admin scrutinizes #China’s growing global influence.

#law #education #AcademicFreedom #AcademicPartnerships #research
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-audit-china-harvard-mit-738832f9f20186dc5f9ef1aa39914636?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension

"Patel’s new study ... found a 15% increase in traffic fatalities on the days major new albums are released, compared with the days immediately before and after."

Article:
https://archive.ph/GK4Sm

Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2852896?guestAccessKey=c468283c-2c9a-4115-9cee-a26ce5a0423c

#distraction #smartphones #spotify #waroncars #research #music #TrafficAccidents

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Marge and Homer Simpson rock out in the car with their eyes closed

Hello, I just pushed something new for users want extra privacy.

PH4NTXM AI LockGuard is a local AI-powered camera monitor for Linux.

It uses your webcam to detect whether you’re still present in front of your machine. If you leave or another person appears in the frame, it can automatically lock the session.

Everything runs locally. No cloud. No telemetry. No remote image processing.

Built for privacy, physical security, and people who want their workstation to lock itself when something looks wrong.

https://github.com/PH4NTXMOFFICIAL/PH4NTXM-AI-LOCKGUARD

#ph4ntxm #linux #debian #os #live #privacy #security #opsec #infosec #research #tech #technology

#Trump’s attack on a #ThinkTank is an affront to the #FirstAmendment

#Republicans would be rightly irate if a Democratic president threatened to sue a conservative think tank & punish its corporate #donors over #research the White House didn’t like, but Trump’s attack this week on the Center for American Progress [ #CAP ] & its funders has been met with shrugs & silence.

#law #Constitution #ThoughtPolice #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/14/trump-legal-threat-against-cap-risks-chilling-think-tank-research/?utm_medium=referral_home&utm_source=webview&no_nav=true&utm_campaign=pb_2607:variant;rct:0:0:2:20260701

This Tool Unmasks the Shadowy World of #Ads that Track Your #Location

The #advertising industry is simultaneously everywhere and incredibly difficult to investigate. Ads can power all sorts of surveillance, from the relatively mundane like inferring someone’s age or gender, right up to harvesting their precise location data and selling this to the government. But researching that omnipresent #surveillance is, ironically, an uphill struggle because the relevant data is spread across the web, nestled in obscure files that most people never look at or even know to look for, and can’t be searched all at once.

A new #research tool called #DecryptAds hopes to change that by bringing together a massive corpus of data. It can show what advertising brokers are operating on a particular website, and, more importantly, many other places those same brokers are operating.
#privacy

https://www.404media.co/this-tool-unmasks-the-shadowy-world-of-ads-that-track-your-location/

"Doctors took Mei for a full-body CT scan and then rushed her to the intensive care unit. Her brave face had begun to crack. 'Mom, I want to go home,' she told her mother, before vanishing into the ward."

Brendan Borrell for Science and Retraction Watch: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-death-girl-chinese-gene-editing-trial-was-never-made-public

#Longreads #GeneEditing #GeneTherapy #Science #Medicine #China #Research

What happened at this year's #ACMSIGGRAPH conference? Subscribe today to "The Impact Report," our biweekly roundup of stellar research, to stay in the know. 😉 👇
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/issue-11-impact-report-acmdl-0jt0e

#linkedinnewsletter #computing #research #innovation

Australia’s Age Verification Law Still a Failure, Study Finds

An Australian government study has found that little has changed in the governments failed age verification laws.

https://www.freezenet.ca/australias-age-verification-law-still-a-failure-study-finds/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #Australia #fail #research #SocialMedia #study

I think the science is a bit over my head with this, but apparently, scientists were able to make something called a "time crystal".

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260731034131.htm

#Science #crystal #light #research

"A first-of-its-kind U.S. study suggests invasive mold infections may be an underappreciated — and potentially deadly — threat.

The researchers detected about 450 cases in Atlanta-area hospitals over five years. About a third of the patients died in the hospital."

https://apnews.com/article/mold-disease-cdc-report-flooding-dc2d3ee9fa70d6c4aa825962637f4fda

#PublicHealth #mold #climate #environment #research

📄 I have published my summary of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) activities at #IETF126 in Vienna.

The report covers the Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW), the IRTF Open Meeting, and all 14 Research Groups—from AI networking and Internet architecture to routing, transport, privacy, sustainability, quantum networking, and more.

