🔖 The world’s deepest sensors will detect earthquakes around the world from far below Antarctica: Here’s how scientists drilled 8,000 feet through ice to place the world’s deepest seismometers | Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-worlds-deepest-sensors-will-detect-earthquakes-around-the-world-from-far/ #BookmarkShare
The world’s deepest sensors will detect earthquakes around the world from far below Antarctica

Here’s how scientists drilled 8,000 feet through ice to place the world’s deepest seismometers

Scientific American
🔖 The AI Great Leap Forward [commentary using China's 1950s Great Leap Forward as allegory] | Lee Hanchung https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/ #BookmarkShare
The AI Great Leap Forward

In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

Han, Not Solo

Flock now ingests data from third-party cameras? And in places that aren't roads or parking lots? (Like gyms?)

🔖 Video: How exactly does remotely spying on kids practicing gymnastics make them safer? by Benn Jordan, annotated https://youtube.com/watch?v=YwVBsFD7v84 🗒 annotated https://media.dltj.org/annotated-video/20260409T171609-YwVBsFD7v84-how-exactly-remotely-spying-kids-practicing-gymnastics-make-safer/index.html #BookmarkShare

How exactly does remotely spying on kids practicing gymnastics make them safer?

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🔖 How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews? The company’s A.I.-generated answers look authoritative, but they draw on an array of sources, from trustworthy sites to Facebook posts | New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/technology/google-ai-overviews-accuracy.html #BookmarkShare
How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?

The company’s A.I.-generated answers look authoritative, but they draw on an array of sources, from trustworthy sites to Facebook posts.

The New York Times
🔖 Data Center Tech Lobbyists Fearmonger in Attempt to Retroactively Roll Back Right to Repair Law: Cisco, IBM, and major lobbying groups are trying to exempt "critical infrastructure" from an existing Colorado law | 404 Media https://www.404media.co/data-center-tech-lobbyists-fearmonger-in-attempt-to-retroactively-roll-back-right-to-repair-law/ #BookmarkShare
Data Center Tech Lobbyists Fearmonger in Attempt to Retroactively Roll Back Right to Repair Law

Cisco, IBM, and major lobbying groups are trying to exempt "critical infrastructure" from an existing Colorado law.

404 Media
🔖 A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines: The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately | Filippo Valsorda https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/#fn:lattices #BookmarkShare
A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines

The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.

🔖 Charcuterie: A visual explorer for Unicode. Browse the character set, discover related glyphs, and learn more about the scripts, symbols, and shapes that make up the standard https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/ #BookmarkShare
Charcuterie

A visual explorer for Unicode. Browse characters, discover related glyphs, and explore scripts, symbols, and shapes across the standard.

Charcuterie
🔖 AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs | Rude Vulture https://rudevulture.com/christianity-is-very-much-socialist-not-captialist-guest-explains-to-tucker-carlson/ #BookmarkShare
Christianity Is Very Much Socialist Not Captialist, Guest Explains To Tucker Carlson

During a conversation on Tucker Carlson’s program, guest Nathan Apffel made a direct argument about the relationship between Christianity and capitalism, stating that the two systems are fundamentally incompatible. Apffel put it plainly: “Capitalism should not be anywhere near Christianity.” He went further, making a distinction that he acknowledged carried some political weight: “Christianity is ... Read more

Rude Vulture
🔖 Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real: Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness? | Nature News https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y #BookmarkShare
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

🔖 How DNA forensics is transforming studies of ancient manuscripts: Scientists are exposing the biological information hidden in ancient parchments without leaving a mark | Nature News https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01029-2 #BookmarkShare
How DNA forensics is transforming studies of ancient manuscripts

Scientists are exposing the biological information hidden in ancient parchments without leaving a mark.