One aspect that makes the IRTF particularly valuable is its research model. Rather than organizing around individual publications, the IRTF is organized around long-lived research communities where researchers, engineers, implementers, operators, and standards experts collaboratively explore fundamental Internet challenges over many years.

At a time when AI is transforming how research is written, reviewed, and disseminated, sustained technical dialogue and open collaboration are becoming increasingly important.

🔗 https://dirk-kutscher.info/irtf/ietf-126/

#IRTF #IETF #Networking #Internet #Research #OpenStandards

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding.

One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle,” explains how the move would’ve stifled that breakthrough.
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-science-grants-russell-vought-omb?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #WhiteHouse #Trump #Science #Physics #Research #Funding #Academia

New #Paper published in Quantum: Pilot-Wave Simulator: Exact Classical Sampling from Ideal and Noisy Quantum Circuits up to Hundreds of Qubits

https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2026-07-23-2173/

#OpenScience #Quantum #Research

"The National Institutes of Health recently announced a remarkable achievement: the world’s largest database of human genomes, a repository of information that the agency says will help usher in a new era in personalized medicine...But there’s a glaring problem: The tools were trained overwhelmingly on the DNA of people of European descent, so they often fail to accurately assess risks for anyone else."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/science/polygenic-risk-scores-diversity.html

#healthcare #biomedical #science #genomics #research #diversity

New #Paper published in Quantum: A complete theory of the Clifford commutant

https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2026-07-22-2171/

#OpenScience #Quantum #Research

New #Paper published in Quantum: Controller-decoder system requirements derived by implementing Shor’s algorithm with surface code

A video of the physical-level gate sequences for the factorization circuit with distance-3 surfaces. (doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17970554)

https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2026-07-22-2170/

#OpenScience #Quantum #Research

New #Paper published in Quantum: Non-commutative optimization problems with differential constraints

https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2026-07-22-2169/

#OpenScience #Quantum #Research

Update on my paper that was uncited by generative AI: The PLOS Publication Ethics Team responded to our email, confirming they are looking into the matter and providing a case number, which I won’t share here for confidentiality reasons. If you’d like to help increase visibility on the original post to support the review process, please check my LK profile.

#ai #llm #research #acdenic #walkability #pedestrian #quantum #urbansystem

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A screenshot of a social media post by Korawich Kavee, PhD Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The post text reads, "I discovered yesterday that a paper in PLOS ONE has an alarming amount of overlap with one of mine from 2023, yet not a single citation was given. It’s possible their ChatGPT or other LLM referenced our work but hallucinated and failed to cite the correct source. My co-author (my advisor) and I have just emailed PLOS with details of the overlap, and we hope this doesn't get ignored. #Boost welcome and especially in #academic circle". Included in the post is a screenshot of an academic webpage featuring the title "Street-Level Urban Gravity: A Quantum System Approach to Human Centered Urban Space Design" by authors Korawich Kavee and Katherine Flanagan, with an overlapping text fragment that reads "...inspired pedestrian mobility modeling: Applying spatial simulation to urban walkability and comfort in Sri Lanka". The bottom of the post shows "Zia Lyle, PhD and 40 others", "3 comments", and "5 reposts".

OK, the meme is really funny but hear me out: I lived it. Sort of. I did not fuck any buildings but (#story coming)

About 15 years ago I developed, with some excellent undergrad research assistants, a method of (we hoped) assessing sexual aggressiveness potential in straight men for future research studies. This isn't super special; there are many of these. I study sexual aggression (mostly).

Well, we needed a method of knowing how good the assessment system was. Our response: if we make a randomly-selected group of participants horny, they should have higher scores on our assessment compared to the non-horny group. Thus, I spent many nights hunting the web for public-domain or CC images of hot ladies in skimpy bathing suits. I found 20 or so photos, vetted by half a dozen undergrad men who agreed they were arousing.

Of course it's much more convincing if you have a control condition that is similar to the experimental condition in every way except the factor you're manipulating (i.e., horniness). Thus I spent many other nights hunting for public domain or CC-licensed photos of interesting architecture. Buildings. The experimental group would spend a few minutes looking at attractive women (and we hoped getting sexually aroused, at least a little), and the control group would do the same thing, but with interesting buildings.

We ran the study. We found fuck all for this manipulation check: there was no statistically significant difference in our sexual aggressiveness measure between the men who looked at boobs and those who looked at buildings.

I really should publish this someday.

i was feeling dejected about the lack of results one evening. My wife at the time heard my story and said,

"There's your problem. Those are some sexy buildings."

(edited for typos etc.)

#research #architecture #psychology #meme

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Transmortifried, may 15, 2025: idk why people are still trying to do "hear me out"s on tumblr you could tak about wanting to fuck the space needle on here and people would still call you a poser for insisting on fucking "conventionally attractive architecture" as if that's a coherent, easily-recognizable catetory

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charlesoberonn: I want to fuck Antoni Gaudi's unbuilt Hotel Attraction skyscraper design [image of the empire state building next to the Gaudi hotel in quesiton, which looks like several elongated, rounded protuberances grouped together, extending in to the sky.

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anatomizer: "hear me out" and it's a picture of the most fuckable buiding you've ever seen. c'mon now. :hepersonalmosspblog: "hear me out" and it's the fucking dildopolis

🇳🇱 Netherlands recruited 29 top scientist leaving U.S. under Trump

｢ The fund the Netherlands established to recruit leading scientists mainly attracted American researchers leaving the United States under the Trump administration. Of the 34 top scientists recruited last year, 29 came from the United States, the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science reported ｣

https://nltimes.nl/2026/07/07/netherlands-recruited-29-top-scientist-leaving-us-trump

#science #research #netherlands #uspol

New #Paper published in Quantum: Towards Unconditional Uncloneable Encryption

https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2026-07-08-2157/

#OpenScience #Quantum #Research

New #Paper published in Quantum: Resourcefulness of non-classical continuous-variable quantum gates

https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2026-07-08-2155/

#OpenScience #Quantum #Research

The #Trump admin, which has systematically rolled back #firearms #regulations since returning to office, has also gutted federal #GunViolence prevention efforts, slashing #funding for programs & #research & even SUPPRESSING #taxpayer-funded reports aimed at reducing #gun injuries & deaths.

#law #guns #idiocracy #MassShootings #SchoolShootings #PublicHealth

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Reading: mul
Meaning: star, planet, constellation

#cuneiforms #assyriology #culture #MiddleEast #research

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Scientists in Singapore and Japan have developed a tiny 3D-printed scuba suit for cyborg cockroaches. Why, you ask? Their intent is noble. @Gizmodo has the details:

https://flip.it/AJhlR1

#Tech #Research #Technology

Two More Studies Show that Australia’s Age Verification Laws Have Failed

Research in one analysis show that 7 in 10 teens still have accounts on Facebook. Another shows 60% are still on social media.

https://www.freezenet.ca/two-more-studies-show-that-australias-age-verification-laws-have-failed/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #Australia #fail #research #SocialMedia #study

NEW: How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral

"I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unreliable answers on users."

https://www.propublica.org/article/google-ai-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Google #AI #Journalism #Media #Technology #Tech #Research #LLM #artificialintelligence

Cool opportunity for musicians: $100,000 grants for developing music-based therapies for brain diseases. The Foundation for the NIH is teaming up with Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead & Renee Fleming, a soprano.

#music #medicine #research

https://fnih.org/press-release/fnih-renee-fleming-mickey-hart-and-jim-weiss-launch-neuroscience-initiative-music-as-medicine/

"In a recent study, researchers conducted a first-ever patient-level privacy audit to see how easily individual patients could be identified from the underlying data used to train medical AI models."

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-patient-groups-vulnerable-privacy-medical.html

Original research: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10688-0

#healthcare #AI #LLM #data #privacy #infosec #research

New #Paper published in Quantum: Measuring Rényi entropy with an Echo Protocol

https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2026-06-30-2146/

#OpenScience #Quantum #Research

This is good news!

The scientists behind the new independent organization Climate.us are the same experts Trump fired because they were researching and reporting on climate change.

Formerly NOAA’s http://Climate.gov, they didn’t disappear. They rebuilt.

Now they’re independent and preserving climate data, outside of political interference, with public support and a team of volunteer scientists.

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Science #Research

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SCIENCE NEWS DOGE fired NOAA's climate scientists. Those scientists just launched climate.us— a new hub for climate research. 2 photos side by side show a polar bear on the left and Elon Musk on the right.

Mainstream Media Tries Blaming Social Media for Exposing Youth to Violence

As the mainstream media scrambles to justify age verification laws, one outlet is arguing that young people are exposed to violence.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-tries-blaming-social-media-for-exposing-youth-to-violence/

#Censorship #News #broadcasting #CTV #journalism #research #SocialMedia #study